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Monday, February 2, 2015
‘The Church of the Sinking Ship’
Ever Read Acts 27?
Read it real slow, out loud to yourself,
then out loud to someone else. Read it
with emotion, your emotions not someone else’s. Then read it from the perspective of the
writer, then from the perspective of one of the sailors.
Ever feel like you are
the only one on board that is getting signals that fly in face of those who are
‘the professionals’, of those who have the most experience in these type
matters? After all the one who
was getting the message that the journey we’re on will; ‘certainly be with
great damage and great loss, not only in the cargo and the ship, but also of
our lives’, was one the prisoners on-board?
What experience did he ever have at sea that we know of? He was shipwrecked 3 times!
Ever feel like you are
the only one going against not only the majority’s decision and the military?
Even though the
circumstantial evidence is contrary to you as well!
Even ‘Nature’ is confirming the majority’s
decision with moderate winds, benign names of ports ‘Fair Havens’
You are the only one
who knows that ‘something about this trip’ isn't right.
Then when everything
begins to change and change in a big way, in a way that made Hurricane Katrina
seem like a New Orleans zephyr and the seasoned professionals and bad ass
seamen begin to batten down the hatches so much so they began tossing over the
cargo!
No sunshine for days, hope
abandoned and going a long time without food, will you have the courage to
stand up and say, ‘See I told you so!’; as a way of encouraging the crew?
Then keeping the same
message, guys this boat is going down just like I said it will.
It’s God’s will.
2 weeks go by.
Fear is rising. We’re going to crash! The sailors are being deceptive and are
trying to jump ship.
Now your message gets a
little (pun intended) sterner. ‘Cut the
lifeboats!
All must go down in other for
all to be saved!’ It’s the Will of God.’
What will you do with
this type of message in this circumstance with this type audience?
Feed them!
Encourage them!
Take care of
others!
In other words be selfless not selfish!
We’re now at a point in
the story where we’re going to toss everything over the side, cast off the
anchors, and run the ship aground. As
the boat begins to break up, now the soldiers want to kill you but you have to
tell the centurion to jump overboard to save himself.
Remember the original message;
all
must go down in order for all to be saved!
Then lo and behold you’re
brought safely to land after one of the toughest times in your life.
It was the will of God
for the boat and cargo to go down, because He didn't want you to stay at Fair
Havens, He wanted you to crash on Malta which means refuge!
After all of this now
what does He require of you? Make a fire
to warm others.
What’s your reward for
all this?
You get bit by a viper!
Now what do you say,
Gee Thanks God! This is what I get? Or do you shake it off and throw the snake
into the fire and stay humble, pray for others and continue serving others?
What message do you
have that no one wants to hear in spite of everything they have ever learned to
believe with the confirmation of nature to back it up including a majority of
people thinking believing the same thing and you are the ONLY one that’s
different?
Closing Prayer:
‘Abba, Father, and May
I have the strength to be steadfast in the face of the Winds of Doctrine
blowing in this hour in the Kingdom and the World. May I have the trust to continue as your servant
Daniel continued…. ‘
Remember: all must go down in order for all to be
saved.
Be the one, even if you
are the only one.
Monday, December 29, 2014
No Dates......Just Dots....
No Dates
Just Dots
Are we
living in the ‘end times’? I don’t
know. Yet if you just Google the words
‘end times’, you’ll come up with over 500 million options! If you are asking then you’re good company
since the early ‘team’ assembled by ‘Jesus’ also had questions, namely 3 when
they asked:
“And
as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately,
saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end
of the world?” (Matt 24:3)
Notice
the 1st thing ‘Jesus’ said when He answered them,
“Be careful that no man deceives
you. Or misleads you.” (Matt 23:4)
Why would He say that? Obviously, we can and probably are
deceived! Keep in mind a deceived
person doesn’t know they’re deceived because they are deceived! Remember they
asked these questions prior to His death on a tree.
