Glory

Oh, Glory, the Romans fought for you---
To conquer, to keep peace, to the public prove
That great conquest, for pleasures of the soul
To conquer body, mind and spirit
For the Laurel Crown of Gold.

Oh, Christian, oh Christian, do not be deceived;
We run the race not for conquering, but for the crown of peace.
Not for the world, or for the slave, or for the public good;
No, just for the Eternal blessing of a City that we should
Enter into, for no other reward. That is why we would.

The Crisis Of the Third Century

Rome warred, and split into three.
War, many emperors, many assassinations.
Sacked by Goths and Vandals, and Juthungi.
Then, that great Persecutor Diocletian
United the Kingdom, and then divided it
Between East and West.
And then Constantine took control
Of all, and issued the Edict of Milan
Making Christianity Legal,
And commissioned the council of Nicea.

A Dyson Sphere Would Be What an Advanced Alien Species Bestows Upon its Retarded, but Benevolent Steward. Not Something A Species Would Create For Itself, if It Had Any Interstellar Mobilization. It Could Just Be It’s Impossible To Leave the Solar System. But Dyson Spheres are Not Efficient or Realistic. If You’re going to Travel to Other Stars, You Have to Break the Laws of Thermodynamics as They’re Currently Understood.

What Did All the Apostles Do?

Oh, but they did. They established Churches in Persia, and Syria, and India, and Africa. The ones we don’t hear about were evangelists, who went abroad, and established many of the oldest churches. As it says, the least are the greatest, and the greatest are the least. I’d assume the Apostles we didn't hear about did some mighty things. The apostles we do hear about, like Matthew Levi Alphaeus—wrote a gospel being the only one literate—James Son of Thunder died immediately, and was among the first martyrs. But Judas Thaddeus Lebbeus Son of James and Simon the Zealot were evangelists in Persia and Syria, and planted churches there. Philip we know evangelized in Israel from Acts, but they say went as far as Anatolia and Greece and lived in Caesarea Philippi. John was the eldest apostle, dying at a ripe old age, and dictated the book of John through Papias around 90AD. Nathan Bartholomew established churches in Armenia, some of the oldest churches in the world. Doubting Thomas was an evangelist in Asia and India—and was killed by a Pagan King, same with Jude and Simon in Persia. Peter was stationed in Jerusalem and Rome, and was the Rock which kept the church solvent—they say the first bishop of Rome—and the source for the Gospel of Mark. Andrew ministered the churches in Turkey, which are some of the most famous in Christianity, being mentioned by John. Paul and Matthais were the two half tribes, and Matthais ministered all around the world, but seemed to plant Ethiopian Churches which again are among the eldest. James the Son of Alphaeus—or James the Less—was Bishop of Jerusalem, and the source, along with Mary the Lord’s Mother, of the Gospel of Luke. But from reading about all the Apostles, they planted hundreds of churches, in dozens of locations, each around the known world. They travelled everywhere planting churches, each one might have visited about a dozen locations, within a 700 mile radius.

America is Fallen

Spies police free speech.
Citizens sue over disagreement.
Books are censored by the lay.
Insurance agents and corporations pry into every single thing we say and do.
The Middle Class is so poor.
Welfare is attacked.
The Christian Religion is persecuted.
LGBT and DEI and Nazis and Radicals comprise 40% of the population.
People have no love.
Broadcasters cannot speak what they really mean.
Journalists cannot report on the news.
Owning guns are our only right; guns and to get screwed.
Intelligent people are told to shut up.
People have no rest.

As I said, America could exist for a 1000 years in name.
But it is fallen.

Sister Aimee

The cotton seed is a spoiler of the fabric,
The block seeps over with the blood of its victims...
The parrots all say the same thing---

Great is the wealth of metaphor
Found in nature; in human politics.
The bur stings the bare foot of a traveller...

A wise woman indeed art thou...
And wieldy with your metaphors.
A first rate poet, who made me think.

Jesus as Priest and King

Israel is not God’s Begotten Son. The Son of God is God’s Son. Who is Christ Jesus. It even names [H]im in Zechariah 3 and 6. Zechariah named “Joshua” Priest and King, which as you know Uzziah tried to do, and was stricken with a curse for attempting to do, so it was highly unlawful. Yet, Joshua represents a Priesthood that would come from the King, who is Christ, a Priesthood ordained from the Order of Melchizedek.

If I Had 1 Minute with You

I'd say, “There is a God, and His Son is Jesus. There's plenty of archeological proof, and also textual proof. The Bible also comes from witnesses. We know because we dig up things in the ground that it directly talks about. And the written records of Him, called the Gospel, come from eyewitnesses of Jesus, that He fulfilled over 300 Messianic Prophecies. And they say fulfilling 8 Prophecies are 10^17 power in Probability to happen. And Jesus was murdered on a torture instrument, and buried, and in three days He raised from the Dead, to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And if we confess Him as LORD, and walk in accordance with His way—which is love for God and love for your Neighbor as yourself—you will be saved and go to a paradise more rich than anything you could possibly imagine.”

Jesus as Messiah

Isaiah 53 clearly establishes that a Man’s soul must be offered for sin. And that a man was bruised and punished for our iniquities.

Zechariah 3 and 6 both name Jesus (Joshua) as Messiah, as it was unlawful for the king to be of the priesthood, yet Joshua was to be made so. Also Nehemiah says “Eat the Fat and Drink the Sweet” both were unlawful, yet the Covenant was broken when the Jews were exiled, so were awaiting a New Covenant in Christ’s Blood. Jesus showed compassion was weightier than unneeded oblations.

You said that Jehoiakim was in both Bloodlines, when in fact Luke’s comes from Nathan, David’s son not Solomon.

Also the verses in the New Testament where Jesus went through and didn’t wash, or let His disciples eat grain, it clearly establishes that Jesus is setting apart this New Covenant, to be freed from the Levitical Priesthood. As Paul says in Hebrews, “With a change of Priesthood” through Melchizedek, “Comes a change of Law.”

There’s also two everlasting covenants, one to condemn sin, and another to free men from Sin’s curse.

Also Jesus ate Passover in the beginning of Passover, when it’s night. As a Jew you know the day starts at sundown, so Jesus ate the supper when the sun set. And went to sleep in the garden, and then Judas betrayed Him in the morning. And then He was killed before the Sun went down on Ash Wednesday.

It’s also shown, that Matthew was Hebrew, as he added that detail about the Pharisee tearing his robe because the Pharisees were hypocrites.