What did Paul really believe?
I would suggest to you that there is some mystery left in that question. Despite all the writings he bestowed upon the ages there were certain of his quotes like, "To the Jews I became like a Jew" and "To those under the law I became like one under the law," (I Corinthians 9:19-23) and so it could be left to be concluded by a reasonable person that he was not completely forthcoming with that information that would affect his method of attempting to please all men at all times ( I Corinthians 10:33). Surely trying to make everyone happy would lead to compromise. He very nearly claims he understood all mysteries (I Corinthians 13:2) which leads logical readers to ask did he explain all of them or did he leave some of them out. Elsewhere he completely lies (Romans 3:7 where he nearly admits it, elsewhere such as before Festus, he clearly fabricates), he takes an apparition's words to him as making him an apostle where the apparition never makes such a claim (did the ghost have such power?) and yet no one, Peter, Christ, or Luke ever identify him as being an apostle.
Here, I offer to you a presentation, an organic argument that should help to dissect what Paul kept to himself, those mysteries that he set himself as being the only one to receive the answers on.
And on that note, I make no pretense that I'm here to keep from offending anyone like the fraudulent Paul did. You can be offended as much as you like but I'm not going to alter a word of mine unless it is shown to be false, and that you will not accomplish either.
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Paul's Jesus, YHWH's Yahshua
When was the name of "Jesus" adopted? Greco-Roman hegemony assured this name was used over Yahshua. This treatise will offer an explanation coinciding with historical events, a unifying theory, starting with Saul's conversion.
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(Saul struck with blinding light) at Acts 9...
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"Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.
from Acts 9,26
"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick gainst the pricks."
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Now this is an expression that some may have trouble understanding. It was something I needed explained and I'm sure it would be a help to offer that here. This statement is a reference to goading an animal, pricking them, with a spur such as that on a boot, telling them to go on.
Euripides' Bacchae
The king of Thebes was against the revelries and orgies held in honor of Dinonysus, "divine son of Zeus," god of wine and grapes. That is, the king was actively trying to stop these processions from taking place. Dionysus, enraged, comes to earth in human form, appears to the king while concealing his identity saying that the king should not fight against Dionysus, "a mere mortal against a god". "For it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks," comparing the king to an animal fighting against the pricks. Now, Paul is an educated Roman citizen. When the spirit identifies itself as "Jesus", that is "Hail Zeus" and borrows a quip from Dionysus, he very literally takes this as saying that the Christ is in fact Dionysus, god of wines.
He may be encountered with a series of progressive thoughts recalling...
Yeshua came first changing water to wine at Cana (John 4), He came "eating and drinking" (Matthew 11), He asked us to drink wine (For this is my blood). When Paul starts addressing these similarities as an educated Roman, he could likely come to the conclusion that the Messiah was Dionysus.
Dionysus comes from on high, emptying himself of god-ness and taking on the form of a man (in the Bacchae). Philippians 2:6,7 "Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness". Paul's Iesous is not the Yahsua revealed to us.
Paul integrates a pagan "trinity" concept, referring to a godhead (cf. Romans 1:20, Colossians 1:9). The spirit which ordained Paul ordained this gospel. If the doctrine opposes Christ, the spirit was not Yahshua. Paul, with the spurring or goad of Dionysus continues his paganizing of the Christian faith.
Festus says to Paul "You are out of your mind Paul. Your great learning is driving you mad."
Festus is pointing out that the Hebrew Messiah identifying Himself as the son of Zeus is an absurdity. He was right. However, Festus adds, "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." Clearly if he could keep to his Roman pantheon of gods then he would accept the Messiah, since the Messiah was nothing more than another being in the pantheon.
Paul to the Greeks continues along with this thinking. Saying, "For we are indeed his offspring" (Acts 17:28), adopted from Aratus, speaking of Zeus. Paul is implicit, the god of your Aratus is my god, and the Hail Zeus is his son.
"For in him we live, and move, and have our being." (Acts 17:28). Epimenides, speaking of Zeus says, "For in thee we live and move and have our being." Epimenides says, "The Cretians, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies," Paul adopts this at Titus 1:12.
This was adapted from Epimenides' Cretica. It was a poem criticizing the Cretians for building a tomb for Zeus, Epimenides believing Zeus to be eternal. So what Paul is actually doing here is cursing the Cretians because in fact his god is in fact Zeus.
I Corinthians 15:33 "...evil communications corrupt good manners." Menander of Athens "Bad company corrupts good character."
Buddha "Work out your own salvation." Paul at Philemon 2:12 "...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."
He also adapts a quote from Publius Terentius Afer at I Timothy 5:4.
The Hail Zeus was preached to the Greeks, the followers of Zeus. The Messiah came as "Hail Zeus", son of Zeus, and any Greek or Roman could accept that. Some used the word "poetry" saying Paul quotes "pagan poetry". It is really pagan theology or pagan scriptures he quotes. By quoting it and pasing it off as from God he is validating it. His use of "godhead" is another throwback to pagan theology.
Constantine
This doctrine of appeasement we see in the conversion of the Roman empire. The Christo-philosophy didn't jeopardize or supplant Roman paganism at all but was only a supplement. The Catholic church today is evidence with its vestments, relics, Mariolatry, Eucharist, and images. The Saturnalia was continued and carries on today as Christmas. The Sunday of Christ's resurrection came to coincide with the feast the fertility goddess Ishtar becoming Easter, another pagan revelry. The Christianity we had passed onto us today represents less the faith of the apostles than it does the Roman paganism. Today we pray to Paul's Hail Zeus rather than YHWH's Yahshua. Paul told Gentiles of the permissibility of meats sacrificed to idols, while Christ refutes this at Revelation 2:14.
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Clearly, Paul's theology is formed around the belief that the Messiah is the divine son of Zeus and that he exists in some sort of godhead relationship with his father and mother. Paul never came to confirm this was his view but he does all but confirm it in his letters to the Gentiles. In conclusion, whoever it was that spoke to Paul on the Damascus road was using a cover identity of Dionysus and brought Paul to, instead of preaching Christ, to preach Zeusian religion to pagans.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Guile, Paul, and the 144,000
There is a man I am acquainted with that formerly I would refer to as a friend. I cannot affirm that now as when he discovered my anti-Trinitarian views he was pretty upset about that, if not feeling betrayed. I will say here and now that it is not my policy to turn my back on anyone, but for those who turn their back on me, I can only extend my hand of fellowship in the future and be open to continuing dialogue.
In one of the last several conversations he expressed his feeling that there would be a group in the last days who believed themselves to be prophets or among the 144,000, or some other legendary group, implying that he was starting to wonder about my authenticity, especially as he understands that I am "skeptical" of Paul. Well, skeptical is an understatement. I deny him as being scriptural altogether along with the rest of the New Testament. The only parts of the New Testament which are inspired are the words of the prophets in it. The apostles never had the authority to write infallible and inspired declarations like the prophets did, and Paul certainly wasn't an apostle. Only prophets spoke (and wrote) the words of God and that was how it always was. Yeshua was a prophet and so He had the power to speak the words of God. Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ so that is inspired as the final book speaking of the end of days.
The reason I am writing this morning is to speak about us, the us of Revelation 14.