Look at what His disciples asked Him
post-resurrection! Acts 1:6 records what
was burning on their hearts 40 days after 3 days AND 3 nights in the grave,
“So
when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time
restore the kingdom to Israel?"
So it seems this question is pretty important and has
been prevalent throughout the ages. Many
have set a date for the end, only to be wrong, obviously. Personally, setting dates are very dangerous and
in and of themselves are fulfilling Scripture.
“That
you let not your minds be hastily excited or troubled, neither by word, nor by
prophecy of the spirit, nor by an epistle, supposedly from us, stating that
‘The Day of our LORD’ is at hand. “ (2
Thess 2:2)
According to Scripture there will be ‘a day of The
‘LORD’. When? Don’t know, but He does want us to be alert
to the times and the seasons.
“But
concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I should
write to you.” (1 Thess 5:1)
“But
you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a
thief. “
(1
Thess 5:4)
Let’s not look at dates, then, can we look for
‘dots’? Dots are specified events we
should be aware of, so that when we see them we’ll have an understanding of the
times and know what we should do.
“And
of the sons of Issachar, having understanding for the times, to know what
Israel should do;” (1 Chron. 12:32)
May I proffer 2 ‘dots’? Before I do, I’d like to ask you to remember
the small words you may see in your side mirrors on your car. ‘Caution: Objects may be closer than they
appear’. I’d like to issue a word of
caution, except put it on the windshield of life. Caution: These events may be closer than they
appear!”
Dot# 1: ‘The Altar’
This is a pivotal focal event that ‘Jesus’ Himself
that a generation should be aware of.
"Therefore
when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of through Daniel the
prophet, standing in the holy place"
(Matt 24:15)
So what was He telling us to be looking for?
“…he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading
of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and
that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” (Daniel 9:27)
Let’s ‘think McFly, think’. In order for the sacrifices to stop they have
to start! In order for them to start
there has to be a ‘sanctified’/anointed/dedicated’ altar! In order for an Altar to be shut down, it has
to be set up and go into operation!
Scripture is very specific on how to assemble and
gather stones for His Altar. Doing it
His Way. We may have been taught to look
for the Temple to go up first, then the Altar.
No it doesn’t have to be this way.
Which is greater, the gift, the building or The Altar that sanctifies
the gift?
Keep your eyes open and your Spiritual Antenna up
for The Altar. What are you going to do
and say if perhaps CNN starts to broadcast live the slaughtering of lambs on
the Temple Mount? You might want to
prayerfully study this issue, should this dot come to pass. Read the warnings of Malachi, especially
Chapter 1.
Dot # 2: ‘Damascus
will be a ruinous heap.’
“The
burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous
heap.” (Isaiah 17:1)
Sounds to me Damascus will be totally destroyed from
being a city. When? Don’t know, just keep your eye on the potential event, then we’ll know the ‘sign of
the times of the season’ we find ourselves
in.
Question: How
are things looking for that city in the past couple of years? Just sayin….
There are other symptoms of the signs of the end
times, but these are specific events to be on the lookout for.
So what do we do in the meantime? Stock up on ballots, bullets and
bunkers? That’s up to you?
What is The Messiah looking for? He’s looking for those who have a certain kind of faith. Read it for yourself in Luke 18 1-8
If you have any specific ‘Dots’ please share. Let’s take of the 3-D glasses of Doctrine,
Denomination and Dogma and look to The Word and believe what we read, not read
what we believe. We could be in very
exciting times, know this, that you and I were born for such a time as
this. Let’s not lose heart and faint from
fear.
If it doesn’t happen in our lifetime, then what are
we to do? Don’t do as I did, and be
part of a stubborn and rebellious generation that did not prepare its heart and
whose spirit was not faithful to God. (Psalm
78:8)
Rather: Read
Psalm 78 1-6 for the answer.
