ASK JACOB
For months now various people have suggested that I begin doing a weekly, or monthly, “Ask Jacob” section on my blog. To be honest, I just don’t know why it has taken me so long to finally put this idea out there. You see, I get several private emails from people all over the world, and I LOVE them… There is nothing better than feeling like somehow God has done something through you that has encouraged someone, or possibly changed their life. These emails I receive privately are so amazing, people share their heartache, their accomplishments, what they have overcome, what they want to overcome, their circumstances, and sometimes they just want to say thanks. And there are a handful of people who have thanked me in ways I never could have dreamed, and I am so very humbled and grateful for it. In addition, the overwhelming majority of my emails contain questions for me, which I of course do my best to answer. So now I would very much like to do this with all of you. If you have any questions, whether they are spiritual or personal, leave that information in the comment section for me and each week, or when time permits, I will write a new blog addressing your question, comments, or concerns. I really hope that this opens a new door of understanding for us all. I look forward to hearing from you, and don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already. Jacob
Jacob Israel
You Of Little Faith! video
YOU OF LITTLE FAITH!
“The times may be harder than before but so is the ability to soar! You are more than your troubles, more than your fears, more than what others say you are… Go within and find the TRUTH that will set you free!”
I haven’t done one of these videos in awhile. But with everything I have heard and read from people lately and all I have learned in my own life. I knew this was one short message people truly needed to hear. Please enjoy and please do pass this onto someone who may need it.
Jacob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTqeH9GoxLA&feature=youtu.be
Missing Piece
LOVE IS THE MISSING PIECE
Luke 15:9
…Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
There is only one way to peace, and that is to love unconditionally. There is only one way into the kingdom and that is the straight gate of Love. God is love.
This world seems so hard at times and many of us, who are seeking more who want to see change wonder what is it we are missing. As if looking for the missing piece of the puzzle that will make everything all right. The question is, once you have found this piece, will you strive to enter that straight gate of unconditional love or will you continue on the wide path of fear, hate, greed, and doubt? We all know that ends in heartache and pain. Isn’t it time to find the piece that has been missing and put life back in it’s perfect place?
We need to learn what it means to LOVE without condition, without reward, and when we do I believe we will finally be free.
1 Corinthians 13
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.
This video I did awhile ago is just a reminder for us all. God is Love, God is our salvation, and God’s unconditional love is the piece that has been missing. Let is find it together and share it with the world. Enjoy the video.
What is Church?
What is Church?
Whenever I talk to people about their faith, nine times out of ten they tell me they believe in God but don’t go to Church. Shame peppers their words as they go on to say, “I know I really should go to church.” It saddens me to see that so many people equate knowing God intimately with going to man made “church”.
Now I am not saying that going to a man made “Church” is a bad thing. I believe that if people are gathering together and are learning about our Father that is a great thing. However, if they are being tricked into believing they are somehow better off for doing so, they are sadly mistaken.
It doesn’t matter if you think Sunday is the day of true worship, or if you believe it is Saturday. Just because you believe one day is greater than another that doesn’t make it so. Just because a person goes to church doesn’t make the person who seeks God privately any less important in God’s eyes. Believer and Unbeliever live their life unto God, fulfilling God’s purpose.
Romans 14:5-7
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. 6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself
Let’s talk about that word “Church” for a second. For those that don’t know let me give you the literal interpretation of what it means.
CHURCH = eÍkklhsiða – Transliterated the word “Church” is “Ekkelsia” and it literally means, “People who have been called out of their homes that gather coincidentallly, or an assembly called out and gathered by chance.”
The words “We’re going to Church today”, have long taken on the meaning that people must go to a designated place of “worship” to find God. But you can’t “go to Church”, because human beings ARE the “Church”. We are the ones that have been “called out” of our homes, as Abraham was.
Genesis 12:1
The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you
This is what it means to be “Called Out”. This is what it means to be the “Church”. It is letting go of your old ignorant nature and taking hold of your true life, which is Christ. It is leaving your old beliefs and traditions for the power and wisdom of God. The traditions, vain beliefs and religious teachings of carnal mankind will never free you. In fact we are warned again and again to stay away from such.
Colossians 2:8-9
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
You cannot find the truth of God in buildings made by man’s corrupt hands, but by God’s hand (power/authority). We are the building, we are the Temple where God is found.
Habakkuk 2:20
But the LORD is in his holy temple:
And that HOLY TEMPLE is you!
1 Corinthians 3:17
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are
What do you think the story of Jesus turning over the money tables is all about. It is about the truth of God within you clearing God’s House (you) of all the lies and nonsence you have believed.
The TRUTH of God is daily teaching in God’s Temple… YOU!
Mark 14
49I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
Many believe things aren’t spiritually true because their religious leaders tell them so. I can’t tell you how many people will disagree with a spiritual truth because they have been taught differently by a religious leader. And the amount of danger that is in this is paramount. We cannot and should not turn to Mankind to know God, we must always turn to God. Of course this doesn’t mean we can’t go to others to learn, it simply means we must continue to go to God and ask God what the truth is and be bold enough to listen.
There are many false beliefs out there today and I firmly believe this is why so very few are free today to enjoy their lives and have hope.
The physical is always a symbol of the spiritual. But if you put your faith only in the physical you will never be free to touch things that are eternal. You will continue to put your faith in things built by man’s hands.
Mark 14:58
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
For years mankind has been changing the truth of God into what they want it to mean. Many do this ignorantly, others do it for financial gain, and some do it to feel more important than others. In the end people who go to these religious leaders end up worshipping the religious leader unaware. Not all are like this of course, many are wonderful teachers, but some are wolves who have “crept in” changing the word of God into a lie that men and women ignorantly believe.
Romans 1:25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
This is what the “Tower of Babel” is all about. Mankind wanted to be God, so they thought the best way to do this was to build a “tower” to the heavens, to basically dethrone God, so they could be God themselves.
Now the story of Babel’s Tower is a great allegory. The word TOWER in Hebrew, doesn’t mean a literal Tower. It means, “to become great or important, promote, make powerful, praise, magnify, do great things”. Isn’t that something?
What will really blow you away is when you see this next definition for “tower” from the Strongs. TOWER= “elevated stage, pulpit”
Hhhmn? Sounds a lot like the Tower mankind was building in Babel wass RELIGION. And in so doing, mankind magnified themselves, made themselves powerful, and with it they even seemed to do great things.
Mankind wasn’t trying to build a literal TOWER to reach heaven. They were building what many believe a “church” is today. They were building a religious system that makes Carnal religious leaders gods themselves. And it worked, many religious leaders sit in judgment over their “flocks”, many tell people what to eat, when to eat, what to wear, what not to wear, what people can say or do, the list goes on and on. The irony is the more controlling and judgmental these religious leaders are, the more corrupt they soon are exposed to be.
Let’s break down how the allegory of how MAN MADE RELIGION came to be.
Genesis 11 And they said, Go to, let US build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Let us make ourselves a name? Isn’t that the goal of so many in the world today, to make a name for themselves?
But let us break down, what the CITY is that Mankind builds to become great.
Proverbs 10:15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The CITY man wanted to build, was their own wealth at the expense of the poor.
Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth IS his strong city, and as an high wall in his own CONCEIT.
CITY = WEALTH AND PRIDE — Our Religious leaders of the land have plenty of that. Sadly Money and Pride is what most people really put their faith in. Carnal (ignorant) mankind believes if they have enough money that they will be safe. More people put their faith in finances than God, and that is an understatement.
Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
The CITY and TOWER they built was corrupt. It was MAN’S ATTEMPT to RULE AS GOD… And anytime that happens it is doomed to fail.
So God confounded their tongues, he pitted one religion against another. So not ONE RELIGION, would be able to rule the whole of the world. Now the differing religions of the world can’t understand each other. They all have different rules, and truly they all have different gods they worship. And of course every religious sect and denomination believes it is the only true religion. Sad but true.
The religious are the children of their CARNAL HEARTS, condemning ANYONE who believes differently. And with every DENOMINATION there are different rules, beliefs, and traditions.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
And NO! This verse has nothing to do with Homosexuality, even though most of these bad religious Teachers claim it does. Romans 1 is all about how man has begun to worship the created instead of the Creator.
Now I shouldn’t have to tell you that there are many religious leaders who seem to have great power. This is nothing new, but true power isn’t found in grand shows of “so-called” miracle healing, or future telling, true power is found in humility, true power is found only in submission, true power is found in loving others and putting others before yourself.
9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 10To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 11And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
For a long time, humanity has been bewitched by the sorceries of people who love to go about in long robes, make long prayers in their man made religious buildings, etc.
Today many religious leaders go so far as to reduce the “word of god” which is “Truth”, to money. The SEED we read about in scripture that is SOWN is NEVER MONEY. It is the WORD OF GOD.
Luke 8:11
This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God
The SEED you sow is TRUTH. I know there are many religious leaders who will say, if you send in your seed (which they want you to believe in your money) that God will multiply it. And so people don’t give their money for pure reasons, they give it like you would buying a lottery ticket. “You got to be in it to win it”, this is what many religious leaders are selling.
However, God isn’t concerned with your money. He is concerned with you heart. You can’t buy your way into heaven, and the SEED that must be sown is not money it is the Gospel of Truth.
People today have been tricked into thinking that to find God they must go to a religious building and hear from a religious leader. This is the same problem Israel had. They wanted Moses to tell them what God was saying. They made Moses to be god over them. When God always wanted Israel to go directly to him. But Israel was scared.
Ex 20: 18-21 When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”
So Israel didn’t go to God, nor do the multitude today. Instead of turning within to hear God themselves they go to a Pastor, Evangelist, Priest, Rabbi, Guru, or any other Religious leader promising LIKE MOSES “If you FOLLOW Me, I will LEAD YOU into the PROMISE LAND (flowing with milk and honey).”
And for all you literalists out there… MILK AND HONEY are ALLEGORIES. Honey is a SYMBOL of being enlightened. MILK is simple doctrine and wisdom of God.
1 Samuel 14:29
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been ENLIGHTENED, because I tasted a little of this HONEY.
And MILK is a symbol of God’s teaching/ Doctrine – Not even deep doctrine, but God’s wisdom none the less.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
You see, the PROMISE LAND is not what many Religious teachers PROMISE. It’s not literal wealth, health, or a Kingdom far, far away where you can eat all day without getting sick or fat.
The PROMISE LAND is THE KINGDOM OF GOD revealed IN YOU.
Entering the PROMISE LAND is entering the KINGDOM OF GOD within you.
This is the land God has given us all to inherit. It is being Enlightened to the Truth and Wisdom of God (Christ In You The Hope Of Glory). And when we find this we say, as Paul said, “It is not longer I that live but Christ”
Psalm 143:10
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
A LAND OF UPRIGHTNESS: This the LAND we are promised to enter, TRUTH, HONOR, DIGNITY, COMPASSION, UPRIGHTNESS, LOVE, WISDOM.
To enter the Kingdom we don’t need to go to man or woman, we don’t need to go to any building, any temple, church, kingdom hall, or mosque. All we need to do is go within.
Matthew 6:6
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you
Seeking God is a very personal thing. One must understand that they are no less important in God’s eyes than Jesus himself. We are all part of the same body, we are all one. Once we realize this we will stop going to others, we will asking others to teach us about God. We will go to God directly.
