No Suffering Compares To What Comes
We all go through hard times and when going through those hard times we wonder if any good will ever come of it. We at times feel like failures, like we have messed everything up, like we are worthless, at times we can feel that the decisions we make are poor ones and that if we were only stronger, wiser, or more compassionate we would have acted differently or done differently.
However, we never know what beautiful things can come out of our pain. Even when we believe we have made huge mistakes, or we feel we have let so many down by not acting a certain way or doing a certain thing, even when we feel like we have messed everything up for our lives and family, or even our pets, what we don’t always see is the miracle that comes out of it all. We can’t begin to comprehend the wonderful things that actually are birthed out of choices we have made that brought us many tears and heartache. This short essay is to show you, that even when you feel like a failure, like you have let everyone down, that the very thing you did that brought you so much pain was meant to be for the greater good.
One of the things that I constantly try to get across on this site is that God is in control. Not you, not your family, friends, or neighbors, God! That means that everything that is happening, regardless of whether or not we believe it is the right or wrong thing to do, is for the greater good. Because we know ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE THAT LOVE GOD.
So whether you have a relationship that has fallen apart, or you did something you thought was really dumb and it cost you your job, whether you have lost your temper or didn’t stand up for yourself, all of it has a purpose. The past is the foundation for the future. And whatever has happened, we must accept HAD TO HAPPEN for the good that will come out of it. EVEN IF YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WAS SO WRONG. Even if you believe you have been treated wrong, raised wrong, abused, it all plays a part in bringing this perfect creation to its beautiful climatic end.
This is a hard lesson for all of us to learn. We have a knack for beating ourselves up again and again for what we perceive as our shortcomings or failures in our life. But as I stated before, we truly don’t know what comes out of such sufferings.
Romans 8:18
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us
This will be my shortest essay to date. The reason is early this morning I got some news that soon brought tears of joy to my eyes. Months ago a decision had to be made about one of our dogs. His name was COOKIE. And I loved cookie. But Cookie was a bit nippy, and demanded so much attention, more than I alone could give him. The children couldn’t handle him, my wife was scared of him, and I alone just couldn’t take care of him, and my three children, career, house, bills, yard, other dog, cat, frog, and wife. Cookie became very difficult to manage. As hard as I tried, as much as I loved the dog, he was too much.
Now one thing I want you to know about me, is I believe in responsibility. Regardless if it is keeping your vows, staying faithful, being there for your children, meeting your work requirements, or in cookies case, never giving up on an animal you adopt. So when Cookie got nippy with one of my boys and caught his face with a tooth my wife said Cookie had to go. But I also knew Cookie had to go. I felt terrible, I felt like I was giving up on this poor animal, that I was a cop-out, that I was a man who couldn’t live up to the responsibilities of caring for the very animal I rescued.
So I began looking for shelters, and I found Kent Animal Shelter in Long Island, NY… It is a non kill shelter and rated as one of the best in NY. It just so happened they had one spot. Now cookie was half American Bull dog and Half Pit, and he was a beast of a dog. BUT SUCH A MOOSH! I worried because of his size and hyper nature that they wouldn’t take him. But I worried more that they would. I prayed on my way there, that if I am meant to keep this animal that they will not take him, and if I am not they will.
I arrived and at first it looked liked it wasn’t going to happen. But soon the love of Cookie won them over. He past all the tests, I signed the papers, made a contribution and drove away in tears. I cried hysterically, feeling like a failure, like a loser. I felt like I had given up on one of my children and that I was like those people who adopt animals and when things get hard they just get rid of them like they are disposable. I felt like I had let everyone down, a feeling I get quite a lot.
I prayed that Cookie would be adopted quickly by a wonderful family and they Cookie would be happier than ever before. But for days I walked around feeling like a total loser. I imagined Cookie alone in the corner of one of their pens crying for me, shivering, or starving himself. It was horrible.
I soon learned it really was the best thing for the house, our other dog Daisy was now getting more love than ever before, the house was cute, things weren’t getting broken, and I wasn’t constantly having to run downstairs, or outside to see his demands were met. Even though I now felt like it was the right thing for my family and home, I still couldn’t shake the feeling that I just gave up on this animal.
Now when I say that I am very hard on myself, that puts it lightly. I am a deep thinker, and even though I intellectually know everything is as it is meant to be, I don’t always remember to practice what I preach. So for months I suffered, less and less as time past. But every time I saw a cookie or an old picture of my dog that pain came right back. “WHAT A FAILURE I WAS! WHAT A LOSER! HOW COULD I DO SUCH A THING TO SUCH A WONDERFUL ANIMAL?”
Well this morning early a miracle came to me. I received a phone call. My dear friend Donna saw a picture of Cookie on Kent’s blog. I couldn’t believe it!
She went on to tell me. That Cookie was adopted by a trainer who trains animals to help disabled vets, blind, lame, sick, and more. My Cookie! The dog that I thought I was giving up on, was actually meant for a greater purpose than simply bringing my family enjoyment and craziness. Cookie was meant to lead the blind, the lame, the sick, and more. MY DOG!
My smile, which is still on my face hasn’t been this big in a while. So I immediately went to their website, looked it up and there was Cookie giving the trainer a big old kiss, and a wonderful article. MY DOG IS GOING TO BE A HEALER, A GUIDE, AND A HELPER! A purpose far greater than I could have ever given him.
In that moment, I realized all of the waisted energy I had spent. All the times I beat myself up and put myself down, thinking I had done wrong. When in fact, if I could have seen what was to come of Cookie, I would have handed that dog over proudly! You see Cookie was meant for greater things, as we all are. We never believe we can do more, or be more, than we believe ourselves to be. We so often think that things we do are huge mistakes, when in fact if we did not make them we would never be able to go to where God is bringing us all.
We must not be like I was when it came to giving Cookie away. We must accept things as they are, because they are meant to be as they are. And even though we may suffer, even though we may feel like failures and losers, NOTHING CAN COMPARE TO THE GLORY THAT WILL BE REVEALED when all the dust has settled and we see that there truly was no other way for us to enter into the promise God has waiting for us. So as you read this article on my Dog Cookie, remember just because we think we have failed or done wrong by our loved ones, if it wasn’t for those actions the purpose of God in their lives and ours would never be met. So we must learn to rejoice, even in the things that we believe were our greatest mistakes. We must learn to forgive ourselves, and trust that if God wanted anything in our past to be different it would be different. And we must walk into the moment, proud, head held high, seeing ourselves the way God sees us. Because we never know that even our greatest mistakes may have been our greatest contributions to the world and our own lives. We must always remember, keep close to our hearts, and be quick to speak from our lips, that GOD IN IN CONTROL, SO REST!
When we enter that rest nothing will matter, no pain will be too great, no challenge beyond our reach, and victory will be shouted and experienced in every area of our lives. So, let yourself off the hook and go with the flow. And trust me when I say, when you know this experientially it will change everything for you, and it will indeed set you free. Enjoy the article, and wonderful allegory of my Dog cookie who I now know I didn’t give up on, but I simply prepared to be a dog that could go on and change or even save the life of countless people hurting today.
Jacob
http://kentanimalshelter.com
All they can be… Kent dogs drafted to help wounded vets
March 21st, 2011 Blindness, amputated limbs, spinal injuries, traumatic brain injuries, post traumatic stress disorder—these are just a few of the serious, life-changing injuries that soldiers are returning home with. The physical and emotional challenges these men and women face in recovery and adjusting back to civilian life can be… overwhelming.
A group called Vets Helping Heroes is providing something special to these wounded returning vets: service dogs and guide dogs. With training, dogs can help veterans live again with dignity and self-reliance. They can guide or provide balance for added mobility. In the event of danger or a medical emergency, such as a seizure or fall, they can sound the alert. They can retrieve or carry objects. And last but not least, they can be a friend and constant companion.
This week, a retired veteran named Michael Sergeant of Vets Helping Heroes adopted three dogs from Kent Animal Shelter to be trained to help wounded vets. Here is Mr. Sergeant with one of the dogs, Cookie.
Retired veteran Michael Sergeant again with Cookie
A sturdy breed with a good temperament is an ideal companion dog for wounded veterans. With training and attention, they’ll make excellent helpers.
Kent Animal Shelter is proud and grateful to have had this chance to help wounded veterans and to give three of our dogs the chance to shine. Pets can have amazing healing powers!
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Thank you God for answering my prayers and the prayers of those in need today. Help us all to let go of what we believe are our failures and help us to trust that you are guiding our steps to where we need to be. Jacob
DON’T FALL AMONG THIEVES
DON’T FALL AMONG THIEVES
In study, the other night, I was reading Luke’s Gospel and remembered a certain verse that was quickened (saw clearly the meaning of) to me some years ago. It dealt with the story of the Man who fell among thieves. Jesus used this story to picture who “our Neighbor” was.
Years ago, when I read this story I thought it was pretty cut and dry. Some guy comes up to Jesus and says, “Hey, what do I have to do to inherit eternal life.” Jesus says, “What do you think? What does the Law say?” The guy responds, “Love God, and Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Simple right? Well, no… Because, then the guy goes onto justify himself by asking, “And just whoooooo, is my neighbor?”
Now, Jesus could have said, “Are you kidding me lawyer Man? Look around you, everyone you see is your neighbor.” However, he didn’t. In typical Jesus form, he started in with his parables… I always thought Jesus would have made an excellent elementary school teacher, as he taught things so simply using these wonderful word pictures, and stories, to make his point. A child could understand, but not us smarty pants religious adults. I, too, find myself saying, after looking at a particular verse… “Master, what dost thou meanest?” Believe it or not, that is EXACTLY how I ask… Because I like to get my old English freak on when dealing the things of the God. You can thank Mr. King James for that.
Okay, enough of the silly talk… back to the point of this essay/parable. Which is easy to understand, if you understand that it’s a parable, not so simple, if you think it be literal.
In many cases, the problem is, over the years, mankind has begun to think these stories to be literally true. In fact, a majority of scripture is looked at this way, even though Jesus taught the kingdom if a mystery, and mysteries need to be uncovered. Come on Nancy Drew Keep up!
In fact, in many parables Jesus gives, describing the kingdom, it is HIDDEN. “Treasure hidden in a field” “Seed hidden in the ground” “Leaven hidden in meal”
What I am getting at here is not everything is so cut and dry. Not everything is understood by a literal reading of it.
I often use the story of the boy who cried wolf as an example of what these parables are like. If the story is taken literally then the meaning and message is lost. It become a tragic tale of some kid eaten by a wolf… But when it is understood allegorically, the reader knows that exaggerating and lying can get you in BIG trouble… The same is true for every parable Jesus spoke.
He said to his disciples (those being taught by the WORD/truth) – “Unto YOU it is given to KNOW the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Unto them that are without… ALL THINGS ARE DONE IN PARABLE.” <-
Mind you scripture does not say, Jesus spoke SOME THINGS in parable … Scripture states to the masses Jesus ONLY spoke in parable. (NOT LITERALLY, a story that must be spiritually discerned, a story that uses symbols to get across a point, a story that can only be understood by revelation. Which is the revealed meaning of the hidden truth inside the parable.) And Jesus ONLY spoke to the masses in parable.
Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them
Why did he do this?
Matthew 13:13
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
He spoke in Parable – WHICH IS WHY WE CANNOT TAKE EVERYTHING LITERALLY PEOPLE! The Letter (which means literal understanding) KILLS (makes you ignorant). You see Jesus spoke in Parable so that people would not rely on their understanding, the meaning would have to come like lightning from heaven (insight/revelation within). For years you may not understand something, and then in an instant the truth and meaning floods your thoughts. This is expressed perfectly in the nest passage where we see, Jesus having to expound these things he spoke (parables) to his disciples.
Mark 4:34
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples
Notice the words, when they were ALONE. Now follow me, if Christ is IN you, this is the hope of Glory. That means that WITHIN YOU the spirit of Wisdom and Power (which is Christ) will expound the meaning of these things to you. And then after going up that ladder to heaven, you can then come down again and express what you have learned to those around you, and those with ears to hear will hear. And usually those that hear (understand) are those that are in his BOSOM (AN ALLEGORY for instruction/nursing/teaching).
Mark 4:11
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables
Basically, Jesus is saying, those that know the Truth will see (understand the HEART of these allegorical tales and be set free. But those who do not know the TRUTH (Christ REVEALS) will see only the literal story. And in HEARING they will not hear, and in SEEING they will not see.
The problem arises when the story becomes the important part, as opposed to the heart of the story which is WHAT THE PARABLE IS ABOUT. We need to LOOK TO THE HEART of things as God looks to the HEART of us all. If looked to the outward man (how we act, what we do) and not to the inward man (who we truly are) God would see a hot mess in his creation, but God looks to the heart, he looks to the TRUTH within the PARABLE that is US.
Okay, that being said and done… Let’s dig into this parable of the good Samaritan. Because there is something more for us to learn from it, when the eyes of our understanding can SEE IT.
Luke 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
What a weird question, don’t you think? Shouldn’t it be obvious? Well, no! First, consider who is asking the question.
Luke 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and TEMPTED him
This was NOT a sincere question from a sincere man. He was TEMPTING HIM. Which means, he was trying to discredit and open the door for Jesus to sin (THINK AND ACT FOOLISHLY). As we know, “when we are tempted we are drawn away by our own lusts.” This insincere man was also trying to justify himself, which simply means, he wanted to prove he was right and Jesus was wrong.
The LAWYERS of the day, weren’t known for their sincerity in the faith. In fact quite the opposite. They were known as people who used the scriptures as a bat and not a shepherd’s staff. Know some people like that? People who always have to be right and will throw one scripture out after another to prove that our God is not a God of Love.
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers REJECTED the counsel of God.
You see the Lawyers of that day, and the people who use the scriptures as a way to justify themselves and beat down everyone else, especially those that are unique and different, REJECT THE COUNSEL OF GOD. Which is to LOVE OTHERS AS YOURSELF, DO GOOD UNTO OTHERS, DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WANT DONE TO YOURSELF.
The Lawyers are a parabolic picture of those, who study the LETTER of the LAW and condemn those on every single point yet they themselves refuse the TRUTH OF GOD. Could the same be said for many calling themselves men and women of God today? I sadly would have to say yes.
The Lawyers are a picture of the Religious Elite who consider themselves beyond reproach because of their scrutinizing study of the mosaic Law. We have lots of them today, with their “the bible says this”, and “the bible LITERALLY says that”, and yet they don’t have the first inkling of what God is speaking through these scriptures.
John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me
Many today don’t understand the Spirit of the scriptures which should come alive with revelation when read. Instead, they rely on the dead letter (literal) of the scriptures, which they use to condemn and justify themselves as authorities on the things of God. Much like our lawyer in the Samaritan story.
As an author, I am sad when I see this. Let’s put aside the majority of evidence in scripture that gives each of us the keys to understanding the scriptures. Let’s put aside the fact that the scriptures states clearly “God opens his mouth in parable, in dark sayings” “That it is the glory of God to CONCEAL a thing”, And Christ (The power and wisdom of God) COMES (is revealed) in the Glory of God (The hidden parable of scripture and our waking life).
In my novel, “The Calling”, I tell a thrilling story about a boy who was purposed to change the world from birth, as we are all purposed from birth. His life becomes incredibly difficult. Now, THE CALLING is a great book, but this FICTION is not meant to be taken LITERALLY… IT IS AN ALLEGORY! On one level we see a Child who suffers abuse and hardship and we follow him on a fantastic journey that brings the world hope. But on another level, a deeper level, everything is speaking of something spiritual. And only a few will see the deeper meaning of what is written, because like the scriptures I prayed to write a novel that would also need to be spiritually discerned. Hey that is what book clubs are all about, finding out what the author is REALLY TRYING TO SAY! And the scriptures are no different.
However, regardless of how clever the story telling in the The Calling is, regardless of how believable it seems to be, it is simply an allegory that I hope further a persons spiritual journey. The Calling is not a true story, sure most of it is based on aspects of my life but it is NOT A TRUE STORY that is meant to be taken literally. It is an ALLEGORY.
But consider this, what if thousands of years go by, and someone finds this book and starts teaching that all of it literally happened (which it didn’t). Then everyone will focus on the fantastic elements of the books as literal and miss the fantastic TRUTH that is ONLY UNDERSTOOD by moving past what seemed to literally happen to what REALLY MATTERS!
I don’t know about you but I want LIFE not DEATH. I want REVELATION not Regurgitation.
Back to the LAWYER… I want to point out that studying the scriptures as well as other holy books is great, but no amount of study MAKES YOU GOD’S CHILD. We are justified by our Faith, like Abraham was, not by how many scriptures we can quote.
The Lawyers of Jesus day were known for being cruel and judgmental, so Jesus knew the intent of this Lawyers heart.
The man asking Jesus, “what shall I do to inherit eternal life” … was TEMPTING HIM. He didn’t want to know the truth. He simply was testing Christ’s knowledge… He was putting Jesus on the spot. How many put us on the spot for our beliefs? They don’t really want to know what we believe to be true they want to find a crack in our beliefs to wiggle in and exploit. They want to prove us wrong, so they can prove to themselves and others they are right.
And yes, this is what has become of religion today, a bunch of people running around looking for who is with them, and condemning anyone who sees things differently. Well, I for one don’t mind being condemned if what God is revealing to me is foreign to what the local church, mosque, or kingdom hall is teaching. What about you? Do you want more than Religion? Do you want the know the Truth of God no matter what the cost? Then to do this, you need to SEEK AND FIND, and when you SEEK AND FIND as the Gospel of Thomas states, you will be disturbed. Because everything you thought you knew was never true. And like Paul, when the revelation of Christ came you too, will become BLIND (meaning you will realize you know nothing about God) and you will need to be led by a child and restored by those who God sends your way, or restored by allowing what God is revealing to you to reside in your thoughts. And when that happens you will get rid of everything that you once held dear, you will empty that ship because you know you only need Christ.
Matthew 13:44
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field
So when the lawyer tempted Jesus, in typical Messiah fashion, Jesus flipped the switch quick on him.
“He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?”
Christ was appealing to the man’s vanity. He knew the Lawyer believed he had the answers, he knew the Lawyer couldn’t WAIT to tell Jesus how everyone needs to WORK THEIR WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE…. WORKS, phewy!
And when the Lawyer answered, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.”
Jesus said, “You answered right. Do this and LIVE”. Notice Jesus didn’t say, “do this and have eternal life” – There is a good reason. Because ETERNAL LIFE is NOT what most think it to be.
Many believe Eternal Life is playing shuffle board in Heaven with the saints and Patriarchs and eating all the ice cream and fried oreo cookies they want without ever putting on a pound. (That does sound good, I have to admit) However, THAT IS NOT ETERNAL LIFE!
The Lawyer wanted to know what to do, TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. Jesus said, you answered right DO THAT AND LIVE.
ETERNAL LIFE = TO LIVE
And the ONLY WAY to truly LIVE is to know God and the TRUTH! We are LITERALLY told what Eternal life is, in John.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
ETERNAL LIFE is to KNOW GOD and CHRIST. There it is, in Black and White. And To know this, you MUST LOVE GOD and LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR as yourself. That alone is a revelation… For if you want to KNOW GOD and CHRIST you need only LOVE GOD and your NEIGHBOR. That is a HUGE TRUTH if you can see it… hope you can. If not, no worries, I’ll have some seven page paper on what that means soon I’m sure. 🙂
Jesus is the RESURRECTION and the LIFE, if you BELIEVE on CHRIST (God’s wisdom and power) even though you were DEAD (Ignorant/carnal) you shall LIVE (Be enlightened)
John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in (For/Unto) me, though he were dead, yet shall he live
And if I have said it once, it isn’t enough. It isn’t about believing in a literal man from thousands of years ago, it is believing as HE believes. It is believing IN (which means literally UNTO or FOR) him. You need to come to stature of the perfect man, and full understanding as Jesus had. You need to come to the unity of the faith.
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
But listening to the LAWYERS of Jesus’ day or today, won’t bring you there. Religious pride and arrogance and bias won’t help you LIVE. In fact, quite the opposite. If someone has the “it’s my way or the highway” mentality, you will never be free. You will be BOUND BY THEIR CHAINS. You will be YOLKED by their ignorance and abuse.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
You know very well that if your beliefs don’t line up with an “unbelievers” particular beliefs they will condemn you for it. Not exactly what everyone should get when looking for peace in their life, huh?
You see, this LAWYER didn’t really want to know Eternal Life (God and Christ) he wanted to discredit Jesus. That was his motive.
Jesus then goes on to tell a story, about who is your NEIGHBOR. This ain’t no Mr. Rogers were talking about… this is JESUS people, so Listen up!
Luke 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
You got to love how Jesus always starts his parable off with “a certain man” –
The reason, is that CERTAIN MAN is EVERY MAN/WOMAN – it is no one in particular and everyone in particular.
Now, upon a simple reading of this you would think this story is about some poor guy who got robbed and only one person helped him. But like I stated earlier, not everything is as it literally seems.
