C H U R C H R E F O R M S E R I E S
By Biblicism Institute
To possess godly wisdom is to possess true riches.
Wisdom Verse
Don’t underestimate the power of godly wisdom.
“Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you.” Proverbs 4:6
Wisdom Tidbit
If there’s one single verse in the bible you should memorize, it’s this one:
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5: 22-23
Faithfulness is to God’s commandments.
“If you love me, keep my commands.” John 14:15
Wisdom Book 1: Practical
Chapter 1 The Meaning Of Life + Is Faith In God A Superstitious Crutch? + Christian Perfection + Fear God + When Animals Spoke + Duality Of One + Contract & Covenant + The Christian Mandate Chapter 2 Pyramid Of Power & New World Order + Sexual Deviancy + Masturbation + Romance Danger + Tattoo + Real Beauty + Virgin Til Marriage + Yearning For Fatherhood + The Word Of God Chapter 3 Anger + It's My Life! + Government Leeches + Fear And Love + But I Don't Have A Life + Living With Mom And Dad + Dating Traps + Eden And The 4 Great Rivers + How To Pray Chapter 4 Were Early Christians Communists? + Jews For Jesus? + Judeo-Christian? + Holy Land? + Money-Wise Steward + Kosher Food=Scam + Divide & Rule + Reinventing The Concept Of Empire Chapter 5 Church Wolves Question Parental Authority + Greed + Was Einstein Really A Genius? + Useless Scientific Theories + Finite And Infinite + Jesus And The Law + Faith + Clothing Chapter 6 Who Really Killed Jesus? + Muslims And Talmudic Jews + What's A Saint? + Gentiles + Nations + Nothing New + Right And Wrong + The Son Of God + Our Mortality + Karma Chapter 7 How Rabbinists Became Known As Jews + Beware Of Self-Appointed Church Prophets + Social Reengineering + Mothers And their Sons + Family Life + Parenthood + Truth Chapter 8 Patriotism + Love And The Law + The Fall Of Man + Unclean Food + Various Darknesses + The Helper + Kissing Cousins + Interracial Marriage + Hearing God + The Kingdom Of God Chapter 9 Impostor Israel + The Destroyers Of The World + John Hagee Is Not A Christian + Urgent Appeal To Christians Who Support Israel + Christian Businesses Or Ministries? Chapter 10 The Palestinian Struggle Is Christianity's Struggle + Meet The Fake Hebrews + Modern Israel In Bible Prophecy? + Israel's Corrosive Influence + Right Of Conquest Chapter 11 What Dog Could Teach Man + The Serpent's Legs + The Clergy + The Evil That Is War + Hypocrite Atheists + Sex And Menopausal Women + Deep Zionist Infiltration Of The Church Chapter 12 The Law That Changed The World + Confusion In God's House? + That Necessary Balance + Does Man Really Have Free Will? + Please Find A Wife For My Son + My Cheating Wife Chapter 13 To The Judahite First + Irresistible Sex + Conspiracy Theory + The Demons Of War + How To Pry Joy Out Of Life + Is Long Hair On Man A Disgrace? + The Maleficence Of Empire
Wisdom Book 2: Seasonal
Easter, The Church, And The Jews + Jewish Attitude Towards Christ, Christmas & Easter +
The Meaning Of The Word Easter + Christmas, 9/11, And The Satanists +
That Christmas Feeling + Christmas Cheers
Wisdom Book 3: Prophetic
Jesus In Prophecy + The Dating Of The Book Of Revelation + His Return And His Coming +
Daniel, John, And The Apocalypse + The Powers Of Hell + Judgment Day +
New Heaven And New Earth + The Heavenly Body
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The Meaning Of Life
Life flows from God. Thus, its intrinsic value revolves around the Creator. In other words, without God there’s no substance to life.
And the only way for life’s meaning to materialize is to love and serve God by loving and serving one another.
“’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.‘ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40
“Whoever wants to be great among you, let him be one who serves.” Matthew 20:26
When you buy a car, for instance, you buy something that was created to serve the one who buys it. Likewise, God created us to love and serve.
If there’s any other lopsided disposition in the human soul, then the heart has become adversely infected and is in dire need of an adjustment.
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23
As to why we toil under the sun, please read To Infinity and Beyond.
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Is Faith In God A Superstitious Crutch?
The enemies of God love to say 1) that those who exercise spiritual faith are only using it as a crutch, instead of applying logic and reason; 2) that faith has not revealed us anything about the universe; and 3) that religion is the bane of human existence.
1. Actually, those who abuse the “crutch” argument are in fact using it as their own crutch in order to defend their lack of faith, which deep down causes their foolishness to echo in their spirit.
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” Psalm 14:1
Logic (or wisdom) and reason (or understanding/common sense) were given to us by God. So their argument is silly, to say the least.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD.” Isaiah 1:18
“For the LORD gives wisdom.” Proverbs 2:6
“Keep sound wisdom and discretion.” Proverbs 3:21
“We know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding.” 1 John 5:20
In addition, the supporters of the “faith-as-crutch” fallacy love to point to science as faith’s Achilles’s heel; but what they always fail to reveal is that many world-renowned scientists, when at a crossroads, unequivocally acknowledge the existence of God using simple deductive reasoning.
“It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion,” explains Physicist Paul Davies, the winner of the 2001 Kelvin Medal issued by the Institute of Physics and the winner of the 2002 Faraday Prize issued by the Royal Society (amongst other awards).
“People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature – the laws of physics – are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least they do not do so in polite company.
“However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.”
2. How can faith not reveal us anything about the Universe, when faith tells us that God is the Maker of heaven and earth (Psalm 115:15), or the Universe as they are called.
Further, the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah and the Advent of the Holy Spirit drastically changed the world. From that point in history nothing has been the same.
The Holy Spirit of Christ has been inspiring the world forward through dazzling innovations and technological achievements, not to mention the fact that the backward and hateful thinking of pagan cultures has been wiped out by Christian mores.
Where were all these achievements before Christ? Nowhere. The civilization we’re living in is known as Christian Western Civilization, which has impacted the entire globe.
3. Religion, as some interpret and use it, may be baneful. However, a personal relationship with God through Christ Jesus is not. It’s the salvation and redemption of man’s soul.
Religion is man-made with earthly rules and agendas. A relationship with Christ is not. They are two different concepts.
Besides, imagine a world without Christian love and compassion. That would be the bane of human existence. Many throughout history have given us a glimpse of that reality.
From Mao Zedong to Meginstu Haile Mariam, from Kim Il Su to Pol Pot, from Hideki Tojo to Stalin, these Atheists killed over 110 million people – not to mention antiquity rulers like Pharaoh and Caesar who actually thought themselves gods and annihilated multitudes.
“All those who hate Me love death.” Proverbs 8:36
No true Christian who follows the teachings of Christ would ever harm anyone. If lawbreakers, murderers, and mass murderers – politicians or not – pay lip service to the Lord, it’s just to mask who they really are: Atheists pretending to be Christians.
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Christian Perfection
Many wonder how Christians can become perfect, like God; especially since Christ asked us to be.
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5: 48
God is perfect and holy because He is without sin. We are not because we were conceived in sin; thus our perfection process is manifested somewhat differently than God’s. We have to work at it, God doesn’t. The way we Christians become perfect is by ruling over sin.
“Sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:7
For example, if we sin against a brother, recognize our fault before him, and ask for his forgiveness, that’s ruling over sin or perfection. The more we act thusly, the more we’ll sin no more like Jesus asked.
“… go and sin no more.” John 8:11
Repentance causes us to think twice before sinning again. Because when we sin and repent, the next time we’re about to make the same mistake we’ll remember that last time we had to repent and how uncomfortable it felt as our ego or self was dying doing it.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9
Even though our sins are covered by Christ’s sacrifice, we still need to repent of our actions and make amends, like the Prodigal Son did.
“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’” Luke 15: 21
The act of repentance causes the self to disappear under God’s command to repent, and sin is thus conquered and human perfection as ordained by God is attained.
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Fear God
On one hand the bible says to fear God, and on the other it says that perfect love has no fear. Could this be a contradiction?
No, it’s not a contradiction because those verses are to be placed in context.
1) “Fear God and keep his commandments.” Ecclesiastes 12:13
The reason we should fear God is because when we disobey His commandments the consequences will surely come, just like when a disobedient child is punished by a parent. Therefore, that fear is actually an expectation of God’s judgment of our disobedience. And while we’re still alive, His judgment is not geared towards destroying us, but towards correcting us so that we may experience life to the fullest.
“The fear of the LORD leads to life, So that one may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil.” Proverbs 19:13
2) “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love… This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.” 1 John 4:18, 5:2
Perfect love knows no fear because perfect love has been accomplished following God’s commandments. Once that stage of perfection is achieved, there is no more fear to contend with; and whatever unpleasant things may come in our lives will be accepted grounded in faith and not in fear, even when those unpleasant things come not because of any command we may have broken. Many times God is simply testing us to make us better still, since only the truly perfected ones will inherit the perfect new world that Jesus will create at the end of time.
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” James 1: 2-4
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When Animals Spoke
There are two times in the Bible when animals spoke.
The first involved a serpent.
“‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman.” Genesis 3:4
The second embroiled a donkey.
“Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, ‘What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?'” Numbers 22:28
In the second instance, it clearly states that God was the one who opened the donkey’s mouth. However, in the first instance we are told that the serpent categorically spoke, though it was under the influence of Satan.
The question that comes up is, did all animals speak at the beginning of creation?
Though there are no biblical verses to support that they all did, there remains that one recorded time when the serpent did actually speak on its own; which points to the possibility that most likely (some or all) animals did have to some degree the gift of speech, until the fall of man when God’s curse fell upon all creation and removed said gift from them.
“Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals!” Genesis 3:14
Just like Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience and could not get back in, animals lost their speech privilege because of their role in man’s fall and could not recover it. Instead, they ended up vocalizing themselves using various feral onomatopoeias.
If animals did not speak from the very beginning, God would not have opened the donkey’s mouth in the 2nd instance (not that He couldn’t otherwise), because God NEVER goes against the order He created in nature.
Every miracle is an instance of God super-activating the existing order. For instance, a supernatural healing is a normal, natural healing that is sped up, given that the body was created to naturally heal itself.
The natural order of things is one of the reasons Jesus did not turn stone into bread when the Devil asked him to.
“If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Matthew 4:3
It’s not that Jesus couldn’t do it, but within the created order rock cannot be made to turn into bread. The Devil wanted Jesus to circumvent God’s natural order of things, and Jesus refused – in addition to not wanting to take orders from Satan.
As further proof of maintaining said order, Jesus turned bread into more bread (super-activation) for the multitudes that came to hear Him.
Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?” Matthew 16:9,10
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Duality Of One
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27
What does that verse really mean?
It means that there is a duality inherent in God, Father and Son. Therefore God created that same duality in mankind, male and female. That duality is itself God’s image in mankind.
“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…’ ” Genesis 1:26
Therefore, God is a duality of one, Father and Son.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
Said duality of one is imprinted in mankind’s body as well: 2 eyebrows, 2 eyes, 2 nostrils, 2 lips, 2 cheeks, 2 shoulders, 2 arms, 2 hands, 2 hips, 2 knees, 2 legs, 2 feet = 1 body, 1 head, 1 brain, 1 mouth.
See The Trinity Doctrine is not in the Bible
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Contract And Covenant
There’s a difference between a contract and a covenant.
A contract is signed with ink (or a handshake), whereas a covenant is signed with blood. In the Old Testament the blood of a lamb had to be spilled once a year by the ancient Hebrews to keep the Old Covenant alive, whereas in the New Testament the blood of Jesus Christ was spilled once and for all for the New Alliance.
Today, there’s only one covenant whereby blood is still spilled: marriage. See Sex and the Christian.
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The Christian Mandate
The Christian mandate is LOVE.
“Love one another.”
“Love your neighbor.”
“Love your enemy.”
If you find a different disposition in your heart, then quickly do something about it; for you are not following God’s commands.
Violence and hatred and wrath are the antitheses of everything a True Christian stands for. Jesus gave us the example to follow when He laid down His life instead of annihilating his enemies.
“Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?” Matthew 26:53
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The Pyramid Of Power & The New World Order
I. Ignoring the Godly Power
At the very bottom of the pyramid rests the people power, composed of a dormant majority subjugated by the two powers immediately above.
The gun power and the money power.
The gun power or the government elite is a Judas-type minority that usually sells out the people power they represent to the money power above it.
The money power is comprised of the super rich, a minority that controls 90% of the world’s money and is subservient to no one but Mammon.
B.I. Power Pyramid
And finally there’s the power that sustains the entire structure, even though it is ignored by most. It is the power of true, humble Christians who follow God’s commandments and tap into the absolute power of the Almighty. They are the godly power. Without them God would crumble the whole edifice.
“You are the salt of the earth.” Matthew 5:13
“The effective prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much.” James 5:16
These true Christians are a minority and form the capstone of the pyramid.
“But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matthew 7:14
“The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.” Matthew 21:42
Even the Jewish Mammonists who control the Federal Reserve recognize the formidable power of these Christians.
That’s why they willfully omitted the symbolic capstone of the pyramid drawn on the one-dollar bill, the dominant currency of the world, to announce their intention to create a New World Order without Christians (or Novus Ordo Seclorum as written on the one-dollar bill).
In the stead of the capstone, they depicted the “all-seeing” eye of Mammon, the god in whom they trust – “all-seeing” because these Mammonists in their delusion think that their god Mammon sees everything and that with his help they can buy and control ALL that he sees (i.e., everything).
Thus, they reject the godly power and pitifully fight it to no avail.
“We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” Romans 8:37
II. Puppet Presidents
Many American Presidents love to use the term New World Order in the context that soon said order will be established, with the US leading it.
The New World Order has already been established when the Federal Reserve was created by a bunch of money-loving Jews in 1913.
It is an order that puts the Jewish Oligarchs who own it in control of the world via the US$ as world reserve currency.
These puppet Presidents, selected by the Jewish Oligarchs, keep throwing that term out there over and over again to confuse the sheeple to await an event that already occurred without the people’s say-so.
Who benefits? The Jewish Oligarchs. They get to keep control of their money-printing factory that is the Federal Reserve, without any backlash from the American people. Because, after all, the New World Order is ‘not yet established’.
“It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts.” Proverbs 16:12
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Sexual Deviancy
God created sex for man and woman. See Sex and the Christian.
Sex feels good because God is quite intent on having men and their wives produce children. Therefore He made sex a pleasurable experience, His way of encouraging them to copulate.
However, mankind has perverted the entire sex paradigm.
They fornicate outside the marriage parameter only to experience the selfish pleasure of it. They further debase it by having same-sex partners gratifying each other, thus moving even further away from producing children. And finally they bend sexuality itself by morphing men into women and women into men, or transgenderism.
The whole idea of this systematic perversion is to spit on God and His plan for humanity. By bastardizing sexuality, God’s enemies hope to thwart God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 9:7).”
In addition, by debasing it with homosexuality and transgenderism they mean to say, “Hey God, you did not create us in your image, we can find greater pleasure outside your commands.”
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27
And just like God the Father and God the Son are one, only a man and a woman can become one in a marriage/sexual setting. The idea is to mimic and follow the God-duality-as-one image inherently created in mankind (male and female).
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
But those who hate and oppose God’s design are cursed with a curse.
“For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.” Romans 1:26-27
What these God haters fail to realize is that man is not god, and therefore cannot make his own rules. In the end, those who break God’s commands will pay dearly for it. See The Consequences of Sin.
“Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5: 19-21
Venery needs the curb and not the spur. Immoral, unnatural, and inordinate sexual desires are to be turned off and conquered. In other words, sin can be overcome.
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.” Colossians 3: 5,6
“Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5
The gift of sex is to be enjoyed only by man and wife. Get with the program. Become a true Christian today.
Note: All Sexual Deviants in society – whether they be fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, bisexuals, or transgenders – should not be discriminated against and nor should hatred be directed at them. Remember, Jesus died for them as well, and they could still be saved. Prayer and tough biblical love are what is needed, not personal acceptance and encouragement of the lifestyle.
“What business is it of mine to judge those outside the assembly? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside.” 1 Corinthians 5:12,13
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Masturbation
Sometimes, sexual urges can be so powerful that those who are not married resort to masturbating themselves. However, from time immemorial, we’ve been told that masturbation is a sin; and those who preach against it only resort to twisting the following highlighted verse out of context.
“Then Judah said to Onan, ‘Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.’ But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.”
Obviously, that verse has NOTHING TO DO with masturbation. Still, the question remains: is Masturbation a sin?
There are no verses that directly address the issue; but, looking at the totality of scriptures, there are 3 possibilities.
1) It is most likely a sin because it is the indulgence of the flesh.
“For everything in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–comes not from the Father but from the world.” 1 John 2:16
And, as a Christian, when one sins one must repent.
“My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.” 1 John: 1,2
2) It is definitely a sin a) when masturbating one’s thoughts drift towards a married woman, a divorced woman, or anyone or any living thing with whom sexual relations are forbidden; b) when one indulges in pornography (itself a sinful fetish) to constantly stimulate and pleasure oneself.
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8
3) It might be a sin, but God understands how powerful sexual urges can be.
“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13
Is masturbation then a way of escape sanctioned by God to avoid further temptation in a situation that might become dicey? Maybe. However, a way of escape can be other things as well, like keeping busy or taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
“Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5
But one thing is for sure: if God considers masturbation a way to release a natural urge in order to escape a greater temptation, then masturbating might be a better solution than involving someone else in the act of fornication by which a greater infraction could be committed.
In general, sexual urges are very powerful. They are God’s way of nudging us to get married and make babies; but if one is overpowered by them, one is strongly advised to take the plunge and tie the knot.
“But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.” 1 Corinthians 7:2
Conclusion. When there are no verses that directly address an issue, one must consider the totality of scriptures whereby the underlying subject as a whole can be connected, and from there allow the Holy Spirit’s guidance to shine through.
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Romance Danger
Romance should take place after marriage. Otherwise unscrupulous men and women can use it to lure the gullible into thinking that something real is afoot, when in fact it’s not.
It is a useful tool to spur married couples into building their families (i.e., into making babies). In addition, romantically satisfied couples usually create well-disposed parents.
Romance is not for impressionable teenagers to dabble with, especially without strict parental supervision, nor is it for older folks who cannot or will not have children to fancy themselves with.
The purpose of marriage is to create a family with children. Likewise, the purpose of romance is to help multiply and strengthen said family.
“Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.” Psalm 127:4,5
“May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer. May her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.” Proverbs 5: 18,19
Still, for those who can’t have or don’t want children, God made the marriage covenant available as well whereby they can satiate their sexual desires, even though in their case staying single while exercising abstinence is the better option.
“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. But since sexual immorality is so rampant, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.” 1 Corinthians 7:1,2
See The Biblical Marriage Blueprint
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Tattoo
Many Christians believe it is unbiblical to wear tattoos. However, there’s no verse that forbids it, though many use the following passage to preach against it.
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:28
Other versions wrongly translate the latter part as, “nor print any tattoo on your body.“
First, the entire context of that passage is about cutting oneself for the dead.
Second, the word that is translated as marks is the Hebrew word qaaqa with its primary root quwts meaning cutting off. Thus, the entire verse is not about painting oneself.
Still, just because something is not biblically forbidden doesn’t mean it’s profitable to do.
“Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial.” 1 Corinthians 6:12
In addition to health risks, like allergic reactions, skin infections, and bloodborne diseases, there are also unintended social and professional consequences to tattooing one’s body that could turn one into a pariah.
Remember, one’s body is God’s temple; and if God thought His temple needed some kind of a permanent drawing or painting, one would be born with it.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?” 1 Corinthians 6:19
Further, those who preach against tattoos using the Leviticus verse don’t abide by the preceding passage.
“Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.” Leviticus 19:27
We have much liberty with the New Covenant; therefore be aware of out-of-context and obsolete laws, while minding the enduring ones.
“You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.” Galatians 5: 13
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Real Beauty
Mankind has a penchant for beauty, especially for beautiful women. However, physical beauty does not necessarily equate goodness. In fact, beauty can become quite the corrupting influence.
“Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.” Ezekiel 28:17,18
Not even Jesus was physically attractive.
“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” Isaiah 53:2
True beauty of the heart is what God looks for.
“But the LORD said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.’ ” 1 Samuel 16:7
Such inner disposition is even more stringent for women.
“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.” 1 Peter 3:3,4
A man who looks only for physical beauty in a woman (or vice versa) might be in for a shocking surprise. See The Biblical Marriage Blueprint.
“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” Proverbs 31:30
Still, that does not mean we must shun beauty in general.
“God has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is beautiful, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8
“You are altogether beautiful my darling; there’s no flaw in you.” Song of Songs 4:7
It’s just that we must emulate God and look beyond the physical.
“Blessed are those who find wisdom.” Proverbs 3:13
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Virgin Til Marriage
The beauty of virginity can be found in the woman’s crafted hymen. God engineered that membrane for a purpose. He wanted woman to stay chaste until marriage. That membrane is a seal that is to be broken only by the man who becomes her husband. See Sex and the Christian.
Otherwise, the many partners a woman goes through become burdensome to the point of soiling not only her body but her soul as well. Today, we call it baggage.
That baggage is not unlike weed that creeps in and spoils a well-manicured garden. It causes all sorts of emotional and spiritual problems and issues, which may take years to unload. It even affects a marriage since many times the husband is at a loss to understand his wife.
“Women!” he often exclaims.
Indeed, women should realize that the moment they give up that precious commodity to a man outside the marriage commitment, their leverage for that man to stick around is lost. In other words, they relinquish something precious for nothing positive.
If all women kept their virginity until marriage, the happy side effect would be that guys would also keep theirs and avoid the same emotional and spiritual baggage or garbage.
