God is good. First let’s get that out of the way. And if you want good, or to be good, you need God. If you choose to sin, then you are ruled by Satan. If you choose to do good, you are ruled by God, who is ever faithful to deliver you.
So, in this world, there is a struggle between light and darkness. And if you choose darkness, darkness will rule over you. So, you give the demonic forces the right to have influence over your life. If you choose light, you choose God’s providence over your life, and the ordering of things in your favor.
What is true, is because of the evil in this world—and this is a common story in the Bible, like Cain and Abel, where Evil triumphs for a bit, and causes good to suffer—there is a tendency for good people to be hurt, and justice to fail.
Which, because of this, we need to hold onto our right to what’s good, by forsaking this world and its things. And by suffering a little while—due to the world’s evil—and coming out purified, and wise, and with knowledge of sin—as that’s what the Tree of Knowledge gave us—that it causes suffering, and therefore a need for judgment.
So, by choosing sin—by choosing to eat the fruit—you therefore are required to be judged for your sin. And it’s not God’s desire that anyone should perish, so He sent His son Jesus Christ into the world, to die on a Roman Cross, and be buried, and raised on the third day. And this is what saves you. So, no matter what sin you’ve committed, you will be saved if you call upon Jesus Christ. And know that He is LORD. As with confession you are saved, and with knowledge of His resurrection you are made righteous.
So, life is about choosing the light, and forsaking the darkness. Though, we can never be fully rid of our sin. We all have some sin in us, and if we say we don’t, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, God who is Just, is willing to pardon us.
So, it’s all about choice. It’s not God’s desire to damn anyone, but if you choose darkness, you allow darkness to rule over you. And since the bulk of the world chooses darkness, that’s why the righteous suffer.
Category: Ministry
Ezekiel 28
28 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
It must be known, this is one of a few passages in scripture, where I do not understand its full meaning. But, I think it will be paramount for identifying the Antichrist when he comes. So, let's say a prayer, and see if I can do it right.
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
The Prince of Tyre, one of the Forerunners of Antichrist, one of the Abominations, believes he is God. He believes he sits on the throne of God. And so I've met a fellow like this, severely deluded, and awesome in earthly authority. So, thus, this is easy to identify. A man who claims to be God, and that he is a God.
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
He is wiser than Daniel. Or in the original Hebrew it says, "His wisdom comes from Daniel" which would be a more literal translation, that he gets his wisdom from Daniel the Prophet. Which Ezekiel was one of the Captives of Israel, along with Daniel, and Daniel's fame would be great among this period. Perhaps this Prince steals Daniel's wisdom, or plagiarizes it. And this Prince, every secret of the world is laid bare to him. There is nothing that can be hid from him.
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
With his wisdom and understanding, he is rich. And fabulously wealthy. So you will know him, that he gets riches into his storehouses, and treasures into his safes. He makes himself prosperous.
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
With his great riches, and wisdom--by his traffick, so he will have some sort of logistical enterprise--he will make himself rich.
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
And he set his heart to be like God. He wishes to be God, like the King of Assyria.
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
And the terrible of the nations shall draw their swords against his wisdom. How this will happen, I don't know, but perhaps his wisdom will be fought against by the terrible of the nations, and hindered, and caused to fail at some point. Where he wishes to grow so great, mighty, and rich by his wisdom, the other nations--the terrible of them--will know how dangerous it truly is, and even they will have to stop him. Or, perhaps they fight against his treatises.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
And they will bring The Prince of Tyre down to the pit, and slay him. And shall cast him into the sea.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
And this Prince, while before his slayers, shall say, "I am God!" for he truly believes it himself, but he is but a man, and will be cast down to hell, and slain.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
And though circumcised, he shall be slain as if uncircumcised, with no mercy.