John 16
23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
You are the Church people, you are being called out of ignorance into the light of the truth. Leave from where you are and allow God to lead you where you are meant to go. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
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JACOB
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“The Truth Will Change You”
Hell Revealed
HELL REVEALED
There are many articles and books written about “Hell”. The books and articles vary from something you’d expect from a Hollywood horror movie to something you’d expect in a university classroom. There have been people who have claimed to visit there and have written books on the experience, there are people who present, with frightening detail a place of unimaginable suffering, and then there are some who explain that the word “hell” from scripture is nothing more than an allegory and has been used by a religious system to control people by feeding off their fear.
I have written about this subject before, but I hope to present a clearer explanation of what I know “hell” to be. Mainly because, like David, and Jonah, I have known the pits of Hell myself.
Pslams 9
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
You see, this “hell” that so many are frightened of, is in fact something most people are spending a good deal of time in themselves. The “Pit” (of despair) that many find themselves in is not some future event where they are roasted infinitely, it is an emotional state that they themselves have been caught in because of their unbelief. This essay will show you what “hell” really is, what the word “hell” literally means, and how each of us has control over its gates, in Christ.
The good news is, regardless of where you find yourself… God is always there. So much for those people who say “Hell” is a place where God is not.
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in HELL, behold, thou art there
Everything has it’s existence in God. So there is nowhere, and no place, God is not.
1 Corinthians 8:6
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are ALL THINGS…
Like David, we all can make our beds in hell and find God is always there to lift US out of it. In fact, we do this quite often. Like Jonah, we too have cried from the belly of hell and asked to be delivered from the belly of the great Beast (OUR carnal nature) we were trapped in, and God caused that beast to vomit US onto the shore (better foundation).
Jonah 2:2
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of HELL cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
Notice the above passage. Jonah writes, “by reason of my affliction” which of course means his suffering, God heard his prayer… He was in the “belly” of Hell. He was in a place of suffering, he was afflicted by his unbelief and he was suffering in the “belly” of the great fish.
Now you know by now that I believe scripture to be a metaphor, an allegory, a mystery that God must unlock and reveal to us all. The Kingdom of Heaven is a MYSTERY to those are “WITHOUT” (the understanding and interpretation of it). And to those that don’t understand the “mystery/allegory/parable” all things are done in “Parable/Mystery/Allegory”.
But if you will dare to press further than a literal interpretation and you will pray to God saying, “teach me the truth no matter what the cost”, you will find that scripture does a good job of explaining what these stories really mean.
For example in the story of Jonah, even the word “belly” is an allegoric representation of our carnal mind. The “belly” is analogous with the “lusts” of the flesh (carnal mind). And of course the FISH is a representation of the carnal man that needs to be fished out of the depths of his ignorance (sea/mans ways). This is why Jesus made us fishers of men… get it? 🙂
In fact the “SERPENT” otherwise known as the “devil” goes about on its belly. His BELLY is how he gets from one place to another, the BELLY (man’s carnal mind) is how man navigates this world, and carnal man does this in darkness. That is a hell unto itself.
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
Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit
I don’t want to go into too much detail about this word “belly”, but I want you to understand that as the word BELLY is an allegory, so too is the word HELL… Obviously a person’s literal stomach does not prepare deceit. Our imagination does. When we believe lies we act and think foolishly and for that we end up in “hell”.
And the sad thing is that there is no end to the suffering that we find when we leave the truth and faith of God for the lies and fears of the world (our lusts).
Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied
Now many have taken this above passage to mean there is a literal place of endless torment waiting for us, and it is so huge and there are so many sinners that it “increases daily”. But notice, how Hell and Destruction are simply other words to describe man’s lustful appetite?
You see when you operate out of that carnal nature, you will never have enough, never be enough, and you will never find peace or be content. Because the carnal nature of man, the ignorance of man is never satisfied, it is never full.
I know many of you reading this essay right now, have felt, at times that life is too hard to bear. I believe all of us, at points in our lives, hurt deeply and wonder, “What is the point of it all?”…
You see, when we are in those negative thoughts, God does not seem to be anywhere around. In fact, we may even get angry at God for allowing hurtful people to tear us down, or allowing disease to steal our peace… This anger and pain can feel like a fire inside of us, burning our spirit, tearing us apart. But when we REMEMBER the gospel (the truth which is good news) as Paul said, we are set free. And what we are set free from is our own ignorance. This is salvation indeed.
So what does the word “Hell” even mean? Well when reading scripture you will find many words translates into the word “hell”. The most common is Sheol which literally means “the grave, the pit, hidden place”. Now what you will also find is it is our actions, our thoughts that open the gates to hell for us to check in for a spell.
Matthew 5:22
But 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.
When we allow our anger to take hold of us, we act foolishly. And when we act foolishly we indeed reap what we sow. Many times in scripture you will read about “fire”, in fact the words fire and brimstone have been used to describe what you might find in “hell”.
But if truth be told, Fire and Brimstone are simply allegories for how God, purifies people from their foolish thoughts. Both Fire and Brimstone are used to purify. Fire is used by the smith to rid precious metals from impurities, and Brimstone was used much like we use soap today. For those that don’t know what brimstone is, it is simply another word for sulfur… You may have heard of Sulfur soap, well if you haven’t Sulfur Soap has many Benefits. Historically known as brimstone, sulfur is a powerful natural mineral that is essential to physical health!
So both Fire and Brimstone are GOOD things. Well for years, FIRE has scared all of us. But look at who else is compared to FIRE.
Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire
Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire
Christ BAPTIZES us with FIRE! That means when we begin to come into the Kingdom of God, into the Rule and Reign of Truth, we are immersed in FIRE. Now of course this isn’t a literal fire, but it is an ALLEGORY. Take a quick look at how God purifies us, and delivers us from our ignorance and suffering.
Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
A Silver Smith holds the Precious metal over the HOTTEST part of the FLAME. All of the impurities bubble up and away, and the Smith only know the metal is pure when he can see his reflection in the silver. The same is true for us. Our hardships, our suffering, everything we go through in life, all the “hell” we endure is for but a moment. It is there to bring us to perfection.
Acts 14:22
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
There is no future afterlife to fear. There is no “hell” waiting for those in the future after they die as some say. There is only “hell” in the present. And yes it is a place of darkness and suffering, and weeping and back biting and pain. But this is not an ENDLESS place. In the end, Hell and Death are destroyed and they give up their dead.
Revelation 20:14
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
So much for people teaching you “HELL” is infinite. Don’t forget in the end, ALL OF GOD’S CREATION praises God! And it will be in those moments, when none of your past sufferings in “hell” will matter, because it cannot be compared to the glory revealed in you.
Revelation 5:13
1 And EVERY creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Notice it doesn’t say SOME, but EVERY, everywhere, will be praising God. There are many other scriptures that speak of this reconciliation of all things into God. But this article is for those who want to know what “hell” is. The first thing I have tried to do is show you that “hell” is a not event.
2 Samuel 22:7 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me…
Notice, the sorrows of hell are also the snares of death. Both hell and death are allegories of our IGNORANCE.
Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
When we operate out of our carnal mind, we are ignorant and do not know the truth. It is impossible to avoid suffering when you don’t know whether something is real or not. Fear is the noose that strangles us all and makes us all act the way we would not, if we knew better.
HELL is a mindset we enter when we leave the Truth of God for the lies of this world. It is our anger, our guilt, our sorrow, our fear and more negative nonsense that causes us such suffering.
HELL IS THE OPPOSITE of LOVE and TRUTH.
Whatever one thinks in their heart, that they become. Our faith and our thoughts are a powerful tool of creation. This is why, we are told to think ONLY ON GOOD THINGS.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
You’ve heard the old expression, “You are what you eat.” – Well this is taken from the great wisdom of those who have gone before us, “You are WHAT YOU THINK.”
This is why, the only escape from HELL is Christ (the Power and Wisdom of God). The only way out of a tormenting mindset is to change your mind. You must leave the LIES you believe for the TRUTH of God. The Good news is, Love does prevail in the end.
I believe, ultimately we learn from our mistakes, we reap what we sow and grow because of it.
As the lead character in my novel says, “Even a child learns to stop touching the hot stove.” – This is how God brings us to the knowledge of the truth and the stature of the perfect man (Christ).
Now many have been taught that once you are sent to “hell” that there is no return. But not only is that not true it is the farthest thing from truth. Our sufferings are for but a moment, and good will always come out of it. God will not leave us in a place of torment (testing).
Psalm 16:10
For thou wilt not leave my soul in HELL; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
God will not leave our soul in such a state. We will learn eventually, that it is better to love than hate, better to forgive than be bitter, better to see to a persons pain than see their fault.
You see when we suffer, we learn from what we endure. It all works together for our good. In the end none of it will matter anyway, because our suffering is for but a moment in the grand scheme of things. But like the pressure placed on coal to create a diamond, like the suffering of the oyster to produce the pearl, the hell we go through creates something far more valuable… a PURE SPIRIT AND PEACE OF MIND!
This is the way GOD has LIFE set up, our reaping what we have sown eventually teaches us that we MUST COME TO CHRIST (GOD’S POWER AND WISOMD) to escape the DEPTHS OF HELL (our suffering, ignorance, carnal ignorance, anger, guilt, shame, fear)
Proverbs 23:14
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from HELL.
Like any Good Father, I believe God corrects us. Sure we’ll suffer in the TIMEOUT of our own personal hell, until we say… “Sorry Dad, I won’t do it again.”
We, like Jesus LEARN OBEDIENCE by the things we suffer. And we suffer when we SIN (thinking and act foolishly – And many times we suffer because other people taught us wrong, and so we end up worse than we were to begin with, and worse than those who taught us ignorantly.
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.
This is what it boils down to. Most of our suffering and insecurities comes from the conditioning/brain washing/and experiences of our past.
To be a child of HELL, doesn’t mean you are birthed out of a place of infinite suffering, it means your beliefs have been birthed out of ignorance which causes you to suffer needlessly.
When I ask many people, “Why do you share the Gospel?” The answer is always the same… “I want to see people saved.” — My follow-up question is always the same, “Saved from what?” — Their answer “HELL, ENDLESS TORTURE”
Now, God does not give us the SPIRIT OF FEAR, yet many have this FEAR, and USE THIS FEAR as a motivator. Not just that they threaten, “You better do this or else.” They also worry about those that died or their loved ones who killed themselves without saying the words “Jesus save me”. They truly believe these people are destined for INFINITE TORTURE. What a terrible thought. How very little many think of God. They think the worst of God instead of the best. As if God is some petty, hateful monster who would rather torture than teach.
Many today say that OUR CHOICE can keep us from the Love of God. That we can someone choose to be apart from God. Well, in our thinking, yes, but truly there is no separation from God, for God is all there is. And NOTHING can separate us from the LOVE OF GOD… Mind you, I said NOTHING!
Roman 8:
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.
There isn’t anything that can separate us from the Love of God. Now that doesn’t mean, people won’t be entering those gates of hell again and again, and weeping and screaming, until they UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH and FINALLY ACCEPT CHRIST (Power and Wisdom of God) TO BE FREE.
The Hebrews didn’t believe in Eternal Torture. Ask any Devote Jew.
Paul “worshipped the God of his Fathers” — God is the same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The God of Paul’s fathers, didn’t know Jesus after the FLESH, but they knew Christ after the spirit… and the ONLY HELL they understood, was the HELL OF THEIR VAIN IMAGINATION. (ignorance, anger, hate, greed, sorrow, guilt, shame, etc)
Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from HELL beneath.
HEAVEN is always pictured as UP, and HELL is always beneath. These are two mind sets, One of HIGHER UNDERSTANDING and one is LOWER UNDERSTANDING. One brings hope and peace, the other brings fear, anxiety, and suffering.
We are all where we are and God makes everything beautiful in ITS TIME. So we need to put this debate to an end, we need to say THE HELL WITH HELL and seek Christ.