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The Yearning For Fatherhood
Just like woman was created with the desire to nurture, man was also created with his own particular yearning, that of having his seed materialized into his own children.
“Abram said, ‘Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless…’ ” Genesis 15:2
Abram/Abraham’s reaction was quite profound. He basically told God that no matter the riches He bestowed on him, it wouldn’t matter since he had no children.
“…children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Psalm 127:3
When a man is incapable of producing his own offspring, at the very least a son who can carry his name and his seed upon the earth, he feels impotent and unfulfilled.
The desire to have children from one’s own loins is kindled by God Himself. One can even go as far as saying that such a desire is even more important for the man than for the woman.
“Children’s children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.” Proverbs 17:6
In general, biblical women like Rachel and Leah had no trouble nurturing the children of their husbands born of surrogate mothers. They considered them their own. Their need to nurture was fulfilled anyway.
However, a woman today would rather adopt a total stranger than help her husband fulfill his own yearning to have his seed become fruitful. Basically, if she’s not the one to make it happen, it won’t happen. This should not be. See Can a Man Have Many Wives?
Adopted children are not the adoptive parents’ real offspring, and to have these kids call their caretakers “Dad” is simply deceitful. Fathers are only fathers when the children who call them “Dad” come from their loins. See Of Adoption and Surrogacy.
Beware of social reengineering!
” ‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD.” Isaiah 55:8
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The Word Of God
No church organization is omniscient and infallible. See CHURCH REFORM for all the things the “Church” has gotten wrong.
Biblically, the church is the general assembly of all Christians.
“If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave with the family of God, which is the assembly of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.” 1 Timothy 3:15
The pillar is not more important than the truth. The role of the assembly is to carry forth the truth of the word of God as given by God. That’s why HE gifted us HIS word or His truth, which the Apostles set down in writing and can now be found in the BIBLE.
“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3: 16
ONLY GOD is omniscient and infallible, and only His WORD is the final arbiter of the TRUTH. Therefore:
1) When choosing a bible, never buy one with commentaries. Let God Himself open the eyes of your understanding.
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints…” Ephesians 1:18
2) Be weary of those who use a single verse out of the bible to make a point, especially an intricate one. Anyone can use such a technique to validate whatever propagandist idea they’re selling.
Verses throughout the bible are not only immersed in context but interconnected as well, making the bible a living biosphere of divine thoughts and articulated words.
“For the word of God is alive and active.” Hebrews 4:12
At times, that interconnection makes many verses appear truncated and/or cryptic, which in turn could lead to misinterpretations. God purposely made it thus in order to conceal what He is saying. It’s His way of nudging us to investigate and connect His thoughts on the matter, which are scattered throughout the bible.
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.” Proverbs 25:2
We Christians are those “kings” in the above verse.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9
Kings <=> Royal Priesthood <=> Christians.
Can you see now the concealment and the connection?
3) The entire New Testament – including the Book of Revelation – was written prior to the Apocalypse of 70 AD and must be read with that context in mind in order to understand many of its passages.
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together… and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25
“I think that in view of the present distress…” 1 Corinthians 7:25
In addition, every prophecy in the bible has already been fulfilled, except for those concerning the end of the world. The last biblical prophecies that materialized occurred in and around 70 AD. As for the end of the world, read Where is Satan Now? for a look at how it will come about.
4) The bible is not only a historical and literary work, it is also a sacred writ intended to redress the sinful spirit of man. Therefore it can only be fully grasped by a regenerated spirit, which the Holy Spirit of God guides into all understanding. That’s why degenerated souls are at a loss to fully comprehend it, thus making and inventing all sorts of malicious theories about what the bible is and stands for.
5) The entirety of Scriptures is composed of 66 books by about 40 different writers of various backgrounds, who lived during a period of about 1,600 years. Yet, it presents one coherent message: God’s love for the world manifested in Jesus, the prophesied Messiah. And if you commit to reading three chapters daily, you should be able to go through the entire Bible in one year and discover said truth for yourself.
6) There are some words and verses that are badly translated from the Old Testament Hebrew and the New Testament Greek in all current available versions of the bible. Get acquainted with them here, that way you can make a mental rectification when you come upon them in your study of the word.
Of all the mistranslations the one that stands out the most is the word Jew, which is what is printed in all currently published bibles, instead of Judahite or Judean as it should be. However, in the 1985 New King James version, published by Thomas Nelson, Inc., there’s a glaring discrepancy:
“…the Judeans, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men.” 1 Thessalonians 2:15
That’s the only place in that version where the word Ioudaios is rightly translated as Judean instead of the conspicuous word Jew.
Which prompts the following questions:
Did Jews bribe Thomas Nelson, Inc. to do it? If so, what did they stand to gain? And do the editors at Thomas Nelson, Inc. actually know that the word Jew is NOT in the bible?
All in all, it simply is deliberate manipulation. Because, simply put, the same Greek word Ioudaios is oddly translated two different ways in that version.
And the only place where it’s different is in that very uncomfortable and crucial verse where we are being led, like sheep to the slaughter, to envisage “Jews” (of today, of course) as not contrary to all men and not the killers of our Lord; while the “Judeans,” of the tribe of Judah, were the actual contrary ones who crucified the Lord and persecuted Christians.
Still, in other verses where the word Jew is maintained throughout, the Talmudic Rabbinists (aka Fake Hebrews or Jews) get to be seen as the Hebrews of old – a misappropriated appellation that is full of benefits for them, including the theft of Palestine to create modern-day Israel.
Consequently, yes, the editors at Thomas Nelson, Inc. do know that the Word Jew is NOT in the Bible, and yet they keep using it.
Discover more Bad Translations.
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Anger
“Be angry, and do not sin.” Ephesians 4: 26
Anger can be useful, though it can also easily become a conduit for sin.
“Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” James 1:20
So what should happen when we do get angry? After all, Jesus Himself got angry.
“So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.” John 2:15
The purpose of godly anger is to demonstrate and reveal a wrong, especially when God’s commandments are not being followed.
“He said, ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!'” John 2:16
“You must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people… Expel the wicked person from among you.” 1 Corinthians 5:11,13
Anger shows our displeasure. When it’s acted upon in a godly way, the other party, if he has a heart for change, will feel convicted and will eventually repent; otherwise, he’ll audaciously display his own anger and be forever offended.
The same principle applies to parents as they discipline their children.
“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.” Proverbs 13:24
A parent’s duty is to teach his children righteousness. When they disobey, he gets angry or disappointed, depending on the level of the offense. With many kids, whose parents did a proper job from the very beginning, there’s often no need to use the rod.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
Sometimes the gravity of an offense might challenge parents to take that further step, the rod. Still, it is not an opportunity to beat a small child senseless until he bleeds. A gentle spanking, with the right amount of sting, can usually do the trick and show the parents’ anger.
Spanking may or may not work with adolescents, since they’re almost adults. Therefore, adult techniques, which are usually laden with dialogue and stern discipline, should take precedence.
With complete strangers, anger should be kept under total control. It is not our job to correct them.
“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.” Proverbs 19:11
“Anger lodges in the bosom of fools.” Ecclesiastes 7:9
When strangers are angry with us, this is the way to act:
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1
“A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.” Proverbs 15:18
In family, anger should be quickly resolved.
“Do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.” Ephesians 4:27
In general, when anger is burning inside this is what is required:
“Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent.” Psalm 4:4
Then apply wisdom from above.
“The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17
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It’s My Life!
No, it’s not.
1) You did not decide to give birth to yourself. It took 2 people to do so. Your father and your mother.
2) The breath that is in you doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to God.
“The breath of the Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4
3) The death appointment that is scheduled for you has been decided without your consent.
4) Ask yourself this one question: If some major catastrophic event were to happen to you, would others be affected? And the honest answer is, Yes.
5) And finally, your life has been redeemed not by you but by Jesus. Hence, He owns you since He purchased you on the cross.
So, no.
It’s not your life.
“You are not your own; you were bought at a price.” 1 Corinthians 6:19,20
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Government Leeches
Governments are supposed to be tools to serve the People.
“Serve one another humbly in love.” Galatians 5:13
That’s why those in government are called Ministers or Secretaries.
Minister is from the Latin Minister meaning Servant, and the root word for Minister is Minor meaning Small.
Secretary is from the Latin Secretarius meaning a Confidential Employee.
As for President it is from the Latin word Praesidere meaning To Preside, like an overseer presiding over the affairs of the People.
Sadly, a good number of highfalutin politicians who run these gargantuan enterprises known as governments don’t seem to understand that.
They have found many ways to oppress their people in order to maintain their privileged positions: burdensome taxes, unfair laws and regulations, police state, crooked justice system, etc.
And even though these government leeches produce nothing, they do not suffer want. Their long arms accept bribes from every special interest group, create avenues for personal gains, and are extended in every pocket of their constituents via tax authorities. So they go on living the high life on everyone’s dime, while the people sink in misery.
Most so-called political “leaders” have placed themselves above the people they supposedly represent and serve, and are nothing more than parasites feeding on the backs of their constituents.
The same can be applied to Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses, who for the most part have forgotten that true power resides with God Himself.
“The thing displeased Samuel when they said, ‘Give us a king to judge us.’ And Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.’ ” 1 Samuel 8:6-7
Hopefully, the time will come when men and women of conscience everywhere will rise up, take over their governments, and turn them into tools of the people as these institutions were always intended to be.
Until then, or until humanity rids itself of ineffectual and oppressive central governments, tolerating only local governing councils, be vigilant.
“For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” Galatians 5:13
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Fear And Love
“There are two ways in which people are controlled: first of all frighten them, and then demoralize them. An educated healthy, and confident nation is harder to govern.” –Tony Benn
The power of government relies on its capability to induce FEAR, which is the most important weapon in any government’s arsenal. Fear this, fear that. Fear this group, fear that group. Fear arrest, fear jail. Fear your neighbor, fear foreigners. Fear, fear, fear. Government leeches can’t help but resort to it – often by creating boogeymen and imaginary enemies – to validate and consolidate their power.
However, God’s government runs on LOVE, the fuel that ignites health and confidence, keeps the world going, and makes life worth living.
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18
When we follow God’s commandments, it is not because we fear Him. It is because we truly love Him, and realize that His laws are Life itself.
“Now the Lord is that life, and where the life of the Lord is, there is freedom.” 2 Corinthians 3: 17
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But I Don’t Have A Life
Many people actually believe that life should be a long party.
Good times. Happy times. A real life.
Well, wake up.
The Pursuit of Happiness is just that, a pursuit. Happiness is a fleeting experience. It doesn’t stay for long. It comes and goes. It is mostly an emotional reaction brought about by favorable circumstances that once in a while manage to show up.
Thus, the following happens:
- People don’t have jobs, they’re unhappy and complain.
- They’re single, they’re unhappy and complain.
- They don’t have kids, they’re unhappy and complain.
So they cry out, “We have no life.”
But then:
- They have jobs, they’re unhappy and complain.
- They’re married, they’re unhappy and complain.
- They have kids, they’re unhappy and complain.
So they cry out again, “We have no life.”
What is the problem?
They forget that life’s anchor is love, not happiness. And that love is not a goosebumpsy feeling or emotion.
To love is to do the right thing, to fulfill one’s duties, to sacrificially give of oneself, and to selflessly help others – even when it hurts and doesn’t feel right.
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
If you believe you have no life because of your unhappiness, you need a Heart Adjustment.
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Living With Mom And Dad
If you are not married and not working far from home, there is no reason to live anywhere but at home with mom and dad, no matter how old you are. The reasons are simple.
1. The bible says so.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife…” Ephesians 5: 31
A man can leave his parents before finding a wife if he has to work far from home, which in turn prepares him to later afford a family of his own. Jacob did that.
“Then Jacob went on his way and came to the land of the people of the east.” Genesis 29:1
There Jacob worked for 7 years to finally be able to marry his first wife, and toiled for another 7 to get the second one. See Can a Man have Many Wives?
2. Save money.
The propaganda, especially in the US, is that if you’re living with mom and dad you are a loser. The idea is to guilt-trap you into moving out of your parents’ house and renting or buying real estate you can’t afford, so you can enrich property developers.
Imagine how much money you could put aside if while working you were living at home. You could share some of the expenditures with your parents, and thus avoid all the expenses associated with renting and buying something you can scarcely afford.
That way you can build your savings and have a nest egg to fall back on when a true need arises to finally own or rent a property – for example, when it’s time to get married, or when your parents die and your siblings want to sell the house to get their share of the property, or when you have to move out of state/country for a new job.
So don’t fall for the propaganda. Be smarter than that.
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Dating Traps
Dating causes your emotions to get all wrapped up in a person who may not be right for you; and even when you know they’re not right, time and/or desperation often cause you to become addicted to them.
Worse still, many give away their sexuality, some their virginity, only to get nothing positive in return. After desires are satiated and contempt is brought on by familiarity, they break up. Then the painful withdrawal process tees off as tangled emotions ferociously and pitilessly unravel – a needless situation that could have easily been avoided.
In addition, people put their best faces forward when dating; so if marriage materializes you have to get to know them all over again, because it seems you don’t recognize them.
When looking for a spouse, keep these 3 succinct points in mind.
1. Don’t consider divorcés/divorcées (unless it’s a divorcé who divorced his wife because of her fornication). It’s not only a sin, but a commonsensical point as well (i.e., if he/she divorced once, he/she could divorce again). There are plenty of fish in the sea, so look for those with no baggage.
2. Guys, don’t get involved with women who have kids, they’re usually looking for a financial anchor. These women will always put their kids ahead of you, and you will never be their kids’ fathers. Besides, why do some other guy’s job for him? Again, there are plenty of fish in the sea, so ignore the Hollywood propaganda that depicts stepfathers trying to surpass their stepkids’ real fathers by proving how much better they can be to them. It’s all bull biscuit geared toward social reengineering.
And you ladies with kids, if you find yourselves separated from your kids’ fathers, do not bring other men into the picture, as they will likely butt heads with your sons, possibly eye your daughters, and even take you for a ride financially – once more, pay no heed to the Hollywood propaganda. However, single non-divorced women can consider widowers with kids, since women have a maternal instinct that can be transferred to kids not their own, as opposed to men trying to do the same as stepfathers. Fathers are a whole different ball of wax. The bible tells us so.
“The glory of children is their fathers.” Proverbs 17:6
3. There’s no such thing as “the one.” The purpose of marriage is to start a family that soon will involve children (i.e., marriage is about making babies). So the only query that matters is this: Is he/she father/mother material from a respectable family?
Then, instead of dating, follow God’s Biblical Marriage Blueprint.
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Eden And The 4 Great Rivers
“A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Chavilah, where there is gold. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris (or Hiddekel); it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.” Genesis 2: 10 -14
Eden is where the river of the Garden originated, and then bifurcated into four headwaters or rivers.
Keep in mind that, in the beginning, the earth was one uniformed mass that broke apart not too long after the fountains of the great deep burst open during the great flood.
“Now the earth was formless and empty.” Genesis 1: 2
“…on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open…” Genesis 7: 11 (during the great flood)
“Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided...” Genesis 10: 25 (after the great flood)
All indications are that that water source from Eden had its origin in Turkey, where two of the world’s biggest rivers – the Tigris and the Euphrates, as mentioned in the bible – have their provenance.
The other two headwaters with their modern names are the Nile (or Gihon in the land of Cush, Africa) and the Volga (or Pishon, which wound through Chavilah’s eastern regions encompassing modern Russia, a land chock-full of gold and a major producer of resin.).
The Nile flowed out from Eden’s water source and reached all the way to South America, when that continent was attached at the hip to Africa. As the Nile basted through Ethiopia and cut through Congo via tributaries and underground reservoirs, it ended up feeding the massive Amazon River using the Congo River, the 2nd largest river in the world by discharge after the Amazon – no coincidence there.
The Volga was the other headwater. The water source bifurcated from Eden in the Middle East through various tributaries and reservoirs, and headed east toward the Caspian Sea, giving Europe (especially Russia) its biggest river, the Volga, which in turn fed a) China’s two greatest rivers – the Yellow River and the Yangtze – that accordingly even today flow West to East (China is also chock-full of gold and the largest producer of resin in the world), and b) the great Danube which itself fed the Great Lakes of North America, whose subterranean arteries pumped full of water all that Continent’s rivers. Thus the whole of earth was irrigated through that one source from Eden, itself fed from the great deep.
But once the fountains of the great deep burst open during the great flood, new subterranean waterways and rivers were formed. New land masses – from the uniformed bulk that cracked – took shape and drifted apart while the planet’s shell broke into tectonic plates. Many inter-connected rivers – like the Nile and the Volga’s connections to Turkey’s water source – lost their hook ups on the surface, which disappeared under massive land shifting – even though most of the important underground arteries stayed intact.
It’s no coincidence that after the flood Noah’s boat landed on Mount Ararat in Turkey, where life started anew and where it originally began in the first place, though no one can or will ever be able to pinpoint the exact location of the Garden itself.
“So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” Genesis 3: 24
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How To Pray
Prayer is not vain repetitions using a string of prayer beads.
“But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” Matthew 6:7
Prayer is an opportunity to meditate and commune with God, which many times includes heartfelt requests.
“Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6
It is also an occasion to praise and thank God.
“Through Him (Jesus) then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.” Hebrews 13:15
We are commanded to only pray to God the Father, in the name of Jesus.
“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven…’ ” Matthew 6:9
“Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” John 14: 13
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus…” 1 Timothy 2:5
Prayer is not an opportunity to indulge the flesh.
“When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” James 4:3
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Were Early Christians Communists?
No, they were not.
Many think they were because of this Scripture reference:
“And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.” Acts 2: 44-45
The reason early Christians sold everything they had was because they took Jesus’s warning seriously.
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near. Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city.” Luke 21: 20,21
Therefore, soon after Pentecost, Christians started getting rid of everything they owned in Judah or Judea with an eye towards leaving the area before the day of retribution caught up with them. Read Where is Satan Now? for the sequence of events.
Furthermore, sharing with others less fortunate has always been a Christian mandate, not a communist one.
On the other hand, the whole idea of communism is to steal from regular folks in order to enrich the leaders of the movement, while the centrality of its tenets is the hatred of Christianity.
Communism was created by Jews who hated Christians, and that’s why the first move of any communist regime is to try to stifle Christianity.
The Jewish Marxist Bolsheviks, who took over the Russian government in the 1910s, killed 66 million Christians, including 200,000 members of the Christian clergy, and destroyed 40,000 churches. And Islam is the problem? See The Truth about the Conflict with Russia.
So, nope. Early Christians were not communists. God forbid.
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Jews For Jesus?
Some former Jews who are now Christians still hang on to their “Jewishness” because it makes them feel special. Apparently, Jesus is not enough for them. They want to be set apart. Unfortunately, that is totally NOT biblical.
“There is neither Judahite nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all ONE in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3: 28
They don’t want to assimilate with other Christians. Instead, they choose to separate themselves by pretending to be Judahites (i.e., by pretending to be more important than the rest of the Body of Christ). They are thus abiding in sin.
“…those liars who say they are Judahites but are not…” Revelation 3:9
They even call themselves Jewish-Christians, conveniently ignoring the fact that being Jewish is being part of a religious group and not part of the once chosen Hebrew race (including Judahites of the tribe of Judah) which no longer exists as a people.
Talmudic Judaism is an evil religion that rejects Christ and used to be known as Pharisaism. How they figure they can be both Jewish and Christian is beyond comprehension.
It’s like a Satanist who becomes a Christian and decides he’s now a Satanist-Christian. Jews For Jesus should be Former Jews For Jesus, just like it would be Former Satanists For Jesus. Can you imagine Satanists for Jesus? Ridiculous, right?
Unfortunately, that’s the Chosen People Syndrome.
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Judeo-Christian?
Never use that hyphenated idiocy.
1. Talmudic Judaism is Pharisaism or Rabbinism. It has nothing to do with the bible. Its central tenets are in a book called the Talmud (the real Satanic Verses), a book full of Babylonian superstitions and lies.
2. Jews are NOT the Israelites of the Bible and therefore NOT the descendants of Judah.
That expression (Judeo-Christian) was created and set in motion by Rabbinists (now known as Jews) in order to hoodwink gullible Christians into believing that they are Judahites and that Christianity is an extension of their satanic cult. That way they could proceed with their diabolical plan to steal Palestine without the objection of the Christian world. See How the Ashkenazi Jews Conquered the West.
Next time you find yourself wanting to use that expression, bite your tongue. Instead, just say Christian.
Besides, isn’t Christ enough?
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Holy Land?
A land cannot be Holy.
Holiness is twofold: the perfection of God and the sanctification of Christians.
1. God is Holy.
“You are holy.” Psalm 22:3
2. True Christians become Holy because Christ resides in them, so they may produce the fruit of the Spirit.
“It is written, ‘You shall be Holy, for I am Holy.’ ” 1 Peter 1:16
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5: 22-23
“Without holiness no one will see the Lord.” Hebrews 12: 14
The following passage has many confused.
“God said (to Moses). ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.’ ” Exodus 3:5
First, that was in Midian, an ancient region of NW Arabia East of the Gulf of Aqaba, not modern Israel. Is that place also holy today? No. It was holy during the moment God was there touching it. That was the extent of its holiness.
Second, just because Jesus walked somewhere doesn’t make it holy today, no different than that moment when Moses approached God on that patch of ground in Midian. It was temporary.
“Jesus replied, ‘Believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem… But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth… God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. ‘ ” John 4:21,23,24
Third, the Jerusalem of the Middle East today is NOT the same Jerusalem that Jesus lived and walked in. The old one was razed to the ground by the Roman army in 70 A.D. So those who go there on a pilgrimage to walk where Jesus walked are only fooling themselves.
