The True Artist Lives By His Art, or Dies. He Does No Harm to Anyone for not Receiving Him.
Covered in duct tape,
One sliver of tape across the top of its binding,
That’s split in the middle to the original black cover—
Revelation Chapter 22 falls out every time it’s opened.
It’s ten inches in height,
Five and a half in length,
Two and a half in depth.
There is an inch and a half tear
In the top corner of the binding
On the back cover.
The Duct tape frays at every edge.
Its pages curl on the corners.
It’s very flexible.
Weighs about eight ounces.
Did you know, oh wise men
Akhenaten was the
Cruel Pharaoh of Egypt?
The years of kings, judges
And the exiles, come
Well within error’s mark?
Did you know, oh wise men
That Abraham is said
To have lived during
Mesopotamia’s
Time? Hamurabi’s code
Was codified right when
Abraham’s said to live?
Could ancient writers be
So precise, or have so
Much knowledge to do
These two miraculous
Things? I say they couldn’t.
Abraham appears at
The first description of
The Law, and Aten’s Cult
Appears right when Moses
Parted the large Red Seas?
Could it be anything
Less than a miracle?
One of the reasons the enemy is so cruel
Is that he knows when men are wicked
God will send plagues for their evening gruel.
Thus, he further disheartens mankind
When men lose faith and trust in the lies
They have no rhyme or reason to know what has been done.
This plague we are suffering is from God the Father, Spirit and Son.
Thus, the enemy will use it to bray
And to say, “There is no God, for why would He send a plague?”
They, in eternal hatred and strife
Will say, “We had done everything we could to hide
“You during this wicked outbreak.”
However, there is a God, this proves it is so.
For men are being wicked, and God has here shown
That men were falling away from the faith.
My children, do not be, I say do not be afraid.
So when Antichrist is in power for aught
He will take advantage of every plague when God’s wroth.
In the scripture,
It says “The Law Converts the Heart.”
Abstract theories of the universe cannot sway
A man to believe in Christ.
If the stem of a banana is a cola tap.
We cannot be Dr. Pangloss.
Because I believe wholly that the Law of God is
The measure by which we preach.
“Have you stolen?”
Yes.
“Have you blasphemed?”
Yes.
“Do you know that every blasphemy leaves a permanent stain?”
No.
At this my face flushed red.
“Have you ever looked at a woman with lust?”
No.
“Your friend says you’re lying.”
I blush even more.
“Have you called your brother a fool?”
Many times.
“That is the same as murder to God.”
“Have you ever told a lie about someone?”
Yes.
“Whose work do you rely on to get into heaven.”
My own.
“Well, that is breaking the Sabbath. That carries a death sentence.”
“Have you ever wanted something that someone else owned?”
Yes.
“Have you ever made an idol?”
“No, I never did that.”
“So, you never put your popularity above a relationship with a friend?”
Well, yes.
“What do you think caused you to do that?”
Idolatry.
“Have you ever been ashamed of Jesus in public?”
No.
“So, you could walk up to anyone on this boardwalk, and talk about Jesus?”
Yes.
“Why not him?”
Okay, no.
“Wouldn’t you call that Idolatry?”
“Have you ever worshiped another God?”
No, never. I always believed in Jesus.
“So, you never sinned?”
Well, I sinned.
“Then when you were sinning, were you putting Jesus above everything else?”
No.
“Then, you have worshiped other gods.”
“Have you ever dishonored your father or mother.”
No.
“Have you ever done something directly to disobey them?”
Yes.
“Then you have dishonored your father and mother.”
Yes.
“Then you have just admitted to breaking every one of God’s commandments.”
Yes.
“What are you going to do to be saved?”
Can’t God forgive me?
“He can, if you put Jesus on as a parachute, as Ray Comfort says,
“Or as Jeremiah says, you don’t carry the burden of your sin on your shoulder
“During the Sabbath.
“Because it is a weight too burdensome for a man to carry,
“And we need Jesus to carry our sins for us, not us.”
Why?