Many have asked man to prove the things of God, but man cannot do this, only Christ IN you can reveal the things of God.
Deep down we all just want to be accepted… This is our DESIRE, because deep down we’ve been tricked into believing we have been REJECTED BY GOD. Even though He has never left us, nor forsaken us, and is WITHIN US, not far away as some will say.
Religion over the centuries has continued to perpetuate the belief that if we don’t do exactly as “THEY” say, we are headed for a place of endless doom. No wonder everyone walks around with a dark cloud over their head.
So, if a person from birth is brought up to believe this or that, I understand someone coming along with all the proof in the world is not going to change that persons belief. An outside work NEVER DOES IT, it has to be done INSIDE.
God is not the AUTHOR of confusion he is a GOD OF PEACE. God doesn’t use FEAR TACTICS to motivate man, as Man does… God motivates with LOVE. “LOVE DRAWS A MULTITUDE TO REPENTANCE”
2 Timothy 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
If all of us BELIEVED THIS, it would be easier for us to love other.
So why do people want to believe in a God that would give up on his creation and torture them instead of teach them and help them? The reason is simple, if God does this, than it gives them the excuse to do the same. This is why so many “Christians” see people as Saved or Unsaved… instead seeing People as brother or sister. However, if we BELIEVE God is forgiving, merciful, patient, kind, loving, peaceful than WE WOULD BE THE SAME. This is why I say, THE HELL WITH HELL!
If we saw God in the BEST LIGHT than we would see ourselves through the same eyes.
The world has been tricked into thinking wrong instead of right. It starts with the parents, and the cycle doesn’t end, until ONE WAKES UP to the REALITY OF WHO THEY ARE IN CHRIST… We torture ourselves daily with negative thoughts, worry, fear, and dread… THIS IS HELL PEOPLE!
When I was a child, I thought as a child, worried about the Monsters in my closet and under my bed, but when I grew up I put away childish things and said, THE HELL WITH HELL!
Many in the past have brought up the following scripture as a way of proving, “hell” was a place of infinite torture, a place where God would send his children… Even though God thinks literally burning your children is an abomination.
2 Chronicles 28:3
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel
Many use ths scripture from revelation, the sad fact is they never took the time to see how wonderful it really is.
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name
The word TORMENT doesn’t mean Torture, it means “To test the purity of precious metals by use of touchstone”… sound familiar? And the words for “ever and ever”, obviously doesn’t means for infinity and infinity… the word “for ever” literally translates into an “age, ages, period of time”. So in fact this scripture means God tests us all for a period of time, and while we are tested we have no rest, because we are still ignorant believing “we” are in control. The longer we worship our EGO (THE BEAST) the longer we will suffer in “hell/Ignorance”. The good news is, in the end everything that hurts us is destroyed.
We will be delivered from hell. We have been given the keys to the gates of Hell, which means, we have the understanding to let ourselves OUT OF OUR IGNORANT SUFFERING and we also have the ability to not use GOD’S WISDOM and let ourselves back in. But eventually, even our Ignorant Suffering, even this place of death (ignorance) known as “hell” will be no more.
I hope this article has cleared some things up for you. Life is hard enough in the Hell that is in the here and now, we don’t need to be scared of some future torture to make that hell (our ignorance) bigger than it was before. When you come to the truth you let it all go. There is no past anymore, there is no future to worry about, there is only the moment. The question is where are you choosing to live that moment in?
I want to leave you all with some questions to ponder. Perhaps these are questions you can share with others who do believe in infinite torture. In the mean time, if you haven’t already PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this blog, it is free and you will get all the updates and new essays. Peace Jacob
1) God teaches us there should never be an end to our forgiveness. The question is, will there be an end to God’s forgiveness? Does God says do as I say, not as I do, OR does God’s mercy endure forever?
2) Gods finishes his creation in VICTORY. Is sending a majority of his ignorant creation to endless torture, Victory? God saw all that he created and he said, IT IS GOOD?…How can that be, if a majority is lost? (It is God’s will that none perish.) How is that Victory?
3) How can any be lost, if EVERY tongue confesses Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God? And the only way to glorify God is to be completely obedient to Him.
4) If “NAME” is translated as “NATURE” from the greek, is it possible that EVERY NATURE that is not written in the book of Life, like greed, lust, hate, envy… is what is actually destroyed? And if the Lake of Fire is eternal Torture, why do ALL OF US have our part in it?
5) If the things of the Kingdom are a Mystery, and many things are meant to be taken allegorically… is it possible the same is true for HELL?
6) Can anything separate from the LOVE OF CHRIST? Bible says no.
7) If Hell is eternal Torture, then how did David make his bed there? How did Jonah pray from there and be released?
8) If God doesn’t change and is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, then how come ETERNAL TORTURE, which was created by the Holy Catholic Church and there is no record of it before that? … Why don’t the JEWS believe in Eternal Torture… Paul worshipped the God of his Father’s, and if the Jews do not believe in Eternal Torment, than Paul couldn’t believe if he worshipped the same God.
9) God says we cannot choose HIM, but he Chooses us. God hardens and loves whom he hardens and loves… How then are we responsible? Name one character in the Bible who didn’t do God’s will… including Pharoah and Satan.
10) If Hell is ETERNAL TORTURE, why is HELL thrown into the lake of Fire?
11) 1 Timothy 4:10: If God is the SAVIOR OF ALL MEN, and the GREEK WORD FOR ALL… means “ALL:)” How can any be tortured for eternity?
12) If someone is ignorant, what is better for a Loving God to do… PUNISH ENDLESSLY WORSE THAN ANY EVIL PERSON CAN DREAM UP… Or would a Loving God TEACH HIS IGNORANT CREATION to know better?
13) If we wouldn’t cast away our children and torture them endlessly for doing the wrong thing and not knowing better, and we be “evil” know this, why would a PERFECT GOD OF LOVE do different?
14) How come Hell is sometimes translated as Death and The Grave if it is endless torture.
15) How come the word TORMENT from the Greek is translated as “THE TESTING OF PRECIOUS METALS BY USE OF TOUCHSTONE” and not Torture? (Is it more likely we are TESTED until we are PURE? Or Tortured endlessly)
16) If God is a Just God, how is ENDLESS TORTURE a just punishment for IGNORANCE?
17) If God doesn’t give us the spirit of FEAR, and Jesus taught that we shouldn’t use fear as a motivator, why is there a DOCTRINE OF ENDLESS TORTURE?
18) If it is IMPOSSIBLE for MAN to know the things of God, is it possible then that the way HELL is UNDERSTOOD and TAUGHT by some today, is completely wrong?
19) If God ONLY DOES WHAT HE WILLS, and it is GODS WILL that ALL BE SAVED? And ALL OF CREATION comes to perfection and the knowledge of the perfect man Christ, HOW then are any Lost? And if they are Lost, will he not leave the 99 found sheep to go after the one who is astray?
20) IS GOD’S ARM SLACK THAT IT CANNOT SAVE? Is it possible, the doctrine of Eternal Torture is in fact error… considering even the word FOR EVER, is translated as “age, ages, period of time” — from the Greek Aionos. Could many be wrong?
Now if you are looking for more BIBLICAL PROOF… please do go through this extensive list that was compiled by my dear friend Elwin Roach from http://www.godfire.net/ — ALWAYS QUESTION AND NEVER SETTLE! If it isn’t love it ISN’T TRUTH!
1) Isa 46:10
2) Dan 4:35
3) Prov 16:9
4) Prov 19:21
5) Prov 16:33
6) Psa 37:23
7) Psa 33:10
8) Psa 33:15
9) Job 5:17-18
10) Hos 6:1-2
11) Deut 32:39
12) Psa 90:3
13) Jer 18:2-6
14) Lam 3:31-32
15) Psa 102:18-20
16) Isa 2:2
17) Joel 3:21
18) Gen 18:18
19) Isa 45:22
20) Isa 45:23
21) Isa 40:3-5
22) Psa 138:4
23) Psa 72:17
24) Psa 86:9
25) Isa 52:10
26) Psa 65:2-4
27) Isa 11:9
28) Psa 66:3-4
29) Isa 19:14-25
30) Ezk 16:55
31) Psa 68:18
32) Isa 54:5
33) Psa 22:25-29
34) Psa 145:9-10
35) Psa 145:14
36) Psa 145:15
37) Psa 145:16
38) Psa 145:9
39) Psa 145:10
40) Psa 24:1
41) Isa 25:6
42) Isa 25:7
43) Isa 25:8
44) Isa 25:8
45) Jer 32:35
46) Psa 135:6
47) Isa 26:9
48) Isa 53:11
49) Gen 12:3
(63 New Testament Listings)
1) Eph 1:11
2) 1 Tim 2:4
3) John 8:29
4) 1 John 4:14
5) John 4:34
6) John 12:47
7) 1 Tim 2:6
8) John 5:36
9) John 4:42
10) John 12:32
11) Heb 7:25
12) Col 1:15
13) Col 1:16
14) Rom 5:15-21
15) 1 Cor 15:22
16) Eph 1:10
17) 1 Cor 15:26
18) Philippians 2:9-11
19) 1 Cor 12:3
20) Rom 11:26
21) Acts 3:20-21
22) Luke 2:10
23) Eph 2:7
24) Heb 8:11-12
25) Luke 3:6
26) Titus 2:11
27) Rom 8:19-21
28) Col 1:20
29) 1 Cor 4:5
30) James 5:11
31) Rev 15:4
32) 2 Cor 5:17
33) Rom 11:32
34) Rom 11:36
35) Eph 4:10
36) Rev 5:13
37) 1 Cor 15:28
38) Rev 21:4-5
39) John 5:25
40) John 5:28
41) John 6:39
42) John 6:12
43) 1 Cor 3:15
44) Mark 9:49
45) 2 Cor 5:15
46) 1 John 2:2
47) Rom 11:15
48) Heb 1:2
49) John 3:35
50) John 17:2
51) John 6:44-45
52) 1 Tim 4:9-11
53) Acts 13:47
54) Gal 3:8
55) Matt 18:11
56) Matt 18:14
57) John 1:7
58) John 1:29
59) John 3:17
60) John 6:51
61) Col 1:28
62) 2 Peter 3:9
63) 1 John 2:2
OLD TESTAMENT
1) God will Do ALL His Pleasure (rf. Eph 1:11 & 1 Tim 2:4)
2) God’s will done in heaven & earth, none can stop Him
3) Man devises, but God directs his steps
4) Man devises, but God’s counsel stands
5) THE WHOLE DISPOSING thereof is of the Lord
6) The steps of man are ordered of God
7) The LORD brings the counsel & devices of the heathen…to naught
8) God fashions ALL hearts
9) God wounds then He makes whole
10) God tears, but in the third day He heals
11) God kills & makes alive, He wounds but then heals
12) God turns man to destruction, then says return
13) God mars vessels & then remakes them
14) God will not cast off forever
15) God will loosen those appointed to death
16) ALL nations will flow to the Lord’s house
17) God will cleanse blood not cleansed
18) ALL families of the earth will be blessed
19) ALL the earth commanded to look and be saved
20) Unto God ALL will bow & every tongue swear
21) Highway of God enables ALL flesh to see His glory
22) ALL kings will praise God
23) ALL nations will call Him blessed
24) ALL nations will worship God & ALL men blessed
25) ALL earth will see the salvation of God
26) ALL flesh will come to God
27) The earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
28) Enemies will submit & ALL earth will worship
29) Egypt & Assyria will be restored
30) Sodom will be restored
31) God will lead (all) captivity captive to dwell in man
32) He will be called the God of THE WHOLE EARTH
33) ALL will remember & turn unto the Lord
34) God is good to ALL & merciful to His works
35) Raises ALL that fall & ALL that be bowed down
36) ALL wait upon God & He will give them meat in due season.