Revelation 14:5
"And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God."
Paul writes, in 2 Corinthians 12:16,
"But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile."
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What you have here is a dishonest, lying charlatan. We cannot in good conscience assign to him a status of being among the inspired authors of Scriptures but can indicate him only as being a liar. He is not inspired, instead he borrows from pagan "poets", as some sources put it, who were really Greek theologians of the Roman pantheon, and he clearly is under some impression from the encounter with "Christ" at the Damascene road, where this "Christ" borrows the words of Bacchus, in the Bacchae, that the father of Christ is identical to the chief Roman god. The spirit itself was not Christ, but one that was very effective in turning Paul out to serve as a deflection for future followers of Christ. That is, to turn them to a lawless faith consumed with the hate that empowered Paul to engage in his reign of murder against the Christians of his time. He only thought he was a pillar when he was really nothing.
As the 144,000 we will assign no status which cedes any special designation to this man. Those among us who teach so now, I speak with vision that they will not speak to this effect in the future.
In one of the last several conversations he expressed his feeling that there would be a group in the last days who believed themselves to be prophets or among the 144,000, or some other legendary group, implying that he was starting to wonder about my authenticity, especially as he understands that I am "skeptical" of Paul. Well, skeptical is an understatement. I deny him as being scriptural altogether along with the rest of the New Testament. The only parts of the New Testament which are inspired are the words of the prophets in it. The apostles never had the authority to write infallible and inspired declarations like the prophets did, and Paul certainly wasn't an apostle. Only prophets spoke (and wrote) the words of God and that was how it always was. Yeshua was a prophet and so He had the power to speak the words of God. Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ so that is inspired as the final book speaking of the end of days.
The reason I am writing this morning is to speak about us, the us of Revelation 14.
Revelation 14:5
"And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God."
Paul writes, in 2 Corinthians 12:16,
"But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile."
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What you have here is a dishonest, lying charlatan. We cannot in good conscience assign to him a status of being among the inspired authors of Scriptures but can indicate him only as being a liar. He is not inspired, instead he borrows from pagan "poets", as some sources put it, who were really Greek theologians of the Roman pantheon, and he clearly is under some impression from the encounter with "Christ" at the Damascene road, where this "Christ" borrows the words of Bacchus, in the Bacchae, that the father of Christ is identical to the chief Roman god. The spirit itself was not Christ, but one that was very effective in turning Paul out to serve as a deflection for future followers of Christ. That is, to turn them to a lawless faith consumed with the hate that empowered Paul to engage in his reign of murder against the Christians of his time. He only thought he was a pillar when he was really nothing.
As the 144,000 we will assign no status which cedes any special designation to this man. Those among us who teach so now, I speak with vision that they will not speak to this effect in the future.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Virginity and having children
Many of you Christians who find yourselves virgins now and wanting to marry eventually, some of you even soon, need to answer a question first. My prescription is you wait a few more years before marrying and having children. The forecast is very gloomy currently and I suggest that now is no time to be having children. You are better for now if you save your virginity and have no children going into the last days than to have children and go into the last days. My belief, which I derive from the abundance of signs being given us currently, is that those days are very close and so I do believe strongly that now would be a bad time for having children. I would recommend waiting at least 3-5 years before seriously considering marriage or children. Why do I say that? Because in 3-5 years, those of you who disagree with me now will change your minds.
Let's ask: Will things be better in a few years or will they be better? Will you have a better paying job in a few years or lesser paying, making more money or less money? Will you be promoted in a few years or will you be unemployed? Some of you may be concerned about savings. In a few years, will you have saved what you plan on saving or will you have saved less?
A question you might have been asked: "Would you like to have children some day?" I suggest we move beyond what we would like to do and ask ourselves if it is fair to be bringing children into a world in a climate of economic uncertainty, dismal job numbers, escalating debt, and imminent collapse and secondly, ask of God what He would like us to do, not what we would like.
What does the Bible say about the children in those days?
There are a couple things.
Matthew 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them who give suck in those days!
2 Kings 6:26-31 tells a story about threats to children during times of trouble.
The story tells how a woman asks a lady to kill her son and cook him this first day and then the next day the other woman will kill her son and cook him. This was during a time of incredible famine and the lady found that the offer was fair. She killed her son and they ate him. The next day, she returns to the lady who first offered the deal and asks her to present her son that they might cook and eat him. But this
woman changed her mind and put her son in hiding.
Do you want to face the very real possibility that if you have children in the near future, that you may have to fight off people who would like to eat your kids? There will be people in those days who will want to eat children, not theirs, but yours. There will be no buying or selling without the mark so their may be people who refuse the mark who still don't have a problem with eating children but there might also be people who do have the mark that because they are filled with such incredible evil they may like to eat children as a form of persecution against the Christians. There are things that society agrees are terrible and that no one should ever have to face. I think this is a fair candidate for that distinction. No one should have their children threatened by cannibals.
As terrible as it sounds, it is said that today in North Korea, there have been cases where parents ate their own children because of the terrible famine there. It has also been suggested that cannibalism may have even occurred during the Great Depression in America. Of course there was the Donner party and a soccer team that crashed in the Andes, Peru I believe, so when the Tribulation period does begin, this is not an unlikely scenario, or even a threat which should be taken lightly leading into those days.
Of course this is not the only fear. Starving children is another reality that some will have to address. For every additional child in the home, the responsibilities and trials of the parent/s will be that much more increased. The people who will be most successful in those days, I suspect, will be those who are responsible only for themselves who also have a large measure of mobility that families will not have. It
will be very necessary for many people to relocate over very long distances and this could be enormously difficult for people who have built themselves a life and are raising a family, for instance, in a home they have built. Moving a whole family under the circumstances that will be common in those days will be no easy task. Imagine taking your entire family, getting on a great ship with them taking no clothes, no belongings, no car, but only the money that you have to your name (in pre-mark times) and starting a completely "new life" in a country that you have never visited, know nothing about, do not speak the language, or know even one person there. Not easy with or without children but it would clearly be more difficult with a family than by yourself.
Some of these questions people in the near future will have to answer. Many from fear will choose to not do what is necessary to protect themselves because the sacrifice seems too great. They will take their chances in a place like my country where they will almost certainly die. Some will choose to stay because they do not see the danger that is coming.
Because of these several points, it is my suggestion that you become less concerned with the things of this world and pursuing them now and become more concerned with pursuing the things of God.
Let's ask: Will things be better in a few years or will they be better? Will you have a better paying job in a few years or lesser paying, making more money or less money? Will you be promoted in a few years or will you be unemployed? Some of you may be concerned about savings. In a few years, will you have saved what you plan on saving or will you have saved less?
A question you might have been asked: "Would you like to have children some day?" I suggest we move beyond what we would like to do and ask ourselves if it is fair to be bringing children into a world in a climate of economic uncertainty, dismal job numbers, escalating debt, and imminent collapse and secondly, ask of God what He would like us to do, not what we would like.
What does the Bible say about the children in those days?
There are a couple things.
Matthew 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them who give suck in those days!