“Because it makes you a better person when you’re forgiven
“Than when you are trying to pay back what is owed.
“When you’re forgiven, you do things out of the kindness of your heart.
“When you have to do good as a matter of paying back debt
“You are always doing what is good because you feel that it is your debt
“And you are not doing it from a desire to be good.
“You are being good to save yourself,
“And you are not being good because it is good.”
Well, I believe in evolution, so it disproves the Bible.
“Does evolution disprove the Bible?”
Yes, it’s impossible for the Bible to be true.
“Cannot you believe in evolution and the Bible, too?”
No.
“Is the world flat?”
No.
“How do you know this.”
Because of science.
“Yet, have you ever been to the moon to prove the earth is a sphere?”
No.
“So, how do you know that the Earth is actually a sphere.”
I don’t know.
“You’ve heard from people who’ve witnessed it first hand, haven’t you?”
Yes.
“Well, what about the billions more people who’ve witnessed God’s power, or at the very least have witnessed evil?”
I guess, but what does that have to do with anything?
“Well, if more people have witnessed good, and more people have witnessed evil, than have witnessed that the earth is round, why wouldn’t you believe them?”
I don’t know.
“Because it’s silly to believe that the Earth is flat. We’ve been to space to prove that the Earth is round. And more people have witnessed that there is good than have witnessed that the earth is round. So, why would you doubt the billions of people who’ve had experiences with good and evil?”
Well, they’re all crazy.
“Isn’t it more likely that you are crazy, if billions more people have witnessed these things? Wouldn’t you think that the small minority of people who claim to have never witnessed it, are indeed lying, or at the very least deluded? What’s the definition of a delusion?”
I don’t know.
“It’s a false belief. And do you know what evidence we have to believe?”
No.
“Witness testimony all around the world. If you go to Africa, they’re going to know that murder is wrong. If you go to Asia they’re going to know that rape is wrong. In some places, very few, they don’t know this, but the majority of people know God’s law. It’s written in their hearts. And if you’re going to discredit all of those witness testimonies based on a couple hundred Scientist’s opinions, what would you call that?”
Smart.
“No! I’d call it insane!”
How do you know that other people aren’t right, and you’re wrong?
“Because I have God’s law in the Bible, and it speaks into the very nature of sin, and repentance, and has the only way to get right, which is to trust in God. If there were another way to be saved, than all mankind would be doing what’s right just to be saved. That can’t be right, can it?”
No.
“Then, how do you think people ought to be saved?”
By doing what’s right because they want to, not because they have to.
“Now do you understand why you need Jesus?”
I think.
“Why do you think there is a hell?”
Because some people want to live in sin.
“Will you put your trust in the LORD Jesus Christ today?”
There were two men.
One of the men murdered
One of the men committed adultery
One of the men blasphemed unto death
One of the men had made fraudulent oaths.
The other did none of this
But rather had unbelief.
The first man,
Seeing he had been pardoned for all of his sin
Decided that it was good.
So, he lived his days securely
Never in fear of judgment.
He spent his days cheerfully
Giving to the poor and receiving nothing in return.
He builded houses and churches and places of rest
For the poor, and thanked God every day
That his blasphemies, oaths, murders and adulteries all were forgiven.
For, he was happy that he was permitted to do his good deeds in the name of the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The second man
He did not see a reason to be pardoned from his sins.
He decided that he was good.
So, he lived his days securely
Never in fear of human justice.
He spent his days cheerfully
Not giving much to the poor, but rather expected every borrowed thing to be returned in measure,
As was the custom.
He did not thank God, but rather thanked himself
For all of the provisions he had stored up for himself.
He was happy, and decided that he did good deeds enough,
Sufficient that he had never thought he had sinned.
It came to a time when both men died,
The righteous man with the hypocrite.
The Father asked the first man,
“What had you done?”
The man replied,
“Nothing father.”
The LORD said,
“Well done good and faithful servant.”
The Father asked the second man,
“What had you done?”
The man replied,
“Oh, Father, I made a fortune, and blessed myself upon the Earth.”