Finally, lest you think that’s ‘Old Testament’ stuff
that’s been done away with, I close with Pauls admonition in 1 Corinthians
10:11:
“Now all these things happened unto them for
examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
world are come. “
Bless you all….Be on the
alert…the enemy is alive and well and we haven’t gotten to the end of the book
yet.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Remember and Don’t Forget!
Have you ever tied a ‘string around’ your finger?
Have you ever heard the phrase ‘tie a sting around your
finger so you’ll remember’?
Our Father instructed His Children to do just that!
And Yahweh spoke unto Moses,
saying,
“ Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them
that they make them fringes/tassels in the borders of their garments throughout
their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a cord of
blue: And it shall be unto you for a
fringe/tassel, that you may look upon
it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you
seek not after and your own eyes, after which you use to go a whoring: That you
may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your ‘God’. I am
Yahweh your ‘God’, which brought you out
of the land of Egypt, to be your ‘God’: I am
Yahweh your ‘God’. (Numbers
15-38-41)
Now before you go off on your ‘programmed’ response, ‘that was for the
Jews’, remember there were no ‘Jews’ at that time, there was a ‘Tribe of Judah’
one of the 12 Tribes. Now go in re-verse
to Numbers 15 15-16 and read real slow who are His Instructions for Life for? What’s the expiration date? How many ‘Laws’ did He say there are?
Hmmm, seems like He says, it’s for His Children, AND the alien, seems
like He said, it’s Forever with NO expiration date and it’s One Law for Both
His Children AND the alien. Did I
misread that? Did Father stutter? Didn't “Jesus’ say the same thing in Matthew
5: 17-20? (Be careful to burp out your programmed
response, let His Word speak)
So do these instructions that lead to Life (Deut. 5:33,
Deut 30: 17-20) apply to
you? It depends if you consider yourself
to be ‘Israel’ or not. ‘Paul’ seemed to
think you are. He says we used to be
separate and excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the
covenants of Promise. (Ephesians 11-22)
‘Jesus’ did a lot of things with is Life, Death, Burial and
Resurrection, one of them was to fulfill
Numbers 15, making the 2 One!
‘Paul’ also tries to convey this with his wild branch grafted in to
The Tree analogy in Romans 11, making the 2 One. Even ‘Jesus’ tell us there are ‘other sheep
not of this fold’ that He came for (John 10:16), making the 2 One. And even the political religious hack who
paid for his position, Caiaphas, under the direction of ‘The Holy Spirit’
proclaimed it (John 11 49-52) ‘and not
for that nation only, but in order that
He might gather together into One the children of God who are scattered
abroad’. Making the 2 One!
If we insist on keeping the 2, 2 or worse over 30,000+ denominations,
then we will make up our own rules, ‘doing what is right in our own eyes’ and
no you won’t be able to ‘see’ why you should ‘want-to’ make for yourself
tassels. Then I will side with ‘Jesus’
and ‘Paul’ when they cited Scripture from Isaiah, ‘you will keep on hearing but
will not understand; you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; for the
heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear,
and have closed their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear
with their ears and understand with their heart and repent, and I would heal
them’. (Isaiah 6:10, Acts 28: 26-27,
Matt: 13:14)
Side note: please read not only
the verses I quote, but go and read ‘The Text’ in context! There is so much Truth for you to ‘see for
yourself’ if you would only read it for yourself and believe what you read,
don’t read what you believe.
You won’t understand until you do them, and you only do them because
you want to out of love for Him and His Way of Life.
‘All those doing them have good understanding’, Psalm 111:20
‘How long, O Naive ones will you love simplicity? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
and fools hate knowledge? Turn to my
reproof and I will pour out my spirit on you and I will make my words known to
you.” (Proverbs 1:22-23)
You may ‘think’ that this is silly and you may ‘look weird’. (Molly
Cyrus, Marilyn Manson, Lady Gaga, Joan Rivers ever think that way?) If, you are a believer, then doesn’t 1 Peter
2:9 apply? Peter obviously didn’t think
‘the left side of the Book’ was done away with, He was teaching Deuteronomy 27:
17-19!