2 Kings 6:26-31 tells a story about threats to children during times of trouble.
The story tells how a woman asks a lady to kill her son and cook him this first day and then the next day the other woman will kill her son and cook him. This was during a time of incredible famine and the lady found that the offer was fair. She killed her son and they ate him. The next day, she returns to the lady who first offered the deal and asks her to present her son that they might cook and eat him. But this
woman changed her mind and put her son in hiding.
Do you want to face the very real possibility that if you have children in the near future, that you may have to fight off people who would like to eat your kids? There will be people in those days who will want to eat children, not theirs, but yours. There will be no buying or selling without the mark so their may be people who refuse the mark who still don't have a problem with eating children but there might also be people who do have the mark that because they are filled with such incredible evil they may like to eat children as a form of persecution against the Christians. There are things that society agrees are terrible and that no one should ever have to face. I think this is a fair candidate for that distinction. No one should have their children threatened by cannibals.
As terrible as it sounds, it is said that today in North Korea, there have been cases where parents ate their own children because of the terrible famine there. It has also been suggested that cannibalism may have even occurred during the Great Depression in America. Of course there was the Donner party and a soccer team that crashed in the Andes, Peru I believe, so when the Tribulation period does begin, this is not an unlikely scenario, or even a threat which should be taken lightly leading into those days.
Of course this is not the only fear. Starving children is another reality that some will have to address. For every additional child in the home, the responsibilities and trials of the parent/s will be that much more increased. The people who will be most successful in those days, I suspect, will be those who are responsible only for themselves who also have a large measure of mobility that families will not have. It
will be very necessary for many people to relocate over very long distances and this could be enormously difficult for people who have built themselves a life and are raising a family, for instance, in a home they have built. Moving a whole family under the circumstances that will be common in those days will be no easy task. Imagine taking your entire family, getting on a great ship with them taking no clothes, no belongings, no car, but only the money that you have to your name (in pre-mark times) and starting a completely "new life" in a country that you have never visited, know nothing about, do not speak the language, or know even one person there. Not easy with or without children but it would clearly be more difficult with a family than by yourself.
Some of these questions people in the near future will have to answer. Many from fear will choose to not do what is necessary to protect themselves because the sacrifice seems too great. They will take their chances in a place like my country where they will almost certainly die. Some will choose to stay because they do not see the danger that is coming.
Because of these several points, it is my suggestion that you become less concerned with the things of this world and pursuing them now and become more concerned with pursuing the things of God.
Wait here at Jerusalem
I don't think these words actually appear anywhere in the Bible, but the disciples were told that Christ must go in order that the Comforter may come. So after Christ left, it was the disciples who were left to wait at Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came down. It was on the Day of Pentecost that the Holy Spirit came down and the men and women began to speak with other tongues and many were saved.
What happened to me recently, a couple weeks ago today on Wednesday, I had been going through some serious troubles with my neighbors (not my next door neighbors particularly, but more the people in the larger neighborhood). Many of them are smokers but are cheap and useless no-good low-lifes and will not buy their own cigarettes. Either that, or they buy them and then they still ask you (more like harass you) for cigarettes, sometimes several times a day, because they want to smoke theirs AND they want to smoke YOURS too. My faith in humanity was being completely destroyed incrementally day by day and I was growing more nihilistic and misanthropic in hatred towards the degenerate human race. It all came to a head on Wednesday when I woke up with a weighty question on my mind: Should I quit smoking today?
I had the week before bought an electric cigarette so that I could legitimately tell these beggars that I did not have a cigarette and to avoid any more trouble. Smoking it for about a week went a long way towards reduction of my nicotine intake. I felt as if in some way I had already quit partially since I had not smoked a cigarette in so many days. But I felt deep within me, very much as if it were the voice of God, "Wait here at Jerusalem [for three days]". I put 'for three days' in brackets because it wasn't explicit but it was understood. The first part of the message I did not hear or sense in any way that I can explain, but it was just like some one passing you a small note on a sheet of paper. I knew that morning that I would go and buy one last pack of cigarettes that day and that I would be healed Friday.
I bought that pack of cigarettes and I wanted to make it last about three days. It took me all day Wednesday and all day Thursday to smoke it. I desired to finish my last one some time Friday morning just before going to bed. I would go to bed a smoker and wake up the next day a non-smoker. And that is basically what happened. I smoked my last cigarette just before 2 am Friday morning. Went to bed some time later and
woke up Friday and I was healed.
I was on the phone with someone that Wednesday I think and I told him what my plan was. I said that God had been growing on me and teaching me that as a saved Christian I could no longer continue doing things my way but I must do things His way. He made a very skeptical comment against what I said, saying, "[If you're continuing to smoke], it sounds like you are trying to still do things your way."
This remark raises very serious doubts against this man. This is the sort of discouraging comment that could cause others in my position to abandon their plan and to continue smoking. The doubt it would inspire in that person could be doubt that they could fulfill their plan or lead to other doubts about that person's relationship with God. I consider it a harmful comment that I would say would be unwise to make. Neither is it lead by the Spirit of God. I'm not calling into question his sincerity but I am concerned that he may not be seeing the
forest for the trees in some areas.
To be specific, I told him that night that for a few days I was on my mountain. In the Bible, there were times when people needed time at the mountain in order to prepare themselves by training or education, for reconciliation, or to come closer to God before they could go about with their mission. Moses was an example of this. He was lead to Mount Sinai on occasion so that he could receive revelation from God
and instruction on leading the people, and to receive the law. But I think there is one story that is the best example of what I am talking
about.
Judges 11:30-40
Jephthah, a judge of Israel, was seeking to receive victory in battle from the Lord. He foolishly made a vow with his mouth that on the way back from the battle he received victory in, that whosoever should come first out of his house to greet him would be offered up as a burnt offering to the Lord. He was greatly disheartened when after arriving it was his daughter who came out of the house (What did you think was
going to happen?). When he saw this, he cried, "Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back."
"And she said unto her father, let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows."
"And he said, Go, And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains."
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I can make no suggestion here for anyone, but I do know what was true for me. It was revealed that I should wait at Jerusalem, or really, my own personal mountain, for a few days, until I was endued with the full power to be able to quit. I'm not saying if you are a heroin addict that it is okay if you are thinking about qutting to go shoot up for a few more days and then quit. I can't say that because it is understood that any one time you are shooting up might be your last time to shoot up. If God told you to, that would clearly be different but no man (unless he is a prophet moved by the Spirit to speak the will of God to you) can give you direction on that.
Peter, who spoke the first sermon at Pentecost, what if he was moving only by his own power and will and did not obediently wait for the Holy Spirit to arrive? If he had went about prior to that preaching then we can be certain he would have failed miserably and today he might not have been remembered as the hero we revere him as being. It was the perfect will of God that he wait, and the other disciples wait, at Jerusalem for a few days until He was ready to endue them with the power to begin fulfilling His plans for them. If you want to know why He didn't just do it then but wanted to wait instead, I cannot answer that AND I am skeptical of anyone who tries to answer it.
Finally, I want to run these ideas by you one more time. But first I will say, if God is giving you the power and the grace to deal with a problem you are intensely struggling with, to deny it then, you will go back to your addiction 7x over. If you have already cursed yourself by going back and have made it 7x worse by so doing, then it becomes 49x worse. If God gives you the commandment, He is behind you 100% and
will see you live to do it. But you can under no circumstances deny this power, or you will come very close to committing blasphemy, a full rejection of God.