Thus, Israel is not “holy.” It is an Apartheid country full of liars, racists, thieves, murderers, impostors (pretending to be God’s Chosen People), and heathens. See Israel: Land of Impostors.
Every conscientious individual should implement a personal boycott of Israel.
a. Don’t visit it. There’s nothing there to see. As a tourist, all that’s worthwhile seeing is in the West Bank of Palestine – Bethlehem and Jerusalem. So visit the West Bank instead via Jordan. Gaza can also be visited via Egypt.
b. Don’t invest in any company or fund that involves Israel.
c. Don’t buy anything Made in Israel or from companies that support Apartheid in Israel.
Download the Quick Guide To Boycotting Israeli Goods.
“Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’” 1 Corinthians 15:33
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Money-Wise Steward
“In a wise man’s dwelling, precious treasures and oils are stored.” Proverbs 21: 20
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.” Proverbs 13:22
You are just a steward of the money you earn, therefore learn to control it before it controls you. In other words, get in the habit of using and bequeathing it properly:
a. meet your family’s needs (vacation included);
b. don’t waste money on frivolous things;
c. prepare for bad times (savings and insurance);
d. invest in your retirement;
e. lay away for your children’s future;
f. take eternity into account and apply Jesus’s parable of The Unrighteous Steward in Luke 16:1-12.
With that parable, Jesus delineated a two-prong position:
1) Salvation. The unrighteous steward gave away commercial goods to those who could give back to him in return. Scratch my back, I scratch yours. That’s the way of the world. And for the world it is a smart way to deal. However, you, as a disciple of Christ, have something better to give. The Gospel of Salvation. And it is not to be exchanged for filthy lucre like many “preachers” do today. It is to be given to all, expecting nothing in return.
2) Money. You must not only give the Gospel away for free, you must also bestow money on those who can’t give back to you. That way they can see Christ in you as well as getting a taste of the goodness of the Lord through your giving.
“Taste and see that the LORD is good.” Psalm 34: 8
“If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.” Luke 6: 33
When you give, it is as if God Himself is giving. Said gesture affords you the opportunity to share Christ. It is also a seed impregnated with Christian love that later on could yield the fruit of change in marginal “Christians” or salvation in the souls of those who do not know Christ. That’s why Jesus said to “make friends using unrighteous mammon.”
Thereupon, those at the receiving end of your gift, once saved, will be able to partake with you of the everlasting life, which is the real dividend or the true riches that God Himself will assign to you as your own.
See Who Should Christians Give their Money to?
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Kosher Food = Scam
Do not ever buy food labeled Kosher as it is a scam that causes prices to skyrocket. Food companies must pay the appropriate rabbinical organizations to affix their Kosher Approved Stamps on their products. In return, these companies pass the cost onto the consumers.
What makes a food Kosher for non-Jews? Who knows? Especially since the rabbis from these rabbinical organizations do not pray to the true God in heaven and nor do they adhere to His laws. It’s like having a voodoo baron green-light your food. Go figure.
“No one who denies the Son has the Father.” 1 John 5: 12
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Divide And Rule
Divide Et Impera.
The Romans used it to subdue their empire, and now the elite and their paid-for politicians are using it to maintain their power. Unfortunately, the masses seem ignorant enough, docile enough, and impotent enough to allow it to happen.
1. The people blindly commit themselves to fully take sides with political parties.
Consequently, they fail to realize that no political entity has a monopoly on being right. They are thus splintered by their own ignorance.
That’s why many wise folks tell their children to never discuss politics with those they want to maintain familial or friendly relations with. Issues are purposely manipulated along party lines in order to divide the masses and strengthen those in power.
2. The people blindly believe the news they’re being fed.
News, more often than not, are fabricated just like movies – an ingenuous way of fragmenting the people even further.
For instance, the 1976 rescue of Israeli hostages, kidnapped on an Air France flight and held in Entebbe in Uganda, and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games kidnapping of 11 Israeli athletes were both fabricated by Israelis themselves in order to portray Palestinians as terrorists. For decades the world has bought into those lies.
Now imagine the many more Fake News that are accepted as gospel. For example, when lone criminals commit their supposed massacres, keep in mind that unless it’s a Hollywood movie, almost no one kills another being for pleasure, let alone exterminating tens or hundreds of total strangers.
The government is usually the one behind these crimes – actual (Government Black Ops) or fake (scripted, acted, and prerecorded “events”) – since it uses them to pass laws that will either benefit itself (i.e., benefit the highfalutin politicians and their lavish lifestyle) or favor those who bribe State Officials to execute hidden agendas.
And the best way for the government to roll out those agendas is by using these “events” which generate fear, followed by Nazi-like intimidation and control. Subsequently, a police state is erected to keep the masses docile, and protect the politicians and the agenda manipulators from the ire of the people.
3. The people blindly think that most elections that matter are real and not rigged.
For the most part, an election is simply a piece of theater put together to entertain the people and make them feel they are living in a democracy. In each campaign there’s often a sacrificial lamb that is hired to facilitate the “election” of the one they want in.
Usually, the candidate who ends up “winning” is always chosen by the powers that be, and the people only get to know who was selected on Election Day. That’s how dissenting voices are kept away from the political process, thereby rendering the masses impotent.
Joseph Stalin understood that when he said, “The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.”
In conclusion, realize that, “Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.” 1 Corinthians 8:2, and that true change is not achieved through the ballot or the media, but must first come to each individual who, as he transforms his heart according to God’s ordainment, strives for the betterment of the world.
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” James 2:26
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Reinventing The Concept Of Empire
The Empires of old usually revolved around their city-states, given that in those days mostly city-states existed. They were entities that forced themselves on other Kingdoms usually of different races and nationalities, and were more interested in tributes/taxes that these Kingdoms could provide the Emperor, not so much in territory per se. The whole idea of these Empires was to collect revenue – that’s why their tributaries were called vassal states.
The modern European powers reconfigured the way Empires work. They invaded other Kingdoms in order to pillage the resources of those they conquered. So land and territory mattered. After all, no one knows what’s hidden beneath even the most god-forsaken land. Thus, better grab as much land as possible and expand the conquered Kingdoms’ territories.
The USA further reconfigured the way Empires work. The US Empire bribes the governments of other countries – using “Foreign Aid” – to maintain the hegemony of the US Dollar, and pillage the resources of these nations through the infiltration of American companies and the intimidation of US military bases. In other words, the Jewish Oligarchic Elite, as the “Emperor,” wags the US Empire for its own benefit. See Israel: the Scourge of Empires.
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Church Wolves Question Parental Authority
Many hardcore cult leaders, disguised as preachers, often tell young and unmarried adults in their congregations that if their parents are not Christians – read: not attending “their” churches – they can ignore their authority.
That’s their way of isolating these folks from their families in order to control them and steal their money through the erroneous tenet of church tithing, much like a pack of wolves separate and hunt down the weakest prey from the herd.
God never said to obey and honor one’s parents only if they’re Christians. He said to obey and honor. Period. Just because the Apostle Paul said to “obey your parents in the Lord” (Eph 6:1) doesn’t mean that your parents are to be in the Lord. It means obey your parents because of the Lord or because you are in the Lord or because it is a command from the Lord.
“Honor your father and your mother.” Exodus 20: 12
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” John 14:15
These “preachers” are twisting God’s word to fit their own agenda.
See Of Authority and Christians.
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Greed
Greed is an ungodly cancer that plunges those who harbor it into moral and spiritual bankruptcy.
Though there are many good people throughout the world who still espouse good old fashioned financial responsibility, there are also many who embrace greed as their primary end in life.
1. Mega Corporations. They have displaced a great number of mom and pop businesses, with their only purpose being the satisfaction of their greedy shareholders who apparently can never get enough profit.
Thus profit has become their ungodly god.
If there is not enough of it, employees who depend on their jobs to care for their families are laid off without any sense of responsibility or mercy, while CEOs still get to cash their multi-million dollar paychecks – salaries that could easily be reduced and redistributed to keep more employees on board until a recovery. In truth, these CEOs need a Heart Adjustment.
The bottom line of these conglomerates is not the family’s well-being, but their profit margins and the padded bank accounts of their executives.
2. Individuals. Greed can be the poor or middle class man’s obsession as well. If you doubt it, then go to to a place where they sell that government-controlled monopoly scam called Lottery, and take a gander at that long line of folks hoping to win their ticket to unlimited money.
Or, just think of the multitudes with high interest credit card debt, which was accumulated purchasing trifles not necessary for daily living. They juggle many jobs, not to feed their families, but to pay off irresponsible debts.
Conclusion. To an individual a noble purpose is important, and equally as significant are a Corporation’s goals. If the object of any entity is money above everything else, or greed, sooner or later a breakdown will materialize.
It’s time for mankind to go back to the basics, and rediscover godly objectives. It’s time for God and His laws, loving patriarchal family, and purposeful responsibility.
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Was Einstein Really A Genius?
Albert Einstein’s name has strangely become synonymous with “genius.”
But we couldn’t find one thing that man invented or came up with that made our lives better or that was not a fraud. NOT ONE THING! Even the equation E=mc^2 that is attributed to him is apparently from an Italian named Olinto De Pretto who published it in the scientific magazine Atte in 1903.
Yet everyone knows who Einstein is. His face and name are plastered on everything that hints at “sheer ingenuity.” Even his so-called “accomplishments,” besides being theories to begin with, were unsupported conjectures that amounted and led to NOTHING – especially his Theory of Relativity, stolen from mathematician Henri Poincare and physicist Hendrik Lorentz, along with the GPS & Relativity myth. Nikola Tesla, a real scientific genius, categorized said theory as “the greatest historical aberration of scientific thought.” See Puzzled Scientists.
Here are some true scientific geniuses and visionaries: Johannes Gutenberg, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Charles Babbage, Reginald Fessenden, Guglielmo Marconi, Thomas Edison, Karl Benz, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Wright Brothers, Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce, Tim Berners Lee, Alexander Fleming, Louis Pasteur, and Steve Jobs, just to name a few.
All of them either invented or contributed to the invention of not useless theories but of things that improved our lives and catapulted humanity to a higher level of productivity. Yet none of them is uplifted like Einstein. Then again unlike Einstein they were not and are not Jews (some are still alive), so the Jewish-controlled media inflate their own to godlike status – even when they’re fake – in order to propagandize their misappropriated appellation of God’s “Chosen People.” See How the Ashkenazi Jews conquered the West.
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Useless Scientific Theories
Science is the method of figuring out a) the world as manufactured by God, and b) new technology as inspired by Him.
“In the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill.” Exodus 31:6
Real scientists decipher the laws and the across-the-board methodical and integrated architectures inherent in God’s creation without conjecture or bias (e.g., Newton’s LAW of Gravity and Newton’s LAWS of Motion). However, when pseudo-scientists can’t understand something that God created, they try their best to speculate. They call that speculation “theory.”
There are many of them out there, but the two most popular ones are: the Evolution theory and the Big Bang theory. Given that they were concocted by Atheists (or the A-s), heathens of all stripes consider them “facts,” as opposed to what they really are, unproved assumptions and conjectures.
Let’s humor these two theories for a quick moment.
1. If the A-s‘ ancestors were animals, where do A-s get their sense of justice, morality, and ethics? After all, animals don’t work for a living, they eat each other, and they self, meaning within their own species they sexually jump one another regardless of whether they’re related or not. In other words, why aren’t the A-s more concerned about enforcing these laws of the jungle instead of worrying about true justice, steadfast morality, and staunch ethics as demanded by God? That would be more logical, wouldn’t it?
Still, many E-theorists, when caught in the magnitude of their stupidity, try to wiggle their way out by “theorizing,” once again, that God was the one who used evolution to cause species to evolve into other species. If that were the case, God would have come right out and said it in His word, even if most of these E-theorists wrongfully assume God’s word to be false – as if God isn’t capable of choosing a few men to write His story, when mere mortals rely on historians to do the same.
Unfortunately, most of the believers in the monkey-upgrade theory (if not all) never bother to read God’s word from beginning to end; still, they hypocritically pass judgment while strangely believing in fantasies that supposedly occurred billions of years ago (Jeez!) with no then living historians and scientists or proofs to back them up. They’re like art critics trying to explain to Picasso what his art means when Picasso is telling them otherwise. Or better yet, they’re like the devil trying to convince Eve that what God said was not what He meant to say.
2. If Big Bangs were capable of creating things, scientists could go in a lab and apply that Big (bada-bing-bada) Bang theory (on a much smaller scale, of course), not only to prove its validity but to watch as new tiny universes and creatures burst into existence. Besides, didn’t Steve Hawking come up with a formula for that nonsense? The M-Theory? So what are they waiting for? They could actually turn its application into a lucrative business. Big-Banged tiny universes teemed with tiny creatures could be sold at Walmart where we’d be the first in line to purchase them. We would rule them with a rod of iron, and if those tiny creatures were to theorize that no one created them, we would teach them a lesson and smite them dead 🙂 .
Conclusion: God created it all, period – the Devil included. “The Devil?” some will question. Yes, the Devil and his demons. God uses them to bring about His ultimate plan and purpose, which is to challenge man’s free will and put through the fire unbelievers, atheists, and Christians alike in order to test their zeal for either the truth of God and Jesus whom He sent or the lies of the evil one and his cohorts. Otherwise, it’s like saying that the computer (created by someone) is responsible on its own for all the things (marvelous or not) it can do. Only those who foolishly believe there is no God adhere to such stupid theories.
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ ” Psalm 14:1
See Puzzled Scientists.
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Finite And Infinite
To be finite is to be a small part of infinity.
We humans are finite or partial and possess only finite minds; therefore we cannot comprehend nor grasp the whole which is infinity, God’s domain. And because God Himself is infinite and not finite, He is thus whole and perfect, thereby not partial; ergo He’s uncreated in His infinity.
However, because we’re created (i.e., plucked out of infinity), thus limited, finite, and partial, we cannot fathom anything that is not created, just the way we cannot truly fathom God’s perfection because of our imperfection.
Consequently, we, finite, imperfect, and partial beings, know and understand only in part, but one day we will know and understand fully – when we are reattached to the Eternal Lord in His infinity (or eternity), from hence we came.
“For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away… Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully…” 1 Corinthians 13: 9,10,12
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Jesus And The Law
“I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.” Matthew 5:17
Many love to pull that verse out of context to support various obsolete laws of the Old Testament, such as the tithe and the election of “Jews” as God’s chosen people.
But what did Jesus mean?
He meant exactly what He said. He came to fulfill all the biblical laws, because no one before Him managed to do so.
“For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.” Matthew 5:18
And accomplish them, He did.
“It is accomplished.” or “It is finished.” Matthew 19:30
And because He accomplished them, He was able to make some major changes. Consequently, He did away with the entire Levitical system.
“For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.” Hebrews 7:12
Many laws – such as the tithe, the animal sacrifices, the Levitical priesthood, and the special status of the ancient Hebrews (today’s Jews are not Hebrews and no different than other non-believers) – have been done away with.
“By calling this covenant ‘new,’ he has made the first one obsolete.” Hebrews 8:13
The New Covenant in Christ’s blood became the new law, while Christians became the new priesthood and the new chosen people – chosen to love and to do good.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood.” 1 Peter 2:9
The old body of the law has already been fulfilled… and then changed.
“I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 9: 21
Those who take Matthew 5:17 out of context are only beating a dead horse.
“Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” Romans 3:27
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Faith
Faith is powered up by Christ Himself, the embodiment of the law or the word.
“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” John 1:14
He quickens us through His Helper, the Holy Spirit, to abide in Him and follow His commands.
“It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” John 16: 6,7
“If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” John 15:7
Thus, when said abiding takes place, faith becomes the result.
“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” John 7:28
Faith is a powerful thing. It can move mountains, not literal ones – remember Jesus spoke in parables.
“Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20
Faith is more than what we usually think it is.
1. It is the belief that God exists and that He provides for those who seek Him.
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Hebrews 11:6
2. It is the assurance that Jesus is the Savior.
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20
3. It is the conviction that God can do the impossible.
“Jesus replied, ‘What is impossible with man is possible with God.’ ” Luke 18:27
4. It is the knowledge that we must obey, follow, and apply all of God’s enduring commandments.
“Whoever says ‘I know him’ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.” 1 John 2:4
5. It is the understanding that God does whatever He wants, whenever He wants, however He wants, and we have to accept it, even when it does not fulfill our expectations.
“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.” Hebrews 11:13
After all, it’s His will, not ours.
“Your will be done…” Matthew 6:10
“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Luke 22:42
Are you ready now to live by faith? If you are, don’t forget to show your faith by your works.
“What does it profit, my brethren, though a man says he has faith, and has not works?” James 2:14
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Clothing
Many Christians believe that a woman should only wear dresses and not pants. Those with said frame of mind are only misusing the following verse.
“The woman shall not wear that which pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” Deuteronomy 22:5
First, there were no pants in existence when those words were written.
Second, that verse simply means exactly what it says. If a man puts on a garment belonging to woman (e.g., a dress), he’s not acting like a man, but like a woman – thus, contrary to nature. Today, we call such a person a transvestite. That’s the spirit of the verse.
It has nothing to do with pants and dresses, especially when in biblical times both men and women wore tunics, which looked almost identical; therefore, the spirit of the verse is what needs to be upheld.
In general, when it comes to clothing modesty is the key.
“…adorn themselves in modest apparel…” 1 Timothy 2:9
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Who Really Killed Jesus?
The Judahite Hebrews, through the Sanhedrin of the Pharisees (a religious body), arrested, judged, and condemned Jesus to death because He said He was God.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
“Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, ‘He has spoken blasphemy!’ ” Matthew 26:65
But given that the Judahites were under Roman occupation, they could not carry out the physical sentence. They went to Herod, their Judahite Hebrew King (of Judah), who sent them to his boss Pilate, the Governor of Palestine, a federation that included the territory of Judah or Judea.
Pilate washed his hands of the accusation that was laid on Christ, but did allow the beating and the crucifixion by his Roman soldiers to take place in order to pacify the Judahite Hebrews who were close to rebellion – something Pilate did not want under his watch.
However, biblically and spiritually, the bible squarely lays the blame on the Judahite Hebrews, not on those who today are known as Jews (since they’re not the Hebrews of the bible) and not on the Romans. See Jews did not kill Jesus.
“…the Judahites, who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men…” 1 Thess 2: 14,15
Consequently, Jews today, who are nothing more than impostors pretending to be Judahite Hebrews, enjoy the benefit of being something they’re not, without taking on the culpability and guilt of killing our Lord (i.e., they have their cake and eat it too).
See Anti-Semitism is a trick? Oh Dear!
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Muslims And Talmudic Jews
Muslims believe in Jehovah; and in Jesus whom they accept was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, was only a prophet to the ancient Israelites, was not crucified to death, went to heaven without dying, and is expected to return soon.
However, Talmudic Jews follow Pharisaism, not an Abrahamic faith, and adhere to the Babylonian Talmud, the real Satanic Verses, a book full of lies and superstitions. In addition, they see Jesus as a sorcerer and a demon-possessed liar who is now boiling in excrement in hell, and whose mother Mary was a whore.
From Wikipedia, according to the Talmud:
“In Gittin 56b, 57a a story is mentioned in which Onkelos summons up the spirit of Yeshu [or Yeshua (Jesus)] who sought to harm Israel. He describes his punishment in the afterlife as boiling in excrement.”
“In addition, at the 1240 Disputation of Paris, Donin presented the allegation that the Talmud was blasphemous towards Mary, the mother of Jesus (“Miriam” in Hebrew) and this criticism has been repeated by many Christian sources. The texts cited by critics include Sanhedrin 67a, Sanhedrin 106a, and Shabbath 104b.”
Thus it appears that Muslims are much closer to Christ than are Jews.
“Whoever is not with me is against me.” Matthew 12:30
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What’s A Saint?
Biblically, a saint is a Christian who willingly separates himself from the ways of the world and is grafted unto Christ the Lord, living solely to please Him.
“Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.” Revelation 14:12
A Saint is not a title that the Catholic Church decides to arbitrarily confer on some Christian.
“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” 1 Corinthians 14:33
Now whether a Christian is a true Saint or not can only be resolved by God and not by man.
“The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7
Still, all true Christians are called to be Saints.
“To all… called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 1:7
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Gentiles
In the beginning, the word that became known as Gentile had only one simple meaning: nation.
“The LORD said to her, ‘Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.'” Genesis 25:23
In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word Goy is used to point to it; whereas in the New Testament, it is the Greek word Ethnos.
However, as is the case throughout history when the meanings of many words evolved over time, like the evolution that befell the word “Gay” (Gay=Merry became Gay=Homosexual), the expression Goy or Ethnos took on a different animus as well.
The Judahite Hebrews, the only tribe that was left standing in with God’s blessing, added a negative connotation to the word nations. The subtext they injected came to be understood as those who did not believe in Jehovah and were not under His covenant, or Gentiles.
In other words, to the tribe of Judah there were only two groups of people: Judahites and Gentiles. That’s why the Apostle Paul wrote the following, using those two available categories.
“There is neither Judahite nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all ONE in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3: 28
Feeling left out, the other scattered tribes of Israel started using the term Judahites to describe themselves; but this is what God told the Apostle John.
“Those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Judahites and are not, but lie.” Revelation 3:9
In addition, the dual understanding of the word Goy or Ethnos crept in the work of scholars who used its twofold translation, Nations and Gentiles, starting from the very beginning of the bible, to 1) describe the various nations of the world, and 2) differentiate those who throughout biblical times were under God’s covenant (i.e., the Hebrews) and those who were not (i.e., Gentiles).
However, today, because all Hebrews are dead and because there’s a New Covenant in play, the need for the word Gentiles is no longer of use neither in our faith nor in our vocabulary, especially as Jesus Christ came to be the Savior of the whole world.
