LET THINE EYE BE SINGLE

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LET THINE EYE BE SINGLE

I want to share something quite profound with all of you. I really want you all to hear what the spirit (inspiration) is saying here, because it could be the very thing that helps you to finally live a fulfilled and wondrous life. This will be a much shorter essay, as I felt I needed to keep this brief for those who are not yet hungry enough to invest a great deal of time.

Today, I kept hearing two scriptures again and again in my head. “Faith comes by hearing” was the first. Followed by, “with Faith all things are possible.” Now, some of you may have caught that already. But for those that are just coming to the morning light that is being shined abroad let me expound on this for you because it truly is a remarkable and extremely important revelation for such a time as this.

So let’s begin with the first part, how our faith is formed.

Romans 10:17
So then FAITH comes by HEARING…

Simply stated, we BELIEVE the things we HEAR again and again.

For example, if we are told black is white and white is black… that becomes our reality. Even though ultimately, black or white are simply words we attach to our experience. There is neither in reality. But that is for another day.

FAITH COMES BY HEARING… why is this important? some may ask.

The reason is, our lives are being shaped by our faith, and our FAITH is formed by what we FIRST HEAR. Not just auditory hearing of course, as we can HEAR our thoughts within.

A rudimentary example of this is to understand why children believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. It is because they first HEARD SUCH. FAITH comes by hearing. The same can be said for those who believe in demons and devils… Not because they ever experienced such, but because they first heard of such and then had faith in such, and so a world where spooky evil lurks becomes their experience.

However, this concept goes much deeper. YOU ARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT YOURSELF. In addition, WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT YOURSELF IS WHAT YOU HAVE FIRST HEARD. (whether from the lips of others, your own, or the thoughts swimming in your head) Whichever words YOU HEAR (focus your attention on) forms the FAITH that what you “hear” is your reality… and so YOUR REALITY BECOMES.

As a child if you are told that you are no good again and again. You will begin to have FAITH that YOU ARE NO GOOD. This is why people must understand that SHAME and FEAR are not good teachers. If you don’t want children who misbehave, STOP TELLING YOUR CHILDREN THEY MISBEHAVE!

Now the opposite is also true… If a child hears again and again that he or she is loved and highly favored, that child will have FAITH that he, or she, is loved and highly favored… and “works” shall follow.

What we hear, BECOMES… FAITH COMES BY HEARING.

This is why it is so important to bridle our tongues. The tongue seems to be the smallest muscle but it is quite powerful. So much so, that the scriptures state, “the power of life and death is in the tongue.”

NOW, WHY IS THAT? Why, is the power of life and death in the tongue?

Well, my friends, the answer is simple… because FAITH COMES BY HEARING… and with FAITH ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE… so, whatever you hear again and again you WILL BEGIN TO PUT FAITH IN… which in turn has the POWER TO MANIFEST THAT IN YOUR WORLD… and all of that starts with the TONGUE (either spoken words, or written words, or thoughts)

Faith comes by hearing… With Faith all things are possible.

This is why, I SAY again and again what will be… and again and again IT BECOMES. This is why I SPEAK the desire of my heart, so I can HEAR what is being said, so I can then believe such a thing is not only possible, but REALITY…. and since “with Faith ALL THINGS are possible” – whatever it is I have focused on BECOMES!

I am not a psychic, I don’t hear from some far away God who speaks to me, I hear what inspiration within me has to say… and what it is saying I THEN REPEAT… OUT LOUD… FOR EVERYONE… INCLUDING MYSELF to HEAR!

And when I hear the words that I speak, somewhere along the line, regardless of how seemingly impossible such a feat sounds to be, I begin to believe it. I begin to put my FAITH in it. And with FAITH ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! Which is why, the things I say will happen… HAPPEN!

I would be lying if I SAID I HAVE SEEN ONLY the good manifested in my life. You see, I ignorantly have created some terrible and awful experiences for myself, and for others. And during those times, I did not see that I WAS THE ONE to blame. I would tell everyone how terrible things were, and why wouldn’t I, because (I believed) that was my experience. Instead, of seeing that it was only because I BELIEVED such terrible things that it BECAME MY EXPERIENCE.

Thankfully, I also spoke LIFE from this faucet that at times would spout DEATH. And soon, I learned to SPEAK AND THINK ONLY ON THE GOOD! Because that is a KEY TO HEAVEN ITSELF.

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, 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.

And soon the WORDS OF DEATH I once ignorantly spoke were swallowed up in the WORDS OF LIFE that I HEARD and HAD FAITH IN, which in turn created the LIFE I am sharing with you today.

We, like God… CREATE BOTH LIFE AND DEATH… BOTH GOOD AND EVIL… We create it all… LIKE GOD.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

Side note: the word “Lord” means “the one who exists”

So, it can also be said … I form the light (life, joy, peace, wisdom), and the darkness (death, fear, chaos, ignorance) – I MAKE PEACE AND CREATE EVIL… because FAITH COMES BY HEARING, and what we hear and begin to believe becomes… because with FAITH ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.

Now, with all of that being said. I want to get to the cross (point) of this article.

WE NEED TO LET OUR EYE BE SINGLE!

This whole essay began with as a simple Facebook post. As I wrote more, and my fingers frantically typed away as if inspired by something higher and greater than myself, this essay you are reading now took shape.

So let me continue by taking you to Matthew 6:22 which states, ” The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”

There is a huge KEY hidden in this verse. It is the key to a peaceful and fulfilled life. This great truth hidden right there under our noses.

I sure hope the “spirit” of what I share, opens your EYE to the LIFE within us all…. Please pay attention to this next line.

The LIGHT of the BODY is the EYE!

Please grab hold of us, by connecting the two below.

The LIGHT of the BODY is the EYE. The EYE is the LIGHT OF THE BODY.

LIGHT=EYE=YOU (lights of the world)

You are LIGHTS in this world… And that LIGHT comes from the EYE… But the EYE is not the LITERAL EYE as you have been told. It is not the PINEAL gland as some might say. It is not the THIRD EYE as some might say. THE EYE is the LIGHT of the BODY. And it is much more than what you are using to read these words.

The EYE very clearly is an allegory for a PERSON’S PERCEPTION

However, don’t take my word for it. Let us go to the literal translation of the word ‘EYE” in this passage. Here is the literal translation below.

EYE: o)fqalmo/v — metaphor. the eyes of the mind, the faculty of knowing

So, clearly, the EYE is the faculty of KNOWING. And what you KNOW is what you PERCEIVE/understand/judge things to be.

Here is an accurate definition of “Perception” – Perception is the way we interpret information

… PERCEPTION IS WHAT WE KNOW = EYE

How you PERCEIVE things determines whether or not that LIGHT (which YOU really are, which is YOUR LIFE) SHINES or NOT.

Only when you understand why “your eye should be SINGLE”, and what “YOUR EYE BEING SINGLE” really means… will you begin to see the more beautiful picture.

The word “SINGLE”: a(plou=v – literally translates into “WHOLE, COMPLETE, FULFILLING IT’S OFFICE, SOUND in UNDERSTANDING”

So we find a more excellent understanding of this misunderstood passage of scripture.

NOW LET’S PUT IT TOGETHER AND LEARN SHALL WE…

– I will share the scripture and then reveal the “spirit” behind the words if you will. And IF you put to practice what you learn here… IF you being to see your life through a different EYE, a SINGLE eye, an EYE that sees one’s life as perfect, complete and lacking nothing… then you will have LIFE INDEED.

And to do this first we must understand, that WHERE OUR TREASURE is there our HEART (mind) is also.

Matthew 6
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

THE physical HEART sustains our PHYSICAL LIFE. So metaphorically, as it pertains to our SPIRITUAL LIFE, the HEART is in this instance is OUR MIND.

Whatever we value (treasure) reveals our heart (mind/what we think).

Let me explain this further… whatever we give the most attention to (our treasure) becomes what sustains the life of that “treasure” in our lives. Meaning, what we believe becomes our experience. What we focus our attention on is our treasure. What we value the most and focus on the most is soon manifested in the world. Good or bad.

So, whatever OUR EYE be on, whether that be LIGHT or DARK, becomes our LIFE EXPERIENCE.

Because the LIGHT/LIFE of the BODY is the EYE (OUR PERCEPTION)

So, where our treasure is… whatever we VALUE… whatever we pay the most attention too… BECOMES (because it is then revealed to the world AS OUR LIFE (whether dark or light, wrong or right, filled or lacking, peaceful or chaotic)

Now, treasure is NOT just what you WANT FROM LIFE as you have been told….

Treasure, is what you VALUE the most in each and every moment, of each and every day.

So, you see, TREASURE does not have to be a good thing. You can TREASURE THE ROSE PEDALS or the THORNS. And what you treasure you will speak about, and hear again and again, and what you hear will turn into faith, and your faith can create anything and everything YOU TREASURE.

GET IT?

Many ignorantly “treasure” their misery.

And when you tell the SUFFERER that they VALUE and TREASURE their SUFFERING and then get angry and tell you, “go to hell!” remember, THEY CANNOT SEE THIS… because THEY ARE IN DARKNESS, great darkness. And DARKNESS is ignorance.

23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

It is impossible for anyone to see that they value their misery, IF THEY ARE MISERABLE… because that is what they TREASURE at that moment.

In addition, until their EYE BE SINGLE… until they begin to SEE that THEIR LIFE is FULL, PERFECT, LACKING NOTHING, and that WHERE THEIR HEART IS defines their LIFE EXPERIENCE they cannot feel fulfilled, perfect or whole.

If their EYE… If their PERCEPTION is that their LIFE is LACKING… this is what they will experience… BECAUSE THEY VALUE IT ENOUGH TO CONTINUE GOING ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT IT.

FAITH COMES BY HEARING…. remember?

So, you see, there is a much-needed word within these simple passages for us all to lay hold of.

In closing, in what, is perhaps my shortest essay to date, which I know is not that short after all… I would like to break down these three verse so you too can allow your EYE to be SINGLE WITH ME.

Matthew 6:21-23
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

(What ever you FOCUS ON, whatever you VALUE enough to THINK about and SPEAK about is your treasure. And where your treasure is, there your heart will be.

WHAT EVER YOU FOCUS ON and THINK ABOUT BECOMES YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCE.

Because….

22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Your LIFE is YOUR PERCEPTION.

Your PERCEPTION is YOUR LIFE.

If you PERCEIVE your LIFE (EYE) to be FULFILLED, WHOLE AND COMPLETE and LACKING NOTHING, then you have LIFE indeed.

23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

HOWEVER, if your PERCEPTION is that your LIFE is NOT COMPLETE, NOT FULFILLED and LACKING then you will become IGNORANT of the fact THAT IT IS NOT!

If you only dwell on (value/treasure) misfortune then misfortune becomes the life you live, and you will be blind to the fact that IT NEVER HAS BEEN.

Just as if you VALUE (treasure) LIFE, PEACE, JOY, UNITY, LOVE, and HAPPINESS then that is the LIFE you WILL BEGIN TO PERCEIVE AS REALITY… and what you PERCEIVE…. IS… THE LIFE YOU LIVE INDEED!

In closing, I simply ask… to LET YOUR EYE BE SINGLE… and see what happens next.

PERCEIVE YOUR LIFE as FULFILLED, COMPLETE, AND LACKING NOTHING and you will enter the kingdom of heaven before those with their eye on evil all the time.

FAITH COMES BY HEARING… so speak life!

LET YOUR EYE BE SINGLE… PERCEIVE YOUR WORLD AS PERFECT, PEACEFUL, AND LACKING NOTHING… and it WILL BE… I PROMISE!

Peace to you and yours, please do subscribe and share this wonderful message with others. Begin telling the world and yourself WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT WILL BE… and let us change the world together!

Jacob Israel​

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SERVANT OF ALL

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Finger of God

SERVANT OF ALL

Recently, a new Facebook friend of mine who I believe has some interesting insight has been testing me, to see if I knew what he knew. The test revolved around the woman caught in the act of adultery. The questions were as follows, who was the woman, who was the man that she was caught with, why did they not bring the man to condemn him, who were those prepared to stone the adulterous woman, what did Jesus write in the ground, and what did Jesus use to write these words… I know, that’s a tall order. And yet, I always try to give every man an answer. We are instructed to be in, and out of, season always when it comes to the “word of truth”. Now, just to be clear that doesn’t mean that you have to use scripture to answer a person. Because the TRUTH is written already in the hearts of those who have woken up. However, some people believe that if you cannot answer them using scripture you don’t know the “Lord”. I learned many years ago that I would have to be a bridge of sorts. And so, as the disciples were called to minister to certain groups of people, it could be said I am here for those who have been raised on the scriptures. So when someone tests me about the scriptures I must be ready to use those scriptures to lead them to the truth that is within us all.

Luke 6:30 – Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Over the years I have had many pastors, bishops, priests, evangelists, gurus, and religious leaders in about every denomination and school of thought possible cross my path. Some of them, I have grown quiet fond of and still fellowship with to this very day. And then there are others who offer nothing but complaint, ridicule, threats, tests, demands and the like. Now, this new friend is not like the latter but it would have been easy for me to judge him as such and cast him, and possibly what he had to offer, away with a click of a mouse. However, I am patient and it takes a whole lot to provocation to move me away from those engaging me.

I have learned not to be upset by those who tear down what they don’t yet understand. The reason is, most who get angry at the things I share are operating out of a place of insecurity. The TRUTH cannot be offended, and it doesn’t need to be defended. So when people get upset and angry and go into attack mode when they see something I share they disagree with, it is usually because the truth within my words has stirred something inside them that their ego does not want revealed.

John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

So I am not easily offended or put off when people cross my path with questions or tests. Instead, I continue on in a cordial fashion even after they turn their words to cursing and ridicule, because I know good things can come out of such back and forth… eventually.

Our words have power and if our words be truth when we share them, even with those who cannot yet hear them, they will begin to grow inside and produce the very same revelation within.

Isaiah 55:11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

With that being said, I want everyone to know that I continue to seek the TRUTH. I do not believe I have somehow arrived and that there is nothing left to learn. I also know that one day I may see that what I know to be true today may not be true tomorrow. We must be open minded and allow the spirit of truth to lead us. We cannot build our own kingdom in this world on a belief system that was never meant to stand forever. In other words, just as we evolve physically, we also evolve spiritually, so we must not become too prideful thinking WE KNOW BEST. We must instead continue to seek the word of truth and TEST THE SPIRITS to see whether they be of God or not.

The instant we say, I KNOW IT ALL… is the beginning of OUR FALL!

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

We see people killing in the name of God all the time. Not here in the states, but in far away countries who have different laws. Don’t think people in this country would not do the same, if the law of the land weren’t to keep them from doing so.

I truly believe that if we did not have the laws we have in place right now, it would be like the wild west all over again. People will KILL and DESTROY anything that threatens their precious “Carnal Ego”. It was done years ago and it would happen again if things were different. People would cut off another’s head in the name of “Jesus” just as quickly as some we have seen doing this in the name of “Mohammed”.

If you don’t believe me look up the crusades, the KKK, Hitler, and many other Carnal Ego possessed “Christians” who have done horrifying things in the name of God.

Let’s take that a step farther, when any country goes to war, they state “God” is on their side and to this day many religious leaders will lead a nation in prayer about winning this war…. My point with all of this is, is there is not a huge leap that needs to be taken from threats, condemnation, judgment and debate in the name of God, to killing in the name of God….

EVERY WAR BEGINS WITH ONE SAYING “I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG.”

And this my friends, is why I think it is appropriate for me to share the answers I gave to this precious man who tested me awhile ago.

The story of the adulterous woman indeed shows how the power of love, truth, and faith can overcome the blood thirsty lust of those who simply WANT TO BE RIGHT.

Let me remind you, the moment we shut the door to the possibility that there is more for us to learn we lose much more than what we pridefully thought we knew to begin with.

The one who says their cup is filled and needs no more, is the one that will never has a cup that is overflowing.

Now we are called to be both MASTER and SERVANT. But not a wicked Master, who rules treacherously and demands service, money, and attention from those he rules over. But a MASTER SERVANT.

In scripture, the GREATEST OF ALL IS THE SERVANT OF ALL! That my friends is THE MASTER in this world. One who lays down their life (their desires) for those they serve.

In fact scripture declares this.

Philippians 2:5-7
5 LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU, which was also in Christ Jesus….
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, and took upon him the FORM OF A SERVANT, and was made in the likeness of men:

Many today claim to “further the gospel”… and yet all they seem to do is go about it by making a REPUTATION for themselves. The EGO of man wants attention, fame, fortune, influence… YET, this is NOT the mind of a true servant.

A servant does not care who knows his name. A servant does not desire to have others bow down before him or her. A SERVANT FINDS JOY IN SERVICE ALONE.

Many skip over the part in the above passage where it states, Jesus “MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION”

Many times after Jesus healed someone, or performed a miracle he also instructed… “GO NOW AND TELL NO ONE OF WHAT I HAVE DONE” — Of course, this is not what would happen, as those he healed would immediately go and tell everyone. However, it does not take away from the lesson that is found here. A great miracle is performed, and Jesus says…

Matthew 8:4
And Jesus saith unto him, See thou TELL NO MAN; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

A SERVANT does not desire fame or fortune. A servant desires to SERVE. The more the servant is allowed to serve, the greater the joy this servant receives.

Matthew 10:44,45
44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
45 For even the Son of man came NOT to be ministered unto, BUT TO MINISTER, and to give his life a ransom for many.

A servant doesn’t need people to make them feel like a King or Queen, a servant makes himself or herself of no reputation. GIVING THEIR LIVES AS A RANSOM FOR ALL THEY SERVE.

NOW, there is a revelation for you waiting in that word “RANSOM”

That word RANSOM literally translates from the word origin “To loose from bonds” – and translates into English as “to liberate many from misery” — and isn’t that what the true SERVANT OF GOD (Love, Truth, Power, Spirit, Life) does?

Now this doesn’t mean to be a servant you cannot also have a position of authority, or name, or even fame… The true Kings and Judges of God in the Old testament were also called Servants. Servants, HOWEVER, do not follow after selfish gain, servants instead follow after peace, compassion, love.

Everyone of God’s chosen were called his SERVANTS! “O ye seed of Abraham his servant” – “But thou, Israel, art my servant”, – He called David his servant, – AND YES JESUS TOO

Matthew 12:18
BEHOLD MY SERVANT, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

And SERVANTS as meant to SERVE. Servants are meant to pick up the work given to them and accomplish their task, without complaint, without fear, and without anger. Michael never brought a railing accusation against Satan. Job never cursed God. David prayed out of the belly of hell. Joseph always kept his eye on the prize and never let his circumstances dictate his mood. The disciples sang praises in jail. And I don’t even have time to write about ever other servant of God who faced hardship before accomplishing the task at hand.

We are the children of the Kingdom, but more importantly we are SERVANTS OF THE MOST HIGH (the spirit of love and truth, the inspiration and creator of all that is and is not). And servants are meant to serve.

We are instructed to think THIS WAY… To not think higher of ourselves than others. To make ourselves of no reputation and to be in the FORM and FUNCTION of a SERVANT.

And a servant SERVES people, they don’t complain or tear down those they are serving.

Philippians 2:5-7
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

A good parent is a great example of a good servant. A parent would lay down their life for their CHILD’S life. And so will the SERVANTS in the land.

John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And again… WE KNOW THE LOVE OF GOD by LAYING DOWN OUR LIVES FOR EVERYONE ELSE.

1 John 3:16
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

This means, we don’t need to hear the words “I’m sorry”. We don’t need others to suffer after they spitefully use us. We forgive. And to forgive means WE LET IT ALL GO AND RELEASE OUR ACCUSERS AND condemners OF ANY DEBT THEIR ACTIONS COULD HAVE CAUSED US.

tHIS IS A HARD SAYING INDEED… and one, I myself continue to strive for. As must we all.

SADLY, today, the expression… Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. is well-practiced in the land.

For who can say truly that they LOVE THEIR ENEMY?

It is common practice today to KILL YOUR ENEMY with war, or words. This war rages everywhere, in the battlefield, in the governments, in the media, in society, and yes SOCIAL NETWORKS as well… Many religious people, who declare themselves far from religion will quickly take up arms to defend or attack anyone who disagrees with them.

This my friends is the very cause of all the great suffering in the land.

SERVANTS ARE MEANT TO LOVE, LOVE, LOVE even those that hate them.