11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
So the King of Tyre is a master builder. He seals up the sum--which is something I've studied long and hard--he gave out perfect decrees at his beginning, and he sealed the sum of his city buildings perfectly. He has perfected wisdom, and is full of great wisdom.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
And this person was in Eden. He had nine of the twelve ephod stones--so possibly he only has three quarters of the scripture, nine tribes, and nine disciples. And he was a skilled musician. Above all others in his craft, with his song and skill with the instruments.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
He was one of the Cherubim--so he is one of the Two Beasts, the Dragon and Beast, a fallen Cherubim, this one the Cherubim who guarded Eden. Which the other four guard the throne of God.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
He is perfectly beautiful. He had no sin, and was a perfect man, until sin was found in him, and he was corrupted.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
By the King of Tyre's economic measures, the entire earth was filled with violence. Because he had sinned, thus he will be cast out of the Mountain of God--when he attends the Wedding Feast, he will be naked, and have no garment. And be cast to outer darkness.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Because he was beautiful, and because he shined brightly--his fame was a beacon and had him in good esteem by everyone everywhere--it caused him to sin. Thus, he will be cast to the ground.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
By enriching himself from the office of king, at the expense of his whole kingdom, and because he defiled the sanctuaries by his iniquity--he used the Clergy as a method to control the people, like Hitler did, and taught the preachers to preach prosperity instead of humility--and because of his traffick, which shows like the Prince of Tyre--the King of Tyre was also into logistics and commerce,--it will devour him, and he will be brought to ashes by all who behold him. As the LORD will breath upon Satan on the last day, and reduce him to ash. So, this is the Beast, of course, where Egypt is the Dragon.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
And all who know him shall be astonished at him. He shall be a terror, and never will be again. He will be completely destroyed, utterly.
21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
This particular part I am even more unsure of, but will do my best.
22 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
Zidon is a feminine beast--and the LORD shall execute judgment in her. And He shall be sanctified in her--like Nineveh, the LORD was sanctified when abominable filth was cast onto her, like such great disgusting dirt as the scum underneath toenails. Possibly the False Prophet.
23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The LORD shall send against Nineveh pestilence and shall hedge her in by her enemies. She shall be greatly afflicted by Zechariah's plague, for being against God's elect. And she will be greatly terrified by it.
24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
And Zidon besets Israel round about, and hedges him in, and is a terror to him. She fights him at every turn, turning him perplexed, and causing him to be greatly ashamed. And she is a thorn against him, and ever plucking against him, and festering. And they despise Israel. But they shall know the LORD is Israel's God, when the LORD Rises up for Battle.
25 Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
And the LORD shall gather Israel, and settle them in their land, and shall give them Beulah and Hephzibah.
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.
When the LORD has executed his fury on Zidon--when he has defiled her with the plagues, and has caused his curse to pass from Israel, and take the cup of trembling from his hand, and give it to his enemies--then shall the Earth know the LORD is our God, when the LORD has given us the desire of our hearts, and has given us the taste of His wedding supper. Then we will be a well planted tree, by great and abundant waters, and spread forth our roots, and extend, and be a covering for many.
Revelation
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Fearful - Perfect love casts out fear, so you shouldn’t have fear. So, develop love, and ask God for love. To increase your love. As only he can bestow love on you.
Unbelieving - Know the LORD. By increasing knowledge of who He is, you’ll know the LORD. And you’ll have belief. By fearing the LORD, and increasing in knowledge, you’ll have more faith, and therefore know the LORD, and believe.
Abominable - By being clean. By doing your work clean, and taking care to keep your body washed, and your thoughts pure. And also by keeping your dwelling place clean.
Murderers - Simple enough. Just don’t murder people. If you for whatever reason compulsively murder people, cut off your hands and feet.
Whoremongers - Likewise, avoid adultery. Your dreams will give you sex, and there you just wash the next day, and stay out of battle. But, if you compulsively must have sex, castrate yourself, or circumcise your member if you’re a woman. Also, make love to your spouse when they need it, so they avoid temptation.
Sorcerers - Don’t use hypnotism. At all. It warps people’s minds, and imaginations, and by using subtle suggestion forced onto someone with will, you deserve to die. Also, don’t use potions—like growth hormones to change your body’s gender, or other things to that effect. You can use medicine, though. Just not to use medicine for unlawful things, like drugs for date rape, or drugs to get high and make you focus or what have you.
Idolaters - By placing everything and everyone in its respective place. Nothing should lead you to sin, so that which does, needs to be lowered below your devotion to God, and therefore place righteousness and purity above your friends, family, peers, and even your possessions. Be charitable, too, as if you place material possessions above your neighbor, you dishonor God.
