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Vacation Bible School

 i. The Palestinian Woman

Christ came to her at the well,
And asked her to draw water.
She said, "I worship on this mountain
"And your people worship on that."
Christ said, "Verily, Verily,
"There will come a day when
"They will neither worship on this mountain
"Or that, but in the Spirit of Truth.
"For God is a Spirit, and those who worship
"Him in Truth are saved.
"For we Christians know what we worship
"But you Muslims do not.
"Therefore, Worship the Father in Truth."
And He told her everything she ever did.

Dedicated to Pashtmaj mac Umaill

ii. Oh Thou Simple Man

Oh thou simple man, lying at Bethesda
Crippled and in sorrow, and cannot be 
Put in the water. You are healed.
The Law is now not fitted
For no longer does the angel stir the water.
The authorities ask you,
"Who healed you?"
And you not knowing or understanding
Why they asked, learned who it was.
So, you went and told them.
But they were angered at Christ
For a thing of naught, and you
Oh simple man, not a villain,
But a naïve man who knows nothing
Of great ambition, power or prestige
Told them who it was that healed you. 
In that there is no condemnation for you
Though the Protestant calls you lazy
And a fool, you are simply a humble man
Who was healed, and broken, and unable
To understand the powers before you.

iii. A Life of Poetry

Savior of the World,
Your life was a book of poetry.
Every action You did
Was meticulous and masterful.
Your sermons were not selfish
Nor were You unwilling to speak to fools...
You had compassion, and did
Live a life of poverty for us.
You were like Pythagoras
Or Kerouac, and then You asked,
"Eat my flesh, and drink my blood."
Living, You lived, and You died
With living waters pouring out of Your heart.
You were perfect poetry, 
Living poetry, a life very very few ever live.
And You lived it for me,
For I am incapable of emulating it.

iv. The "Mad Man" of Nazareth

John's Gospel is true,
For it almost makes Christ look mad.
You hear the arguments made,
And you see it through the Jew's eyes
That this mad Samaritan came 
And called Himself the Messiah.
A madman himself
Enlightened me to this nuance---

Yet, the fact remains, Christ
Performed real and many miracles.
And He taught salient teachings
More coherent than any sage before Him.
And He was a sober man
You see in the Gospels---
And He was filled with Compassion.
I know no more merciful man than He
Who could look at a Samaritan woman
A woman caught in adultery
And a lame man laying by a pool
And have utmost compassion on them.
And a Blind man, whom the Pharisees were 
Furious to find was healed.

v. At the Garden

Christ, that Garden, like my beloved Pinchot,
Judas knew You took refuge there.
And the place You enjoyed and loved,
A place of joy, and of peace, You prayed
And He came and took You away
To Pilate, where in the most sober
Words, and salient tongue,
Pilate asked You if You were King,
And You told Him Your kingdom
Was not of this world, but the next.
I await to go to that world too,
Oh LORD Made Flesh...
God's Eternal Word,
The Sabbath of my heart...
You are Begotten not made
And Your Word is the Father's
And Your Flesh is the embodiment
Of the Father's Word,
Since You were pierced, 
And then raised to eternal glory and fame.

vi. Pilate

Pilate begs the crowd to free Jesus,
Whips Him, scourges Him,
Trying to appease the Jew's
And save Christ's life.
But, a voice cries out,
"He made Himself a King
"And if you don't kill Him
"You are no friend of Caesar's!"
A lone, false witness from the crowd
Who twisted Christ's words;
For Christ Himself said
His kingdom was not of the World
But in the hereafter.
And the crowd wanted Him dead.
So Pilate washed His hands of it
And gave Christ over to them
For it was not in Pilate's power
To free or kill Him, but in Christ alone
And the false witness of the Jewish People.

vii. The Wine and The Grain

Jesus was a man who loved to feast;
He drank salubrious wine at weddings,
Ate perfectly roasted fish with salt and mustard,
Rubbed a head of grain from the stalk
And ate those finest grains.
Perhaps this is why they didn't like Him?
Was that He was no prude, but a man
Who taught us how to enjoy life
Though the world would never let us have it?
And that was His message,
Was how much better the world could be
If men were allowed to enjoy the good things
Instead of the lofty and high things?
But, because all was made lofty and high
That you could have no life unless you sought it,
Not to seek your life here,
But rather in the next.

viii. Rejoicing!

He meets Mary in the tomb,
And He walks through the walls.
He makes Thomas touch His hands and side.
Touch.

I was on a boat, with Peter,
And we were fishing, but caught no fish.
So, Jesus did what He did before,
And told us to cast over the other side.
And He did. I came running out of the boat
With Peter, and there was a fire
Upon the sand, which Jesus kindled.
And so, we cooked the fish over the spit
With salt, mustard and ginger.
We ate to our fill, and talked
And rejoiced...
I feel like the one who leaned on His bosom
And asked, "Is it I?"
No... it is not I.
I feel like a betrayer, but cannot be;
For the LORD loves me.