Matthew 5:44
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you

If we would only practice what we preached, this world would change before our very eyes. If we would only show the light of truth and love to those lost in the darkness of pride and ego the STONES would be released from their grips and NO ONE WOULD BE LEFT TO CONDEMN THEM.

In closing, I would like to simply reveal a deeper meaning found in the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery.

You all have heard the story, Jesus was writing in the ground beneath him, when the religious leaders came to him to tempt him. They brought a woman who was caught in the act of adultery, of course they didn’t bring the “man” to stone him (but there is a lesson in that as well)… They brought up the Mosaic law and said, what should we do? To tempt him.

Please re-read these verses to familiarize yourself with the story before continuing.

John Chapter 8
1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Let me break down the meaning for you line by line, to see the beauty that is hidden within this ALLEGORY

Verse 2, we find it is EARLY IN THE MORNING… this means the SUN (truth) HAS JUST RISEN… an allegory of the truth just beginning to shine it’s light in the hearts of men and women everywhere. Notice the scripture states ALL people came to him…

Now when the TRUTH is revealed, we begin to understand that we must NOT JUDGE OTHERS, or condemn others. Many people don’t like this. So they look high and low for reasons to still tear down others and condemn others (to feel better about themselves).

This is exactly what the scribes and Pharisees were doing by bringing the “woman taken in adultery” to Jesus’ feet to condemn.

BUT WHO WAS THIS WOMAN? WHO WAS THE MAN WHO COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH?

The answer is YOU, YOU, YOU, AND YOU… You are every character in this story, and every character is you.

Many don’t see the whole story, this WOMAN is a symbol of our SOUL (sense of being). I want to first point out that the WOMAN WAS NOT CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF ADULTERY… the scripture states… she was TAKEN — brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; –

The literal meaning of the word TAKEN here means “to lay hold off” “to lay hold of to lay hold of so as to make one’s own, to obtain,”

This is important to understand, because we ALL were TAKEN by religion. We were tricked into becoming it’s adulterous woman if you will. In addition, adultery has less to do with having relations with a man or woman outside of a person’s marriage and more to do with “cheating on the truth with lies”

Let me briefly explain further, ADULTERY is a symbol of “CHEATING ON THE TRUTH” — meaning, you have MISSED THE MARK… adultery is leaving your TRUE SPOUSE (GOD, TRUTH, LOVE, INSPIRATION, PEACE, UNITY) for another.

Scripture reveals that those who commit adultery “LACK UNDERSTANDING” and destroy their OWN SOUL.

Proverbs 6:32
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

We find in many places in scripture that to commit adultery really has nothing to do with cheating on a husband or wife, but has to do with following after, and worshiping IDOLS (lies)

Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

We begin to see the allegory played out in the lives of literal marriages… Just as it is devastating to cheat on a true relationship, it is more so to cheat of THE TRUTH…

Ezekiel 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery

Now, with that being said, isn’t it interesting that the WOMAN TAKEN with adultery… was ACTUALLY “in the midst” of the PHARISEES? Her fate was in their hands, they condemned her, abused her, used her, and wanted to STONE HER!

This is our story too people… When the SUN (light of truth) began to rise, we were brought before the truth, ashamed of who we were, abused by those who said “they know better” … in their eyes, leaving their religion would also be an act of adultery and for this she was condemned to die.

The STONES they were going to use, are more than LITERAL STONES… The law was written on STONE… And yet, the TRUTH could get those stones to sing if need be, and that is exactly what Jesus did here. People today love to pick up their stones and stone others that they say are incorrect.

But Jesus, pretended not to hear their request… he continued to write in the GROUND with his FINGER —

This too is very symbolic, love DOESN’T listen to such nonsense.

The FINGER is a symbol of much more, as is the ground he wrote upon…

Ironically, God wrote into the STONES with his finger once before… and now Jesus writes in the ground.

Luke 11:20
But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

The FINGER OF GOD is the REVELATION of the KINGDOM OF GOD — which is RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, JOY, AND POWER IN THE HOLY GHOST.

When ONCE the finger of GOD wrote on TABLETS of STONE… now we see a picture of JESUS writing with his finger in THE GROUND. (hearts of man)

Proverbs 7:3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

The GROUND that JESUS was writing in was the GOOD GROUND — the HEARTS of those with ears to HEAR!

Luke 8:15
But that on the good GROUND are they, which in an HONEST AND GOOD HEART, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Notice, how after JESUS wrote in the ground, he immediately ROSE UP and spoke to them… 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Immediately, after he stooped back down and continued WRITING IN THE GROUND… 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

It was then that HIS WORDS WERE HEARD… Not just by the woman, but by the religious elite as well. In that moment, the TRUTH of love hit them smack dab in the middle of their heart, and they realized they could no longer condemn the woman, or anyone else for that matter. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

The WOMAN was delivered from RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION as we have been delivered.

The story begins with the adulterous woman standing in the midst of the Pharisees… 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, and the story ends with the WOMAN no longer called an adulterous, no longer condemned STANDING IN THE MIDST OF JESUS… and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

AND THEN THE PRECIOUS WORDS ARE HEARD… 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

When we are delivered from religion, we realize NO ONE IS LEFT TO CONDEMN US! So there is no need for us to SIN (THINK FOOLISHLY) ANYMORE!

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

And now we come full circle and realize that when the LIGHT OF THE WORLD RISES IN OUR HEART… Life and peace waits for us all!

12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Ironically, this was the answer I had given to the man who challenged me… he told me that I DID NOT GET IT… that God had not revealed the truth to me yet… The irony is, when I finally got his answer, which was a beautiful answer indeed… mine and his were not mutually exclusive, as they both dealt with the power of love.

There are many sides to TRUTH my friends, don’t get stuck on your side, evolve to, and explore every side and you will be counted rich in spirit indeed.

Jacob

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INSPIRATION RULES!

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INSPIRATION

INSPIRATION RULES!

I might as well come out and say it… there is more to me, and what I share over the internet, than many of you know. That being said, I might as well also add… there is MORE to you as well.

You see, I know where I am going in life. I have known for a long time. And if I told you truly who I know, and believe myself to be, and where I am going and what I will do… you might call me crazy. Of course, it is easy for the world to explain away such a beautiful IDEA as crazy, a pipe dream, a delusion, or even mental illness…. Well, I simply refuse to reject the IDEA within me. For if I rejected the INSPIRATION than the INSPIRATION would reject me.

Jesus said, if you reject me, you reject “he” that sent me… he understood it wasn’t about HIM but the TRUTH, the SPIRIT OF LIFE, the EXISTENCE and INSPIRATION within him. It told him who he was from the inside, which was a big departure from what the world said.

Jesus said, he was the SAVIOR of the world… the world said, YOU ARE A CARPENTER’S SON… This illustrates how the world reacts when people express the truth within them. If they can’t hear it, they will try and strike it down.

No one wants to be told that the power is actually within them to change and truly live their live, and that to do this they must LOVE OTHERS and put OTHERS before themselves… That makes no sense in a selfish world.

However, I, my friends, am not one of those people. The truth that was put to death at the place of my skull (Golgatha) when I was brainwashed by the lies of the world has risen in my heart… And while, when I was younger I may have doubted the inspiration within me, that time is gone… and now it is all too clear… THIS IS REAL!

(Before you read on, please let me first apologize for my many spelling and grammatical errors, I write this in one sitting and I usually don’t go back to edit until I can find time… so please remember I put this out as quickly as it comes and I pray you won’t be distracted by any mistakes or oversights… thank you, Jacob)

This voice within me has proven time and time again to be true. I refuse to reject and explain away the DESIRE of my heart as something that cannot be attained. And I will not longer hide the “greater things than these” from you all. I will walk above the water of unbelief and I will raise those that have been living as the dead and set them back in their right mind, as Jesus did with “legion”.

In other words… THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN WHAT YOU KNOW AND IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP.

I know deep down, you too may have that feeling…. A feeling like there is more. Perhaps, you have believed that you too were meant for great things, and perhaps you allowed the lies of this world to steal that seed in your heart before it ever began to grow.

Well, I am here to plant that SEED OF AN IDEA again.

(I·DE·A) – literally means “To SEE” and “Follow a Pattern” – PURPOSE.

Did you catch that? An IDEA gives you PURPOSE. Why do you think they are called “BRIGHT IDEAS”? Because inspiration is illumination. And yet the world had seen fit to brainwash everyone into thinking their ideas, their dreams, their desires, are foolish… And to believe that your ideas are foolish is the beginning of living a life of death.

Proverbs 29:18 – Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

So when I told people I was Jacob Israel, I had to hide under the guise of a clever pen name, all the while knowing from deep within that I AM THAT I AM — meaning literally “I will be whatever I will be” – and I knew I was no longer the man the world tried to trick into believing I was. I knew deep within, I was Jacob Israel, and that IDEA WITHIN said that name will be shouted from the rooftops… I too, had met “God” within… I too rested my head on rock and dreamed of that ladder where thoughts from above came down to be shared below…. “he that ascends in the heavens is he that first descended into the depths of ignorance”… I too wrestled with the TRUTH within me… and it took until the day break to finally give up the fight after being blessed.

Yet, if that were my dream from childhood. If that were my IDEA of who I really was all along, and I shared it with all of you years ago… Well, let’s just say it wouldn’t go so well. You see, the world has gone so far to discredit VISION and INSIGHT and REVELATION and INSPIRATION and IDEAS as to make their very meaning another definition for FOOLISHNESS (Which by the way is SIN: to miss the mark of who you are and what you are capable of.)

When something goes wrong, the comedic expression has become “Got any other “bright ideas”?!”

Well I am here to say that all comes to an end now.

Proverbs 29:18 – Where there is no vision, the people perish: BUT HE THAT KEEPS THE LAW IS HAPPY!

Once again, the world has twisted the word LAW into becoming a word that expresses control, dominance, etc… And yet, a LAW is something that simply is TRUTH. The LAW of gravity. The LAW of Thermal Dynamics. The LAW of REAPING AND SOWING.

The LAW OF ALL THINGS… is simply the TRUTH OF ALL THINGS.

If you refuse to believe that you are more than what the world tells you, you are a person most miserable indeed. If you refuse to accept the TRUTH within you than you have trespassed against what is truth and have begun to live a lie…. The end result of living a lie is a hell of sorts.

We see how devastating it is for those who deny their orientation because the world says it is wrong because they don’t understand it. Magnify that pain with the pain of living an uninspired, truly boring, and seemingly meaningless life. When you ignore the TRUTH of who you are there is no joy. There is no happiness in a lie, there is only fear, regret, and pain. This is why the TRUTH sets us free.

So in fact, THE LAW OF SOMETHING is simply the TRUTH OF WHAT THAT SOMETHING IS. To transgress that law results in the death of a life indeed. But that is coming to its end because who you truly are can’t be hidden and trapped forever. After all the TRUTH is all there is. Every nightmare comes to an end and when you wake up you realize you never had to be scared at all.

So, HAPPY indeed is THE ONE WHO KEEPS THE LAW… Happy are they who submit themselves to the TRUTH of who they are and what they are meant to be and do. So what is this LAW? What is this TRUTH that we must submit too? Is it a list of do this and do that’s?

OF COURSE NOT! No, the LAW is just simply how things are and until you get back in line with THE REALITY hidden within the DELUSION you call reality there is no freedom. The Law is not a check list, it is THE LIFE WITHIN.

The scriptures state that GOD WROTE his LAWS on your heart, this means… the IDEA within us that the world has tried to HIDE AWAY, that thought within you that make you question, “Is there more?” is the TRUTH whispering that question in your ears so you will explore it.

The question is, who are those “sheep” that hear this voice, who will enter that sheep gate and become the Shepherd of sheep themselves? Who are they that KNOW THERE IS MORE? Who are those that are starting to REALLY BELIEVE that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE when you live the life of a servant and when you trust that LOVE is the only path to peace. Who is going to follow after that DESIRE and bring it to pass? WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?

The scriptures speak of TALENTS given to those in charge of the Master’s estate… When that MASTER returns, he will ask “what did you do with the TALENT I gave you?” Did you sow that seed in the world without fear? Did you bring increase? Or did you go and bury it deep within your heart, locking it away to live a miserable life of fear… that even the TALENT I gave could be lost?

Matthew 25:24 – Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth:

I am sad to say, most in this world can be like that slothful servant who buries the talent… The reason is the world has tricked us into believing that the desire of our heart is a crazy idea, a pipe dream, a fantasy nothing more. And so people sadly trade their passion for a hum drum uninspired living. What a miserable life it is when one does not follow their passion. A good example, are those who dream of being a famous actor and yet never fulfill their dream because they really don’t believe it’s possible and so they give up trying, and sadly still tell everyone about that TALENT they got buried in their back yard.

It is so sad, because people don’t know that to ignore the IDEAS and INSPIRATION within is to IGNORE the TRUTH OF WHO THAT PERSON IS AT HEART. BUT HAPPY IS THE ONE WHO FOLLOWS THE TRUTH WITHIN!

The days of our ignorance and slumber are coming to an end. It is time for you to SUBMIT YOURSELF to the INSPIRATION OF LOVE AND TRUTH and to bring what is within… WITHOUT. It’s time to submit yourself to that VOICE WITHIN YOU. It’s time to let go of the reigns and become one with your destiny. I KNOW I AM.

To SUBMIT doesn’t mean what you think. Submission, as the world has twisted it, expresses a kind of weakness, or so we have been told. And yet, “In our WEAKNESS God’s STRENGTH is perfected.”

When you submit, what you are doing is not weakness, it is WISDOM. Because to SUBMIT means you have GIVEN UP THE FIGHT and CHOSE REST.

The scriptures teach this divine lesson in the scriptures, wives submit yourself to your husbands, this is a mystery. The world has perverted it’s meaning and twisted it to mean CONTROL, POWER, DOMINANCE… For example, they teach that wives MUST DO WHAT THEIR HUSBAND’S SAY… Hogwash! “God made man, MALE AND FEMALE made he them and called them ADAM.” – Adam means mankind as a whole… So it is not about Men dominating women, it is about MARRIAGE, two becoming ONE.

The Idea and The Dreamer Unite and a child is born and upon its shoulders is the world. The word “submit” means to join, become one, become like-minded, be united, to allow to have its will… But this scripture is teaching a greater lesson, about CHRIST.

Ephesians 5:22: Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

The “wife” is the IDEA of who you are, the IMAGE. The idea of who you are needs to submit to the VOICE within, to become one with it, to unite with it, as a husband would a wife, which results in the creation of a new life… And if truth be told, just as I don’t have a choice as to where I would go, or what I would do… neither do you.

And when you get that, when you take a breath and relax into the idea of who you are truly, and who you are truly meant to be, you will know joy unspeakable.

You must not only embrace the IDEA/INSPIRATION/TRUTH you must also TAKE JOY IN IT!

Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Don’t be ashamed of sharing your dreams, your desires, your hopes with others. Declare it, believe it, be it… You are whatever you believe yourself to be. Embrace inspiration when it comes, today is the day to do so.

Which is why I am writing you now. This morning I was inspired as I sat at my computer… I began to type as opposed to talking my inspiration away. I chose to submit myself to this inspiration as opposed to saying, “no one will care”,”no one will believe”,”they will call you crazy”, etc, and etc… I didn’t allow the enemy of my FAITH, which is my carnal ego to talk me out of it. I laid down MY EGOTISTICAL LIFE for the LIFE WITHIN and began to type… And here we are a couple of hours later and an essay has taken shape. Appeared from seemingly nowhere. And as I wrote, insights continued to pop up along the way… Yes, my talent was put to good use and increase was found.

You see, I follow this IN-SIGHT and I submit myself to this voice within, this idea or inspiration, knowing there is no goal too lofty, no dream too far, no desire that is NOT DIVINE AND ORDAINED, and no action that is without PERFECT PURPOSE.

You see, in Christ (the power and wisdom of God/Inspiration), in the unity of the spirit (when the idea of who you are submits to the spirit of truth and life within you) NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE and EVERYTHING WORKS TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD.

This impromptu essay is just the first-fruit of what all of that means. And although in the past, I have tip toed around some issues, the time is coming when I will speak clearly to you. I won’t hold back for fear of what you might think, or because I worry you aren’t ready to hear such a thing, the time is coming when I will speak clearly and no more in parable. 😉

John 16:25 – These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

And since there is nothing like the present, because there is never anything BUT the present, I share what once again I am inspired to share. SUBMISSION.

It’s time to take up that cross and lay your life down.

You see, this world, as it is, is a nothing more than story page that we can turn. Death, destruction, hate, all of these things are simply temporary distractions keeping us from the truth of who we are. The IMAGE of God, which is the EGO or SOUL of man was allowed to take the wheel for a while so the pure brilliance of who we all are within (gods) could SHINE IN THAT DARKNESS.

I AM HERE TO SAY, the darkness is coming to its end.

I know this of course, because I am a part of it. I have known for years. Many close to me will swear to that. Even though, I don’t believe they themselves really believe I THINK such a thing is TRUE… What I mean to say is, some that I share this great and noble truth with try to explain it away as I am “messing with them” or that “I am a bit loony”. That makes people feel more comfortable. People are conditioned to flinch anytime someone says, HEY I’M SPECIAL… I’M SOMEBODY… Isn’t that sad?

Yet, after years of witnessing the many things I declare come true, those close to me began to think… “IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE? CAN I BE WHAT JACOB SAYS I AM”, “Is there more to this than I once thought before?”… Many of my friends and readers have said this IDEA has brought them where they never thought they could go… However, they aren’t ready to truly understand, or even grasp, what that means.

We are slaved to our self effort and sensual lives, but that too will take second seat to the TRUTH within.

Before recently, I would have never been so bold as to say… Hey everyone, I’m Jacob Israel, a man who is meant to clear a way for others to see that there is more to life than they once believed. Not only that, but one day all of the world will know me as Jacob, and just one more thing, I am set up to be a great spiritual leader in this world, as are my children…  You see, if I said that… you would all turn on me.

That my friends is the enemy. The Ego trying to say, YOU CANNOT DREAM OF DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS BECAUSE YOU ARE NOTHING.

So, I can see why making bold statements like that would turn people off…. And yet, those close to me hear me say these things again and again and again… It’s the desire of my heart, much like one dreams of being a surgeon, astronaut, etc… To believe you are important in this world, to believe you matter in this world, to believe you have great purpose in this world is FROWNED UPON. IT IS TABOO! And I will tell you why, because to proclaim the TRUTH in a land of LIES is a scary thing to the liars and those who believe the lies are true.

All earth shakers followed their inspiration and shared it with the world REGARDLESS of consequence… As you know, many of them were killed SIMPLY FOR SHARING THE VERY TRUTH THAT WOULD SET OTHERS FREE. The story of Jesus being most telling of all.

So I can understand how if I wrote, I am meant to change the world with words given to me from the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, LIFE AND LOVE WITHIN, the reader might say… that’s nuts. However, is it not more insane to believe that you are destined to be miserable, bitter, and unfulfilled cog in a meaningless wheel going nowhere and benefiting no one?

And I also want to point out that you are as much a part of this global change of thinking as I am… You wouldn’t be here reading this, if you TOO didn’t have that deep down voice calling you to action… CALLING YOU TO ARISE! The difference is, many are just dipping their toes in right now… that voice within is calling and they are answering, but a seed takes time to grow. This is why I am happy to welcome the harvest in today with this very inspired essay.

I have submitted myself to this IDEA and I know that what I know is true.

Jesus once said, if you don’t believe me… believe the works. Sort of like saying, if I tell you something is going to happen and then it happens maybe it’s time you start thinking outside of the prison of a box you are in.

Many close to me would agree that over the years I have declared things would happen in my life that beyond explanation BECAME things in my life. From plays off Broadway, to movies, big time tv, to christian tv, novelist, blogger, radio host, and all of it working together for my good.

And yet with all of that proof, years of saying things would happen and then watching it come true, instead of believing what I say is true and submitting themselves to that inspiration within, that make up excuses to try to explain away the unexplained… They instead say I am driven and my hard work pays off, nothing more… They give me, my self effort the credit… AND I KNOW IT IS NOT ME!

Jesus, said to the man, “why do you call ME good?” It’s not about ME, it’s about THE WHOLE, the EXISTING ONE, GOD AND MAN as one in the GARDEN AGAIN…

Many today are stating they are God… and many still claim I have said the same, and in a round about way, I suppose I have… for there only is GOD, there only is this SPIRIT within us all and within everything that connects us, but we, the image of this SPIRIT OF TRUTH have become disconnected in our UNBELIEF! It’s time to believe again.

