Category: Ministry

On Christmas and Easter and Other American Holidays

My brethren, understand that Christmas is a Christian holiday, and genetic fallacies don’t matter. I have read the Bible, and have taken explicit care to read Paul, who spent the entirety of his mission dispelling the kind of nonsense predominant among believers today, who wish to yoke themselves back to Judaism. It’s not productive, and is counter the will of God. What does it harm a man or child to celebrate Christmas? Nothing. What does it harm to fight against it? It helps suppress Christ and the truth, and makes the unbeliever resentful.



We’re also forbidden from observing the Law. We don’t have to anymore. We’re under a New Priesthood of Faith and not Works of the Law. So you Judaizers, by celebrating Passover, incur just as much wrath—if not far more—than my celebrating Christmas. You may also be forever marked by the Old Covenant if you practice it as your sacrifice, as certainly, Passover involved the sacrifice of the Passover lamb, who is Jesus; which, is why we celebrate Easter. We eat of the Passover at the Eucharist, and not on Passover anymore.



Do you let the uncircumcised eat at your seder? If not, you also incur strict wrath, as the circumcision is no longer in the flesh, but in Baptism. Repent.



With a change of Priesthood, comes a change in Law, for the priesthood being changed, it is necessary to change the law also.

My Theology for the Philadelphia Lutheran Synod, Which I Wish to Establish Someday

First, I attest to the three oldest creeds of the faith.
The Athanasian Creed, the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Second, I believe in John Bunyan's understanding of Calvanism.
I believe we are sealed by God, through the predestination of His election,
And that we must hold onto our Seal, lest we succumb to death by rejecting Christ.
I believe every man, woman and child are called and written into the book of life
Until they have sinned, and were thereby separated. 
Yet, by accepting the LORD Jesus, our names are rewritten back into the book of life.
If we lose our profession of faith, our names will be blotted out of the book of life.
I believe in the Millennial Kingdom, as prophesied in Isaiah, Ezekiel and Revelation;
That it is its own distinct time and dispensation
Meant to give sustenance to those who've suffered in this life; that they shall then gain the things of this world during Christ's reign, and it will be so that the Meek inherit the Earth.
I believe in dispensations, that first men had a vapor of knowledge that God exists
And later, God would reveal Himself to Abraham, and Moses, the Prophets and finally reveal Himself unto Death as Christ Jesus, and furthermore through the Apostles.
I believe works of charity are integral for salvation. If one has sustenance, they must give to the poor, and have a deep desire to do so.
I believe that the Old Covenant is what Jesus referred to as "Finished", 
And that when Paul says "Works" he means "Works" pertaining to the Mosaic Covenant.
I believe in the direct revelation of Prophets and Faith Healings and Tongues---
That all these gifts are still active today.
I do not believe the Bible is literally inerrant, because I believe it must be that men do not worship it above God.
I believe God's law is inherent, and can be observed by those outside of the church, and even discovered and witnessed.
I believe in the Miracles of Genesis, and that God's Omnipotence is above my own understanding.
I believe the morals set down by Christ and His Apostles are the law we must follow, and that the Mosaic Law in the Old Testament we must abstain from following.
I believe every man, woman and child deserves a sentence of death, as described in the Mosaic law, and this is why Christ accomplished grace at the cross, for even disobeying the Sabbath---who is Christ---is a penalty worthy of death.
I believe in the Old Liturgy and Hymns over newly created ones, save that the hymns have rich theology based in the Holy Prophecies of Christ.
I believe the Rapture is at the 6th bowl of wrath, as is prophesied by Christ and John.
I believe that if I hold onto these beliefs, and never reject them, and all others taught by God through the Holy Scripture and Prophets and Saints, that I shall never see nor taste of death, and I shall never need suffer through the seven years of tribulation.
I believe in laying no barriers to Baptism, save a confession that Jesus is the LORD, that He raised, and a confession of the Trinity.
I believe true salvation is evidenced by a deep desire to Fear God's name, and walk in His commandments.
I believe in the Fruit of the Spirit, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, Self Control, Goodness and Faithfulness are gifts from God, and come from no other source but through God, and are the evidence of the faith.
I believe that I am a sinner, guilty of capital punishment and therefore guilty of hellfire, and so need God's grace to return unto Him, and walk a perfect walk with an unstained conscience.

This is the list of beliefs one must have to be a member of the Church of Philadelphia.