Peculiar is as peculiar does.
So my question to anyone who asks me why I wear these tassels, is, why
are you NOT wearing them?
I want to because I love Him and keep His commandments, and they are
not burdensome. I need to remind myself
of His commandment/instructions and NOT follow after my own eyes, after which I
play the harlot! To be set-apart, ‘holy’
unto My God, YHVH (The Father that ‘Jesus’ kept pointing to). It’s time to start using His Name and grow
off the generic title. Other Faiths are
pretty bold in this hour and you know that gods name
I do them also because last I checked we are still in the’ throughout their
generations’ phase.
Good thing ‘Jesus’ wore them, I know one woman who was grateful after
she was healed of a 12 year hemorrhage!
Now that was affordable Health Care.
So remember and don’t forget!
Henry Blackaby once said, what you do next reveals what you believe regardless
of what you say.
What say you? What do you?
‘Do or do not, there is no try’, Yoda.
If you Do My Word, You Love Me, ‘Jesus’.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Did ‘Jesus’ come to start a religion called ‘christianity’?
Did ‘Jesus’ come to
start a religion called ‘christianity’?
Get your ‘bibles’
out. I like to refer to them as the
author referred to them, Scriptures. My question,
in all sincerity, where does it say that ‘Jesus’ came to start a religion
called ‘christianity’? I realize that
many will cite Acts 11:26, ‘and when he had found him, he brought him unto
Antioch. And it came to pass, that even for a whole year they were gathered
together with the church, and taught much people, and that the disciples were
called Christians first in Antioch.’ My
question, who called them ‘christians’ and why?
We’ve all heard the stories, that they were called Christians because
they were ‘little christs’. And just
what does that mean? Ever think about
it? Why would we want to adopt a greek
term for what The only Begotten Son of The Creator came to do? Especially, since ‘Jesus’ wasn’t Greek?
Especially since ‘Jesus’ never even said in His earthly ministry that He came
to start a new religion! If He did, I
would respectfully ask you to show me where He said this?
I do know that He came
to do the will of His Father. John
5:30 ‘I can of myself do nothing: as I
hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of Him that sent me.’
He came in His Father’
Name, not in the name of ‘christ’; John 5:43
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall
come in his own name, him ye will receive.’
He was sent to the lost
sheep of the House of Israel, not to start another religion with a greek name;
Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I
was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’
Matter of fact, I read
where He was against religion, see all the woes He railed at the religious
systems of His day, Matt 23 and Luke 11.
How about His
disciples, did they pick up this ‘christian’ moniker? Do we have any Scripture where they became
‘christians’? Even Paul, where did he
become a ‘christian’?
In Acts 8 we read the
story of the Ethiopian eunuch who was reading from the scroll of Isaiah 53, Philip begins to explain out of the
prophet all things concerning fulfillment of the prophecy in The Messiah,
‘Jesus’ if you will. At which time,
they came upon some water to get baptized (mikva). Notice it doesn’t say ‘to become a
‘christian’ anywhere, matter of fact there was no roman road down there in the
desert for Philip to take him down to get him ‘saved’ and into the religion of
Christianity.
Can we find anywhere in
the book of Hebrews instructions to become part of a new religion called
Christianity?
Does James address his
letter to my fellow Christians? James
1:1, ‘James, a Bondservant of God and of Adoni
‘Jesus Christ’, ( I don’t he would have used that Greek term but we’ll
let it go for now) TO the 12 tribes
which are scattered abroad, greetings.’
To the WHAT? WHERE? The 12 tribes! Notice he didn’t say to the Baptists, or The
Catholics, Protestants, Judaism etc. And
where were they? Notices James preached
the Torah all throughout his letter. The
Perfect Law of Liberty! James 1:25 Not
the brutal Law of Bondage.
Even in Revelation, you
would think that IF ‘Jesus’ did come to create a new religion call ‘christianity’
He would have addressed them as such.