“We have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.” 1 Timothy 4:10
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Nations
When the bible mentions Nations, it is referring to the descendants of particular individuals.
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” Genesis 12:2
The nation God was talking about in that verse was Abraham’s grandchildren and descendants, the 12 Ancient Hebrew Tribes or 12 families, all related.
“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates….” Genesis 15:18
Today’s Jews are not the descendants of Abraham, let alone Judahite Hebrews, and therefore have no right to the land of Palestine, which they have stolen by brute force while falsely claiming it as their Abrahamic inheritance.
“The LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight… And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.” 2 Kings 17:18,20
In short, the biblical definition of Nations is different from the everyday understanding. It refers to bloodline descendants, or families.
“And in your (Abraham’s) offspring (Jesus) all the families of the earth shall be blessed…” Genesis 26:4
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Nothing New
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9
There’s truly nothing new under the sun.
Things deemed new only have the trappings of novelty. A text message, for instance, is just a more efficient and quicker method than sending a note with a messenger pigeon, but its essence is not really new. In other words, technology is nothing more than a manner of accomplishing a task that is usually as old as humanity itself.
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Right And Wrong
Excerpt from When Love Takes Hold
It is no strange occurrence to be faced with the nescience of others in whatever subject we would prefer to apply such observance. Though nonetheless a disappointment, we would rather be accepted by the other party’s sapience in recognizing genius when it should be quite obvious. But in that case, how is the one with no prehensility able to ascertain the obvious when the very individual who disagrees is the one we label asinine for not embracing our sagacity?
It would be a feat to bring the other party to our side if only our suasive and arresting wherewithal were strong and compelling enough to ensconce the adversary into assenting to their erroneous position and finally into subscribing to not only the veracity of our argument but to the most revered aspect of our reality: our sageness.
Thus the real test. Is our argument genuine enough, laced enough, absolute enough to really get to the point where our contender could actually flinch? Is it the benightedness of others or our own lack of intellectual prowess that has landed us into this apparent conflict? Or is it, God forbid, our own inherent flaw in admitting that maybe the other party is not wrong after all? In so doing we would set off the unfathomable: our own decrepitude. But what if we are right and our foe is wrong? Or what if we are wrong and our rival is right? Who determines right? And who under heaven denominates wrong?
Should it be mere mortals prone to change? Or should it be One who transcends the very concept of fallibility? In other words, shouldn’t it be God, the absolute embodiment of unerring accuracy? It makes sense, doesn’t it? But in that case, how do we know what God thinks? And how does He determine right and wrong? Maybe we should pick up the Christian Bible and find out. A warning though… if you decide to read the Bible from the first page to the last, let it then be an exercise between you and Him. Maybe He’ll convince you of His love from which emanate right and wrong. Otherwise, you’ll have to persuade Him of the futility of His love for you; and henceforth, there’s no telling how garbled right and wrong could become.
“Your word is a lamp on my feet, and a light on my path.” Psalm 119:105
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The Son Of God
Jesus is the son of God.
First, it means that Jesus is an offshoot or offspring of the Father. He comes from Him and therefore He and the Father are one. See The Trinity Doctrine is not in the Bible.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
Here are 3 testimonies by 3 witnesses concerning God the Father and God the Son as a duality of one:
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’).” Matthew 1:23 (Apostle Matthew)
“For in Him (Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 2:9 (Apostle Paul)
“In the beginning was the Word… And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.” John 1: 1,14 (Apostle John)
Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. Those who are waiting for another are waiting in vain. The matter has already been established. Period.
“Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” 2 Corinthians 13:1
Second, it denotes that Jesus is the Savior of all mankind.
“In Him (Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” John 1:4
Consequently, Jesus is Lord of all people, Christians or not.
“We have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.” 1 Timothy 4:10
Non-Christians may not realize it, but the grace and patience of God, which rest upon their lives as they’re immersed in sin, are because of Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross.
“Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?” Romans 2:4
Everyone has free will to accept or reject the way, the truth, and the life of Jesus in their lives.
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
However, when we use said free will to reject Him we are nothing but slaves to sin, as our lives become void of the fruit of the Spirit. See Predestination And Free Will.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5: 22-23
But the instant we give up our volition to enact His will, we become truly free.
“If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for my sake, you will find it.” Matthew 10:39
Third, it entails that everything in creation is now subject to Jesus and His new commandment to “Love One Another.”
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34
Prior to Christ, it was extremely difficult for anyone to love one another. With Jesus’s sacrifice on the Cross, His resurrection, and the Advent of the Holy Spirit, applying such moral law became much easier.
Every religion or philosophy, which espouses loving one another and good will towards man, whether aware of it or not, has benefited from Jesus’s new commandment, which is the foundation of Christian enlightenment.
“And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all. ” 1 Corinthians 15:28
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Our Mortality
It is quite strange that our mortality, especially during the stronger years of our lives, doesn’t much occupy our thoughts. It seems that the vigor of our younger selves always manages to steal away the reality of what awaits us at the end of the journey.
You would think, because death is only a breath away from spoiling our fleshly abode, that we would stop and think of the apparent futility of it all; but no, we don’t.
As a matter of fact, in spite of the dreadful end which awaits us, we work without ceasing, generation after generation, to build as wonderful and magnificent a world as possible.
The result so far would not have been possible if we had stopped to seriously ponder on our guaranteed demise; and even though we know for a fact that we will die, we continually act as if we will not.
Which begs the question: why are we so disposed?
“He has also set eternity in the human heart.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
That’s why.
God has set eternity in our hearts, and no one can remove it.
“I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it.” Ecclesiastes 3:14
The eternal spark that burns deep within our souls powers up our productivity and causes our lives to be fruitful. It’s almost as if we “instinctively” know our endeavors have eternal strings attached.
Consequently, our work is anything but futile since whatever we do we do for God, who alone holds the master plan which contains the end result of our combined labor.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.” Colossians 3:23
The account of our earthly toil will be settled in eternity by the great Lord Himself, with either a reward or a punishment.
“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness… And throw the worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 25:21,30
Similar compensations will also be meted out for our obedience or disobedience to His commandments.
“Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.” John 5: 28-29
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Karma
“Karma is closely associated with the idea of rebirth in many schools of Asian religions. In these schools, karma in the present affects one’s future in the current life, as well as the nature and quality of future lives – one’s saṃsāra.” – Wikipedia
Others also believe that the déjà vu phenomenon, experienced by millions of people, to be a quick, momentary throwback to a similar juncture in a previous life.
Now if past lives were real, why can’t we remember them with absolute clarity? Especially if we are dearly paying in this life for past life misdeeds.
What is the point in paying for some obscure mistake one is not aware of, or reliving our existence over and over if we can’t remember the previous ones and the reasons we keep coming back?
It doesn’t make any sense.
“It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment.” Hebrews 9:27
As for the déjà vu phenomenon, click here to know what it means.
“There will be men who abandon the true faith and allow themselves to be spiritually seduced by teachings of the devil, teachings given by men who are lying hypocrites, whose consciences are as dead as seared flesh.” 1 Timothy 4:1,2
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How Rabbinists Became Known As Jews
Of the 12 Hebrew tribes, Judah was the most faithful and the most active in making converts, especially after they teamed up with the Levites.
“For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the LORD.” 2 Chronicles 11:14
Their converts became known as the proselytes (i.e., the ones who prayed to Jehovah, the God of Judah).
“Judahites and proselytes…“ Acts 2: 11
The other 10 tribes, collectively known as Israel, separated from Judah and always did evil in God’s eyes.
“Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.” Hosea 11:12
So while Judah was helping the priests in the implementation of their office, Israel was basking in evil. Thus Judah became the one that carried the torch of God’s light unto the nations.
It was a process that would culminate with the advent of Jesus the Christ and His church assembly. Because, just like the Christian Church, the Judahite Hebrew nation was a proselytizing nation that wanted people all over the world to know and pray to the true God of the Universe; even though, at one point, the conversion process had become totally corrupted because of the pharisaic teachings. Let’s hear Jesus:
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Matthew 23:15
Later on, those proselytes, who obviously were not Judahite Hebrews and adhered to the pharisaic teachings, became known as Rabbinists, while their religion was called Pharisaism/Rabbinism, and their “holy writ” was entitled the Talmud, a Babylonian book full of lies and superstitions.
In the 18th Century, those very same Rabbinists hijacked the words Jew and Judaism, in order to change their appellation along with that of their religion (just like when Blacks didn’t want to be called Negroes no more). A change that was purely cosmetic, as their beliefs, which are still found in their enduring and cherished Talmud, did not change one iota.
The idea behind such superficial name changes was to deceive the world into thinking they were the Judahite Hebrews of the bible.
And what was their reason for wanting to hoodwink the world?
See How the Ashkenazi Jews Conquered the West.
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Beware Of Self-Appointed Church Prophets
The ministry of Prophets have a much different scope under the New Covenant than under the Old. See Understanding the Duties of Ministry.
With the New Covenant and the advent of the Holy Spirit who is given as a gift to all, such distinction between Prophets and believers is no more.
“And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy…” Joel 2: 28
Now every true Christian is a prophet because every true Christian possesses the Holy Spirit who’s constantly at work changing his life as a testimony to the glory of Jesus Christ.
“For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10
That is why the Apostle Paul said the following:
“For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.” 1 Corinthians 14:31
A prophecy is a word from God. It can be a Word of Remembrance of God’s promises and commandments from the past, a Word of Instruction or Commandment for the present, or a Word of Foresight for the future. The bible is the ultimate book of prophecies, and as such is at the center of all teachings and prophecies.
“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3: 16
However, today, many in the Church are pretending to be the only prophets that God has anointed in the midst of their congregations.
They even profess to be able to read into their congregants’ lives, when God can tell every Christian personally and directly what He wants to tell them. Then they hypocritically classify fortune tellers as workers of the devil, when they’re basically doing the same thing.
So, beware of these folks, whether they call themselves pastors, prophets, seerers, seeresses, etc., because when a prophecy or teaching is expounded during an assembly meeting, two or three prophets or Christians should be allowed to speak while the others judge.
“Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others judge.” 1 Corinthians 14: 29
As they speak, “the others weigh carefully what is said (1 Corinthians 14:39).” In other words, the others judge or speak their mind on what is shared. Which is something that none of these self-appointed church prophets or pastors permits to take place.
See Church Services Are NOT Biblical.
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Social Reengineering
The family is God’s plan. It is comprised of father, mother, children, uncles, aunts, etc. It begins, endures, and persists throughout the ages via the marriage covenant.
However, many don’t like what God has engineered, so they arbitrarily disassembled it and reengineered it to fit their own purposes.
1. Family Appellations are being ascribed to people who should not be addressed as such.
Father. One is only a father when those who call him thus come from his loins. Many use this appellation improperly by purposely putting aside its intrinsic definition.
Daughters-in-law call their fathers-in-law “dad,” adopted children call their male caretakers “dad,” and Catholics call their meeting overseer “father.”
In addition to one’s natural father, only God can be called Father (or Heavenly Father). After all, He’s our creator and the source of the spiritual part of our being, just like an earthly father is the source of one’s biological composition.
Mother. One is only a mother when those who call her thus come from her womb. Again, many use this parental title improperly by brushing aside its intrinsic definition.
Sons-in-law call their mothers-in-law “mom,” adopted children call their female caretakers “mom,” and Catholics call Mary, the biological mother of Jesus, “mother.”
Uncle and Aunt. Many parents force their kids to call friends of the family “Uncle” and “Auntie,” thus deceiving their children about the true nature of said designations.
The concept of family has been misleadingly redefined to include those who are not blood-related: a ridiculous notion that has no biblical ground.
People are given first names for a reason. Use them.
2. Marriage has also been fallaciously reformulated to include homosexual partners. Those behind said redefinition have absolutely no idea what the purpose of marriage is. Otherwise, they would have never proposed such idiocy.
From the very beginning, marriage has always been a covenant by which two families consent to have their offspring, one male and one female, joined together as one for the purpose of making children. Without it there would be no worthwhile continuation of society.
Homosexuals can’t produce children. Their inclination is a sexual deviancy that not even animals display. How they dare call their coupling “marriage” is ludicrous, to say the least.
Conclusion: “Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?” Galatians 4:16
“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD.” Isaiah 55:8
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Mothers And their Sons
Mothers, especially widows and single moms, have to walk a fine line when it comes to dealing with their sons. Otherwise, they will constantly butt heads.
The reason is because man was created to be the head of woman.
“But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11:3
Interestingly, in a relationship between mother and son where the father is deceased or never present, the elder son is the one who, in a spiritually and biblically authoritative sense, replaces the father. See Of Authority and Christians.
In said situations mothers usually end up being quite smothering and controlling. Even Jesus, in the only two intimate interactions with his biological mother that are biblically recorded, found Himself butting heads with her.
“His mother said to Him, ‘Son, why have You treated us this way? Behold, Your father and I have been anxiously looking for You.’ And He said to them, ‘Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?’ ” Luke 2:48-49
“On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” John 2:1-4
It’s quite telling when the God of the Universe, while a man, had to pry his authority from his human, biological mother. See Is Mary the Mother of God?
Mothers must allow their sons to spread their wings and not be overbearing. However, this in no way reneges a mother’s protective instinct and maternal duty, nor does it revoke the honor and respect a son must show his mother.
Consequently, mothers and their sons have to walk a fine line, using wisdom from above, to avoid butting heads.
“The wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.” James 3: 17
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Family Life
The family is God’s plan to bring order to the world, and yet He has placed within each family characters who rub us the wrong way.
Why?
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17
That’s why. And how do we get sharpened in the Christian life? By loving and forgiving.
“Whoever claims to love God yet hates his brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” 1 John 4:20
“Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.’ ” Matthew 18: 21,22
“Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive…” Colossians 3:13
Many single people avoid their families because they say they can’t handle it. However, unless there’s a life-threatening or deliberately criminal situation everyone should stay put, because one way or another God is going to sharpen you.
Those who run away from their families soon find out that God uses strangers (and circumstances) to do His sharpening as well, which in the end proves to be more unbearable. Ask the prodigal son.
“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father.” Luke 15:17-20
In conclusion, keep your senses, stay put, and allow God to use your family to sharpen you. Once you’ve been sharpened: a) the outside world and its uncomfortable grating will be more tolerable, and b) when married and marital problems begin to rear their ugly heads, pulling the divorce trigger won’t be a quick and easy option in your mind because you would have already endured and surmounted plenty of similarly irritating rubbing.
“For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.” Philippians 2:13
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Parenthood
To be a parent is to hold the most important office in the world.
The traditional and biblical roles of parents are thus: 1) the father as the breadwinner, and 2) the mother as the homemaker and nurturer. Both functions carry equal weight, even though the husband is the head of the family.
Unfortunately, feminism has convinced many women that being a full-time mother is inferior to that of a breadwinner, and that man should not be the head of his family.
The sad result has been the emasculation of man along with children being unrighteously nurtured, which in turn has created instability in our society.
The same unrighteousness also materializes when the emasculated father, within a society that more and more favors woman above man in the workforce, fails to financially provide for his family, which then forces the mother to become the primary breadwinner as well as causing her nurturing duties to suffer.
Mothers can work or exercise their calling/talent/aptitude at some point, preferably on a part-time basis after the children have reached a certain maturity (and full time if they wish after the children have grown into adulthood), and as long as it doesn’t interfere with their maternal and wifely obligations. Indeed, mothers should decide what is truly important to them: the workforce or their family.
Proverbs 31: 10-31
If couples end up divorced, which God hates, or biological parents separated, they must not impede each other’s participation in their children’s upbringing (unless there’s proven criminality which could endanger the children). They must put aside their pettiness and not use their kids as pawns in a vindictive battle, elsewise it would be pure selfishness. Children need both of their parents.
When planning to get married 1) gentlemen, make sure you are financially ready with a good source of income, and 2) ladies, be willing to put all that you are and have into being wives and mothers. Otherwise your family, especially your children, will pay the consequences of your irresponsibility. Worse, you’ll have to answer to God for your failure as parents.
“Each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.” Romans 14:12
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Truth
1. Acknowledging the truth is the first step in changing the world. Those who obfuscate and manipulate it are those who wish to enslave humanity.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.” – Jesus in John 14:6
2. Jesus is the truth, and consequently at the heart of all moral truths. He is also love (1 John 4:8), therefore all truths must be spoken to others in love. Meaning, it is to be done without ulterior motive, having their best interest at heart, because by presenting the truth one seeks to expose the error of their ways, while hoping for their repentance.
“Speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ.” Ephesians 4:15
3. The beauty of moral truth is its ability to remain unchanged throughout the ages. Whatever was true yesterday is forcibly true today. It does not change according to man’s whims.
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8: 32
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Patriotism
Patriotism is a fallacy, since it revolves around countries with imaginary borders that God did not biblically delineate.
If true patriotism exists in this world, it is connected to one’s local area where one makes a living.
“Money is the answer for everything.” Ecclesiastes 10:19
It manifests itself through one’s hard work, which in turn provides one with a healthy financial condition that affords one true freedom: one not reliant upon a falsely revered piece of cloth (flag) nor on some archaic music notes (national anthem) as waved and manipulated by a fascist government that is wagged by a small elite or the 1%.
However, because God has established governing authorities, Christians are commanded to obey the laws of the countries in which they live.
“Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.” Romans 13:1,2
Still, Christian obedience to man-made laws of governing authorities is not intended to be absolute, since there will be instances of these laws that violate scriptures. Therefore, if such laws from governing authorities are contrary to God’s laws, the following principle applies:
“We must obey God rather than human beings!” Acts 5:9
In addition, attachment to anything on earth is a form of vanity, a type of seduction that elevates things on earth above things of the spirit.
“For everything in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–comes not from the Father but from the world.” 1 John 2:16
True Christians are ambassadors of Christ on earth, and thus unequivocally under the jurisdiction of Christ’s government and Biblical Laws – hence they are only foreigners on this earth.
“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.” Hebrews 11:13
Said detachment in no way invalidates our God-assigned mission or business, which is to change the world through love, peace, and biblical morality.
“Engage in business until I come.” Luke 19:13
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Love And The Law
Many Christians are under the impression that Love is more important than the Law of God. Well, let’s see.
1. The Christian faith has Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross at its core. And the cross is God’s fulfillment of the law.
“It is fulfilled.” John 19:30
2. Obedience to God’s commandments is Love.
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” John 14:15
However, some will say that God is love (1 John 4:8) and therefore more important than the law. What they overlook is, God IS also the Law or the Word.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1
So the Word or the Law is Love. And…
“Love is the fulfillment of the law.” Matthew 23:23
Consequently, because love originates from fulfilling the law, it has the LAW at its source.
3. Everything revolves around the law, even mercy and faith.
“You have neglected the more important matters of the law–justice, mercy, and faithfulness.” Matthew 23:23
Conclusion: LOVE = LAW = LOVE. No distinction.
See Of Legalism And Christians.
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The Fall Of Man
Even when not battling cancer or some other ailment that requires abstinence from certain kinds of meat, many believe that their diet should be exclusively a vegetarian (or vegan) one that consists only of the following:
“Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.’” Genesis 1:29
That edict was before man’s fall from grace and into sin. After the fall, everything turned against man.
“Cursed is the ground because of you… both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you.” Genesis 3:17,18
With that curse man’s food, which was appointed by God before the fall, the seeds, grains, and legumes, became infected with anti-nutrients.
“Traditional cuisines and pre-industrialized peoples from around the world took great care to soak or ferment their grains before consuming them,” explains Sarah Pope from the Weston A. Price Foundation. “All grains and legumes contain phytic acid, an organic acid that blocks mineral absorption in the intestinal tract.”
In addition, man’s body revolted against him (i.e., it began to slowly die) and needed more nutrients than plants, seeds, and fruits (i.e., a vegan diet) could offer. Therefore, an adjustment was needed.
“Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.” Genesis 9:3-4
“Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat …” Deuteronomy 14: 9-10
With that adjustment, which now includes meat full of nutrients, man gets to fully grasp the cost required to maintain his health when he spills the blood of animals.
“Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast…” Proverbs 12:10
Likewise, animals were also appointed to only eat plants.
“And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” Genesis 1:30
However, after the fall many animals ended up carnivorous, while they all turned fearful of man, with some downright hostile.
“The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea.” Genesis 9:2
Man’s fall into sin turned not only his body against him but all of nature as well in the forms of various natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, etc. In other words, the whole of creation began to groan because of what man did when he defied God’s will.
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Romans 8:22
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Unclean Food
After the fall, God gave all live animals as food to man.
“Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.” Genesis 9:3-4
Later on, many of these animals were declared ceremonially unclean by God in Leviticus 11 and were not to be consumed by the ancient Hebrews.
“It is ceremonially unclean for you.” Leviticus 11:4
However, when Jesus walked the earth, He said the following:
“Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” Mark 7:18-19
Which prompted the author of the book of Mark to say this:
“(In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)” Mark 7:19
What the author meant was that all clean foods were still clean even after one ate “without the ceremonial washing of one’s hands,” which was the actual context.
“Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?” Mark 7:5
Some also use the Apostle Peter’s vision to declare the same, that all foods are clean. Acts 10:
9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
Unfortunately, Peter’s vision, like all symbolic dreams and visions, was not literally about food. After meditating, Peter understood what God was trying to tell him.
“Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. He said to them: ‘You are well aware that it is against our law for a Judahite to associate with or visit a Gentile. God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.'” Acts 10:27,28
What then?
Let’s recap.
In the beginning, God gave all animals as food to us. He then restricted many of them as “ceremonially unclean” in Leviticus. Subsequently, those Old Covenant “ceremonies” became defunct with the advent of Christ’s New Covenant. However, there’s nothing in the New Testament that specifically revokes the Old Testament ordinances on eating unclean food.
Yet, as Christ succinctly put it, it is not what one eats that defiles a man.