The Mark of the Beast

Let the Wise Man Calculate his Number
For it is the Number of a Man:
That man's name is "Sin".
Sin separates the Spirit from one's soul and body,
Therefore, making one two thirds of a man.
The Sin in us, when one embraces it over God's righteousness
Turns us into a monster like Nero.
One becomes a pedant and hated by God,
Unable to divine the Word in anything,
And is unable to see any truth, and can
See a thing, only in its most literal sense.
One sees Solomon's Gold, and trifle for the riches of this world.
One counts Adonikam's Children, and stop believing the Word of God.
One then, at the end, subject one's soul and flesh to the Mark of the Beast
And are given an instrument of death, embedded in one's flesh.
And one can no longer do one's business, without this instrument,
And every thought and deed of one's mind, is wicked and abhorrent in the sight of God.
Let all who now say, "The Man of Wisdom calculates the Number of the Beast."

Wisdom is our lover, and our friend, the Word of God
And She preaches to us the way of life, and becomes our Beulah
For ever and ever. Amen, she is exceedingly beautiful
And a crown adorned on the head of the saints.
Take your crown from Wisdom, and flee the Mark of the Beast
Lest you be crowned on the forehead with a brazen mark of sin,
And adorned on your hand, a brazen spot in the flesh.

Dear, Jay Vernon McGee

Dear,
Pastor McGee

I love you brother, with my whole heart. You are the soundest teacher I'd ever listened to. Your knowledge of the Bible is unrivaled.

On the inerrancy of the Bible, both of us have made a diligent search of its claims, and found them to be satisfied by direct evidence. However, there are some errors in the Bible--by Modernist standards--but those errors exist to eschew the pedant from making doctrines from small matters.

On the continuance of the Miraculous... there are still miracles. But, I agree with you that the church has turned itself into a circus, and defer that I have seen magic tricks at some church services, where the congregants were fooled into believing miracles happened, when they really didn't. However... there are still miracles.

On works, the Christian is to have a change of heart. And is to do good works. They are to do what's right in all circumstances, and abstain from sin. By the Spirit's guidance, is a man made right before God, and enabled to walk according to God's grace and power unto righteousness.

These are my only disturbances when listening to Baptist preaching... but the Word of God is supreme above all else, and the Divine Logos preeminent among all things, to give order and sense to God's creation, and thereby, empower the soul to do good, and thereby, establish themselves in good works and faith. For, by faith, we are enabled to do good works. And those works are precious in the sight of God.

Sincerely,
Brandon

On The Romance of Heaven

{...}Jerusalem in the Prophetic Texts is a story about our salvation. The Narrative of the Daughter of Zion throughout Biblical Prophecy, and how she’s besieged due to sin. It takes on individual and societal metaphors.

But, in the Eschatological framework of the Old Testament, you notice that Israel and Judah are besieged, and taken to Babylon, right? And then the Jews are restored in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah? Well, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah are our conversion to the Holy City.

Before we’re saved, we’re besieged by Sin, and depending on how bad it is, determines what level of punishment we receive. As, we all receive correction from the LORD. But, when we accept Christ, we’re restored to the Heavenly Kingdom, and receive the Kingdom as a reward. And in this life, we need to rebuild our walls, through the Spirit’s guidance.

I wouldn’t really say we ought to view God romantically, but there’s definitely a romance involving salvation. If you need to desire Heaven in that way, it’s not a sin.

On the KJV, and Why It’s Still a Superior Translation

The KJV is probably the one translation I would trust, in English, to get everything right. It has no omissions, footnotes, or even circumlocutions. It has the right word, based on a deep study of the text. In every circumstance where a Modern Bible retranslates a verse, the KJV had it right, and it actually preserves the older meaning.

Not to mention, if one can reach proficiency at understanding the KJV, the world of literature opens up to that person. By reading KJV English, you can read Spencer, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Longfellow... the entire corpus of English Literature opens up to them, and a wealth of knowledge becomes accessible.

One of the strange things about English right now, is it's destroying its own language by making word order its simplest form, which leaves people with an inability to access works of literature, in their original wordings. Which means, much of the nuance of a text is lost in translation into Modern English, whereas in the King James Version, you get a Word for Word translation in the nuances of the original language.

And where you may find a modern scholar skeptical of a word, where they'll replace it with another, the KJV is based on older manuscripts that are no longer extant. The KJV is actually more trustworthy than modern Jewish Bibles, it's more trustworthy than any other translation--short of the Geneva Bible or Tindale--and it doesn't destroy the syntax or meaning, but preserves them. 

The obvious fact is, many of our modern translations, use more current manuscripts from extant Jewish and Greek. Back when the KJV was translated, they had earlier manuscripts of both Greek and Hebrew to work with, making the translation far more faithful to the original tongue. Many political reasons have caused the Jewish People to retranslate their bible, and basically destroy the nuance, and the exceedingly clear passages of Christ, for on every occasion where Christ would shine through, Jewish Bibles, and now Christian Bibles, have obscured it from the original language, where it was clear.