*Note: I use first person pronouns, but only metaphorically. Like my Midrash about Judas Son of James, this is just a poetic expression of how I feel. Nothing more.

On the Black Rock Trump Assassination Conspiracy Theory

Black Rock is a Venture Capitalist firm pushing this LGBTQ agenda, and making unpayable loans out to large corporations, and then bankrupting them with fees, so it can do a hostile takeover. It owns almost everything right now. The thought here, is that Black Rock is paying people to put a hit out on Trump. 

Of course, the plot thickens, because the type of loans they do, are only legal because of Trump's deregulation policies. So, Black Rock is a huge problem, but the juries still out on what's happening here. The American people will know some day, though.

An Alternative Theory for Academics to Munch On

Here's an alternative theory. Abraham was an Amorite, and fought in the Battle of Sidim against the Elamites, was faithful, and found the God of all creation, and had a tradition of his ancestors passed down to him, which he wrote, among various laws, and Mesopotamia used those stories and laws--like consider Gilgamesh's author might have actually met Noah or Shem or Japheth, and that's who Utnapishtim is---and then that people's group called the Hebrews moved from Mesopotamia into Egypt during a famine year, and then were enslaved, and then led out of captivity by an Egyptian Educated Prince, who wrote the Torah.

Dialogue on Human Sacrifice in the Bible, and the Origins of Scripture

[T]he God of the Bible was worshipped from Neolithic times, and a historical document of the Patriarchs was established, and kept through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and this document was of the God El--a Mesopotamian word for Lord, El from Ellum which means "Pure" or "Noble One"--that migrated up into Egypt where you see the worship of Yahweh, which then gets transplanted to Canaan by Moses. So, the God of the Bible is not "Baal" but El Yahweh Elyon. As the God of the Patriarchs was always one preoccupied with righteousness, and opposed to sin. You see that from the days of Hammurabi, which were inspired by Laws codified probably by Abraham, and also why we find concurrent myths in the ANE that are similar to the Bible's, is that Abraham was a Mesopotamian Lord. As "El" is an Akkadian word that means "Lord".

Just from information the book of Genesis gets right, such as Abraham following a law in the Lipit Ishtar, or the politics of the Isen Larsa Period with the battle of Sidim, which talks about the Amorites and Elamites being at war, we know the book of Genesis has information dating before the Exodus, from the time period.

My theory is there were two manuscripts, each venerated by the Jewish People, and they merged them together after the Exodus into the Book of Genesis, as that's what the evidence suggests. But we also know that the Jews worshipped a different Deity than the Egyptians, and had a different language. That would be the God El Yahweh Elyon, who was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

El has a {connection} with Mesopotamia, [so because of that] it proves a Mesopotamian Link with the scripture, which is why we see El Yahweh Elyon come from Mesopotamia, into Egypt, and then{} those two traditions were merged by Moses, being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob respectively. The flood happened at the break between the First and Third dynasties of Ur. As, you see there's no Second, and all historical civilizations have a gap at that period. Sargon is Nimrod. So, that's about 200 years before Abraham.

{}[So,] there's a Mesopotamian link to the Bible, through El, and that Moses merged the El and Yahweh traditions together around 1300BC. Being respectively the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But, the flood happened in the 24th century BC, where we see there's a gap between the First and Third dynasties of Ur. Which, that Second Dynasty is when the populations are recovering after the flood. And we see a similar gap all over the world, and the universal Neolithic Culture disappears. And Sargon is Nimrod, so that's about 200 years before Abraham. Abraham lived under Sulgi, and the battle of Sidim is actually recorded by Sulgi's historians

Also, under Biblical Poetry, the Chaldeans, Akkadians and Amorites are all Babylon. Or, there could have been Chaldeans there, we just don't know about it, as for most of history, we thought the Hittites were just made up. But, it turns out they weren't. It's more likely the Bible's right, and Babylon was part of the Mesopotamian Basin.

Leviticus 27:29 is not condoning Human Sacrifice. It says explicitly it's an abomination. That law is the one that put Christ to death, and only in that instance, which relates to Isaac and Abraham, where God was foreshadowing the Cross. In fact Isaac and Abraham is an allegory for the fact that God does not desire human sacrifice. That's what it means. And Jephthah's daughter wasn't sacrificed either, in the Hebrew, it explicitly says she stayed alive, but was visited by the Maidens once every year on a pilgrimage.