This parable has more to do with FAITH and BELIEF than it has to do with literally being robbed. So, let’s tear these scriptures apart and SEE (understand) what is REALLY going on.
Luke 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.
We can learn something from the description of where this “certain man” left, Jerusalem, which in HEBREW means “Teaching of PEACE”.
So this “certain man” left the “TEACHING OF PEACE “(Jerusalem) to go to Jericho, which means “It’s MOON” – Symbolic of the FALSE LIGHT. The MOON is symbolic of MAN’S SOUL as it simply REFLECTS the SON/SUN. The MOON is not the SOURCE of LIGHT (Truth) it is a very dim reflection of it.
The SUN is to the SON as the Moon is to MANS WAYS/TEACHING.
This is interesting to note because this CERTAIN MAN left JERUSALEM to go to JERICHO… This certain man LEFT THE TEACHING OF PEACE for the FALSE LIGHT. And this is what so many people are ignorantly doing. God wakes them up inside, they want to know God, and unfortunately they leave what is being taught within and go to “religion”. AND THEY GET ROBBED AND BEATEN AND ABUSED FOR IT!
Been there, done that myself.
This is allegorical of MANKIND leaving the TRUTH of God for the IMITATION/Religion – BADDDDD RELIGION…. And yes, most of us do this very same thing. I did it, you probably did it, or you are doing it now.
Oh, I know what you’re saying, “That’s a stretch, Jacob.. Jerusalem and Jericho are literal places, the meaning of their names isn’t significant at all… YOUR CRAZZZZZZY!… CRAZY LIKE CHRIST I SAY!
I would have used Fox, but you know, them foxes (religious/political leaders-look it up) always spoiling the vine and such… Anyway, regardless of what your thinking about the names of those places and their meanings follow this paper and see if the meanings of these names be what they be.
Lets look at the next line…
Luke 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.
This CERTAIN MAN left Jerusalem for Jericho and fell among THIEVES. Oh, sure you could say that he was just robbed literally… BUT, THAT DOESN’T HELP YOU SPIRITUALLY DOES IT?
Our literal possessions don’t matter to God or Christ.
Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt…
Jesus is TEACHING about how to inherit ETERNAL LIFE not about how to avoid getting robbed or some self-defense technique… I think Peter had some kind of Karate class going on with Paul for a while, but they never agreed on whether the pork dumplings and stir fry was acceptable for end of the year Karate Mixer… <-insert laugh here for bad apostolic joke.
As I said earlier, this is a story of “MANKIND” leaving THE TEACHING OF PEACE (Jerusalem) for MAN’S TEACHINGS (The Moon/Jericho).
Now we know, there is only ONE WAY to find the FATHER and that is THROUGH THE SON. This is what Jesus is telling the lawyer. He is actually showing the lawyer that the LAWYER was a THIEF to begin with.
Of course the Lawyers and Pharisees of the world could never see this because they are too busy keeping people from the Kingdom. That was their thing, all about straining for gnats and swallowing camels… Hazing was NUTS back in the day! 🙂
So, let’s say I’m right… That this story is about Mankind leaving the TRUTH for MAN’S TEACHINGS and getting robbed spiritually… If this be so, who then are the THIEVES?
Well, Jesus tells us…
John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Look at that, Jesus says THOSE THAT TRY and ENTER THE KINGDOM ANY OTHER WAY than HIM… Is a THIEF AND A ROBBER.
Isn’t that something? This paper is about MANKIND leaving GOD’S TRUTH for MAN’S LIES and they FALL AMONG THIEVES… and Jesus says, the thieves are liars who promise entrance into the Kingdom another way, without CHRIST, without the TRUTH.
Now, let me just point out. Just because you “Literally” say “Jesus is your Lord and Savior” and go to church every Sunday and read your bible and pray… that DOES NOT MEAN you worship GOD. Don’t get angry, these aren’t my words… Take it up with the Lord!
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
That means a literal belief in a literal Man is not having the TRUTH. The hope of Glory if CHRIST IN YOU. Salvation is believing on his name (nature) … Salvation is UNDERSTANDING THE TRUTH about God.
There are hundreds of denominations in Christianity that claim Jesus as their Lord and Savior, who are as lost as those who worship the bark off a tree. This is why we MUST ask God, “Teach me the Truth, no matter what the cost” and daily seek His Face (NOT LITERALLY HIS FACE… COME ON PEOPLE :). To seek God’s face, is to RECOGNIZE the TRUTH.
And when we SEEK GOD, we MUST get rid of EVERY THING else we have held unto and believed to be true, that was not TRUE. We must let go of everything man has taught us, for what the Holy Spirit WITHIN US teaches us. Time to lets those Idols go; but not American Idol’s come on, it’s the only show the whole family agrees on. And now that Paula and Simon are gone, perhaps it’s time for us to move on.
SO, to be saved we HAVE TO LET GO OF ANY THING THAT IS NOT TRUE. We must be purged of the OLD MAN, the OLD THINKING, WE MUST PUT ON THE MIND OF CHRIST, and get rid of everything else.
We saw how Paul had those on his Prison Ship get rid of everything in the boat that was WEIGHING them down so the STORM would not overtake them. A perfect picture of how we have to get rid of all the lies we have believed over the years and allow Christ the TRUTH to set us free.
But back to our story here.
Luke 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.
You see, when we first enter religion… many of us, fall among THIEVES. We enter in thinking we will get closer to God but these so-called Teachers end up stealing from us. They rob us of so much, our spirit, our finances, our friends, our fun, our routines, like the FROGS that plagued Egypt (if you have eyes to see this) these CROAKING RELIGIOUS LEADERS get into everything, our food, our bedroom, every aspect of our lives these Religious Leaders try to control. This is what Jesus’ parable is about, Bad Religion.
Let’s go to rest of this verse.
…which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead
RAIMENT is a key word here people… Once again, we are not talking about some real life thugs robbing a guy and stealing his clothes. No, we are talking about a covering, “spiritual Raiment” – and all we need to do is go to scripture to find out what it really is.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;
RAIMENT is another word for clothes. Clothes we put on and take off. God clothes us with TRUTH and HUMILITY.
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
You see, here is another allegory for us to uncover. Many people, wanting to have a relationship with God, ignorantly leave Godly beliefs like humility, acceptance, forgiveness, for the love for Religious pride, condemnation, judgment, and more.
So, this “Certain Man” went to Religion to find God and ended up being robbed and stripped of every good thought he had when he was in JERUSALEM (the teaching of peace)
These Thieves are bad, bad, bad, RELIGIOUS leaders, who lure you in and take, take, take from you. And they leave you HALF DEAD (Carnal and ignorant) – As the LAWYER in this story, most certainly did on a regular basis.
Whenever you leave the TRUTH OF GOD for the WAYS OF MAN, you will always find some Thief waiting to rob you.
This puts a whole new spin, however on the crucifixion. As Christ was right there IN BETWEEN TWO THIEVES…
You see, even the THIEVES can repent and find their dwelling in paradise in Christ.
Moving on:
“And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.”
By now, you should understand why the Priest and Levite passed the robbed, naked, beaten, half dead man on the other side. They weren’t going to help this “certain man” at all. For they were THIEVES themselves. If however, the man had something to OFFER THEM, they would… But at this point, he had nothing.
Bad Religious Leaders cannot help those abused by other Bad Religious Leaders. The Priest and Levite, claimed the things of God, claimed to know God, but ignored the hurt member of their faith. They can’t see the pain bad religion causes, they can’t see the damage they are doing to their blind flock. Because they are blind themselves.
Jesus said, when I was naked you DID NOT clothe me. This is a picture of the BODY OF CHRIST, being robbed of the TRUTH of God they should be CLOTHED IN!
WISDOM is what the half dead need. And this parable speaks it clearly.
“But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.”
This is the NEIGHBOR who we must LOVE AS OURSELVES. Those being abused and robbed of the TRUTH in BAD RELIGION. And that pretty much sums up everyone, from every faith, and those without faith, bad religion has robbed the world blind!
We, are to be like the SAMARITAN which comes from the Hebrew ROOT word “GUARDIANSHIP” – We appear to the Lawyers and Pharisees of the world as “Heretics” who don’t know the God of the Hebrews, but a TREE IF KNOWN BY ITS FRUIT… And this SAMARITAN fruit was SWEET.
We are to be the GUARDIANS of the day. We are to be the bringer of LIGHT, if CHRIST be in us. There are many hurting today, many that Religion has robbed and abused, WE MUST PICK UP THE PIECES FOR THEM WITH LOVE.
The word COMPASSION, means to SUFFER WITH. We MUST ANSWER their SUFFERING and BIND UP THEIR WOUNDS.
How do we do it? You ask.
WITH OIL AND WINE! – Yes, this is another allegory. Of course, Neosporin would help a healing wound better than oil and wine, so we must see what is truly being USED TO HEAL here.
OIL is a symbol. It is used on the sick and used to anoint Kings. First consider how oil is made, it is the ESSENCE of the OLIVE, and our symbolic “OIL” that WE must pour out is the ESSENCE of CHRIST, which is TRUTH/WISDOM.
OIL is a symbol for WISDOM.
Psalm 104:15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
OIL makes a face SHINE …Want to see what else causes a man’s face to shine?
Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine,
WISDOM makes a face to SHINE.
This puts a whole new spin on why Moses’ face was shining after coming down from the mountain of God. And why Jesus’ face was shining on the Mount of Transfiguration. WISDOM IS THE KEY, A TREE OF LIFE, OF ALL THERE IS TO GET, GET WISDOM! 🙂
OIL = WISDOM
WINE = SPIRIT OF TRUTH
This is what we use to heal the wounds of those who have fallen among THIEVES (those who try to enter the Kingdom any other way than Christ)
When BAD RELIGION steals, we BIND UP.
When they are left NAKED, we CLOTHE THEM with the WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH!
This is what it means, to LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. Now go and do likewise, as the J-man says!
1 Corinthians 1:27
“But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;”
Peace to you and yours,
JACOB
http://www.JacobIsrael.org
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It’s Beneath You!
IT’S BENEATH YOU!
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
So what does the “TRUTH” set us free from? You ask.
The answer is free from every bit of pain and suffering in your life, free from wondering “why me?” all the time. Free from the belief that you have no reason to have hope, that things will never get better, or that things are as good as they are ever going to get. The Truth sets you free to finally LIVE YOUR LIFE, because it is the TRUTH that shows you WHO YOU TRULY ARE! And until you know who you REALLY ARE, you cannot ever be FREE TO BE YOU!
Now, by the end of this essay you won’t be able to flip the proverbial switch and finally stop sweating the small and big stuff, but what I pray it does do is open your eyes to the possibilities that are before us all. I pray it will change the way you look at the trials in your life, and in so doing your reactions to these trials will change. I pray it will send you on your way to thinking differently, which in turn will help you live differently. Because I know the longer you live with a renewed mind the easier and more enjoyable life will become.
Listen there is no quick fix to the trials we face in life. The truth is, as you will see by the end of this essay, it is these very trials and hurts that are healing us.
As I said, there is no quick fix. For those that say, come to this place, meet with this guru, get touched by this healer and everything will be perfect, you need to know they are either complete liars or they are simply ignorant.
1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice, in as much as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy
We will have hard times, we will be tested, we will be brought through the fire, we may even at times wish we could just put our lives to an end (even though we’d just have to go through it all over again :))
The fact of the matter is we will, as the scripture states, have suffering in this world…
John 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world
We are told people will come against us, disappoint us and hurt us. And in turn we too may do the same. We may come against people or have, we may hurt people or have, we may disappoint people or have. I have often written about how, what we do to one we do to ourselves. So long as people in the world suffer, we will suffer with them.
1 Corinthians 12:25-27
25That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular
We go through life thinking we are alone. But God said it is not good for man to be alone. And the only way we can be free from this loneliness is to care for one another. A sense of community only comes when you commune with each other.
NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE is free from the sufferings of this present time. The good news is WE WILL OVERCOME!
There are times I lose faith when I should be holding onto faith. There are times I lose heart when my heart should be full! There are times I lose HOPE and it is HOPE THAT SAVES US, as you will soon learn. This is why I hope this article will give every one of you that hope, hope that I too need to constantly remind myself of.
Because yes, I too suffer, I too have terribly hard times, I too have people tearing me down, betraying me, I too at times feel like none of this is worth it, I too lose my temper, I too cry, I too say bad words that I wish I could take back, as the apostle Paul said, sometimes I do the things I hate, and the things I want to do when hard times come my way I can’t and don’t.
Romans 7
18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
If you’ve read my articles enough by now you know the FLESH is not our literal “epidermis or skin”. The Flesh is our ignorance, our “carnal mind”.
Notice Paul didn’t say, “I know that ON ME (that is, my flesh)” – He wrote “I know that IN ME” – inside each of us is a lifetime of insecurities, fears, and yes basic “fight or flight” animal instinct. But this is not has it always was for us. It is simply the state we find ourselves in now. The good news is we are ever evolving into a more complex spiritual being, one that puts away the lusts of this beastly nature and chooses the path of peace, love, and acceptance (The only way to have the same in your life).
We are in the process of putting to death all of our fears and insecurities for the peace, power, and sound mind that is our inheritance. In other words we are in process of becoming the PERFECT MAN = CHRIST!
Ephesians 4:13
Untiil 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
Now this is the best news anyone can share. We will ALL come to the UNITY OF THE FAITH, we will ALL come to the KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD… it’s important to note this doesn’t mean we will know A SON OF GOD names Jesus, but we will come to the very same knowledge of the SON OF GOD, for that is who we will be. But more on that later.
Now the very next piece of this scripture, “unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” – What this means people is WE ALL will OVERCOME! This is the message of the TRUE GOSPEL. Not the candy coated gospel they teach in many churches today which says all you have to do is come down to an altar confess the name of Jesus, a man from two thousand years ago, recite a phrase just right, and then WHAMO YOU’RE SAVED! Oh how I wish it were that simple.
I have news for you that isn’t the way to freedom. Sure for many it is first step, it was for me. And for many it is an important first step. You gotta fake it till you make it I suppose LOL… Actually, you have to first learn the story to then understand the allegory of the story, to then understand that story is actually YOUR STORY AS WELL! And when you get to that final step, then you know salvation. Then, regardless of what happens in the world to you, you’ll understand it is all part of the plan.
Look, salvation is not reciting a prayer and then going back to a miserable life. Salvation is knowing LIFE! And life more abundantly! That is what salvation is and the only way to know this is to come to the UNITY OF THE FAITH AND THE STATURE OF THE PERFECT MAN!
Now for those who are going to absolutely disagree with me, and say, “NO! All you have to do is accept Jesus into your heart and you are saved!” I say, get a grip on what you are teaching and learning. You see the worst part about the salvation they are selling today is all about the future. That’s right, forget being saved from the cares of this world and the pain of your life, no, this salvation doesn’t free you from that. This salvation the religions of the world teach is NOT for the here and now, it is for the future.
They teach, if you don’t do this or that, you are doomed to an infinite place of torture. (Which by the way doesn’t exist see my article “to hell with hell” and “the Lake of Fire”).
But let me tell you the truth very clearly. Let me tell you what salvation is. It is being SAVED from yourself and the pain and suffering in the here and now! A person starving doesn’t need food after he dies, he needs food NOW! A sick man doesn’t need medicine after he dies, he needs the cure now! THAT IS SALVATION AND THE GOOD NEWS IS IT IS HERE FOR US ALL!
Luke 19
9And Jesus said unto him, This DAY is SALVATION come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
When Jesus came into Zacchaeus’ house, Zacchaeus started to justify all that he did. He said I give half my goods to the poor, I do this Jesus, I do that… Jesus didn’t say. HEY IT’S A GOOD THING YOU DID! No! Jesus simply said, THIS DAY salvation is come (which means REVEALED) – this day SALVATION is REVEALED to you.
The scriptures are such a wonderful allegory. Zacchaeus was a man who was called “LITTLE OF STATURE” and how many of us don’t feel worthy, how many of us feel SHORT OF STATURE (standing). How many of us right now, just want peace, and feel unworthy of it?
Zacchaeus was what many in that day considered a sinner, not worthy of such salvation. He was a publican and they were despized. Worse still, Zacchaeus was chief of the publicans (which is basically a tax collector for those that don’t know). But Zacchaeus was tired of trying so hard to find salvation, he was tired of suffering, he just wanted CHRIST!
Now see the beautiful allegory here. He ran ahead of those standing in his way, he passed all of those who wouldn’t let him through, and he CLIMBED THE TREE to SEE his salvation. What a great parable. We must CLIMB the tree of life to find life, and because he did this, he found what he was looking for. SALVATION!
Now this salvation had NOTHING to do with the afterlife it had to do with the MOMENT! This is what we are also crying out for, isn’t it? Do we really want security in the future, or so we want security and peace NOW?
We want what Zaccheus wanted, SALVATION in the here and now. We want peace, we want victory, we want OUT of the pain we are feeling. And to find this we MUST CLIMB THE TREE! We must run ahead of all those people standing in our way, as Zacchaeus did, we must leave all those KEEPING US from salvation behind us and we MUST CLIMB THE TREE that is within us. And when we do this we who have been living a life of DEATH (pain, suffering, ignorance, strife,) will finally know LIFE!
John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live
Now I want to point something out here that will make many trapped in religion cringe. The scripture above states, “He that believes IN me” – which would lead many to believe we MUST BELIEVE IN a single man from two thousand years ago. HOWEVER, that is NOT what that scripture literally means.
The word “IN” in Greek – (eiÎv) is properly translated as FOR. Like you are waiting for, looking for, or someone is wanted for something. So with that in mind this scripture takes on a whole new meaning. WATCH!
Picture Jesus standing in front of you, enlightened knowing the truth about God, knowing there is a plan. Now you on the other hand are hurting and weak, wanting desperately to have what this man seems to have… And he says, “Those that BELIEVE FOR ME!” – This is a hard thing to grasp because it’s not about believing IN something outside of you, or waiting for something to come to save you as Martha believed when she said, “I know Lazarus will rise on the last day.” No! This, which is a commonly held and taught belief today that everything is about the hereafter instead of the here and now has nothing to do with believing FOR SOMETHING, UNTO SOMETHING, BECOMING SOMETHING…
So when Martha says that, how does Jesus reply? Does he say, yes Martha you are right. This man cannot live, we must wait and wait and wait. NO! Jesus says, those that BELIEVE FOR ME, even though they are dead (suffering/hurt/ignorant), they will LIVE!
Okay, still didn’t catch that? Let me put it another way. “Those that believe they can be as I am in this world shall live.” Those that believe FOR ME! Not IN me, FOR ME! I don’t work in a paycheck, I work FOR a paycheck. I don’t believe I can write so I can be IN a writer, I believe I can write so I can be a writer.
I know this is a taboo subject for many. For many, the man/prophet Jesus is a Golden Calf, not to be touched, not to be obtained, only to be worshipped.
Yet, Jesus clearly said, there is only one way, I AM THE WAY!
He is not saying you can get salvation by believing that one man is the way, he is saying, the only way to salvation is to BE AS HE IS! The only way to have perfect LOVE is to BE AS HE IS! To BELIEVE FOR THIS NATURE!
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
The scripture doesn’t say, as he is, WE ARE NOT! NO, it clearly states as HE IS, SO ARE WE.
But wait there is more!
John 14:12
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
Everything Jesus did, we do, and GREATER WORKS shall we do.
But wait there is more and this is important for all of you to understand which is why I am writing this. Because there will NEVER BE FREEDOM OR SALVATION by believing in anything outside of you.
Luke 17:21
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you
It’s not about what is OUTSIDE YOU, but what is WITHIN YOU. Salvation is about knowing the TRUE NATURE that is inside you! Knowing that who you think you are, the sum total of your insecurities, fears, doubts, etc, IS NOT WHO YOU ARE! It is ANTI-CHRIST… meaning the OPPOSITE of WHO YOU ARE!
Romans 8
28And we know that all things work together for good to THEM that love God, to THEM who are the called according to his purpose. 29For THOSE he foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that (the son) might be the firstborn among many brethren.
I want you to REALLY read that above scripture closely. Then if you are really feeling up to it go back and read the entire chapter. What I want to point out is this above scripture is NOT TALKING ABOUT ONE SON, but MANY that are CONFORMED to the image of the SON, so THIS SON (humanity in its enlightened and true state) might be the firstborn among MANY BRETHREN!
Let me spell that out for you! WE CAN’T FAIL! That is the good news. We have all been predestined to be conformed/fashioned/made INTO THE IMAGE OF THE SON so IN US this SON will be the FIRSTBORN among the DEAD (ignorant). Notice that word DEAD isn’t speaking of a singular death, but a plurality.
Matthew 28:7
And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you
Oh I know, you are going to say that is speaking of Jesus’ death. Well if by “Jesus” you mean a symbol of all of humanity you are right. Look at this next passage.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of THEM that slept
Notice, the DEAD (ignorant/carnal) that Christ is risen from is a multitude… THEM THAT SLEPT. The scripture doesn’t say now Christ is risen from his death, it says RISEN FROM THE DEAD (PLURAL). Still don’t believe me?