After all He is trying to give inight into the Revealing of Himself and
‘the things which are and the things which will take place after these things’
(Rev 1:19) No where do I find Him
referring to ‘my fellow christians’.
Matter of fact it is highly suspect that a Jewish Rabbi would speak to
His Jewish disciple in greek? I don’t he
said to John, I am the Alpha and the Omega as if it were a greek fraternity at
a college football game. Rather He would
have said I am Alef Tav. And John would
have immediately known who He was because John was reading Alef Tav all in his
Scriptures all his life. We don’t have
clue as to what that means because it’s been taken out of all our English
Bibles!
The wise men from the
east knew who ‘Jesus’ The Messiah was, Matt 2.
They understood who He was to rule and what His subjects were to be
called. ‘For out of you shall come forth
a ruler, who will shepherd My people Israel.’ I doesn’t say, my people who will be called Christians.
In Judgment times of
Matt 19:28, notice that His disciples will be judging the 12 tribes of Israel,
not the 32,000 denominations of christianity.
According to ‘Jesus’
what is the 1st commandment?
Mark 12:29, ‘Hear O Israel, The Lord (title not His
Name) Our God is One!’ He didn’t say, Hear O church of Christ, Hear
O Baptists, Hear O Catholics etc…. Hear O Christians!
After the resurrection
of The Messiah, He walked this planet 40 days and all we have of that time
period are 8 verses in Acts 1. What was
on the heart of His Disciples who had received the Holy Spirit (before Acts 2)
see John 20 19-23, and had been sent with their marching orders on their
mission Matt 28 18-20, All they wanted to know , ‘Lord is at this time You are
restoring the kingdom to Israel? Acts 1:6
They didn’t say, are now at this time coming up with a new religion we
can name after a Greek deity?
Before you begin to
wonder about your faith and your ‘salvation’ experience, (Are you Experienced?)
rest assured I am not questioning that at all.
See Ephesians 2:11-15, You are now part of the Commonwealth of
Israel v12, and all dogma, doctrine of man are abolished re: denominations,
V15, might that even then possibly be demon-nominations?
Finally Paul never
says, hey guys I found a new and better way called Christianity in all the
times he’s invited to speak in public and in the synagogues. He does say in Galatians 3:29, that ‘IF you
belong to Messiah, then YOU are Abraham’s ‘SEED’, heirs according to the
Promise’. What Promise? That’s where we go back for our future. Beginning in the Beginning to read and
understand what our heritage is that we are heirs of! Lots more, but that’s enough for now.
One Post note: Notice I never denied, ‘Jesus’ as Lord. I am not denying ‘Jesus’ as the Only Begotten
Son of The Father. I am not denying Him
as THE Redeemer and Savior And Restorer and Repairer of the Breech etc. And I am not nor have I ever said there are lots of ways to
get in The Kingdom.
I am saying that our
religion could be an idol.
Its time to believe what we read and stop reading what we believe!
Monday, October 13, 2014
We Hold this Tree to be Self-Evident 10/13/14
Rick Godley
Have you ever read The Allegory of the
Cave by Plato? In brief its about
deception, delusion and control of perceived reality. A group of people sit in a cave watching
shadows of images cast by others on the wall of the cave all their life! They ‘think’ this is real, until one looks
back over their shoulder to ‘see what actually is going on’, they get up and
walk past the ‘actors’ and ‘out of the cave into the light’! I had to read that for a philosophy course in
college.
Naturally, now that I was ‘educated’ with a History degree, I was ‘smarter’ than most because I ‘saw more’.
I’m sure we've all had our ‘walking of the cave’ and into the light experiences from
time to time. However, recently
something else happened. I was
introduced to some information about The United
States Constitution that got me up and walking out of the cave and into the
light, only to find I just walked into the set of The Truman Show!
What if I told you, that what we thought the answer
was turns out to be the root
of the problem?
According to Ted R. Weiland, of Bible Law vs The US Constitution,
he says that the drawing up and subsequent ratification of the US Constitution;
‘was the worst thing that has happened to America’.