The reason my friends can’t believe that when we submit to the SPIRIT OF TRUTH within all things are possible. They don’t believe that they are special because they can’t believe. However, that time is coming to an end.  Not yet, but soon. I can feel that in my spirit. I have been telling those I work with, those around me, that soon, very soon everything is going to change for me and in a very big way, and when it does it will be PROOF of sorts. So those who don’t know me personally will be able to believe by the WORK’S SAKE.

And when a person believes… ALL THINGS BECOME POSSIBLE FOR THEM AS WELL.

This is how it works… whatever I knew in my heart could come true, I declared, and within time it became. Every part of my life, up till this point, has become because I submitted myself first to the idea of it.

Deep within me I knew what I was meant to do in this world. As the scriptures state, “God (the existing one) gives you the desires of your heart.” – meaning that inspiration to do a thing and the ability to do it, are both out of the ego of man’s control. And this inspiration, or revelation within me told me I am more. So over the years I have learned that instead of ignoring this voice within, it is better to explore, test this spirit to see if it be truth, and then finally SHARE IT WITH YOU ALL.

I spoke those things that are not as if they were and they became! Romans 4:17

I usually write essays that are quite long and despite many of my readers requests for shorter ones, at times, like today, now three hours into this essay, I find that is hard to do.

You see, when inspiration hits I can do nothing but submit myself to it. I believe this is the same feeling artists have when a creation from deep within calls to them and inspires them to share that call with the deep in those around the world.

Psalm 42:7 – DEEP calleth unto DEEP at the noise of thy WATERSPOUTS: all thy WAVES and thy BILLOWS are gone over me.

The waterspouts of the Lord of course are our mouths. The word Lord, as you know literally means “the Existing One”.

So like the author of the above Psalm states, when the waves and billows of INSPIRATION come over me, I can only write what, for lack of a better explanation, I am INSPIRED/TOLD to write.

Jesus said, “of myself I can do nothing”… He said, the “father was greater than he”…. Jesus understood that within him was something bigger than who he was in this world AND Jesus understood that he was SENT INTO THIS WORLD to share this!

John 3:17- For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

And what was it that he was meant to share? THE TRUTH! For it is the TRUTH that sets a person free! People need to be set free from the LIES they ignorantly believe.

The truth of who you are and what you are capable of is what Jesus shared… He told Martha, the RESURRECTION is NOW… The HE was the resurrection and the life, that if people believed the things that he said (believed on him) then even though they were “dead” they would LIVE AGAIN.

But the TRUTH is not always embraced at first… which is why I follow inspiration and only share what I feel led to share. And sometimes, even though I would like to share more, I don’t always have the words.

When Jesus said…  You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not…  He was saying, who people believed themselves to be is a a lie… if they were the OFFSPRING (spiritually/in thought, word, and deed) of the FATHER OF ALL LIES.

Jesus was trying to get people to understand that who they thought they were in this world, was simply a character created by other characters in this world… meaning, WE ARE MORE than we have been conditioned to believe.

The reason we suffer, the reason we lack, the reason we are ill, the reason we are at war, the reason for every sad and terrible thing is A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING THE TRUTH, which results in the death of faith.

Hosea 4:6 – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee…

This above scripture does not mean there is an angry God outside of you rejecting you… it means that if you don’t believe the TRUTH that “you can do all things”, “the power of life and death is in your tongue”,”forgive and it will be forgiven”, “give and it will be given”, “a person reaps what they sow”, “as a man thinks so he is”, IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE THE LAW which is TRUTH than you don’t have access to WHO YOU REALLY ARE and that is death.

So, when inspiration comes I embrace it. And in so doing I have found that I am more than I ever dreamed I could be,when I was trapped in the false idea of me. I didn’t reject the VOICE within me that told me ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE with faith. I submitted myself to this VOICE, this TRUTH, this LOVE, this HOPE, and IT SET ME FREE!

John 8:32 – And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

MY INSPIRATION told me who I was to be in this world. At first, I rejected it. Yet, the TRUTH of who we are cannot forever be ignored. You see, eventually, as the scripture states, “all will come to the knowledge of the truth and the stature of the perfect man”, but this is not by the will or might of the false images (carnal ego) in this world… it is by God, THE ONE WHO TRULY EXISTS alone.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

There is more WITHIN me, and you, and everyone in this world than we now know.

Jesus knew this “kingdom of God” was also within every single person on this planet. He knew salvation for everyone was laid at the feet of submission. Laying down his carnal ego driven life, for the true life within. This is why Jesus told many to DENY the idea of who they were.

Carnal mankind desperately wants to be God in this world, yet the soul of man is simply the image of the ONLY ONE WHO TRULY EXISTS…. The existing one… God, for lack of a better word.

Submitting to the true voice within you is salvation indeed. In that moment, you become the mouthpiece of the Lord. You and “he/she” become One. Just as Jesus said, “I am in the Father and The Father is In Me”, The things my father says I say, I can only do as I am meant to do… and yes, “IF YOU HAVE SEEN ME YOU HAVE SEEN THE FATHER”

Jesus understood, that when he submitted himself to the VOICE OF TRUTH within him, as Paul said (after doing the same) “It is NO LONGER I (paul) that LIVE but CHRIST (the power and wisdom of God) within me.

GREATER IS THE ONE WITHIN YOU than THE ONE YOU THINK YOU ARE IN THIS WORLD.   

And so it is my hope, that you too will submit yourself to the inspiration within. That you will invite possibility in to dine with you once again. I ask you to do as I do, simply disconnect with the fearful, doubtful person you think yourself to be and simply allow a greater force to be YOU!

John 3:8 – The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Jacob Israel

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Forgive and Forget?

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Forgive and Forget?

The title for this short article many would say is a pipe dream. What I mean to say is, most people believe it is next to impossible to truly forgive and truly forget being wronged by others. Many of us are still carrying around the pain of yesterday, yesteryear, and most still hold on to the pain of things that happened decades ago.

I, myself, for years carried around the pain caused by those who wronged me in childhood, from the school yard bullies, to friends who betrayed me, loved ones who abused me, and more. The result of this created in me such an insecurity that even today, sometimes, if I am betrayed, mocked, or hurt by those I love in any way, and it is a relationship that is no longer a vital to my every day life, family, or growth, I may find myself sometimes quietly forgiving those who wronged me while also escorting myself to the door.

You see, forgiveness does not mean you must continue to allow people to wrong you. Forgiveness means, you are ready to let the pain go and move on. Forgiveness means instead of seeking revenge, you seek peace. Forgiveness means, instead of hurting those who hurt you, you offer the opportunity to be whole again. Forgiveness means you no longer bring up the past, you let it go because it no longer exists.

The word “Forgive” has two definitions that people must clearly understand. 1) To cancel a debt = this means if someone has wronged you, you don’t need retribution, you don’t need recompense, you simply let it go and it’s all good. 2) stop feeling angry or resentful toward someone for (an offense, flaw, or mistake)

If truth be told, and we are honest with ourselves, we will see how rare it is to find someone who actually forgives.

It is typical to find this ignorant behavior in marriages today. This is why we also find more than half of every marriage ending in divorce. When a fight begins, instead of simply forgiving each other and making it right, most married couples take up arms. Sadly, most couples choose to make war instead of love.

When husband or wife feel wronged, instead of talking it out and forgiving each other their petty complaints, today we find these small trivial disagreements exploding into name calling, character assassination, the silent treatment, and more. We find those who are supposed to love each other, so polluted by their years of never learning the great lesson of forgiveness, wanting to hurt their husband or wife. This ignorant behavior is not just found in marriages today, although most prevalent, we also find this type of behavior in almost every family, between friends, colleagues, neighbors and more.

This my friends cannot stand.

I wrote a poem years ago, about a son returning home to his father. His friends hurt him and he was angry, so angry in fact that he wished they were dead. The father said he wanted to show his son something. The father took the boy outside and dared him to hold a ten pound weight as long as he could, he challenged his son stating that he bet the boy couldn’t do it for long. And just like most immature children the angry son wanting to prove his father wrong struggled to hold that weight. The boy’s arms began to throb with pain, tears fell from his eyes, until finally the boy let the weight go. – The father patted him on the head and said, “You see son, it always feels better to let things go.” – That was the moral of this poem.

Our anger, our resentment toward others is as a weight upon our heart. As long as we hold onto bitterness toward anyone we cannot know peace in our own life. Until we forgive, we are doomed to replay, and re-live, that pain over and over and over again.

This is explained in scripture, but we have misunderstood it for years.

Matthew 6: 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. 

This doesn’t mean, if you forgive people who wrong you, that the things you have done wrong in your life will be forgiven by some far away distant God… No! It means if you let another’s trespass go, you won’t be tormented by the pain of holding onto it.

Jesus on the cross, said, “Forgive them, they know not what they do!” This is a great lesson for us. Because when we understand that people only wrong us because of their own ignorance, and because of what is going on with them, we understand that we don’t have to take their actions personally.

We can rise above the pain other’s cause us, as a plane rises above terrible storm clouds to find a quiet and peaceful journey.

Usually, when people snap at us, it has nothing to do with us to begin with. Yet, if we are insecure and know no better we allow another’s actions to get under our skin and soon we find ourselves lashing out in return. And I promise you, no good comes from “getting even”, or “showing them how wrong they are”.

Life is as a garden, whatever we sow into the world we reap in return. There is a lesson in that, because that means that when people do things that could hurt us, most likely it is a judgment upon us for something else to begin with…. Meaning, everything that happens to us in life is happening for our growth. Each day we are given opportunities to create peace, harmony, and joy, instead of re-creating the same old, same old.

And so, if we looked at others who wrong us, as we would a young child who really knows no better, we would be able to shake it off, smile, and show them the love it takes to gently guide them back to their right mind.

If Jesus believed what they said about him, it would have really hurt him. However, knowing it wasn’t about him, it was about them, he was able to endure the cross.

That being said, forgiveness does not mean that you must continue to put yourself in harms way. If those who have wronged you do not repent of what they have done, if they don’t consider your feelings, right or wrong, and want to justify their behavior as righteous and instead would rather let a relationship fall apart than make it better, than one is not obliged to continue on.

When the prodigal left his Father’s house, it most certainly broke his Father’s heart. He knew his son was making a big mistake, and he knew that it would eventually catch up to him. Yet, his father did not follow after his son, he did not make attempts to prompt his return, he simply loved his son and waited every moment of every day with open arms for his return home.

This, this my friends is how we must wait for those who left us, hurt us, betrayed us, mocked us, abused us, and more. We must “forgive them, for they know not what they do,” we must allow them to choose their path, and we must be ready with open arms for their return.

There must NEVER be an end to our forgiveness. Because we are all one.

Matthew 18: 21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

The reason there must NEVER be an end to your forgiveness is because, you may experience the same betrayal, hurt, and trespass from those you have previously forgiven. If you want to have joy and peace in your life, then there can NEVER be an end to your forgiveness. You must be ready each and every day to LET IT GO… Because YOU DESERVE TO BE HAPPY!

You often hear people who are angry saying, “those jerks don’t deserve my forgiveness!”, and so they hold unto their bitterness and anger and the result is they are never free from the feeling of being wronged, betrayed, or worse. What most people don’t understand is forgiveness is not for the offender it is for those who are offended…. forgiveness releases us and allows us to be free!

This is why scripture commands that all anger, resentment and bitterness is put away.

Ephesians 4:31 – 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you…

You CANNOT have a truly peaceful life if you are at odds with another. It is IMPOSSIBLE to truly enjoy your your day, much less your life, if there is someone out there that YOU consider an enemy.

A person cannot be hot and cold at the same time. You cannot be angry and happy at the same time… If you have bitterness and resentment in your heart true joy cannot be found.

Job 21:25 – And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

It really should not be a secret that FORGIVENESS is the key to a peaceful life… Yet, today very few would agree with the “offer the other cheek” philosophy.

For those who aren’t familiar… Jesus taught if someone offends you, or strikes you, to allow it, he went so far as to say, “offer the other cheek,” – the scripture in many places command us to live at peace with all men, to never repay anger with anger, and to never avenge ourselves…

As long as we are at war with others… we are at war within…. This is why we MUST BE AT PEACE with others… because it is only when we are at peace with others that we have peace ourselves… and PEACE IS A CHOICE PEOPLE! We can choose NOT to repay evil for evil, we can choose to overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:17-19 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

God is not mocked, whatever a person sows they will reap… those who hurt us do not deserve our punishment, they deserve our love, forgiveness, charity, and yes pity… because they will reap what they have sown.
Many speak of salvation today… most don’t know what that really means, but they understand the concept. Most today are taught, that GOD FORGAVE US by sacrificing his son and because of his sacrifice and forgiveness we all can enter into eternal life… Well this is a mystery, but the keys to entering into this REST that God promises is found in the words “forgiveness” and “Sacrifice”
To truly forgive, we MUST sacrifice our life (our desires, wants, name, reputation, etc) for others… to truly forgive others so we may INHERIT peace, power, and perfection we MUST lay down our anger, or bitterness, our resentment, and allow peace to take residence in our hearts by forgiving those who hurt us.
Salvation is being freed from all suffering in this world, and the only way to know freedom is to forgive and love even those who have done us wrong.
Matthew 5:46 – For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
The reward in life is not found in what is easy, the reward is found in overcoming that which is hard. The secret path to peace is forgiveness… for when you LOVE your enemies you saving yourself from the pains of this world. FORGIVE AND LIVE IN PEACE EVERYONE – it is the key to a joy filled, remarkable, life.
Luke 6:35 – But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest!
Please enjoy this short video for a greater understanding of the power of forgiveness. Please do subscribe, share, and support this site and the resources here in any way you can… “word of mouth” is the best! Love you all, Jacob

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EQUAL WITH GOD?

Jacob Israel9 Comments


EQUAL WITH GOD?

There is a war going on in your mind Ladies and Gentlemen. You may not even be aware of it. Never the less, every evil under the sun is a result of the unrest within the heart of mankind. This essay is meant to help bring this to an end.

You see, there are two voices in your head, one that leads to life and peace and one that leads to death (suffering/ignorance). The scriptures do a great job expressing this duality. We understand that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways because mankind cannot serve two masters. A person cannot hate and love at the same time just as a person cannot be selfish and charitable at the same time. You see there is a choice that needs to be made. The problem is we have been conditioned since birth to listen to the wrong voice/thought. And so we often follow after pride and hurt feelings doing what we should not, because the wrong voice convinces us “we are in the right.”

Now this deceptive voice disguises itself as you, but it is NOT you. It is an adversary to the REAL YOU. Scripture tells us that one’s enemy is found in his own house. This “house” we often read about is a symbol of a person’s sense of being/soul. And so when we hear this adversaries voice within us, within our sense of BE-ING we can often mistake it for true guidance and ignorantly follow after it. Sadly, when we follow after the wrong voice we find nothing but suffering in return.

Most of us are ruled by this voice. We become so used to the wrong voice that we become slaves to it… The end result is great sorrow.

Psalm 13:2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

This enemy, this deceptive voice within you is the “YOU”, you sometimes think you are, in your most selfish and prideful moments, BUT ARE NOT! This is the “god” of this world we read about in scripture. This lying voice in our head keeps us blinded, it keeps us from our true potential, as well as from a life of peace and power.

2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

This “voice” is the great dragon that makes war with children of God. It is the Father of all lies, the devil, otherwise known in psychological circles as the ID, or as I like to call it, the carnal ego of mankind.

For a better understanding of this voice, after reading this essay, simply watch my video “the trumpet sounds”, or read any article I have on here about the devil/carnal ego of man.

Now this BEASTLY VOICE, also known in scripture as the “Anti-Christ”, this pretender, this monster of a carnal ego or ours doesn’t not have a separate voice, it sounds like us when we hear it within. It uses our own voice against us. What I mean by this is, we process thoughts in the language of our birth within, our thoughts are like an operating program. Each person follows the commands within to know what to do next. The problem is, somewhere along the line, another program (much like a computer virus) was planted and now these TWO VOICES are growing up together, within.

Matthew 13:24-26
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

At first it is very difficult to tell the difference between the Wheat (which are a result of the truth) and the Tares (a result of lies). When we are immature in the faith it is very difficult to know which voice really has our best interest in mind.

The reason being, this adversary, this “strange woman” as scripture describes it, hides within our minds and feeds us selfish lustful thoughts tricking us into doing its bidding. It does this by also tricking us into thinking we are justified to do that which we should not do.

This enemy wants you to think that YOU are the most important person on the planet. That the world and everything revolves around you. Now while in essence this is true, for you are the beginning and the end of your experience… SO IS EVERYONE ELSE. We are all in this together. We are all ONE. However, this voice wants you to think that YOU ARE GOD. That you can do as you please. This voice convinces YOU that you are the judge the jury and the executioner if the situation permits.

Ironically, this is also how you can tell if you are under the thumb of this enemy. If you think higher of yourself, if you leave peace and unity for anger, fear, shame, and division, if you stop loving others, YOU are being ruled by the voice of this “strange woman”.

This is why Jesus said, all one needs to do is LOVE and the law is fulfilled.

Matthew 22:
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

This above scripture also teaches us the only way to KNOW GOD IS TO LOVE. If you DO NOT LOVE your neighbor (any one besides yourself), as scripture states… YOU DO NOT KNOW GOD. The scripture goes on to say… because GOD IS LOVE.

Now I would like to take a brief moment to address something about this above scripture. Because of the line “God is LOVE”. The reason is many have reduced God to simply being an emotion because of it. Scripture states, God is Love… hence many state that is all God must be.

Yet, scripture states God is much more than that and if we are going to use scripture as source material for our faith we must truly examine this claim.

Let me list a couple of passages that also describe what God is… and then I will explain what the word “IS”, in “God IS love” really means. The first of which I believe many must grab hold of today… and that is, GOD IS NOT A MAN!

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire

Deuteronomy 4:7
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is thy refuge

1 Chronicles 17:2
Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.

Psalm 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Habakkuk 3:19
The Lord God is my strength

John 4:24
God is a Spirit

2 Corinthians 1:18
But as God is true

The scriptures tell us no one can know God at anytime, that God’s ways are past finding out… Jesus himself said, that the FATHER WAS GREATER THAN HE. The scriptures state, that no one knows the times or the seasons but the Father. Jesus makes it clear that the FATHER’S WILL is greater than HIS PERSONAL WILL. For years, many evangelicals made the mistake to say JESUS WAS GOD. I have an essay that disputes this. And now today, many ex-Christians have seemed to start a movement founded on the idea that MAN IS GOD. I understand, that things I have shared may have sounded this way as well, however, this was never my intention. We are NOT the creator of all things, we are a co-creator, ONE WITH THE ONE THAT IS ALL THINGS!

And while, I would find it hard to believe ANYONE CAN TRULY KNOW “GOD”, as God’s ways are past our conscious mind’s ability to find out, just as we cannot know what it is that makes our heart beat…. WE CAN UNDERSTAND that to know God… ONE MUST LOVE! For LOVE is the pinnacle of creation.

Everything that is, and is not, and is yet to be, is the will of God. God is in all, through all, and IS all.

This is why Jesus thought it not robbery to make himself equal with God. Because he understood that God was IN him, and he was IN God… and yet, Jesus would never allow anyone to think that he was GOD… This is why he told the rich man, “why callest thou me good… there is NONE GOOD but the Father”. I would like to point out, that Jesus never said “I AM GOD” — instead he said, “before ABRAHAM was I AM”… BIG DIFFERENCE.

Let’s look at that scripture here Jesus supposedly claimed to be equal with God for a moment:

Philippians 2:6
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Let us break that down… The word FORM means an EXTERNAL EXPRESSION of something, you know LIKE AN “IMAGE”.

The word “EQUAL” does not mean “one and the same” however! Obviously, that would contradict his other claim that ONLY GOD WAS GOOD… The word “equal” in Greek is translated better as “to agree together” to be on the same page, as scripture describes “One accord” –

The root word for equal “Eido” means “to see, to perceive, to know” —

Jesus was saying, it wasn’t a bad thing to be of one accord, to be ONE WITH in word and deed, THAT IT WASN’T TAKING AWAY FROM GOD TO TRULY KNOW GOD, to truly EXPRESS GOD… AND YES, TO DO WHAT GOD CAN DO!

Just it is NOT ROBBERY to see, to comprehend, and to express the very wisdom and power of the spirit of “God” within us in the temporal plain.