You absolutely don't understand Ezekiel, if that's what you're saying. It is literally the complete opposite of what you say. The infant sacrifice is why God had Babylon destroy it. Among several other things, such as its sexual immorality, and its poor trade practices.{}

Leviticus is written by Moses, and is given a tradition through Abraham's laws which he founded in Mesopotamia. And then the Ten Commandments which were given by God, and written on the Stone Tablets. Although, the other laws were possibly derived from Mesopotamian origin, which is why the Gospels refuted them. But those same laws condemn the world, and make it guilty of capital sin, and why God has every right to put the sinner in hell.

The words [in Exodus] are updated, but the syntax shows it's from the 13th century, not to mention Loan Words that pop up from the 18th Egyptian Dynasty.

Yes, [Ezekiel's] prophesying Christ Jesus. It's not talking about infant sacrifice, which is expressly condemned in all parts of scripture. It's talking about the Dietary laws, the Laws on war--which give God justice to destroy the whole earth--and it sets judgment in God's hand, not man's. Basically, the laws that weren't good, were the laws that set Israel up to judge the nations, which God saw they couldn't accomplish, so He brought Christ Jesus. And that's prophesied through the Messiah, Seed of David, in Psalm 2 and other places. And His suffering is prophesied in Psalm 22.

[God's] saying, He's justified in bringing the Babylonians down upon Judea, because they were committing Infant Sacrifice, which it says in the prophets, "Which I neither commanded, nor was it even in my mind that you should do."

Jeremiah 19:5 and they have built altars for Baal in order to burn their children in the fire as sacrifices. I never commanded them to do this; it never even entered my mind.

I don't think [my scholarship] should be rejected, due to the fact of the deep research I did, seeing the traces of Genesis through Mesopotamian history, and some other things showing a Genesis from the Neolithic times. {}It's clear in the scripture, God never commanded human sacrifice, and that's what Abraham's story means, is that God doesn't demand it.

Marduke didn't destroy Jerusalem, but the LORD God Jehovah-Jireh did. And if you had any comprehension of the clear teachings of the Prophets, you would know that. So repent, [scholars] lest Babylon fall upon you, and I be like Daniel.

It's just [they] couldn't be any more wrong, based on the clear teachings of scripture. Every single word [they say], is 100% false. The half truths are even false. Like [they're] taking clear passages condemning infant sacrifice, and twisting them to mean their complete opposite. How can [someone] read the Bible like that? It's simple. [They] don't know God, therefore, have lawlessness dwelling in [them]. [One] can't know God at all, if [they] think the LORD would command infant sacrifice. That's explicitly condemned in the Law, it's condemned in the story of Abraham,--where God said He would provide a sacrifice, Who is Christ Jesus--and I have no cognitive dissonance. I've studied the scripture hard, long and intensely, so I know the Prophets, what they are actually saying, and I've documented the entire Bible through history. Which I will not show here, because it's about 50 pages. 

[Y]ou need Christ to interpret the Bible. All of [modern scholarship is] false, but {} Leviticus 27:29 is about [Jesus]. Human sacrifice is not part of the religion. Ergo, the story of Abraham, where God brings Abraham to the threshold, and then proves to Abraham that He will provide the sacrifice.

Exodus is also written at the time of the Exodus.{}

The fact is, scholars are wrong. The evidence doesn't say any of that, in fact it proves quite the opposite, that Exodus was written around the time of 1300BC, and that the Bible is concurrent with the Jews and their history.

I've painstakingly documented the historical evidence coinciding with the Jews and their history, in both the books of Genesis, and Exodus, and also the Gospels.

{}[N]one of the evidence shows [the Bible was written in 800BC. In fact, it] shows the exact fact that the Exodus was written around the time of the Exodus, and so with all the concurrent events of the scripture were written at those time periods.

Yes, both Hezekiah and Josiah rediscovered the Law, that's written in the scripture... and perhaps you need to be like them, and see what the Bible's actually saying. You shouldn't be mixing Sin in with the Scripture. That's why scholars cannot know Who the God of the Bible is.

[B]y saying "Multiple divinities contribute to Yahweh" those divinities are derivative of Baal. Therefore, you are calling the God of the Bible Baal. It has to be.

Also, that's a homonym. It'd be like mixing up Zeus because we called him a "god" with Jehovah. It's simply illogical, and an equivocation.

The instance where the Bible calls Yahweh Baal isn't actually calling Him Baal, but that you will call the LORD "Husband", and that's for a woman to call Him that, as that's one of the blessings of Heaven. It's a different word. It just sounds the same. 

Like when I say "Thursday" I don't mean it's "Thor's Day". I mean the fifth day of the week. Even so, Baal is not the God of the Bible, and He has no derivative roots from that pantheon, but is from a God of a People Group who migrated out of Mesopotamia, into Egypt, and then into Canaan, as we see from the linguistic tracing.

Also, by saying "Yahweh" is a derivative of Baal, and Yahweh was invented, you ipso facto say Yahweh is Baal. He is not. He's a specific God of a specific people, of a specific culture, that happened to be the True God of all the worlds, and that's who He is. And Who He always was; and who He always will be. Period.