Liars - Don’t tell a lie. Form the truth in your heart, and meditate on all your witness, whether what you see agrees with reality. And if you do lie, because it is compulsory for you, cut out your tongue, and cut off your hands.
Also I’ll do revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Dogs - Don’t be Homosexuals, those who are dirty and unclean in thoughts and action, those who are fools and return to the same folly they were in previously before they had become saved. Keep your body washed and don’t touch filth, and make sure you don’t stink, and don’t sodomize, or be full of uncontrollable lust.
And whosoever loveth and maketh a lie - If you love a lie—like Transgenderism—then you will be placed in hell. If you love self conceit and riches, and love power, you love a lie. And if you make a lie—a false report, or be a false witness—and you love your false witness, and have no repentant heart, then you will be in hell. If you ever lied, and put in a false report, consider your report, and mull over it every day, and set the record straight. And don’t make reports that do not agree with reality. As the LORD is a LORD of Reality, and is the Logos made into Flesh. You must have reality, to be saved. And you must not make a lie, or publish a lie, and if you do, you must amend the mistake any way you can. So if you lie, by doing theft, then you must restore what you have stolen seven fold
True Christianity
True Christianity is loving the LORD your God with your whole heart, mind, soul and strength. And then loving your neighbor as you love yourself.
So you love God by having self respect, and not defiling your body with tattoos, or piercings, or hair dyes, and not being a drunkard, or being a prostitute, or Homosexual, or Transgender. You love God by not getting bitter or angry or resentful, and taking your lot in life with contentment. You love God by purifying your thoughts and speech and appearance, and not letting it go into the gutter, or watching lewd shows and listening to lewd music. You love God by not putting things before other people or your service to God. You love God by praying to Him in the Spirit, and through loving your neighbor, and being kind, and unselfish toward them. And liberal toward those in need, and satisfying the thirsty soul with their drink, and satisfying the hungry soul with their meat. And you love God through being faithful to your spouse, and gratifying their needs above your own, and serving one another in humility.
Why I Believe
How do you know what’s right without God? If the society told you that murdering infants was justifiable—and we’re about there—would you go along with it? I actually have the opposite problem, I know God exists. It’s just whether He loves me or not, that’s my only question. That I truly don’t know. Because life has been utter misery following Him, but I know the Gospels say that’s what will happen. If it weren’t for the Bible I would be an atheist. It just makes more sense to me than what everyone else is peddling. Because I know there’s need for a higher law and higher judgment to set the balance right, because man is completely incapable of doing it himself. And if it weren’t for Jesus, I’d be an atheist. Moses doesn’t cut it. I need Jesus. As Peter said, “Where shall we turn, you have the words of Eternal life.” And why be good, if no reward follows? That’s the most important question and what trips people up. There is no reward for doing what’s right. In fact, it can often times have the opposite effect, which is isolation and shame. So why do it? You need God to judge, as it makes you a better person from within, to be able to hold yourself accountable and do the right thing—the actual right thing—without worrying about offense to the wider society.
Fragment of a Conversation, a Midrash
Baruch… that’s the Apocrypha. Also the person whom Jeremiah dictated his book to. And Jeremiah told Baruch, not to seek for fame or glory, but his life would be his booty. And that because Babylon was sacking Jerusalem at the time, and was taking the city captive. And the whole country was being taken into Babylon. Where they’d return with Nehemiah and Ezra seventy years later, by decree of Cyrus, prophesied by Isaiah, and build the city walls, and Haggai would command them to rebuild the temple. To which, Herod would commission the temple be renovated, which probably angered God, and led to the city’s destruction in 70AD by Titus. Which scholars say is proof the Bible was written later, but actually, it proves Jesus was a prophet.
The Lawless One
What's interesting about the "Lawless One" is he may be unable to understand law. So, incapable of understanding speech or written word through context. Which is a growing symptom of the modern world, people cannot reach out and understand each other. They cannot draw the context from written language, or spoken language, and understand things beyond the peripheral syntax.
My Conversion from Atheism
I was an atheist off and on for about 6 months. Legitimately, I prayed to God, and said “I don’t believe in you,” and I got back in return “All have alike gone astray, searching after their own things.” Literal thought that went through my mind, I’d never read that in the Bible ever.
