Sermon on Whether Satan can Attack You

There’s not much you can do. The Devil attacks whomever he wants, as it says in Daniel, in the latter times he’ll wear out the saints. If you’re not prepared to martial against him, or suffer for the cross, you’re not prepared to enter into the kingdom.

As it is, Christ shepherds us to the kingdom, in no way does He promise us health, wealth and happiness here on Earth, but rather, John says we will mourn upon the Earth.

Satan brings disease, death, destruction, wasting… as he’s a liar, thief and murderer. And that’s all there is to it. He destroys whom he pleases—that’s Satan—and like Job, he tries us in the furnace of affliction. If we come out purified, not as silver, but a worthy lump of precious metal, we are saved and therefore spared from the wrath to come.

I’d fear more having all the fortune, health and joy in the world, and risk going to hell, as the world rejoices in its foolishness, and squalor. Just look at the Kardashians or Tech billionaires. They spoil all love, but are happy and carefree. And the world does. It rejoices. It will rejoice, like a pig wallowing in the mud, and making sure everyone else is dirty, too. But, we being sheep, have nowhere to turn. Our fleeces aren’t being shorn, our nails aren’t being trimmed, our sores aren’t being balmmed, our wounds aren’t being cleaned, because the shepherds are spoiling the flock. And therefore, the goats have all the oats, as the shepherd doesn’t feed the one standing still, or balm their wounds, or seek after the kids of the flock, and they feed from our meat, telling us to feed them, but they don’t feed us.

So, it’s just a fact, suffer a little here, and be filled with good fruit, and though you are tormented by Satan, that’s to be expected. As this life is merely a furnace to burn away the dross.

As Jesus also says, there’s the thorns and rocks. Those who have the cares of this world, and it chokes out the riches and promise of the kingdom of God. Or those who spring up early on the rocks, and turn away due to offense and persecution. In the Early Church, but really all throughout history, except for about 200 years, the church has been persecuted. There’s been a time of rest, from about 1800 - 2000, where the saints were the greatest upon the planet, and had the riches of this life, and fed peacefully. But, sin crept in, and stole that away from the Earth, and it grows darker. So, we must be ready to die, be poor, and be meek and mild. Not to fight in wars. And if God prospers us, rejoice. For God can prosper whom He wishes. And He can restore one to full health, wealth and joy… but the LORD can also cause the fuller’s soap to wash over you, and to cleans you with lye, not for your sin, but because the world has wounded you, and has left you barren. And if you ever had soap against a wound it stings. But, that’s due to careless shepherds. Therefore, Christ is the Good Shepherd, and will shorn your fleece, and cut your nails, and balm and cleanse your wound, and feed you with the finest milk and grains. For you need Christ.

Midrash of The Entire Bible

Adam and Eve are created, and they eat the Fruit of Knowledge and get cast out of paradise; God brings a Patriarchal line through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David; they found a kingdom that should purify the Earth; it sins and gets conquered by Assyria and a few hundred years later Babylon, so Israel’s people are seized and brought into captivity; then they return to the promised land, and their God comes to the Earth in human Flesh as Jesus Christ, and sets forth a plan to redeem all men through His suffering, not just those born of that lineage, through His Death, Burial, and Resurrection; and at the end, He will return in the form of an infant, born of the Virgin Daughter of Zion; she’ll be attacked by the Serpent Satan, and be given wings and fly away, and Her Son will be carried into heaven, and He’ll return with 144,000 Saints who never sinned, and slay all evil on Earth once and for all. And then Satan will return, and be defeated at the final battle of Gog and Magog, and the Earth will be renewed, and Heaven and Earth and all things will be brand new, and there will never be suffering ever again.

I Am Exasperated

Soon, I will put down the pen.
When it stops being enjoyable.
How ingratiating are my words.

When I have spoken what I mean...
I will stop.

Too many words into the void...
It is time to listen soon,
As I close my opus on nature.

As the Verse says,
"Gather all the materials together,
"Before you set out to build the house."

My materials are gathered soon...
In December Fall, they shall be finished.

But, one day, the pen shall be taken up again.
And I will have new things to write about,
And it will be brand new!

We all need a break sometimes.

Midrash on Sin and the Ten Commandments

I think there’s a natural conscience in men. That’s what the second and third chapters of Genesis mean. It’s just, that conscience gets blurry when people start to try and justify sin. And that creates confusion, where people can’t understand right from wrong, which leads to corruption, violence, and even wars, plagues and famines as judgments from God.

So the 10 Commandments weren’t to say, “This is so because God said it.” God magnified His word above His name. His law is involuble, even by Himself. Like a King in Ancient Babylon or Persia, they didn’t go back on their decrees. God can’t contradict His law.

What is true, is that there were two covenants. One given to the Jews, through Moses, which was to largely condemn the world of its sin—it’s an indictment and judgment against the whole world, if you read it, which is why the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy have such cringy laws, that seem to support genocide and slavery, as those are the judgments of God measured out against all sin, against every nation. Which further gets described in the Prophets, the judgments they will suffer. Up to and including Israel, Judah and Ephraim. So, the Curse of the Law is judgment against all sin, and only Christ could Live according to that sinless, and thereby become Corban as our Sacrifice for sins, like Abrahm was promised at Jehovah-Jireh God would provide the Sacrifice in stead of Isaac.

The Second Covenant or New Covenant prophesied in Jeremiah and Isaiah and Ezekiel, is through Abraham’s seed, so it’s the Seed that blesses all the nations. It’s a new law, therefore a new priesthood, under the order of Melchizedek, therefore a Priesthood outside of Levi, and given to David’s sprout, as is prophesied by Zechariah, that Jesus would reign both Priest and King, which was unlawful when Uziah did it, while he was stricken with leprosy. And this New Covenant is extended to the Gentiles, and is a law of Natural Religion, and atonement in the sacrefice of Christ Jesus's blood. Not paid for oblations to God in empty ritual, but rather through moral adherence and charity toward one another. And as Ezekiel said, “I gave them statutes which were not good, and laws by which they could not live.” Those laws relating to War and the judgment of the nations, which Israel was tasked to do, but failed, therefore Judgment was forfeited from Israel and given to God’s Son.