“’What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.’” Mark 7:20-23
Consequently, as to unclean food it truly becomes a question of necessity or of conscience.
“Holding faith, and a good conscience.” 1 Timothy 1:19
“‘All things are permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy them both.” 1 Corinthians 6:12,13
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Various Darknesses
There are various types of biblical darkness.
1. Darkness of visibility as in dark v. light.
“God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.” Genesis 1:5
2. Darkness of morality as in evil v. good.
“The light (Jesus) has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.” John 3:19
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12
“God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5
3. Darkness of judgment as in punishment for wrongdoing.
“And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.” Isaiah 8:32
“If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.” Proverbs 20:20
“All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord God.” Ezekiel 32:8
4. Darkness of holiness as in God’s “clothing” or “cloaking.”
“He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind. He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds dark with water” 2 Samuel 22:10-12
“Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.” Psalm 97:2
“Then Solomon said, ‘The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.'” 1 Kings 8:12
5. Darkness of direction as in losing one’s way or feeling lost.
“For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.” 2 Samuel 22:29
“To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” Luke 1:7-9
6. Darkness of revelation as in not understanding the word of God.
“Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Why do You speak to the people in parables?’ He replied, ‘The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.'” Matthew 13:10,11
However, the disciples, with the help of the Holy Spirit, would later on explain everything to the world.
“What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.” Matthew 10:27
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The Helper
Or How The Holy Spirit Helps
“It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” John 16: 6,7
1) He causes us to become like Christ by getting us to produce the fruit of the Spirit.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5: 22-23
Faithfulness is to God’s commandments.
“If you love me, keep my commands.” John 14:15
2) He intercedes on our behalf. The way He does that is by causing us to pray in tongues. To the skeptics, praying in tongues may sound like gibberish, but it’s not. It’s a heavenly language.
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels…” 1 Corinthians 13:1
“Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered.” Romans 8:26
“One who speaks in tongues edifies himself…” 1 Corinthians 14:4
3) He teaches us and guides us.
“...the Holy Spirit .. will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 14:26
He enlightens the word of God (i.e., the Bible) for us, making it go beyond intellectual assent, and causing it to coalesce deep inside our spirit man (i.e., He teaches us). Then He reminds us of it, warning us when we’re about to do something that God forbids, or egging us on when God wants us to step into whatever service (the Duties Of Ministry and the Everyday Life Ministry) He has prepared for us.
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
The Holy Spirit mostly reminds us of God’s written word because God doesn’t want the unscrupulous to attribute to Him things He never said. For example, if someone dares say that following the lead of the Holy Spirit they have come to realize that God no longer considers fornication to be a sin, then we would immediately know that they are lying because according to God’s laws fornication IS a sin. Consequently, the Holy Spirit and God’s written word form a system of checks and balances.
The more we study the word, the more the Holy Spirit helps us cleave to the truth. The more we live out God’s commandments, the more sensitive we become to His guidance, the more cleansed our mind, the more attuned our soul, and the more fruitful our work.
When we allow the Holy Spirit to help in said manners, we are thus walking by the Spirit.
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5: 16-21
However, when we do not walk by the Spirit, we fulfill the desires of the flesh. And unfortunately, when we gratify these passions we must be ready to suffer the various consequences of sin.
“Without holiness no one will see the Lord.” Hebrews 12: 14
See How to Become a Christian to know how to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
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Kissing Cousins
There’s nowhere in the bible where God forbids marrying one’s cousin. Forbidden marital/sexual relationships are very well delineated in Leviticus chapter 18:
7 “‘Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.
8 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.
9 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
10 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; that would dishonor you.
11 “‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
12 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
13 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.
14 “‘Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
15 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; do not have relations with her.
16 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.
17 “‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
18 “‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
19 “‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
20 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.
21 “‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
23 “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
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Interracial Marriage
Many are under the impression that God forbids miscegenation or interracial marriage. He does not. He forbade the Hebrews to do so, only because the other nations of that time did not follow Jehovah.
“Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you.” Deuteronomy 7:3
With the New Covenant, the same concern still holds.
“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.” 2 Corinthians 6:14
Thus, it’s a matter of FAITH, not of race.
“There is neither Judahite nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28
Still, when it comes to marriage, fathers are the ones God put in charge. They decide what’s best for their children.
“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you.” Deuteronomy 5:16
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you, therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.” Jeremiah 35:18,19
See The Biblical Marriage Blueprint.
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Hearing God
How do you hear God?
He tugs your heart gently and repeatedly until His will permeates your spirit – that is if you’re truly open to hearing Him. For His will to really permeate you, you have to be faithful in applying His commandments. After all, if you can’t be obedient to His written word, how will you be obedient to hearing His voice?
The more you study the bible, the more the Holy Spirit helps you cleave to the truth. The more you live out God’s commandments, the more sensitive you become to His guidance and His voice, the more cleansed your mind, the more attuned your soul, and the more fruitful your work.
Delve in our CHURCH REFORM series, which will get you on the right track to follow His ways, read the bible, spend time in prayer, and constantly apply what you learn. Then His voice will become as clear as a bell to your soul. We can confidently say, “We know!”
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The Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God on earth started with the birth of our Lord Jesus who was born King.
“Where is the one who has been born king of the Judahites? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” Matthew 2:2
His dominion began spreading “officially” or “widely” on Pentecost in 30 AD. However, Jesus waited 40 years for the disobedient Hebrews to accept Him. Then, in 70 AD, He shut down the Old Covenant and overthrew Satan as god of this world, thus solidifying Himself as sole potentate.
“To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 5:11
His dominion is currently in effect.
However, many find it hard to believe that we are actually living in the Kingdom of God through Christ our Lord when the world, according to them, is so messed up.
They surmise that Christ is supposed to be ruling with a rod of iron, smiting all the wicked from the face of the earth.
“You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.” Psalm 2:9
First, they overlook the fact that Jesus left us Christians in charge. WE are the salt of the earth. WE are supposed to take care of the world’s problems by doing what He commanded, and by inspiring and helping people everywhere to look up to God for solutions.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14:12-14
Second, as to “Jesus ruling with an iron rod,” it refers to how Jesus keeps His people in line, away from sins. Read When Bad Things Happen to see how He does it.
Third, the Kingdom of God is here now and is not a tangible one.
“When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, ‘The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. Nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.’ ” Luke 17:20,21
Those who think otherwise are thinking like the Judahites of Old who wanted a military-style Kingdom. God’s Kingdom is of the Spirit, which first and foremost changes the sinful nature of man and in turn allows positive change to take place.
Fourth, the reason the world is messed up is because:
a) many Christians have been poisoned with the heretical Rapture Doctrine, and therefore have given up on being the salt of the earth;
b) the weed is growing with the wheat.
“Jesus said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’” Matthew 13: 29,20
When is the harvest? Read Where Is Satan Now?
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Impostor Israel
The Israelis love to muddy the water in order to take the focus away from the fact that they’re not Hebrews (all Hebrews are irrevocably dead) and have no right to the land of Palestine, a country they’ve stolen and destroyed.
They hoodwink the uninformed into believing that the Palestinians – whether a race or not (like Americans) – do not exist, when said Palestinians have inhabited Palestine for about 2000 years, roughly 1600 more years than Americans have inhabited America.
They also impose on the world their psychotic Islamophobia and unabashed Hebraic pretense, as well as creating all sorts of malicious lies and satanic-inspired false flag terrorism, in order to choke the truth and lure the weak-minded into looking over there (Palestinians???) and not over here (Jewish impostors and terrorists!!!). See Israel Is The Problem.
Unfortunately, a large number of people, especially brainwashed Christians, swallow the bait hook, line, and sinker, and consequently fail to see the following:
a) it is not comprised of the 10 Hebrew tribes like in scriptures; b) the country’s current geographical demarcation is not as delineated by God in the book of Joshua; c) the nation would be called Judah instead of Israel, with the Levites sheltered therein, if Jews today were of the tribe of David; and d) modern Israel is made up of Jewish converts who are not Semitic descendants of Abraham, and more specifically not descendants of Abraham’s 12 grandsons who formed the 12 Hebrew tribes whose offspring were all cousins to one another.
“To your (Abraham’s) descendants I give this land….” Genesis 15:18
However, Palestinian Arabs are Semites, descendants of Abraham; and therefore rightful inheritors of the land, not converted Jews. To obfuscate that reality, Israel engineered a hate-mongering and demonization campaign against Arabs and Muslims, which metastasized worldwide and seduced many Christians into sanctioning Israel’s foul anti-Christ spirit of “Hate Thy Neighbor.”
See Israel: Land Of Impostors.
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The Destroyers Of The World
“We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever.” – Maurice Samuel
If one truly believes the Zionist/Jewish-dominated media, their fake news, and their constant barrage of “Holocaust” movies, one genuinely thinks that there’s only one group of people that everyone on earth hates: Jews. That’s how effective the brainwashing has been.
However, when one wakes up from the media’s induced stupor, one realizes that Zionist Jews are themselves the victimizers of the world who camouflage themselves as victims.
Bolshevik Revolution: The Jewish Bolsheviks, who took over the Russian government in the 1910s, killed 66 million Christians, including 200,000 members of the Christian clergy, and destroyed 40,000 churches.
World War 1: Britain was losing the war against Germany. The Zionists stepped in and manipulated President Wilson to get the US into the war to help them. In return, the Jews asked the British Empire to deed them Palestine to create Israel. Their wish was granted in the form of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which cost the world 18 million dead.
World War 2: The Zionists fomented that war (just like they’re doing today with Iran and other countries in the Middle East), so that European Jews could feel threatened. The deception worked as European Jews fled in droves to Palestine and took over the homes of Palestinians, who were evicted at gunpoint and then either massacred or driven out of their land into neighboring Arab countries. With enough Jews on the ground, Israel was created in 1948 at a cost of 80 million dead.
World War On Terror: Zionist/Jewish neocons, in cahoots with their bought-and-paid-for politicians in the US government, perpetrated their act of terrorism on 9/11. Then they conveniently blamed it on Muslims so as to obtain a green light to destroy the Middle East using the armies of the US and NATO and the terrorist groups they finance, with the ultimate view to creating Greater Israel. So far, the death toll is 27 million, including Christians.
World War 3: With Russia protecting Syria and Iran from Israel’s Machiavellian design, will the Zionists succeed in bringing the world once again to the brink of disaster to create Greater Israel? If they do, will it instead bring about their downfall?
Conclusion: It’s a shame that Jews who stand up to Zionism form a minority. The well-financed and extremely powerful Zionist movement, revved up by a foul and racist ideology, drowns out their voices.
Zionist Jews of all stripes – secular, religious, political – have no concept of God’s commandment to love thy neighbor. Instead, the anti-Christ spirit of hate thy neighbor permeates their souls with a sulfuric stench, while Israel remains the undiluted expression of said diseased spirit – a scourge, a cancer that needs to be dealt with.
Appeal: Every conscientious individual should implement a personal boycott of Israel and everything made there.
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John Hagee Is Not A Christian
“By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?” Matthew 7:16
To all the good Christians who belong to John Hagee’s “Church” or watch his broadcast, you must open your eyes, leave that place, and stop watching. John Hagee is bought and paid for by Zionists Jews to promote the state of Israel instead of Christ.
No wonder he himself believes Jesus was not the Messiah, or to quote him: “Jesus did not come to be the Messiah.”
Oh, really!
Let’s see where Jesus is called just that in the Bible:
“Andrew went to find his brother, Simon, and told him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (which means ‘Christ’)…” John 1:41
“The woman said to Him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who speak to you am He.'” John 4: 25,26
No matter how much he tried to wiggle out of his remarks later on, no true Christian would ever utter such blasphemy. It only shows his true colors. He is a deceiver working for Zionist Jews to brainwash Christians.
“But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them–bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.” 2 Peter 2: 1-3
Using his CUFI organization, John Hagee has become the prime mover behind the War on Christianity. He’s a fierce supporter of all the evil Israel does and stands for. Unfortunately, he is not alone in having sold out his soul to Zionist Jews and their Synagogue of Satan.
Hagee and many of his fellow mammonish preachers have been bought to propagate the falsehood that modern-day Israel is the fulfillment of God’s word in the bible, when Jews are not even the biblical Hebrews and the word Jew in like manner cannot be found in the non-translated bible.
So please, stop watching and supporting their TV programs which elevate Satanic Israel to the point of worship, and which try to deceptively morph Jesus into a Jew when He was never one. See Jesus was not a Jew.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves… Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7: 15, 21-23
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Urgent Appeal To Christians Who Support Israel: Don’t!
We know deep down no real Christian would support evil.
Notice the Israeli Sniper’s bullet right through the heart of the deceased Palestinian boy
Doing so would be antithetical to everything our Christian faith stands for. Besides, we know that many of you were fed a bunch of lies concerning the ungodly State of Israel, which in turn caused you to sanction its demonic actions that are all contrary to God’s commandments.
Converted Jews of today are NOT the Hebrews of the bible. They’re Eastern European nomads who lost their country Khazaria and were in search of a new land. So they stole Palestine and renamed it Israel pretending to be Hebrews, when all Hebrews are irrevocably dead (See A Brief History of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah):
a) Modern-day Apartheid Israel is not comprised of the 10 Hebrew tribes like in scriptures; b) its current geographical demarcation is not as delineated by God in the book of Joshua; c) the nation would be called Judah instead of Israel, with the Levites sheltered therein, if Jews today were of the tribe of David; and d) modern Israel is made up of Jewish converts who are not Semitic descendants of Abraham, and more specifically not descendants of Abraham’s 12 grandsons who formed the 12 Hebrew tribes and whose offsprings were all cousins to one another:
“To your (Abraham’s) descendants I give this land….” Genesis 15:18
Therefore, as you shake off the falsehoods you were brainwashed with, we ask the following of you.
Gaza Christians mourning their dead
Stop encouraging the US Government to fund Israel to the tunes of billions of dollars a year out of America’s coffers for Israel to wage war and oppress another people, while millions of Americans go hungry, jobless, and homeless.
Stop organizing fund raisers for the Zionist “settlers.” In so doing you’re actually helping these land thieves steal another people’s land, while empowering them to kill the original inhabitants in the process.
Stop lobbying the US government to provide the Apartheid criminal state of Israel with diplomatic cover in the international community.
For the sake of peace, start doing the opposite.
Call your political representative and give him/her a piece of your mind: that Israel should no longer get away with murder, and that Israel should accept a Palestinian State. Then organize mission trips to the West Bank and Gaza. Stop these pussyfooting “Holy” Land tourist trips. Go and help the oppressed. That’s the Christian mandate.
“Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.” Isaiah 1:17
Unfortunately, many of you, poisoned by compromised preachers and their false teachings in reference to converted Jews being “God’s chosen people,” are infected with Israel’s anti-Christ spirit of hate thy neighbor, especially you leaders of the “Christian” media who sold out Jesus and His Love-Thy-Neighbor command to Israel for 30 pieces of Jewish silver. Your unabashed loathing of Arabs and Muslims to please the Jews is shamefully evident to all.
“The companion of fools will suffer harm.” Proverbs 13:20
Remember the words of our Savior when you, with that anti-Christ spirit, call Him Lord – so don’t be surprised on Judgment Day.
“Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7: 15, 22-23
However, you can cure yourselves.
“If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:7
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Christian Businesses Or Ministries?
A “Christian” business is no different than a “secular” business. Both provide valuable services in exchange for monetary compensation, and they’re both under the natural laws of commerce: make a profit or fail trying. So no one should gift them any money.
Examples of Christian businesses would be: stores that sell Christian paraphernalia, music, movies, and the like; touring Christian bands and singers; Christian radio stations; etc.
In general, God does not look upon these businesses as being different than secular ones, as long as their owners treat their customers and employees as they would themselves, and as long as the following is observed:
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8
Where many Christian businesses fudge the line is when they portray themselves as ministries. A Christian ministry, contrary to a Christian business, provides a service without any exchange of money, and when it receives any donation it is to give to those in need and not to enrich the service providers. See Understanding the Duties of Ministry.
The most notorious of those “businesses as ministries” are churches and media ministries whose “leaders” use money drives and peddle books, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and paraphernalia of all sorts, in order to enrich themselves through exorbitant salaries and perks, while many in the flock can’t even pay the electric bill. See Who Should Christians Give Their Money To.
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The Palestinian Struggle Is Christianity’s Struggle
Zionist Israel is a special kind of evil, not just because of the racist ideology on which it was founded and the inhumane manner it treats its Palestinian victims, but also because of the pernicious way it’s been implementing these agendas.
Said maleficence is being perpetrated by a bunch of people who lie about their identity (i.e., they don’t tell you they are impostors pretending to be the Hebrews of the bible), while simultaneously camouflaging themselves as Victims – instead of revealing their true origins and showing themselves for who they really are, the Victimizers.
Such underhanded subterfuge is unique in history, which explains why so many have fallen for it.
Nevertheless, evil by any other name or wrapper is still evil; and unfortunately for the evildoers, evil doesn’t last forever. That’s because God takes special joy in tearing down maleficent entities.
First, He allows them to become powerful, seemingly invincible; then, He shatters them – forever: the racists behind Segregation in the US and Apartheid in South Africa are just a few recent examples.
Mahatma Ghandi said it best: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it — always.”
In addition, Palestinians are carrying a heavy load for the Christian faith, whether they realize it or not. That’s why Christians everywhere must join them in their struggle against Apartheid Israel.
The very presence of Talmudic Jewish impostors in historic Palestine is the working of dark spiritual forces, which are trying to destroy the New Covenant of Christ by “resurrecting” the obsolete Old Covenant, using converted pharisaic Jews who are NOT even remotely descendants of the patriarch Abraham.
“To your (Abraham’s) descendants I give this land….” Genesis 15:18
In so doing, they hope to totally muddy up the Christian faith, and obscure the truth of the superseded Old Covenant and of Christ’s fulfilled prophecies concerning the total annihilation of the Hebrew people and the destruction of Jerusalem, which took place in 70 A.D.
“For the land is full of adulterers; it mourns because of the curse. Their pastures have dried up into a wilderness. Their course also is evil, and their might is not right.” Jeremiah 23: 10
There has not been peace in the Middle East the moment non-Hebraic, pharisaic Jews set their sight on Palestine and created Israel in 1948.
The founding of that Apartheid country was forged on lies, especially on the misrepresentation that today’s Jews are Hebrews rightfully taking possession of inherited land, when in fact they’re NOT Hebrews at all – all Hebrews are irrevocably dead, their land inheritance buried along with them.
“The LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight… And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.” 2 Kings 17:18,20
So to all Palestinians, we say:
“Keep pressing forward because we are right there with you, constantly ‘assaulting’ God’s throne with prayers on your behalf.
“Furthermore, the New Covenant of God’s son, Jesus the Christ, is being trampled underfoot by these impostors who occupy your land; consequently, God will personally deal with them. So fret not! Help is on its way and Victory is certain! God will make sure of it.”
“God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you.” 2 Thessalonians 1:6
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Meet The Fake Hebrews
Converted Jews of today are not the Hebrews of the bible.
They have been using the “Jew” appellation since the late 18th Century in order to appear to be Judahite Hebrews – see How The Ashkenazi Jews Conquered the West.
That way people could see them as the Chosen People, while they endeavored to steal Palestine and create modern-day Israel without the objection of the Christian world, especially since they were Eastern-European Nomads seeking a new country following the loss of their homeland Khazaria.
As Jewish land thieves disembarked in Palestine in the 1940s to seize Palestinian lands and homes that Zionist terrorist groups – such as the Irgun, the Stern gang, and Haganah – had stolen in order to turn the country into Israel, they adopted Hebrew names to complete their “Hebraization” process – not unlike what they did when they scattered throughout Europe and America and assumed European surnames.
“We all went ‘native’,” admits Uri Avnery, Israeli political commentator. “On reaching the age of 18, we all exchanged our Jewish names for Hebrew Names. (That’s how Uri Avnery came into being.) We started to think of ourselves as a new nation, with a new ‘soul’, connected to Judaism, sure, but mainly historically.”
Then they – who originally spoke Yiddish – resurrected the dead Hebrew tongue after thousands of years in the dustbin of oblivion to make it Israel’s official language. In so doing, they consolidated in the world’s mind the impression that they were Hebrews rightfully returning home, when in fact they were not.
However, in their lust to deceive the world they got blindsided and completely overlooked the fact that, following the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel in 721 B.C., not even the Hebrews spoke Hebrew. They spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
Consequently, Israeli Jews are nothing but impostors living on stolen Palestinian land.
Their very presence in historic Palestine is the working of dark spiritual forces, which are trying to destroy the New Covenant of Christ by “resurrecting” the obsolete Old Covenant, using converted pharisaic Jews who are NOT even remotely descendants of the patriarch Abraham.
“To your (Abraham’s) descendants I give this land….” Genesis 15:18
In so doing, they hope to totally muddy up the Christian faith, and obscure the truth of the superseded Old Covenant and of Christ’s fulfilled prophecies concerning the total annihilation of the Hebrew people and the destruction of Jerusalem, which took place in 70 A.D.
“For the land is full of adulterers; it mourns because of the curse. Their pastures have dried up into a wilderness. Their course also is evil, and their might is not right.” Jeremiah 23: 10
There has not been peace in the Middle East the moment non-Hebraic, pharisaic Jews set their sight on Palestine and created Israel in 1948.
The founding of that Apartheid country was forged on lies, especially on the misrepresentation that today’s Jews are Hebrews rightfully taking possession of inherited land, when in fact they’re NOT Hebrews at all – all Hebrews are irrevocably dead, their land inheritance buried along with them.
“The LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight… And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.” 2 Kings 17:18,20
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Modern Israel In Bible Prophecy?
Modern Israel is not that important for God to have thought of incorporating it in the bible. Nevertheless, let’s look at why that Apartheid country is not in there.