No, Israel left Egypt under Amenhotep III and all the evidence shows that. The information gaps and plagues recorded during his reign, the chariots and bodies off Nuweiba beach, the words used in the Book of Exodus, the Merneptah Stele, the Tablet at Ebal. You're just wrong. And of course you have Akhenaten who some reason converts to a whole new pantheon, almost like his entire world was shaken.

There is lots of evidence. The word "El" from Mesopotamian origin moving into Canaan, from Egypt, and then the Curse Tablet at Ebal which is dated to 1250BC, which is exactly when the Jews would be in there. It has both El and Jah on it. Not to mention the Wadi El Hol, written in Canaanite script being in Egypt, which shows a Semitic group in Egypt at the exact right time period.

The fact is, what [scholars are] doing would be like trying to understand Modern English through all their French and Latin roots. That's not how you do language studies. In fact, that can confuse almost everything, into gibberish nonsense. Which [Bible Scholars right now seem like] some kind of confused Pagan, I get that, but I attest to the traditions of my ancestors. The God of Paul of Tarsus, Jesus of Nazareth, David, Jacob, Isaac and Abraham.

Egyptian Mythology

Egyptian mythology seems strange to me. But, it gives historical artefacts and context to the Biblical Poetry.

1. Showing the Bible is Authentic to its time period; because the diction of Egyptian Mythology looks like the Bible's in Exodus, showing a Man of Egyptian Royal Education wrote it.
2. And that the Bible's prophecies are a polemic against what conversations Israel and Egyptians were having; much like our conversations today. Prophecy had the Character of Ancient Apologetics.

Egyptian mythology is schizophrenic. Probably some of the least cogent mythology. It just interests me for historical artefacts. to help me understand Biblical Poetry.
 
For instance, an idol was venerated for its wont to cause the Nile to dry and cause famines. Like that in Joseph's day.  But Joseph correctly prophesied the famine, and so they stored grains, showing yet again,. the  Bible gets true geographic information. And the famine lasted 7 years. I find this fascinating. Joseph would live 400 years before Amenhotep III, in 1730BC. This famine occurred in the III Egyptian Dynasty, 2500BC, before the flood. Around the time of Naqad. 

Yet, we see the geographical propensity for famine, which Joseph prophesied. These 7 year famines have a propensity to happen, it seems, once a millennium. Yet, one sees again Pharaoh, the Nile Dragon, talked about and mocked, in Ezekiel. Also, a command in Genesis, that men, by acting on divine guidance, produce remedies for disasters; which Joseph may have been given this vision to avert the belief in pagan idols, and establish divine authority over even the Pharaohs and the Egyptian gods.

On Mesopotamian Origins of the Scripture

{}El has a {connection} with Mesopotamia, [so because of that] it proves a Mesopotamian Link with the scripture, which is why we see El Yahweh Elyon come from Mesopotamia, into Egypt, and then{} those two traditions were merged by Moses, being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob respectively. The flood happened at the break between the first and third dynasties of Ur. As, you see there's no Second, and all historical civilizations have a gap at that period. Sargon is Nimrod. So, that's about 200 years before Abraham.

{}[So,] there's a Mesopotamian link to the Bible, through El, and that Moses merged the El and Yahweh traditions together. Being respectively the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But, the flood happened in the 24th century BC, where we see there's a gap between the First and Third dynasties of Ur. Which, that Second Dynasty is when the populations are recovering after the flood. And we see a similar gap all over the world, and the universal Neolithic Culture disappears. And Sargon is Nimrod, so that's about 200 years before Abraham. Abraham lived under Sulgi, and the battle of Sidim is actually recorded by Sulgi's historians.

The Faith Handed Down by Abraham

The God of the Bible was worshipped from Neolithic times, and a historical document of the Patriarchs was established, and kept through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and this document was of the God El--a Mesopotamian word for Lord--that migrated up into Egypt where you see the worship of Yahweh, which then gets transplanted to Canaan by Moses. So, the God of the Bible is not "Baal" but El Yahweh Elyon. As the God of the Patriarchs was always one preoccupied with righteousness, and opposed to sin. You see that from the days of Hammurabi, which were inspired by Laws codified probably by Abraham, and also why we find concurrent myths in the ANE that are similar to the Bible's, is that Abraham was a Mesopotamian Lord. As "El" is an Akkadian word that means "Lord".

Month of Intercalculation

My brothers and sisters---
Observe the month of Adar.
Is it there? What mystery?
How ever are the months 
To be in sync with the Spring?
There is a 13th Month.
Repent.
The Bible is not the Sole Authority of God
But rather Christ our LORD is.
Keep in the Moral Precepts of Christ
And all will go well.
As Amos says, there is a famine in the land
But not of bread, but of hearing the word of God.
It has been for many many ages.