This IS what we are… “Christ” – The power and wisdom of God.

Jesus understood, that if People SAW him, they also could “SEE/Understand/Perceive” God… for he was in God, and God was in him… He, like you and I, are the OUTWARD EXPRESSIONS of “Him” — we are GOD’S IMAGE — God is the spirit of LIFE that is our source, which animates us, WHICH IS THE TRUE US… for we are all ONE.

Ephesians 4:4-6
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

The word “I am that I am” translates better as “I will become whatever I will become” – I will be whatever I will be… and that explains why each of us seems to be so unique, while at heart we are all ONE AND THE SAME SPIRIT.

In the past, I have described God as Love and truth. I have gone on to share that we and God are One. Meaning, that IN HIM WE ALL HAVE OUR EXISTENCE…

Acts 17:27-29
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

In addition, I have said, WE CREATE! Of course we create… We can make joy and peace, or war and misery. The reason is, the SPIRIT WITHIN US is not mocked… whatever a person sows they will reap!

You see people mankind was given dominion, the scriptures state “all is created by the son, through the son, and for the son” and WE ARE THE SON (elohiym/gods) – YET WE ARE NOT ALL GOD IS. We are a unique part of the whole.

Colossians 1:15-19
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell

WE ARE NOT GOD ALONE… We are the IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERYTHING! Everything was created BY us and for US and by US do all things consist… So in a sense everything that is IS God, but we are NOT while we still walk around here with our human identity.

Jesus said, I go to my Father for he is GREATER than I am… And I say the same.

If you have seen me you have seen God… but GOD IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN LITTLE OLD ME!

Now, that other voice in our head may try to trick us into thinking WE ARE IT, this is depicted in the scripture where Jesus was tempted (drawn away by his own lusts) by the Devil (the ID, Carnal Ego, Strange Woman, father of all lies) but his response is one we all must meditate on, especially today when we see so many declaring such.

Matthew 4
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Now in a sense, Jesus is also saying… Zip it Ego… You work for me… The word Lord “The one who truly exists” – That is God, and yes Jesus, and We are as much of God, as God is us… We are IN him, and He is IN us… YET instead of acting like we are the creator of all things… we MUST serve others (for they are us as well). What we do to one, we do to ourselves.

The DEVIL in this story… is the “YOU” YOU THINK YOU ARE! It is your separate identity. And it wants WHO YOU REALLY ARE to bow down and worship it. Sadly, so many today are doing it ignorantly. This is why we see so much suffering in the world.

And while others today are simply reducing God to an emotion called Love… All one needs to do this is dig a bit deeper into these scriptures as opposed to taking it to mean what it states literally.

The word “IS” in this passage, is the third person singular of “to be”, indicating MOOD…. “to EXIST in, or to BE IN, LOVE”… GOD IS NOT SIMPLY LOVE! “God” is simply a word to describe the indescribable life force that everything consists us. And what the scripture “GOD IS LOVE” is explaining is…. You cannot even being to think you KNOW GOD, UNLESS YOU LOVE! Because LOVE is the evidence that you are at PEACE with yourself and everything… WHICH IS GOD.

In addition, when you don’t exist “IN LOVE”, which creates harmony and peace, you will find yourself in a world of hurt.

So when we follow after the “lips” of this “strange woman” (as scripture describes this adversary, ID, Carnal Ego, Anti-Christ, etc) telling us WE ARE GOD AND WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT we find only suffering.

Now, this suffering as it turns out is a GOOD THING. It is a Karmic Principle at work. It guarantees our safe return to the UNITY that we are.

2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation

This is why scripture states, all will come to the knowledge of the truth and the stature of the perfect man, all will be saved, all of creation will sing praised… every wrong will be made right, every tear will be wiped away… and more!

If we stepped out of unity with one another and we did not suffer because of it, we would forever be lost. However, since we do reap what we sow, we do learn after being burned by our ignorance, it is better to do good than bad, to love rather than hate.

And so we MUST learn to ignore the voice of this “strange woman”.

Now, to do this we must first acknowledge there is a problem to begin with. WE HAVE TO GET OVER OURSELVES. WE HAVE TO GET OVER THE IDEA THAT WE ARE RIGHT AND OTHERS ARE WRONG.

Wherever your heart is your treasure will be found. Meaning, if you want to be in distress you will discover distress, if you want to follow after drama, you will be rewarded with drama. So too, if you want to be at peace eventually you will.

If we want our suffering to end, we must find a way to IGNORE this counterfeit voice in our head.

WE MUST RESIST THIS DEVIL SO IT FLEES.

James 4:7
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

This will offer you a first step in the right direction I pray.

Proverbs 2:16
To deliver YOU from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words. 17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. 18 For her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

As a Man in a committed relationship it troubles me to see how many marriages are torn apart by adultery. Now while this is a real world issue, the real reason behind it is a “spiritual” one.

Let me first point out what the word “spirit” means. You see it isn’t anything truly supernatural at all. The word SPIRIT is simply a word used to describe your thoughts and words. All over scripture we find this. Whether it be the “spirit of truth” or the “spirit of lies”, the “spirit of God” or the “spirit of the world”, one does not have to go far to find this.

2 Samuel 23:2
The “Spirit of the Lord” spake by me, and his WORD was in my tongue.

The spirit of the Lord (existing one) should be understood as one’s TRUE THOUGHTS. Jesus explained that his words were spirit, and they were LIFE.

John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

It is ALL ABOUT THOUGHT people. The problem is, too many today are focused on the wrong thoughts/voice in their head. This is a result of many years of conditioning on the part of our parents, our peers, and society as a whole. Since birth we are programmed to put our mind on the things of the FLESH and the LUSTS thereof.

Romans 8:5-6
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Now the works of the Flesh should be evident to us MAKING IT EASIER to follow after the SPIRIT. However, the Flesh (Carnal ego) is at war with the Spirit (God) and this is why we find ourselves in the predicament we are in.

Galatians 5
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

So what does all of this have to do with LITERAL MARRIAGE and ADULTERY? Well, we understand the things that are NOT SEEN by those that ARE.

So, as we see great division in the literal marriage bed, we also must understand this is analogous of the division we see in our hearts and relationship with God (SPIRIT of truth, love, power, life, unity).

More than 50% of marriages end in divorce. In addition, many more that are married are miserable rather than happy and fulfilled. Not to mention how many have affairs to try to compensate for the lack of love and excitement they find in their own marriage. And so they listen to the wrong voice in their heads and go behind their spouse’s back, whether physically, emotionally, or both. Now, I pointed all of this out because these “literal” adulterous relationships speak volumes about what is going on spiritually today.

As I stated earlier, the LITERAL is always an ALLEGORY or PARABLE of the SPIRITUAL.

By the things seen, we understand the unseen. In fact, everything that happens in our life explains where you are spiritually. You can know where a person’s heart is by the treasure they seek.

Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

For many in a literal marriage, sadly, it seems all too easy to be led away into an adulterous relationship with a strange woman or man, that is to say, a woman or man beside the one who has stood by the spouses side and loved and adored them, just as God loves and adores each and every one of us.

We will begin to see that as a Husband and Wife leave a literal marriage for an affair with a strange man or strange woman, mankind is also lured away spiritually to have an adulterous affair with their carnal mind/devil/id. In a sense cheating on the truth of “God” for the lies of this world (our lusts). Which, really is nothing more than people believing things about God, those around them, and themselves, that just AREN’T TRUE.

When lust takes hold of a person’s thoughts they follow after that “STRANGE WOMAN”. Anytime a fearful thought arises within us, deceiving us to follow after it, it makes it possible for that person to enter into this adulterous affair.

And like any literal adulterous relationship, at first the man or woman is deceived into believing this new relationship is just what he or she needs. However, the truth is, no affair ends pleasantly. And to return to the true marriage, whether in one’s heart or home can be very difficult.

The man or woman who left this true relationship/marriage will feel shame, may end up with a disease and will perhaps be punished by the true spouse for doing such a thing. A separation may occur or even divorce and families will be torn apart because of it all.

You see, as dangerous as a literal affair is, so too, we find pain, suffering, guilt, shame, and separation when people leave the TRUTH for the lies of that “strange woman” (false beliefs, lies, false gods, idolatrous beliefs, etc)

More over, just as the temptation is always present to stray from Husband and Wife, the temptation to stray away from our true husband (Christ= The Power and Wisdom of God) is one hundred fold stronger.

THE FLESH LUSTS AGAINST THE SPIRIT! The NATURAL rejects the SPIRITUAL!

Now for those that think CHRIST is a single, literal man. I have to tell you, this is a false teaching. For CHRIST is in ALL MANKIND, Christ is the LIGHT of the world and our LIFE is hid in Christ. We have to stop seeing Christ as a LITERAL SEPARATE MAN, and start seeing Christ as what I wrote above, the spirit of LIFE AND GOD that is within all MANKIND – the anointing of God’s truth and wisdom and power.

1 Corinthians 1:30
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

1 Corinthians 1:24
…Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

For those who say, “No! Christ is just Jesus” I will direct you to John 1.

We are meant to be LIVING EPISTLES (WORDS of truth/spirit of truth) – WORDS/SWORD of God – We are AS JESUS, AND JESUS AS US.

Matthew 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

When we understand that the WORD OF GOD, which according to scripture is TRUTH, is within all mankind then we can move onto step two.

Luke 17:21
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you

Step Two, is then seeing that this Kingdom which is the WORD of God, which if our LIFE and TRUTH is meant to be seen (SYMBOLICALLY) as a Husband to us. In other words, we are to become ONE WITH IT. To express the WORD of God outwardly. To GIVE BIRTH to the CHRIST WITHIN.

Just as a Wife may leave a Husband, and a Husband may leave a Wife, for an affair causing heartache… We can leave the TRUTH for the LIES of the world, enter into an adulterous relationship causing heartache as well.

This is why we see so many instances in scripture of an adulteress, prostitute, or cheating spouse. This is a great allegory of how we have all gone after the STRANGE WOMAN (lies of religion and the world) and are hurt because of it.

The story of HOSEA (which in HEBREW means SALVATION) is a wonderful allegory of how much pain is caused by our adulterous affair with the LUSTS OF THIS WORLD.

Hosea 1
2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD

Notice, how the LAND had committed whoredoms/ADULTERY. And what is a “WHORE” but a symbol of a woman or man who cares very little about themselves, or those they sleeps around with, for pay or not.

And this, in effect, is what we do spiritually every time we lay down with a false belief. It is all a parable of spiritual adultery. If you’ll receive it. This is also why we see so many literal marriages ending, so much cheating, and so many miserable people in this temporal/physical world.

What we see in the physical is an outward manifestation of what is going on within.

The lies of the “STRANGE WOMAN” is ruining the spiritual, emotional, and physical lives of so many. Once you learn to avoid the “Words=Thoughts” of this “Strange Woman” you will be like GOMER when she finally is healed of her many hurts and enters into a true relationship with her Husband “SALVATION” again. And then NOTHING shall separate you from SALVATION, which is LOVE again.

Romans 8:38-39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

YES, WE ARE SAVED FROM OUR IGNORANCE… AND IT IS LOVE THAT SAVE US!

And this EVERYONE will come to understand, but first we must learn to avoid the “STRANGE WOMAN’S” words, which are lies, false beliefs, etc.

Like literal and physical sex, once the two become one, a child is conceived.

And so spiritually, once you become one with a lie or false teaching/belief, a spiritual adulterous child (belief system) is formed.

Just look at the ALLEGORY of ABRAHAM and HAGAR. God said he would give him the child of promise (Isaac=symbolic of Christ birthed within). Yet, Abraham didn’t trust God’s WORD as TRUTH, so he believes the only way to get what he so desperately wants was to have an adulterous affair with his wife’s handmaid/slave. This slave is symbolic of (A belief system of bondage). And when Abraham leaves the PURITY of his marriage bed to produce what he wants he gives birth to ISHMAEL.

The 1st born is of the earth, earthy (ignorant)… Ishmael was NEVER meant to inherit a thing. FLESH AND BLOOD cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (righteousness, peace, joy, and power). Our carnal effort will bring us nothing but heartache.

Soon Abraham learns he has to get rid of HAGAR and ISHMAEL or the TRUE SON (ISAAC) that God promised, would be killed by the child of the adulterous affair.

There are many references to the STRANGE WOMAN in scripture. She goes by many names, the ADULTEROUS WOMAN, the harlot, even the WHORE OF BABYLON, and these names speak of the thought of rebellion (which is witchcraft).

Let me give you an everyday example of how the “Strange Woman” can work. Not super-spiritual, just everyday life and how this “strange Woman” works her evil ways in your life…

Your loved one is supposed to call, or your loved is late from coming home from work… NOW thoughts flood your mind, but are these thoughts ones that build faith and give you peace, or are they thoughts of worry, fear, anger and dread?

Do you think, “He, or she, is on her way nothing to worry about”? -OR- does your mind go to a darker place … “It’s an affair I knew it.” “He’s in an accident and probably died.”

The question is, what thoughts dominate your mind.

You see, God hasn’t give us the SPIRIT OF FEAR. No, GOD’S THOUGHTS toward us, are not fearful, hateful, pride filled, jealous thoughts…. God’s thoughts toward us are PEACE.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

When you grab hold of that then you will ONLY GRAB HOLD of thoughts of peace, which give you the EXPECTED END, salvation from any situation!

However, if you listen to the voice of the STRANGE WOMAN (your carnal ego, id, devil) you will find only pain and suffering.

The voice (thoughts) of the Strange Woman (the carnal mind) speaks only fear to our hearts/souls… And so we must remember God has NOT given us the spirit of fear.

The STRANGE WOMAN will fill our head, with confusing thoughts. When situations in our life arrive, we get scared, worried, and then we find all we can do is focus on the WORST. we don’t know which what to do, which way to turn, we think our lives our over as we know. We find only pain and hurt instead of peace and joy.

YET GOD, is not the author of confusion, is He?

1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace

An author WRITES thoughts, RECORDS thoughts on paper. We see here God does not write CONFUSION and FEAR into our thoughts, but he writes thought of Love and PEACE. And so every time we leave this peace, we in fact are entering into an adulterous spiritual affair with our enemy the carnal ego. This is bad news.

Now, knowing this, you would think that every time worry creeps up into our hearts that we would do as Christ taught us and take those thoughts captive and cast them out. YET WE DON’T!

2 Corinthians 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Notice, the word IMAGINATION… You see Fear, as my dear friend, David Fields would say, is FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL…

In other words, these horrible things that we constantly worry about are ignorant imaginings NOTHING MORE.

Now CHRIST is LIFE, PEACE, SOUND MIND, HOPE, SALVATION! So, anything, ANY IMAGINATION, that exalts itself against the knowledge that GOD DOES NOT GIVE US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR… MUST BE TAKEN CAPTIVE AND CAST OUT!

We must begin to really PAY ATTENTION to what thoughts we are thinking.

If the thoughts we are thinking do not bring peace to our hearts, it’s a good call, those thoughts are NOT OF GOD! And if they are NOT OF GOD, they are NOT TRUE, and if they are NOT TRUE, than they are LIES!

And we shouldn’t be worried about a bunch of nonsense lies should we? 🙂 Of course not!

Now why on earth would we do this?

Well it is because we have been conditioned to exalt fear in our lives over peace and we have been conditioned to think higher of ourselves than others. This is why the world is the way it is.

Why there is so much pain, hate, war, rape, the list goes on and on. Because this hellish world gets all of us addicted to the voice of the STRANGE WOMAN. We love listening to thoughts of fear, our televisions remind us that we should be SCARED! We are so used to being selfish fearful animals that to believe we should have hope, and have power, and that love and forgiveness should rule us… SEEMS RIDICULOUS!

And so instead of casting down these negative thoughts we commit our attention to them, and together we begin to birth out of our REBELLIOUS WOMB (soul) all sorts of hell….

When our spouse is late for example, we immediately think the worst,”There was an accident” “She is cheating on me” “Someone killed him” “I told her not to wear that necklace out of the house, she was robbed it must be” “I knew I couldn’t trust that cheat!”,”We’re never going to make that payment”,”My kids are going to fail in life”,”I’ll never be happy”,”Life sucks”,”Everyone hates me”,”I’m going to lose my job”,”I’ll never get ahead”…

LIES, LIES, LIES PEOPLE!!!! And we’re ADDICTED TO THEM! And so for hours, days, weeks, months, years we worry and worry every bit of peace in our hearts away… “Why?” you ask.

Because we followed the VOICE OF THAT STRANGE WOMAN.

Whether it be us worrying about losing our jobs, relationships, finances, weight loss, children, EBOLA, my goodness the list goes on and on and on. We worry and are tossed to and fro with such fear that it is no wonder people end up doing such horrible things.

The voice of a Strange Woman is DECEIT itself.

God warns us to listen to only his voice…. But we know darn well, that we have been conditioned to NEVER listen to the truth… THIS HABIT MUST BE BROKEN.

There are spirits (thoughts) that minister and help us, and there are tormenting spirits (thoughts) that rob and hurt us. And the Strange Women is the mother of Torment itself.

SO, how do we move away from the ignorance of this adulterous spiritual affair that seems so appealing to us? Well, scripture has a few things to say about it.

Proverbs 5:1
My son, take my wisdom to heart, and turn your ear to my understanding:

Let us study to be quiet and listen to the calming voice of our Father. Let us pray for Godly wisdom which is a tree of life and learn understanding. Let us learn to discern (tell the difference between) the voice of the kingdom and the voice of the whore of this world.

Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman taste like a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

The same goes for RELIGIOUS TEACHING that are not true. You see the STRANGE WOMAN’S LIPS taste like a honeycomb (symbolic of enlightenment/truth) and her Mouth is smoother than oil (symbolic of wisdom) which is why religious lies are so appealing to us, because they seem like they are enlightened truth! However, when we follow after lies we find the end of it all is destruction.

Look, it’s easy for us to listen to the tormenting spirits/thoughts in our mind instead of the true godly ones. It’s easy to follow after that temptation and ignorantly go down that hellish bunny trail created by fear, worry and doubt. But we must learn to stop… We must learn to stay with the VOICE OF TRUTH, as a MAN STAYS WITH HIS WIFE, AND A WIFE SHOULD STAY WITH HER HUSBAND.

WE MUST LEARN TO TRUST GOD, BY ONLY TRUSTING THOUGHTS OF PEACE.

Proverbs 5:4 But her (strange woman) end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

As mentioned earlier, all affairs end badly. And that also goes for believing the wrong thoughts that come to mind. If you believe you are cursed, then you will be cursed. If you believe you are blessed and deserve peace and joy, then you will find it.

Proverbs 23:7
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he

An affair with the STRANGE WOMAN leads us directly into the pit of hell. And HELL (our ignorant torment) is a spiritual place that many of us cry from day and night. Hell is here and now in our minds, and many times we find ourselves weeping and gnashing our teeth because we left the Voice of Truth for the Lies of the “strange woman”.

Proverbs 5:6 Unless you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you cannot know them. Hear me now then, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Unless we CONTINUE to think on heavenly things, unless we push forward to the truth and always stay positive in our mind we will NEVER be free from the STRANGE WOMAN and her beguiling, and tormenting ways. Unless we continue to hold fast our confession of FAITH, which is CHRIST, who is WISDOM, PEACE, SALVATION, LOVE, HOPE, POWER, SANCTIFICATION and REDEMPTION, we will always be in torment.

WE NEED TO THINK ON THESE…

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, 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.

So, may the Lord teach us to take EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE… and teach us to discern our thoughts to know whether they be of the Lord or not… and let us BOLDLY WALK INTO THE GARDEN AGAIN… wiping all the sweat of worry and fear from our brow forever. Because a CHILD of the STRANGE WOMAN will never inherit the FATHERS HOUSE, YET a child of the KINGDOM DOES AND WILL!

If you continue to follow after lies, you will never inherit YOUR FATHER’S HOUSE (THE KINGDOM OF GOD where God exists – LOVE, RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, AND JOY)

Judges 11:2
And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

There is hope for us. There is a rest for us all. We don’t need to continue on a path of worry and dread, because if we do our lives will never know the Kingdom OF God prepared for us all.

We are not God alone, as the strange woman states… but we can be EQUAL WITH GOD, ONE WITH GOD, when we LIVE TO LOVE and FOLLOW AFTER PEACE IN OUR HEARTS!