First, the word Jew is not in the original non-translated version of the bible. What is there is Judahite or Judean, as in the tribe of Judah, which Jews today are not of. See The Word Jew Is Not In The Bible.
Second, the bible only talks about the Hebrews and their 12 Tribes, who are all irrevocably dead. Consequently, converted Jews of today, who are people from nations other than the 12 Hebrew tribes and practice the religion known as Judaism/Pharisaism, are NOT mentioned at all. These proselytes are not a homogeneous group, racially or religiously.
Faith-wise, the various Jewish denominations fall under 3 distinct umbrellas: 1) the majority known as Talmudic Jews who practice what is known as Pharisaism, the pagan Babylonian doctrine of the ancient Pharisees; 2) a tiny minority called Karaite Jews who reject Talmudic traditions and observe only some of the laws of the Old Testament, since they don’t perform animal sacrifices therein commanded; and 3) another minority categorized as Torah Jews who supposedly observe the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Christian bible) but apparently don’t, as Michael Hoffman explains:
“ ‘Torah’ is Orthodox Judaism’s spurious badge of authority. The rabbis proclaim that they have the Torah, have mastered the Torah, base their laws on the Torah and that they are ‘Torah-true’. Yet these rabbinic claims are a deceptive play on words, for the ‘Torah’ upon which they base their laws is not the Old Testament, but the counterfeit Torah SheBeal Peh. Hence, when the rabbis are acclaiming their relationship with the ‘Torah’, Christians are deceived into imagining that the rabbis are harkening to their allegiance to the Old Testament (Torah SheBichtav), when Orthodox Judaism’s laws emanate from the man-made Talmud Bavli, which is the ‘Torah’ they regard as supreme.”
Race-wise, 95% of all Jews today are Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Samaritans; with the remainder 5% being Europeans, Africans, Indians, etc.
All of the above are converted Jews and not the Hebrews of the bible.
Third, every prophecy in the bible has already been fulfilled, except for those concerning the end of the world. The last biblical prophecies that materialized occurred in and around 70 AD. As for the end of the world, read Where is Satan Now? for a look at how it will come about.
Fourth, Jerusalem was NEVER the capital of the ancient kingdom of Israel, but of Judah. See Pray For The Peace Of Which Jerusalem.
Fifth, biblically, Jews today are classified as Gentiles or Goyim, because they’re NOT Hebrews.
A Gentile is a non-Hebrew person, just like Jews today. So on that point alone many have built their belief on a fallacy.
The non-Hebraic, non-Israelite Ashkenazim misappropriated the name Jews in the 18th Century in order to appear Hebrews and steal Palestine, with a view to turning the Arab country into their new homeland following the loss of their country Khazaria.
Once they disembarked in Palestine, they created many terrorist groups such as the Irgun, the Stern gang, and Haganah. They terrorized the Palestinian population, killed thousands upon thousands, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes and into neighboring Arab countries.
Thereupon, they stole Palestine, renamed it Israel in 1948, and reinvented themselves as Hebrews to hoodwink gullible Christians in the West.
“It is certain that there is no ethnic or racial continuum between the Biblical Israelites and the (Ashkenazic) Khazarians who lead the Jewish state,” wrote Gilad Atzmon, Jewish writer and musician.
These Zionist Jews are messing with Christians and toying with the bible so as to hold on to Palestine, which they have nabbed under biblical pretense.
“The LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight… And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.” 2 Kings 17:18,20
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Israel’s Corrosive Influence
Through deceit and bribery Israel’s devilish minions exercise a malevolent, pernicious, and insidious influence on the Church, the US Government, and America.
The Church
Destructive heresies have wormed their way inside Christianity via religious mass media, including magazines and radio networks.
Practically almost every “Christian” media organization and influential TV evangelist is either financed or supported by Zionist money. Timothy Fitzpatrick explains:
“It basically works on the foundation of Christian Zionism (dispensationalism) under seductive doctrines promising riches and rewards (like the prosperity gospel) to lure sleeping and unwitting masses to disappointment…
“John Hagee, perhaps the most notorious Zionist zealot in the evangelical movement today, epitomizes the anti-Christ character of all of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) personalities… He has successfully merged the evangelical movement to American foreign policy through his outspoken support of the state of Israel and his fables of Islamic hegemony in the world.
“The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), a sister of TBN, founded by Zionist Pat Robertson in 1961, is more of the same Judaeo-Masonic subversion of the Church. Its cast of characters is second-rate compared to TBN’s larger roster of saboteurs but no less deceptive.
“When Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL broadcasting empire fell, it turned out that a Jewish Orthodox billionaire in Canada secretly owned all the PTL assets and property.”
The US Government
The heart of the US Government is Congress. It is full of Judases who have sold out their country to Israel.
“(America) is just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for President or being elected President; and the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. Senators and Congress members,” revealed former President Jimmy Carter.
That is why all American politicians, and especially Congressmen (except for a handful few), kowtow to the Israeli Lobby AIPAC and its constantly-flowing bribe money, and display a treasonous attitude in favor of Israel above American interests. Whatever Israel wants, including terrorism and wars, Israel gets.
As Pat Buchanan quipped, “Congress is Israeli-occupied territory.” A nice euphemism for saying that Israel has taken over the American government, or that America has become a subservient country, an occupied nation, an Empire on a leash.
“Israel has successfully manipulated my country, the United States, and has done terrible damage both to our political system and to the American people, a crime that I just cannot forgive, condone, or explain away,” concluded former CIA officer Philip Giraldi.
America
The Jewish-Dominated Media have not only turned the name of the Lord Jesus Christ into a curse word, they have also instilled into the very fabric of American society the anti-Christ spirit of hate thy neighbor with their Muslim-bashing.
Jesus’s love thy neighbor command, along with His peace and morality, had been steadily increasing throughout America (and the world), until that deadly, persistent Talmudic Zionist virus, which invariably hates the Prince of Peace and His followers, craves immorality, and engenders wars, began its assault on Christian America and destroyed its culture and political system.
A few decades from now, a generation will look back and label this anti-Christ period of Zionist influence and manipulation as a New Dark Age.
Conclusion
Zionist Jews of all stripes – secular, religious, political – have no concept of God’s commandment to love thy neighbor. Instead, the anti-Christ spirit of hate thy neighbor permeates their souls with a sulfuric stench.
Unfortunately, many in the West – especially brainwashed Christians, poisoned by compromised preachers and their false teachings in reference to converted Jews being “God’s chosen people” – became infected with said diseased spirit as well. Their unabashed hatred of Arabs and Muslims to please the Jews is shamefully evident to all.
“The companion of fools will suffer harm.” Proverbs 13:20
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Right Of Conquest
The Right of Conquest, which some view as the oldest and most salient form of land acquisition, is nothing but a smokescreen to hide blatant thievery.
“You shall not steal.” Exodus 20:15
Therefore, it is not only a sin, but an egregious position as well.
“The Draft Declaration on Rights and Duties of States, formulated in 1949 by the International Law Commission of the UN, contained (in Article XI) the rule that states are obligated not to recognize territorial acquisitions achieved by aggressive war,” explains Encyclopaedia Britannica.
There’s only one country in this modern era of Human Rights and International Laws that uses the Right of Conquest argument to cover its theft: Zionist Israel.
Its land thieves use the word “settlers” to con the world into thinking that Palestine was never inhabited, when in fact there was a sizable Arab population before converted European Jews disembarked there. See Palestine before the Zionists stole it.
Using the Conquest argument, it’s okay then for China today to invade the US in order to acquire more land and expand its Empire, since the right of conquest is the most salient form of land acquisition. And then when Chinese “settlers” begin to take over the homes of Americans (like Israelis did of Palestinians and are still doing), no one should utter a word.
The Right of Conquest is the argument of THIEVES!
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What Dog Could Teach Man
A pet dog could teach man many things, especially the following.
1. Unconditional Love and Forgiveness
No matter what one may do to one’s dog – though no animal should be abused, this is just for illustration purposes – the dog will forgive and run back with the same love. He gives himself unconditionally and pardons the same way.
Something man, usually full of pettiness and grudges toward others, would do well to apply to his life.
“Whoever claims to love God yet hates his brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” 1 John 4:20
“Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.’ ” Matthew 18: 21,22
“Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.” Colossians 3:13
2. Absolute Trust and Obedience
The relationship between man and dog is a very well defined one. It is Master and Animal. As such, the dog is always at his master’s feet and relies on him for everything, especially food.
“Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Matthew 15:26
When crumbs do not fall from his master’s table, the dog has faith that his master will feed him somehow. In return, the dog trusts and obeys him unconditionally. It’s not a coincidence that the dog is called man’s best friend.
Now if only man would emulate such trust and obedience, since he too has a master, God.
“Blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence.” Jeremiah 17:7
Just like man ensures that his animal is cared for, God also provides man with everything he needs to go through life.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
“So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:25-34
God thus guarantees His provision for the necessary things in life; and all He asks in return is that man completely and unequivocally surrenders his heart to Him, by seeking His Kingdom and His Righteousness (i.e., by constantly being at His feet and obeying His commandments).
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” John 14:1
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The Serpent’s Legs
“The LORD God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life…'” Genesis 3:14
With a few simple words, God got rid of the serpent’s legs.
On your belly you will go…
Still, this is how Discovery puts it: “Snakes used to have legs, and now new research suggests snakes lost their legs by growing them more slowly or for a shorter period of time until the legs eventually disappeared.”
Why are scientists so baffled by this when God Himself cursed the serpent so?
Discovery continues: “The research, outlined in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, strengthens the belief that snakes evolved from a lizard that either burrowed on land or swam in the ocean.”
These pseudo-scientists refuse to believe that God is the one who caused the serpent’s legs to disappear. That’s because they don’t want to acknowledge His existence or recognize the veracity of His words and the incontestability of their echoes. Instead, they prefer to rely on unproven theories and conjectures, like the cockamamy Theory of Evolution.
Finally, when God said that the serpent would eat dust all the days of its life… well, it still does. Carl Wieland explains:
“There is an organ in the roof of a snake’s mouth called ‘Jacobson’s organ’. This helps the snake to smell in addition to its nose. Its darting, forked tongue samples bits of dust by picking them up on the points of the fork, which it then presents to its matching pair of sensory organs inside its mouth. Once it has ‘smelt’ them in this way, the tongue must be cleaned so the process can be repeated immediately. Therefore serpents really do lick dust and eat it.”
When God speaks, creation reacts.
As simple as that.
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The Clergy
Contrary to the Lord’s command, so-called “church leaders” have given themselves fancy titles like Reverend, Monsignor, Pope, Pastor, and Priest (with long robes).
Reverend comes from the word Revere, meaning Worship; Monsignor is from the Italian word Monsignore, meaning My Lord; Pope is from the Greek word Pappas, meaning Father; and Pastor comes from the Latin Pastor, meaning Shepherd.
“The Lord is my Shepherd.” Psalm 23:1
Pride and arrogance could not be any clearer. Jesus called His disciples to be servants. Period.
“Whoever would be great among you must be your servant.” Matthew 20:26
Furthermore, every true Christian is now a Priest set aside by God to perform daily priestly duties while proclaiming the virtues of following Christ.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9
See Of Leaders and Servants in the Church.
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The Evil That Is War
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” – Henry Kissinger
In a war, the only country that holds the moral high ground is the defending country, whose governing authority has a divine mandate to defend its citizenry from the onslaught of wrongdoers and aggressors.
“The authorities that exist have been established by God...for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason… They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.” Romans 13: 2,4
That’s why, in any given conflict, the aggressor always tries to camouflage its belligerent intentions by projecting a semblance of moral superiority before embarking on its dark deed.
And though the government of the defending country has a godly injunction to protect its people, its better option, for the good of all, would be to avoid a devastating war at all costs.
“Strive for peace with everyone…” Hebrews 12:14
“It is to one’s honor to avoid strife.” Proverbs 20:3
Facts of the aggressor’s war to remember
Those who push for war in our time cleverly conceal through propaganda their ulterior motives, and the reality of war’s devastating effects on humanity.
1) Dead innocents. 95% of all war casualties are innocent civilians. What if you were one of those civilians?
“Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.” Isaiah 59:7
2) Hidden agenda. In war there’s always a hidden agenda that the public at large is never aware of: territorial expansion, control of another country’s resources, control of access to trade to favor a certain group, currency domination, keeping the military industrial machine humming, etc. In one word: Money or Mammon.
“Who devise evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars.” Psalm 140:2
3) Personal dislike. If a foreign country’s leader refuses to kowtow to the current Empire’s whims and wishes, then the Empire (presently the US, manipulated or not by third parties) goes on the attack. That foreign country’s leader is sullied in the Empire’s mass media in order to prepare the imperial citizenry to acquiesce in sending their children to be killed in a senseless war. More often than not, such a war tees off by way of a false flag operation (such as 9/11 and the Gulf of Tonkin incident), designed and executed by the Empire to deceive its citizens and demonize the adversary.
“All wars are based on deception,” wrote Sun Tzu in The Art of War.
“Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil.” Proverbs 12:20
4) Senseless aggression. There is no greater act of stupidity than when soldiers on the aggressor’s side kill for no apparent reason. They obey like dumb myrmidons just because low-life politicians with hidden agendas decide they should murder those their government hates. In all other circumstances, their senseless killings of the defending soldiers and of innocent civilians would and should be called terrorism.
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21
5) Economic breakdown. Countries that go to war not only destroy the economies of the nations they attack, but they also wreck theirs.
“Whoever satisfies others will himself be satisfied.” Proverbs 11:25
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.” Matthew 7:12
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7
6) Godlessness. In the aftermaths of wars people rebuild and forget God. Europe suffered two World Wars, and the Christian foundation on which that civilization was built has been severely shaken and is in dire need of repair – the Church there is in a coma.
“Sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.” James 1:15
7) Blowback. Countries that participate in aggressive wars or send their soldiers to kill in foreign wars are at the receiving end of wars’ repercussions. Destructive heresies and habits quickly materialize and drastically alter their societies for the worst: atheism, feminism, mammonism, drug use, suicide (especially by veterans whose consciences are disturbed because of the murders they committed), societal violence, destruction of the family unit, perversion, etc. In other words, the souls of those who participate in and/or agree to these aggressive wars are plunged into darkness or spiritual death, which then engenders ruins in the natural world.
“For the wages of sin is death.” Romans 6:23
In conclusion, nothing good ever came out of war.
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives,” summarized General Smedley D. Butler, America’s most decorated soldier.
“Thou shall not kill.” Exodus 20:13
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Hypocrite Atheists
Atheists strangely assume that those who believe in God believe in a fairy tale.
It’s a postulation they arrogantly consider themselves qualified to make, as if they have mastered the totality of knowledge of life and of the universe – an intellectual hypocrisy they deem to be nowhere near as bad as the supposed fallacy of the believers’ blind faith.
Yet, they sanctimoniously use said blind faith in their own God Complex or their Know-it-all Syndrome to appoint themselves as the new gods and unseat the true God whom they pompously declare to be either dead or non-existent.
It’s their equivalent of a coup d’état.
Hence they rebuff everything that has to do with the Almighty. They have developed a fantasy – in many cases a hatred – that can only be explained thus:
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ ” Psalm 14:1
They actually fool themselves to believe there’s no God by adhering to cockamamy theories like the Theory of Evolution and the Big (bada-bing-bada) Bang Theory, which they want humanity to believe are facts when in reality they’re just that, theories (i.e., unproved assumptions or conjectures).
Worse, they do God’s will every day, while invariably displaying a hostile attitude towards such will, even though they allow it to govern their lives.
Consequently, they come off as double-minded and quite unstable in their beliefs. It’s a mental affliction psychiatrists call dissociative identity disorder.
However, we simply call it foolishness, though it is quite tinged with far more than intellectual hypocrisy. See How Atheists Do God’s Will.
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Sex And Menopausal Women
“Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time in most women’s lives when menstrual periods stop permanently, and they are no longer able to bear children.” – Wikipedia
If anyone doubts that sex is God’s idea for procreation primarily and not mainly for pleasure, all they have to do is observe menopausal women who reach that dreaded stage around 50 years of age.
Those ladies suffer from lack of libido, vaginal atrophy and dryness, and shrinking of the clitoris which causes the inability to experience orgasm.
Are there some women who only experience some but not all of the above symptoms following menopause? Of course, exceptions validate the rules.
But, in general, enjoyable sex for and with these women is no longer an option. Any attempt to fix that unfortunate issue is like using a Band-Aid on a problem that requires surgery.
The purpose of sex within marriage is to create a family with children; and when women can no longer have children, their sexual processes automatically shut down.
Likewise, the purpose of romance is to help multiply and strengthen said family. Consequently, romance is not for unmarried, barren older women to fancy themselves with.
Besides, isn’t it better at that age to live a life free of entanglements, which down the road lead mostly to complications?
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Deep Zionist Infiltration Of The Church
To say that the church has been infiltrated by Zionist Jews would be an understatement. The proof is in the proverbial pudding.
1. Almost every church organization recognizes Israel’s right to exist based on the following lies: a) converted Jews of today are the Hebrews of the bible, when they’re not, and b) Judaism is the precursor of Christianity, when in fact it is a religion that used to be known as Babylonian Pharisaism or Rabbinism, not an Abrahamic faith.
2. Of all the Christian groups, American Evangelicals are the worst in their fervent support for Apartheid Israel. A support that materialized because of the anti-Christ teaching in their churches of Dispensationalism or Rapture Doctrine, which falsely paints modern Israel at the center of biblical prophecies. Such unfortunate brainwashing prevents them from seeing straight.
Even thus, said underpropping is rapidly dwindling among internet-savvy Millennial Evangelicals.
“According to a survey, American evangelicals under 35 are ‘less likely than their older counterparts to offer unquestionable support for Israel, and are more likely to hold positive views of the Palestinians,'” reports MEMO.
“While 76 per cent of evangelicals over the age of 65 have a ‘positive’ view of Israel, among evangelicals under the age of 35, the number was only 58 per cent.
“Meanwhile, 66 per cent of evangelicals under 35 believe that ‘Christians should do more to love and care for the Palestinian people,’ compared to 54 per cent of those over 65 who share this view.
“Again, 41 per cent of evangelicals under 35 stated that they have ‘no strong views about the State of Israel,’ while only 22 per cent of those over the age of 65 responded the same way.”
3. The Zionists keep on their payroll countless compromised preachers, such as John Hagee, to constantly brainwash the flock by spewing out their demonic bile in reference to Israeli “Jews” as God’s “Chosen People.”
Using his CUFI organization, John Hagee has become the prime mover behind the War on Christianity. He’s a fierce supporter of all the evil Israel does and stands for. Unfortunately, he is not alone in having sold out his soul to Zionist Jews and their Synagogue of Satan.
Hagee and many of his fellow mammonish preachers have been bought to propagate the falsehood that modern-day Israel is the fulfillment of God’s word in the bible, when Jews are not even the biblical Hebrews and the word Jew in like manner cannot be found in the non-translated bible.
So please, stop watching and supporting their TV programs which elevate Satanic Israel to the point of worship, and which try to deceptively morph Jesus into a Jew when He was never one. See Jesus was not a Jew.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves… Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7: 15, 21-23
4. The Christian mass media are totally corrupted when it comes to Israel. They sold out Jesus and His Love Thy Neighbor command to that apartheid country for 30 pieces of Jewish silver, as they justify Israel at every turn.
“He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.” Proverbs 17: 15
5. Not even the Bible is safe from Zionist reach.
a. In order to start and keep alive the illusion that the creation of modern-day Israel was the result of “biblical prophecies,” the Zionist enemy of mankind financed many “commentary bibles” such as the Scofield Reference Bible with purposely erroneous commentaries about the return of the “Jews” to “their homeland.”
b. The Zionist parasite bribes Christian Publishers, such as Thomas Nelson, Inc., to keep the word Jew in the Bible when that word is NOT in the original non-translated version.
Conclusion. Wisdom is a useful tool to have handy when it comes to Israel and the Jews.
One must learn to sift through the deceitful propaganda of those who peddle the fiction that today’s converted Jews are the Hebrews of the Bible rightfully taking possession of inherited land.
All REAL Hebrews were KILLED during the Apocalypse of 70 AD, their land inheritance buried with them.
The LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight… And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.” 2 Kings 17:18,20
“Therefore, the LORD says: ‘I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves… for it will be a time of calamity. In that day your enemies will make fun of you by singing this song of despair about you: ‘We are finished, completely ruined! God has confiscated our land, taking it from us‘. ‘ ” Micah 2:3,4
God has allowed the temporary realization of Impostor Israel to successfully transpire in order to a) flush out all the false prophets in the church, and b) test not only true Christians but the world as a whole by putting through the fire their zeal for His Love Thy Neighbor command.
Anyone who supports Israel supports the anti-Christ spirit of Hate Thy Neighbor, the very opposite of what Jesus teaches. No ifs, ands, or buts. It’s that simple.
Now, the questions remain: Are you a supporter of that demonically hateful spirit? Or will you instead obey our Lord and Love Your Palestinian Neighbor while rejecting the anti-Christ spirit of Israel?
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The Law That Changed The World
Many are under the impression that the moral laws that today come close to being part of the conscience of educated men and women everywhere were in part spread by Socrates who was sentenced to the hemlock nearly 2,500 years ago.
Not really accurate.
The one true moral law that governs today’s societies is Jesus Christ’s new commandment to Love One Another, a decree that is a summary of the 10 Moral Laws or Commandments God gave us thousands of years before Socrates.
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34
Prior to Christ, it was extremely difficult for anyone to love one’s neighbor. With Jesus’s sacrifice on the Cross, His resurrection, and the Advent of the Holy Spirit, applying such moral law became much easier.