1 Corinthians 15:13
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen
Paul is speaking of the plurality of this great resurrection, which takes place WITHIN us all! And if there is no resurrection from the DEAD (PLURAL) then CHRIST is not RISEN… Why, you ask? Because CHRIST rises from OUR DEATH (IGNORANCE)
2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts
This is a SURE WORD of prophesy. Which means, you can take that to the bank baby! Christ will be FORMED IN YOU! It is the Hope of Glory after all.
So let’s look at this “Death” shall we. What is it?
Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death
Romans 7:24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death
Look the list goes on and on. Death is a symbol. And what we call life is actually nothing more than DEATH (IGNORANT SUFFERING) But watch this next verse and see how DEATH and RESURRECTION has to do will ALL OF MANKIND and not just one single man.
1 Corinthians 15:21
For since by mankind came death, by mankind came also the resurrection of the dead
So in this DEATH mindset we are ignorant, we suffer in this world. BUT this is all part of a greater plan. We were made subject to this vanity for a reason, so we could be RISEN from the DEATH of our IGNORANCE into the GLORIOUS LIBERTY of the SON (CHILD) OF GOD!
This is the GOSPEL! We shall be delivered, we shall be set free! This is all part of the plan and the sooner we realise this the easier it will be to walk through the fiery trials set before us.
Romans 8:21
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
We shall be delivered from the bondage of our corrupted thinking. We SHALL BE SAVED! And how are we saved again? Well by believing this GOSPEL!
We are NOT saved by believing in some man from two thousand years ago. He was a pattern for us. Believing in Abraham Lincoln doesn’t keep slavery at bay, by knowing slavery is wrong and being as Abraham Lincoln does. Believing in someone who can swim doesn’t save you from drowning, YOU MUST BECOME THE SWIMMER!
We do not know life by waiting for some man from two thousand years ago to return, we are saved the instant we know we are as that son, and that son (child) is come (revealed) to our house = revealed in our thinking! HOPE IS OUR SALVATION!
Jesus said to the RELIGIOUS LEADERS tear down THIS TEMPLE. Because let’s face it, it’s the religious who tear down the temple which is our faith and hope, us. He said, tear down this TEMPLE (WHICH IS ALL OF US) and I (the LIFE within each of us) WILL RISE IT AGAIN ON THE 3RD DAY!
We are not saved or made whole by believing in anything outside of us, or waiting for anyone. We are only saved from within!
Romans 8
24For we are SAVED BY HOPE: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it
We are saved by our HOPE, we are made whole by our FAITH!
Luke 7:50
Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
Jesus never said, your FAITH in ONLY ME saved you! Jesus said, YOUR FAITH SAVED YOU!
This woman, who had sinned, who felt so worthless, came in kissing Jesus’ feet (an allegory of being grateful for the Gospel). This woman LOVED MUCH and it was her FAITH that saved her!
Faith in what you ask? In the CHILD OF GOD, and who is this child of God?
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
We ALL are. CHRIST IN YOU IS THE HOPE OF GLORY. This is the MYSTERY! It’s a mystery that has been hidden. The Truth of who you are at your CORE has been HIDDEN FROM YOU, but is now being revealed to you at the time appointed.
Colossians 1:
26Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory
Now I know this is a tough pill to swallow. Because there are scriptures that say, “You MUST believe Jesus is the Son of God.” Amd yes that is true. How could you ever, believe you are a Son of God if you don’t first believe it is possible for another to be a Son of God?
1 John 5:10
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son
Notice the words, HAS THE WITNESS IN HIMSELF! It’s all about us people. We have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten how we were known. It’s like we are looking in a mirror but we can’t make out who we are… Look at Youngs Literal translation of this next verse.
1 Corinthians 13:12 (Young’s Literal Translation)
12for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known
Right now, we feel hopelessly lost. Hey I can relate, but that is only NOW! Not forever.
SOON we shall not have an obscured view of who we are, we shall see ourselves face to face, we shall no longer know in part, we shall know all, we shall know as also we WERE KNOWN! Which means, there was a time, that we did KNOW ALL. Which means, who we REALLY are DIED so that “who we think we are” could LIVE. But this FALSE EGO that we believe ourselves to be, with all our imperfections, insecurities, etc… this EGO is NOT who we are! Who we TRULY ARE died so who WE THINK WE ARE could exist. Now with that in mind, read this next scripture.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again
The same spirit that was in Jesus is in Us, there is ONE SPIRIT in us all. This CHRIST (POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD) died (we became ignorant of) so who we think we are could live in death so we could realize the vanity of it all, and then return home. Which happens when the truth of the Gospel is revealed to us. When this happens, when we learn the truth of who we truly are in Christ, we can no longer live unto ourselves (carnal nature), but unto the true spirit that our life is hidden in.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me
As ADAM left the LIFE of paradise for his WIFE and DIED for his bride, so our TRUE SPIRIT followed after our SOULISH UNDERSTANDING into death. As EVE’s eyes were opened to a new way of THINKING (which really was death) so was ours. The TRUTH of who we are died so who we think we are could live. But now that we know that there is no life in that which doesn’t truly exist we must put off the conversation with this old nature, die to who we thought we were and allow CHRIST IN US to rule and reign.
Romans 6:10
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God
We DIE when SIN rules, we enter a realm of suffering and ignorance when we follow after the lies of the world. And we LIVE when we live UNTO GOD. We have to stop believing we are somehow worthless wretches who do not deserve the life that is our very essence. We must stop believing there is only ONE MAN from thousands of years ago, or one Buddha before that, or one Krishna before that, we must understand there only is ONE SPIRIT which we ALL ARE!
It is absolute idolatry to not believe the TRUTH of who you are. It is idolatry to think you are not worthy of being who God created you to be. It is idolatry to think that you are different from everyone else, when we are all ONE!
Ephesians 4:5-7
5One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
We are the Body of Christ, the hand and foot may appear different, but it is still Christ. It may act differently have different functions but it is part of the whole, and if you hurt the Foot the whole Body is hurt because of it. WE ARE ALL ONE! It is idolatry to believe that one man from two thousand years ago is somehow greater than his brothers and sisters. It is idolatry to worship a Man or Woman and not simply BE who you BE. Don’t idolize another, find the TRUTH and be set free don’t wait on another to return to give you what has already been given.
There is an expression in Buddhism, “If you see the Buddha on the road kill him” – The reason is, EVERYONE IS THE BUDDHA! Everyone is the CHRIST! Everyone is GOD’S ONLY CHILD! The problem is WE FORGOT! Now we must remember, we must return!
1 Peter 2:25
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls
And when we RETURN to our FATHERS HOUSE! The FATTED CALF (our idolatry) is killed, we are given our royal clothes, and we rejoice. We leave the suffering and famine of a life where our Father is far away and we are eating the rinds in pig slop (religious teachings) and we return HOME!
When we return we become the SON not the slave feeding the pigs, but the SHEPHERD leading the sheep!
John 10:2
But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep
The ONLY way to become the SHEPHERD (Christ) is to enter through the DOOR. And guess who that door is?
John 10:7
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep
An enigma for some, a revelation for some, an idol for others, but a great truth for those who have ears to hear. To become the Shepherd you must go in Through the Shepherd. Pay attention now, because this is a great revelation.
The story of Jesus IS THE DOOR! The only way IN is to enter in through JESUS’ STORY! Meaning, the life of Jesus whether allegorical or literal and historical is our map to be AS HE IS IN THIS WORLD. This is why Jesus states,
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me
YOU NEED TO DENY YOURSELF! You need to say “It is no longer MY EGO that exists, because it isn’t real! I am not a victim, I am not a bad person, I am not a drug addict, I am not weak, I am not abused, I am NOT who I thought I was… I DENY THAT PERSON EVER EXISTED AT ALL!”
Then we must CROSS over to the LIFE OF WHO WE ARE. Our map is the story of Jesus. We must PUT OUR OLD NATURE TO DEATH, and embrace our TRUE LIFE WHICH IS CHRIST IN US THE HOPE OF GLORY! We must give up the Ghost (The dead spirit we were clinging to) and commit ourselves into our Father’s authority. In that moment, we learn we are not living our LIFE our LIFE is living us. And in that day, we will see who we truly are in that mirror and it will not be obscured by our ignorance. And then we too will be the Firstborn among many brethren, we too will be the first-born from the dead (our death=our ignorance)
NOW! With all that being said, what does that have to do with the title of this essay, “IT’S ALL BENEATH US”. Well a couple of nights ago I kept dreaming of that scripture that says, till all things are put beneath the son…
1 Corinthians 15
27For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
Our FEET is an allegory of OUR LIFE/WALK. We use our feet to get from one place to another. Our FEET is symbolic of our waking life here. This is why Jesus was always saying, stand on your feet and walk!
Psalm 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living
The day we enter into the full revelation of the SON (who we are in Christ) everything in this life is PUT BENEATH THIS LIFE. We don’t sweat the stuff we used to sweat. We understand it is all part of the plan and we understand it is BENEATH US! But that isn’t the best part of that scripture…. read it again.
1 Corinthians 15
27For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
When we put everything under this new revelation, we understand that all these things had to happen so that CHRIST our LIFE would be revealed to us, IN US, and in so doing putting all these things under WHO WE NOW KNOW OURSELVES TO BE.
How much better would it be if you knew everything in your life HAD TO HAPPEN to get you to where you are going. How much better would it be to know that everything you are suffering is actually HEALING YOU?
1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed
Who took upon our sins in his BODY – which we ARE! That we, being dead to sins SHOULD LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS … by, by, BY, whose STRIPES (SUFFERINGS) we are healed!
Please try to get this, WE ARE THE BODY THAT SUFFERS, so we can BE HEALED! It is not about one man from thousands of years of ago, it is about us all.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive
In our first nature we all died (became ignorant) by believing we were separate from God, but even so in the POWER AND WISDOM of God we shall ALL be made alive.
So don’t be so hard on yourself, let go of your past, think only on the moment. We have all fallen short, we all allow that CARNAL NATURE to accuse us day and night which leads us to believe we should be hiding from God and covering ourselves with religious rites and traditions and beliefs to appease God.
But WE NEED TO PUT THIS ALL BENEATH US! We need to put it all UNDER US! We need to wake up to who we really are, and when we do, we will understand that we HAD TO SUFFER to come to the understanding we now have. BY THESE STRIPES WE ARE ACTUALLY HEALED!
We have fallen asleep, we have forgotten who we are and believed we are someone we are not. We see others as our problem as opposed to our solution. We are all one and what is being done to us, as hard as it is to hear (TRUST ME) it is being done for us! Until we realize, like the prodigal, how bankrupt we are outside of our true nature we will continue suffering.
But when we return to the FATHER, when we GO TO THE FATHER then we will be able to bring others along with us. At first many will not like that who we used to be is now gone, they will be angry we are no longer with them, like them, but because we go to the FATHER – because we go HIGHER, we prepare a way for them to do the same. Each man in his order.
We will remember we CAME FROM GOD and entered the ignorance of this WORLD (MAN’S LUSTS) and we will LEAVE THIS WORLD (MAN’S LUSTS) and return to where we came from.
John 16:28
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father
And when this revelation hits you, as Jesus said to his disciples, you will not need to go to Jesus, or Jacob, or any one else to know God.
23And 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.
Because you will know God and that God loves you, you will know as you are known and you will count everything you have suffered in this world as joy. And you will put it all beneath you, because the truth is, IT WAS ALWAYS BENEATH YOU!
Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org
“the Truth Will Change You”
Book of Revelation
BOOK OF REVELATION
The book of Revelation, written by the Apostle John in exile on the Isle of Patmos, is perhaps the most misunderstood book in the entire canon of scripture. The amount of confusion that has come out of the teaching of this, New Testament book, is more than just a little disturbing. As a child growing up, I was terrified. You see, when it comes to the things of God, Ignorance is NOT BLISS it is dangerous.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
It would be some 30 years later that the truth of this wonderful book opened up to me, and now I am going to attempt to share some of that with you.
Without proper understanding people will believe any old thing that comes out of the mouths of the Religious Leaders of the world. For example there was a time I believed without a shadow of a doubt that I needed to have my son baptized when he was born, for fear that if he died, he would be sent to a place of endless torture. How sad it is that man has twisted the Good News of God in such a way, that everything we now do is simply because we are motivated by fear to do it instead of being motivated by love.
There are so many voices out there today, saying so many different things that it would be hard for anyone to truly know which way is “The Way”, which of course is another description of Christ (The power and wisdom of God). So instead of going right to God, mankind has been taught to go to “church buildings”, perhaps they were raised in a certain philosophy and brainwashed since birth that what their particular faith states is the only truth there is, regardless of how wrong it could be.
As I said, I bought into many religious doctrines and fear tactics as a child, but when I became a man I put away these childish things and I searched for the truth for myself. I simply hungered for God’s truth, I was thirsty for the truth, so I begged God daily, “TEACH ME THE TRUTH NO MATTER WHAT THE COST!”
I didn’t want to be wrong, I didn’t want to be misled, I wanted to know the truth. And this led me to the study of many holy books, as well as the scriptures which I cut my teeth on and till this day still use as my main source to relay what I now know to be true. But I always leave open the possibility that I could be wrong, the moment I think I know it all and that I alone have the answers is the very moment I will learn no more, and become deceived.
Proverbs 16:17-19
17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud
So, today we examine a book that people for years now have, in my opinion, truly misinterpreted… that of course being the last book in the cannon, “The Revelation Of Jesus Christ to John”.
First a brief history lesson: You see, people don’t know that their beliefs today actually were designed to contradict another belief that was designed to tear a certain religion down. In other words, the enduring beliefs about revelation today were simply strategic moves by members of RELIGION to further their RELIGIOUS agenda. And in doing so millions have now fallen into these erroneous teachings. SO LET’S TEAR THEM DOWN SHALL WE?
REVELATION’S HISTORY:
In the 3rd century AD, the dispute began over whether or not this book of symbols, and prophesies, written by John should be taken literally or figuratively.
Clement of Alexandria and Origen (two of the greatest theologians of their time) taught that Revelation COULD ONLY be seen as an ALLEGORICAL and that it DOES NOT REFER TO HISTORICAL OR FUTURE EVENTS. You’ll find I agree.
However, after the Reformation in 1517, The Book of Revelation became a weapon in the hands of religious men, using it to discredit those in opposing faiths. Three new interpretations came out of this, Historicism, Preterism, and Futurism.
“Historicism, states the prophesies of Revelation has begun to unfold in ancient times, and basically claimed the Papacy and the Pope were the Anti-Christ. ”
In defense of this, three Jesuits created two differing views, Luis de Alcasar, Francisco Ribera, and Robert Bellarmine came up with these two doctrines, Preterism, and Futurism.
Alcasar originated “Preterism”, which states the whole of Revelation was fulfilled by the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D, or, in another reading, by the fall of Rome in 410 A.D.
Ribera came up with the view that is wildly popular today, “Futurism” which states that the Apocalyptic events will occur at the end of time/humanrace, hence the idea of the Final Days or End Times. And today you don’t have to go far to hear about these dreaded “End Times” we are living in.
So which is it? You ask.
Well I will tell you that, the CLUE as to what is going on here is found right smack dab in the middle of the first page, THE TITLE.
You see many people will call it the “Book of Revelation”, this is why I titled this essay as such, but that is NOT the title JOHN gave. The title John Gave offers us GREAT INSIGHT. I want you to just look at that title for a moment. REALLY LOOK AT IT.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ unto his servant John”
This is the ACTUAL title of the book. The Title does not say, the Future vision of scary things to befall mankind, or the past events of the fall of Rome, BUT, it states… this book is the… REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO HIS SERVANT JOHN.
Let me put this in words you best can understand. The title of the book LITERALLY refers to how the truth of Jesus Christ was REVEALED TO JOHN.
Dictionary.com defines REVELATION as such:
the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
2. something revealed or disclosed, especially a striking disclosure, as of something not before realized.
3. Theology a. God’s disclosure of Himself and His will to His creatures.
b. an instance of such communication or disclosure.
c. something thus communicated or disclosed.
d. something that contains such disclosure, as the Bible.
If you are still unclear on what revelation is. Well, think of it like this, imagine a chair is covered with a blanket and all anyone knows is that blanket, but the chair is always there waiting for that blanket to be pulled off it. Revelation is what happens when that blanket is pulled away and the chair is revealed. You realize the chair was always there, you just didn’t know it until it was revealed, until the very thing keeping it hidden from you was pulled away.
You see, there is a great TRUTH within us all which has been HIDDEN and one day the VEIL/EVIL (the flesh=carnal mind/ignorance) which was keeping this great truth hidden is removed. Once the Veil/Flesh/Carnal Mind is removed the TRUTH is known.
This is what this last book in the scriptures is about, the revealing of the great truth which is CHRIST, which is IN YOU, which is the HOPE OF GLORY.
But how does one explain so great a truth? Jesus always taught in parable. There was a great reason for this. If Jesus were to come out and say things plainly it would not be received very well. Those that have had the revelation of Christ know that you can’t just go up and tell someone what you have learned, they would attack you, tear you down, and put you out. So, like Jesus, John wrote symbolically.
Mark 4:11
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, ALL these things are done in parable
So “Revelation” is a book of allegorical symbols and shadows written to try to explain, that which cannot be literally explained. This book is John’s account of how HE finally understood the truth. It is a poetic documenting of his journey from Ignorance to Revelation (understanding).
Why so many people take this book literally is beyond me. I know how Elijah must have felt, everywhere he turned people were worshipping Baal and he alone had the wonderful truth, which was simple and wonderful, not filled with all the hocus pocus and yet the world wanted him dead.
Nevertheless, God prepared 7000 (not a literal number people) who have not bowed down/FOLLOWED/WORSHIPPED Baal (this LORD the world loves). This remnant is standing up today and shouting, “WAKE UP WORLD YOU ARE BELIEVING LIES!”
Throughout the years there have been “Profits” of doom, claiming the world would end, or Christ would literally appear. Whether it was Jim Jones, Benny Hinn, The Hale Bop cult, or most recently Harold Camping, we see the terrible fall out because of it all. People are desperate today to find peace, they want to escape a world where they only know misery and pain. So they believe in fairy tales where they are whisked away and everyone who is not like them is tortured. This belief is the very heart of the Carnal Man (do as I say, believe what I believe, OR ELSE).
The spiritual man knows that God is LOVE and will have ALL come to the knowledge of the truth.
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
There Religious Leaders SEEM TO speak with such authority, that those who are desperate for a way out of the misery of their lives, they will buy into what they are selling hook line and sinker. And boy do these Religious leaders serve it up, itching people’s ears and giving them exactly what they want.
The sad part is, deceived and deceiving religious leaders will tear down and attack other deceived and deceiving religious leaders for their deceit. As we recently saw with the Harold Camping fall out. Almost every Evangelical teacher condemned the man for his false prediction of the Rapture, stating that they know scripture says no one knows the day or the hour, not even the son.
The irony is the Rapture teaching is a lie as well, and they are no better than the Harold Campings of the world. They are selling escapism, as opposed to teaching the truth which is the only path to freedom. There is no quick fix, no prayer to pray to be saved, no way out of our suffering without GOING TO THE CROSS (symbolically of course of crossing from our ignorance into enlightenment, hell to heaven). We need to put the son of man (ego man) to death, and allow the SON OF GOD to be revealed. For that is who we all actually are. But that is not what this paper is about.
So back to REVELATION:
This is what this book deals with, symbolic and allegorical stories of how Christ is revealed to MAN. And what wonderful symbolism John used. So let’s start diving in, by looking at one of the most misunderstood, fear inspiring, chapters. Chapter 10. I will simply state the verse and beneath it reveal what I believe is really going on there. I do this by searching the scriptures for witnesses of the words stated. For example if you want to find out what a “Thorn” represents go through the scriptures and read everything that is written about that thorn, and you will find it is an allegorical representation of “the cares of the world” – the Thorn strangles the Word/Logos/Logic/Wisdom/Truth/Christ.
REVELATION 10
1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Who is this angel, what is an Angel? Well the word, ANGEL is literally translates as MESSENGER/MESSAGE/ENVOY. Look it up. 🙂
You see, an Angel is not some winged creature. An Angel is simply a messenger of God, it could be anyone who has been brought into a higher (heavenly) realm of understanding. An Angel is one who has the revelation of Christ and then relays this information to those in the Earth… In fact in most literal translations, the word Angel is never even used, it is replaced by Man or Men or Messenger, or Envoy…. Meaning an Angel delivers Gods truth to those who haven’t ascended into the understanding of God’s truth yet.
This is what Jacob’s Ladder is all about, going up to a place of enlightenment and then coming down to reveal it to others.
I want to remind you, Revelation is a book of “symbols” and so this description is symbolic as well.
This Angel is Clothed in a Cloud… A cloud is symbolic of the witnesses in the world. A literal cloud hangs directly in between Heaven and Earth. It receives the WATER (doctrine) and Releases the RAIN (doctrine/teaching). Clouds are a GREAT SYMBOL of the believers. Don’t believe me?