So test the Spirits (your thoughts) to see if they be of God or not? Test your thoughts to see if they bring you peace or anger and fear. Then begin to choose which thoughts to listen to and which to cast away. This will free you forever from the lure of the Strange Woman and you will know the abundant life waiting for us all.

Hope this blessed you all. Please do subscribe, share and tell the world… that THERE IS MORE!
Much love to you and yours, Jacob

CHRIST AFTER THE FLESH

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CHRIST AFTER THE FLESH

For some that “know” Christ after the flesh this essay may come as quite a surprise. For others that “know” Christ after the flesh perhaps this is an essay you may not yet be ready to read. However, for all those who dare to enter in, and dare to understand the truth of who they are, this essay will be as a precious stone.

I have briefly touched on this title in the past. However, for months now I have had this title on my heart. I don’t know why. I just knew that this verse below was something I needed to expound upon.

2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

Let me explain why I have not written it until now. For, within my explanation lies a great treasure indeed.

If you know me you know I have a full life. So to carve time out to write an essay like this can be difficult. When an idea for a paper comes to me I usually allow the idea to germinate within… Mainly because I don’t really feel like writing it in the beginning.

I have learned after many years that one cannot force such things. These essays come when they are meant to come. Much like a child into this world. The seed is planted, the womb embraces the (seed) of an idea and together a bright new life is created. There is a timing for everything under the sun.

There is a time for the idea to make itself known, a time for that idea to grow and a perfect time for that idea to be birthed into this world for all to see.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-3
3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

My desire to write these papers is usually outweighed by my circumstances and state of mind at the time. For example, if I am too tired, too busy, too invested in other things to write such an important paper, I don’t. This is why you will notice that sometimes I share one essay after another, while others times it can be up to six months in between.

And while I know “after the flesh” that it is important to offer new content regularly to grow a larger audience, “after the spirit” I know not to care.

I have learned to take no thought for such things.

Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

LIFE IS MUCH MORE THAN WE HAVE BEEN TOLD… And we can only do what we are meant to do, when we are meant to do it.

There is great peace in that.

So, I will not write for the sake of writing. I will not write what everyone wants to hear. I will write what I am inspired to write, when I am inspired to do so… and guess what?

I have found those who are meant to read such, will read such regardless.

It doesn’t matter if I post once a day, once a week, or once a year. If I share these essays in Righteousness (right thinking), when the time is right, not of my own selfish effort, but by the will of the one who brought “the idea of me” into this world, as opposed to the will of the person I believe myself to be, then it will not return void.

Isaiah 55:11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

So, I don’t beat myself up for not sharing immediately, and I don’t stay up real late or sacrifice time with my family to make it happen. No, I don’t try to make it happen on my own. I understand that what I write is not a work of the FLESH, it is a work of the SPIRIT.

This essay is going to explain what that means.

So instead of stopping everything and forcing my self to write something uninspired, following the “MY WILL BE DONE” principal… I wait.

I don’t worry that I might forget the idea to write such, I don’t worry if it takes months, or even years before I write such, I wait with the knowledge that if I am meant to write such I will write such. If I am meant to do this or that, I will do this or that. I cannot force a thing. I wait until the moment arrives and then the floodgates open and within a short period of time, without any true direction… I WRITE!

And today, I am excited because this morning I KNEW THE TIME WAS NOW to write “CHRIST AFTER THE FLESH”.

I would like to first point out a couple of cool things that you may not have seen before about this passage. Then it is my hope that this essay will provide many more such insights.

Let’s read that passage again with an open heart, inviting what will follow.

2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

I would like to put this passage in modern vernacular for you…

What Paul is saying in 2nd Corinthians is…

“From now on, we no longer judge people the way we used to. We no longer know people the way we once knew them. We don’t judge them by the things they do or say, what they have said or done, or how they look and behave. From here on out, Paul is saying, we know everyone as we know ourselves in SPIRIT and TRUTH.

They are us and we are them. We are IN their experience, and they are IN our experience, called life.

We understand we are no better than they and they are no better than we. For we are all one!”

That right there IS a great salvation people!

If you see everyone as yourself, and you do unto others as only you would want done to yourself, you and everyone else would be at peace.

Paul is saying we can’t look at people and say we know them by their actions, by the way they dress or by the company they keep, (AS MANY DO TODAY)…. No, we only know them through CHRIST which is the power and wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:24

We can no longer see others as enemies or friends, we can only see them through the eyes of LOVE (SPIRIT OF TRUTH) within.

From now on “WE KNOW NO MAN AFTER THE FLESH”

Now this word Flesh in this passage above holds a couple of meanings.

To me, the FLESH is a man’s ignorance and the works of such ignorance are manifest indeed…

Galatians 5
19 Now the works of the FLESH (ignorance/lies) are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But to know others after the SPIRIT is a different experience indeed.

Galatians 5:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts

To know people after the flesh, is to know them carnally. “That guy is a jerk, What a clown he is, She is a drug addict, That lady is cheating on her man, etc” – this produces nothing but suffering.

But to know people after the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, is to look at others through the eyes of love.

And love is patient, kind, gentle, meek, ling suffering, love does not condemn, or hold account of past wrongs, love never fails.

So when Paul says, from here on out we know no man after the flesh… he is speaking on a couple of levels.

Let me explain,

One way of looking at this verse is as follows.

Paul is saying, from here on out we won’t see “Christ” as a single man from years ago, as we had in the past, and as many still do. Paul means to say, from here on out we will see the hope of Glory IS CHRIST IN EVERYONE.

From here on out we understand that CHRIST (the power and wisdom of God/love) IS OUR LIFE. From here on out WE ONLY SEE CHRIST IN EVERYONE, AS EVERYONE.

With this understanding no one can return to their ignorant carnal fleshly ways of judging by outward appearance. Instead, we judge inwardly. We see the Love and Spirit within everyone, even within those who do not see it themselves. We understand that even those that harm us are there for us, because they are a part of us and we a part of them.

FROM HERE ON OUT WE MUST JUDGE INWARDLY, not outwardly as most Flesh Minded people do.

Romans 2:28-29
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

A person is not a just person because they wear the badge of justice. A person is not a mother or father because they simply physically gave birth. A person is not a godly person because they adorn themselves with religious clothes and titles… A person is known by their fruit, and that fruit comes from within… whether that be a product of the flesh (ignorance) or the spirit (truth).

In addition, when Paul states that we have known Christ after the Flesh, he is not just stating that he, or we, knew Jesus the man personally.
Obviously we do not, nor did he. But we understand that Paul ALSO means to say that we knew Christ in our IGNORANCE (after the flesh).

Meaning, we ignorantly believed him to be Jesus, the only SON OF GOD from thousands of years ago. We ignorantly believed that we were different and in so doing we forgot the truth that can set us free.

We ARE more than FLESH indeed.

It is also important to understand that the word “FLESH” we read about in scripture means so much more than the literal flesh body we have believed ourselves to be.

The flesh is a man’s ignorance. All that is IN this temporal world is the lusts of the flesh, the cravings of our temporal senses and ideas.

The FLESH (our carnal ways of thinking/ignorance) is in direct opposition of the SPIRIT within man. The Flesh is a lie while the Spirit is truth.

YIN YANG, DARKNESS LIGHT, HATE LOVE – DUALITY

The FLESH is a word that describes our carnal, ignorant, limited view of life and each other.

The WORKS of the flesh are manifest.

Many today ONLY put their faith in what they can temporally understand. LIKE A PHYSICAL RETURN OF JESUS, which many ignorantly believe will bring them into the Kingdom of God.

And yet….

1 Corinthians 15:50
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

A man’s FLESH is his CARNAL MIND AND WAYS. We have been eating of this FLESH (lies/fear/ignorance) since coming into this world.

Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

The fool is the one who begins to eat of this flesh (man’s carnal ways of thinking) and in so doing becomes ignorant of who they really are, and who everyone else is around them.

Like our parents before us, we began to believe we were humans who then went on a quest for a spiritual experience as opposed to remembering we are spirits having a human one.

We limited ourselves by limiting our thinking, as well as limiting our experience to a purely sensual one.

We began to see ourselves as mere human beings, with names, identities, insecurities, etc. And we began to see God as we would our carnal selves, believing we and “he” were somehow separate.

We began to believe this “God” outside of us, was as petty, and hateful as us IN THE FLESH.

It is a work of the FLESH that also led us all to believe Christ is a literal man named Jesus from thousands of years ago, as opposed to the LIFE within us all.

And our limited FLESHY/CARNAL views of such things would attack and tear down the thought that CHRIST IS EVERYONE AND EVERYONE IS CHRIST.

There was a time that I knew Christ after the flesh (ignorantly thinking he was a single man) too… But no longer.

Our Fleshy IDEAS about everything and everyone keeps us ignorant slaves in this world.

This is the enemy that can even come as an angel of light, man’s carnal ego. And so when we live after the flesh, we believe the lies we are told. If the truth is spoken, while in the flesh (our ignorance) we will reject it.

“darkness hates the light, for it shows them their ways (ideas) are evil (wrong and foolish).”

We see the FLESH OF MAN trying to destroy the SPIRIT within man, again and again in scripture. We see this pictured in many parables. The story of the crucifixion is perhaps the greatest allegory of them all. Jesus (the way, truth and life) put to death at the place of the skull by the FLESH OF RELIGIOUS MEN.

Yet, the TRUTH of who we really are is buried within the TOMB of who we have believed ourselves to be, and today is the day it rises again.

The FLESH is indeed at enmity with the SPIRIT. But Paul, got to a place where he understood it was ALL ABOUT THE SPIRIT.

The struggle between the FLESHY IDEA OF WHO WE, AND OTHERS ARE, and the TRUTH OF WHO WE ALL REALLY ARE is pictured again and again in the many stories surrounding older and younger brothers at war, like Jacob and Esau, Abel and Cane. Two brothers, two nations, two fighting in the womb of humanity for control… one a creation of the flesh, of the earth, and the other from heaven above.

The Flesh IS also known to be the Natural man, the 1st man… which cannot receive the TRUTH.

1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

This natural, flesh man, is an EGO born of ignorance. This ego becomes an “identity” itself. It is the first man (Adam) cursed to walk the earth in death (flesh thinking) and it will fight to remain on that ANTI-CHRIST throne (THE OPPOSITE OF THE POWER AND WISDOM OF LOVE) as long as it can.

Galatians 4:29
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

We see the natural persecuting the spirit in the parable of the crucifixion. It IS in fact the religious that killed Jesus (the way, the truth, and life). The scriptures say THEY DID THIS IN THEIR IGNORANCE….

1 Corinthians 2:8
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

THE CHILDREN OF FLESH (IGNORANCE) cannot know the truth, which is why the TRUTH was put to death by their carnal (ignorant) hand.

This my friends is more than just a literal story, you must learn to read things after the SPIRIT from here on out, not after the FLESH.

So, YOU SEE, to know anything after the FLESH, is to know it CARNALLY. And of course we know this produces DEATH.

Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

In ADAM (our first idea of who we are) ALL DIE (suffer in the flesh/ignorance)… but in CHRIST (power and wisdom of love) ALL ARE MADE ALIVE.

Which brings us to yet another eye opener… We can only KNOW Christ AFTER we know the Flesh!

Paul was also saying, if you can receive it… AT FIRST we know things in this world by the flesh (OUR carnal mind, LIMITED VIEW OF THINGS) and THEN AFTER THAT we know things SPIRITUALLY (CHRIST)…

This is how we KNOW CHRIST… AFTER the flesh (our first carnal idea of CHRIST as a man named Jesus only)

First we are ignorant and then AFTER our time of ignorance (after the Flesh) WE KNOW CHRIST (power and wisdom of Love).

Paul is saying when we HAVE MOVED PAST THE FLESH (our ignorant carnal ways/thoughts) we understand everyone is where they are at and that it is not for the worse, it is always for the better.

When we are past our ignorance when we embrace wisdom and let our carnal ideas go. We understand that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD.

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

And just as we would not judge one to be godly simply because outwardly they seem such, we begin to know our brothers and sisters after the spirit/their heart/thoughts.

We look within. Because where a person’s heart is their treasure will be.

And again, there is yet another way of looking at this scripture….

2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

For many, there was a time for knowing Jesus after the Flesh (knowing him as a literal person), like most do today. HOWEVER, Paul says…NO LONGER!

There was a time we knew Jesus to be a literal man from thousands of years ago. There was a time when we had a picture of what this Jesus looked liked in our carnal fleshy mind’s eye. We knew Jesus as a man from two thousands years ago. Just as Paul knew Jesus as a man who had started a revolution and who was put to death, during his time… we believed this literal man named Jesus lived literally, died literally, and will come again literally in physical form as stated early.

And yet the scriptures teach us… the literal interpretation of these things kills. (keep us in the flesh/ignorance)

However, people today STILL focus on JESUS THE LITERAL FLESH AND BLOOD MAN. They see this Jesus as special and very different from themselves. Sadder still, is most believe they cannot even consider themselves worthy enough to be “like him”… WHEN THEY ARE HIM!

THIS MY FRIENDS, is also what it means to know CHRIST AFTER THE FLESH. To know Christ ignorantly and temporally.

Sure there was a time we all knew Christ this way…. Which truly means to know Christ CARNALLY… There was a time we did not see the bigger picture. Just as Paul.

But NOW WE SEE and UNDERSTAND that we are to know NO MAN AFTER THE FLESH…

2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

IT IS SO LIMITING TO SEE JESUS AS A SINGLE MAN, OR TO PUT YOUR FAITH IN THE LITERAL FLESH OF MANKIND.

We know this physical Flesh profits nothing. What really matters is who we are within and where our heart is.

We are more than literal flesh and bone.

2 Corinthians 5
5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

And so the idea of JESUS, being a single temporal literal man, had to be CRUCIFIED!

Do you see?

Just as the physical man named Jesus said, “it is needful that I go” – which means, YOU THINK I (THE FLESH MAN JESUS) am the answer, YOU DON’T GET THAT WE ARE ONE so “I” (the flesh man Jesus) HAS TO GO!

If the IDEA that “I” (the flesh man Jesus) doesn’t go away THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH (the spirit of THE REAL YOU) will not COME (be revealed within).

You can’t know GOD if you think you can literally see God. “No one has SEEN God at anytime” – GOD IS NOT A MAN. God is IN man. This is what the spirit of truth reveals, when one no longer knows things after the flesh.

John 14:
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Jesus understood that when the FLESH LITERAL representation of who everyone thought he was, was gone, they would begin to see that who he truly was, was no different then they themselves. “AS HE IS SO ARE WE” – This means the CHRIST OF GOD is in everyone. EVERYONE IS CHRIST. EVERYONE MUST TAKE UP THEIR CROSS AND DO AS JESUS DID. Because his journey is ours, and our journey is his.

To know Jesus after the flesh, is to ignorantly believe him to be a single historical man… Jesus himself made it clear… “whatever you do to anyone, anywhere, YOU DO TO ME!”

Matthew 25
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

Jesus knew the IDEA that HE ALONE WAS THE CHRIST had to go….

John 14:
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Jesus was saying when you don’t LITERALLY “see me” as a literal single man you will begin to see the truth of the spirit that is who I truly AM, the spirit of “I AM” which IS IN EVERY MAN. And when you see this, you will SEE (SPIRITUALLY UNDERSTAND) that I am in you, and you in me, and God IN us all…. WE ARE ONE!

John 14:
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

HOWEVER, for that to happen… WE CAN NO LONGER KNOW CHRIST AFTER THE FLESH!

And so the CARNAL IDEA I had, Paul had, and YOU HAD about JESUS had to be CRUCIFIED! And for many others the IDEA HAS TO BE CRUCIFIED AS WELL!

The carnal limited view of what, and who, CHRIST is has TO GO, so the truth within that IDEA may be resurrected within us all.

After SEEING THE IDEA OF CHRIST (as a single man) CRUCIFIED in our mind, we also see the IDEA we have about ourselves must go.

THE IDEA of who we believe ourselves to be is crucified as well.

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me

Jesus said, that YOU must DENY YOURSELF — In other words, REJECT THE IDEA that you are a mere egotistical human being.

Jesus alone is NOT GOD… we alone are NOT GOD… but EVERYTHING IS GOD, and this flesh image we know OURSELVES TO BE is an image, nothing more.

We must see past the FLESH into the SPIRIT OF ALL THINGS.

To KNOW CHRIST AFTER THE FLESH means more than just knowing Jesus in the flesh, meaning in this temporal world as a man who walked among US. Of course it MUST mean SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT when one considers Paul never met Jesus the man IN PERSON (after the flesh as SOME say) LITERALLY.

No, Paul SAW A LIGHT and understood that it was NO LONGER “PAUL” THAT LIVED BUT CHRIST… Paul, understood THAT IN HIS persecution of others he was was in fact persecuting HIMSELF, who is also part of everything and everyone in God/Christ/Love/Truth.

Acts 22:6-8
6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

Paul, didn’t know Jesus in person (which is what most are taught “after the flesh” means). On his way to persecuting and killing “christians/other human beings/etc” a VOICE from HEAVEN (which means a HIGHER THOUGHT within) came to him. Much like your thoughts come to you to correct you when you are about to do wrong/harm.

Today, you would consider this VOICE FROM HEAVEN to be your CONSCIENCE (defined as: an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.) Regardless of what you want to call this, Paul realized JESUS was NOT ONE SINGLE FLESHY LITERAL MAN.

He NO LONGER KNEW CHRIST after the Flesh (the ignorant way we see Jesus today, as a literal man, the way it is taught etc), he knew CHRIST AS SPIRIT.

I use the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf to make the meaning of this clear. It doesn’t matter if there was a literal boy or wolf. The FLESHY interpretation of this story, limits this story, but the SPIRIT of this STORY is what gives life. If people focused on THE BOY and the WOLF as opposed to the SPIRIT of the story, no one would learn that there are consequences to lying and exaggerating.

Paul, from that moment on knew it didn’t matter if CHRIST was a literal single man or not… he understood JESUS was a SYMBOL, a WAY to finding the truth within… Sort of like the Boy in the story above, the SPIRIT of Jesus’ story, not the letter of it, is where LIFE IS FOUND.

He is NOT to be seen as a historical figure… he is a PICTURE OF YOU, ME AND EVERYONE.

Jesus explained, “I am” IS the way, the truth, and the LIFE” of all men.

Paul realized Jesus stood for a collective Christ, one that is hiding within us all. Killed at the place of the SKULL (our thinking).

Paul understood that he (Paul) was NO BETTER than anyone else, that every religious thing he learned was comparable to dung, and that HUMBLED HIM, depicted in him falling to the ground (from his high horse) ON HIS WAY TO DAMASCUS (which literally translates into “silent is the sackcloth weaver”).

At the time of Paul’s quest to force his religion on those who saw differently Jesus was already dead. So he wasn’t on his way to persecute JESUS, as the voice from heaven stated…. Unless of course, JESUS IS A SYMBOL FOR ALL MEN in their ENLIGHTENED STATE!

In understanding this (that WE ALL ARE ONE) OUR LOVE IS PERFECTED.

1 John 4:17
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Not only from this passage do we realize, as Jesus is so are we, but we realize AS WE ARE SO IS EVERYONE ELSE! This is why we have BOLDNESS in the day of JUDGMENT not to JUDGE, BUT TO LOVE!

Paul, understood that if anyone be in CHRIST, and all ARE, they are NEW CREATURES…. Old things pass away, and all things become new. ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD!

So join me, from here on out, in knowing no man after the FLESH and that goes for JESUS as well. Stop putting your faith in a literal man who you have never met, and start putting your faith in the CHRIST IN YOU, which died TO BECOME the you, you think you are. So you may once again know life everlasting.

I hope you enjoyed this essay. Please do subscribe, share, and let the world know what you think of this essay and the others posted here. I love you all, Jacob

RECONCILIATION OF ALL THINGS

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RECONCILIATION OF ALL THINGS

Have you ever had one of those days when you wake up expecting nothing but your everyday day to day, and then in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, everything changes.

This morning, as is my custom, I woke for another Daddy/Ethan day. My days off with my youngest son are so precious to me. He is just three. I spend these days doing about the same thing as the week before. We wake up, have breakfast together, see the boys and girl off to school, then the cleaning begins. We make the most of our days together by not just playing but by turning on the music and dancing as we do the dishes, vacuum the floors, fold the laundry and much more more before going out into the wild blue yonder.

There is lesson to be learned about how enjoyable life is when you turn your “work” into “play”.

I digress, instead of the usual Daddy/Ethan day, today was different.