You have a problem. God wants you to address it. He commands that you abstain or He may reveal a plan for your healing. He might have you go up on your mountain for a few days just to gather your thoughts, to remand yourself back unto God, and to gain peace with what must be done. And then He will finally call you back down from the mountain as He told Moses (Ex 32:7) and it is at Jerusalem where you will find your
healing. It is at the New Jerusalem where the tree of life will be planted which bears fruit for the healing of the nations (Rev 22:2). "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1 Cor 3:16). It is in the Jerusalem in your heart, this holy temple, where God will perform a work in you.
What happened to me recently, a couple weeks ago today on Wednesday, I had been going through some serious troubles with my neighbors (not my next door neighbors particularly, but more the people in the larger neighborhood). Many of them are smokers but are cheap and useless no-good low-lifes and will not buy their own cigarettes. Either that, or they buy them and then they still ask you (more like harass you) for cigarettes, sometimes several times a day, because they want to smoke theirs AND they want to smoke YOURS too. My faith in humanity was being completely destroyed incrementally day by day and I was growing more nihilistic and misanthropic in hatred towards the degenerate human race. It all came to a head on Wednesday when I woke up with a weighty question on my mind: Should I quit smoking today?
I had the week before bought an electric cigarette so that I could legitimately tell these beggars that I did not have a cigarette and to avoid any more trouble. Smoking it for about a week went a long way towards reduction of my nicotine intake. I felt as if in some way I had already quit partially since I had not smoked a cigarette in so many days. But I felt deep within me, very much as if it were the voice of God, "Wait here at Jerusalem [for three days]". I put 'for three days' in brackets because it wasn't explicit but it was understood. The first part of the message I did not hear or sense in any way that I can explain, but it was just like some one passing you a small note on a sheet of paper. I knew that morning that I would go and buy one last pack of cigarettes that day and that I would be healed Friday.
I bought that pack of cigarettes and I wanted to make it last about three days. It took me all day Wednesday and all day Thursday to smoke it. I desired to finish my last one some time Friday morning just before going to bed. I would go to bed a smoker and wake up the next day a non-smoker. And that is basically what happened. I smoked my last cigarette just before 2 am Friday morning. Went to bed some time later and
woke up Friday and I was healed.
I was on the phone with someone that Wednesday I think and I told him what my plan was. I said that God had been growing on me and teaching me that as a saved Christian I could no longer continue doing things my way but I must do things His way. He made a very skeptical comment against what I said, saying, "[If you're continuing to smoke], it sounds like you are trying to still do things your way."
This remark raises very serious doubts against this man. This is the sort of discouraging comment that could cause others in my position to abandon their plan and to continue smoking. The doubt it would inspire in that person could be doubt that they could fulfill their plan or lead to other doubts about that person's relationship with God. I consider it a harmful comment that I would say would be unwise to make. Neither is it lead by the Spirit of God. I'm not calling into question his sincerity but I am concerned that he may not be seeing the
forest for the trees in some areas.
To be specific, I told him that night that for a few days I was on my mountain. In the Bible, there were times when people needed time at the mountain in order to prepare themselves by training or education, for reconciliation, or to come closer to God before they could go about with their mission. Moses was an example of this. He was lead to Mount Sinai on occasion so that he could receive revelation from God
and instruction on leading the people, and to receive the law. But I think there is one story that is the best example of what I am talking
about.
Judges 11:30-40
Jephthah, a judge of Israel, was seeking to receive victory in battle from the Lord. He foolishly made a vow with his mouth that on the way back from the battle he received victory in, that whosoever should come first out of his house to greet him would be offered up as a burnt offering to the Lord. He was greatly disheartened when after arriving it was his daughter who came out of the house (What did you think was
going to happen?). When he saw this, he cried, "Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back."
"And she said unto her father, let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows."
"And he said, Go, And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains."
vv-35-38
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I can make no suggestion here for anyone, but I do know what was true for me. It was revealed that I should wait at Jerusalem, or really, my own personal mountain, for a few days, until I was endued with the full power to be able to quit. I'm not saying if you are a heroin addict that it is okay if you are thinking about qutting to go shoot up for a few more days and then quit. I can't say that because it is understood that any one time you are shooting up might be your last time to shoot up. If God told you to, that would clearly be different but no man (unless he is a prophet moved by the Spirit to speak the will of God to you) can give you direction on that.
Peter, who spoke the first sermon at Pentecost, what if he was moving only by his own power and will and did not obediently wait for the Holy Spirit to arrive? If he had went about prior to that preaching then we can be certain he would have failed miserably and today he might not have been remembered as the hero we revere him as being. It was the perfect will of God that he wait, and the other disciples wait, at Jerusalem for a few days until He was ready to endue them with the power to begin fulfilling His plans for them. If you want to know why He didn't just do it then but wanted to wait instead, I cannot answer that AND I am skeptical of anyone who tries to answer it.
Finally, I want to run these ideas by you one more time. But first I will say, if God is giving you the power and the grace to deal with a problem you are intensely struggling with, to deny it then, you will go back to your addiction 7x over. If you have already cursed yourself by going back and have made it 7x worse by so doing, then it becomes 49x worse. If God gives you the commandment, He is behind you 100% and
will see you live to do it. But you can under no circumstances deny this power, or you will come very close to committing blasphemy, a full rejection of God.
You have a problem. God wants you to address it. He commands that you abstain or He may reveal a plan for your healing. He might have you go up on your mountain for a few days just to gather your thoughts, to remand yourself back unto God, and to gain peace with what must be done. And then He will finally call you back down from the mountain as He told Moses (Ex 32:7) and it is at Jerusalem where you will find your
healing. It is at the New Jerusalem where the tree of life will be planted which bears fruit for the healing of the nations (Rev 22:2). "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1 Cor 3:16). It is in the Jerusalem in your heart, this holy temple, where God will perform a work in you.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Animals Rebel Against Their Cruel Masters
Ezekiel 5:17
"So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it."
For several years now there have been these stories the news reports on from time to time of animals being unleashed on small towns to attack
the city's residents. Most of these stories with which I am familiar have been involving turkeys. The turkeys come in in great numbers and can make going out a fearful thing. They attack with much ferocity, though they are ultimately harmless. Citizens have decided to extinguish the threat by blowing the rebellious birds to nothing but a pile of feathers. It is as if the turkeys have communicated their plots to one another and they become determined to ruin the lives of the people of that village.
If it were an isolated occurrence, it would not be much cause for concern. If it happened with much greater frequency than it does now then I'm sure many more people would be familiar with the story than there are now. But it has occurred at such a frequency that I took notice and I have for some time now thought there was a spiritual context to this. What almost makes it astonishing is that this happens a lot of time in late Summer, early Autumn, not more than a couple months removed from the great day of turkey persecution, Thanksgiving Day, a day the turkeys do not give thanks on, and if they do, they're thanking God they weren't captured and eaten like so many of their friends. It's as if the turkeys are an organized party of birds expressing displeasure before the townspeople at the reckless and destructive way in which we
kill them.
I'm not arguing that turkeys are sentient beings or that they feel some depth of pain or grief from our holiday season but that nevertheless there is still a spiritual dimension to what has been taking place.