37) Will satisfy the desire of ALL living
38) The Lord is good to ALL
39) ALL Thy works shall praise thee
40) The Earth is the Lord’s…and they who dwell therein
41) The Lord will make unto ALL people a feast
42) He will destroy the veil that’s cast over ALL
43) He will swallow up death (ALL death) in victory
44) He will wipe away tears from ALL faces
45) Never in God’s mind to pass anyone through the fire of Molech
46) The Lord did what pleased Him in heaven, earth, and the sea
47) In judgment…the inhabitants will learn righteousness
48) He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied
49) All families of the earth shall be blessed
NEW TESTAMENT
1) God works ALL things after counsel of His will
2) God will have ALL to be saved
3) Jesus ALWAYS does which pleases His Father
4 Jesus sent to be the Savior of THE WORLD
5) Jesus to do the will of God who sent Him
6) Jesus came to save ALL
7) Jesus gave Himself a ransom for ALL
8) He will finish the works He was sent to do
9) Jesus is the Savior of THE WORLD
10) Jesus will draw ALL to Himself
11) Jesus is able to save to the uttermost
12) Jesus the first born of ALL creation
13) By Him ALL things were created
14) In Adam ALL condemned, in Christ ALL live
15) In Adam ALL die, in Christ ALL live
16) ALL come into Him at the fullness of times
17) Death, the last enemy, will be destroyed
18) EVERY TONGUE shall confess Jesus is Lord (Phil 2:11)
19) Cannot confess except by THE HOLY SPIRIT
20) ALL Israel will be saved
21) Restitution (Reconstitution) of ALL
22) Jesus will be the joy to ALL people
23) His grace to be shown in the ages to come
24 ALL will know God
25) ALL flesh shall see the salvation of God
26) Grace has appeared to ALL
27) Creation freed from corruption
28) ALL reconciled unto God
29) ALL will have praise of God
30) End of the Lord is full of mercy
31) ALL Nations worship when judgments seen
32) ALL becomes a new creation in Christ
33) .ALL subjected to unbelief, mercy on ALL
34) ALL out of God, thru Him, and into Him
35) Jesus will fill ALL things
36) ALL creation seen praising God
37) God will be ALL in ALL
38) No more tears, ALL things made new
39) ALL dead who hear will live
40) ALL in the grave will hear & come forth
41) And this is the Father’s…I should lose NOTHING
42) Gather up the fragments that…that NOTHING be lost
43) ALL saved, yet so as by fire
44) Everyone shall be salted with fire
45) Jesus died for ALL
46) Jesus is the propitiation for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD
47) Reconciliation of the world
48) He is the heir of ALL things
49) ALL has been given into His hand
50) Jesus will give eternal life to ALL that His Father gives Him
51) ALL to be taught of God and will come
52) Jesus is the Savior of ALL
53) Salvation unto the ends of the earth
54).All nations shall be blessed
55) For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost
56) Not the will of your Father…that one of these…should perish (rf. 1)
57) That ALL through him *might believe
58) Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of THE WORLD
59) That THE WORLD through him *might be saved. *might omitted in the Greek
60) The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of THE WORLD
61) That we may present EVERY MAN perfect in Christ Jesus
62) The Lord is…not willing that ANY should perish (rf. 1 & 2)
63) And he is the propitiation…for the WHOLE WORLD
Marriage In Cana
“Marriage In Cana”
I’m really surprised I haven’t written about this yet. Jesus turning water into wine, known as one of his first miracles, is such a wonderful allegory for us all to learn from. As you know by now, nothing is ever as it seems in scripture. Nothing is ever so cut and dry that upon one simple read of a passage, or a story, you can receive the full depth of what it is written. The reason is simple, scripture is NOT meant to be taken literally. As Paul states, “The Letter (literal interpretation) kills (makes you ignorant)”, he goes on to say, “The Spirit gives Life (Wisdom)”. You could say it is the “spirit of the story” that gives us life (wisdom).
Ecclesiastes 7:12
… wisdom gives LIFE to them that have it
So too, in the story of the Marriage in Cana, there is a deeper meaning to what we read.
The first obvious mystery that we are allowed to decode is what the word “MARRIAGE” means, symbolically. When you marry someone, you are vowing that you will be faithful, you are stating that you will stay together and never break apart, your decisions will now become based on what is best for both Husband and Wife, you most likely will try to have children. There is much indeed a “Marriage” symbolically means. But what does scripture say “specifically” about Marriage?
One parable in scripture stands out, and that is “Marriage” being used to describe a King’s “arranged” marriage for his child.
Matthew 22
2The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Notice, the Kingdom of Heaven is not described as a marriage of choice, but a Marriage that the King decides. Now that is of great importance. Because the “King” in this story represents God. But that isn’t the most important thing we are to take away from this parable. It is the fact that those who were invited to this “Wedding” refused to come and be apart of it. So the King tells his servants to go out and tell the people again, everything that he has set up for them. A feast! But still they didn’t take this invitation seriously. So when the servant came back, the King said, go then out into the streets and invite any and all of those you can find.
Matthew 22
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests
Notice both bad and good were invited? You see no one is left out. But those who come without wedding garments are bound and cast out… A great symbol of the religious leaders that were trying to discredit Jesus at the time, and those who try to discredit those who bring the truth today.
Now we have to remember what the author of this parable means, when referring to the “Kingdom of Heaven”. It is not some wonderful pearly city in the sky. In fact it couldn’t be at all, according to scripture. The Kingdom of heaven is WITHIN! And what is this “Kingdom” after all?
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost
As you can see it is not a place of eternal partying as many religious leaders have taught. It is peace, joy, righteousness, and all of it is found within!
In fact the word “kingdom” doesn’t literally mean Kingdom the way we think of a Kingdom. The word, would better be translated as “Reign or Rule”… Meaning the RULE of God (Love) is within us, and it is Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost.
And no one can enter the RULE of GOD without doing the will of God.
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.
Which makes complete sense if you think of it. You can’t be ruled by God, until you are Ruled by God(LOVE).
And what is the Father’s will, according to the Marriage Parable? … For us all To be apart of that pre-arranged union of Husband and Wife.
So who is this Husband and Wife that become “one Flesh, one mind, and one accord”?
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ
The Husband is CHRIST. Which makes you and me, the WIFE. The Husband is the Power and Wisdom of God, and the Wife is “our sense of being”. At the marriage, which is pre-ordained, the two become ONE!
This is what the Marriage in Cana is all about. It is about this wonderful union, it is about the resurrection of our true identity which we can only find in Christ. It is at this Marriage, that we are no longer known by our “maiden” names, we become known by the name of our “Husband/Christ”.
John 2
1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there
Right off the bat, the words “third day” should stand out to you.
Hosea 6:2
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
What wonderful symbolism we find here. The author makes a point of drawing our attention to the fact that this “marriage” took place on the Third Day. And the reason is simple, this isn’t about a literal marriage people, it is the Marriage Supper, the great feast that God has prepared for us all. And in that day we all are changed!
Now the fact that the “Mother” of Jesus was there is very important. Because if Jesus is an allegory for what is birthed within us all, if Jesus be an allegory for all of us in a higher understanding, than the Mother would have to be “who gave birth to this new creation”… Which means, if Jesus is the new creation birthed within us, “Christ In You the hope of Glory”, then the Mother of Jesus would have to be US as well. And in fact, the Mother of Jesus is an allegory for you and I. For we are the ones who give birth to the Truth of God.
Matthew 12:50
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and MOTHER
Notice once again, to be the MOTHER of Jesus, you must first DO THE WILL OF GOD.
So we should now see that this marriage has more to do with you and I than it does some people two thousand years ago in Cana.
Now this next part of scripture has remained quite a mystery to many people. Where Jesus’s Mother goes to Jesus and says…
John 2
3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
But if we think about who is telling Jesus this, we understand it is US. We are the ones that give birth to Jesus (The Word revealed in Us). The question is why is the Mother (us) so concerned with WINE… Well once again, we must find out what WINE represents.
Wine is a “spirit”. It is said in scripture it makes the Heart Merry, it fills a person with joy. In scripture Wine can appear to be a good thing and a bad thing. It is used to describe a new way of thinking…
Matthew 9:17
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved
When you drink WINE, it can lift your spirits or it can depress you. It depends on the type of wine you are drinking, and the frame of mind you are in. But either way, WINE changes the way you PERCIEVE things. At a WEDDING those drink wine to CELEBRATE the union taking place. So I believe this WINE represents a greater understanding, a better “Spirit” if you will.
The MOTHER notices they were out of WINE. And the WINE they had we find out was far worse than the wine that Jesus created for them. Like the Mother of Jesus we too see a lack of WINE (new Understanding) in the land. Yet, our desire for people to have this new understanding is not good enough.
4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
It isn’t until the “Servants” do exactly what they are instructed to do (the will of the Father) will there be NEW WINE (new understanding).
5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
Now this is where the story really comes to life. Few people talk about thee symbolism of what happens next.
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
These water pots were used in RITUAL WASHING. And there were SIX of them. And they were empty. A firkin by the way is not an exact measurement, but let’s just say these were big water pots.
Now why is this symbolic? Well, what does Jesus tell them to do?
7Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
For there to be WINE (NEW UNDERSTANDING) – first the VESSELS must be filled with WATER. And Water is symbolic of the WORD of GOD.
Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
It is WATER that we are meant to be baptized in. We are meant to be submerged in the WORD of God.
Before anyone can have a NEW UNDERSTANDING, first they must be filled with the TRUTH, so then they can understand what they are filled with. And then it can be shared with others.
the Six Water Pots, are a symbol of MANKIND. First we are empty, we have no understanding of the TRUTH. Then it is poured into us, by the “servants” and when we are filled to the Brim, it is then that the WATER (truth) is changed into WINE (Spirit/New Understanding)… We begin to see things differently, and we realize that what we once considered the TRUTH was inferior to this New Wine.
10And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Our First Wine is like our first nature, it is weak. But the LAST SHALL BE FIRST! The last WINE we receive is better than what we once drank.
The story of the Marriage of Cana, is truly our story. Whether we are those at the feast finally receiving the New Wine, the servants pouring the Wine, the Mother telling the servants what to do, or Jesus leading the servants, it is all out story.
This marriage is predetermined, this is why we cannot fail. The Two (Christ and You) will become one, and then there will only be one, CHRIST revealed in you, as you. You will have the mind of Christ, the name of Christ, and you will know you have always been the Body of Christ.
And when this wedding takes place, there will be plenty of New Wine to go around for every one of your guests. And thank God for that!
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“the Truth Will Change You”
Heir Of All Things
Heir Of All Things
Many, many years ago I made a startling discovery while sitting in a Church pew. At that point in my life I would simply go to Church because of the routine of it. I had already, even a decade ago, learned on my own, that religion was never going to fill my spiritual needs and growing desire.
I began my journey outside of religion, and of course like many people went to “church” thinking I would find the answers there. It wasn’t long before I found that would not be the case.
So, I would go and bring my bible with me to simply sit there and study. I would tune out the preacher, all the singing, everything and I would narrow my focus unto the scriptures and during that time I learned a lot.
It would be at one of these “study sessions” that I would probably make one of the most important finds. Back then it was revolutionary concept, one that today people are just beginning to truly hear.