Today, there would be a shift. Today, I needed to make room for this short essay, which is exactly what Ethan’s naps are for.

So, as I sat down briefly to finally enjoy my coffee, now lukewarm from sitting because I always find things to do for others rather then myself, this morning something remarkable happened. I was inspired.

I usually write my poetry at the gym while doing cardio, but after our cleaning party I always sit at my computer to drink said coffee and to check my emails before leaving the house to make sure that everyone who contacts me, I contact in return… (this can take time as you can imagine)… As I opened my inbox I saw a curious “TAG” from a Facebook friend, and reader of mine. I opened it immediately. It was another one of those beautiful gifts I receive quite often from people who have somehow been drawn to what I share… ENCOURAGEMENT!

I can’t really describe how grateful I am for the many people who share, and encourage others to see my work. It means so much to me and it really makes me feel like what I am doing is truly what I believe I am meant to do… which is, OF COURSE, to CHANGE THE WORLD! 🙂 A tall order for sure, but this essay will prove we can do ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST (POWER AND WISDOM OF LOVE, POWER AND TRUTH)

Her post read like this…

“Jacob Israel, wise beyond his years, words as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”

I was then inspired to share a bit on this beautiful verse in Psalms… yet as I sat down to write THAT essay, I found myself writing another one all together… But for the sake of continuity I will briefly share what I see in these verses and somehow tie it all together to show you something quite profound.

This comment my friend shared was taken from Psalms 12. The passage she shared as a way of encouraging others, spoke volumes to me.

“words as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times”

For my words have also been forged in a furnace of earth… If earth be a man’s carnal ways and the furnace be a man’s affliction.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9

HEAVEN = HIGHER THINKING
EARTH = CARNAL THINKING

“As the heavens are above the earth, so are my ways above carnal man’s”

Heaven is “Righteousness (right-thinking), Peace and Joy)
Earth is our lower thinking, it is DEATH, and not only will we all rise from it we all have been FORMED IN IT.

Our words are indeed formed by our experiences.

My words/thoughts over the years have indeed been forged within the difficulties I have faced in life. Of course, had I known all the good that would come out of such trials I probably would not have suffered the way I did.

Suffering is always a result of a person’s fear. We suffer when we believe what we endure is pointless, we suffer when we fear that we are somehow being punished, we suffer when we fear that nothing good will ever come of our lives, we suffer when we believe all we are meant to do is suffer…
WE SUFFER WHEN WE ARE IGNORANT to the fact that SOMETHING GLORIOUS IS BEING FORMED WITHIN OUR FURNACE OF EARTH (our ignorance/temporal experience).

Every seed must first DIE before it sprouts to life. Then after sprouting to life the seed creates many more exactly like it.

The same is true for us all. Our experiences are as a school and like every school there are many different types of students, many different levels of understanding, many different grades, and many different maturity levels.

So which type of person are you?

The answer to this is as easy as carrying a tape recorder around with you for 12 hours. The way you speak, the things you say, proclaim who you are each and every day.

Luke 6:45
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

From this we understand some words are a blessing and some are a curse… some words lift up, some tear down… yet all are formed in our experience, whether these words and thoughts be wise or foolish depends on the level and type of the “student”.

Now, in the long run, I believe the things we see today will change. As I have learned that it is better to love than hate, to have hope rather than fear, through a lifetime of learning from my “mistakes”, so to will those in this world.

THIS is the hope of Glory… CHRIST in YOU! But few know what CHRIST IS…. For years, I have shared, “Christ is THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD”

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:24

Now, let us reason for a moment together. If God be LOVE… as the scriptures state.

1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

And God be SPIRIT…

John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

And SPIRIT are the THOUGHTS of a person, as Jesus stated… “My WORDS ARE SPIRIT, and they are TRUTH” then we understand that CHRIST (the power and wisdom of GOD) is actually one who has the POWER OF LOVE and TRUTH MANIFESTED IN THIS WORLD BY THE “WORDS” SPOKEN.

It is the TRUTH that sets a person free, and for the moment that TRUTH may be hard for everyone to see, but eventually ALL WILL!

Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

In the end, ALL WILL SING PRAISES TO GOD (LOVE, TRUTH, UNITY) as is written time and time again.

Revelation
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE will SPEAK blessings, and honor, and glory, and power because Love WILL BE RULING on the throne of their hearts!

2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Love and Truth will be our wisdom… Love and truth will be our power… And we will no longer judge, we will unite and love.

So let me briefly share, why I knew I had to write this short essay. You see, what my friend on Facebook did not know was that verse from PSALM 12 was a verse I had just been reading around the same time she shared it.

The short Psalm struck me so to the chord that I had to sing its meaning.

So let’s begin and then I will reveal something secret about me, this site, my novel, and everything that is “Jacob Israel.”

You see, Psalm 12 bears a striking resemblance to the day we are living in. This psalm I can relate to. For I have wondered, what is the point of it all, when it seems the whole world has gone astray. I have wondered whether my desire to reach people and change the world, was a foolish desire to begin with… Yet, if truth be told, I could never really accept that.

So let’s take a look…

Psalm 12
12 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Today, when we exalt VILE MEN AND WOMEN, we find wickedness everywhere… Look at this generation. Does it not exalt VILE BEHAVIOR?

I have recently, been working in an environment where I can truly see what is considered acceptable behavior today. Mocking each others, foul language, pranks, tearing down, vulgarity, and perversion everywhere. Honesty is frowned upon and suspect. Doing the right thing is seen as manipulation, etc and etc….

2 Timothy 3
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, …

Yeah, that about sums it up for us. Just the other day I found someone sharing a video of a tragic accident, millions had viewed this horrific events, and millions shared it … BECAUSE IT WAS FUNNY TO THEM HOW STUPID A PERSON COULD BE.

I am learning that there are few today who are real, few today you can trust, and few today who mean to do well for the sake of doing well, as opposed to gaining the world from it.

Like the Psalms, we see SO MANY PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT VAIN THINGS… Praising people to their faces, while tearing them down while their faces are turned. People flatter and talk with a double tongue for sure. The poor are oppressed, the needy do indeed sigh, and so I share this essay because I believe NOW IS THE TIME FOR IT ALL TO END.

DID YOU EVER NOTICE the words, “IN THE LAST DAYS…”?

Now, I am not about to get all spooky, left behindy on you… No, for the truth of what the rapture is, please watch the video I posted awhile ago, or read some more material I share on here for free.

No, I mean to say… these are the LAST DAYS WE WILL SEE SUCH IGNORANCE AND WICKEDNESS.

LIFE IS ABOUT TO SPROUT FROM THIS DEATH.

The words of TRUTH, LOVE, PEACE, AND HOPE are being purified within our experience, and from this experience we will see the desires of our hearts come to be… which is the RECONCILIATION OF ALL THINGS.

To reconcile something, means to “cause to coexist in harmony” — MEANING, EVERYTHING IS MEANT TO EXIST IN PERFECT HARMONY. This is the way it was and the way it will be again. We are all connected. What we do affects the whole, and what others do affects us.

It is the day one sees that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD. That we are ALL IMPORTANT parts of the whole. And so our trespasses will be forgiven in the day we forgive the trespasses of others. We will be loved when we LOVE!

WE AFFECT THE WHOLE, just as a single lit match can catch and consume everything around it, we as LIGHTS can LIGHT THIS WORLD AND SET IT FREE.

So the fact that I believe I am meant to change the world is not really such a fantasy. If truth be told, we all have an effect on the lives of those around us, we all have an effect on this world.

I can prove this…

If everyone chose to TRULY LOVE… there would be no war, no poverty, no lack, no shame, no fear, no harm done. However, for this to happen, it means ALL MUCH choose to love. So long as one is out of harmony with everyone and everything else, there is no unity.

So how can I believe such a thing? Is it arrogance to believe you are part of something greater than life in this death has tried to sell you? I think not… The question is not, “how can I believe such things?”, the questions is, “How can YOU not?”

We have seen time and time again how one man’s vision can change things… Steve Jobs, for example had a vision of world where technology would become an extension of humanity, he pictured people attached to their devices as they would be attached to a child… more so we see today.

You would hard pressed to walk through any metropolitan area and not see people attached to their devices connecting them to people all over the world in a moment’s time… This was science fiction just a couple of decades ago. It was something I am sure people who have told Mr. Jobs was a fantasy nothing more, unattainable, a dream… and yet STEVE JOBS BELIEVED AND RECEIVED his dream come true.

You see, Steve Jobs, ALSO BELIEVED ALL THINGS WERE POSSIBLE… He changed the world because of it.

Take a look at what he said in an interview many years before the world became the world it is today.

“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” Steve Jobs

Whatever a person believes they receive, whether that be the limited life Steve spoke of, or the broader life where you can influence EVERYTHING and EVERYONE…

I choose to believe, I can do ALL THINGS THROUGH “CHRIST” WHO STRENGTHENS ME! Philippians 4:13

Which, we now know means, “I can do all things through the power and wisdom of love and truth, which MAKES ME SUPER POWERFUL!”

You see, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THEM THAT BELIEVE! Mark 9:23

So, I was not joking when I said, it was my dream to reach and change the world. I have seen in my short life of almost 44 years that WITH FAITH NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE! Matthew 17:20 indeed.

Everything I have accomplished, everything that I have experienced, IS EVERYTHING I FIRST BELIEVED COULD BE!

Then after seeing it, envisioning it, I would proclaim it to be true. I would CALL THOSE THINGS THAT ARE NOT AS IF THEY WERE Romans 4:17 and they BECAME!

You see everything that I have said, up to this point, has come true in my life… exactly as how I believed and said it would.

When I told people I would see myself on the big screen, that I would have plays off-broadway, that I would write for the most popular cable TV show in history, that I would write and produce Christian TV, that I would create my own cartoon, write a book, start a revolution, host a radio show, get in shape… anything… When I told people that I would do this or that, within time, all of these and much, much more came to be…

Just as how I said I would show the world the lies of religion by becoming “Jacob Israel”, just as I said, I would BECOME JACOB ISRAEL to the world, which is now who YOU know me to be.

I believed, Jacob Israel, is who the world would know me to be, because I simply believed it first and then became it. Just as I believed from childhood that I would be sharing the “Mysteries of the Kingdom of God”, as I am doing now.

Think it not strange, that little old me has been in such key positions, to learn such things about these organizations… I was the head writer and producer for the one of the biggest Christian Television networks in history, and they knew I saw differently… And I left on my time, not theirs, and I have left with my many SPECKLED SHEEP, just as Jacob did in scripture.

So, it is not a lofty or conceited goal, to believe one is meant to change the world by writing a simple novel, that would then lead to a website offering hundreds of eye-opening insights to help wake people from the slumber of impotence and ignorance they find themselves in…. 😉 … Or is it?

Well let’s see…

If THE CALLING became a BEST SELLER RIGHT NOW… think about how many people would soon find the treasures hidden here at my website…

Think about it… Quite coincidental don’t you think?

Well, this was the dream. I saw all of this in my mind many, many years ago. I HOPED and had FAITH and eventually it all began to take shape out of simple imagination and faith. However, none of this would have been possible, had it not been the DESIRE IN MY HEART to do so.

It is GOD that gives you the desire of your heart, is it not? AND MUCH MORE WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT AND WHO GOD IS… (but who can truly?)

Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

I believed that “voice in my heart” (idea I had about who I was, am, and can be).

Yes, that is right, I am simply following my HEART. I am doing this because I believe without a shadow of a doubt that I AM MEANT TO BE DOING THIS… This is why, my novel is about a twelve-year-old boy who was born to change the world by writing a single book, which would wake up the world to the TRUTH OF WHO THEY REALLY ARE. (That was the plan!)

You see, for those that don’t know. My novel, THE CALLING is more than a simple tale. It is an allegory that is meant to trigger something inside the reader to get them to see that they are MORE. AND THAT THEY MUST LOVE!

I hid secret messages throughout this novel. Clues to a greater existence. For those with eyes to see, they would see, and for those without, the spirit of the story would heal their blind eyes, so they could as well. I actually proclaimed this right there IN THE CALLING…

“My book… is not a work of fiction, as some will say. It is a fiery truth cast into the sea of deception mankind calls life.” pg 18: The Calling by Jacob Israel

I also have a secret message to the reader, that they only they will find it they are inspired to take the time to string each chapter title together.

You see, my novel is meant to PROVE something. To prove that what I share here is true. Like Steve Jobs, I have a vision. I also wrote a “prophesy”, if you will, in “The Calling” that if, my desire came true, it would prove WITHIN EACH OF US… IS THE ABILITY TO DO ALL THINGS….

EVEN CHANGE THE WORLD BY RISING FROM OBSCURITY AND SHARING A MESSAGE OF LOVE AND TRUTH TO ALL!

Like an author, and finisher of faith… I will have become, when all of it comes true, the very thing I set out to become. Sort of like, I wrote the story of my life in my mind, shared that story outwardly and enjoyed the right as that story became true.

Wouldn’t that be something if it did?

Truth be told, it already is. And the time has never been better than before.

Picture this, and see what I have been seeing for years….

If “The Calling, The Book Of Thomas James” becomes the best seller I believe it will, and also proclaimed it to be years ago in the actual novel, do you think it odd that this resource, my Website, is available for free, for everyone?

People put stock in the words of celebrity. If The Calling became an international hit, think of how many would then find this resource. Think of the FIRESTORM that would set off?

That would be something indeed. Wouldn’t it be amazing, if it woke the world up to the understanding that we are all connected, and that what we do to others we do to ourselves…

ULTIMATELY, meaning, IF WE LOVE EVERYONE TRULY… EVERYONE WILL TRULY LOVE!

You see, it is all about the timing of a thing. There is a time to sow, and a time to reap. And now, I believe the HARVEST IS HERE!

Each day, I find more and more people becoming interested in the things I share here freely. I find more and more on-line declaring, “I AM THAT I AM!” and while the sound of this should fill one, who has been declaring similar for years, with profound joy, it does not.

Because, the world has not changed, and the message is not yet clear. WE DON’T KNOW IT ALL …. YET!

The TRUTH IS COMING… but I must say to many of you out there, we yet see through a glass DARKLY… MEANING, we haven’t seen anything completely YET! But when we do, we will KNOW AS WE ARE KNOWN… This means, we will KNOW WHO WE REALLY ARE… and we will see that we ALL ARE ONE IN WORD AND DEED.

So, don’t ignore that desire in your heart, if that desire be the reconciliation of the world. Embrace it, proclaim it, and fear not because the day of your salvation is here!

WRITE YOUR STORY… IT HAS A HAPPY ENDING!

Jacob Israel
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No Gods Before Me

Jacob Israel7 Comments

NO GODS BEFORE ME!

There was a time when I was scared. There was a time when I felt powerless in this world. A time when I did not think life was worth living at all.

I made the mistake of thinking, it was all about me. Woe ways me, in fact, I would say and on cue every cloud would turn grey. I was a child in my ignorance then. But like any child, I would grow in spirit, wisdom and strength.

But until that time, like any child, when things went bad I wondered, “Why God?”, and worse still, “Why Me?”, which is the worst thought a person can have.

Because when you don’t believe things should be happening the way they are to you then you have forgotten ( died to knowledge of ) that all things were created for you, and more importantly, BY YOU!

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col 1:16,17.

The scriptures express our divinity clearly, “ye are gods but you shall die as mere men”… This passage from psalms I opened my novel with.

In fact, my entire novel is allegory for us all to WAKE UP to the truth of who we really are.

Because when we came into this world, an enemy (the lies we hear) planted tares within us and because of this we began to believe we were something we were not.

This CARNAL EGO of as I like to call him, the first idea of who we are,
we die to who we really are and a life of struggle and sadness follows .

To understand this helps us as we walk through this valley of the shadow of death to FEAR NO EVIL… For truly there is no such thing.

There was a time that I was so ignorant and so lost into the “GOD OUTSIDE OF ME” delusion that I was like those children at play Jesus spoke of in scripture…

Luke 7:32
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace (RELIGION) and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

Like those children I had ignorantly been convinced that somehow God and I were separate.

I put my faith in this far away God. I feared this far away God. And not only that, I sacrificed for this God.

I even dropped everything and left a rising and super successful career in Television for this God that I had been brainwashed to serve. But not just this “Father God” the pastor and priests had told me about, I also believed in his son a man named Jesus who I was told died for me, who I was told was the only way to know God (or so I was told). So I also put this son before even this almighty God I had been convinced of.

Ignorantly I also wore crosses, had paintings of this Jesus God, and I really believed. I really believed all the people I trusted to tell me the truth about God, like most do so I never questioned, like most do as children at play. Until, the day the lights were turned on for me and I began to see how wrong I had been. And how amazing the truth really was.

The commandments themselves begin with not just a warning of what might happen if we have GODS other than the TRUTH, but promises that one day even the most lost WILL NOT HAVE GODS BEFORE ME…


Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

By the end of this essay you will understand that you have many “gods” in this world and the biggest of which is the person you ignorantly believe yourself to be.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

So much for all those images of fish on car bumpers, crosses on chains, and paintings, statues, and idols of the man Jesus everywhere.

However, this is just the most obvious god we have before the truth. There are many, many more. Everything we put our faith in and serve, from our ego to the almighty dollar is a god we serve.

You see we have all been convinced to worship and serve the creation, not the creator. The scripture teaches us NO ONE has seen God at any time, just as NO ONE can see the THOUGHT within ones mind. The scriptures teach us that God is NOT a Man that he should lie, or the son of man that he should repent, and yet almost every religion teaches us to worship a god who is created in the image of man, instead of embracing the fact that GOD is within everyone and everything, and creates everyone and everything seen and unseen through us.

You will soon see we are given the name (nature of God) and we, like
Jesus should not think that is something that is blasphemous. In fact, we are commanded to NOT take this NAME in Vain… Which means “for nothing” – this command has nothing to do with swearing, but everything to do with giving other gods YOUR worship.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (Exodus 20:3-5, 7 KJV)

Let me begin to explain how I was when I was younger. I was not the happiest or most hopeful child, so I began to look for answers. I went to religions tree and swallowed its fruit daily, which actually made things harder for me… (I see this now, but back then I clothed myself with religious pride which made me feel better than others, who did not do what I did (confess Jesus as lord), even though deep down I knew it was wrong to think such. So many of these false beliefs (gods) I deep down I knew was more damaging than good.

This God they taught me to believe in was more like wicked mankind then anything else.

This God demanded follow without question and would punish you unjustly if you did not.

This God was so far away from me and so darn upset with the person that I had become. That I could NEVER earn a place in his kingdom. Back then I believed I had to worship the son he murdered for
Me so I would not burn endlessly.

This is a perverse thing to believe and there is grea

And so I worked the ground of my life in constant misery like Adam after being cast from paradise.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; (Genesis 3:17 KJV)

This great allegory is what happens the day we leave the truth of who we are for the idea of what we have been convinced we are, which is something we are not.

Cursed was the ground for ADAM’S sake… Now, we are NOT talking about the literal ground or earth beneath us. The GROUND is an allegory of Adam’s day to day life in the “first man.” Symbolic of his WORKS on this earth. You see, because of our mistaken identity our life in this world is cursed to bring only sorrow. Truly, if it did not Adam, and WE, would never change.

“Through much tribulation we enter the Kingdom.”

How true this is for us all.

Now why is the ground of our life cursed?

The reason is simple.

Like Adam, in the story, we too left the unity of the spirit and followed after EVE (which is the mother of all living, our intellect). Like Adam we swallowed the FRUIT our intellect gave us to eat. Exampled below…

“This is right, this is wrong, you are this, you are that, cant do this, must do that”

This is the cursed TREE of the Knowledge or Good and Evil, whose bastard child is double minded mankind. This is the TREE (branches of thought) that when we become one with this way of thinking (eat its fruit) we DIE (become ignorant) and this is how it happens.

The serpent (the lies we hear since birth) convinces us we can be LIKE God IF, and only IF we eat of this tree…. “You have to do this or that… Or else!”

Now, when you EAT (consume fully what you are presented) you ultimately DIGEST what you have been given to “eat”, and when this happens… You become ONE with it.

That FRUIT becomes you.

So if you eat the fruit of a liars tree, and you take the lies of this world hook, like, and sinker, to heart and you become the lie. The end result of this unholy union is YOU DIE (become ignorant of who you are and what you are capable of) and that brings on a world of hurt for you.