I came across the verse quoted at the top just a few days ago on a site that has a section on Christianity. I was convinced from the moment I read it that it confirmed my suspicions that the birds are merely acting in accordance with God's overall plan. The turkey invasions clearly don't fit the prophecy well enough for this to be considered a fulfillment. The turkeys don't seem to be bereaving anyone, not that we know of, at least, but they could foreseeably cause a panic to someone simply trying to get in their car to go to work or go out to the tool shop. I would welcome the opportunity to encounter these wonderful birds, I had a pet turkey at one point, and only a truly mad turkey would be hellbent on destruction and death. They are simply harmless, peace-loving avians. I liked to go with my dad out to a lake where plenty of ducks and geese could always be found and I fed them what was a very popular snack for kids at the time called Dunkaroos. One goose did get a little snappy with me and I fled away from it because it was a big one and meant business. But a turkey? I can't imagine one truly seeking my harm. And if it were a constant threat I faced on a daily basis, I imagine that I might be bereaved fairly quickly.
I bring this to your awareness because I believe that this is a sign from God. God warned His people that as wickedness grew so great in the land that He would pass very strict judgments against His people who continually defied Him to His face. I imagine the turkeys don't present quite the threat that this prophecy requires but it is certainly a foreshadowing of what to expect in those days. I also suspect that God's
people who are truly walking in obedience to Him are going to be afforded immunity from these slaughters. Might we face, in the wilderness, for instance, maulings by mountain lions, bears, moose, and other animals? In the cities will we be the target of aerial attacks from birds (my dad was crapped on the head once), attacks from stray wolves and other wandering creatures? The world might be but again, I suspect that
those who are truly following the Lord will be afforded immunity from these attacks and many will be called to prophesy of the judgments the wicked will face at the hands of wild animals.
The Lord is making Himself known in ways that no one could have ever dreamed of. His evidences and proofs are all before us and many even in our own faith pass them by, treating them as too insignificant for a comment or as laughable to suggest. Let me ask you: Why have the pastors went on their merry way making sense of epistles or spouting platitudes on whatever the cause of the day is? They are missing the entire
word of God to His people today. They are straining gnats but swallowing whole camels so that they can continue their long standing tradition of squeezing the breath out of prophetic life. It is under this administration that the wars and the persecutions and inquisitions took place that the new atheist inquisitors thank you again and again for. They don't speak the word of God because they are simply blind guides to busy making arguments for why the ditch is such a hospitable place to fall into. Like I have said, the prophetic will be restored and these messages, and greater, and more will be preached. Visions greater than mine, prophesyings greater than mine are to come to pass and the pastoral will be put back in its place as fourth-tier ministry, always subject to the mouths of the prophets. Kings bow to prophets, now let the pastors learn their place and take a knee as well.
"So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it."
For several years now there have been these stories the news reports on from time to time of animals being unleashed on small towns to attack
the city's residents. Most of these stories with which I am familiar have been involving turkeys. The turkeys come in in great numbers and can make going out a fearful thing. They attack with much ferocity, though they are ultimately harmless. Citizens have decided to extinguish the threat by blowing the rebellious birds to nothing but a pile of feathers. It is as if the turkeys have communicated their plots to one another and they become determined to ruin the lives of the people of that village.
If it were an isolated occurrence, it would not be much cause for concern. If it happened with much greater frequency than it does now then I'm sure many more people would be familiar with the story than there are now. But it has occurred at such a frequency that I took notice and I have for some time now thought there was a spiritual context to this. What almost makes it astonishing is that this happens a lot of time in late Summer, early Autumn, not more than a couple months removed from the great day of turkey persecution, Thanksgiving Day, a day the turkeys do not give thanks on, and if they do, they're thanking God they weren't captured and eaten like so many of their friends. It's as if the turkeys are an organized party of birds expressing displeasure before the townspeople at the reckless and destructive way in which we
kill them.
I'm not arguing that turkeys are sentient beings or that they feel some depth of pain or grief from our holiday season but that nevertheless there is still a spiritual dimension to what has been taking place.
I came across the verse quoted at the top just a few days ago on a site that has a section on Christianity. I was convinced from the moment I read it that it confirmed my suspicions that the birds are merely acting in accordance with God's overall plan. The turkey invasions clearly don't fit the prophecy well enough for this to be considered a fulfillment. The turkeys don't seem to be bereaving anyone, not that we know of, at least, but they could foreseeably cause a panic to someone simply trying to get in their car to go to work or go out to the tool shop. I would welcome the opportunity to encounter these wonderful birds, I had a pet turkey at one point, and only a truly mad turkey would be hellbent on destruction and death. They are simply harmless, peace-loving avians. I liked to go with my dad out to a lake where plenty of ducks and geese could always be found and I fed them what was a very popular snack for kids at the time called Dunkaroos. One goose did get a little snappy with me and I fled away from it because it was a big one and meant business. But a turkey? I can't imagine one truly seeking my harm. And if it were a constant threat I faced on a daily basis, I imagine that I might be bereaved fairly quickly.
I bring this to your awareness because I believe that this is a sign from God. God warned His people that as wickedness grew so great in the land that He would pass very strict judgments against His people who continually defied Him to His face. I imagine the turkeys don't present quite the threat that this prophecy requires but it is certainly a foreshadowing of what to expect in those days. I also suspect that God's
people who are truly walking in obedience to Him are going to be afforded immunity from these slaughters. Might we face, in the wilderness, for instance, maulings by mountain lions, bears, moose, and other animals? In the cities will we be the target of aerial attacks from birds (my dad was crapped on the head once), attacks from stray wolves and other wandering creatures? The world might be but again, I suspect that
those who are truly following the Lord will be afforded immunity from these attacks and many will be called to prophesy of the judgments the wicked will face at the hands of wild animals.
The Lord is making Himself known in ways that no one could have ever dreamed of. His evidences and proofs are all before us and many even in our own faith pass them by, treating them as too insignificant for a comment or as laughable to suggest. Let me ask you: Why have the pastors went on their merry way making sense of epistles or spouting platitudes on whatever the cause of the day is? They are missing the entire
word of God to His people today. They are straining gnats but swallowing whole camels so that they can continue their long standing tradition of squeezing the breath out of prophetic life. It is under this administration that the wars and the persecutions and inquisitions took place that the new atheist inquisitors thank you again and again for. They don't speak the word of God because they are simply blind guides to busy making arguments for why the ditch is such a hospitable place to fall into. Like I have said, the prophetic will be restored and these messages, and greater, and more will be preached. Visions greater than mine, prophesyings greater than mine are to come to pass and the pastoral will be put back in its place as fourth-tier ministry, always subject to the mouths of the prophets. Kings bow to prophets, now let the pastors learn their place and take a knee as well.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Liberty and the Articles of Abomination
Liberty and the Articles of Abominations
There are some, as we have seen in my postings, that God has called to a closer communion with himself than others. Are you as close to God as Jeremiah? Obviously in nearly every case the answer would be no. But because you do not have the strong calling on your life that he had, then it is unnecessary for you to be that close to Him. So, there are some individuals who He will call to that closeness, but for most He will not.