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a CLOUD of witnesses.
The CLOUD (Those who witness to the world the things of God) led Israel through the wilderness during the DAY (a symbol of understanding/being about to see. When people can see what is beinG said they can follow it). As Many Men and Women of God lead others through the wilderness of this world. But not all CLOUDS (Witnesses) have the revelation of Christ and deliver truth.
Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.
Those witnesses (clouds) had not the TEACHING/DOCTRINE of the Truth.
So we see the CLOUD is symbolic of the people who WITNESS the things of God to others. The ANGEL is the Message of Truth. So it is easy to see, that this ANGEL CLOTHED WITH A CLOUD, a WITNESS who had the TRUTH OF GOD (message of God) within to share.
The Glory of God was always found inside a CLOUD, clothed with a cloud…
Exodus 16:10
While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.
A lot of people don’t understand what this GLORY of God revealed in the cloud is. Well the Glory of God is to CONCEAL SOMETHING. God’s Glory is the HIDDEN TRUTH within us all.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter
This Angel (Message of truth/Messenger of truth) REVEALS the GLORY (hidden things) OF GOD to others, because it is first revealed to them, and it resides WITHIN THEM.
This great treasure is in EARTHEN VESSELS! Let’s look at that verse again with new eyes.
1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Now for the second part of this verse… A rainbow is upon his head. Now a head represents the thinking of a person, the authority of a person. So to understand what a rainbow on someone’s head means, we must first understand what a rainbow represents. A RAINBOW shows all the glory of the light, it reveals the entire color spectrum. And hows does this do this? Because the Sunlight hits the water just right. Do you see the allegory? … The head represents the thinking or the authority of a man. So this Witness, reveals all the glory of the light (TRUTH/CHRIST) and by looking at him it was as if we were looking at the Son of God…
This Angel is A MANIFESTED SON OR DAUGHTER OF GOD. Their FEET, which is a representation of our WALK with the LORD. And witness in the world, is as a FIRE which is symbolic of purification. Fire burns away everything that is not true. So the Feet as pillars of Fire another symbol of this Messenger’s walk and witness in the world.
Romans 10:15
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things
So now that we know, this Angel is not some supernatural creature, but simply a Manifested Son or Daughter of God sent to witness what they themselves have learned we can move on.
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, m>
The book, or scroll, is written so whatever is DOCUMENTED will be REMEMBERED and NOT FORGOTTEN.
A CLOSED/SEALED book is one whose knowledge cannot be known until it is OPEN… An OPEN BOOK is easily read, it is a TRUTH that is no longer hidden from men. It is an Epistle read of all men.
This MESSENGER of God is not keeping anything away from mankind. “He or She” is an OPEN BOOK to be read of all MEN.
They will set their Foot (ministry or walk) on the Sea (those who do not know God) and on the Land (those that may know God but still live in the carnal realm of the earth)
Let me show you, that the SEA AND WATERS are always a representation of the multitudes that don’t know God. This is what we must FISH MEN OUT OF, their ignorant thinking.
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
The whore of Babylon which sits upon the waters, is simply mankind’s Carnal Beliefs. Which keeps people drunk (intoxicated), and when people are drunk they can’t think clearly can they. False Beliefs and Ignorance is the very essence of what we find in the Sea. Which is why this Angel stands on both the Sea and the Land. These Manifested Sons and Daughters of God, Messengers of God will put their FOOT on both, in other words they will bring the GOSPEL of TRUTH to both, with authority.
Yes, these messengers are just regular old people, like you and me, who have the truth revealed to them, so they in return can reveal it to others, freely. As Jesus did, (as He is so are We in this world “1st john”) This is what John learned and tried to reveal in symbolic language, so those who were meant to understand would, and those that weren’t couldn’t. Because there is an order to God’s plan, and each man comes to the truth in his or her order.
3And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
These SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD boldly proclaim what the Lion of Judah proclaimed when he cried out on the cross… FORGIVENESS and LOVE! Seven, of course the number of completion. Thunder is what you hear after you see lightning. In other words these messengers will bring a completed and perfected message of truth and people will HEAR IT!
When the truth is sounded, as scripture tells us (God’s words are like THUNDER)… and these SEVEN THUNDERS are the “perfected and completed” total all-encompassing truth of God’s message TO ALL. On the seventh day God rests. This is the FINAL MESSAGE OF TRUTH, that is declared.
His Messengers DECLARE this TRUTH to all.
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Now this message isn’t for everyone. There are MANY that cannot HEAR THE TRUTH, SEE THE TRUTH, or WALK IN THE TRUTH. For some, it just makes complete sense, for others, however, the book is SEALED. Here John is basically saying, he had to write the book of Revelation symbolically, it had to be sealed up. The completed and perfect message of truth came to him, but he knew not everyone would receive it, so he understood it had to be sealed, or should I say concealed from those that would probably kill him for saying what today many are beginning to say.
Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
A mature believer understands who he or she can share the TRUTH with. A Mature believer never wastes their pearls before swine (carnal believers). In your walk you have to veil you revelations for many. Moses did this, he veiled his face, which was symbolic of hiding the truth from people. Listen the fact of the matter is you can’t just go into any old church and say, HEY EVERYONE, ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU ALL BELIEVE IS A BIG LIE! Can you? No, you can only share the truth with those that can hear the truth. To those whom have been prepared to hear it.
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Despite the simplicity of Gods all-encompassing love and forgiveness… This is why this Message of seven thunders (God’s perfect Truth) is sealed up… Each man in his order will receive it when they are ready. And remember, God is no respecter of persons. If you have this understanding don’t get all puffed up with pride thinking yourself to be special. Don’t believe you have done better, or more, than those who do not understand. For God blinds those he blinds for good reason.
Romans 11:32
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
God makes EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL in IT’S time. So for some, the BOOKS (understanding of God’s truth) are closed, for others they are wide open. And one day, they will be OPEN FOR ALL.
5And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
This messenger, when he or she speaks, the hearer of his or her words knows that this message of God is true… The HAND is symbolic of AUTHORITY… There is power in these MESSENGERS WORDS. So those who hear what these SONS AND DAUGHTERS of God say, have no doubt that this “Angel” is telling the absolute truth.
And when we hear the TRUTH of the MESSAGE as John heard it … that is when the great MYSTERY of the KINGDOM OF GOD comes to an end. It is no longer a mystery to us but now it is OPEN and CLEAR. This is the time, we will UNDERSTAND that the MYSTERY is “CHRIST IN US”. And when we understand this, the THINGS WE LEARNED before ARE NO LONGER VALID.
This last passage and the next are really a throw back to what Daniel said. Notice the similarity.
Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished
When there is TIME NO MORE, then people understand that all we have is the MOMENT! And in that MOMENT as Jesus said before giving up the ghost, we understand IT IS FINISHED. Meaning, if you can hear it, whatever is now has already been. No one will be lost, nothing can fail, because it is FINISHED!
and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
We don’t have time for the lies we once believed. The TRUTH is at HAND (in our grasp/understanding)… The Hope of Glory is finally understood. “Christ IN YOU”. Old things (traditions/beliefs) pass away and EVERYTHING BECOMES NEW (Alive) And we exist only for the MOMENT!
7But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Well, that should be confirmation for you. All of this is a symbolic telling of how the TRUTH is revealed to us, and how it is revealed to others who in return share it with the rest of the world. Shouting, IT IS FINISHED!
This next verse, really proves this article. The SEVENTH ANGEL (which is the complete/finished message of God understood) when it is HEARD (believed) … THE MYSTERY OF GOD IS FINISHED… There is no more mystery, no more spooky demons and ghouls, no more worries of eternal torture, or fears of monsters crawling out of some literal pit. No more being tossed too and fro with every WIND OF DOCTRINE. No more worrying about what to eat, what to wear, how to act, how to pray, fasting, etc etc… When you finally understand the TRUTH as John did… IT IS FINISHED.
You become as GOD’S CHILD, because that is who YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN but forgot (died) the instant you took upon yourself the cares of the world/SIN mentality/ignorance. But in this moment we understand that everything that came before this moment MUST BE PUT AWAY! As God revealed his truth to the Prophets of the past, now that TRUTH is revealed to us and we no longer need to go back and forth looking for it.
Now we must BECOME ONE WITH IT (assimilate it)… We must digest it and make it known to the world.
8And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
The day God enlightens us with the TRUTH, the day the BOOK IS OPENED FOR US to understand… is the SAME DAY that we MUST TAKE that BOOK… We must TAKE THAT KNOWLEDGE… In that moment, we want to TAKE WHAT WE’VE LEARNED, and share this great REVELATION to all.
9And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And when we take this book, we then have to DEVOUR IT WHOLE! We can’t pick and choose which part of the truth we want to believe… We have to take the ENTIRE MESSAGE and we eat it up.
When you eat something, like an apple, the APPLE becomes YOU. The same is true for the THINGS OF GOD. We must allow the truth of God to become ONE WITH US… Christ MUST take over.
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
We must BECOME ONE with it, we must CHEW ON IT (think about it, contemplate it)… we MUST DIGEST IT! And this truth, when we first take it in is sweet as honey, this TRUTH is the PROMISE LAND, it is ENLIGHTENMENT… It is a LAND FLOWING OF MILK AND HONEY and at first yes we embrace it and we revel in the wonder of how much God loves us, and how God will complete creation in Victory… And when those Words are in our mouths and they are spoken to others… They are sweet indeed.
But when that TRUTH hits our bellies (Our carnal nature, our worldly side) It makes it bitter. Your old man is not going to want to give up the throne. This GREAT FINISHED TRUTH AND WORK will make your belly bitter. Who you THINK YOU ARE (your carnal soulish nature) is your BELLY! God formed you there, as he formed Adam in the Dust. But the BELLY (who you think you are, will not readily and happily receive WHO YOU REALLY ARE) – because that means the OLD CARNAL MAN must be cast off.
Psalm 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth
The serpent (carnal soulish nature of man) goes about on it’s belly.
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life
The Truth is not EASILY digested. At first it may sound great, but when you really take it in (Ingest it) it changes everything. Your carnal nature has only known deceit, it won’t readily receive TRUTH.
Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit
Our lives become different after eating this Book… Our lives now seem to be filled with trials, and loneliness, and suffering… But we must remember, it is the path of the cross that leads us into the kingdom and this is what makes our bellies bitter… we don’t want to be filled with the knowledge that we must love all, put others first, and forgive even the most heinous of criminals.
strong>And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter
When we first hear the truth, we understand how life may be hard, we hear how we may be persecuted, hated, forsaken, and despised for simply knowing and preaching a GOD OF LOVE. We hear how will be become men and women of sorrows… But when the TRUTH is heard much like JOHN, we DON’T CARE!
Give us the book we say… Give us the TRUTH… When we hear the Truth of the Kingdom it doesn’t matter what we suffer because it will be nothing compared to the glory that will be revealed in us after the dust has settled and the light is shown.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
Now we have the Truth, now we know everything there is to know about God… Now we ARE the SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD… and NOW we MUST PROPHESY to EVERYONE…
We MUST become A MIGHTY ANGEL ourselves! The First thing that happens is we begin to look at the world through different eyes… We begin to see everything that is right and everything that is wrong with humanity.
Revelation 11
1And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
Now we begin to measure, examine, test and try everything inside of us. We measure the TEMPLE (OUR SOUL)
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Judgment begins IN us, for us. The MESSAGE OF TRUTH casts out all that is a LIE. We begin to see the worst parts of us, and slowly the Temple is rebuilt (we are cleansed)
2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
We understand that anything OUTSIDE OF US, is of no importance. We no longer put our faith in something far from us, our faith is now SOLELY PLACED WITHIN. We don’t need to JUDGE OTHERS outside of us, we only judge and measure WITHIN THE TEMPLE.
The outer court is ALSO our Flesh, or carnal and worldly desires. This is OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE and it is NOT TO BE MEASURED… it is NOT TO BE COUNTED! The Flesh profits nothing… and this is why the Flesh is left to destroy itself… And yes for a time the FLESH does trample and torment THE TRUTH OF GOD… The Flesh does persecute the Spirit… But, at this point in our walk, God tells us, his MESSENGERS, HIS SONS, HIS ANGELS! To leave the FLESH, LEAVE worldly thinking people alone, for NOW! He only wants the REMNANT, the first fruits. We are told to MEASURE the TEMPLE and only the TEMPLE.
I hope you enjoyed this look into Revelation Chapter 10. I encourage you all to visit my dear friends, Mary and Ernie Kroeger’s website… http://www.thegoodseed.org. They have been studying and dissecting the book of Revelation for years. We may see some things differently, but I believe their breakdown of the book of revelation is definately worth a look, as I probably won’t break down the entire book as they have.
Peace to you all, Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org
“The Truth Will Change You”
“THE “BE” ATTITUDE!”
THE “BE” ATTITUDE”
It is now 1:45pm Eastern time as I sit down to write this. The reason I give you this time, is because I want to show you how very little thought I put into these essays. Now, that isn’t to say I don’t research, and have in the past, for years I had my nose buried in the Scriptures, as well as other holy books and I do have a good memory. Which does help in calling up those particular passages that are needed to back up a “feeling” you have about a certain thing. Sure I can post what I simply believe to be true, but it is a whole other thing to have a feeling in your heart that something you have felt is actually something you can prove and back up, using the “touchstone” of the bible. For those that don’t know what a touchstone is, it is a stone that is used in the TESTING of precious metals. And interesting enough it is the DEFINITION and literal meaning of the word “Torment” in scripture.” So in the future when people quote scriptures like this one below…
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
Now you can tell all your friends that the imagery in scripture isn’t literal, and some of the words we believe means “Torture” actually means “to Test until pure”… There is NO rest day or night, for people who WORSHIP WHO THEY THINK THEY ARE. The longer you believe YOU (jane, Jeremy, David, Helen, or whatever name your name is), the longer you believe “Who you think you are” is IN CONTROL, you will HAVE NO REST! You will suffer, because you will never be content and when things happen you will believe they are your responsibility and that it is your fault if things go wrong. The longer people believe they somehow EXIST outside of God, they will be TORMENTED (tested) for ever (aoinos=period of time, ages, age)… In other words the longer you worship your ignorant ego and believe you have no power over your circumstances, you will find no REST, because you will be TESTED again and again until you are pure. There is no rest for the carnal man.
So how do we find REST? By ceasing from our own labor. By STOPPING the belief that everything is our fault, and we can’t do this, or that because we are limited and separated from God, the longer we feel insecure the more we will hate. But the INSTANT, in that TWINKLING OF AN EYE when the LIGHT SWITCH from SLEEP to WAKE inside you! In that moment you will be caught away by the amazing TRUTH of who you are, and you will realize that you ca do NOTHING but what God does. You will be able to find peace, because regardless of what happens you know HAD TO HAPPEN! Good, bad, or indifferent, you see it is all part of the plan. That is the day you will stop being WHO YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE (bob, helen, jeronimo) and you will just BE!
Which is a really nice segway into the essay that I just came up with. It is called the “BE” attitudes. Now, did this article come to me last month, last week, today? The answer is NO! Nope! I had NO IDEA what I was going to write about, so I said to my wife. I WANT TO WRITE! And when she asked what will you write about, I said it will come to me when I sit to write.
This by the way is all a true story 🙂 So I sit down, not too long ago and I look at my facebook page. I say to myself “What should I write about?” I see a picture of my old pastor, long, long ago. I say to myself, I WILL FIND WHAT I AM GOING TO WRITE ABOUT ON HIS PAGE! Seriously people I do this. Whatever we speak in faith, become. Try it!
Now this man is not someone I look to, or want to learn from, he was what I needed for a couple of months over a decade ago. But I keep tabs on people in my life, and he is a nice enough man who has a very nice church. Obviously, we don’t share a great deal of shared beliefs. But that didn’t matter, he was a Pastor. And I figured, since his face popped up on my screen there had to be a reason. And BOY WAS THERE!
So I click over to his page, and THERE IT IS!
THE REASON
THE TITLE
THE ESSAY
IT WAS ALL THERE IN HIS PROFILE PICTURE. I couldn’t believe it. In one moment, like LIGHTNING from heaven, which is actually how THOUGHT is perceived as an electrical storm in the brain… In any event, I SAW WHAT IT WAS I WAS TO WRITE ABOUT AND THAT MADE ME HAPPY!
So, I immediately came over here, opened up wordpress and wanted to bring you all in on how I come to write these essays. By the way according to my clock, it is now 2:07… So about twenty minutes ago I sat down with nothing to write, then two minutes later I have it and I am here writing to you,now it is 2:08 to give you an idea of how fast I type. It’s easy when you don’t think but you just write the words that pop into your head as you do that.
You see that people, is FREEDOM! The ability to create, when you want to create, without worrying about failing, because you know it is already done and there is a reason for it all. Now all you get to do is sit back, roll up your sleeves and enjoy your purpose for the moment. Which you actually desired, but had no idea what you would do, or how you would do it. HOPING for major insight, simply hoping and then BAM! There it is, on an old pastors page… A PICTURE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN and a CROWD of people cheering, and the word “JUSTICE” written, while a patriotic christian man I suppose is cheering over the death of this man. So you can see, that it wasn’t a passage of hope that I found on his page that I could glean from. No, in fact it was the exact opposite of what I would believe I would find on a “shepherds” page. A man who teaches Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. But then to see the profile picture, which was so opposed to the entire message of Christ.
As you can see, as I then saw, I immediately thought, “man I should make a comment on that” – You see that is MY OLD MAN speaking. To openly rebuke someone, would not be take the right way. Only a person who did NOT have such a picture on his page could receive such a message. So I realized, that of course I wasn’t meant to stand in judgment of him. For he can only do as his heart treasures, as the man did that was proudly displayed as being killed. I cannot stand in judgment over this man, and I should not, this is a great lesson I learned. People are where they are, and me telling them what is wrong will not help them, but GOD has a funny way of reaching people through other means. You see, it will be my attitude, and my love, and NOT MY CONDEMNATION that will be a witness for him, which will lead him to realize in a very private manner that he needs to re-evaluate his walk and beliefs. MAY WE ALL DO SUCH, GOD WILLING.
It’s now 1:16, and yes I am continuing to ramble on. I will get to the point, after seeing that picture I IMMEDIATELY thought of what we call the “BE” attitudes… You know the whole “Blessed are the… and so and so :)”
Because any Pastor should know, as any religious leader in any religion, ISLAM INCLUDED people, it is misunderstood. Another allegorical spiritual book that some Muslims take literally, because the truth is, ALL HOLY BOOKS are allegorical and their CORE MESSAGE IS UNITY AND PEACE AND LOVE for ALL! Regardless of what you have been taught, read another holy book and you will see, that if you look at things allegorically it much easier to rectify things like “Thou shalt not kill” in one moment, and then understand why God commanded MANY to be KILLED… God is not double minded, everything is allegory. And so if more religious leaders would understand this they would stop celebrating the death of who “they” consider an enemy and they will instead “Mourn” the loss, and embrace their brothers and sisters so we may only know life. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT WE FIND TODAY!
No, we find all RELIGIOUS LEADERS approving of the murder of whoever they consider an enemy. For the Christians, Jewish, and yes Hindu’s, and Buddhist’s (as crazy as that sounds, even the Dalia Lama who would not swat away and kill a fly, approved of Bin Laden’s murder)… WHAT IS GOING ON PEOPLE? Is there ANYONE we can turn to today that has that ever elusive “BE” attitude.
Well let’s dissect this chapter line by line. I will give you my feelings on an alternate view of what they may mean. And I want you to really question why these are called the “BE” ATTITUDES? The reason is, if you do this, and see this, you will stop trying to be someone you are not, and you will SIMPLY BE! And no one will threaten your standing, no hardship will prove to trying, no amount of loss or illness will steal the hope of GLORY that is now YOU, because you will BE!
So let’s start to look at this, and see what it really means? And then question, why every major religion and almost every one of their leaders are so far from that “BE” ATTITUDE.
Matthew 1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
Like Jesus there will come a time, we will see the world the way it is. We, a chosen few, will see the multitudes and it will trouble us. So we will go higher, we will seek God as to what we should do. We will understand that before we can speak to others, we must first be taught ourselves. And as we are there, those that know us will come to us for answers. They will have questions, so we needed to go to the Mountain of Truth to beg for the words to say, and in faith we will know when it is time to say them, or write them, we will be given the words. We won’t think of what we should say when we are brought before big names and important people, we will just speak what is put on our heart. Because we will understand, after being to the mountain that whatever we do or say, so long as love it at the helm, is meant to be and will bring about a perfect work.
2And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
When that moment comes, and they ask us we will speak a simple yet profound message. One that has been spoken before us. One that has always been spoken by those who enter the Kingdom. And we will begin by saying the obvious…
3Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Those that don’t think higher of themselves and see themselves as low in God’s eyes. Those that don’t esteem themselves higher than others will always put others before themselves and because of this they will know Righteousness, Peace, Joy, and Power in the Holy Ghost.
4Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Those that mourn the loss of their false beliefs. Those that mourn the loss of possessions, loved ones and friends for the sake of the Kingdom of God will be comforted. They that cry out for more will have more. Those that want to know the truth because they mourn the life they have lived ignorantly, THEY WILL BE COMFORTED! Because they understood who they thought they were is not who they want to be, and they will learn to simply BE who they are.
5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Those that are gentle and seek to do no harm, and simply learn that “it is what it is” and accept things as they are meant to be, shall actually be able to live the life they want. They shall possess their souls and will rest because of it.
6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Anyone that REALLY WANTS THE TRUTH, anyone that REALLY WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD, will be filled with the wisdom to do all that and more. We are all being tempted in the wilderness of our lives in this world, but when we have overcome the temptation to be like everyone else, we will HUNGER, as Jesus hungered. Blessed is any man who hungers, for just like Jesus the ANGELS (MESSENGERS/THOUGHTS OF GOD’S TRUTH) will feed you, until you are filled with WISDOM so you can begin the ministry set before you, as Jesus did. Remember “as he is so are we in this world”
7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Those who have forgiveness, love, and mercy on others, shall obtain every single thing they give out. Yet they will also realize how much better it is to give than receive. They will be BLESSED going in and coming out, it will please them more to help another than to be helped, but all they give they will certainly get.
8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Those who have no alternative motives, those that aren’t seeking approval or praise or wealth at the name of God’s expense, shall know the full depth of God, they shall see God face to face and KNOW AS THEY ARE KNOWN!
9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Only those Born of God can bring peace to the world, to another’s heart, to a debate, to a relationship. For peace is the very heart of Love, Love gives birth to peace. And these born of Love will bring peace to many.
10Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
When many are attacked for not going along with the multitude. When they are challenged and attacked for their beliefs or for their heart and actions, they will learn from it all. They will not suffer, because Righteousness, peace, joy, and Power in the Wisdom of God is theirs. They will realize THEY WERE PERSECUTED so they could become RIGHTEOUS, and their end will be better than their beginning. The last state of a man is always better than his first.
11Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
You will understand that everything that has happened to you, has happened FOR YOU! The reason… so you could become CHRIST MANIFESTED through your SOUL, the two become one… For THE SAKE OF CHRIST, these things happen. So when trouble comes, you MUST remember it is for your benefit! When you realize this you will not return evil with evil, you will return evil with good.
13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Salt is so important. It CURES the meat, IT PRESERVES the MEAT (WHICH is an allegory for the wisdom of God) – You all are the ones who will CURE and PRESERVE the truth and wisdom of God in the world, BUT if you are not “BE”ing the authentic child of God, peacemaking, meek, and filled vessel of God, how can you CURE the LAND and the PRESERVE the TRUTH?
What I am saying to you people, is IF YOU AREN’T BLESSED than you have lost your CURING AND PRESERVATION powers, you have to USE to forward the Kingdom of God. In other words, if people aren’t showing you the above “BE” attitudes they are NOT THE PEOPLE YOU SHOULD BE TURNING TO… TO KNOW GOD! YOU DON’T NEED THEM!!!!!!!!
14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Your very LIFE is CHRIST, you are THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD in this EARTH! You who can hear these words are CHOSEN VESSELS! You have no choice but to SHINE THE TRUTH to the world! BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED THAT WAY!
15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
In other words people, it’s time to stop HIDING! It’s time to grow up and wake up and know who you are! You don’t exist for NO REASON! You’re very reason for existence is to “BE”! And you will!
16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
So love your enemies, do good to them that hurt you, be a LIGHT in this world. Let people ONLY SEE GOOD, let people only see LIFE AND TRUTH AND LOVE. Let people only see GOD IN YOU! Because your good works reveal GOD IN YOU and in so doing you light the way for others to do the same! The mystery will be revealed!
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
And don’t think, as some say that when you come to this understanding, that God is all in all, and does all, and is all, and that all will come to this, don’t be ignorant and think you can act anyway you want. I am not saying you can act any old way you want, you can act ONLY AS IS MEANT TO BE, AND THEN you can TRULY LIVE! But the ONLY WAY to LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS is to believe you must. But you cannot if you think your “carnal nature” is you! The truth of who you are, doesn’t set you free to live your life anyway you want, NO, you can’t act of think foolishly, you can only LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS, because this is FULFILLED in YOU by the REAL YOU, which is YOUR TRUE LIFE!
18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
If you don’t love God and love others you will continue on in this world. Until who you think you are passes away, whatever you sow you will reap. You’ll understand that anyone that doesn’t truly love has the least amount of Righteousness, Peace and Joy. And it will be clear, your righteousness better exceed that of the Religious teachers in the land. Anyone who isn’t teaching LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS is not fulfilling the law, and there is no way into Righteousness, Peace, Joy and Power in the Holy Ghost unless you LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS!
21Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
This is the point here people. Humanity is still killing, and even from the pulpit rejoicing over such. Look, it’s as bad as killing to want another killed in your heart. And too many people today want to destroy others because of differing beliefs and this needs to end. The longer this nonsense continues the longer those acting this way will suffer. YOU CANNOT KNOW RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE AND JOY without LOVING GOD AND LOVING OTHERS… So don’t even mock people who are ignorant of the Truth or you will pay too.
23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
So if your going to go out there and try to spread the “gospel” if you will, you BETTER not hate. It doesn’t mean you may not be hated, but don’t let it bother you. This happens for Christ’s sake, You are blessed remember that. Which is why you can reconcile your feelings and offer the TRUTH without an agenda or trying to simply prove you’re right and they are wrong.
25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Because if you don’t. And you go blow for blow with whoever has a problem with you, you will suffer because of it. And you will not be free from reaping what you have sown, until you have reaped what you have sown. So don’t go there, it isn’t worth it.
27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Don’t ever entertain the world’s religious belief, stay true and united to the Spirit of God within you. Don’t even want what those seemingly wealthy religious leaders seem to have. Stay the course, stay true, and you will be blessed to simply “BE”. But if you constantly want more, than you will never be content.
29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
So in other words, if you think a certain teaching or religion will profit you more, don’t even entertain the idea. Get rid of it immediately. Because to leave the Truth of God, to leave that hunger and thirst for something else, when GOD is all there is, you will NEVER BE FULL! And you will suffer, because you will never be content, so don’t want more and be content with where you are and what you are meant to do and you will know joy!
It is now 2:20pm and I am now tired of typing. I think that about does it for today. There is more instruction with the next couple of chapters, but it really all boils down to this. Whatever you do to others you do to yourself. Trust that everything is going according to plan and that you can’t change it even if you want to, but know that NO TRUE HARM will come to any of you, especially when you come to this understanding. The “Be” attitudes, are a way for us to FINALLY BE WHO WE ARE instead of trying to be someone we think we are. And when that day comes, you will see all you have been through and you will be happy, because your end will be greater than you beginning, and you will see you beginning from the end. Ultimately, here is the BEST ADVICE if you can hear it!
48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Be Perfect, as God is perfect! BE LIKE GOD because you are GOD’S IMAGE and to BE anything less, is a LIE!
It’s 2:26 as always I won’t edit this for a while. So forgive any mistakes and I pray this essay had a purpose. I believe it did. And I hope you can see that all one needs to do is to BE and BELIEVE that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
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END OF THE WORLD?
“END OF THE WORLD?”
“I go before you!”
A couple of days ago a friend of mine wrote something on my facebook page that really sent me off thinking. Flashes of what the scripture quoted meant came to me, like “lightning” from heaven. A quick word on that by the way. Lightning in the natural at night briefly lights up your surroundings. Whatever is closest to you, you will see clearly and understand it is right before you because for a brief moment the light from the Lightning revealed it to you. Lightning is a wonderful allegory of revelation, short bursts of insight.
Luke 17:24
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day
Now what should be noted about this, is we are not reading here about the SON OF GOD, but the SON OF MAN. Because in the SON OF MAN’S DAY his/her revealing is as Lightning. Which doesn’t last long, but comes in bursts, in other words the son of man knows in part, the son of God knows the whole.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known
So for the time being, insight will come to us, a revealing will take place. Things will simply begin to make sense. And, as they say, like layers of an onion little by little these insights are helping us get to that sweet core (Christ In Us) – Which comes without observation. So for those that are waiting for a literal Jesus to return outside of being revealed within them, then they will be waiting until the revelation of this mystery hits them. And Jesus understood this, he understood mankind would be waiting for a “son of man” to return, instead of understanding the son of God is revealed IN THEM.
Luke 17
22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Even Jesus knew that his disciples would desire to literally SEE one of the days of the SON OF MAN, but he tells them, LOOK YOU WON’T SEE IT PHYSICALLY! Remember he also reminded them in this chapter the Kingdom of heaven doesn’t come with literal observation. And now, as in times past, we have yet another false belief that “Jesus is going to return” May 21, 2011. And many, many people are DESIRING TO LITERALLY SEE THIS. But as Jesus said, THEY WON’T! He even warned that when they say, look over here, see over there, get prepared, do this, do that, GO NOT AFTER THEM, NOR FOLLOW THEM!
That is the problem today in a nutshell, too many people are following other people as opposed to follow the SPIRIT WITHIN THEM. I have often challenged people to stay away from their churches for just a week or so, stay in quiet contemplation and simply ask God to show them the truth and soon that Lightning will begin to illuminate things they never saw or heard before. It may not happen immediately, but it will happen. You can’t force revelation, but when you ask for it, IT WILL COME! But it comes when you least expect it.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night
Of course this is NOT speaking of a literal physical return of Jesus the man from thousands of years ago, returning when you least expect it. But it speaks as to the revelation that takes place within you, and breaks through your house of false beliefs, and takes away the false beliefs you once held, so you can be free from your worldly beliefs.
This is why we are encouraged to KEEP WATCH! Simply put, when you ask for revelation, when you are seeking God’s truth you WILL KEEP WATCH FOR IT, and it will come (be revealed within you)… when you least expect it. I’m sure if you are reading this article you already know what I mean. You have experienced it.
Paul gave some great advice in Thessalonians, he said STAY AWAKE (be enlightened) because if you don’t know that God is in control of all things when trouble comes you will be hurt, sad, and won’t see the point in it. But if you are AWAKE you know that all things work together, so you do not consider the fiery trial set before you but you have HOPE! Those who are asleep (ignorant of the truth) are being fed a constant diet of ear tickling, people telling them that if they tithe, accept their jesus, do what they say, then only good things will come their way. But these people are ignorant, and when God begins working in their lives it will seem as if they are being cursed by God, as opposed to seeing that God is merely getting them to a place where they trust only in God.
1 Thessalonians 5
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Now this verse has been taught that the SUDDEN DESTRUCTION that comes upon people is THE END OF THE WORLD! However, if anyone takes the time to re-read the next verse, we will see what this destruction is likened to… AS THE TRAVAIL UPON A WOMEN WITH CHILD! This has NOTHING to do with the destruction of the literal world around you people, it has to do with the destruction of the carnal world within you, like being pregnant, at first you don’t know you are pregnant, soon you get excited, but right before you give birth it is so painful you want to die! And yes, that is how it is spiritually! WE WILL HAVE TRIBULATION IN THIS WORLD! This is so we will learn to let go of the OLD MAN (Carnal ignorant ego) for the NEW MAN (Who we really are/God’s child).
But notice the next line… “But you are NOT IN DARKNESS that that day should overtake you as a thief” – There are many that are doing as I recommend. Many who are asking God “Teach me the truth no matter what the cost”, many who are leaving man-made religions and beliefs to find the truth within. They are the ones FAITHFULLY WAITING for their MASTER TO RETURN (be revealed). The day of this revelation will NOT come to them as a thief, because they are expecting the break in (break through).
We have way too many gloom and doom preachers out there teaching… “THIS IS THE END OF DAYS!” Oh my goodness, if they would only find out what the END OF THE WORLD really was… Take a look at what the WORLD is below.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
This is what is coming to an end, OUR LUSTS! The very lusts that caused us all to fall (from the truth of who we are). This is the world that is coming to an end, OUR LUSTS! Because it is our LUSTS that pull us away from the truth and lead us into temptation.
James 1:14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed
What is it that KILLS THE WORD OF GOD again? The Thorns which are the CARES OF THE WORLD that strangle the truth of God.
Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful
This is what Christ (The Truth and Way and Light) destroys with the brightness (enlightenment) of Christ’s (power and wisdom of God) coming (revealing).
Yes the WORLD will come to an end, but the physical world is going nowhere. The only thing destroyed is the OLD NATURE. And it has too, because we are being tempted and drawn away from the truth of who we are because of it. (only a few will catch this next verse)
Psalm 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert
Yes it is our LUSTS and our OLD NATURE that is destroyed!
Now there is a lot of talk about this May 21, 2011 date, where they say a Rapture will happen. First of all, there is no Rapture the way people teach, secondly the end is not yet IF YOU BELIEVE IN SUCH THINGS. Because the END is when you put all things under the CONTROL OF GOD. You know that GOD IS ALL IN ALL.
Let’s take this next part line by line, so you can see clearly what the END is!
1 Corinthians 15
24 Then cometh the END, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
The end comes when HE/WE (for we are the body of Christ) shall have the Kingdom of God (righteousness, peace, joy and power in the holy ghost) revealed IN US, and God revealed IN US, when WE enter God’s rest by putting down ALL RULE AND AUTHORITY… in other words, the moment we realize “who we think we are” is NOT IN CONTROL. The moment we realize is, the END OF OUR CARNAL NATURE, the END OF OUR LUSTS (WORLD) is come (revealed to us).
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
The Power and Wisdom of God (Christ) will rule until all enemies are put under foot. And the last is DEATH. And no, we are not reading about living forever in this flesh body, for we are already eternal. The ENEMY that is put beneath God is not literal flesh, it is our CARNAL THINKING, which is the LAST ENEMY DESTROYED.
Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
And in that moment all things will be delivered to you, you will understand that everything is beneath you, and you then will put yourself beneath God, so God is all there is. And you will then be set free.
1 Corinthians
27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
If you have ears to hear it. When God is all in all, God is all there is. Now that is the END OF CARNAL MAN. But not the END of the physical world. And there will not be any physical rapture. Everything that happens, happens WITHIN the heart of man, and everything outside of man is a projection of that. If anything this world will turn into a paradise when we return within to paradise. Oh how I long to see that day. But as I said earlier, we only know in part.
Yes there are two men in one bed, two women at the mill… This is the double nature of man. The carnal and the Christ. The older and the younger nature of mankind. One is Taken (joins to the truth) the other is left (cast off) – look up the meanings in Strongs, and you’ll see it has nothing to do with being taken from one place physically to another, but being taken from one place spiritually to another. Your older nature you will cast off, to allow the younger Christ nature to rule!
Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts
We need to cast off the OLD NATURE, we have to let go of the belief that WE (OUR CARNAL EGO/WHO WE THINK WE ARE) is in control, and submit ourselves to the TRUE NATURE within us, which IS in control. It’s time we get rid of our ignorance and pray for the TRUTH!
Romans 13:12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
So don’t worry about a literal this and a literal that. And remember that who we are at our very core is INFINITE! You may be able to say that there is a beginning and end to the SON OF MAN. Our first Lord has a beginning and an end, but our True Lord has none. So in fact the END is truly the END of something that doesn’t really exist to begin with. If it has an end and a beginning, it is created and destroyed. And God is the one who does that creating.
Notice the SON OF GOD is defined very differently. No beginning, No End.
Hebrews 7:3
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
We have no beginning or end, for God is all in all, so there is never a need to worry about the soul of a lost loved one. Eventually God will bring all to this knowledge, and all will then revealed to be the Child of God an infinite priest.
So how do we get there? Well it is not our doing. Jesus said I go before you to prepare a place for you. Which really was the spark that birthed this article, but as always I go wherever the words lead me. 🙂
You see there is another way of look at these next passages. Read these carefully and for those that don’t like to be challenged, I suggest here is where you should stop reading.
John 14
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Right off the bat, let me tell you the FATHER’S HOUSE is the TEMPLE OF GOD, which YOU ARE! So let go of that belief that Jesus is a cosmic carpenter building you a mansion. Because that word mansion means tabernacle or dwelling place. And we, all of us, are that dwelling place.
Jesus said he was going somewhere to prepare a place for them. You could say that Jesus was going within all of them (the father’s house) to prepare them. Which is why he says, where I am there you will be. In other words, Christ In you, and You in Christ… BUT, something greater clicked for me.
Now let me share how I see this passage, and I will simply translate it as I see fit.
“We are all where God dwells, if this wasn’t true I wouldn’t tell you that. Now I am going to God to learn more, to understand more, so I can prepare a way for you to understand how to do the same. And if I go to this place of enlightenment then I will be able to reveal this to you, so that where I am spiritually you may be also. And then where I went spiritually you will know, and the way to get there you will know, because I went there first and relayed this great truth to you….”
Now this is where Thomas comes in and asks the big question. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Thomas is saying, we don’t understand where you are going, how then can we know how to get there….
The great revelation comes in Jesus’ response.
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Notice Jesus said, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, no one comes to the Father but by Me… He DOESN’T SAY he that believes that I am the way, the truth and the life can get to the Father…. What he is saying is UNLESS YOU BECOME ME, AND ARE WHERE I AM, GO WHERE I GO you cannot COME TO THE REALIZATION of the Father. The only way to know the FATHER is to be THE SON.
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
The SON is in the Bosom (instruction/leading/teaching) of the Father.
Isaiah 40:11
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
And HOW DOES THE SON declare the FATHER?
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
The SON declares the FATHER by saying, if you have UNDERSTOOD BEING THE SON, then you will UNDERSTAND THE FATHER, and then he says because I GO TO THE FATHER (The perfect understanding and Union with God) you have known God and seen God, because in that day, the SON is put beneath the FATHER and GOD IS ALL IN ALL.
Now, I’m not going to go into much more detail about all of this, but I want you all to understand that if YOU GO TO THE FATHER, you will RETURN AGAIN and help others do the same. You will be able to lay the groundwork for them, and the work God has already done within them will bear witness and you will be able to be where The SON is also. And you too will understand that it is not FAITH in a Son, but BECOMING THAT SON that you begin to know the Father and salvation.
So go to the Father already, and I promise you I am going with you, before you, or after you, because there is no way to the Know the TRUTH without the TRUTH becoming you!
P.S. for those who want more information on why the literal physical Rapture is not true, here is a video I did awhile ago which does explain more of it. But there is also more information on this website as well. Enjoy, Jacob
Much love, Jacob
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WE WHO KNEW NO SIN
WE WHO KNEW NO SIN
Until we created it of course
This essay is going to be a very difficult one for some. For others perhaps a mind-blowing ride, and then for a chosen few, who have already seen this, for “them” it will be confirmation that they are not insane for thinking such thoughts.
That being said, why don’t we get into this essay curiously called “We who knew no sin… UNTIL WE CREATED IT!” That, right off the bat should send chills up some of your spines. How dare Jacob say, Mankind created SIN. The very same man who writes almost weekly about how God is in control of all things. If God creates all things and has created all things, then surely God must have also created SIN. I mean, doesn’t scripture teach that God made ALL THINGS?
Ephesians 3:9
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ
YES GOD CREATED ALL THINGS… but here is the key word. BY Jesus Christ. Meaning everything was created by God through Jesus. Which, you will soon learn is a symbol for us all. We were given dominion over everything. And as Jesus is SO are we in this world. Scripture states ALL things were made by the SON, for the SON.
John 3:35
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
So here we see God has given EVERYTHING into the son. And God made all things BY Christ Jesus. In other words, God made all things THROUGH the son, which in turn, is actually the SON CREATING ALL THINGS. Because the SON can only do what the FATHER DOES. Which is to create!
Hebrews 1:2
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Now what am I getting at here? And so if God creates ALL things through the son, then that must also mean God created SIN, LIES, and IGNORANCE through us. And for good reason. And if you doubt that ALL things mean EVERYTHING that is and is not, then read this scripture closely..
Colossians 1:16
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
Both VISIBLE and INVISIBLE – You can’t see THOUGHT, you can’t see FEAR, you can’t see LOVE, you can’t see SIN! – So it is obvious ALL THINGS were made BY GOD THROUGH THE SON.
Now, if you can hear this. If God creates everything by the SON, then the SON is creating non-stop. Regardless of whether or not he or she knows it or not.
Oh yes, that’s right I said HE or SHE. The reason is, as you’ll see, God only has one SON, ADAM (Humanity) the 1st and the last, the 1st Adam = The 1st nature of man. And the LAST ADAM is the last nature of Man which is CHRIST.
Now that wasn’t the hard part. The hard part is accepting, that if everything is made by Jesus Christ, and “AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD” – then in fact, God is creating THROUGH US ALL!
Now you say, “How can that Be? Only God makes everything through Jesus Christ.” – And my answer is, Is the man Jesus Christ creating this ESSAY, or is the man Jacob Israel? Did the man Jesus Christ create the first apple computing system or did the man Steve Jobs?
Well if Jesus Christ is the first BORN among many BROTHERS AND SISTERS, then we are ALL ONE AND THE SAME. Are we not?
Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren
Now how can ONE BE MANY? How can God only have one SON (as is literally written in scripture, or so many think) and how can that ONE SON be EVERYONE?
The answer is we are the ALL, and the ALL is everyone. Which is why we reap what we sow.
What we do to one, we do to ourselves. Because we are all part of ONE BODY.
The rest of this essay should help in understanding, that GOD is creating ALL THINGS through US (Jesus Christ) – Of which we have the mind of, we are the body of, and are even called by this name.
This if you can hear it, are the “GREATER THINGS THAN THESE” you shall do.
You see when Jesus arrived on the scene they wouldn’t accept the Messiah would come as a single humble man.
Well today, as they wait for the RETURN of that single humble man, they will never find that single humble MAN, because that CHRIST is IN THEM, and we are the BODY in which the SON IS RESSURECTED FROM.
Which means, (Catch this) The SON had to DIE and FORGET who he was, to be RESSURECTED to life.
The SON had to take upon himself the SINS OF THE WORLD, to save.
To know SALVATION one must first have something that needs saving.
Now how did this death COME UPON US ALL. Well the same way it is revealed in the Genesis story. SIN had to be CREATED, for HE(them) THAT knew no sin.
So who created Sin?
Let me answer the rumbling question in your mind with a simple answer that only a few will understand. the answer is “YES”. Yes, to what? To your question? To both. If we are the SON and we can only do as the Father does, and our Father and Us are one, than what God does we do. We are an extension of God, each of us. We are all the same. Cut from the same “cloth” as they say.
This should give people hope. This means, whatever we have done God has done through us, IF WE ARE THE SON (which scripture says all of humanity is). We can do nothing but what we have done. Otherwise we wouldn’t have done it.
Now here is how SIN is created in one sense.
This is hard for many to grasp. If something exists, if we did something, if there is something that we have done in our lives that we regret… the truth of the matter is, IT IS SIN to think that we could have ever done anything different. Because the only thing that exists, the only thing that was created is THE NOW. And God creates ALL things through us, for us. So when we begin to get caught up in the foolishness of the law, and begin to believe that things in our lives shouldn’t have gone the way they have gone… YOU WILL ENTER INTO SUFFERING AND PAIN, because you will believe you are a failure. HOWEVER, your situation is what it is and couldn’t be any different. Now if you understand this, than you can be at peace with whatever you have done, or where ever you are. And because of that you WONT FIGHT for more. You’ll understand whatever has been is now, and what is now will always be. There is NOTHING NEW under the sun, as Solomon wrote.
To grasp this is to know freedom. To be able to look back on your life and say, I COULDN’T HAVE CHANGED A THING, NO! To look and be able to say, I WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING is to know you had no choice. And if you had no choice, then regardless of what it was, it was an important part of your development.
Perhaps you hurt someone and that haunts you today. Well, the action of hurting that person taught you that you shouldn’t hurt others. But until you come to terms with the fact that regardless of what you have done in your life, couldn’t have been done any other way, you will never be free. You will continue to do the things that you hate.
Romans 14:22
Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
This is what Paul was trying to get across. The is a law at work in him, and there is a law at work in us all, and sometimes we will do the things we don’t want to do, but we do them so we can come to the place where we stop condemning ourselves, and when we stop condemning ourselves or trying to be better than we are free to be who we truly are. GOD’S ONLY CHILD, the one that has created all things, but at the command of the Father.
Now I am not saying you can go on and do whatever you like, because it’s all meant to be, God forbid. The truth is people can not act against their nature, only a murderer who believes himself to be a murderer can murder, and until he or she realizes that they don’t need to kill to know peace, the sooner they understand hurting others is in fact hurting them more, then they will be free of the terrible act they have committed. They will cease to be the person they are not.
I’m not saying that we should go out and do wrong, God forbid. We cannot do what we aren’t capable of, and the things we do that we hate, we will only stop doing those things when we don’t hate who we are. When we stop thinking we have to be perfect, we will be perfect and whole, lacking nothing. But in the DEATH we have created for ourselves, that takes time. The good news is whatever has already happened was MEANT TO HAPPEN. And if it was meant to happen then it was for our eventually good, or the good of the collective (everyone else = the same as us).
Let me give you my definition of what SIN is. It’s definition means to “miss the mark” or “Miss the point”. I like the second. Because it jives better with many other scriptures that explain what SIN is. But I think Sin is best describe in the Proverb below.
Proverbs 24:9
The thought of foolishness is sin
To think foolishly is SIN. In other words, if you are told that it is “unlawful” to drink any alcoholic beverage, smoke a cigarette, wear makeup, wear skirts that are too short… and you believe that it is A SIN (the way man has defined SIN which is very different.) Religion has defined SIN as a terrible act, when in fact it is merely missing the TRUTH of a matter.
Well if that person has been taught you can’t wear makeup, they will feel guilt and condemnation WITHIN themselves every time they do what it is, the world and religion has brainwashed them into thinking was bad. The irony is, the longer we SEE this or that as SIN (the way religious man defines it) the longer you will be a slave to it.
SIN truly means you have missed the point. An open-minded person knows you are not offending some supreme being by having a glass of wine. (Not that I am endorsing drinking/smoking etc just using this as an example.) Once mankind decides that this or that is SIN, like to “Not go to Church every sunday” those who believe such things, when they miss church FEEL LIKE THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG. And the irony is, missing Church is not SIN, it’s A SIN to think that MISSING CHURCH is a SIN. Isn’t it funny how that works? 🙂
I ask people many times, “what do you believe”, “is there more to life”. And 99% of the time I get the same answer. I believe in God BUT I DON’T GO TO CHURCH OR READ THE BIBLE AS OFTEN AS I SHOULD. As if going to man-made church or reading the bible is what we have to do or else.
And so, in that moment when they answer they condemn themselves as if they have done something wrong, when in fact they have not. A guilt or condemnation rises in them because someone told them along the way that the only way you can know God and be a good child of God is if you read the bible or go to Church. Oh boy what a crock that is!
Oh I know what some of you will think. YOU NEED TO READ THE BIBLE AND GO TO CHURCH! Well, take that up with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and that many, many others who had no holy book, and had no temple or church to go to, BUT HAD FAITH!
The one thing I find when asking this, is 99% of people believe there is more. And I tell them THAT IS ENOUGH! Because I know when the time is right, they too will go where they need to go and believe and know what they need to believe and know.
So really the SIN, is NOT THE ACTION, but thinking the action is wrong. Now let me be clear. To hurt others goes against the law of reaping and sowing, so unless you want to reap pain don’t put it on others. But to build a shed in your back yard without getting a slip from the town isn’t breaking God’s law, which is LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS, it is breaking MAN’S LAWS!
The problem is religious mankind has made so many LAWS (LAWS that are impossible to follow to a tee). And if you believe, because you have been taught by some Religious leader that to break the law of the land is a great SIN, the only SIN would be to believe that JAY WALKING is a great offence to the God, which is the Life of all humanity. So long as you are not hurting others, you aren’t hurting yourself. And to believe that JAYWALKING is a SIN because it is against man’s law doesn’t mean that it is breaking God’s law. Truly the ONLY SIN you have committed was the thought that you sinned.
When you realize this you find Liberty. The problem is, once this mindset of SIN (right and wrong, good and evil) enters the mind of man, MAN DIED. He can no long live the amazing life that was set before him.
So I am hoping that this essay will help free some of you from your past, and open your eyes to a much greater truth. The TRUTH that who you “are right now” IS who you are meant to be. And the longer you try to be somebody else, or try to be a better version of yourself, the longer you will be in the shackles of the SIN (foolish thinking) that you were brainwashed to believe you need to be something you are not. this doesn’t mean hateful people learn, HEY THIS IS WHO I AM AND I WILL CONTINUE TO HATE! No, these people HATE because they believe they need to be better than who they already are. So they project that HATE and PREJUDICE onto others, saying in the ignorance of the temporal world that they are better than people of a different skin color, or sexual orientation, or sex. You see these people FEEL A SENSE OF LACK! That is their sin. They began to believe WHO THEY WERE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH, but once they find the TRUTH OF WHO THEY ARE, and realize they ARE GOD’S CHILD, they will no longer hate. Because they will be at peace, and peace begets peace, as hate begets hate.
The longer you believe you need to be a better person, you will NOT be the better person you could be if you stopped condemning yourself and accepted that you are already perfect within.
The longer you try to be somebody you are not, the more misery you will have, because YOU ALREADY ARE SOMEBODY!
So let’s get into this essay, WE WHO KNEW NO SIN, until we created it!
So who does scripture say brought sin into the world. And the real question is, were we BORN INTO THIS SIN? Did we inherit it as so many say? Do we have a “Sin Nature”? Or is that a LEARNED BEHAVIOR? I believe it is very clear that this is a learned behavior. And the rest of this article is why. But as all things that happen in this world and our lives, SIN was a vital part of our growth. We couldn’t be overcomers without having something to overcome. But few know that the only thing we need to overcome is ourselves, the foolish thoughts of who we think we are.
Romans 5:12-14
12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
The answer given here is that by ONE MAN sin entered the world. And of course, you have been taught that ONE MAN, was ADAM, which in actuality is not a single literal man but is exactly what the name means in Hebrew (Mankind as a whole). ALL OF MANKIND God made and by this ONE RACE OF MAN which has many members, SIN came into the world.
Don’t believe that ADAM is speaking of everyone of us? Do you believe that there was a single Man and Woman in the garden? Well if you do that’s cool. I once believed that as well. But I was perishing for my lack of understanding. The more I studied the more I learned. The more I asked God teach me the truth the more I was taught WITHIN. Now, I have written on this “ADAM=MANKIND” subject before, but here’s a quick refresher.
Genesis 5:1
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created MANKIND, he made THEM in the likeness of God.
It doesn’t say when God created one single man, but MANKIND.
Oh I get it, you want me to go a little farther back than Genesis 5, you’re thinking if ADAM is all of mankind, it should be mentioned in Genesis 1. AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT!
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let THEM have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Right there in black and white… Let US make MANKIND after OUR LIKENESS, and let THEM – Notice the word THEM, plural. But wait it get’s better.
The name ADAM IN HEBREW, the word origin is ” ed) ” which means MANKIND, anyone and everyone. So much for the single man in a literal Garden doctrine. The fact is ADAM is ALL OF US, every single one of us on this planet. This is the beginning of OUR story. An allegorical telling of the human experience, from our being made sin and falling into the DEATH (carnal ignorance) that goes along with us, to returning to our rightful place in Christ.
Like Adam we too were formed from the DUST of the earth. Dust is a wonderful allegory, of lies and foolish thinking. It’s compared to ignorance, sin, and false beliefs. And indeed we were all FORMED by this dust, which is our experiences, and what we have believed about ourselves. Our parents named us, and began to teach us, and slowly but surely this world formed you and me into what many therapists would call an EGO. A being who believes himself or herself to BE something.
The problem is, like ADAM we are too busy trying to be SOMEBODY, because since childhood we have been taught. “when you grow up you have to be somebody” “You have to make a name for yourself” or “you’ll never amount to anything”, “you are such a screw up”. Either way, both ways of parenting is wrong. Parents and teachers put their children and students under the same curse that they are under. The BELIEF that you have to BE SOMEBODY else, because WHO YOU ARE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH. No matter if you are being told “You have to make a name for yourself in this world” or “You’ll amount to nothing” both brainwash us into HATING WHO WE ARE. That is how DEATH truly enters the world. We are taught we need to do something, to BE BETTER! And believe me when I say that this is the cause of all the suffering in the world!
When we begin to try to justify our existence by following the laws of the land, and trying to do everything that people say is right instead of wrong with our works and deeds we have forgotten that we ALREADY are made in the LIKENESS of God. And it doesn’t get any better than that! There is no improving on that!
We didn’t, and don’t, need to do a thing to be who we already were. The longer people try to be somebody else they will never be content with who they are. AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS NOT LIVING! THAT IS DEATH!
Job 40:13
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret
The good news is we will wake from this slumber of ignorance. We will find that who we are, we have always been. We will look at all we created in our life and acknowledge that it is good and we will accept ourselves as who we are and we will rest. Yes those that are living in the DEATH (ignorance) or DUST (imagination) will rise from it. BECAUSE….
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
In the thoughts of Mankind, following the rules and beliefs of mankind all DIE (become ignorant and life becomes a burden), but this is a necessary part of the journey because after this death, in CHRIST (The power and Wisdom of God) shall ALL be made alive.
In other words, when you stop trying to be something you are not. When you stop believing yourself to be someone you are not. When you see who you really are and understand the amazing power entrusted to you, you begin to LIVE! You leave this WORLD (The lusts there of), because you know WHO YOU ARE is NOT FROM THIS WORLD. You are NOT YOUR LUSTS.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
YOU ARE OF THE FATHER AND THE FATHER AND YOU ARE ONE! That was Jesus’ prayer, that you may come to the same understanding that he came to understand.
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
I just want to point out. The ONLY thing the NUMBER ONE can be divided by is THE NUMBER ONE. You can NEVER MAKE two out of one. Only ONE comes from ONE. You can divide ONE an infinite amount of times and the answer will always be the same, ONE. Now if I and my Father are One, there is no difference between the Father and I.
John 14:9
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father
But that is a different essay for another day. The point is, we need to GO TO THE FATHER!
John 16:16
A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father
The disciples didn’t understand what this meant. Many today teach that he was going to literally die and then literally rise from the dead. But what did Jesus say? “If you have seen ME you have seen the Father”. He is telling them, that one day they will understand that they are not seeing the EGO MAN JESUS but they will see JESUS’ true being, who JESUS really is, and then they will be able to see the FATHER, because they are ONE. (Once again I know I am getting ahead of myself)
Look the point is we need to WAKE UP from this madness, we need to wake up from all of our fear, worry, religious, political, social beliefs and take the shackles of religions and this worlds law off our hearts and finally be FREE.
Read this next verse carefully!
Isaiah 52:2
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion
Now look at that verse the way I see it!
“Wake up from the ignorance of trying to be someone you are not, rise up out of your fears and ideals, and REST! Live your life FREE from worry, fear, condemnation, laws, and KNOW WHO YOU ARE a child of God who is now a slave to your ignorance and fear.
This is who you are now!
Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a slave, though he be lord of all
You are the HEIR, you are LORD OF EVERYTHING but you are like a child ignorant of who you are, so you are no different from a slave. And you are a slave to this word SIN!
Look there was a time we were alive, there was a time we DID NOT KNOW SIN. Regardless of what you were taught, when MANKIND came to this planet, MANKIND did not know SIN (which by the way, is missing the truth of who you are, it is called the FOOLISH THOUGHT as I stated earlier).
Mankind (ADAM) did not know SIN until he began to eat from the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. Right after he ate, he realized he was NAKED, AND HE BECAME ASHAMED OF WHO HE WAS! – Does that sound like anyone’s story here?
We came into the world as happy babies and then life gets to us, we are told what is right what is wrong. How to act, how not to act, we are brainwashed into thinking we have to be SOMETHING that someone else tells us we should be, as opposed to just ENJOYING BEING YOU!
The scriptures say, TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY THE CHILD SHOULD GO, it doesn’t say, train them up in the way you THINK they should go.
All these rules are placed on us. All these things we must do and must not do.
We begin to understand what is good and what is evil in this world. And some of these “laws” man creates are down right ridiculous. It’s no different today than Moses day, when he was saying don’t eat shrimp. Here is a great foolish example of how man takes something innocent and pure and collectively decides it is EVIL.
If you give the Thumbs up to someone, you are approving them. BUT, if you raise the Middle finger at them then you are doing something mean and bad and vulgar. You are SINNING!
Now how is it that raising a simple finger can have such drastic contrasts? Why is the Thumb Good, but the middle finger is Bad? Well how did you find this out?
Like me, you probably were a child and one day raised only your middle finger quite innocently, but your parents, or a teacher or relative, says “STOP! YOU CAN’T DO THAT!” – Then we ask “Why?” – They reason with us and explain that it means something very, very, bad and we believe it. That’s the problem. WE BELIEVE what others tells us about the world, God, life, and ourselves. As opposed to going WITHIN!
Man made up that foolish rule and pounded it in our head. Now that child, you and I, don’t have the liberty to raise our middle finger in a mall, because man’s LAW says it is evil to do such a thing and we cannot.
And so, little by little everything that makes being a kid fun is taken away from us. We can’t shout in the house, that’s impolite. We have to attend certain events, its called responsibility. We have to get schooling or you can face criminal charges, and of course you have to be taught what man has decided is worth teaching and what is unacceptable. Mankind has created all of these laws, many silly, some necessary, and each day mankind is creating more and more laws to add unto the list.
You can’t drive without a seat belt, you can’t talk on the phone, you can’t text and drive, you can’t turn right on red, you can’t cross the road unless it is in a designated place. You can’t stand in one place on a public sidewalk too long, you can’t do this, you can’t do that. The list goes on and on. Mankind loves to make laws, even better is mankind’s religious nature. These are INVISIBLE laws, and make your life even more miserable.
Not only do we have all these man-made laws for the physical world, no you see that isn’t enough to suck the life out of us. Mankind went so far as to create spiritual laws, religions, denominations, traditions, and like teaching your children to make the sign of the cross before you pray, or to always end your prayer with “in jesus name”, you have to be baptised, you have to tithe, you have to believe exactly what you are taught, and you MUST NEVER QUESTION of THINK INDEPENDANTLY. You have to be straight, you can’t be gay, can’t dress different, can’t have long hair, you can’t BE YOU! And that is NOT LIVING, that is DEATH!
And the religious and political system, that mankind created, BECAUSE THEY WERE ASHAMED OF WHO THEY WERE! — Mankind didn’t believe they could be who they were, they believed they have to do something WORTHY of being who they already were. And the instant you begin trying to be who you are, YOU STOP LIVING YOUR LIFE and you DIE. You existence becomes a futile chore, you lose all hope, because everywhere you turn you fun and enjoyment is being sucked away from you. That is ONLY of course, IF YOU ARE IN THAT SYSTEM. You see you can find the truth of who you are, and LIVE by the many ridiculous laws of this land and LIVE your life, instead of letting your life live you. You can be OFF THE WORLD, but not IN THE WORLD. Jesus said that. But he also said, that once you are enlightened to the TRUTH of who you are. YOUR ENJOYMENT OF LIFE will irritate the hell out of people. LITERALLY!
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you
When you understand that YOU ARE NOT A PRODUCT OF THIS WORLD, but that THIS WORLD IS A PRODUCT OF YOU… then you will be free!
John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world
That’s right, WE CREATE! Whether you know it or not you are creating your life, whether that is a life of misery and defeat or one of peace, YOU CREATE IT. You create what you BELIEVE! Whatever a man believes in his heart, that he becomes! If you had faith you could move the mountains of pain out of your life, but that starts by giving up TRYING to remove it, and just knowing it will be removed.
ADAM (mankind)Adam was born WITHOUT the knowledge of sin, he ONLY knew sin after he ate OF THAT TREE. We ONLY know sin once we start believing all the rights and wrongs, and this and thats, and what everyone says we must do and become, and what everyone says we are. Once we buy into this, once we ASSIMILATE (eat/become one with) what is produced by the almost infinite amount of LAWS man has created, we reap the fruit of it which is DEATH.
We didn’t know sin, until some taught us about sin. Paul said he didn’t know sin, until the Law came…
Romans 7:9
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died
The LAWS of the land are meant to frustrate us. They are meant to kill us. They are meant to drive us to the point where we don’t want to live in this hell of a world anymore. The reason there is war, prejudice, hate, famine, poverty, disease, and more is because mankind created LAWS that we cannot possibly follow. And because of out insecurity in not being able to “measure up” as we have been taught to, we try to compensate by outwardly becomes a fanatic about things. And then in ANYONE threatens the laws that you believe you must follow… LIKE THE BELIEF IN ETERNAL TORTURE, if anyone threatens this false belief that you have been conditioned to believe in OUR ELSE, than you will want to silence that voice!
You are not a SINNER that is hell bound people. You are in hell (suffering/ignorance/vanity) because you have SINNED (FOOLISHLY THOUGHT) you were a SINNER FROM BIRTH in need of a SAVIOR.
But every single person on this planet is a child of God.
1 John 3:9 – whoever is born of God cannot sin, for his seed remains in him and he cannot sin.
AREN’T WE ALL BORN OF GOD? And when we realize this then we can be free from SIN. And the only way to do this, is to stop trying to be something you are not. Take a look back at your life, accept that where you are is what you have created for yourself, and begin to LIVE your life!
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.
He is simply a picture of us. He was telling his disciples a great truth, I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE. I am LIFE! The reason is he knew HE AND THE FATHER WAS ONE! He didn’t have to do anything but LAY DOWN THE LIFE HE HAD. And all we need to do is the same. Give up trying to be someone you are not, get the revelation that you are GOD’S CHILD, and if God’s child that ONE WITH GOD.