This morning early as I was studying the scriptures I came across these very passages that opened my eyes to this, greater and more wonderful truth. And it reminded me how very possible all things are for us, with faith.
It begins in Galatians Chapter three and finishes in Galatians four.
So I am simply going to post these verses and then underneath each verse I am going to explain what I believe it to mean. I guarantee this simple, short (I promise), this simple, short study will pack quiet a punch and will wet your appetite for more.
LET’S BEGIN!
Galatians 3
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
This above passage explains a great deal. First, that “Father Abraham” was given a promise. And that promise was that through his faith, ALL THE NATIONS should be blessed and receive the same promise. And by ALL Nations, it means ALL. In fact, the name ABRAHAM literally means, “Father of a Multitude, or Many”.
Now I want to draw your attention to who the promises were made. It was to Abraham and HIS SEED (what comes out of Abraham).
You would think that SEED as Isaac, but as we continue to read this simple verse, we find the SEED is a very specific SEED.
It isn’t MANY SEEDS, it is ONE SEED. Meaning there is NO OTHER SEED, only this specific SINGLE SEED.
Then the passage goes unto to explain what this SINGLE SEED is. It is indeed, CHRIST! That’s right, Abraham’s SEED IS CHRIST.
Galatians 3
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, WHICH IS CHRIST.
Now I need you to hang unto that. Remember that, Abraham’s seed is ONE SEED, and that ONE SEED is CHRIST. (Which we know is the Power and Wisdom of God REVEALED IN US. “Christ IN us, the hope of Glory”.)
So far you wouldn’t think this is a startling discovery, but what I am about to show you is. Just a bit further in this chapter we read.
27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Once you are IMMERSED(which is what baptized means) into Christ (The Power and Wisdom of God) you have put on CHRIST (the Power and Wisdom of God).
Now the words “Put On Christ” may sound a lot like putting on a Tee-Shirt, but it literally translates to “Enter”. In other words, if someone showers you with the truth of God, or if you yourself are being immersed with the truth of God, then you ENTER INTO THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD yourself.
Now once you enter into this TRUTH, you begin to see everyone as yourself, and yourself as everyone. There is no one that is separate, we are all one.
You begin to understand we are all ONE in the very same POWER AND WISDOM, which is CHRIST, which is OUR LIFE, which is ABRAHAM’S SEED!
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
As I stated, we are all ONE, there is no difference in Christ Jesus (the Power and Wisdom of God’s Salvation).
By the way, for those that don’t know, Jesus in Greek literally translates to “Jehovah (God) is Salvation.”
But it is the next verse that is going to get your attention. READ IT CAREFULLY! And remember what I asked you to remember… about how many SEEDS Abraham had (One) and who that SEED is (Christ).
29And if you be Christ’s, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM’S SEED (Christ), and heirs according to the promise.
Isn’t that something? That verse literally states WHO YOU ARE… You are ABRAHAM’S SEED, and we know that ABRAHAM’S SEED IS CHRIST.
That verse could be read.
“And if you be Christ’s, then you are CHRIST, and heirs according to the promise”
I know that is a lot to take in.
It’s one thing to say we are a part of CHRIST. But it is a whole other thing for the Apostle Paul to come right out and say, “You are Christ!”
Well if that is what he meant, then the following verse should back that up… RIGHT? And boy does it!
Galatians 4
1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Look at what Paul calls you and I, and everyone on this planet, he calls us HEIRS! And we are, but let me break down what he is really saying.
The HEIR (you and I), even though one verse earlier we find out that the HEIR/SEED is CHRIST, and is US, the heir differs nothing from a slave. Meaning, the heir doesn’t seem to be very Royal…
Paul needs to further explain why people still don’t grasp this. He says, that the HEIR as long as he is a CHILD (which means immature in the faith) is no different from a servant/slave…
Now doesn’t that sound like many of us at the moment? How many are living like “Kings” reading this? Few, I would gather. No, most of us are suffering through the cares of this world, most are hurting, most are in the chains of debt, health problems, fear, worry, and doubt… we are more like miserable down trodden slaves, than HEIRS AND LORD OF EVERYTHING, aren’t we?
Well Paul, understood this, that is why he said that so long as we are immature in our faith, we will APPEAR like slaves. But appearances can be deceiving. Because WE ARE HEIRS! But not just heirs, we are LORD OF EVERYTHING! WE ARE CHRIST! ALL THINGS MADE BY US, THROUGH US, FOR US!
Galatians 4
1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be LORD OF ALL;
How can this be? If we are LORD OF EVERYTHING how have we missed it?
The reason is simple, we are CHILDREN. We have not yet truly matured into the Truth. We are only just beginning to find our way back to who we are.
And how do we find our way back? Well people and events have been purposed for our lives to bring us to the UNDERSTANDING that we are indeed LORD OF ALL!
2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father
There is a time that has been appointed for us all. There is going to come a time when we will rule and reign with Christ… Which means WE WILL RULE AND REIGN OUR LIVES WITH THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD!
We will come to the UNITY OF THE FAITH and reach the full stature of the perfect man, Christ.
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
So hang in there, have great hope for who you are, who you will find yourself to be, and all that will be accomplished in you.
These are the greater things we shall do people. We are ignorant for but a moment, we feel like slaves for but a moment, we are like children for but a moment.
But every child one day becomes a man or woman, they put off childish ignorance and they claim their birth right. Heir of All Things!
In that day, nothing will stand against us again. Never forget who you are, for you are ABRAHAMS SEED which is CHRIST, and YOU are LORD OF EVERYTHING!
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“the Truth Will Change You”
HALLOWEEN GOD MADE CLEAN
“HALLOWEEN GOD MADE CLEAN”
That is an interesting title, isn’t it? Well this is an interesting article. You know around September or October all those religious leaders, or those who want to be, come out of the woodwork and write articles, and prepare sermons about how evil Halloween is. You will also find these ignorant judges on Religious TV programs trying to convince all watching how evil it is to trick or treat.
As if dressing your daughter as a princess and walking her around to meet neighbors with a smile, and teaching your children about charity and gratitude somehow will land you in hell. Which, doesn’t exist the way you think by the way (see my article “hell revealed).
Religion has for many years used fear and shame as a means to control others. And there is no bigger bunch of nonsense, no greater ignorance, then the beliefs that are birthed out of fear and shame. Considering God doesn’t give us the spirit (Thoughts) of fear to begin with.
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(ignorant suffering) than yourselves
The Religious system is built on three things besides obvious ignorance and pride. I call them the three “C’s”, and that is egotistical Control, Coercion, and Conversion.
This essay, I hope will open your eyes to more than just giving you the liberty to celebrate Halloween and finding that by doing so, you in fact are celebrating God. I hope this paper opens your eyes to the snake of the Ego, and all its devilish lies, poisonous words, sick beliefs, and suffering that goes along with such.
MARK 16:
17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
How many today take these words and believe them to be literally true?
Unfortunately, the answer is far too many. Some go so far to “prove their faith” that they hold poisonous snakes and actually drink small amounts of arsenic. Now as crazy and foolish as this sounds think about what hundreds, if not thousands are doing in the name of “their god” right now. Stoning thieves, killing unfaithful wives, going off to war, blowing themselves us, refusing a blood transfusion, refusing medicine, the list goes on and on.
The Ego of Man is a villain, and that ego gets off on power and the control of others. So when you read about some poor old man dying from being bit by rattler at some service, you shouldn’t think about how lost and brainwashed they are, but think about how lost and brainwashed we all are, or have been. Think about all the things we don’t do, or condemn ourselves for doing or not doing, because we have simply been brainwashed by the Egotistical Religious System. And in doing so, we have sinned (missed the mark).
We have bottled up our joy, and passions, we have limited ourselves, we have been taught to look down on others and not accept others, we have been sold terrible, terrible lies. Like this one, “You can’t celebrate Halloween”!
When I hear this, or read this, I want to scream… WAKE UP PEOPLE HALLOWEEN IS FUN, A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BOND WITH YOUR CHILDREN, MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS, AND SHARE YOUR LIGHT!
If you believe you shouldn’t go out and trick or treat this Halloween, if your Church has put limitations on this and said you better not or else. I say it’s time for you to get yourself a costume and find yourself a different place to be spiritually fed.
You see, this is all vanity, all meaningless, all egotistical control that religious leaders get off on. They love telling people you can’t go door to door and have fun dressed as your favorite superhero. They love convincing their ignorant flock to instead come to their “Holy Ghost Night”. If you do it at their Church, it’s okay to wear costumes, and have candy, but it’s at your church… so that’s okay.
What a load of garbage the Religious system has sold us.
Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES!
Yes the Religious Egotistical Leader will strain at a nat. They will make the smallest things error in your lives, and then they will go on to swallow the camel of evils they live in their daily lives. The greatest of which is GREED! Hypocrites indeed, and we too can be guilty of such.
It is the reason, Paul had to rebuke Peter. Peter after understanding that he wasn’t committing some great crime for eating pork, pretended he was against it when his fellow Jews entered the room.
Galatians 2:
11 When Cephas/Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
It is a great and terrible thing to know you have freedom to do certain things, and then feel that you have to hide your liberty from those who need to see and hear it the most. Now of course we don’t use this Liberty to cause others to stumble, like we don’t give a drink to an alcoholic and say, “God is okay with alcohol”, you get my point. But Peter wasn’t worried about causing his brothers to stumble, he was worried what they would think. And by doing this, he gave them the ability to look down on others who do eat pork, causing them to stumble. This is a great example of how we can use our Liberty to cause others to stumble, and that is by HIDING IT FROM THEM!
Now most people are no strangers to doing things and then telling others they shouldn’t, as Peter did. There are people, who in private, do all sorts of things and then condemn others strongly for the very thing they do. But Paul knew, as I know, that ALL THINGS are LAWFUL in LOVE.
1 Corinthians 6:12
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any
A lot of people leave out the last part where Paul writes that he will NOT BE BROUGHT UNDER THE CONTROL OR POWER OF ANYTHING.
Meaning he may drink wine, but he won’t become an alcoholic, he may have a cigarette but he won’t be a smoker, he may have an ice cream sundae but he won’t let junk food rule him, he can celebrate Halloween but he won’t dress up everyday because that would just be weird.
Now does what Paul state here mean, ALL things are lawful? ALL THINGS? Meaning we can go out and rape and murder and steal and loot? GOD FORBID! Just a couple of verses earlier he states how people who do not love others, and put others feelings and needs above their own, can’t enter the kingdom (righteousness, peace, joy, and power in the Holy Spirit)
This scripture Paul has written does not give us license to go off and do what we want, when we want.
However, it does show us that there are many things that we have been conditioned to believe are so wrong, but truly as long as they don’t hurt another human being or ourselves they are perfectly approved by God. Like eating Pork for example, there are millions upon millions who don’t, and perhaps it is healthier, but the point is, you are not pleasing God by not eating meat, or by eating meat, you please God by loving others as yourself, and by having faith in God, that’s all. Because without Faith and Love it is impossible to please God, which means you, yourself, cannot know joy.
Romans 14:5,6
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks
This above scripture sums all this, “Don’t celebrate Halloween”, stuff up nicely.
Now you will often hear that Halloween has its roots in evil demonic pagan history… Nonsence! The history of Halloween is far less spooky. It didn’t take on that nonsense stigmatism until the twentieth century. In fact there was a time that Halloween was adopted as a Christian Holiday to honor the dead. And the reason people wear masks has more to do with politics than it does monsters and ghouls… “Remember, remember the 5th of November.”