This is why, I once thought a life in this world was a grievous thing. I simply did not know any better. I KILLED the truth within me at the place of the skull (my mind) and yet, the TRUTH of LOVE did not care, because who we really are, knows who we think we are simply KNOWS NOTHING AT ALL!

And how is the TRUTH put to death within us?

Well, as babies our parents told us who we were, who they decided we were to be… “You are Jacob” or so and so. Next they formed us into who THEY were trying to create us to be. They did this ignorantly of course. Blind leading the blind.

You see the first idea of who we are, does not realize that we create our fears as easily as our hopes. Whatever mind set we nourish takes root. And until this CURSE is broken, it is past down from generation to generation.

Parents brain wash their children and make them twice the child of hell they are themselves. They give the baby a name, teach it to fit in and believe everything they, the ignorant parents say and believe, and one day that perfect baby believes it.

Next, the world gets a hold of that baby and convinces them other horrible things are true, that simply are not. And this process never ends, until we end it.

And so, that perfect baby, who was filled with nothing but infinite possibility and potential embraces fear, which has torment in it. The baby then becomes the child and man or woman that believes them self to be only the image of a corruptible, mortal, weak human being.

The baby is cast out of his or her blissful peace and catapulted into a world of idolatry.

In the first idea of who we are we all have gods we serve and not all of them go by holy names. We are ruled by these gods we ignorantly worship, we fear these gods, dedicate our life to these gods and are slaves to these gods.

And yet, creation was always meant to be under our foot, creation was meant to serve us and yet we have been brainwashed to serve and worship it.

However, the day will come and for some it has come already where even the idea of ourselves is put under the only one that truly exists to begin with… So that GOD (LOVE) may be ALL in ALL.

That is the day we are patiently waiting for. The EARNEST EXPECTATION of the Manifestation of the sons of God. The entrance into the SECOND MAN, who is LORD of all, with the death of the firstborn man, who is earthy and carnal and lost.

The death of the first born of this world is pictured in the plagues of Egypt as well as many others. Because we are nothing but slaves of Pharoah (which is our shame according to scripture) until that first born of all in this world dies.

There was a time, for me, that life was extremely hard, until the first born was put on notice, and that first idea of me, I realized, was NOT ME AT ALL.

There is no joy or peace in the first man. No matter how hard we try, if we are still in that first cursed man, Adam (which most are), then no matter how hard we try to produce a great life we will always struggle and suffer. Just as Adam did. No matter how hard we work, no fruit worthy of the kingdom will be produced, because it will be a vain, idolatrous pursuit of ego.

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Genesis 3:17-19 KJV)

From the DUST (lies and idolatry according to scripture) the first ego man comes and to the DUST this adversary returns.

There was a time when I was ignorant. A time when I was blind and did not see the truth. This is pictured in the many stories of deaf, dumb, lame, and blind people Jesus (the truth) heals in scripture.

In the first man we all DIE to the truth of who we are and we begin to put many gods before us, in the second man we live again in the truth knowing we and God are in fact ONE!

When leave the hellish ignorance of the first man. (1st idea of who we are) for the 2nd man we are put back into our RIGHT mindset, which understands that there IS NO GOD BEFORE US for we are BEFORE the idea of who we are.

Scripture tells us that we are to have the same mind as Christ, who thought it not robbery to be equal with God, which means to have the the mind of Christ is to know you and God are one in the same.

But that time my friends is over.

If you haven’t caught on by now, scripture tells us that the 1st man is the natural man, and the 2nd man is from heaven above.

Now this is a mystery that I have written extensively about.

These are the two men in one bed, the two women grinding at the wheel, these are in fact the two MINDS within us all.

The first man is convinced he is mortal, self absorbed, weak, and ignorant. The first man is FORMED out of the dust (dead flesh/carnal imagination) of the earth (man’s soul). That first NATURAL man is the YOU you THINK you are but are not.

The first man is of the EARTH (temporal/ignorant/ego centric) EARTHY (mortal/finite) – but the SECOND MAN (the second you) is SPIRITUAL (infinite, empowered, loving, united, eternal, with no beginning and end).

You see there was a time I suffered, because I was ruled by that first man. As I said, the first man is NOT the spiritual one, the godly one, no, it is the natural one. Hopefully now, this will help you to understand the following passages from 1st Corinthians…


“Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”

Now we have been tricked into believing that this second man from Heaven is Jesus only. Oh what a mistake that is.

Jesus clearly taught us, “as he is so are we in this world”. He is a symbol, called the first born among many brethren. If this be literal, then we should know that we and Jesus are exactly alike. As you and I are exactly alike.

I am no better than you, Jesus is no better than me. The difference being, Jesus perhaps understood who he was before everyone else, which symbolically places him in that older brother role for those younger, more inexperienced, and ignorant siblings to learn from.

No, this verse which speaks of the first and last man (Adam), is directly linked to you, me and everyone.

Within each of us there are two nations at war. Two MINDS fighting for control.

And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. (Genesis 25:23 KJV)

The LAST shall be FIRST. The ELDER (Older) shall serve the YOUNGER. The last MIND (spiritual YOU) shall take pre eminence over the FIRST (natural YOU)…. Because ULTIMATELY, there shall be no GODS before the I AM that is really you.

Now, of course the older, more comfortable, EGO is what we are used to. And this carnal idea of who we are will fight to the death and even convince you to do horrible things before admitting, who you think you are, what you believe, and everything you have put your faith in is a lie.

No one wants the NEW WINE! Which is why the VESSEL that contains the wine in the parable shatters when New Wine enters it.

The TRUTH is bigger than the VESSEL.

This LORD (which literally means, THE EXISTING ONE) of HOSTS, is the SPIRIT OF TRUTH and LOVE that is WHO we all are, the HOST is who we think we are… And this vessel MUST be destroyed before the TRUTH rises from it’s ignorant death (the life of suffering we endured).

Ignorant before the cross, Enlightened after it. Natural first then that which is spiritual. This is good news for us all, because we all will RISE from the death of our first concept of who we might be.

Pictured beautifully in the words written by John, “and the WORD (thought, spirit, logic, creation) BECAME flesh and DWELT AMONG us.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 KJV)

This is speaking of the day the TRUTH is revealed to you, birthed from within you. The day the SECOND MAN (which is the real you) steps out to say… HERE I AM LORD!

And we CAN’T LOSE!

“All will come to the knowledge of the truth and the stature of the perfect man!”

The good news is, as we have borne the image of that suffering, sad, lost, first man, we shall also bear the image of the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON of GOD. Which is a poetic way of saying, who you were in the first IDEA of you was an earthy, natural man… But your second IDEA of who you are (the second man) is GODS ONLY BEGOTTEN… God manifested in the flesh. One with God. God in you, as you, in this world. And then the two natures become ONE.

This was Jesus’ prayer, and it is now my prayer…

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (John 17:21 KJV)

This is the HOPE of GLORY, and why it is important to understand this mystery.

AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE YOUR EGO you will have GODS before the TRUTH… And you will never know who you are or I AM.

The first you, the earthy you, is going to suffer and feel week and powerless to change things. But we must remember, this will not be forever. Because the second you, which is the spiritual manifestation of who you REALLY are in this world is waiting to be BORN AGAIN.

“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”

The kingdom of God that everyone has convinced you is some golden paved paradise in the sky, is actually “righteousness, peace and joy”. It is ruling and reigning in unison with the spirit of truth and love that is within you, and that IS you.

The word KINGDOM literally translates into “to rule” and God is LOVE.

So the mystery of the Kingdom of God is being ruled by Love and ruling WITH love. Yet, the natural first man cannot receive this.

Because to the natural man to love unconditionally is foolishness to them. So the message of this essay, the things I am about to share, and have shared, for some, they won’t believe it, or receive it… They can’t.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

The natural man, which I have also called the carnal man, or the ID, or the enemy and the devil is corrupt, and it sees itself this way.

This is why there was a time when I was miserable and worshiped
many of the false gods religion, tradition, and society trained me to worship.

So, just like some of you, I too have been ruled by heartache and pain. But I was set free from it all.

I, like Paul, was SET on the road that was straight and put back into my right mind… And now I too have become that voice in the wilderness trying to make the paths of others in this world, straight and narrow, so they too may enter in and SIN (think foolishly) no more.

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. (Matthew 3:3 KJV)

So, be of good cheer my friends, because in an instant, in the twinkling of your eye, you will see the mystery and you shall wake up and be changed into the one you were destined to be… THE ONE THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN YOU AND ME! And in that instant you will take hold of that cross and breathe in the possibility, that YOU ARE THAT GREAT I AM and you will be whoever you want to be… Because in that moment you become free. And you rise out of the death that has become of your life, waking up from your monotonous ignorant sleep as if a loud trumpet had sounded.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:46-52 KJV)

So the time of my idolatry and suffering is over. And yes, it took time to get there. And yes, it isn’t easy or pleasant. In the first man nothing is easy or pleasant but it is through our tribulation that we finally enter in.

There was a time when life was very difficult, but no longer.

It is because of all of my sufferings, all of my pain and disappointment that prompted that SEED WITHIN ME to WAKE UP. It was because I could take it no longer, that I realized I never needed to take it to begin with.

I had been tricked. The TRUTH of who I was which I traded for the lies of who I began to believe myself to be, brought only suffering for ME! And so my suffering and hard times had to be.

The kingdom of lies called my ego had become a stronghold, a prison, secured tight. So only through the demolition of this ignorant palace could the joy I have now be found.

One day, you too will know that every bit of heartache and heartbreak paves the way for the LIFE you were born to live. And yes, it can hurt to get there.

Acts 14:22
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God

Such is the tale of fallen humanity. And what was it we fell from? Truth, Love, Purpose, Unity, and Joy. But as the scriptures state, he that ascends to heaven is he that first descended into the lowest pits of hell.

If you have ears to hear this… In order to be exalted, one must first be abased.

And so our FALL proves essential to our RISING ONCE AGAIN.

And it is TIME TO RISE AGAIN my friends!

For out of all my suffering, out of all my heartache and pain I found joy unspeakable, faith unshakeable, and a vision of how truly awesome this experience called life can be, is, and always has been.

For out of that darkness came light, out of the abandonment and abuse came unity, kindness, and strength. Out of the ignorance that had become of my life came a wisdom so great that against the better judgment of most trapped in this world, I had to share it with everyone…

This is proven in the fact that you are reading my essay here today.

When one has finally found the LIGHT, one does not hide it under a barrel.

And once, these “mysteries of the Kingdom of God” which is right thinking, peace, and joy, came to “LIGHT” within me I knew what had been hidden could be hidden no more!

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. (Luke 8:17 KJV)

It’s harvest time people. The SEED is come to life, and it’s fruit, which is love, joy, peace and more has no law to put it to death. Once alive again, nothing can put this

This joy I now have, this love I now feel, this peace that embraces me, this goodness that leads me, this FRUIT is evidence that NOW is the TIME TO HAVE NO GODS BEFORE ME!

Now is the time to put that SICKLE in! Now is the time to CAST YOUR NET on the RIGHT side!

Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

People are so very lost today. Every moment, or every day seems a grievous thing. This is how it was for me as well. For that is the DEATH that has become of our lives. But I tell you rejoice, for that SECOND MAN within you and me, that great treasure hidden in the field of your life, is going to burst forth and with it, salvation comes.

The truth has been hidden…

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

And now that you are searching out what matters the truth is revealed.

Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

You are dead in Adam and you are alive in Christ…

Ye are gods… Arise oh god and judge the nations by having no GOD before the TRUTH of LOVE and the only one who really exists… YOU!

I hope you enjoyed this essay, please do subscribe, and share this with others. The Truth Sets You Free!

Peace to you and yours, Jacob

Proverbs 3
13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
19 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Today The Foundations Shake

Jacob Israel9 Comments

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SHAKE THE FOUNDATIONS!

It always amazes me how inspiration works. In the morning, I had seen a simple Gandhi quote in a mass email I was sent. This quote lit a fire in me and quickly I began to share the essay this quote seemed to have conceived. The end result is a fascinating, eye opening, and life changing essay that will, as the title boasts, shake the very foundation of everything you may believe to be true, while also setting the captives of this world system free.

Here is the quote…

“My ambition is no less than to convert the British people through nonviolence, and thus make them see the wrong they have done to India.”

“With this salt I am shaking the foundation of the [British] Empire!”

You see Gandhi was a foundation shaker. He was a world changer, and so are you. This essay is meant to remind us of this fact. So let us begin, shall we?


“Today, I shake the foundations of the nations,” these are the words that Gandhi, and I, on this day do say.

So, what do these words mean? What did Gandhi mean when he said many years ago in history, that “today I shake the very foundations of the British Empire?”

Well, what he meant was, the foundation that the British Empire was built upon, was not sound. It was not solid because it was not built on truth or love but lies. Gandhi knew he could shake any foundation built on violence with non-violence.

Gandhi knew that love was the axe that was raised for the root of lies in the world. Love was the very thing that would shake the treacherous nation out of its hellish ignorance, releasing his people from its oppressive control.

Gandhi knew that the foundation the corrupt British Empire was built on was as earth that lays on a fault line.

Love would be the earthquake that would bring all of man’s wicked ways down.

Love IS the great earthquake that shakes the shackles of the world away and sets the captives free!

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. (Acts 16:26 KJV)

Let’s consider for a moment what a “foundation” is.

Webster defines a foundation as, “an underlying basis or principle for something.”

The foundation of anything is the very first thing put down, which then is build upon. The foundation is key because it is support of everything else. If the foundation is not sound it will not stand for long.

In scripture a solid, GOOD foundation is one that is built on God, which is love and truth and spirit (thought).

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. (1 Timothy 6:19 KJV)

This foundation of God and Christ is the truth of everything. And only upon this foundation will things continue to stand. Anything that is not built on the foundation of love, truth, spirit (right thinking) will perish and be destroyed.

A poor foundation of lies is easily shaken with WORDS of TRUTH and LIFE. Gandhi knew this. Which is why he showed the world with salt the error of the British Empire.

We know that whatever is bound in heaven is bound in earth, loosed in heaven is loosed in earth, as within so without, as above so below… So, while a poor foundation in literal terms means collapse of what stands above it eventually, so in spiritual terms any foundation that is not built with love and truth, as stated earlier, will not stand for long.

So, if there is no truth, if there is no love, hope, faith, peace or joy, then there is no true foundation for the kingdom of heaven to be built upon. And of there is not true foundation then what is built upon it is corrupt and abominable in every way.

Why do you think the beast of revelation ascends (rises) out of the BOTTOMLESS PIT… A bottomless pit has no foundation.

Can you see this? Can you see that a LIE has no foundation? And if there is nothing to hold this lie up, when the wind of truth comes it will be blown away.

This LIE is the beast/animal nature/carnal man that ascends out of this bottomless pit of lies and indoctrination.

This beast, this carnal system that arose out of the lies and corruption of this world, religion and politics, etc… will be destroyed when the TRUTH is spoken.

This bottomless pit of deceptive beliefs has no leg to stand on, so love will always make it fall.

Our carnal nature, our ID, our ignorant beliefs about ourselves arose out of this bottomless pit. Our fears, hang ups, shame, regrets, doubts, worries, anxieties, all came from nothing and to nothing they will return when the truth is shouted from the rooftops.

Our illusion has become our enemy and it was formed out of the lies/dust of the earth and every name/nature not written in the book of truth (which is our foundation) will be destroyed! Just as Gandhi knew the foundations of the corrupt British empire would be destroyed.

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Revelation 17:8 KJV)

So we see the foundation upon which OUR LIVES are built is very important. Because if it is built on lies our house will fall as if built on sand.

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. (Luke 6:49 KJV)

This is why Jesus said that a house built on sand will not last. A house must be built on a solid foundation. Because if the foundation of that building is not solid. If the foundation of that building is not pure, if it is weak. If it is not built on truth but lies, then it will be easily shaken and broken down.

This is the way of the world today my friends.

Babylon, that harlot city, that allegorical place in scripture that literally means, “confusion with mixture”, is the system that we can now say, IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN!

Babylon is a place built on the foundational lies of the carnal ego of man

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Revelation 18:2 KJV)

There is no truth in this place. This world has become the habitation of devils/liars, and the hold of every foul spirit (foolish thought), and the birds/messengers are unclean and hateful!

CAN YOU SEE that this Babylon has been the dwelling place of you and me?

We have been under the rule of it. We were born into it. We, like Jesus took upon the sins/lies/cares of this world and died to who we were.

We, like Jesus have been sent to this hell to deliver the captives here free. So it is time for us to do some shaking!

Like Gandhi, our native and God given land (eden) was stolen from us, with deceit and violence and the violent have taken this kingdom by force… UNTIL NOW!


And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. (Matthew 11:12 KJV)

This corrupt system has sowed lies/tares into the hearts of all men.
Corrupt, ignorant men then indoctrinated generations with these same lies, which is why they say, “education is the foundation upon which knowledge is built”. But what happens when the education that is forced on all is controlled by wicked men? What happens when the tragedies and horrors of history are rewritten to keep future generations enslaved by greed, lust, and poverty? Well, the foundation cannot stand for long.
Gandhi knew this, as do I.

And with each day the indoctrination continues. Dumbing down the kings and queens of heaven until they act and live like comatose slaves!

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; (Galatians 4:1 KJV)

So when Gandhi saw his brothers and sisters in bondage, abused, used, beaten, taxed, and worse, he knew he could bring it all down with faith, with love and with truth! Just as we can change our lives from miserable bondage to a life of liberty and peace. All it takes is faith, love, and truth!

You see the foundation the British Empire was built on was not pure or and righteous in Gandhi eyes. Gandhi saw an empire built on terror, pride, greed, war, blood, and lies. Gandhi knew that this foundation could not stand, because it was not built on love and truth.

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. (Psalms 82:5 KJV)

Gandhi knew that it wasn’t a clenched first that would topple a corrupt nation, he knew only words of love could do this. As a skilled lawyer of the world, Gandhi knew of the power of words. He knew the principle of reaping and sowing, he believed in Karmic law more than a majority of creation.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 6:7 KJV)

He knew that if you plant hate you only get hate in return. And since the foundation of the corrupt British empire was built on hate, lies, terror, and greed… he knew only love could change this.

Other great men shared this philosophy, which is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s name will also continue long after he died.

So Gandhi sowed Love, Acceptance, Tolerance, and Justice, on such a scale that everyone on this planet will forever remember his name.

Gandhi, knew, as Jesus knew, as many other spiritual shepherds have known, and that is that the keys to paradise are sacrifice and love.

Those whose eyes have been opened from the slumber of ignorance know that words have power and that light defeats darkness, humility defeats pride, love defeats hate, and all one needs to do to rebuild an empire is to speak it into existence with love and truth!

Gandhi knew that whatever a man believed he would receive, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses a new kingdom could be established.

In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. (2 Corinthians 13:1 KJV)

AND HE WAS RIGHT!

Look at what men of faith have been able to do throughout history. Look at what faith has done, it has toppled oppressive regimes, it has overcome persecution, it has built technology the likes of the gods, it has cured the ills of the world, it has fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless and more.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:1-3 KJV)

Did you catch that? Through FAITH we understand that the WORLDS were created by the WORD of God… And WE are the WORD of God! We are LIVING EPISTLES, our lives are our ministry and the WISE understand that an IDEA, which is not seen, creates everything that is.

Imagination is the key to creation, coupled with the truth of who you are and love.

Gandhi understood what I understand, what I hope this article will help you to understand and that is….

WITH FAITH ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!

Gandhi knew that faith in action is the key to creation. This is why when he said, “with this salt I shake the foundations of the British Empire”, he knew his WORDS and ACTIONS were the very SWORD that would slay the evil beast hiding within every wicked man.

Gandhi knew his words/sword of love were seeds that would not return void.

We know that the power or life and death is in the tongue. That the tongue is small but like the rudder of a ship steers our lives in the direction we speak.

We also know that only words of TRUTH will stand the test of time and that LIES are for but a moment.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. (Proverbs 12:19 KJV)

The words/sword we speak can both give life and take it. The words/sword that we speak can be blessing on our lives and future generations or a curse. The words/sword that we speak cut both ways.

And WORDS of TRUTH are what will shake the foundations of the nations built on lies. Which is why now, more than ever, this message must be heard.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12 KJV)

You see words can be used to do all things both evil and good. This sword can indeed cut both ways. Your faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the WORDS spoken to you.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17 KJV)

And if you believe the wrongs words, if you believe lies that are spoken over you in your life you then have faith these things are true and you are possessed by these lies and they become your reality. This however, would not be a pure and solid foundation! And it can be torn down and rebuilt if instead of believing these lies YOU REPENT (change your words and thoughts).