I am someone who has been called to be closer to God than most of you out there reading this, though I trust that if any one person is truly paying attention to what I have been saying, that you are likely an exception. Because of this, I lack the liberty that some of you hold to. The prophets are given unique commandments which are not meant to be asked of the average person. Isaiah was called to expose himself for a
period of nearly two years. Jeremiah was called to celibacy. Moses was called to part the Red Sea. Elijah was caught up in a whirlwind or chariot of fire. So what is asked of the prophets is a lot deeper than what is taught on a basic level in the churches. And though I am not a prophet, though I may be called as one, I similarly lack the liberty that many Christians have. I am greatly perplexed as to this question.
I see on a nearly daily basis how Christians exerise their liberty and it astonishes me. First, because I do not share in this liberty. And second, because I have a deeper understanding of it than they do and so I am not sure why they feel compelled to exercise this privilege. God has indeed given us His law and expects us to obey it, but Christians have plenty of good intellectual excuses (and that is all they are) as to why they don't have to follow one law or another. All it amounts to is they are stupid and as long as they are stupid then they don't have to do anything. The same way someone who has Down syndrome would be provided for by the government and would lack criminal responsibility to a high degree. Yeshua taught a parable about two servants, one who knew his responsibility and didn't meet it, and the other servant who (apparently because he had just started the job) wasn't sure what was expected of him. The first servant was beat more harshly than the second. So it is a biblical idea that where someone is lacking knowledge on a subject then they are not as culpable as the person who knew and did not do it. I am not calling you stupid because I hate you, but it may be because of the fact that you are stupid that you will be saved in the end.
There is a good one: Pork, that I am handling separately. When God placed it on my heart to give up pork, I wasn't sure why or if it could be proven biblically. I hadn't formed an opinion one way or another. I had been told for much of my Christian life to "call not thou common" "what God hath cleansed" but God had never spoken to me personally on the issue. But I knew that if this was from the Lord, He would be prepared to
show me where it says that in the Bible. If it was true that Christians are not at liberty to eat pork then it could easily be deduced from the Scriptures. God was indeed prepared to show me in His word why it is that Christians are not to eat pork. He showed me and then I fought and won the battle to give it up. If you are prepared to search for yourself you will see that I have not lied to you.
I have made note previously on liberty as God instituted it. I claimed it was the only liberty which was sustainable and the only liberty worth having. This is merely an example to show that I am indeed perplexed as to how the Christians are entitled to such great liberty that I am well aware God did not give them. They are right in the sense that we live in liberty and in grace, but their philosophy is wrong as to what it implies. As surely as I live, I have seen this liberty, I have seen Christians exercising it in practice, and it is distasteful, abominable and something which I want no part in.
The Articles of Abominations
I.
There are some at one church that I am very familiar with, perhaps even a couple men from the church will see this at some point, but those some will explain with eloquence why I should eat pork like the rest of them, how my theology is mistaken and that I should defile myself even as they defile themselves, with pleasure and lust for more defilement. It is their belief system which is mistaken though. A man I know said
it this way: "'Man cannot live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.' The Greek here for word is 'rhema' which is the spoken word of God, as in the sense if God were to give you a commandment on something, that word that speaks to you. If you tell me I am not supposed to be doing what God clearly told me to do, that is the spirit of antichrist." I whole-heartedly agree with his assessments. When one of these from this congregation tell me to go against the rhema of God in my life they are preaching an abomination.
This is how the mes got started to begin with. The serpent came and said, "Hath God really said..." When I hear "Christians" coming to me and asking "Hath God really said" I got a little irked because it shows me they are under the power of the devil.
II. The week I left that church, I was deeply troubled by the abomination standing in the holy place that I had witnessed that Wednesday night. At the prayer service a young woman was praying before the church, named Kayla, and she prayed, in anticipation of the upcoming missions trip to Israel that God can allow the Jews to se that they do not have to obey the 613 laws of the Torah. I was very receptive to everything that
had been said up until that point, but when I saw it for the fraud it was, my spirit shut down and I went outside, where I spent most of the rest of the service in total shock. I was trembling for much of the next 3-4 hours as I couldn't believe what had taken place. This church has taken it upon themselves to go to Israel under the pretense of saving Jews, or for what I don't know, maybe they are in search of an authentic filafel, and it was this night I realized the message they would preach. I must warn them however, which I will not do because sometimes stupid people are unwilling to learn, that this is not a message to preach in Israel, of all places, as it will harm the conscience's of the Jews, who are a very pesky bunch and difficult to evangelize to, and my suspicion is that it will do much more harm than good, if they preach that message I suspect they have preached elsewhere. My soul was hurt not for the ignorant in that church which have not taken heed to the word of God, but for the souls they will lead to their damnation because of the lies they preach. This was the abomination in the temple.
Thursday
III. The abomination which I witnessed next: On this Thursday night, which I was brought to the church under fradulent pretenses and lies, thanks to the abominable and atrocious leadership of this church, who will not be excused in my book, someone (hopefully soon to be fired to live a life of misery if they in fact work at the church) had bought pizza for those in attendance. The pizza was of three varieties: pepperoni, ham, and sausage. Paul, who they swear by and insist is a true apostle said to not eat meats insofar as it hurt the conscience of other brethren.
As an aside, if a friend and I go to Cici's Pizza, a restaurant that I really like, and my friend wants to eat sausage or pepperoni, by all means they should. It doesn't bother me at all. But if a friend or family were to call and invite me to have pizza at their house with a few others, and that they would have pepperoni and sausage pizza, then I would politely ask that they order hamburger pizza as well. I am not being rude, I am just asking them to obey their own Bible, which they claim to adore so much since my conscience would be offended. Pizza is my favorite food and if someone were to be eating pepperoni in front of me and make no effort to see that I eat as well (which I will not eat their pepperoni because of the rhema) then that would be hurtful. Any decent person would accommodate me in my convictions and say "Sure, we'd love to have you, and we will order hamburger as well!" But if they did not accommodate me in this request, I would chalk them up to being agents of Satan who are not decent, but are as wicked as they come.
When this church has brought this pizza into the house of the Lord then they have acted as agents of Satan. Wouldn't it have been enough to order a few each of pepperoni and sausage, and for those who may not eat pork order cheese or hamburger? I think this is very reasonable and is in line with all of Scriptures. But to bring a total of six pizzas all covered in pork, it is exposed to me this was not of stupidity, or ignorance, that the abomination was brought inot the house of the Lord, but it was intentional, insidious, and Satanic. Then to eat it in front of me, and this same young woman Kayla wh prays against the laws of God, to God's face that His law is irrelevant, proceeds to explain to me why I should defile myself because she is defiling herself and everyone else is doing it and it isn't so bad to defile yourself if you try it just once.
And this is all in the temple, that I must declare once and for all is not a temple at all but some house of whoredoms and maybe worse.
___________________
This is the disputation against abominations and against that insidious liberty that Christians exercise as an excuse to defile themselves and act as stupid fools doing whatever it is they please themselves to do.
There are some, as we have seen in my postings, that God has called to a closer communion with himself than others. Are you as close to God as Jeremiah? Obviously in nearly every case the answer would be no. But because you do not have the strong calling on your life that he had, then it is unnecessary for you to be that close to Him. So, there are some individuals who He will call to that closeness, but for most He will not.