Wow!
Take the test for yourself to see how much you think
you know about The Word of ‘The Father’ vs the words of the founding
fathers. Go here.
For me a moment of
clarity came with this sentence: ‘Christians must stop serving two masters. We
must choose between the document that begins “We the People,” and the one that
begins “In the beginning God.” We must choose between a government of, by, and
for the people and a government of, by, and for Yahweh.’ More
here.
After reading through
some of the material last week, I wrote to Ted the following e mail:
“ Have listened to 2 of
the Cd's you sent... the
interview with Dwaine Moore and the speech you gave at some
convention. (Well done, I can tell you
have the Fear of Yah going, in your voice)
Sheesh.... I guess I asked for this.... Still looking forward to Sunday. reading the Primer....
When I was a youth one
of the fun (and stupid things) we would do from time to time was to break open
a golf ball, ( you ever do that?), in the middle was a small pink ball that
would bounce really high, like the super balls. However, to get to the core, the golf ball
was wrapped really really tight with elastic, and once you got the outer shell
off, then those 'rubber bands' would unravel at a high rate of speed! Which was fun.
I feel like that golf
ball.
So many things are
unraveling at a high rate of speed!!!
Thanks for your
obedience.”
I had Ted on my show
this past Sunday if you want to listen to it, here.
It’s becoming more
obvious that ‘the systems of man’, religion (pick your ‘ism’, denomination,
sect, etc.), government, education programs, social mores et al, are all
designed to hack at the branches, or reform the fruit, rake the leaves and even
fertilize the soil, to get a ‘more
perfect Union’. A Greater Society. A smarter generation. a better world, a bigger church, a
better You!
Isn't there a way that
seems right to a man but the end leads to death?
A friend of mine Brad Scott opened my eyes to the phrase
in Scripture, ‘when men began’. When man begins things, nothing good follows.
“Then men
began to call upon the name of the LORD.” (Gen 4:26) Sounds benign as if this is the 1st
time man began to pray to ‘the
LORD’. That is, until you look up
the word ‘began’ in Hebrew, (you know,
the language it was spoken and written in!) and you’ll find quite a different
meaning! It means to profane, pollute,
defile, dissolve, weaken, wound, take inheritance!
So ‘men began’ in Philadelphia to form a more
perfect union, huh? When there was and
still is, The Perfect Law of
Liberty, a law that has ever been done away with, and it leads to
Life!
‘And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were
born unto them, ‘ (Gen 6:1) Not long
after this verse, the earth was filled with violence!
Genesis 11 has men getting together to say, Let
us make bricks for stone, let us build for ourselves a city, let us make a name
for ourselves! Verses
His Name and His
1st Commandment, He makes stones,
and He wants us in His
Garden not cities!
What do you get when you get
all mixed up in Genesis 11? Babylon!
Who is the whore system in
Revelation? Babylon!
Remember a
Mother of Prostitutes means she has daughters; one could be your church! I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of Babylon, my people, so that you do not participate in her sins and
suffer from any of her plagues.” Guess
we’re still here for the Tribulation, sorry Left Behind lovers.
Are you
tired of chopping wood and carrying
water?
Hacking at
another abomination all the while you
may be one? Thinking another vote will
count to turn a Red State Blue or a Blue State Red? Wondering why your prayers
to end abortion haven’t been heard by THE
High Court? Still think you got
to fight for your right to bear arms when it
was yours all along?
“Demanding
rights is an admission of slavery to the one from whom those rights are
petitioned”, Ted Weiland Page 316
I suggest we
all go back to The Beginning to
get Understanding . The answers for
the end are The Beginning! “Declaring
the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been
done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My
good pleasure’.
Ask
yourself, your seasoned ‘christian’ friends and just plain strangers to
accurately name the
2 trees in The Garden?