For example, if you believe you will never get ahead, you won’t. And just as your belief can make this so, if you believe you can turn it all around you will.

If you believe you will topple a corrupt empire like Gandhi did, YOU WILL!

The scriptures teach us with faith NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO YOU!

Now, let that sink in for a moment.

What if this is true? If it is, it must mean that everything is the way it is in the world because NO ONE HAS DECIDED TO CHANGE IT…

Isn’t it time to change things? Isn’t it time to shake the foundations of the nations and wake the world back up?

Gandhi was one man and look what he accomplished with faith and compassion? Could you imagine what would happen if there were more men like Gandhi today? Could you imagine what together they would accomplish?

Well, there are. And greater things than these we shall do with faith!

Jacob
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Jesus, The Anti-Christ, And Fruit

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Jesus, The Anti-Christ, And Fruit

Recently, on other social networking sites, like facebook, youtube, etc, I have been sharing powerful mini-versions of essays I have written in the past on topics that are very timely. I thought that I should share three of these with all of you, because within them you very well may find the truth of who you really are. If you have read them already, please do read on here as I have added much to them and wonderful things were revealed in the process.

If you are new to my website, or have been here before, you know that my work is dedicated to revealing the SPIRIT of the scriptures. Because it is given to us to know the “mysteries of the Kingdom of God” and unto those “without recollection of the truth” ALL THINGS ARE DONE IN PARABLE! So, my work and my passion is sharing the hidden meaning of these mysteries written long ago.

It is the SPIRIT of these stories that gives us life, just as it is the SPIRIT within us all that IS OUR LIFE, which IS also what I dare to share with all of you as often as I can.

If you don’t know this already, I have well over one hundred critical essays I have written over the years on various topics that are available here for all of you, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and at no cost to you ever.

I put in countless hours, and pay for these sites, as well as their maintenance, because I know these WORDS WILL NOT RETURN VOID! They will accomplish what I sent them out into this world to do…

TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING IN THE HELL THAT HAS BECOME OF THEIR LIFE!

My friends, it is the TRUTH that sets a person free… the TRUTH! The problem is, each and every one of us has been delivered a well dressed lie instead.

The naked truth is far more valuable than a well dressed lie, however, the world has taught us all entertainment is far greater than content, drama is more exciting than peace, and the latest religious/fashion craze is always better than what you came into the world with (WHO YOU ARE) and became ashamed of.

So in my effort to continue to share with all of you, I have but one favor to ask. PLEASE SHARE MY SITE WITH OTHERS. Encourage people to come here and explore some of the things found here. It is my belief and hope that this year we will reach more people than ever before. CHANGE IS HERE! THE DAY WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR HAS ARRIVED!

There is no need to WAIT any longer… Don’t make Martha’s mistake.

John 11
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus SAID unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth IN me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

BY THE END OF THIS ESSAY you may just SEE that you have been living a life of death, and you, like Lazarus, will rise from your grave of ignorance and LIVE! Or, you will be like Jesus telling others to stop putting their faith in the future AND their worries in the past. YOUR WORDS, like Jesus’ words they may just believe. And if they BELIEVE IN YOU, if they BELIEVE the words WITHIN YOU, as they did with Jesus, then THEY TOO WILL RISE AND TRULY LIVE THEIR LIFE!

Together we can truly live our lives and change this world. It is the TRUTH that sets us free, so freely we must share it. So please do share and subscribe if you haven’t already… In the mean time, please do enjoy these three short teachings.

TEACHING 1:
BY THEIR FRUITS

When it comes to knowing a person’s heart, scripture states that we are to judge others by their fruit. Fruit is known for the seed it produces. The fruit of something is it’s seed and it’s seed, or offspring, will always produce THE FRUIT it came from.

For example, an apple seed gives birth to an apple, an orange to an orange, the seed of a dog becomes a dog, the seed of a human will become human… and the seed of God is God. The same was in the beginning with everything, if you have “ears to hear that”.

Whatever is within us we bring forth and cast out into the world. This is our seed, and when our seed, whether it be words or deeds is cast into the world it will produce what it was sent into the world to do.

If you speak words of hate or express hate, hate will be felt. If you speak words of love or express love, love will be felt. Both love and hate are seeds, and both of these seeds produce fruit, whether it is anger and loathing or peace and joy.

This is why we so often are taught that we will be judged for every word and thought. That we will reap what we sow. If we sow righteousness we will be rewarded with that fruit… If we sow hate, we will know the same.

Isaiah 3:
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

FRUIT is what we produce, it is what we MANIFEST and REPLICATE into the world.

There of course is physical seed like that of plants, and animals, and then there is the metaphorical meaning of the word FRUIT… which deals with how someone thinks and behaves.

Matthew 7
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

By their FRUITS they shall be known. So the question I want you to ask yourself is what type of fruit are you bringing to the table?

You want to know how to test the spirits? Scripture says we must test the spirits to see if they be of God or not. It goes on to state that anyone who does not state that CHRIST IS COME/REVEALED IN THE FLESH is ANTI-CHRIST, which I will explain about later in the third teaching here.

However, let us first understand what SPIRIT is.

Proverbs 1:23
behold, I will pour out my SPIRIT unto you, I will make known my WORDS unto you.

Let me explain what a spirit is, it is a spoken word which originates from within you, called thought. Jesus said, “my words are SPIRIT”, love is spirit, compassion is spirit, encouragement is spirit, patience is spirit, and tolerance and acceptance are spirit. Some thoughtS are of God and there are other spirits like greed, hate, judgment, pride, lust that are spirits of a different kind.

So, which fruit do you bring to the table?

The most Holy Spirit or thought is said by every holy book to be LOVE.

These very same books define love.

The bible states that love is patient, kind, gentle, meek, long-suffering, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not condemn, it does not strive, and love most certainly does not cast out… Love never fails.

So if you are impatient, intolerant, self-centered, judgmental, condemning, if you are some one who loves to debate and tell others how wrong they are, if you are one who would turn your back on another because of how they believe or behave… Then guess what… You are NOT ruled by a God of love, the one and only true God, you aren’t one with God, you aren’t a creation of love, you are ruled by the god of this world… WHICH IS YOUR CARNAL EGO THE ANTI-CHRIST!

So, which type of fruit are you bringing to table?

A heart of love produces love… A corrupt and hateful heart produces hate and corruption.

Sadly, most are ruled by another god indeed, and by their fruit you shall know these hypocrites, for they too are accusers of the brethren, they too judge, they waste, they too roam about seeking whom they may devour…

In fact some of these Jesus shouting, devil loving, children of ignorance may even want to come on here and make their presence known. Because the darkness hates the light. Liars hate the truth because they believe their lie is the truth. Yet, the truth cannot be offended and does not need to be defended… SO WHY DO THEY GET SO ANGRY? Why did the religious elite of Jesus’ day want him dead for simply telling the world to love and be who they truly are?

The answer is CONTROL!

The children of the god of this world (ego/anti-christ) hate the children of the kingdom because their fruit shows them just how misled they are.

Millions of you are children of your ignorant carnal devil of an ego and you don’t even know it.

A tree is known by its fruit, and salvation is now, wake up and smell the coffee because the army Joel spoke of is here, the “greater things than these” is being done now, so study to be quiet and go within and LOVE!

Test your spirits (thoughts/words) to see if they be of God and Love which is truth or not!

Live, laugh, love, together we are going to change this world… For we are ONE!

Change is coming and we are apart of it… AND TO DO THIS WE MUST KNOW WHO THE REAL ENEMY IS!

TEACHING 2
THE ANTI-CHRIST IS WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE!

The Anti-Christ sits on the Throne of God, declaring himself to be God… I got news for you… THAT ANTI-CHRIST is WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE.

The Anti-Christ is the exact opposite of what and who CHRIST is… Hence the title, “ANTI” — The origin of the prefix anti- and its variant ant- is an ancient Greek word which meant “against” or “opposite.”

So people, the ANTI-CHRIST would be a force that works against CHRIST. It would be the exact opposite of CHRIST.

One sees the Christ and Anti-Christ in the YIN YANG symbol. But to understand the “anti-christ”, to understand the enemy hiding in plain sight, let us first examine what and who CHRIST IS.

CHRIST is explained as the power of God, and the wisdom of God in 1 Cor 1:24

CHRIST is OUR POWER AND WISDOM as well. For God said, “all that is mine is thine”… All that is God’s is ours. So God’s power and wisdom is OUR POWER AND WISDOM.

Christ is not Jesus’ last name. The Christ, or the Messiah, is a TITLE of one who has overcome the world. Christ is one who has risen from the death of ignorance. The Christ is the title of ONE who is ONE WITH GOD.

Christ is the POWER and WISDOM of God being manifested through a VESSEL/MESSENGER in the temporal world. CHRIST is the POWER behind the enlightened individual. There is POWER and TRUTH and LOVE and HOPE and SALVATION in CHRIST. It is the POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD… So when someone says, CHRIST is a literal man preaching somewhere on the planet the scriptures teach us to NOT GO AFTER HIM. Because CHRIST is NOT A MAN. The Kingdom of God does NOT come with observation.

Luke 17:23
And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

Christ is the power and wisdom of God that gives life, freedom, and the power of creation to man.

Remember, CHRIST IN YOU is the hope of Glory. Not Christ coming again soon, as many of you have been told.

When CHRIST COMES, as we read earlier about “Christ coming in the flesh”, the word “comes” does not mean to come again in the future or from the east or the west, it means to be “REVEALED/UNCOVERED/MANIFESTED”

So when we read the words, “CHRIST COMES” we understand it to be… The POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD BEING REVEALED WITHIN US and EXPRESSED INTO THE WORLD.

So now that we know what Christ is, let us look at what the ANTI or OPPOSITE and OPPOSING force of Christ is.

If Christ is the POWER and WISDOM of God. Then the ANTI-CHRIST would have to be something that has NO POWER and is IGNORANT.

The opposite of WISDOM is IGNORANCE… The Opposite of Power is having NO POWER over your life.

Do you believe you have no control over your life? Do you believe that things happen to you and not for you, because of you? Do you think you are not in control? Do you worship a God outside of you, far away, coming again soon?

Well, if this is true, you are ANTI-CHRIST… Which simply means you are existing in an ignorant state of powerlessness.

1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

This ANTI-CHRIST has a NUMBER, scripture tells us to calculate it. Six Hundred and Sixty Six… The liars of this world have tried to convince themselves that their CARNAL EGO was not the problem, and so they allowed their carnal ego to weave a tale. The DEVIL is the father of all lies after all.

And so this “anti-christ” of an ego created a spooky monster and said that this anti-christ is some coming world leader, etc. Yet, the number of this ANTI-CHRIST is explained plainly in the very same scriptures these ignorant anti-christs quote…

Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Let me put this in scientific words as well… We are NOT our carbon based shell of a body. We ARE the POWER and LIFE within this VESSEL. We are NOT this vessel just as we are not the car we drive but the DRIVER of the car.

The problem is most begin to believe their dying, decaying body is who they are. This is what it means to be dead/ignorant in ADAM (mankind’s 1st state). There are many that believe their carbon based bodies are who they are. However, this carbon based body belief is in fact “ANTI-CHRIST.” – the opposite of truth, the opposite of who and what you really are.

Think it not strange that 666 is also the number for CARBON BASED LIFE FORMS. 6 electrons, 6 neutrons, 6 Protons… the physical form that dies is the EXACT opposite of the LIFE FORCE within in, that creates it and kills it.

So, we can see 666 is nothing really of a mystery. IT IS THE NUMBER OF CARNAL MAN as scriptures states!

The ENEMY is not some being outside of us. A man’s enemies are they of the man’s own house. The lies of the carnal ego/ID/devil/Anti-Christ is the enemy.

The ANTI-CHRIST sits on the THRONE OF GOD, which is your heart/mind, sitting in the TEMPLE of God which is YOUR CONSCIOUS LIFE, declaring “himself” to be God, WHICH IS WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE but ARE NOT!

CHRIST is who you really are within… YOU REALLY are the power and wisdom of God manifested in this world. Each of us part of one body, united, co-creating as we believe. The problem is, many have forgotten who they truly are… Which is why the scriptures call for your REMEMBRANCE.

Your MIND is the throne of God. Your BRAIN is the THRONE that God sits on and rules from… The 24 elders pictured are the 24 cranial nerves that sit around the throne of God, in the Temple (which is you) worshipping 24/7 because your 12 pairs of cranial nerves, or 12 disciples, always carry out the functions of the ghost in the machine, which is God, which is EXPRESSED through CHRIST, which is WHO YOU REALLY ARE!

Now, when we come to this world we all TAKE UPON OURSELVES the CARES/SINS of this world. We start putting our faith outside of us, we stop believing we have POWER and we become IGNORANT of who we truly are. In so doing, WE DIE TO THE TRUTH and become ANTI-TRUTH.

Who you think you are is actually in control of your life. Your fear, your doubt, your hate, your worry, your shame, your pride, ALL OF IT is ANTI-CHRIST and if you think all of that noise is YOU, then you are anti-christ my friend. However, don’t worry because in the end EVERYONE is saved from their ignorance. Because you can only play hide and seek with yourself for so long. (Pictured in Genesis when Adam was hiding)

2 Timothy 2:13
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

So the wrong idea of who you are will eventually be destroyed completely, by the TRUTH… Or should I say, by the COMING (REVEALING) OF THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then shall that Wicked (EGO) be revealed, whom the Lord (the one who really exists) shall consume with the spirit (true thoughts) of his mouth (truth spoken and heard), and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

The ANTI-CHRIST is destroyed by the BRIGHTNESS of the TRUTH being revealed to you. When CHRIST COMES… When the power and wisdom of God is revealed to you, you will know who you TRULY ARE and what you are truly capable of…

When this happens, the ANTI-CHRIST (your carnal ego/who you ignorantly believe yourself to be) is DESTROYED!

This is SALVATION! You are saved from the lies you have believed and delivered from the chains of your false identity.

So, then the question becomes for many… Who does the saving?

It is a man from thousands of years ago that died for us… or is this man our example who spoke the words of truth that SETS US FREE?

TEACHING 3
BELIEVE IN JESUS OR IN WHAT JESUS TAUGHT?

Many will try to convince you that Jesus TAUGHT that we are all to worship Jesus, and Jesus alone. That our faith should be in what a man from two thousand years ago did. That only by believing in Jesus will we know salvation. However, if one truly studies the scriptures you will find this is not the case.

Jesus taught us that the greatest of all was the servant of all… the master, or the one who receives praise and service is less than the one who serves… Jesus ALWAYS directed people with. He never asks for worship or praise, when people asked him how they should pray, he spoke of going to the source directly, within! The Messenger of Truth ALWAYS directs the disciple to GOD. It is not about the literal man, it is always about the SPIRIT within the man. Jesus knew this, ignorant religion corrupted this, and now many need to be set free from this.

Rev 22: But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!”

Jesus made it clear, we are all the same, the difference was Jesus knew who he was and who God really was.

Jesus never taught that he was greater than another. In fact, Jesus taught the opposite. The greatest of all is the servant to all. Jesus never wanted to be worshipped, much less wanted people to think they could sit on their egotistical buts and just believe on him and do nothing to finally experience eternal life.

Jesus never wanted people to pray to him or to idolize him, Jesus wanted people to take his name (which means to take on his nature)… To ask things in Jesus’ name, never meant to ask for literal things and then literally say, “in jesus name we pray” how foolish this would be.

People are constantly asking Jesus for this and that, yet he was clear, we were never to “pray” to jesus… In the day people wake up from this nonsense they will go directly to the father.

John 16:23
And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

To ask for something in the “name” of Jesus means to exist in the NATURE of Jesus… which means everything we do is salted with love, truth, and faith…

Jesus was not trying to get people to go against the commandment in scripture that warns us to NEVER compare God to anything in the earth, beneath the earth, above the earth, or in the sea… Much less, the IMAGE OF A CORRUPTIBLE CARBON BASED LIFE FORMS 666.

Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Jesus was NOT trying to get people to believe in HIM… NO! Jesus wanted people to believe in the WORDS he spoke. These words held the key to eternal life (righteousness, peace, joy, power, unity).

People today picture a man named Jesus with his beard and sandals and they believe HE, the FLESH MAN is salvation for what HE physically did… But this could not be farther from Jesus’ message. HIS WORDS WERE LIFE, not believing in his flesh and bone body.

THE TRUTH SETS YOU FREE, NOT THE ONE DELIVERING THE MESSAGE. IT IS ABOUT BELIEVING THE THINGS THAT HE SAID.

John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Jesus was sharing the truth of who we all are. When people wanted to know the way to find eternal life, or wanted to know the “father” Jesus said, you know the commands follow them, get rid of everything that you put your faith in besides the truth.

Jesus also said, HE WAS THE WAY! This last statement many misunderstand. Jesus went on to explain to know God you must know what he knew, do as he did, live as he lived and love as he loved… He said, to know God you must follow my example. Jesus said, I am the way and you too must take up your cross and do what I did.

Jesus knew the ONLY way to know God was to be as he was, for as he was and is so are we. Jesus knew the truth of who he was… He said, I am in the father and the father in me… He said, that he and God were one, and went on to say… So are we!

Jesus even prayed that one day we (ignorant carnal dead carbond based life forms 666) would wise up and believe his words… Words that led those who believe to eternal life.

His spoken words were the TRUTH that set people free, for it is the TRUTH that sets people free from
lies they need saving from. Jesus, wanted everyone to know that, “as he was in the world so are you,” and that, “we are all one”. He even explained the day would come when you wouldn’t look to him for answers because one day you will know the Father for yourself… As the scriptures state, the day will come when you won’t need to go door to door saying know The Lord, for all will.

Jesus didn’t want to be worshipped the way people teach today…. He wanted people to ARISE, to BELIEVE and be BORN AGAIN!

Jesus, wanted people to know as they were known… Which means he wanted people to know who they truly were… Jesus wanted people to know who they were deep within… Which he explained was the only way to salvation….

The scriptures teach us that the hope of Glory is realizing the CHRIST within… This great title is the hope of every man, that we all realize who we really are. Which is also, a savior in this world. Those who enter the sheep gate who hear his voice, which means who understand his words, the same becomes the shepherd of the sheep. And today many are coming forward.

Jesus taught the very same things I share as well… That we REALLY need to have faith… It is our FAITH that makes us whole… Jesus said things like, “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them… Whatever a man believes he receives, all things are possible with faith”… Now mind you Jesus also said with GOD all things are possible. Almost as if to say that God and Faith are linked and forever united… And that God and Faith and TRUTH and LOVE is in fact within us all! WHICH IT IS!

So to believe the way many believe, to put your salvation in the future and in the arms of another man instead of believing the truth of who you are, you are in fact dead in your trespasses.

Jesus, and many others make it clear that no man, much less Jesus himself is to be worshipped or idolized.

The bible was never about a single man, it was always about MANKIND as a whole. The first and last ADAM.

The story has always been about Adam (mankind as a whole) taking upon themselves the sins (lies) of the world and dying to the truth of who they were, being cast out of themselves and cast out of the unity they once shared with the “Father” and then finding there way home through Christ (the 2nd MAN they become in this world)… But Jesus, like I and others know, “who will believe our report, and unto whom is the arm of the Lord revealed.”

This is why Jesus said people must believe his words to leave the ignorance of the first man and enter into the life and peace of the second man… The risen man… The man of the heart, Christ in you!

So you see it has never been about believing that something died for you, but it has always been about LEARNING from our “older brother, first-born among many, first-born of the dead… The one who went before us who also is risen in our hearts when his words of truth become our words of truth. Because the word has always been within us all…

Jesus wanted you to know what he knew, just as I and others want you to know what we know… It’s all about knowing the truth and faith comes first by hearing it!

Eternal life is hearing, believing and knowing where it all comes from.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24 KJV)

We pass from the death of ignorance into the life of possibility the instant we believe the words that Jesus shared… That I am now sharing… That many will share as we are all.

The WORD of God is within us all… For we are all, as Jesus said, the word and lights of the world, the words of our life are meant to be read of all men… We are all living epistles people… We are all more than we have known.

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John 14:12 KJV)

Start reading between the lines and beneath the black and white of ye literal… It is the spirit of the story that gives life… Now believe already, be born again into the reality of who you are, and produce fruit for the whole of the world to feast on!

Jacob
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