I am someone who has been called to be closer to God than most of you out there reading this, though I trust that if any one person is truly paying attention to what I have been saying, that you are likely an exception. Because of this, I lack the liberty that some of you hold to. The prophets are given unique commandments which are not meant to be asked of the average person. Isaiah was called to expose himself for a
period of nearly two years. Jeremiah was called to celibacy. Moses was called to part the Red Sea. Elijah was caught up in a whirlwind or chariot of fire. So what is asked of the prophets is a lot deeper than what is taught on a basic level in the churches. And though I am not a prophet, though I may be called as one, I similarly lack the liberty that many Christians have. I am greatly perplexed as to this question.
I see on a nearly daily basis how Christians exerise their liberty and it astonishes me. First, because I do not share in this liberty. And second, because I have a deeper understanding of it than they do and so I am not sure why they feel compelled to exercise this privilege. God has indeed given us His law and expects us to obey it, but Christians have plenty of good intellectual excuses (and that is all they are) as to why they don't have to follow one law or another. All it amounts to is they are stupid and as long as they are stupid then they don't have to do anything. The same way someone who has Down syndrome would be provided for by the government and would lack criminal responsibility to a high degree. Yeshua taught a parable about two servants, one who knew his responsibility and didn't meet it, and the other servant who (apparently because he had just started the job) wasn't sure what was expected of him. The first servant was beat more harshly than the second. So it is a biblical idea that where someone is lacking knowledge on a subject then they are not as culpable as the person who knew and did not do it. I am not calling you stupid because I hate you, but it may be because of the fact that you are stupid that you will be saved in the end.
There is a good one: Pork, that I am handling separately. When God placed it on my heart to give up pork, I wasn't sure why or if it could be proven biblically. I hadn't formed an opinion one way or another. I had been told for much of my Christian life to "call not thou common" "what God hath cleansed" but God had never spoken to me personally on the issue. But I knew that if this was from the Lord, He would be prepared to
show me where it says that in the Bible. If it was true that Christians are not at liberty to eat pork then it could easily be deduced from the Scriptures. God was indeed prepared to show me in His word why it is that Christians are not to eat pork. He showed me and then I fought and won the battle to give it up. If you are prepared to search for yourself you will see that I have not lied to you.
I have made note previously on liberty as God instituted it. I claimed it was the only liberty which was sustainable and the only liberty worth having. This is merely an example to show that I am indeed perplexed as to how the Christians are entitled to such great liberty that I am well aware God did not give them. They are right in the sense that we live in liberty and in grace, but their philosophy is wrong as to what it implies. As surely as I live, I have seen this liberty, I have seen Christians exercising it in practice, and it is distasteful, abominable and something which I want no part in.
The Articles of Abominations
I.
There are some at one church that I am very familiar with, perhaps even a couple men from the church will see this at some point, but those some will explain with eloquence why I should eat pork like the rest of them, how my theology is mistaken and that I should defile myself even as they defile themselves, with pleasure and lust for more defilement. It is their belief system which is mistaken though. A man I know said
it this way: "'Man cannot live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.' The Greek here for word is 'rhema' which is the spoken word of God, as in the sense if God were to give you a commandment on something, that word that speaks to you. If you tell me I am not supposed to be doing what God clearly told me to do, that is the spirit of antichrist." I whole-heartedly agree with his assessments. When one of these from this congregation tell me to go against the rhema of God in my life they are preaching an abomination.
This is how the mes got started to begin with. The serpent came and said, "Hath God really said..." When I hear "Christians" coming to me and asking "Hath God really said" I got a little irked because it shows me they are under the power of the devil.
II. The week I left that church, I was deeply troubled by the abomination standing in the holy place that I had witnessed that Wednesday night. At the prayer service a young woman was praying before the church, named Kayla, and she prayed, in anticipation of the upcoming missions trip to Israel that God can allow the Jews to se that they do not have to obey the 613 laws of the Torah. I was very receptive to everything that
had been said up until that point, but when I saw it for the fraud it was, my spirit shut down and I went outside, where I spent most of the rest of the service in total shock. I was trembling for much of the next 3-4 hours as I couldn't believe what had taken place. This church has taken it upon themselves to go to Israel under the pretense of saving Jews, or for what I don't know, maybe they are in search of an authentic filafel, and it was this night I realized the message they would preach. I must warn them however, which I will not do because sometimes stupid people are unwilling to learn, that this is not a message to preach in Israel, of all places, as it will harm the conscience's of the Jews, who are a very pesky bunch and difficult to evangelize to, and my suspicion is that it will do much more harm than good, if they preach that message I suspect they have preached elsewhere. My soul was hurt not for the ignorant in that church which have not taken heed to the word of God, but for the souls they will lead to their damnation because of the lies they preach. This was the abomination in the temple.
Thursday
III. The abomination which I witnessed next: On this Thursday night, which I was brought to the church under fradulent pretenses and lies, thanks to the abominable and atrocious leadership of this church, who will not be excused in my book, someone (hopefully soon to be fired to live a life of misery if they in fact work at the church) had bought pizza for those in attendance. The pizza was of three varieties: pepperoni, ham, and sausage. Paul, who they swear by and insist is a true apostle said to not eat meats insofar as it hurt the conscience of other brethren.
As an aside, if a friend and I go to Cici's Pizza, a restaurant that I really like, and my friend wants to eat sausage or pepperoni, by all means they should. It doesn't bother me at all. But if a friend or family were to call and invite me to have pizza at their house with a few others, and that they would have pepperoni and sausage pizza, then I would politely ask that they order hamburger pizza as well. I am not being rude, I am just asking them to obey their own Bible, which they claim to adore so much since my conscience would be offended. Pizza is my favorite food and if someone were to be eating pepperoni in front of me and make no effort to see that I eat as well (which I will not eat their pepperoni because of the rhema) then that would be hurtful. Any decent person would accommodate me in my convictions and say "Sure, we'd love to have you, and we will order hamburger as well!" But if they did not accommodate me in this request, I would chalk them up to being agents of Satan who are not decent, but are as wicked as they come.
When this church has brought this pizza into the house of the Lord then they have acted as agents of Satan. Wouldn't it have been enough to order a few each of pepperoni and sausage, and for those who may not eat pork order cheese or hamburger? I think this is very reasonable and is in line with all of Scriptures. But to bring a total of six pizzas all covered in pork, it is exposed to me this was not of stupidity, or ignorance, that the abomination was brought inot the house of the Lord, but it was intentional, insidious, and Satanic. Then to eat it in front of me, and this same young woman Kayla wh prays against the laws of God, to God's face that His law is irrelevant, proceeds to explain to me why I should defile myself because she is defiling herself and everyone else is doing it and it isn't so bad to defile yourself if you try it just once.
And this is all in the temple, that I must declare once and for all is not a temple at all but some house of whoredoms and maybe worse.
___________________
This is the disputation against abominations and against that insidious liberty that Christians exercise as an excuse to defile themselves and act as stupid fools doing whatever it is they please themselves to do.