So, when I was about 18 into 19 I had a girlfriend. And we were riotous. We were hell on wheels. We were Bonnie and Clyde. We never actually went the whole way, but would get to third base sometimes. But we did that enough. And life was miserable. I couldn’t even remember the day before, let alone my Sunday School lessons from 10 years prior. We didn’t like each other, we cared about each other, but we were a hot mess.
And I was trying to make a Universal Morality. That was my goal, at the Guard shack as I waffled between Atheism and Christianity. It was a real fight. I was really leaning in toward the Atheist side, but really, I was a full blown atheist for a while. Not long… but long enough.
And the reason why I couldn’t be an Atheist… it all amounts to the vacuum left by it. As a philosophy, atheism is morally bankrupt, and can’t really hold anyone accountable. It permits the worst forms of debauchery, and really starves out love. I can’t really eloquently say what I mean, but Atheism destroys the capacity to love and it is extremely selfish. At its root, it will permit anything that the culture allows.
And for one thing, I experimented with homosexuality as a very young boy. So, come to say, I knew it was wrong from having done so. And nobody is going to tell me otherwise. Nothing I ever did that was wrong, wasn’t with the knowledge of it being wrong. And I think the fact that Atheism cannot contend with Homosexuality— at best Homosexuality makes selfish cultures. And I’ve seen it in my own. But, Atheism cannot contend with that. As if you’re atheist, you’re more right to be selfish, and forsake everything and everyone important for your own satisfaction. As there’s no afterlife, or reward or punishment, you might as well treat your friends and family as accessories rather than intrinsic parts of your life.
And I think that is why I’m not an Atheist. Is because it’s too shallow, and cruel, and it doesn’t answer questions about human morality in a way that satisfies me. Like Jesus did.
My Conversion Story
Well… my conversion story is quite fascinating.
From a young age, I was steeped in American Paganism. Santa Clause, Leprechauns, Valentines Day (Cupid), Easter Bunnies, Tooth Fairies, and a little Chinese Zodiac for spice. That was my religion. There on the Chinese Place Mat. And of course Star Wars was real, and Robots were real, and so were aliens—Alf was a real alien on the TV. And I didn’t like Christianity. They taught me in Sunday School, when I was very young, Jesus Loves me. And all I knew about the Bible was that Abraham had lots of children—I thought he bore children with Sarah, literally, the number of the stars. And there were a lot of stars. And of course I thought of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. And of course I was a futurist… I believed in real robots, the robot at the Hospital where my brother was born, was just like R2D2. It had a conscience just like me. And of course I knew the 10 Commandments, the story of Exodus through Charlton Heston’s portrayal of Moses. Literally, that was all I knew.
Fast forward to about 12 or 13, I had Vacation Bible school, where they went through the Gospels, and then Sunday School. I learned the story of Jesus. And I fell in love with the story of Jesus. I heard His Parables, I heard His miracles, I heard everything. And I fell in love with the Gospel. Now, try to tell me about Paul, I would have resisted it. Try to tell me about the wars in the Bible, or the conquest of Canaan, I would have resisted it. It was just Jesus. As is true for any child, we want the pure teachings of Jesus. You know? With American Folk Religion, it’s a lot like Shintoism, where you do good, and be a good person, you go to the better place. You are a bad person, and you do bad things, they can’t be forgiven. You got to the bad place. That was my religion, and Jesus had the best “Good Place” teachings in the world—of course, He’s God’s Son—that was my religion still. I loved Jesus, but didn’t quite understand or grasp the cross. Because up to this point, I hadn’t any reason to grasp it. I was a good person, to my own beliefs,—despite knowing it wasn’t true, which I assume is also true for lots of other people—and there was no reason for me to need forgiveness. Jesus was a good teacher, so if I stayed good, I’d go to heaven.
Well, then I sinned. You can read all about it. I have no secrets. So, after sinning, I started understanding the deeper concepts of the faith. Like Paul. Why we needed forgiveness, was told by Paul. Because we've all sinned. So, where I would have rebelled against Jesus had I known Paul’s teachings before I sinned, after I sinned, I understood why Paul’s teachings were like that.
So, I became a Christian through Jesus—I had that foundation, on the Sermon on the Mount—but I was a flagrant, and unabashed sinner, from about 8 years old to 25. It just came out in various ways. In the later years as self righteousness and vanity.