You can only do what the Father wants you to do, because you are one. You grab hold of this and you will know the joy of the LIFE YOU HAVE. And you will no longer let your life live you, you will live your life. And you will be able to look back on everything that you have created in your life and say IT IS GOOD! In that moment, when you can accept that ALL THINGS HAVE WORKED TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE THAT LOVE GOD, than you will LIVE!
There will come a time in your life, or has come, when you will do as God did.
Genesis 6:6
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart
You will hate the LIFE you have created for yourself (which was God creating within you) because you and the Father are ONE. And it will grieve your heart, that your mind is on pain and suffering and evil all the time. And you will want that MAN that you created DEAD!
Genesis 6:7
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them
You will LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE so you can finally take up LIFE. You will ENTER THE ARC, you will go within for the answers and you will go through a time of being tossed back and forth with everything that comes your way. But when peace arrives at your door to heaven (your mind) you will see the world in a new light and you will be free!
GO TO THE FATHER! (This phrase alone does not mean go to a separate God, for you and God are one) – It means accept that! And trust that everything in your life was a necessary, and is a necessary part of the plan to get you to where you are RIGHT NOW! Then put off the conversation with your old ignorant nature and begin a new one!
Peace Jacob
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WHAT IS TRUTH
“WHAT IS TRUTH?”
Who is God using today? Is God using people standing behind an alter, temple, mosque, kingdom hall, you get the point. Is God speaking to the world today from the Podium or High seat of your place of worship?
We hear so many messages and have so many differing ideas as to what the truth is, what God is, Allah, Brahmin, it really doesn’t matter what you call the creative force of us all. If the truth be told there is only one CREATOR. Only One, all things come from ONE. ONE large circle cannot create an equally large circle of it’s own size and dimension, but within that circle there are infinite possibilities. Just as the one CREATIVE FORCE of the universe, which I like to call God, or even Father, can only be ONE GOD but out of this ONE GOD ALL THINGS EXIST. The purpose of me pointing this out to you is to also state, that if there is ONE CREATOR than there is only ONE TRUTH about that creator. There is ONE CONSTANT that cannot be changed.
Malachi 3:6
For I am the LORD, I change not
This ONE GOD, as I said does not change, and there is nothing greater than this God.
Hebrews 6
13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself
So since there is ONLY ONE GOD, ONE TRUTH, ONE IMMERSION into this truth, you would think there wouldn’t be so many divisions in belief. But there are, regardless of understanding there is only ONE. ONE GOD of which all of humanity is ONE BODY that came out from this ONE GOD.
Ephesians 4:4-6
4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Notice, how this ONE GOD is above all (nothing greater) through all and in all, meaning we simply exist IN THIS ONE SPIRIT. So why so many divisions? And where will the truth be found? Who should we listen to? Is a religious leader the way to go? Or is there another way?
Today because so many go to RELIGIOUS LEADERS, who let on that THEY ALONE have this ONE TRUTH we see countless divisions. In the name of God we see people hating each others, fighting each other, attacking each other, cheating each other, stealing from each other, the list goes on and on. The religious world is in an uproar. And for many that follow this religious leader they follow without question and believe themselves to be right as well. And if they have the power they will force what they believe to be right on everyone. This is why we have laws against same-sex marriage, drug use, etc, and many other laws that man has made not because these things hurt other people, and I am not endorsing drug use by any means, but many of these laws were created because a certain religion decided it was “immoral” and so the land begins to enforce what this certain religious group in power demands. In Muslim countries we see how women are treated, and there are still some in our country that say it is immoral for women to wear jeans, men to grow long hair etc. But the fact is, these are man’s interpretation and ideas of what is right and wrong. And when Mankind decides what is good and what is evil, it doesn’t create liberty, it creates bondage! The sad thing is, many will use force, condemn, will even kill so that what they BELIEVE to be true, isn’t threatened or disregarded. A war between faiths isn’t anything new. Mormons were slaughtered for simply being slaughtered. Pagans were slaughtered for being pagans. Free thinkers were tortured and slaughtered as heretic, Lutherans were burned at the stake in England, women were called witches and drowned and hung and burned to death for simply appearing different, perhaps for having a voice. Wars between the Muslim and Christian faith has been going on for centuries, and is still going on today. This has to end. We have to put aside our differences, and see our similarities, we are all ONE. When we see that what we do to one we do to ourselves then this world will know peace.
But since there are so many different faiths, and many roads don’t lead to the way, although I do believe many roads can lead you to the ONE ROAD which leads to the KINGDOM (rule of God). But since there are so many division, we must consider that EVERYONE CANNOT BE RIGHT.
And if this is true, which you don’t need to be a Rocket scientist to see many differing views don’t equal one view, so it’s a good call that many are deceived, then we are left with the question, “WHAT IS TRUTH?”.
Pontius Pilate was left with the same question. “WHAT IS TRUTH?” when the FATE OF CHRIST is given into his hands. The irony is the FATE OF CHRIST is also given into our hands. Religion wants the TRUTH put to death, because it threatens the kingdom religious men and women have created. If people leave the churches, temples, mosques, the religious leaders will not be able to live in the lap of luxury anymore. If people turned to the TRUTH and GOD instead of turning to Religious Men and Women, Religion would no longer be needed. And when the great TRUTH is spoken, the RELIGIOUS MINDED hate this truth because it is opposed to everything Religion teaches. It confounds the WISE (those who claim to know it all).
And so like Pilate we too are given a chance to decide the fate of the CHRIST (power and wisdom) of God. We desperately need to know what the TRUTH IS! But for many instead of listening to our hearts, as Pilate knew in his heart, Christ did NO WRONG.
Luke 23:4
Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
We too may hear the TRUTH, Love God, Love Others, and we find no fault in this. Simple, no tithing, no handing out flyers about the coming judgment, no infinite torture, everything has purpose, God is in control. We see all that Christ is, we FIND NO FAULT IN IT! But the RELIGIOUS do. They don’t want to lose their stranglehold over the world and their ignorant flocks. And these religious leaders will do EVERYTHING they can to not lose one of those, they made TWICE THE CHILD OF HELL (ignorance) they are.
Today from the pulpit we see many people attacking anyone who begins to speak differently. The latest victim of this is ROB BELL for his book LOVE WINS. Rob had a glimpse that perhaps God could in fact save everyone. Christ(the power and wisdom of God) was given into his hands, and when the Religious Rabble Rousers began to spew their hate and opposition, condemning Him and his book, did Rob Bell stand firm on his belief or did he cave? Sadly he caved, and gave a confession of faith saying “I believe in heaven and hell, and I believe God gives us a choice.” Rob washed his hands of CHRIST. In his heart, he KNOWS THERE IS NO FAULT in this GREAT TRUTH of SALVATION for all. But it was so new to him, and he is so young in this belief and so used to being the King of his large manmade kingdom, he doesn’t want to lose that. Once the people turned against him, he wanted to make it clear, HE BELIEVED IN HELL AND PEOPLE HAVE A CHOICE. We Rob Bell, I’m sorry to hear you say that because I see differently. Just do the research man, no such thing as infinite torture, Hell is simply our ignorance, our carnal death, the truth hidden from our view and so we suffer. And Heaven is finally entering into God’s PEACE, PURPOSE, WISDOM, AND POWER.
This is the problem with many so-called believers today. We want community, God wants unity. So instead of breaking away from what EVERYONE IS SAYING IS THE WAY, and seeking God to find the way yourself, many listen to what everyone else is saying. Because it isn’t convenient to speak against the status quo. So many, wash their hands, and allow the RELIGIOUS ELITE CONTINUE to scream and lead the way for the DEATH (putting away of) OF THE TRUTH, WAY, AND LIFE!
And instead of listening to the TRUTH WITHIN, we wash our hands of it, because SO MANY PEOPLE have so much against it.
Matthew 27:13
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee
This is the parable of the sower. The seed is happily taken in, we find no fault with it, but then comes everyone else and since we are not properly prepared to face this adversity we fold our arms, and allow the TRUTH to be killed, and we no longer consider it. How many religious people, won’t even accept simple teaching when it is clearly defined and explained with irrefutable proof. It doesn’t matter, “look at all the people and how they are all against it.” – this is what matters, what others think. Religion has taught us to seek the approval of MANKIND and not GOD!
Many are blindly following, wanting acceptance and staying with the status quo. Many others don’t want to leave their wilderness of beliefs and end up going to their grave in this lifetime without ever entering the Land of Promise. The Land of Promise being the WISDOM AND POWER OF GOD, entering into salvation from your fear, condemnation, worry, doubt, and the demons of lies you’ve believed as true your whole life.
What I have learned over the years, many leading a congregation don’t want to hear what anyone without “credentials” has to say. As if going to O.R.U. or some other Christian University and getting your degree or doctorate in what man has decided should be taught and what should be forgot, makes you a greater vessels of truth than one who with a sincere heart turns to God and begs “TEACH ME THE TRUTH NO MATTER WHAT THE COST.” Which is ironic because they put their faith in a man who received no schooling at all.
John 7:15
15 The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”
So it should be clear, that we don’t need to LISTEN to someone who simply have a DEGREE in Religion to learn about God. We simply need to turn within and seek God. Those that seek will find.
Now here is something to consider. If you have left the manmade religious system and no longer go to a manmade church, it is a good call, you have also left the teachings of man and now are seeking God for answers. Perhaps you have been enlightened to more, and if you shared what you learned if it threatened what your “home” church taught you may have even been kicked out for it. I have a new friend who lost his job for seeing the TRUTH. Religion is a killer of spirits indeed.
Now of course not all churches, temples, mosques are bad. I know out there, THERE MUST BE sincere seekers. But if they are looking to one single man or woman to lead them, then they are not seeking God themselves.
You have to get to a point in your walk where you actually are disgusted by the beliefs that reared you. Your religious father, mother, brothers, sisters who taught you, molded you, formed you. If you don’t get to a point where you can no longer stomach them raising you, YOU will find the Truth and it will set you free.
Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple
Because regardless of a religious leaders intentions, if they are teaching others from the pulpit in a man-made church they haven’t ALLEGORICALLY left the PHYSICAL WORLD OF WORSHIP. God wants us to go to God, not a minister. God wants your voice to be heard, not the voice of someone who someone else has said “this person is approved to teach the things of God”.
Let me be real clear on this, we do not need MAN’S APPROVAL to speak or teach the things of God. God ALWAYS chooses the FOOLISH THINGS of this world to confound the wise…. In other words, those that consider themselves wise are confounded by the foolish things they believe, and cannot know the Truth when presented, because they can’t yet hear it. (I know that last verse has been taught differently, but people who God’s wisdom revealed to them are not foolish) – the foolish ones have no OIL (wisdom)
So who is approved of God? Who has the right to speak about the things of God? Who is to say who is right or wrong? NO ONE! No one is to say who is approved of God. We are to call NO MAN FATHER on this earth. So much for having a SPIRITUAL FATHER OR MOTHER in the Faith.
Wake up people, there is so much more to learn. You have the voice to spread what you learn. And you can ONLY TRULY LEARN alone with God. God said he wanted all of Israel to come to the MOUNTAIN (a HIGHER ALTITUDE of belief) and Israel didn’t want to go, because they knew to do that they would have to DIE to who they thought they were and who they have been. So they tell Moses, you go, and you tell us. And guess what, NOT ONE ENTERS the promise of God, the whole lot of them died in the wilderness.
YOU EACH NEED TO FORSAKE GOING TO A MAN OR A WOMAN for spiritual leadership, and simply ask God to teach you, then start searching. You will in that time, BE TRANSFORMED! Now let me be clear, I am not saying leave you church family, that would be me putting you under a law. God forbid, stay where you are welcome, but seek GOD, listen to what others say, but don’t drink the kool-aid without first checking to see with God if it is poison or not.
I am not a prophet, not a bishop, not a guru, not a priest, not a pastor, not a saint… I simply am who I am, and I am doing what I believe I am supposed to do. I am not a perfect man, many say I am humble and kind and charitable, they say that I am a good man, but I tell you I feel like I am chief of all sinners. Not because I do so much wrong, but because I can’t seem to ever feel that I have done enough right. I want to be a light in this world, I want to be a candle that is passed to other candles until millions of candles are burning bright in this world. This is my desire. And I pray it is yours.
The reason I wrote my book is because I believed I was meant to, to open the eyes of those who could not see before (my day-dream and desire if you will). I wanted to, in a fiction show the world that loving others is the only way, that everything that happens has purpose, and that we are all GOD’S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (humanity).
Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
With that being said, don’t look to me, or others in a higher light than you should. We are ONE AND THE SAME, sharing the same experience, learning the same things, but each of us in a different order.
The good news is NO ONE WILL PROCEED another. We are all in this together, for better, for worse, and then for a perfect universe. And this plan cannot fail, but the only way to find it is to find God within you. You have to enter that SHEEP GATE and become the SHEPHERD!
John 10
1Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
There is only one way in, THE DOOR, Christ, and CHRIST IS WITHIN YOU! And once you enter in YOU BECOME THE SHEPHERD. And you didn’t need a degree to do so, and become so.
You will NEVER find the truth if you aren’t willing to pray, Teach me the truth, take away every false beliefs no matter how much it costs, teach me the truth. I believe when people get to this point, it is because that is what God has already begun within them and their prayer is in fact a temporal witness of what is already being done within them.
I want for all of you, to have hope, don’t be discouraged because of what you have heard in religion or from religious leaders around the world. We are the LIGHTS OF THIS WORLD, and you will ONLY FIND THIS LIGHT SHINING BRIGHT when you LOOK WITHIN! Look within! CROSS THE JORDAN! Take us the CROSS! –
And now a message for all you religious leaders.
Philippians 3
4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
(If you think you have credentials, THINK AGAIN!)
5Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
(You may think you are doing everything right, and are not at fault… THINK AGAIN!)
7But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
The things YOU THINK are benefitting you are actually KEEPING YOU FROM THE TRUTH of CHRIST. You can count all of those things, your “salvations”,”alter calls”,”miracle healing”,”falling out”,”prophetic words”,”dancing”, “singing”,”Praying”, “Traditions” — COUNT THEM ALL AS SOMETHING TO LOSE for the KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST (power and wisdom of God) – count it as waste that you may WIN (overcome) Christ. (The truth is in you not in a building)
10That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
So you may know him (the way, the truth, and the life) and the power of the way, truth, and life’s resurrection IN YOU and the suffering tha accompanies this, and the laying down of the life you once lived for the TRUE LIFE of who you really are!
11If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
So that YOU may also, ATTAIN the same RESURRECTION out of your DEATH (Ignorance) as Jesus did.
12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Not that you have already attained this, or have I in this life. But we follow after this life, if need be to apprehend this resurrection.
13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
So forget everything you used to know. Reach forward to what you are now to know.
14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Move beyond your traditions, religious buildings, and everything you thought you knew, and press on to the HIGH CALLING OF GOD, which is to become CHRIST. (his power and wisdom manifested)
20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Heaven is WITHIN, so where would the SAVIOR BE FOUND? Within, not without. Our conversation is within, our thoughts are the key, the truth will set us free. Even though we may feel like the chief of sinners.
21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Then we the Chief of Sinners, will no longer see our body (soul/being) as VILE, we will see it a glorious. Every fear and negative thought will be ripped away, we will feel secure, loved, and we will no longer need the approval of others, or be hurt by others, because all our thoughts will be God’s thoughts.
So who is God using today? Is it you? Is it me? Does it really matter who? I believe not. For God uses us all in different ways. Some like Pharoah whom he hardens to test and push Israel out of bondage, and some like Joseph who soon rule Egypt and store up enough grain (understanding) to feed the world. We are all part of the same plan, so we must LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Turn to God to learn about God, don’t have any gods before God within. Not a religious book, religious leader, not a philosophy, not anything. Let your conversation be in HEAVEN and HEAVEN will be in your EARTH (HEART).
LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK
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LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK
James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Yeah right, easier said than done right? Well the truth, as they say, hurts but it also heals. So settle into this essay with an open mind and remember there is no such thing as coincidence, and everything has purpose.
This is a topic I have briefly touched on before in the past. But today, I am going to really dive into this and point out some things that jumped out at me (revelation you see:)) Hopefully what I write will help you to see that there is much bigger picture that we are working with here. Hopefully you will see by the end of this essay that there is a reason for everything you go through. Hopefully you will understand that nothing good comes easy, as they say, but everything good comes to those that faithfully wait for their promise. Hopefully you will understand everything has purpose, the good and the bad, and in the end everything will be brought to the knowledge of the truth and peace.
Now I wasn’t planning on writing an essay this morning, when I woke up at 5am and sat down at this computer. In fact, I was simply going to revise an older essay but I began to write and below is what came out of it. As always I just go with the flow when I write and I rarely go back and edit so forgive me for any mistakes you may find. I look forward to your comments and I hope you enjoy it.
So let’s begin shall we.
If you’ve been to this site before you know I write much about the allegory of scripture. I write about the same thing the apostles and prophets of old wrote and spoke about. Paul said the “Letter” kills, which basically means if you take everything that is written literally, it will keep you in the darkness of death (ignorance/carnal mind). In a story, it’s never about whether or not there was a real Little Red Riding Hood or a Wolf, it is what we learn from the story that is important. Which is why Jesus spoke to the masses only in parable.
Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them
Remember the things of the Kingdom (reign/rule) of God is a mystery. And a mystery is something that must be revealed, understood, and found out. God has always spoke to us in allegory.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old
We should always seek God to reveal the deeper meaning of the stories we read in the scriptures. Because when you do, you will find the stories you are reading about have more to do with you and your life than they do about literal people from thousands of years ago. It’s all about finding out the mystery, which is not of private interpretation, but insight given by God, who wants us to come to the understanding of these things and in fact He will be succesful. As ALL WILL COME TO THE UNITY OF THE FAITH, AND KNOWLEDGE AND STATURE OF THE PERFECT MAN.
Proverbs 1
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings
The only way to increase in learning is to seek God, and allow God to reveal the interpretation of the proverb, parable, and dark saying (which are basically words that can’t been perceived naturally).
I want to point out that the word “God” I am using is the same spirit of love and truth that is within each and everyone of us, it is the beginning and end of all things and then some. God is everything seen and unseen, God is all in all. And who you are is God’s child. Or should I say, who you think you are is a creation of something that your conscious mind cannot fathom, God, or who we all really are the offspring of. Jesus’ prayer was that mankind would become ONE with God, which he called the “Father”. “That they may be one, as we are one.” Now, if you are ONE with something there is no seperation between who you are and who God is. For you are IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN YOU. However, for the sake of this paper, I will use the word God to make my point. It is my hope that one day we too will be able to say we are one as Jesus did.
The scriptures state that it is impossible to know the mind of God. Much like it is impossible for the conscious mind to know what the subsconscious mind is up to. And that my friends is what the mystery is all about, finding our way home, finding our way to the truth of who and what we are, which is salvation indeed.
What few people are able to grasp is that their own lives are in fact a road map toward their own salvation. – Salvation mind you, is not freeing you from some future suffering in the afterlife, but freeing you from your ignorance and suffering in the here and now. For those that say, oh everyone is saved already, in my opinion they are terribly wrong. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been taught to WORK OUT OUR SALVATION.
Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation
You have to understand the future is not something we need salvation from. The FUTURE does not yet exist does it. We need salvation in the HERE AND NOW! Salvation is all about the NOW. It is about being freed from your fears, worries, hang ups, addictions, anger, sadness, etc… and I’m sorry to say but for those that say, “we already overcame because of what one man did two thousand years ago”, I say, I believe strongly you are wrong. For those who say we are perfect as we are, the murderer and the saint, I say you are wrong. There is only one way to salvation and that is coming to the fullness, the knowledge and wisdom of who you are in Christ. And when you understand this, and the DAYSTAR has risen in your heart, then you are no longer ruled by your carnal fears and hang ups but you are set free. It is a dangerous teaching to tell people that you can be anything you want to be, even if that hurts others, and you can still enter the kingdom. I believe one day ALL WILL ENTER IN, BUT, and that is a very big BUT, it will only happen when they have been set free from their carnal old man, and have reaped what they have sown. This is why we are told to love others, to do unto others as we want done to ourselves. So don’t be fooled thinking you are already perfected, if you were, you would FEEL IT, you would KNOW IT! And it isn’t as simple as just turning on a switch, this is a process. This is why we MUST have patience and faith, because I am confident that God will bring us all to the knowledge of the truth, but EACH MAN IN HIS ORDER.
Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ
So how does God do this? How do we find the path?
Well, the answers are all around us, from the car we drive, to how messy or clean our home is, to our relationship, enemies, friends, and illnesses. Now this is hard for many to grasp. But the answers are all around us, in world events, natural disasters, to the television programs and movies we watch. God has inspired it all, to bring us all to a place of understanding and ultimately peace.