The man we can thank for people dressing up today is Guy Fawkes, you have seen his mask displayed all over the streets, it has become the mask of choice for “Occupy WallStreet”. Well on November the 5, in the early 1600’s they would celebrate his capture, and soon for political reasons and to have their identity protected, people would wear masks on this night of celebration and mocking the terrorist known as Guy Fawkes.
But as I mentioned earlier, it would be here in the states that Halloween got its spooky feel. Artists would begin to use spiders, witches, and ghosts to represent the holiday.
Halloween was NEVER a night to celebrate demons or devils (which by the way don’t literally exist, they are merely lies and false beliefs, but I will get into that a bit later). The History of Halloween is very interesting, and it has gone through many changes over the years, but people, it’s just a day, like any other. When I first wrote this article, I didn’t include Halloween’s history. But I received so many incorrect emails that I felt I should actually set the record straight.
There are some people who think some days and traditions and things are acceptable to God, and many believe Halloween isn’t. They use its historical roots, or should I say what they BELIEVE is Halloween’s historical roots to condemn the night. But the truth is Christmas and Easter were much more prevalent pagan holiday and the rituals we still practice today. But no Christians have a problem with that… The reason is, it’s their biggest money days. They have claimed these holidays as their own and they say they are good in God’s eyes, while saying Halloween is bad… the irony is God could care less.
It’s all vanity, in the grand scheme of things none of it matters. Whether you celebrate, or don’t. The sin is not in the celebration, it is the belief that you can’t when you can and probably should, because Halloween is fun! Truly whether we eat or don’t, esteem one day as better than another or not, none of it really matters, what matters is that we all live or die to God. Whatever we do, we do it unto God, whether we yolk ourselves with the chains of lies, or live free seeing life as the gift of God, we do it unto God.
NO ONE LIVES OR DIES TO THEMSELVES. Our lives are not our own, so to fill them with vain burdens, to keep people from joy, and to fill their hearts with shame, which many religious leaders are doing today by telling you all how evil Halloween is… well truly theirs is the greater sin.
To believe that something God has given us, that is approved of God is wrong and to call it evil, or uncommon is Sin (missing the point/mark/truth of who we are in Christ).
SIN is the foolish thought, and it is a big old lie to believe things like pork, wine, Halloween, working on Sunday, eating meat on Friday is wrong, or to condemn people with a different orientation, religion, race, etc, is right… You see that is the TRUE SIN, the true evil that is done under the sun.
Look, there are two rules God has given us to live by, LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS. And I can narrow that down to one rule, LOVE OTHERS.
Because God is all in all and by loving others, even those you perceive as enemies, is loving God.
You want to know how to fulfill the law of Christ (The Power and Wisdom of God), it is to encourage each other, to love each other, to simply lift each other up when they are burdened.
Galatians 6:2
“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
So how do we do this? The way is to show them the truth. If they believe lies… then you must live a life of truth and they will see the Light you have to offer and it will enlighten their path. If you see someone hurting, broke, scared, angry… show them love, kindness, compassion and charity.
The question is what is the true Burden that ultimately leads us to the trap of prejudice, pride, greed, hate, fear, shame… Is it celebrating an innocent holiday that does no harm to others, or is it placing burdens and yolks, fear and shame with the lies of Religion.
This is what it means to be unequally yoked with unbelievers.
Religion will teach it means you should not have fellowship with anyone who is not like-minded. You shouldn’t celebrate this or that, eat this or that, do this or that. THOSE ARE YOLKS PEOPLE!
Now an unbeliever will believe the lie that they have to WORK and DEPRIVE themselves, and their families, of simple fun to somehow please God. The Unbeliever has been tricked into believing that they have to follow what their religious leaders say, and do what they tell them to do, and must hate anyone who is not like them. Which is always what happens.
This is a heavy Yolk that has been laid on so many. And I am writing this paper, to hopefully lighten that load for you all this year. Because this is the sacrifice God wants. He doesn’t want you to burn your incense, go to your churches, help with parking, childcare, or ushering people to their seats. God doesn’t want your money, or need you to convince people to go to your particular church. God doesn’t want you to get baptised, confirmed, speak jibberish tongues, fast, fall out, NONE OF IT! In Fact God doesn’t need you to save anyone. God wants you only to share the Good News, and when you share the good news, which is truth, hope and love, it break these yolks off the necks of those burdened by them.
Isaiah 58
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
So you can see how it saddens me every year when I read ridiculous articles about how celebrating Halloween is somehow worshipping the Devil, when the exact opposite is true.
How so Jacob? You ask.
Well believing the Lies of the Egotistical Carnal Man (devil) is worshipping that Egotistical Carnal Man (devil).
The Devil is a Liar, Man is a liar, do I need to spell it out for you?
So when Man lies, and you believe you can’t do this, or do that, because the liar of a man told you so, then in fact by not excersing the liberty of celebrating Halloween if you want to, is in fact, a form of devil worship. Because you have taken something that is meaningless and vain, and labeled it and those who celebrate it as evil. You have judged in error and your penalty, is no milk chocolate for you.
You see when you follow the lies of man, when they say, YOU CAN’T DO THIS OR GOD WILL BE MAD, than you have left seeking the truth for yourself and began to worship the lies of Man instead. (Devil worship indeed). And in so doing you reject the Liberty that is in Christ.
And we all have fallen victim to that. Peter learned a great lesson, when that sheet unrolled to him without every beast and creeping things, and God said “Peter rise, kill and eat”… and what did Peter do? He did what many of us do. God could have said to Peter, “Peter, rise up, get a costume, and make your neighbors smile” and peter would have said. “No, Not So Lord, I have never celebrated that evil demonic holiday.” And for that God would have to set him straight. As I hope this essay sets you straight.
Acts 10
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
God tells Peter to rise, kill, and eat, and Peter says NOT SO LORD!!!!
This is an allegory for us all. What Peter was to rise from was his unbelief. What Peter was to Kill was the Lies he believed. What he was to eat was the truth of God from now on, and seeing that everything God has made is clean.
But Peter was so brainwashed, he would never celebrate Halloween, he was told it was evil, but God said rise, kill that false belief, and get some candy!
Now for those that say that Halloween is a “Demonic” holiday. I would like to show you what a demon is. Put aside Hollywood for a moment with all that pea soup, and spinning head nonsense. To be possessed by a demon is to be possessed by a LIE!
I think even those most religious believer will say the Devil (which by now, I hope we know is our carnal Ego) is THE FATHER OF ALL LIES. And demons are his messengers. Well what is the message of the Father of all lies?
THAT’S RIGHT YOU WIN THAT BOWEL OF CANDY, THEY WOULD BE LIES!
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not
A devil is a false belief, not the Truth of God, a new god(belief) that mankind made up! A god the fathers of our faith did not fear.
A devil is something people sacrifices unto to. AND WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING BY GIVING UP THE FUN OF HALLOWEEN? You are sacrificing unto devils(false beliefs).
THESE ARE BELIEFS I now, know not as well.
Not the brightest thing to do. But we are not living in the brightest of times, there is more darkness in the land today than many are aware of. And those in that darkness (ignorance) hate the light (enlightenment of truth).
There is more to scripture than meets the literal eye. You see all scripture is given by inspiration, and it is not of private interpretation… In other words, God must reveal what it means. Jesus spoke in parable for good reason. So those without the “keys to the kingdom” would hear but not understand. The book was SEALED up and only the SLAIN LAMB (Those that have their EGO’S AND FALSE BELIEFS killed) can open the BOOKS for us…
Luke 10:3
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves
Yes, that’s right… We are as ignorant sheep in this world, and the wolf of Religious lies and traditions is there waiting to tear into us and kill the very joy of life out of us.
DON’T LET IT HAPPEN! GET WISDOM!
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
WISDOM is the TREE OF LIFE! That we are meant to eat from!
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
As is a wholesome tongue (Those who speak out of wisdom). As is the FRUIT of the RIGHTEOUSNESS, since the fruit is birthed of the WISDOM OF GOD, which is CHRIST. Now by stating this, I want you to understand that when you know the TRUTH it sets you free, but when you have the wrong understanding it is the death (ignorance) of you. Being ignorant of what scripture means is the reason wars have been fought in the name of God, people have been tortured in the name of God, crosses have been burned in the name of God, and people are condemned on a regular basis in the name of God…. And that also goes for those that believe we can handle deadly snakes and drink literal poison and speak foreign languages, etc!
The Snakes are religious beliefs, and we can handle them without being hurt when we believe. The POISON are the lies that many speak to us about what we can and cannot do, and we can listen and drink it all up and as easily rid ourselves of it. The new language we will speak, is liberty and truth and hope. And with this truth we can heal those that are sick and lame because of the lies people have believed about God and so many other things. The least of which is celebrating Halloween, so if you want, you have liberty to go out and have some fun this October 31. It is not an evil under the sun, the belief that it is, IS THE EVIL and it is all VANITY!
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“The Truth Will Change You”
INTO THE WILDERNESS of MY LIFE
INTO MY WILDERNESS
This essay is one that I hope brings you a ton of love. I call it, welcome to the wilderness of my life and I basically want to highlight some things that happened in my life, and show you, how every step of our journey is bringing us exactly where we need to be.
This essay comes out of a life of suffering, the depth of the suffering does not matter, my life is pretty much an open book. I, like every one of you have been through hard times. This is something that no one is exempt from. It doesn’t matter if it was being severely sick with Crohns disease, multiple hospital visits, hemorrhages, excruciating pain, surgeries, and constant problems when it comes to number two if you know what I’m saying. 🙂 I was diagnosed at 15 years old, a time when most kids find their clicks, try to find themselves, and find their friends, those that would have you. For me things were different, I wasn’t a loser, but I wasn’t cool either. Sure I got beat up, pretty badly, a couple of times. Sadder still was I got that beating at the very first Highschool party I was invited to. I was so excited to be there. My new friend, moved from Hawaii, she was a great girl. She was a great friend to me, I didn’t have a crush on her or anything, I just liked the friendship. Well it wasn’t long before my friend became pretty popular. That didn’t stop her from being nice to me and a friend to me, but the more popular she got the less and less I would see her. So when I was invited to her highschool party, man I felt special. I was finally hanging out, with the cool kids. And I was given a wonderful lesson there.
One of my other great friends, a skateboarder whose family owned a Chinese restaurant, he was always either over my house, or I was over his. Him and another friend, befriended me in middle school. I was interested in skateboarding back then, and Steve and Woodie lived, ate, slept, and breathed skateboarding. So we went by the dump. I grew up about just up the street from the dump. We would cut through the woods there to get to school. In my book, the character Thomas has similar circumstances, you’ll find his story closely matches mine. Because of course, I wrote about my life, in an allegorical world. Because that is what our lives are. Allegories for us all to learn from.
So that first day, behind the dump, on make shift wooden ramps I skated with them. And man, compared to them I was terrible. But they embraced me, and became my closest of friends, all the way up till college, where everyone finds a different way. They were always there for me during that hard time. Not that they really knew the extent of my disease, but they were my friends. We went in the city, into Harlem and skating the infamous Harlem Banks together, there would be many visits to a mosh punk club called the Anthrax. I was the only guy who’d go there wearing a golf shirt. I was in the world, I wasn’t of it, if you know what I mean. I was accepted there and that was really all I needed.
So I hid my disease, I would get skinny, I would miss school, I would break out because of the drugs… they had a nickname for me, half a pizza. And things didn’t get any better really in highschool. But I had my friends, and since sports really wasn’t part of the picture because of being sick. I tried out for a musical, Guys and Dolls, and I got a part. That’s where I would meet another life changing force in my life. My friend Sean. He played opposite me in Guys and Dolls, we had a song together and everything. And Sean was so good, and so were his friends. You see, they were already an established unit. I really didn’t fit in their group, or the skate group, because truly I really always never felt very accepted and loved. But I was still given these wonderful gifts, the hunger to learn how to be the best actor in the world.