The LORD said,
“What had you done with your sustenance?”
The man said,
“Well, I spent it for my stomach.”
The Father said,
“What of the poor?”
The man said,
“I’ve given some to the poor.”
The Father said,
“Yet, I have another man who had just died today.
“He had given much to the poor, more than his ten percent.
“Though, he had never made much, nor blessed himself
“On the earth, he was neither rich, nor satisfied with his life
“Except in his giving.”
The man then said,
“Well, what must I do to be saved?”
The LORD said,
“Be gone, I never knew you, you proud and wicked servant.”
Faith is substantive.
People say, “Just believe it, and it will come true.”
This is not true.
If there is no truth in what you believe
It will not come true.
That is why faith is the “Substance of things hoped for
“The evidence of things unseen.”
There must be evidence.
If there is no evidence, then there can be no substance
To the hope, therefore, it is not faith.
Faith is not blind.
It is substantive
That there is evidence to believe
What is to be believed,
And that the things you hope for are true.
When hopes are true,
And there is substance to the hope,
And the evidence proves that the hope is true…
Then, there can be faith that what is hoped for is true.
Willing into existence something ex nihilo
Doesn’t work. There must be a tangible
String of real continuity.
It is what separates a mental illness
From mere anxiety.
The mental illness, there is no string of faith
To make the delusion real.
Or, rather, perhaps the faith in the delusion
Is that it is true, and that is your punishment.
Or, perhaps the delusion is positive,
And perhaps there is some faith
To believe the delusion,
And the delusion turns out to be true.
Rather, faith is convincing because of the evidence of substance
On which we hope for something.
It is why Christians are fundamentally wrong.
They cite Moses in Exodus.
But, could Moses have truly walked into those lands?
Was his people able to do so?
Were they able to conquer giants?
The answer is no.
There was no substance of good
In them, because they were all taken into idolatry.
Therefore, the movement into lands
Hostile, and filled with giant men would have been impossible.
Therefore, they all died.
Not because they didn’t move,
But because their hearts were given to idols.
Likewise, when you see a hope dangled out in front of you
And it is retracted,
The best measure of business is to assess that there was no faith
In the hope. There was no evidence of substance to be a reason to hope.
As, faith is logical—
It is not blind.
Rather, if faith is blind it leads to the kinds of issues we see today
Of men zealously trying to climb a corporate ladder
In order to garner the success they so desire.
Faith is not magic.
Faith, rather, is what is.
If something is believed so stongly
As to move a man,
It could very well be a delusion that moves him.
It is not faith.
With that, there is plenty of evidence
That Christ is the LORD.
My faith is built on moral observations
And nothing less.
The world moves,
Invisibly,
To the laws set in my holy scripture.
Men behave the way it predicts.
It tells me what I already know to be true.
It doesn’t invent a morality for me,
But affirms the one I already know.
Bad people are bad,
And must be destroyed.
Good people are good,
And must be blessed.
There are a lot of bad people who get nothing bad in their lives.
There are a lot of good people who get nothing good in their lives.
But, it’s up to good people
To make sure other good people stay good
By encouraging them,
And being there in their sufferings.
That is what separates a good Christian from a bad Christian,
Is that a good Christian will see the destitute
And have compassion on them.
They will read their law
And see violence was done away with
When Jehoakim and Manasseh broke the Everlasting Covenant.
No longer are we to slaughter infants in battle.
Rather, the patience of the saints is that they will not
Fight, nor lead a man into captivity.
Rather, it is Christ who will kill
On His second arrival.
And will He find faith on the earth?
Your god came from Sin.
Muhammad based his god on the
God of Zoroastrianism.
That God was influenced by the Jews.
The Jews who worship the God of Jacob,
Isaac and Abraham.
That God had the power to write Babylon’s destruction on the wall.
But, Muhammad made it another god that you worshiped.
If you want to get the idols out of your heart,
Then stop bowing down to an empty precept.