From that point in history nothing has been the same. The Holy Spirit of Christ has been inspiring the world forward through dazzling innovations and technological achievements; not to mention the fact that the backward and hateful thinking of pagan cultures has been wiped out by Christian Civilization, which has impacted the entire globe.
Every religion or philosophy, which espouses loving one another and good will towards man, whether aware of it or not, has benefited from Jesus’s new commandment, which is the foundation of Christian enlightenment.
“And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all. ” 1 Corinthians 15:28
Sadly, Jesus’s Love Thy Neighbor command is currently under attack.
The Jewish-Dominated Media have instilled into the very fabric of our society the anti-Christ spirit of hate thy neighbor with their Muslim-bashing – just so the Apartheid State of Israel, which hates all its Arab neighbors, can look good by comparison.
What they fail to realize is that God has allowed the temporary realization of Impostor Israel to successfully transpire in order to a) flush out all the false prophets in the church, and b) test not only true Christians but the world as a whole by putting through the fire their zeal for His Love Thy Neighbor command.
Anyone who supports Israel supports the anti-Christ spirit of Hate Thy Neighbor, the very opposite of what Jesus teaches. No ifs, ands, or buts. It’s that simple.
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Confusion In God’s House?
Have you ever been to a congregation and someone got up and said these terrible words, “Welcome to the House of God”?
Ugh? Wait a minute. The House of God? What’s up with that? Are we re-living Old Testament days?
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16
We are God’s House or Temple. The building where we assemble is not. It’s just a building. There’s nothing holy about that building. The Old Covenant TEMPLE principle – with its altar and a Levite High Priest hovering over everyone – is no longer in effect. See Church Services Are NOT Biblical for an in-depth exposé.
As a matter of fact, Christians can assemble anywhere. There’s no need to go into debt for a building. The early Church always met in homes. The money being wasted on mortgages can be put to better use by helping so many suffering Christians, especially in a downturn economy.
Each individual Christian is the Saint who is Holy or Separated unto God, because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. So when you help your Christian brethren, you are “helping” God. That’s the only building or temple God cares about.
So next time anyone errs like that – by making an edifice out to be what it’s not – please make sure that person is duly and lovingly corrected, publicly if necessary. The word of God is more important than someone’s pride or ego.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19
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That Necessary Balance
The totality of our being is comprised of spirit, mind, and body. Therefore, an equilibrium must be achieved to maintain health, or achieve healing when one is sick. See Of Healing And Miracles.
To attain that necessary balance, the following steps are needed: a godly life that leads to repentance from sins; a harmonious family life; solid diet and hydration protocols; a sensible exercise regimen; a constant pursuit of knowledge; eight to ten hours of daily sleep; and scheduled times for socializing, relaxation (preferably outdoors under the sun, and even getting a pet is a good idea), and vacation to relieve stress.
Nevertheless, keep this in mind. God is no respecter of persons, therefore diseases will hit everyone, Christians or not. That’s because there is spiritual purpose in suffering and hardship.
“For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” Hebrews 12:6
In the end, strong health or full recovery or healing comes straight from the throne of God. He’s the one who decides if one’s efforts will take hold.
“I am the LORD who heals you.” Exodus 15:26
Consequently, the most important thing is to have faith in God and in Jesus whom He sent.
Then pray.
“And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” Matthew 21:22
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Does Man Really Have Free Will?
Man is able to do whatever he wants. That’s Freedom of Choice or Free Will.
Yet, that does not mean everything man plans will succeed. God is the final arbiter of what He wants to take place on earth.
“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” Proverbs 16:9
Many will say, ha-ha!
Now, wait a minute!
Just because God does not allow all of man’s schemes to flourish does not mean that he doesn’t have free will. It only means that God is also free to either stir in him new ideas or throw a monkey wrench into his plans. Man’s still free to keep his course, while God’s also free to keep throwing that pesty wrench as well as insisting on a better course of action.
By the same token, God in His great mercy is also free to stimulate and help those who are living a life void of Christian enlightenment, by whispering in their hearts to induce them to live out the fruit of the Spirit of His son.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Galatians 5: 22-23
Still, man is free to either reject or yield to His mercy.
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Please Find A Wife For My Son
No, sir. That’s your job to find a wife for your son.
“Find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters.” Jeremiah 29:6
Find wives for your sons… is God’s commandment. People in the modern Western world don’t like to hear that proposition, even though it is a system that used to be the norm once upon a time, and is still in vogue today in many other cultures. See The Biblical Marriage Blueprint.
How To Find A Wife For Your Son
First and foremost, be proactive. A godly spouse will not fall out of the sky, no matter how much one may pray and beg God. Therefore, get moving while exercising your faith.
Second, keep the following in mind.
1. What only matters in the Groom
That he is a reputable, godly, and hard-working man from a good family, with the means to provide for his household.
“But if someone doesn’t provide for their own family…They are worse than those who have no faith.” 1 Timothy 5:8
“Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” Ephesians 5:28
“Urge the young men to be sensible; in all things be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say.” Titus 2:6-8
2. What only matters in the Bride
That she is a reputable, godly, and kind woman from a good family, with a sincere inclination to help her husband. See Of Nagging Women and Angry Men
“As the assembly submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” Ephesians 5:24
“Wives, respect and obey your husbands…” 1 Peter 3: 1
“Encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, homemakers, kind, obedient to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.” Titus 2:4,5
“Your adornment must not be merely external– braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands.” 1 Peter 3: 3-5
Proverbs 31: 10-31
3. Fathers of the Groom and Bride are heavily involved
The children’s participation are not necessarily excluded. Fathers are the ones who stand at the forefront in order to protect their children’s interests. They are their kids’ marital agents.
The last major duty of a father is to make sure that the children God entrusted him with are married to spouses God approves of. One of the ways children honor their parents is by allowing them to fulfill that duty, and in so doing recognizing their God-given authority and all the years of sacrifice they went through to get them to that point.
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.” Ephesians 6:1
4. Paternal blessings on both sides are primordial
They are the only blessings that matter. They are to be heartfelt, not coerced or manipulated.
“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you.” Deuteronomy 5:16
The state has nothing to say. Religious “leaders” have nothing to say. These two entities have usurped some of the God-given parental authority concerning the marriage process.
In fact, the entire marriage “ceremony” is just rehearsed theater. Neither a government permission nor a “church service” and/or counseling is needed to create a biblical union, especially as there is no verse in the bible that bestows on a “preacher” or a judge the right to perform said ceremony. The head of every man – in this instance every father – is Christ alone and not a preacher/church nor any local/state/federal official.
“But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11:3
Fathers are the ones whom God appointed as His representatives to oversee, authorize, and perform the entire process (with elder brothers next in line).
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you, therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.” Jeremiah 35:18,19
So go ahead fathers, YOU marry your children. Then throw a party if you wish.
“And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.” Genesis 29:22
5. The conjugal night
The couple’s first sexual encounter, which leads to the woman’s hymen getting pierced, is the final act of the process and the true seal of the biblical marriage covenant. See Sex and the Christian.
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My Cheating Wife
When a married woman fornicates (i.e., has sexual intercourse outside her marriage), she emotionally cuts herself off from her husband. That’s how she’s able to act thusly.
In addition, her unfaithfulness reeks of contempt and disrespect for the one who’s her God-appointed authority. Consequently, she not only spits on her husband but on God as well.
Her newfound emotional and sexual attachment indubitably engulfs her to the point where her disposition will manifest itself down the line with further infraction. Very rare are these women, if any, whose married lives go back to normal.
Still, if her husband forgives her and does not wish to divorce her, whether it is because of their small children or some other reason, then that’s between the two of them. There’s NO biblical law that says he MUST divorce her – even though the law openly allows for that possibility.
Now, whether their love and their trust in each other, which create family harmony, will remain unscathed, especially on the husband’s side, is quite doubtful: that’s why such an instance is the only time God, who knows His creation quite well, allows a man to divorce his wife.
The following is an excellent primer that’s really worth a look: Of Fornication, Divorce, and Adultery.
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To The Judahite First
“A third time he asked him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time. He said, ‘Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.’ Jesus said, ‘Then feed my sheep.'” John 21:17
When Jesus asked Peter to “Feed my sheep,” the sheep He was talking about was his Hebraic fellowmen.
“First to the Judahite, then to the Gentile.” Romans 1:16
And just like Jesus sent Paul to the Gentiles, or the non-Hebrews, to spiritually feed them…
“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'” Acts 22:21
…He sent Peter to the Hebrews.
In Jesus’s mind one group (Judahite Hebrews) was not above the other (Gentiles), as the Apostle Paul would later confirm.
“There is neither Judahite nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all ONE in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3: 28
It’s just that Jesus wanted to make sure the Hebrews were reached so He could shut down the Old Covenant, as He had prophesied.
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near. Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city.” Luke 21: 20,21
In essence, from the time of Christ’s crucifixion in 30 AD to 70 AD, God gave the disobedient Hebrews 40 years to repent and accept Jesus as the Messiah.
“The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
But, in 70 AD, after waiting 40 years, God dropped the hammer on all those who did not repent. He dispatched the Roman Army to Jerusalem to wipe out all the Hebrews who had come up from all the country and the world to the feast of unleavened bread.
Just like during Ancient Israel’s 40-year wilderness wandering, God was not about to lead the unbelieving Hebrews into the promised land of the New Covenant. They all had to die so He could start anew. Discover the Sequence of Events here.
“Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.” Exodus 14:33
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Irresistible Sex
The sexual act is irresistible, to say the least.
The desire to copulate is stronger than anything man or woman can resist. It comes in the form of powerful sexual urges, which God Himself instilled in us for one very purpose, that of making babies.
Of course, mankind did come up with some nifty ways to circumvent procreation: condoms, abortion pills, surgical abortion, tubal ligation, vasectomy, etc., not to mention the poor man’s birth control of pulling out before climaxing.
And yet, in spite of all these, we have more people on earth today than at any other time in history. As a matter of fact, world population never decreases, it continually increases decade after decade.
The desire to engage in sexual congress, which leads to making babies, is ingrained in mankind because God spoke it.
“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth…” Genesis 1:28
So, birth control or not, children will pop up all over the place, and that’s because if there’s one thing man can’t shake is God’s commands.
They stick like glue, like white on rice… feel free to add your own metaphor. In other words, when God speaks we jump, whether we believe or not or pretend that we don’t.
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Conspiracy Theory
Conspiracies can take place anywhere, even at the family level.
However, we want to zoom in on what is commonly referred to as Conspiracy Theory, a pejorative term that is often flung at those who communicate uncomfortable views about the government or those in influential positions.
What does a conspiracy need? Two or more people or groups, plus an agenda.
Are there two or more people or groups conspiring somewhere to take political and economical advantage of many important issues?
One would be a fool not to believe so.
The problem is that our society has been brainwashed to see “conspiracy” as the work of crazies outside the government. That way those within government, who are being wagged by special interest groups, can go on conspiring to make specific agendas a reality, while pointing their fingers at “fantasist nuts” and their “conspiracy theories.”
So, wake up!
Even though those who posit sensible Conspiracy Theories do so simply by analyzing and linking facts and events, conspiracies are quite real. Therefore, one has to always look beyond the “official version” of things.
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The Demons Of War
Wars and destructive ideologies are spawned from the fires of hell by old Familiar Spirits: the Principalities of the Darkness or the Spoilers of Peace.
These demonic fiends never tire of roaming the earth in search of hosts to carry out their plan to destroy mankind. They have given us: Feudalism, Zionism, Communism, Fascism, Maoism, White Supremacy, Black Supremacy, Jewish Supremacy, Militarianism, Totalitarianism, Solipsism, Nihilism, World Wars, Age of Terror, etc.
They have been the enablers and thus the undoing of every Tyrant and Empire since the beginning of time. Some of their dead victims used to know them under different appellations.
“Gurzil was a war deity of the Ancient Berbers.” -Wikipedia
“Guan Yu was a Chinese red face warrior deity.” -Wikipedia
“Hachiman was the god of war of Japan.” -Wikipedia
And the list goes on and on.
They are formidable adversaries, possessed with the anti-Christ spirit of hate. They’re like alien strains and body snatchers that seek to attach themselves to whichever group has the gall to seek absolute power, or whichever group is conniving enough to convince the powers that be to execute their will. They’re like vampires that refuse to die; always on the prowl for new victims and new hosts, without regard for either.
They’re spirits of deception that crave the annihilation of everything good and peaceful in creation. Their whole raison d’être is to tear down Christ’s New Covenant of “Love Thy Neighbor” and “Peace On Earth,” and restore the failed Old One of conflict, genocide, war, and conquest.
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How To Pry Joy Out Of Life
True Joy is the state of a satiated soul, which forever abandons folies of grandeur and unreachable fantasies.
“The prospect of the righteous is joy.” Proverbs 10:28
The following are some God-inspired tips that have helped many into that ever delicate place of bliss.
1. No work is shameful
Life is a winding road, and navigating it prosperously is not meant to be easy. That’s why no success comes overnight and nor does it ever materialize on a straight line, which means you might have to do a lot of things you don’t like first before maybe do what you like.
Mike Rowe said it best, “Dream jobs are usually just that – dreams. But their imaginary existence just might keep you from exploring careers that offer a legitimate chance to perform meaningful work.“
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” Ecclesiastes 9:10
“Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!” Proverbs 6:6
2. Be content
Whether financially or relationally be content of your situation, and always live within your means by becoming money wise. Grumbling and complaining indubitably create conflicts and engender more headaches than you can anticipate.
“I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through Christ who gives me strength.” Philippians 4: 11-13
3. Don’t be seduced by the world
Work hard and provide for your family, but do not let the accumulation of useless things you deem needful take hold of you.
“For everything in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–comes not from the Father but from the world.” 1 John 2:16
The simpler the life, the better.
“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.” Proverbs 13:7
4. Understand your role in life and appreciate your limitation
When thoughts of grandeur begin to fill your head because of what others have that you don’t, cogitate on John the Baptist who appreciated his limitation and did not covet Jesus’s glory. John Chapter 3:
26 And they came to John and said to him, “Teacher, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
27 John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Therefore, don’t be envious of others nor strive to walk their path. Instead, rejoice in their success.
“Envy makes the bones rot.” Proverbs 14:30
You are unique, and God has prepared a unique path for you. Find out what it is and stick to its limitation.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord…” Jeremiah 29:11
5. Keep your plan in perspective
“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.” Hebrews 11:13
That verse does not imply that your plan won’t happen in your lifetime, and it does not mean it will either. It may also mean that your children will carry it through.
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in?‘” 2 Samuel 7:1
David’s son Jesus is the One who built the Temple. And the Temple Jesus built is a totally different temple than what David had in mind. Still, it is a Temple.
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?” 1 Corinthians 3:16
Your plan is between you and God, and only God can impart to you whether it will come true in your lifetime or not. Many times God has to perform a Heart Adjustment before fulfilling it.
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Is Long Hair On Man A Disgrace?
Many view long hair on man as feminine or disgraceful. The reason they do is because they’re influenced by a bad translation from the bible in 1 Corinthians 11:14.
“Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him…”
Here’s the right translation.
“Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man wears tresses of hair, it is a dishonor to him…”
The Greek word that is translated as has long hair in the wrongly translated version is komao. It literally means to wear tresses of hair. It is derived from the word kome and denotes locks of hair as ornamental, as opposed to one’s own hair on the scalp which itself is the Greek word thrix. These are two separate and distinct words.
Further, keep in mind that the Apostle Paul, in that chapter of the first book of Corinthians, was putting in context the spiritual authority of man over woman using a hair metaphor.
“A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God…” 1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man to wear tresses of hair would be tantamount to covering his head with what belongs to woman (i.e., placing himself under the authority of another man when man’s authority is Jesus Himself, as the Apostle Paul clearly pointed out at the beginning of the chapter).
“I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ…” 1 Corinthians 11:3
Therefore, if a man places himself in such a position (spiritually covered by a man other than Christ), it would be a disgrace to him. However, the woman must always have her head covered (i.e., be under the authority of man).
“It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own head…” 1 Corinthians 11: 10
“…the head of the woman is man.” 1 Corinthians 11:3
Besides, why did God accept long hair on Nazirites such as Samson and John the Baptist? Their long hair coif was neither feminine nor a disgrace.
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The Maleficence Of Empire
With more than 1,000 military bases and installations spanning the globe and a foreign policy that causes almost every nation on earth to cower to its will, the United States of America is the most powerful Empire the world has ever known. But instead of being an Empire of benevolence and peace, the US has been at perpetual war and expansion since its creation.
Unfortunately for the imperial citizenry, warmongering and economic progress are anathema to each other. If economic progress leads to empire-building, sooner or later empire-building leads to economic catastrophe and bankruptcy; said woes are usually the upshot of foreign entanglements and unholy alliances that lead to unsustainable expansions and wars.
However, in the absence of such imperialistic formula, the opposite usually takes place.
When World War 2 caused the irrevocable dissolution of the Japanese and German Empires, the then emerging American hegemon quickly shackled these defeated countries with a trammel that paralyzed (and eliminated) their military machines which had facilitated their expansions. The happy result was that Japan became the economic power of Asia, and Germany that of Europe.
Today these two countries have more robust economies than the US. Both are major centers of technological achievements, years ahead of their American jailer.
Even China managed to surpass the US by becoming the No 1 economy in the world. That’s because China is not (yet?) building an Empire. Its focus is on profit, not war.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin understands the maleficent nature of Empires, and refuses to accept the United States Government as such (i.e., as the dictator/sovereign/god of this world); an immoral and amoral role that places a human institution squarely above the One true God and His anointed Christ – not unlike every Emperor who once existed and believed himself god.
“What is a unipolar world? However one might embellish this term, it refers to a type of situation where there is one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. It is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. At the end of the day, this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within… I consider that the unipolar model is not only unacceptable but also impossible in today’s world…. the model itself is flawed because at its basis there is and can be no moral foundations for modern civilization,” explained Putin at Munich in 2007.
It is no wonder that the American elite, which is wagging the American Empire, has it in for Putin.
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Easter, The Church, And the Jews
Every year, during Passion Week, many preachers invite in their churches the modern Pharisees (otherwise known as Jews), in order to help Christians in their congregations understand Passover.
Seriously?
Not only is the word Jew NOT in the non-translated bible – see How the Ashkenazi Jews conquered the West – but here’s also what these preachers don’t understand about the Jews:
1. they are NOT the Israelites of the Bible;
2. they DO NOT celebrate Passover like the Hebrews of the Bible, since they DO NOT slaughter a lamb like Jesus did;
3. they do not adhere to the Bible but to the Talmud (the real Satanic Verses), a book full of Babylonian superstitions and lies;
4. their religion is Pharisaism disguised as Judaism.
So why are these Pharisees helping Christians grasp the meaning of Passover?
Both groups are suffering from the Chosen People Syndrome.
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Jewish Attitude Towards Christ, Christmas & Easter
1. Jewish columnist Burt Prelutsky bluntly explained in his 2004 column “The Jewish Grinch who Stole Christmas“:
“I never thought I’d live to see the day that Christmas would become a dirty word… Schools are being forced to replace ‘Christmas vacation’ with ‘winter break’ in their printed schedules…
“How is it, one well might ask, that in a Christian nation this is happening? I blame my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the American Civil Liberties Union, at the forefront… But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society — it’s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity.”
2. From Israeli Newspaper Haaretz:
“Christmas Eve is one of the few occasions when Hasidim refrain from Torah study, do not conduct weddings or go to the mikveh [ritual bath for women]. But they do play chess and work on their bills.
“On Christmas Eve, known in Jewish circles as Nitel Night, the klipot (shells) are in total control. The klipot are parasitical evil forces that attach themselves to the forces of good.
“According to kabbala (Jewish mysticism), on the night on which “that man” — a Jewish euphemism for Jesus — was born, not even a trace of holiness is present and the klipot exploit every act of holiness for their own purposes.
“For this reason, Nitel Night, from nightfall to midnight, is one of the few occasions when Hasidim refrain from Torah study. On this horrific night, they neither conduct weddings nor do they go to the mikveh (ritual bath). An entire folkloric literature has developed around the unusual recreational activities of Nitel Night.”
3. From Jewish novelist Philip Roth:
“The radio was playing ‘Easter Parade’ and I thought, But this is Jewish genius on a par with the Ten Commandments. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and then He gave to Irving Berlin ‘Easter Parade’ and ‘White Christmas.’ The two holidays that celebrate the divinity of Christ — the divinity that’s the very heart of the Jewish rejection of Christianity — and what does Irving Berlin brilliantly do? He de-Christs them both! Easter he turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow. Gone is the gore and the murder of Christ — down with the crucifix and up with the bonnet! He turns their religion into schlock. But nicely!
“Nicely! So nicely the Christians don’t even know what hit ’em. They love it. Everybody loves it. The Jews especially. Jews loathe Jesus.”
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The Meaning Of The Word Easter
The enemies of Christ force themselves to believe that the word Easter is of Babylonian pagan origin and that it refers to the worship of the sun.
Nothing could be further from the truth, especially when one takes into account that the word pagan was created by Christians to refer to heathen superstitions.
How Easter, which celebrates Christ’s resurrection, can be deemed pagan is not only ludicrous but downright intellectually brutish.
First, the word Easter is of Saxon origin, not Babylonian; and of the same meaning with its German cognate Ostern.
“Because the English Anglo/Saxon language originally derived from the Germanic, there are many similarities between German and English,” writes author Nick Sayers. “Many English writers have referred to the German language as the ‘Mother Tongue!’ The English word Easter is of German/Saxon origin and not Babylonian as Alexander Hislop falsely claimed. The German equivalent is Oster. Oster (Ostern being the modern day equivalent) is related to Ost which means the rising of the sun, or simply in English, east. Oster comes from the old Teutonic form of auferstehen / auferstehung, which means resurrection, which in the older Teutonic form comes from two words, Ester meaning first, and stehen meaning to stand. These two words combine to form erstehen which is an old German form of auferstehen, the modern day German word for resurrection.“
Second, if Easter were of pagan origin and really meant the worship of the sun, like the enemies of Christ believe, it would universally be known all around the world by the same supposedly “pagan” name.