Many Christians Roasting in the Fires of Hell
Let me start off by reminding those of you who read one of my latest message that I don't believe in a place of eternal torment. A common is why would God not send evil people to Hell, furthering the dichotomic view that the good go to Heaven and the evil go to Hell. The answer is because there is no Hell to send them too. The place of damnation is the place of final rest, no more no less. If you are counted among the goats on the left then you will be daqmned and it will be lights out for you. Your final state will be as that of compost, thus fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah that the worm would not die. You will be in the ground and there will be no coming back.
But let's pretend for a moment that there is a Hell. It is completely apparent to anyone who has been paying attention for sometime that Christians are so gung-ho and chipper about reminding people that they are going to burn in Hell when they die. Especially when you don't accept their views on doctrine or perhaps on politics and who to vote for. So let me ask the Christians? How many of the people that you share pews and churches with on Sunday are going to be burning there? My suspicion is most of them are going to be damned. Your churches are filled with adulterers, fornicators, liars, slanderers, backbiters, and backsliders and you all forget about them don't you. I haven't been unfair in my generalization. When the medical professor points out that between you and the two people sitting next to you, between one two of them will not complete medical school, he isn't being unfair, however unpleasant the fact may be, but he is providing a warning by pointing out the truth. And I am not being unfair either, I am pointing out the fact that the church is not the first place to look for a message on the virtue of morality, although it could make a good defense of why you shouldn't live an immoral life since so many damnable people with every sort of life problem are found there.
Again, how many people that you share a pew with on Sunday are among the damned? Until you call them out, no one will take you seriously, not even other Christians, except maybe for the bigots.
As I said in another message that we as Christians can be defined as being followers of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. It is disappointing to see how Christians, who are commanded to not bear false witness, can so believably assure you of something that is false and thereby lead you to believe a lie. They will lie right to your face whenever it is convenient, and I can tell many of them have had a lot of practice because they do it very well, that is, they are very believable.
Or how about the part about when they offer their steps to salvation or some other stupid observation on life. They have a lot of ways, they speak eloquently of their ways and their theories but very little of God's way. How Sunday after Sunday, endless messages are preached on Paul's very inconsequential epistles while very little reading of the words of Christ in the Gospels is done. I suspect it is because very few men actually know the true Way and know how that is reached.
Then the life which they offer is every bit of worldly satisfaction and privilege, the cheese puffs and twinkies, of the flesh which has made them fat, and of the spirit which has made them abominable. On one forum they criticized James David Manning who was speaking about the false ministry of a very well known TBN preacher. They said he was jealous of this "minister"'s wealth. We are not concerned with your wealth, we
who are speaking on the prophetic. It means nothing to us but a thing which is transferred from one hand to another, that purchases a thing which we might enjoy but then it is only fleeting. At some point in time it will be useless for much else other than as kindling which we may provide warmth to ourselves by lighting it aflame. Peter said "Silver and good have I none but such as I have I give thee," and he also rebuked the man who tried to purchase his anointing. This cannot be purchased and it cannot be sold. Karl Marx's mother said that Karl should spend more time accumulating wealth rather than writing about it. But for the true ministers, they are concerned neither with economic theory nor amassing a fortune. What God sees fit to provide us, we believe is that which we are entitled to or what we are worth, but in any case which He
has seen fit to provide. With that we should spend wisely and be a cheerful giver in what has been entrusted to our care. We thank God endlessly for that which He has seen fit to provide as we recognize we are all sinners of the worst variety and that we are no more entitled to what we have then the African overseas is entitled to it, (yet he lives without and you live with it, when there is not rhyme or reason as to why you do and he doesn't).
To conclude, I want to remind you that I do not teach of an eternal hellfire because, try as I might, I couldn't find any verses that taught that. But if there is, I trust God in His great might of wisdom and righteousness that many Christians are going to have a great number of seats reserved first for them, and secondly, for the people of the world. Theirs is a first-class ticket and their wealth and cheese puffs amount to nothing in my book because at the final disposition they will be condemned.
But let's pretend for a moment that there is a Hell. It is completely apparent to anyone who has been paying attention for sometime that Christians are so gung-ho and chipper about reminding people that they are going to burn in Hell when they die. Especially when you don't accept their views on doctrine or perhaps on politics and who to vote for. So let me ask the Christians? How many of the people that you share pews and churches with on Sunday are going to be burning there? My suspicion is most of them are going to be damned. Your churches are filled with adulterers, fornicators, liars, slanderers, backbiters, and backsliders and you all forget about them don't you. I haven't been unfair in my generalization. When the medical professor points out that between you and the two people sitting next to you, between one two of them will not complete medical school, he isn't being unfair, however unpleasant the fact may be, but he is providing a warning by pointing out the truth. And I am not being unfair either, I am pointing out the fact that the church is not the first place to look for a message on the virtue of morality, although it could make a good defense of why you shouldn't live an immoral life since so many damnable people with every sort of life problem are found there.
Again, how many people that you share a pew with on Sunday are among the damned? Until you call them out, no one will take you seriously, not even other Christians, except maybe for the bigots.
As I said in another message that we as Christians can be defined as being followers of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. It is disappointing to see how Christians, who are commanded to not bear false witness, can so believably assure you of something that is false and thereby lead you to believe a lie. They will lie right to your face whenever it is convenient, and I can tell many of them have had a lot of practice because they do it very well, that is, they are very believable.
Or how about the part about when they offer their steps to salvation or some other stupid observation on life. They have a lot of ways, they speak eloquently of their ways and their theories but very little of God's way. How Sunday after Sunday, endless messages are preached on Paul's very inconsequential epistles while very little reading of the words of Christ in the Gospels is done. I suspect it is because very few men actually know the true Way and know how that is reached.
Then the life which they offer is every bit of worldly satisfaction and privilege, the cheese puffs and twinkies, of the flesh which has made them fat, and of the spirit which has made them abominable. On one forum they criticized James David Manning who was speaking about the false ministry of a very well known TBN preacher. They said he was jealous of this "minister"'s wealth. We are not concerned with your wealth, we
who are speaking on the prophetic. It means nothing to us but a thing which is transferred from one hand to another, that purchases a thing which we might enjoy but then it is only fleeting. At some point in time it will be useless for much else other than as kindling which we may provide warmth to ourselves by lighting it aflame. Peter said "Silver and good have I none but such as I have I give thee," and he also rebuked the man who tried to purchase his anointing. This cannot be purchased and it cannot be sold. Karl Marx's mother said that Karl should spend more time accumulating wealth rather than writing about it. But for the true ministers, they are concerned neither with economic theory nor amassing a fortune. What God sees fit to provide us, we believe is that which we are entitled to or what we are worth, but in any case which He
has seen fit to provide. With that we should spend wisely and be a cheerful giver in what has been entrusted to our care. We thank God endlessly for that which He has seen fit to provide as we recognize we are all sinners of the worst variety and that we are no more entitled to what we have then the African overseas is entitled to it, (yet he lives without and you live with it, when there is not rhyme or reason as to why you do and he doesn't).
To conclude, I want to remind you that I do not teach of an eternal hellfire because, try as I might, I couldn't find any verses that taught that. But if there is, I trust God in His great might of wisdom and righteousness that many Christians are going to have a great number of seats reserved first for them, and secondly, for the people of the world. Theirs is a first-class ticket and their wealth and cheese puffs amount to nothing in my book because at the final disposition they will be condemned.
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