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.

Treatment of the Poor from Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

The meaning of this, is that the gleanings of your income are for the poor and dispossessed classes. So the 1/10000 of a cent the average taxpayer spends on someone like me, works through this charity. We’re not supposed to be so greedy that we can’t lend a little to the poor, including through Law.

Deuteronomy 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

So in the Jewish Tradition, they had sabbatical years, where they forgave all debts. The Seventh Year, was always a year for forgiving debts. So, this means that debts should be forgiven past a certain point. And because of this, the poor are to be loaned what they need, and pay back whatever they can when they are profited. And the rest is to be forgiven when the Sabbatical Year comes.

Laws Concerning Captive Wives

10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

Sell Her H4376 - sell away,
A primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender) -- X at all, sell (away, -er, self).

Make Merchandise H6014 - bind sheaves, make merchandise of
A primitive root; properly, apparently to heap; figuratively, to chastise (as if piling blows); specifically (as denominative from omer) to gather grain -- bind sheaves, make merchandise of.

On Good and Bad People

I think a good person doesn’t think one way or another about themselves. They don’t say, “Yeah, I’m a good person.” Because that's a sure sign they’re not. Nor do they say, “You know, I’m awful.” Although that’s often the first step to becoming good.

I’d say bad people don’t really feel like they’re bad. They feel like they’re good. I’ve met lots of people through the internet. Maybe about a score of a thousand of them. It’s the ones who cannot understand how evil they are—and you hear it in all of their words—that really are the ones who raise the hairs on the back of my neck. You know they’re dangerous… you can just sense it, and they’ll lash out at you for anything you say to them. I’ve ministered the gospel to a lot of these people, and surely enough, they’re always the ones that bring up the verses about slavery and genocide—because that’s the part of the Bible that judges them for their sin. And they’ll twist scripture in ways that totally distort its meaning, saying they have it all answered. And normally, these same people think they’re actually good. I honestly think if those people were good, they’d understand a lot more than they presume.

Or the ones who say, “There’s moral atheists,” are the same ones who will say that morals are subjective and man made, which begs the question, if something like “Cannibalism” were normative in the culture, and they ate human meat, would they still call themselves moral? The answer is yes they would, because they already justify murder through abortion and LGBT lifestyle, despite it being so gross. They include that in their knowledge of philosophy. It’s a mind game. “I know moral atheists” is as valid a statement as “I know moral cannibals.” It's just if the culture deems it, so it is, and they perfectly validate it through those means, throwing out the millennia of natural religion that saw those things as aberrant. For instance, in Greek and Latin they didn’t even have a word for the behavior, Paul had to literally make it up. That's how abnormal LGBT is. But, it’s being spun that it’s perfectly normal, but there’s been laws against it many times in history, often for the fact that it crops up, and usually perverts everyone and causes stupid thoughts to arise in people, that leads to selfish behavior, and then every human atrocity ever imagined.

So, generally, I don't think bad people have the capacity to know they’re bad. And I’ve always noticed the absolute worst sorts of offenders, truly believe they’re good people, or they call themselves “Moral.” I truly don’t see moral people anywhere. I did when I was younger, see moral people. But that was with Christianity. I’ve seen two moral Muslims. But generally, we’re all sinners, in need of salvation. And that’s who Christ is, is to take our punishment into His flesh, because no one is good.

Metric Versus Imperial

It's actually not a mess. Quarts, Pints and Gallons are perfect for portioning. Inches and Feet are based off of Cubits, which come from human hands and feet. Yards, Leagues, Furlongs and Miles have their reason for existing, as they're actually intuitive for the way spatial distances work. Pound and Fahrenheit, too, 100 Degrees sounds hot, whereas 37 degrees doesn't, and pounds are a good weight standard based on the Roman Libra. It actually makes people more intelligent, having that. It requires more work to get it right, so it makes it more likely that people will do the math correctly. And it's based off of human things. It's also pretty. Just saying, George Orwell talks about it in 1984, one of his characters are complaining about the metric system, and would prefer pints and quarts. 

It's really based off of human needs, the Imperial System. Like our intuitive way of understanding things, in relation to our bodies. Meters are kind of sterile, but have their use I guess. Everything standardized into base 10. Like a Yard is more fitted to Phi, also, than a Meter. Because it's based on the human proportion, so it aesthetically looks more pleasing. A Mile, also, is more intuitive to human minds because it's based on yards, which are based on proportions made from the human body. It's more humane, and fits our minds better. People are creative, and certain things are fixed better in our minds. Imperial is more poetic.

I mean, actually, it might actually make a difference in the way our furniture and things work, too. Inches and feet are based off the human body, where meters aren't, so it develops more intuitive designs in everything we make.

I mean, for an astronaut in space, Meters might be better... but for a carpenter, trying to make something beautiful, Inches are better. Because it forms exactly to the human body.