Now, all of this is very important. Because, had I been a healthy popular kid, with no real drama, or troubles at all, my life today would be very, very different. I wouldn’t have been raised up into the man who I am today. You see, even our hardest times shape us, like a grit of sand in an oyster, until that oyster finally gives up trying to cover up that pain, and surrenders to its fate. Which was to lay down its life and produce a magnificent pearl.
So, there I was, in highschool. Not really fitting in anywhere, but still having friends to call my own, even if I wasn’t their most preferred, they were there for me to help me, to direct me, to help me to find my purpose.
You can understand when my Hawaiian friend had her party, how excited I would be, hanging out with all the cool kids. Well that is where I got the worst beating of my teenage life. My friend Steve had gotten into an argument with a real tough, older football player. I could see that a fight was about to break loose, and it did. I made the mistake of grabbing the big dude off my friend to try to stop it. He took it, most likely as aggression, and beat me silly. In front of everyone. In the middle of the garage, where it would be my friend from Hawaii that would pull him off me and save the day. Humiliating huh? Well, it was a lesson. It was a defining and wonderful moment in my life. If not for that moment, I wouldn’t have taken an interest in body building, boxing, tae kwon do, and today I am not the 150 pound scared kid trying foolishly to fit in. I am a 240 pound brick house, that would never need raise me hand toward another, because another wouldn’t be so foolish. I learned to live a life of peace because of that moment. I was looking for acceptance in the wrong place, and for that I would be knocked down a couple of clicks. And for that, I am grateful.
My illness, my feelings of inadequacy, my loneliness, lit another fire within me. “Why was my life so hard?” That was the question I asked. “So I went inward and began to look”.
At 15 years old, I would get a job on a chance. I had never worked at a deli before, but I needed a job, wasn’t like the rich kids in the rich neighborhood I grew up with. In fact, it was thanks to that, and my Mother of course that I received my work ethic. Wanted to please others. That last one would take me years to get rid of. But I got this job. They started me right away. I learned the basics of sandwich craft, as well as the grill, but it would be the last part that would once again set me on the path I was destined for. I had questioned, was there a God? I couldn’t believe what I heard at Catholic church, it seemed so dead to me. Oh yeah, I went to Catholic Church. St. Rocks, it was right down the street from my house. My first and bestest friend 🙂 the G-man was an altar boy. I grew up in a very Italian neighborhood, and it was crazy. It had it’s crazy homeless men walking around, there was Crazy Eddie, and Tex. Who has chased me and others down, and my hand to God, came up to my Mother when she was in her car waiting outside the meat store, he began to choke her. CRAZIES IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! Down the street the other kids I was friends with, but never fit in, grew up in the Projects down the street from me. Well some of them got into dealing crack, one of them actually robbed my house. Then told me about it at the boys club, and wanted to work out a deal with my folks, so the police wouldn’t get him. He decided to give everything back and left it down at Lyons Ave park, near the dump. No charges were ever filed. It is so sad to see how some kids, that you grow up with go the wrong way. And not really know why they went that way. But one thing I learned, even back then was compassion, even though he had done wrong, I felt so bad for him. Because he must have been in so much pain, to have to live the life he was living. In any event, I would remain friends with him, just he wasn’t allowed over the house anymore, if you know what I mean.
But back to my Catholic Church days. So, I used to go to this Catholic Church, by myself, a lot. But it never worked for me. I used to dream of being one of God’s messengers, being a true light in this world. Ever since I was a kid, I was fascinated with the bible because of the events of my life. I had to know that there was more. That is when I would be placed with the cook, in the kitchen of the Deli. Colin was his name, he was like a second dad to me and he introduced me to deeper things. Not like the things I write about today, in fact, he was very, very confused, religion did him in. But, it was his heart that changed mine. So even from an early age I always wanted to know what it was all for.
I will cut to the chase now and give you the bullet points. My illness would continue for years, I would get married, and my wife would divorce me, I would gain custody of my children while dealing with the most difficult of circumstances. I would lose everything, and gain the world.
Now there is a point to this story. If each of us took the time, to go back and look at our lives. Do we see these hard times as blessings? Or do we see them as a curse?
What I have found is, when I am looking for peace in the wrong place, suffering would follow to correct my path. But I would also find that I, in a way, was a part of my suffering. Now I believe our lives go according to a plan, but few know, truly who is in control of that plan. We can say God, Allah, Braham, we can use all sorts of names and things to define the undefinable, or se can truly seek to find the truth for ourselves, without having to say, I am simply settling on this.
What if I were to tell you, that you could enjoy every minute of your life? What if I were to say, that altruism is the goal for each of us, and if that is our desire we can have it. And if we do not yet have this desire, our lives will eventually bring us there through a dark world of pain, self loathing, hate, envy, greed, and more? What if our suffering, is trying to tell us something? Trying to get our attention and say, can’t you see, you have chosen this path and these are the steps you must take in between?
I have found in my life, that everything that has happened in my life, that I would consider to be painful and sad has actually been exactly what I desired for, exactly what steps I needed to take, to be where I am today. What if we have created our lives? And our enemy, our ego, has tried to take all the credit. Our ego has tried to say, you are not in control, your life should be better but… There is always that but. We say in our hearts, I want to feel better, I want to get in shape, BUT I am too lazy to take the necessary steps to get there. It would be too hard for me to go after and take the very thing I want the most. That is our ego talking. That is not the truth. We can do all things in we have faith. Whatever a man believes in his heart, that he becomes.
I always wanted to be a messenger of love, of God. I always wanted to be an actor, I’ve been that. To be a screenwriter, have a movie produced, work for major television, become an author, start a blog, do videos, and guess what I have done that. I always considered myself to be, very much like Jacob in the bible, we shared the first name, spiritually we share the same last name. So I took that name for myself, now google that name. You will find me, not an ancient Israelite, me. Google images, and you will find me. Why? Because I wanted to be Jacob Israel spiritually. And in the waking world, that is who I am now known to be. Why? Because that is what I felt in my heart, telling me, this is the name you should take, take it. And I did. But if it wasn’t for the steps, the painful steps, none of it would be true. My desire for my life would be incomplete.
If my wife hadn’t left me, I wouldn’t have been alone through those hard times to write The Calling. If I hadn’t lived with another friend named Tommy, I would have never name my lead character, Thomas James. If my book was picked up by a huge publisher, I would have never started my blog. If my book became the best seller that I know it will be, then I wouldn’t be sharing this with you right now, would I. I would be focused on writing another book. But that is not the current desire of my heart. If I am honest with myself. I think more of us need to be. I would say, my every hope and dream up until this point has been achieved. Am I rich? Not financially, but I live like a King. Am I overworked, absolutely but I am providing for my amazing family. Do I struggle to get by, absolutely, do I worry about tomorrow and what it may bring, sure. But if not for all of that, I wouldn’t be writing you today.
We are where we are supposed to be. We have everything in our lives that we have desired. Whether you are in a limousine, or suffering with a terrible disease in a motor home, you are living the dream. Your dream, look at the person you are? Forget about the hurtful steps along the way, look at who you are, you are wonderful, you are strong, you are patient, you are caring, you are loved and have love to give, you are an example to all people. Whether you are the homeless man on the street, teaching others to have charity, or the general going off to a horrific war teaching the world that it is better to have peace. The steps in the wilderness are hard I know. But your next step, is yours to make. You can see all that is wrong in your life, you can look back on all of your pain and say, my life is most miserable, or you can say, my life is MY LIFE AND I AM GOING TO LIVE IT THE WAY I WANT TO LIVE IT! No longer during your toil under the sun, grumbling about what you don’t have, you will enjoy what you do have, and then you will be given more. You and I both, need to love ourselves, and enjoy our lives. The steps in the wilderness have bruised us sure, they have hurt us and left life long impression, absolutely. But it was all for your own good.
My life has been a blessed one, a gift, and each day, and every minute of each day from here on out, Because of the steps, I have the most beautiful and wonderful wife who teaches me more than she knows, I have four amazing children who teach me more than I teach them, and I have a future that I still have much to learn about. But I am going to live and enjoy it. Because all things were made through the son (children of God), for the son, by the son. Everything that is made, we make. So make a better tomorrow, by casting your ego aside, seeing that this wonderful plan that has been your life, has just really gotten started.
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Satan Revealed
“Satan Revealed”
(Quick note to you all, as always I write my essays very quickly and do not have the time to go back and edit or revise. So please forgive any grammar, wrong words, or spelling mistakes. I hope you can get to the heart of what I am saying without me having to write it perfectly. Enjoy Jacob)
This past weekend my wife encouraged me to write about a certain passage in scripture, where Jesus explains that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Now when I got to this passage I THOUGHT i knew what I was going to write about. But like everything in life, you really don’t KNOW something until you know it. I thought I understood the passage and didn’t think it had more to offer in terms of a hidden meaning, or a deeper understanding to what is really being said. But just as I sat down to write this I opened up to the passage I am about to share here, and WHAMO, a new understanding hit. And it blew my mind. There is nothing better than seeing a scripture verse you have read a thousand times come to life, and now the dead letters of that page are alive and you feel the same because of it.
Of course, the passage in scripture I am writing about is this…
Mark 3:24-26
24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Pretty cut and dry, pretty simple to understand, right? Well, that is what I thought too.
I was about to write a simple paper on the importance of unity in our relationships, in our homes, in our country, and more importantly within. But when I looked at that Chapter in Mark, I knew I had another paper to write. Not about the importance of unity in a home, we all know how important that is, but something of greater importance. And I will briefly touch on it before I get deeper into this paper. But what I plan on opening up, is the next verse we find.
Mark 3:26
26And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
Now let me first tell you who this Satan character is. It is not some spooky monster who is out to steal your soul away. It is not an all-powerful being that is causing all the suffering in the world. In fact, the only Satan there is, IN THIS WORLD is “Your Carnal Ego”.
Satan is who people have begun to believe themselves to be. It isn’t who you REALLY are, it is the nature you have adopted as your own. And this nature is adverse to your true spirit, which is God.
That’s right, many people say Satan is the adversary of God. And that is true, in fact the name Satan is literally translated as an “adversary”. Why the word Adversary doesn’t replace every instance of the word Satan is scripture is just another reason there is so much confusion in the world when it comes to spiritual things.
Now I have written a paper already on how and why Satan is simply man’s ego. But let me take a moment and show you why.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would
God is Spirit, and the adversary of the Spirit is the Flesh. And the Flesh is an allegory for our carnal mind. The Flesh results in DEATH (Ignorance, suffering), the Spirit brings us LIFE (wisdom, understanding, rest)
Romans 8:13
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live
Flesh = Death and Death = operating out of the Carnal Mind (Ego ignorance)
Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
It should be clear that the Flesh and Carnal Mind is the same thing. And so, it shouldn’t be a stretch for you to now see that Satan (which is your adversary) is actually “WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE” = IGNORANT EGO OF MANKIND.
When Peter told Jesus that he wouldn’t let him die for the cause of eternal life (to know God the Father, and he whom God sent)… What did Jesus call Peter?
Matthew 16:23
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men
Jesus was is a Symbol of the TRUTH of God revealed within man. Turns and calls Peter SATAN! At that moment Peter was an adversary/satan to Jesus. But that is not what I want to point out. Many have taught that Satan hates God’s creation mankind. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Read the last line in Matthew 16:23 — YOU CARE NOT FOR THE THINGS OF GOD, YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT THE THINGS OF MANKIND!