I know many of you will say, NO THERE IS TOO MUCH PAIN IN THIS WORLD, how can God possibly be using this to bring us to a place of peace and rest. Well consider how God chose to perfect us according to scripture.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction
In fact if we think of many precious things in the world, there is a great torment (testing/and trying) of these things. To produce the perfect pearl the oyster suffers its whole life and has to die for that pearl to be harvested. To create WINE (which is such a wonderful allegory) choice grapes ar ripped from the vine, that they are trampled under foot, pressed, scraped, left to stew in their torment, all the flesh is taken away, left to sit some more until that SPIRIT is ready to drink. All precious metals are held under the hottest part of the flame until all the impurities bubble to the surface. In fact in the refining of silver, the way the smith knows the silver is pure is when he or she sees their reflection(image) in the silver. The same is true for us. Let’s face it the easy road is never the road we benefit the most from. It is climbing the mountain and enduring the storms and escaping death and finally ending your journey on the mountain’s peak that you feel that sense of awe and accomplishment. If it was easy, no one would bother. Where’s the fun in that? Also consider the things you remember the most in life, things you are MOST PROUD of, they are usually the things you have overcome. In fact that is what our “testimony” is all about. All we have been through and where we stand today, what we have learned from our journey, and why others should be encouraged in their time of trouble.
I understand life can be so hard. I am not immune to the cares of this world (thorns) and the death (pain, ignorance, and suffering) it causes. I have been abandoned, attacked, hurt emotionally/physically, I have lost everything, I have suffered great depression and still do at times, I have been deathly ill for years thanks to my Crohns disease, but because of it all I am here today writing this article to encourage you that no matter what you are going through, IT IS ALL FOR YOUR BENEFIT! Now I understand it may not seem that way but trust me when I say it is.
1 Peter
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
There is a teaching out there, that Jesus took all of our suffering and we need not suffer anymore. Let me tell you that is the farthest thing from the truth. As hard as this is going to be for many of you to hear, there is no difference between you and Jesus. When he was crucified we were crucified.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ
Just who do you think the TWO THIEVES that were crucified with Christ were. They were the two natures in man. The one that is TAKEN (embraces the truth) and the other that is LEFT (cast off/divorced). – By the way, those are the actual definitions of those words, look them up.
Matthew 24:40
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left
Remember CHRIST in you is the HOPE OF GLORY. Christ IN IN IN you. Your life is HID in Christ.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter
Yes, and we ALL HAVE this TREASURE, PROMISE, LIFE, LOVE, POWER, AND WISDOM within us.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us
Notice the last part of that verse. This truth has been HIDDEN from our understanding, so that when it is revealed we would know it was of GOD and not ourselves. THIS IS WHY OUR THIEVES need to be crucified. Because yes, once again, a THIEF is an allegory.
John 10:1
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber
The THIEVES are those natures in man who believe we can enter the Kingdom of God by any other way, than the straight and narrow door of BECOMING CHRIST.
Matthew 10:38
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me
Let me first point out what the word “WORTHY” means in the Greek. Because it will open your eyes to a much deeper meaning. It doesn’t mean, “If you don’t do this you’re not good enough for me to love you.” God forbid, it actually means, if you don’t do exactly what Jesus did (laying down his old man) you cannot be as he is. DON’T BELIEVE ME… well look at what the word “WORTHY” means.
WORTHY – aàciov – having the weight of another thing of like value, worth as much
It means if you don’t embrace your suffering in this world, you will not have the same WORTH as Christ. The good news is, in the end of days (the last days of your ignorance, not the last days of this literal world) all will come to this understanding. And it is our suffering and trials that bring us there. This is why, we are told to rejoice in our sufferings because they are doing a great work within us.
1 Peter
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ
And yes that word APPEARING DOESN’T mean Jesus is going to come again soon and stand before you in a separate body. Wake up people YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST. That word appearing, once again when properly translated makes it clear. That the trial of your faith is precious so Christ can and will be manifested IN YOU and Made known to the world THROUGH YOU.
APPEARING: a)poka/luyiv – a disclosure of truth, instruction, concerning things before unknown,
used of events by which things or STATES OF PERSONS hitherto withdrawn from view ARE MADE VISIBLE to all.
There it is in black and white. Do you believe it?
I know, I know this is a hard saying, as they say. But would you rather think that all you are going through is totally pointless, that you have a dark cloud over your head, and your unlucky… OR, would you rather believe that ALL THINGS ARE WORKING TOGETHER FOR YOUR GOOD. That even the most difficult of experience, and most devastating of events are here simply to push us to the revelation of who we truly are in Christ.
Romans 8:18
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Notice, it DOES NOT say the glory is revealed OUTSIDE OF US. But within us! We are where it all takes place, the beginning and the end, the last and the first, it is all part of our journey. As HE was SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. We need to take our eyes off of the Jesus man from two thousand years ago, and go to GOD AS HIS CHILD. For we are HIS CHILD. Even Jesus instructed that there will come a time in your walk WHEN YOU WILL NO LONGER GO TO HIM but you will KNOW GOD LOVES YOU!
John 16
23And 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.
When you come to this understanding. You will no longer pray to Jesus, or pray in “jesus’ literal name” because you will be ASKING IN HIS NATURE, which is what the word “name” literally means. You will be asking as CHRIST. So you won’t need to ask Jesus, you’ll be asking as Jesus (in other words). Look at this next line.
John 16
24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
The scripture says, YOU HAVE NOT ASKED “IN” my name. This doesn’t mean you pray, and then say, “I ask this in Jesus name…. To be IN something, it to be ONE with that something. When you ASK you MUST ASK knowing that YOU AND CHRIST ARE ONE!
John 17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one
Read that again.
John 17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one
Now what glory did God give Jesus. It was the revelation that he was the only begotten son of God, and savior of the world. THIS IS THE SAME GLORY WE ARE GIVEN. And how are we given this Glory. Did Jesus wave his hand and magically impart this to us…. NO! What is the GLORY OF GOD AGAIN?
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Christ comes (is revealed) in the Glory of God (the Hidden truth with us). When Jesus is saying the Glory God gave give, he is saying God made known the TRUTH to him, and this he relayed to his disciples, and the glory given to them they gave to those God gave them, and the Glory given to me and you, we give to those God gives us… why? SO THAT WE MAY BE ONE! So we may all come to the understanding, that no one is better than another, no man or woman regardless of if there name is Jesus or Mohammed or Siddhārtha is greater than Bob, Sally, Antoine, Jacob, or Sue. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE and there is no DIVISION in ONE. There is no one greater than another IN ONE. For they are ALL THE SAME. Different members, different gifts, different purposes, but all ONE. As the hand is not greater than the foot, Jesus is not greater than you. The CHRIST in US, the CHRIST IN JESUS (which he was speaking out of and from) IS however greater than our carnal nature. Our HIGHER SELF is greater than our lower ignorance self.
When you understand this, then you begin to see other scriptures in a different light.
John 14:12
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
What do you think Jesus meant when he said, the THINGS I DO YOU SHALL DO… the reason is, you and Christ are the same. So what Christ does you do, and what you do Christ does. Because when you have LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN then you shall know THE “I AM”, and that you too can do NOTHING OF YOURSELF, BUT EVERYTHING THAT FATHER HAS TAUGHT YOU. Taught you by what you have gone through, experienced, through the allegory of your physical life.
Still having problems with this? Well look at this next verse.
2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ
Christ sufferings ABOUND IN US… Not outside of us, not many years ago, but NOW! But the best part is so our CONSOLATION also abounds BY CHRIST. In other words, we may SUFFER to attain the POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD, we may Suffer for Christ. But it is so our COMFORT ABOUND BY CHRIST. There is a point and purpose for it all. Every broken bone and every broken heart, it is working a FAR GREATER THING in us. And when we trust in God, regardless of our circumstance, and understand that it is for our good. When we learn to love even those that hate us, help even those that hurt us, and lift up those that tear us down, we will not only be growing in grace and allow Christ to rule our hearts, but we will be saving those we help, lift, and love from their own ignorance.
Consider for a moment, if we are ALL INFINITE beings, then does it really matter what is happening for the moment. If we are all Infinite beings, than no one who has died, has truly died, no one who has suffered will not one day be comforted, and no one’s life will be lived in vain. The world right now is a scary place, but consider that everything is a natural allegory of what is universally going on in the hearts of those around the world. Dictators are being overthrown, great earthquakes, terrible storms, wars, and rumors of wars, everything that is happening outside of us is also happening within us. Our carnal nature is being overthrown by Christ, our foundational error is being broken up, and there is indeed a war within us, one that will end with our peace.
And just remember you are NOT ALONE in your suffering. Your suffering is there to get you to LET GO and LET GOD RULE! Your suffering is working out a great salvation in you. This is why you have people coming against you, so you can learn to return their attacks with Love because you will then be able to see that it isn’t happening to you (as my friend Dave Fields always says) it is happening FOR YOU! And no one is immune to it, and everyone will go through the fire. But BLESSED ARE THOSE that have taken part of the First resurrection because the FIRE DOESN’T hurt as much. Because you understand what you are going through is for the greater good for yourself and the world.
2 Corinthians 1:6
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the SAME SUFFERINGS WE ALSO SUFFER: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation
The last thing I want you to take away from this, is the GREAT AND EXCEEDING PROMISE we were given in 2nd Peter. It shows us an order of things. How one thing we experience, leads to another thing, and that things leads to another and so on and so on.
2 Peter
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ
Once we reach a point in our walk when we begin to understand that God is in control of every single thing in our lives, we will change, and we will do this by the above list and notice how brotherly kindness and charity is close to last on this list. It is because we must understand diligence, faith, virtue, patience, temperence and godliness and partake of the divine nature, and see that what we do to one we do to ourselves for we are one. And WHEN these things abound in us, AND THEY WILL, we will be fruitful and come to the same knowledge and stature of Jesus Christ, for we shall see him as he is and we shall be LIKE HIM, we shall know as we are known, which means, we shall know ourself in Christ, as Christ, and we shall never again care about the testing of our faith, the second death will not hurt us, it will be a fruitful walk in the park.
So hang in there, let patience have its perfect work, and know that whatever you are going through is for you. So ask God what am I to learn from this. Ask God who am I. Ask God teach me the truth and then trust that God delivers. Because God does!
I hope this essay helped a bit. Peace to you and yours,
Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org
THE PRINCIPAL THING
THE PRINCIPAL THING
Over the years many Christians have been taught that the most important thing for them to do is to go around and get people to come to their particular churches, and then get them to confess Jesus as Lord. It doesn’t matter if you are Catholic, Pentecostal, Baptist, Lutheran, Jehovah Witness, Mormon, Non-denominational, shoot the list goes on and on, there are so many division in this faith we call Christianity, but the point is, every single denomination teaches the same thing, “get those people to our faith, and get them to confess Jesus.” Now of course, each have different ways of doing this, different means of getting people into “heaven” as they say. For the Catholics its infant baptism then confirmation, for the Church of Christ baptism as an adult is the key, for the Pentecostal’s it’s all about confessing and then getting “spirit filled”, as if somehow the spirit of God is outside of us just waiting for us to say, “Come on in.” For many Evangelicals it’s the same, it’s the sinner’s prayer. You simply ask Jesus to come into your heart. Which of course places the spirit of God’s son somewhere far away, and renders God’s spirit powerless unless you first ask for it and want it. Let me let you all in on a little secret, God doesn’t need an invitation, and the Son of God is closer to all of you then you have ever thought. In fact, this essay is about getting that understanding for yourself. Because it is Wisdom and Understanding that brings you into the Kingdom of God, which by the way is NOT some Kingdom in the sky like the palaces and kingdoms man has made. The Kingdom of God is WITHIN YOU, and scripture tells us clearly what it is.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost
The word “Kingdom” in fact doesn’t mean a literal kingdom, but denotes a RULE OF AUTHORITY. The literal translation is “Reign or Rule”. Here is the Greek word for it, “basileiða” and it’s definition, royal power, kingship, dominion, rule not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom
I know that alone is a wake up call for some of you, but look it up. The Kingdom of God, simply means the RULE OF GOD, and that is WITHIN YOU ALREADY. But back to our essay.
So, for many the key is getting people to come to their places of “worship” and getting them to go up for an altar call, or to “accept Christ in their heart”. Then some churches, ironically will put these people through a training program and test them to see if they are “ready” to truly be baptised in their churches tap water. But the question I have, and you should have, is this what God meant when we read about preaching the Gospel. Is the good news to simply accept a man from two thousand years ago into your heart, get dunked, go to Church, tithe, and scour the earth to find others to join that church?
Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves
Back in the day, it wasn’t much different. It was all about getting people to join the club. The problem Jesus saw with this is that these religious leaders were actually doing more harm than good.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Is Solomon right, could the same thing be happening today? Are religious leaders really bringing people into the Kingdom of God, which is the Rule of God, which is the Righteousness, Peace, Joy, and Power of God’s spirit? Well, for many that I know in the “religious system” the answer is no. Of course that doesn’t mean that everyone that goes to man-made “church” is in error, but let’s just say many, many people are missing the PRINCIPAL THING, many are missing the TRUTH, many are missing SALVATION. In fact, many people believe they are saved from some future event, they think that since they literally said “Jesus is Lord” that their afterlife is secure. How wrong they are. Salvation has nothing to do with avoiding a place of infinite torture (since such a place doesn’t exist read my article “to hell with hell” or “lake of fire revealed” for more info on that topic). No Salvation is for the HERE AND NOW!
Luke 19:9
And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham
2 Corinthians 6:2
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Yes, SALVATION is for the here and now. And if truth be told Salvation and Resurrection go hand in hand. In fact they are two sides of the same coin. Because to be Saved is to be Born from Above, and to be Born from Above (which means, a higher understanding of the things of God), is to be Resurrected. And like salvation it is in the HERE AND NOW!
John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
So if we are not saved from some scary place after we literally die, what are we saved from?
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
We are saved from our CARNAL OLD MAN, the FALSE IMAGE, the FATHER OF ALL LIES, we are saved from OURSELVES. The reason is, we have become ignorant of the TRUTH of who we are in Christ. We have forgotten who we are and believed ourselves to be something we are not. Ephesians puts it beautifully, both how we became LOST and what is done so we are SAVED.
Ephesians 4
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Notice what the problem is, and was? Our understanding, like the Gentiles of past, was DARKENED. In other words we no longer understood the Light of the Truth, and because out understanding was Darkened, because we became ignorant we became ALIENATED from the LIFE OF GOD through our ignorance. And we began to believe God was somehow far from us, angry at us, we believed ourselves to be unworthy and because of this insecurity and fear we began to act ignorantly.
And unfortunately, religion perpetuates this darkness. As the scripture states, making the congregation TWICE THE CHILD OF HELL (ignorance) that their leaders are. Most churches only reinforce the belief that you need to work for God’s approval, when the OPPOSITE is true. We need to stop believing we are in control and simply put off the WORKS of the OLD IGNORANT MAN and come to the knowledge of the TRUTH OF WHO WE REALLY ARE!
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.
We MUST come to the measure of the STATURE of the FULNESS of CHRIST. We must become the PERFECT MAN. And you can’t do this if you only believe there is one from two thousand years ago. We can’t do this if we continue to believe Jesus is somehow special and we are not AS HE IS IN THIS WORLD. And we only come to understand this when we put off the former conversation of the OLD MAN, when we stop accusing ourselves and condemn ourselves and others, when we finally LOVE GOD, AND LOVE OTHERS, and our love is perfected. When this happens we understand, there is no difference between Jesus and Ourselves, in fact we are all ONE.
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.
If you have brothers or sisters, you don’t esteem one greater than another. The First Born isn’t somehow better than the middle child or the youngest. They are all the same.
Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (siblings).
Now, I know this is new for a lot of you. Jesus was condemned for saying he was God’s son. Years later, Christians said, okay, “It’s okay for Jesus to be God’s son, but he’s special and we are definitely not (as he is).” – You see today a greater mystery is unfolding. Many are coming to the knowledge of the truth and the stature of the perfect man. Many are beginning to see that Jesus is the pattern son, meaning we are the same, his story is our story, what he did we must do. And no I don’t mean literally be crucified, but spiritually we are to crucify this Flesh (carnal thinking).
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Look at that verse carefully. Jesus took up the Cross, so must we, sure that is easy to see. But what you are missing is the most important part… YOU NEED TO DENY YOURSELF (old belief/ego/carnal nature).
Now this doesn’t mean DEPRIVE yourself which many have taught. It doesn’t mean that at all. In fact the definition of the word a DENY according to any dictionary is to “REFUSE to acknowledge something or someone EXISTS” – (de·ny/diˈnī/Verb 1. Refuse to admit the truth or existence of (something).
Now that opens the floodgates of revelation for those who have eyes to see. If any many will come after me, he must first deny that HE AS HE THINKS HE OR SHE IS does NOT EXIST! And then after the great revelation that who you think you are is nothing, and doesn’t really exist, you TAKE UP THE CROSS and you put that old nature to death and FOLLOW THE SAME PATH AS JESUS. – This my friends is how salvation is found, it is in PUTTING OFF your former beliefs and the belief in who you once thought you were and understanding that YOU ARE GOD’S CHILD! And if a child a JOINT HEIR IN ALL THINGS!
Ephesians 4
22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
We have to stop thinking of ourselves as less than, and start seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace. We need to stop condemning ourselves and listening to people who say “you aren’t worthy, you’re worthy of hellfire you darn sinner.” We need to stop listening to people who say, “Do this, join us, and you’ll be saved.” Because the truth is not found there and it never will be found there.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven
You can say Jesus is your Savior until you’re blue in the face. You will never KNOW SALVATION in you don’t know who you are in CHRIST, and the only way to do that is to DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER. And notice how Jesus DOESN’T say, whoever does the WILL OF THE FATHER is my servant or slave.
Mark 3:35
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother
Once again we see, Jesus saying, WE ARE AS HE IS, brothers and sisters. The question is, what is GOD’S WILL?
John 7
16Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but His (FATHER’S) that sent me. 17If any man will do GOD’S will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
To do God’s Will is to know the DOCTRINE OF GOD, to know the TRUTH of GOD! This, this is the principal thing. This may come as a shock to you, but the PRINCIPAL THING, means MOST IMPORTANT THING. And according to the scriptures, the PRINCIPAL THING IS WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding
This is what we MUST get. WISDOM! It is a TREE OF LIFE! We MUST understand who we are and DENY who we thought we were to know Salvation. I know many will say, “Oh this is gnosticism!” and to be honest it doesn’t matter what you think, what matter is what you know and can confess!
When Jesus was saying “I am the way, the truth, and the life”, he was saying YOU MUST BE AS ME. He wasn’t saying worship me Jesus, he was saying BELIEVE IN ME AND WHAT I AM TELLING YOU! Many looked to Jesus (the man) as being the most important thing there is. The Rich man said…
Matthew 19
16And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 17And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God
Jesus always pointed to God, always pointed away from himself. He taught us how to pray “Our FATHER” not as some churches have you praying “our jesus”. We must come to the understanding the ONLY HOPE for our salvation is WITHIN US ALREADY! This is the mystery that has been hidden. Not Christ outside of you, but Christ within you.
Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory
Yes my friends it is all about wisdom and understanding. Some will say NO! It is about Christ, to which I will point out what Christ is….
1 Corinthians 1:24
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God
To which I will point out what Christ BECOMES for us.
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
OF HIM YOU ARE – in Christ Jesus! Jesus means (God is Salvation) – And in understanding you are God’s child and in no need of having to WORK YOUR WAY TO HIM. God delivers you IN HIM, through wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
The very SPIRIT of God is WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING! When God’s spirit is revealed in you, it is UNDERSTANDING THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE IN GOD THROUGH CHRIST that delivers you.
Exodus 31:3
And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.
So many people are waiting for their savior to come. They wait and they wait. But the longer you believe in salvation outside of you to come, the longer you will be deceived. Many are questioning to this day, WHEN WILL JESUS COME, and they did the same thousands of years ago.
Luke 17
20And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
In other words, STOP WAITING AND LOOKING IN THE SKY and start looking within, because salvation is here and now. And it is only found in understanding and having the faith that WITHIN YOU is every answer you will ever need.
Jesus never said, I MADE YOU WHOLE… He always said “YOUR FAITH” made you whole.
Luke 8:48
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace
It’s time for everyone to stop listening to mankind and religion. It is time for people to turn to God and ask God to teach them the truth, to lead them into the truth. You don’t need to check with your Pastors or Religious teachers to find out if what God is revealing to you is truth, you simply need to continue to ask God and seek God and have faith. Because it is your FAITH that makes you whole. And that FAITH comes from the CHRIST IN YOU! The POWER AND WISDOM of God WITHIN YOU!
This is what every single apostle, disciple, prophet, etc, desires for you to know.
Colossians 1:9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding
Like them, I too want you to know the TRUTH, I desire to know the TRUTH. But the only way to know the TRUTH is to have WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING.
Psalm 51:6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
And why does God desire us to have WISDOM and TRUTH? Why is WISDOM the principal thing? Because without it, you can never be free.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
The TRUTH is, YOU ARE GOD’S CHILD and you died (became ignorant) as Adam did when he began to think he had to do something to be like God, when Adam was like God all along!
So pray for wisdom already! And don’t go to man for it, go to God!
James 1
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
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