The KJV is a superior translation, to any other Bible out on the market. The fact is, if one can read the KJV, they can read any literature in English. The KJV is, also, a very accurate translation, based on older and more accurate manuscripts (Ones without political designs, like the Masoretic Text or Codex Leningrad). And the KJV was the only Bible to date, in the English Tongue, written to make peace. All other Bibles were written with political or profit motives... the KJV was authorized to be apolitical, and be a chief translation, with only itself to bear. It had no political motives, it had no reason for existing, other than to unite English Speakers, and it had no profit motive, as nobody was going to make money from the book.

For this reason, I elevate the King James Version above all other Bible Translations, and would promote it as the chief Translation of the Faith in English.

Interesting URLS

https://www.jstor.org/stable/275162



http://dssenglishbible.com/psalms%2022.htm



https://zmin.org/hebrew-letter-meanings#%3A~%3Atext%3DThe%20origin%20of%20the%20Hebrew%2Cbeth%20did%20mean%20%E2%80%9Chouse%E2%80%9D.



https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-023-00920-9



https://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/454/jbq_454_FriedmanAmenhotepzz.pdf

On Animal Intelligence and the Separation of Man from the Beast

Elephants are cool. They’re probably the second most intelligent species on the planet. Some people say Chimps, but Elephants are the only other species, that can have existential dread. They can also paint, too. It’s like a five year old’s painting, but Elephants are insanely smart.

Dogs are pretty smart, too. They can develop a sense of humor.

And there’s a bonobo who plays mine craft. But, the bonobo doesn’t build in minecraft, or use it as a cathexis; it’s more trained to do things, and then get a snack. That’s its only interest in the game, is the real world reward. An elephant might, if it could, play minecraft as a cathexis, which makes them doubly unique. Which is why you see it enjoying the zoo like a human would.

You also wouldn’t believe the number of animals that can process language, or communicate with humans. Dogs do it all the time, so do cats, parrots have been known to have verbal processing, same with some Crows and Ravens, so do Chimps, Gorillas, Bonobos. But, the Elephant is unique above all of them, because it has a capacity to understand its own mortality, and also a need for catharsis and cathexis. Like, it has an imagination, which is unique among animals, because we don’t have that recorded in any other animal. Dolphins we know have senses of humor, but they still don’t have imaginations. Not that we’ve recorded.

I don’t think any other animal, beside man, has the capacity for reason, though. The capacity to abstract something into principles of algebra or calculus. Dogs can do addition, and I’m sure some animals can do basic arithmetic, but I think there’s no animal that can do Algebra. So, I do think the ancients were right, that man is the only creature with capacity for reason. That is, as a fleshly entity. Or the capacity to take concrete principles, and reason them by abstraction to more complex concrete principles.

Which was the foundation of the Declaration of Independence, that prosperity, liberty and life were self evident virtues, and it validated the revolution, as Britain was using taxation, as a way to police communications. They were also policing the colonists, and committing heinous acts of terror. But, the Townsend and Stamp Acts were nefarious because they were paid in a foreign currency unavailable to the Colonists, and it was directed at basic necessities like glass and stationaries. But, our capacity to know such a thing is unlawful, and our capacity to reason to these principles—and transfer them down through written history—is what separates man from beast. You wouldn’t know that today, as man acts more like a beast with every passing day, and their regressions of knowledge and reason, and their incapacity to put things together and form more complex understanding.

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There's actually a long standing tradition in the church--from the time of Augustine--that the "Days" in Genesis weren't literal days. And if you follow the Biblical account of Genesis 1, it does resemble, perfectly, the order Evolution would have occurred. Just saying... you don't have to stop believing in God because of evolution. That's a cop out argument, and is weak sauce. It just means you didn't want to believe in the first place.

Oh boy... Greeks used to speculate on Evolution. It's a concept as far back as 500 bc, in Pre-Ionian Philosophy.

But, I mean, the idea that the universe is self sufficient is an idea even older than that. Just about every known era of philosophy in history, dealt with it at some level. I do believe, philosophers like Aristotle and Plato had refuted the idea of the Universe's self Autonomy a long time ago. As did Aquinas and Augustine. As did Pythagoras, even before Aristotle or Plato. Pythagoras saw God in the figures of Geometry, that there was a coherent sense in the universe, that could only be sufficed by a designer. Like it will blow your mind, but Set Theory and Geometry are perfectly aligned. The same logic which defines sets, can be defined in length, width and breadth in Geometry. That's some pretty interesting stuff, there... that it can happen like that. It's never been refuted, and can't be. You can even expand that concept to Chemistry, Physics and just about everything that can be described. The sense that the same logic can be used to describe anything, shows a design to the universe. Like, the principles of Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication can be used to describe all that exists, if ordered in the right manner. That's what blows my mind. The Rational. And then the empirical is the number. The rational exists through the numbers and how they relate to one another. Reason is like a predicate, and empiricism like a subject or object. I digress.