Who else cares for worldly things? THE EGO OF MAN that’s who! Now when you really grab hold of what and who Satan is, and understand that we, each of us, have this great enemy inside of us…
Micah 7:6
… a man’s enemies are the men of his own house
When you understand who YOUR ENEMY is, then it will be easier to Flee from its deceitful ways. In Peter we see that Satan was simply Peter’s ignorant soulish worldly thoughts. In Judas we saw the same. In fact every time Satan shows us, there is a child of God Satan show up with. Because each of us have believed a lie. We have believed we are OUR EGO, we have believed we should be ashamed, guilty, we should be greedy and try to get ahead, we should be selfish, we have believed we should suffer, and struggle, and worry, we have believed all sorts of nonsense. Because of our Ego/Satan we find ourselves in hiding like Adam, scared of God, thinking we are somehow separate from God, we have believed we are NAKED and should be ashamed… And who told us that again?
The Woman (Our intellect) – I know many say EVE is man’s soul. But Adam is the Soul, he was made a Living Soul The intellect of man is the mother of all creation. Our thoughts create. And when that deep sleep of ignorance was put on each of us, our intellect went out trying to understand things on its own and it ate from the wrong tree. Now our eyes have been opened to a new world, a dead world, where the knowledge of good and evil is all we know about God. Our intellect was tricked by SATAN (who we thought ourselves to be/who we thought we could be)… We were tricked by the idea that to BE WHO WE ALREADY WERE we needed to do something. And so we got trapped in this thinking.
This is what the temptation of Christ is all about. Turn Stones (which is the religious law) into bread (spiritual nourishment), Worship me/Satan/ Your Ego, declare your EGO to be God and you can have it all, throw yourself down from the heights of understanding, do whatever you want, live however you want, you’ll never dash a foot against a stone… We are tempted day in and day out, by our EGO. It is that voice in our head, that we believe ourselves to be.
Everytime we have an argument, our EGO feeds us more and more reasons to continue the fight. Everytime our back is against the wall our EGO tries to convince us that our life is not worth living. Every negative thought in our head, is from the EGO/Satan, and it is the very thing that is holding us back from a life of peace. The EGO (who we think ourselves to be) is the reason for every horrible thing, it is the reason…. And for those who say, Satan is outside of us, causing us to do terrible things. I would like to point out, that every wicked thing in man, comes from within man!
Matthew 7
20And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Satan is not some monster outside of you. Satan is the Monster that you think is YOU! This is the corrupt ruler, the idolatrous king, the adulterous woman, and yes the Roaring Lion Scripture speaks of, these are all symbols of man’s carnal Ego.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
The roaring Lion analogy is used quiet often in scriptures. And you would be hard pressed to find examples where this “roaring Lion” wasn’t simply an allegory of how corrupt man becomes.
Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people
Proverbs 20:2
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul
Psalm 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion
The Lion roars to make it’s presense known. It is said a Lion’s roar can be heard up to five miles away. Lion’s are killing machines, and they love to attack the weakest members of their prey, they also LOVE TO SLEEP… These are all great symbols of the Ego.
Now let me tell you why this is important. You cannot defeat an enemy unless you know who that enemy is, can you? So to continue to believe there is a being that is separate from you that is causing you all your problems will get you nowhere fast. To think that you can simply change into a better version of yourself (ego) and have a better life will get you nowhere fast. The only way you will move forward into the promise of God is to let that enemy of truth go.
Now here is where it gets tricky. And this is what that scripture a “House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand” comes into play.
If who you believe yourself to be, is Satan, and you operate out of your ego for a majority of your life, you will never be free from your suffering, if you don’t stop.
Now Jacob, what on earth does that mean?
Well look at the last verse again in Mark…
Mark 3:26
26And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
In other words, YOUR EGO cannot cast our YOUR EGO. Who you ignorantly think yourself to be can never overcome who you ignorantly think yourself to be.
Now this is such an important piece of advice I had overlooked up until this point.
One of the things that has brought me a good deal of sadness in my life, is that I (as who I think myself to be) cannot simply get rid of the sadness in my life. And what has troubled me for weeks now is what I have seen so many people speaking about.
There was a time that few people would dare say that WE are ALL CHRIST! I have been writing about this for years, but still couldn’t understand why I still couldn’t overcome my troubles, my worries, my fears, my insecurities continued to torment me. You see, what many people are missing today, is what I too missed, MY EGO (WHO I THINK MYSELF TO BE/SATAN) can NEVER BE CHRIST.
Once again, man’s EGO has risen up and tricked the multitudes. Today more than ever we see so-called enlightened teachers and people stating that WE are Christ. At first there was great freedom in this discovery. But we have been tricked. This is why books like The Secret, and teachings on the Law of Attraction are so beloved among people today. Many are teaching that since we are Christ, we can create, we can attract what we want into our lives. BUT THIS WILL NEVER BE. Positive thinking alone will never free anyone from their troubles. For a moment you may think, this is great, “I” am in control oh what a great day we are living in. But then when trouble comes we still suffer, we still see our limitations, we still have fears and insecurities. The reason is, Your EGO is tricking you into believing that Your Ego/Satan is Christ. That’s right all these great teachings we hear about today have done nothing but transformed your ENEMY (EGO/SATAN/ADVERSARY) into CHRIST.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light
SATAN cannot cast out SATAN! If your Ego could cast our your Ego, there would be no EGO. But this DOES NOT WORK!
Only the TRUTH can cast out the LIE in your life. You cannot operate in a LIE and rid yourself of the LIE that causes you suffering and pain. When you do that, you simply believe a NEW LIE. You will embrace that LIE as truth and it will only make it harder to know what the TRUTH is.
YOUR EGO (who you think yourself to be) is not Christ (the power and wisdom of God) it has never been Christ (the power and wisdom of God) it is only YOUR EGO (the power and wisdom of Man).
And what should we consider MAN to be? A LIAR!
Romans 3:4
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar
MAN’S EGO is a LIAR, and the FATHER OF ALL LIES! And Man’s Ego no matter how you dress it up, no matter how many times you call it Christ, will never bring you to the Promise of God, which is REST!
When you operate out of your EGO, you are still working to accomplish something. You try to trick yourself by saying, “If I only believe differently things will be different”, “If I (my ego) understands I (my ego) is Christ all things will be possible”, “If I just think on good thoughts only good things will come my way”… as great as that sounds, I have been there and done that and I am still no better for doing so.
We cannot change by trying to change ourselves into a better version of who we think ourselves to be. We can only be changed when we see the deception for what and who it really is. We can only be free by laying down our egotistical lives to pick up a true life of rest, faith, and love.
Simple repetition of certain words will never make them true. No matter how many times you say, I am Christ that is who I am, will never yield the true of who you are. It is simply another trick the EGO is playing on you, transforming who you think you are, into a new version of who you think yourself to be. And that is why my friends no one knows the true Kingdom of God, which is Righteousness, Peace and Joy and power in the Holy Spirit.
This new movement we see, some call it the Kingdom movement, is nothing more than a new religion with a new update face. It is nothing more than a bunch of people, simply saying I am not “me”, I am Christ as Me. It is the same old thing, with a different set of rules and beliefs, but it is still no the truth.
When Joshua was about to lead Israel into the land of promise, there were many that did not want to cross over. They had already come so far in the wilderness, they didn’t want to cross the Jordan. Which ironically means “To descend”, Jordan that is. To get to the promise land you must cross over from the lower idea of who you think you are, to who you really are.
But when you do CROSS OVER from who you think you are, to who you really are, you enter CANAAN, the root word meaning of Canaan of course means “To be Humbled”.
Very few people want to give up their “kingdom”, they want to still be in control, so their Ego plays tricks on them so they can continue to rule. Sure they may have overcome many nonsense religious teachings like hell and other ridiculous ideologies. Sure they may have received great revelation here and there called manna (even though they truly didn’t understand what it was), sure they may have escaped many of their enemies and became a great nation in this wilderness… but as long as they refuse to lay down their EGO LIFE and are willing to cross over into a place of humility and true surrender, they are still slaves of their false identity.
I understand today many seem to be making great spiritual strides toward this perfection we all say we have within. However, just simply saying “I am perfect”,”There is no more Sin”,”I am Christ” doesn’t cut it. You will NEVER be free as long as you are still ruled by SATAN (who you think you are). You will still face adversity and fear, you will still have pain and wonder why. You can put on the bravest of faces and say a million times that you are God’s child, but YOUR EGO is not God’s Child and can never be. God’s Child is hidden beneath the Veil (evil) of who you think yourself to be.
So with that being said, how does one find freedom? How does one outsmart that Fox the EGO? Well it certainly isn’t by trying to cast out your EGO with a new and improved version of your Ego. It is by understanding the difference between the thoughts of God, and the thoughts of your Ego. And resisting these negative thoughts until they flee from you.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you
Only by laying down YOUR CONTROL of things will you ever be free. Here is the reason why. When the Religious of the day saw Jesus casting out devils, they immediately thought that the WAY TO CAST OUT DEVILS is by using the POWER OF DEVILS… Which means, the religious think the only way False Beliefs (devils) can be cast out is by SELF EFFORT. But look at what Jesus said…
Mark 3
22And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
23And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
26And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
27No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
The Ego of Man cannot be used to cast out the Ego of man. If that were possible, none of us would have the troubles we face… No, this is not how to find freedom. Jesus than goes onto to say, NO ONE can enter a strong man’s house and spoil his goods unless that STRONG MAN is bound!
We need to bind that strong man. We need to keep our EGO at bay. We need to resist the devil at every turn. We need to stop think that who we are is in control, and we need to go to the one that is really in control. THE TRUE SPIRIT OF YOU, GOD! Because our FATHER is greater than our INTELLECT.
1 John 4:4
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
So how do we know the difference between the thoughts of God, and the thoughts of our Ego and Intellect? How do we know the difference between the ways of the kingdom and the cares of this world? The answer is simple.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind
The SPIRIT OF FEAR, is the same as saying the THOUGHTS OF FEAR. That is what Spirit is, THOUGHT. Jesus said, my words are SPIRIT and TRUTH. Words are spoken THOUGHT. We need to take our thoughts captive, we need to discern between the Thought of God and the Thought of Satan (the adversarial nature of man/the Ego). When thoughts flood our minds about situations in our lives that bring fear to our hearts, we must pray as Jesus prayed.
Luke 22:42
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done
We must bind that strong man, we must keep our ego from running wild and taking control of our emotions. We must understand that everything that is happening in our life is for our life. That “we” are not in control, God is, and if we don’t understand this than we will continue the cycle of suffering in our lives. We need to trust God, to take the thoughts of fear captive and cast them away. We need to ONLY allow the thoughts of peace take residence in our heart. No longer looking at others as enemies, no longer thinking we have a say in the things that happen in this world, no longer running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to put out every fire in our life. When we REST in God we see all that has been created in our lives and we finally say IT IS GOOD!
We can cross over into that land of promise, but we cannot do it by self effort or the vanity of new-found beliefs, we can only do it by becoming a house that is united with the only Truth there is, LOVE!
So everyone please stop trying to control everything in your life, stop looking at everything as Good or Evil and see that all things are working together for your good. Give up the fight, and you will be divided no more. Embrace the truth, that who you are, is nothing more than an idea, but who we really are is One God, in all, through all! When we see this, than our HOUSE WILL STAND TALL! UNITED ONCE AND FOR ALL!
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Peace to you and yours,
Jacob
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