For instance, in French Easter is called Pâques and in Spanish Pascua, both derived from the Greek Pascah meaning Passover. And Passover was the time when the resurrection took place.
Third, if Easter is really about worshiping the sun, how come Christians don’t worship the sun? That’s because it’s not and we don’t. The stupidity of the satanic enemies of Jesus who constantly attack our Christian faith knows no bounds. We Christians don’t worship the sun, we worship the Son.
Maybe they should focus on improving their spelling skills instead, because twisting Easter to mean sun worship is a pitiful and ridiculous ploy.
To these satanic creatures, we say: “My God beat your god, deal with it.”
And leave Passion Week’s Easter alone. See The True Passion Week Timeline.
“…that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time…” 1 Corinthians 15:4-6
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Christmas, 9/11, And The Satanists
Early Christians chose December the 25th instead of September the 11th (or 9/11) – Jesus’s actual birthday – to celebrate the birth of our Lord.
The reason they did was to subjugate and squash Saturnalia, a week-long period of satanic lawlessness and bloodshed that took place in Ancient Rome – the then Capital of the world – from December 17th to the 25th. Read Is Christmas Pagan? for an in-depth look.
So what did the dark forces do to get back at Christians?
They got their minions, the underground Satanists (otherwise known as Jewish neocons, in cahoots with their bought-and-paid-for politicians in the US government), to perpetrate their act of terrorism on Jesus’s actual birthday – 9/11. Then, they conveniently blamed it on Muslims so as to give the apartheid satanic state of Israel a green light to destroy the Middle East with a view to creating Greater Israel.
It’s like they meant to say, “Hey Jesus, you took away our week of bloodshed and lawlessness (Saturnalia), we’re taking the day of your birth, and we’ll use it to spread bloodshed and lawlessness all over.”
At least that’s their diabolic plan, but the blowback will not be late in coming.
“The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8
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That Christmas Feeling
During the Christmas season many experience an indescribable longing.
It is God using that time of the year to tug at our spirit and draw our attention to what He has done for us.
He became man in the person of Jesus in order to experience our pains, our joys, our hopes, and our failures. That way when He says, “I know how you feel,” we know it’s true.
He also came to bestow salvation, which is the gift of Himself in our lives – the greatest present imaginable.
A gift that fills all the cracks of our human frailty: the emptiness, the hurts, the regrets, and the failures. In the end, that gift will take us from this earthly life to the eternal one.
And there’s only one way to get that gift. Make sure you claim it right here, if you have not already done so.
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Christmas Cheers
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven… A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance…” Ecclesiastes 3:1,4
Christmas is a time to laugh and dance, for we celebrate the birth of the Savior of the world.
“Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy…” 1 Peter 1:8:9
To help set a joyful mood for the Holidays, we’ve selected three songs about the real reason for the season. JESUS. Watch videos below.
1) O Holy Night, best Christmas song ever; 2) O Little Town of Bethlehem, 2nd best Christmas song ever – both are interpreted by the AMAZING Nat King Cole; 3) Boney M‘s Mary’s Boy Child/Oh my Lord, best modern Christmas medley.
If they don’t stir your soul, there might be something wrong 😉 .
“Behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10-11
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Jesus In Prophecy
The following is a compilation of 44 Prophecies of the Messiah fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
As you read it, keep in mind that the Bible is composed of 66 books by about 40 different writers of various backgrounds, who lived during a period of about 1,600 years. Yet this amazing book as a whole presents one coherent message: Jesus is the Messiah, God made flesh.
| Prophecies About Jesus | Old Testament Scripture |
New Testament Fulfillment |
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| 1 | Messiah would be born of a woman. | Genesis 3:15 | Matthew 1:20 Galatians 4:4 |
| 2 | Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. | Micah 5:2 | Matthew 2:1 Luke 2:4-6 |
| 3 | Messiah would be born of a virgin. | Isaiah 7:14 | Matthew 1:22-23 Luke 1:26-31 |
| 4 | Messiah would come from the line of Abraham. | Genesis 12:3 Genesis 22:18 |
Matthew 1:1 Romans 9:5 |
| 5 | Messiah would be a descendant of Isaac. | Genesis 17:19 Genesis 21:12 |
Luke 3:34 |
| 6 | Messiah would be a descendant of Jacob. | Numbers 24:17 | Matthew 1:2 |
| 7 | Messiah would come from the tribe of Judah. | Genesis 49:10 | Luke 3:33 Hebrews 7:14 |
| 8 | Messiah would be heir to King David’s throne. | 2 Samuel 7:12-13 Isaiah 9:7 |
Luke 1:32-33 Romans 1:3 |
| 9 | Messiah’s throne will be anointed and eternal. | Psalm 45:6-7 Daniel 2:44 |
Luke 1:33 Hebrews 1:8-12 |
| 10 | Messiah would be called Immanuel. | Isaiah 7:14 | Matthew 1:23 |
| 11 | Messiah would spend a season in Egypt. | Hosea 11:1 | Matthew 2:14-15 |
| 12 | A massacre of children would happen at Messiah’s birthplace. | Jeremiah 31:15 | Matthew 2:16-18 |
| 13 | A messenger would prepare the way for Messiah | Isaiah 40:3-5 | Luke 3:3-6 |
| 14 | Messiah would be rejected by his own people. | Psalm 69:8 Isaiah 53:3 |
John 1:11 John 7:5 |
| 15 | Messiah would be a prophet. | Deuteronomy 18:15 | Acts 3:20-22 |
| 16 | Messiah would be preceded by Elijah. | Malachi 4:5-6 | Matthew 11:13-14 |
| 17 | Messiah would be declared the Son of God. | Psalm 2:7 | Matthew 3:16-17 |
| 18 | Messiah would be called a Nazarene. | Isaiah 11:1 | Matthew 2:23 |
| 19 | Messiah would bring light to Galilee. | Isaiah 9:1-2 | Matthew 4:13-16 |
| 20 | Messiah would speak in parables. | Psalm 78:2-4 Isaiah 6:9-10 |
Matthew 13:10-15, 34-35 |
| 21 | Messiah would be sent to heal the brokenhearted. | Isaiah 61:1-2 | Luke 4:18-19 |
| 22 | Messiah would be a priest after the order of Melchizedek. | Psalm 110:4 | Hebrews 5:5-6 |
| 23 | Messiah would be called King. | Psalm 2:6 Zechariah 9:9 |
Matthew 27:37 Mark 11:7-11 |
| 24 | Messiah would be praised by little children. | Psalm 8:2 | Matthew 21:16 |
| 25 | Messiah would be betrayed. | Psalm 41:9 Zechariah 11:12-13 |
Luke 22:47-48 Matthew 26:14-16 |
| 26 | Messiah’s price money would be used to buy a potter’s field. | Zechariah 11:12-13 | Matthew 27:9-10 |
| 27 | Messiah would be falsely accused. | Psalm 35:11 | Mark 14:57-58 |
| 28 | Messiah would be silent before his accusers. | Isaiah 53:7 | Mark 15:4-5 |
| 29 | Messiah would be spat upon and struck. | Isaiah 50:6 | Matthew 26:67 |
| 30 | Messiah would be hated without cause. | Psalm 35:19 Psalm 69:4 |
John 15:24-25 |
| 31 | Messiah would be crucified with criminals. | Isaiah 53:12 | Matthew 27:38 Mark 15:27-28 |
| 32 | Messiah would be given vinegar to drink. | Psalm 69:21 | Matthew 27:34 John 19:28-30 |
| 33 | Messiah’s hands and feet would be pierced. | Psalm 22:16 Zechariah 12:10 |
John 20:25-27 |
| 34 | Messiah would be mocked and ridiculed. | Psalm 22:7-8 | Luke 23:35 |
| 35 | Soldiers would gamble for Messiah’s garments. | Psalm 22:18 | Luke 23:34 Matthew 27:35-36 |
| 36 | Messiah’s bones would not be broken. | Exodus 12:46 Psalm 34:20 |
John 19:33-36 |
| 37 | Messiah would be forsaken by God. | Psalm 22:1 | Matthew 27:46 |
| 38 | Messiah would pray for his enemies. | Psalm 109:4 | Luke 23:34 |
| 39 | Soldiers would pierce Messiah’s side. | Zechariah 12:10 | John 19:34 |
| 40 | Messiah would be buried with the rich. | Isaiah 53:9 | Matthew 27:57-60 |
| 41 | Messiah would resurrect from the dead. | Psalm 16:10 Psalm 49:15 |
Matthew 28:2-7 Acts 2:22-32 |
| 42 | Messiah would ascend to heaven. | Psalm 24:7-10 | Mark 16:19 Luke 24:51 |
| 43 | Messiah would be seated at God’s right hand. | Psalm 68:18 Psalm 110:1 |
Mark 16:19 Matthew 22:44 |
| 44 | Messiah would be a sacrifice for sin. | Isaiah 53:5-12 | Romans 5:6-8 |
Compiled by Mary Fairchild.
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The Dating Of The Book Of Revelation
The Apostle John’s Book of Revelation is a prophetic book that many interpret as if most of its pronouncements have yet to occur.
The reason they’re so inclined is because they have bought into the fallacy that it was written after the Apocalypse of 70 A.D., when in fact it was composed prior to 70 A.D. as Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr. succinctly explains in his article The Book of Revelation and Eschatology:
“I hold that Revelation was produced prior to the death of Nero in June, A.D. 68, and even before the formal engagement of the Judean War by Vespasian in Spring, A.D. 67. My position is that Revelation was written in A.D. 65 or 66. This would be after the outbreak of the Neronic persecution in November, 64, and before the engagement of Vespasian’s forces in Spring of 67. […]
“Flavius Josephus, the Judahite contemporary of John, clearly points out that Julius Caesar was the first emperor of Rome and that he was followed in succession by Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, and Nero (Antiquities 18; 19). We discover this enumeration also in other near contemporaries of John: 4 Ezra 11 and 12; Sibylline Oracles, books 5 and 8; Barnabas, Epistle 4; Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars; and Dio Cassius’ Roman History 5.
“The text of Revelation says of the seven kings ‘five have fallen.’ The first five emperors are dead, when John writes. But the verse goes on to say ‘one is.’ That is, the sixth one is then reigning even as John wrote. That would be Nero Caesar, who assumed imperial power upon the death of Claudius in October, A.D. 54, and remained emperor until June, A.D. 68.
“John continues: ‘The other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.’ When the Roman Civil Wars broke out in rebellion against him, Nero committed suicide on June 8, A.D. 68. The seventh king was ‘not yet come.’ That would be Galba, who assumed power in June, A.D. 68. But he was only to continue a ‘short space.’ His reign lasted but six months, until January 15, A.D. 69.
“Thus, we see that while John wrote, Nero was still alive and Galba was looming in the near future. Revelation could not have been written after June, A.D. 68, according to the internal political evidence.”
Please read Where Is Satan Now? for a look at the prophetic materialization of most of the book of Revelation.
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His Return And His Coming
Let’s clear the confusion.
1. There’s the FINAL return of the Lord, following which is Judgment Day.
“For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:52
That time is not necessarily around the corner.
“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” 2 Peter 3:8
Therefore, humanity has only been waiting “a couple of days” for God to shut down the course of history. 🙂
2. There’s the COMING of the Lord, which always refers to the time when God would fully establish His Kingdom on earth.
“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” Matthew 16:28
Christ’s Kingdom was fully established in 70 AD, after He shut down the Old Covenant.
“By calling this covenant ‘new,’ he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.” Hebrew 8:13
Once the Old Covenant disappeared and Satan was captured and thrown into the Abyss, Christ fully came into His Kingdom, since previously Satan was god of this world – no more.
“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers…” 2 Corinthians 4:4
Therefore, from 30 AD, when Christ uttered these words of Matthew 16:28, to 70 AD, some did not taste death and witnessed the full establishment of Christ’s New Covenant, along with the end of Satan’s dominion and of the Old Covenant.
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Daniel, John, And The Apocalypse
The entire New Testament – including the Book of Revelation – was written prior to 70 A.D. and must be read with that context in mind in order to understand many of its passages.
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together… and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25
“I think that in view of the present distress…” 1 Corinthians 7:25
Daniel’s prophecies, which were precursors and confirmations of John’s prophecies in Revelation, also pertained to 70 A.D. and not to a prophetic distant future that has yet to happen.
They foretold the destruction of Jerusalem which God subsequently delivered up to the Emperor of the Gentiles (i.e., the Roman Emperor) during a period that lasted 42 months = 1,260 days = 3½ years = Middle of 7 = Time (1), Times (2), and Half a time (½), and reached its full consummation in 70 A.D.
“In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” Daniel 9:27
“They shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.” Daniel 7:25
“They will be killed by the sword when all of them are made captives by the Gentiles. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled.” Luke 21:24
It was a period of wrath and judgment due to apostasy: earthly and wicked Jerusalem had become a spiritual abomination, or Babylon.
“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:5
The Apostle John’s prophetic and apocalyptic warning was similar to Daniel’s.
“I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, ‘Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.’ They are ‘the two olive trees’ and the two lampstands, and ‘they stand before the Lord of the earth.'” Revelation 11:1-4
The two Witnesses are spoken of in terms of the two great witnesses of the Old Testament, Moses and Elijah – the Law and the Prophets.
“The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.” Luke 16:16
Prior to the final destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, the animal sacrifices, performed daily by the Judahites, were abolished by Rome, which then had the image or statue of its Emperor Caligula (Gaius) set up to be worshiped in the very temple which was later desolated by its army in 70 A.D., along with Jerusalem. Emperor Vespasian’s ruthless son, Titus, led the war that year, and for his achievement was awarded a triumph: the Arch of Titus.
“From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up...” Daniel 12:11
The Apostle John actually called the Emperor of Rome the beast.
“The beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.” Revelation 19:20
He also gave the beast the number 666.
“Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.” Revelation 13:18
The significance of the number 6 rests in the fact that man was created on the 6th day. Therefore 6 is the number of man. And triple 6 or 666 is man puffing himself up from 6 to the third degree, 1 degree more than God’s duality of Father and Son: such was the Emperor of Rome’s hubris in positioning his might above God’s and above his created status.
That’s why the Caesar was nicknamed the Anti-Christ by Christians everywhere, because he was the agent of Satan the Dragon, placed himself above Jehovah and His anointed Jesus, and persecuted Christians throughout his empire.
“…every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God…” 2 Corinthians 10:5
Thus the Prophet Daniel and the Apostle John served as two prophetic witnesses of the Apocalypse of 70 A.D.
“Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” 2 Corinthians 13:1
Every prophecy in the bible has already been fulfilled, except for those concerning the end of the world as explained in the article Where Is Satan Now?
In addition, the Word JUDAHITE, not JEW, is in the Bible. The word JEW is a mistranslation and causes quite the confusion about the Book of Revelation, especially since Jews are NOT the Hebrews of the bible – all the Hebrews are irrevocably dead. Therefore, the bible is not talking about the Jews nor about modern-day Israel, but about the Judahite Hebrews of old.
“God is not the author of confusion…” 1 Corinthians 14:33
Read Where Is Satan Now?
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The Powers Of Hell
“I will build my assembly, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.” Matthew 16:18
Jesus prophesied that the powers of hell will not conquer His assembly of believers. Which means if they won’t conquer it, they sure will try. Because to fail to conquer something is to have tried to conquer it. Therefore, the powers of hell will throw everything they’ve got at Christ’s assembly of followers, both corporately and individually.
Christ’s prophecy is under way and will continually be under way even though the powers of hell have no chance of winning.
Corporately, the assembly is under assault every which way: false doctrines, false preachers, false teachings, etc. See Church Reform
Individually, every Christian is under assault not only from their exposure to the corporate assembly but in their private lives as well: morally corrupt entertainment and books, evil governments and their agendas, social reengineering such as homosexuality and the redefinition of the family, sexual promiscuity, divorce, feminism, deadly pharmacology, false and ungodly scientific theories, propagandistic news, endless wars, etc.
The forces of hell have encircled the assembly of Christians. However, there’s no need for Christians to fret. See The War on Christianity
“…in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
All that’s needed is for all to stand their ground while putting on the full armor of God (i.e., the commandments of God). See Of Legalism and Christians
“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13
Now why does Jesus allow such a spiritual assault on His people? Why does He allow Christians to be pounded to no end? What does such a relentless assault accomplish?
“And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested.” Zechariah 13:9
“So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:7
Only those who truly love God will stand their ground in the face of such adversity. That’s why God allows such a relentless assault.
He’s testing His people to purify them.
“But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come out as gold.” Job 23:10
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Judgment Day
Christians and non-Christians are not treated equally upon death.
1) True Christians, who follow God’s commandments, go to be with the Lord when they die.
“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:8
“Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:43
They live and reign with Him in Heaven because they are partakers of the first resurrection (i.e., salvation in the resurrected Christ, who performed the world’s first resurrection).
“Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death [or eternal hell] has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.” Revelation 20:6
The thousand-year period is not literal, just like the thousand in the following verse is not literal either.
“For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.” Psalm 50:10
The word thousand in these instances means many or a great amount. The cattle on the thousand and first and second and third hills do not belong to someone else, they still belong to God.
With that same understanding, Christ is now reigning over the earth through the New Order or the New Covenant, and no one but God knows when that unlimited period will end.
2) Those who are NOT Christians are dead in spirit.
“The Spirit [of Christ] gives life because of righteousness.” Romans 8:10
The dead in spirit are placed in a holding pattern after their physical death, not in purgatory. They await Judgment Day which will come about following the thousand-year reign of Christ and the end of the world.
“They [Christians] came to life [in heaven] and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead [non-Christians] did not come to life until the thousand years were completed…The dead [non-Christians] were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books… Anyone whose name was not found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life [Jesus’s Book of Life] was thrown into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:4,5,12,15
“I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem [the Assembly of all Christians], coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her Husband [Jesus]. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.’ ” Revelation 21:2-3
“Then we [Christians] who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:17
Does that mean every non-Christian will be thrown in the eternal fires of hell? We don’t think so, otherwise God would not have planned to waste His time judging the incredibly vast multitude that will appear before Him.
a. Jesus died to be the Savior of the whole world.
“We have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.” 1 Timothy 4:10
“In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” John 1:4
b. Because Christ is the light of all mankind, every non-Christian will have a chance to stand before Him and give an account of his life.
“No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
Thus, Christ will judge all non-Christians according to their deeds and the opportunities given them to live for Him, and will punish those whom He decides deserve punishment.
“For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’ So it is God who decides to show mercy.” Romans 9:15,16
Those non-Christians, whom Jesus will show mercy to, would have displayed in their earthly lives – just like true Christians – the fruit of the Spirit.
“He will render to every man according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.” Romans 2:6-8
“For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.” Romans 2:13-16
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control; against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23
c. True Christians who follow Christ’s commandments will escape Judgment of Condemnation. That’s the beauty of being a true Christian. Forgiveness is asked by the Christian, and then granted by God while the Christian is still alive, repentant, and living for Christ; hence there’s no sweating before the Throne of God on Judgment Day, only a welcome hug from the Creator Himself.
“Well done, good and faithful servant!” Matthew 25:23
Still, the many so-called Christians who don’t really live the Christian life will not escape Judgment of Condemnation.
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.” 2 Corinthians 5:10
Conclusion: If you’re a non-Christian or a “marginal” one, don’t bet your eternal destiny on what you think you can get away with on that fateful Judgment Day. Frankly speaking, the odds are stacked against you. See Predestination and Free Will.
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” John 3:36
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New Heaven And New Earth
Following Judgment Day, Christ will start everything over.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.” Revelation 21:1
No longer any sea is symbolic for no longer any abyss, the pit wherefrom came the demons.
“The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea.” Revelation 13:1
Therefore, there will be no more demonic and destructive forces in the new earth to contend with.
“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5
However, even now, subsequent to Satan’s crushing defeat, a certain manifestation of the new Heaven and the new Earth, in preparation for their prophesied upcoming transformation, is already being exhibited: the Earth is now under new management, with Jesus reigning over it in Heaven through his new chosen people, true Christians, who daily do His heavenly will on earth.
“To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 5:11
“Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations!” Revelation 14:3
“But you are a chosen people…” 1 Peter 2:9
Bringing His dominion to bear, Christ is at work, preparing and PERFECTING a special group of people, His chosen, a multitude from every generation and every nation under heaven that will inherit the New PERFECT Earth He will bring forth, along with their New PERFECT Heavenly Bodies.
“I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands.” Revelation 7:9
“There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies… It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.” 1 Corinthians 15:40,42
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The Heavenly Body
“There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies… It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.” 1 Corinthians 15: 40,42
Faithful Christians will receive said heavenly bodies on resurrection day when God shuts it all down at the end of the world.
Jesus received such a body after He rose from the dead, and not even His disciples could recognize Him unless He opened their eyes.
“At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.” John 20:14
“Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.” Luke 24:31
Consequently, the earthly biological side Mary passed to Jesus was immediately gone upon His resurrection. But given that Jesus was crafted from the very beginning with the Divine seed when He was born, He kept His paternal and heavenly side which bore the mark of His crucifixion.
“As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord!” John 20:20
After His resurrection Jesus was and is now fully clothed with a heavenly body that is wholly and solely crafted by the Father Himself. It is a body that is independent of mankind’s current nature and no longer endures the weaknesses of the flesh.
On that day, when all true Christians receive such bodies, it will be a joyful day indeed.
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the old things have passed away.” Revelation 21:4
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