So, I’d say I knew I had sinned, and needed God’s mercy, and so I started believing in Paul. Get me to accept the Torah, I needed more time for that. The fact that God told Israel to enslave and destroy entire cultures would be a while, before I understood that. But, that I’ll get to.
So, around I’d say 20 I was really confronted with my sin. Maybe even 21. I had confronted it, and then decided to get into a Messianic Jewish Cult. And started all this sacred name, and observing feasts, and Sabbaths, and abstaining from food. Which taught me about Jewish Culture a lot—so as a fast, it was very educational. I have a root in Hebrew culture, knowing from having lived it, what it’s actually like. Although, at this time, I confessed my sin to a police officer, and ended up on Sex Offender Probation and in jail for five months, and a registry for 10 years. Which, goes to show, being 14 doesn’t mean squat to the police, neither does a repentant conscience. They don’t care. So, just a fair warning to those of you out there thinking they will. They won’t. Just take your lashes, and accept your life.
Then around 23, I went to a Baptist church, who taught me all the Old Testament. And although the Preacher was a very knowledgeable person, we didn’t really mix. We were oil and vinegar. But, he taught me a bedrock of the story of the Prophets. Which comprises about 1/3 of the entire Bible. I had known the Gospel, and Exodus, but didn’t know that, and that was foundational. And when I was in Jail, I listened to Jay Vernon McGee, and he taught me exegesis on the Old Testament. And then a chaplain in there told me to read Galatians, and I realized my Hebrew Roots movement was not what the Gospel was preaching. In fact, Jesus was clear, not to mix the leaven of the Old Covenant with the New. So as I was once in a Subway talking to a gentleman about grace—he was a very mature Christian—I let him eat his pork, because I was acknowledging I was doing a fast. Which taught me a lot… it gave me a great knowledge, and I’d say for anyone who wants to do a fast following the Torah for some period do it, and study the Hebrew Culture, you’ll really identify with it. But also, eat the Calamari at Baltimore. You might never have that chance again.
So, then I found the Apostolic Fathers, and Martyrs Mirror, and The Old Testament Apocrypha, and Mesopotamian History around the time I turned 30… and that’s about the time I started getting it right, and getting it back again. Slowly, I’m turning into the best of all my forms, and hopefully I only grow. Because I think being connected with the faith, in its historicity—studying the Martyrs, ANE history, and the evidence and the Apocrypha and the Church Fathers—I think it connected me back to a faith that, getting to the first part, was in the world around me, I just didn’t embrace it. But, it was the prevailing religion, and everyone I knew believed it. And it made a such better world, and I remember it being without eccentricity, and sober, and also very loving. And I think that was ultimately what converted me, was knowing that love, and associating it with Christianity. As without Christianity, I wouldn’t have known that love.
Now, getting to the Torah, why does God call His people to war? Well, I’ve seen the world grow shallow, and dark, and I think that’s the last lesson on a Christian’s journey. It’s an entire cycle. You know in Star Wars, Luke Skywalker kills Storm Troopers. You know? You know the Empire is evil. It’s just, tasting that evil, you have to understand it must be resisted with bloodshed sometimes. So, you begin to look at youth, and see they are corrupted too, and you realize that there must be a time for war. And it’s inevitable that it happens, so there' isn’t an overwhelming amount of suffering for a particular people. As when righteousness abounds, there’s peace. But, when there’s great wickedness, there’s war. And good people have to fight… and when there is no more good people, the good people have to lay down their lives as Martyrs. As is what happened under Rome.
As Christ said, “I came not to bring peace, but the Sword,” And that, because the sword provides a way for peace to be restored.
But in-between that, you realize that there must be forgiveness, and mercy. That’s where many stop. Is at Jesus, when He’s the beginning. And His second coming at Armageddon is the End, along with His Millennial Kingdom where there cannot be sin.
If They Can Sell a Poop Stain
If they can sell a poop stain hung up in an art museum--and they can--they can sell a story with digression. People in power make these rules to stop people from thinking. It's like a chain, where influencers come up with some shifty idea, and then indoctrinate their followers, until it spreads like a virus. And most of the 21st century's main concepts and ideas are just that, that's why there's so much violence right now.