I suggest
Our Father (not founding fathers) didn’t
plant The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. You never see this tree again in
Scripture! Matter of fact it’s only
mentions twice in Genesis 2. However, you do find The Tree of Life 10 more
times in your Bible! 2 in Genesis, 6 in Proverbs and 2 in Revelation.
Now ask
yourself, your seasoned ‘christian’ friends and just plain strangers to
accurately name the
2 seeds in The Garden?
Seed of the
Serpent vs. Seed of the Woman. (Woman
don’t have seeds, they have eggs, but that’s for another discussion.)
What tree/seed
were we born into? The Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil! See Psalm
51:5 Romans 5:14 1
Corinthians 15:22
No wonder
Nicodemus didn’t get it in John 3! Nicodemus
*said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second
time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” To which ‘Jesus’ leaned forward, almost
incredulously asks; ‘Jesus’
answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand
these things?
So here we
are, later in the ages, the end of the
age? Don’t know, yet its later than it
has ever been and more and more Truth is being revealed. Mark 4:22
Matt
13:11 Deuteronomy
29:29 Job
12:22 Amos
3:7 I Cor 2 7-10 Proverbs
25:2
Which tree
did the ‘angel of Light focus on? The
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The Tree we are all born under.
What is Religion? What is
Government? Social Programs? VBS?
Most would make a case that it’s all the Good things from the Good Side
of the Tree of Knowledge! All the while pointing out at least we’re not like those
evil people on the other side!
What’s wrong
with this line of thought?
IT’S THE
WRONG TREE!
One who is
Smarter than we said that Death
was the produce of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil!
Since you
are what you eat and that which you consume consumes you and Our Father
instructed us to eat from any other tree including the Tree of Life! He wants us to have Life! So much so He
Sent His Son of Liberty to Proclaim
Liberty and to Restore
Life!
So perhaps,
when He told us to take up ‘our cross’, (that other tree, the one that seems
right to a man but ends in death, that one we are to deny self), take it up,
root it out like The Master Gardener did in His Garden and left behind His
Tree, The Tree of Life! To follow, Him
=Tree of Life.
And IF one
comes in with a better way to form a ‘more perfect union’ that seems right,
pleasing to the eyes; Gen 3:6 “So when
the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the
eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he
ate.”
Perhaps,
just perhaps certain men crept in unaware in 1788: (Jud 1:4-5) For there are certain men crept in unawares,
who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, wicked men, turning the
grace of our Elohim into lasciviousness, and denying our only Sovereign, and
Master Yahshua the Messiah.
Jud 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance,
though ye once knew this, how that Yahweh, having saved the people out of the
land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Homework
assignment read all of
Jude slowly.
Do you still
want to fight for your rights?
Do you still
want hold this Tree to be self evident?
Because it is self evident where rightly did Isaiah prophesy of us ‘Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 5:20
I close with
an admonition from Psalm 1, know that you might be in the cave, and then know,
just because you walk out of the cave, discern that you’re not walking into The
Truman Show.
Blessed is the person who does not
follow the advice of wicked people,
take the path of sinners,
or join the company of mockers.
2 Rather, he delights in the teachings of Yahweh
and reflects on his teachings day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted beside streams—
a tree that produces fruit in season
and whose leaves do not wither.
He succeeds in everything he does.[a]
follow the advice of wicked people,
take the path of sinners,
or join the company of mockers.
2 Rather, he delights in the teachings of Yahweh
and reflects on his teachings day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted beside streams—
a tree that produces fruit in season
and whose leaves do not wither.
He succeeds in everything he does.[a]
4 Wicked people are not like that.
Instead, they are like husks that the wind blows away.
5 That is why wicked people will not be able to stand in the judgment
and sinners will not be able to stand where righteous people gather.
Instead, they are like husks that the wind blows away.
5 That is why wicked people will not be able to stand in the judgment
and sinners will not be able to stand where righteous people gather.
6 Yahweh knows the way of righteous
people,
but the way of wicked people will end.
but the way of wicked people will end.
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