Because the Zoroasters were Cambyses the II’s
Response to the Monotheism of his father Cyrus,
Who conquered Babylon when Nebunadarian raised Sin
Above the pantheons.
Cyrus who freed the Jews,
And who worshiped the God of the Jews,
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The God of Abraham is el,
Given to him as a name by Melchizedek.
When the heir was passed to Isaac,
It was then given to them as a covenant to the LORD.
But Muhammad stripped the Covenant of Isaac and Jacob from his people
Meaning that he still worshiped el,
Who is Allah,
Who is Baal.
The Covenant which held the Messiah’s seed
Was given to Isaac, and Jacob;
To strip them from the Covenant
Is to strip Christ from salvation
And worship a false, and also not living god.
Jesus is my LORD,
Always.
How I love Him so.
My Christ is my redeemer.
I love Him more than my life.
I love Him more than my soul’s greatest desire.
I will love Him, for He is good to me.
To give me stories to speak
And great awesome hidden things and wonder.
Jesus is my LORD
Forever, Amen.
Bear with me in my foolishness,
That we may find what is my sin.
I am poor, so therefore live with my brother
According to the ordinance of Leviticus 25.
I have worked the hours of a day laborer
These past ten years, but have not been recompensed for my labor.
I cry out for my labors, yet the peoples say, “He is prophesying for gain!”
I prophesy because of the labors stolen from many of the poor of my people
Who go about their tasks, but become too meek to make meat
For none will take them into their homes.
In fact, even brothers, when they see the poor are struggling
Conspire together to cast him from his home
And band together to seek his life, and to throw his soul into prison.
Yet, the people say, “The prophet preaches for gain.”
If I do, then the gain is only for you;
Do I have need of riches in great abundance?
For I want the poor to be upheld on this earth
And to eat, and drink, and be satisfied with good.
The people say,
“The prophet preached his good works
“And has given a publishing of the free will offerings.”
Have I? I have compared myself to you. Yes.
Perhaps I am a hypocrite.
I lay this to bear, that perhaps I am,
Having suffered much for the Christ
And spoken with the Apostles
And also with the Prophets.
Have I suffered like Paul?
Was I scourged? Was I cast into prison?
No, but all I love have stopped their ears from listening to my mourning
And have plotted to throw my soul into prison.
I feared continually, every day, that I would be cast onto the street, to be a vagabond,
Where I will certainly perish and die, for I am meek.
I have none to uphold me, except men who have despised my soul.
This is not the suffering of Paul, it is correct.
Rather, those I have loved and trusted have despised me;
And what I would have to liberate me from this strife
Those who despise me more and more would not liberate my sustenance from the hand of thieves.
I have been under investigation for a word;
I have been spied on for a word
And every word has been taken into account
Even my secret prayers.
They come to pass, and I say, “Who, who has done this?
“Is it not the LORD?”
And I wonder at the deep revelation that this is.
Yet, my wages are not liberated.
And war will not liberate them.
Rather, who is it that will liberate my wages from those who have robbed me?
Have I taken a loan on usury? Is this why I am being robbed?
Is there any way in which I have committed a fraud?
No more than they do who call themselves “Prudent.”
I say this, “Where is my wage? Why am I still under my brother’s roof?
“I have worked my day labor. I have given myself to work and labor,
“But now I am too wearied, and all my clothings are rags
“And I cannot but sleep, for I have no task throughout the day.
“I cannot dig, but I can offer counsel and aid to the poor.
“Where is my wage? Where is my price?
“I will use it unjustly?—is this why they try to devour my sustenance?
“Must I be with those who have despised my soul?”
The LORD said unto me,
“Do not worry, for I shall bring you the sustenance you desire
“And you will not fear the Heathen who tormented you any longer.”
I say to myself, “It will not be. Will not my soul be among the jackals,
“And my heart among the thorns forever?”
The LORD says, “Oh ye of little faith, believe, and it will be established.
“For your word is Mine, and I shall establish it in its time, will you not see it?”
I then say to the LORD, “Yes LORD, You will establish my work, but how long?”
The LORD says, “No longer will you be called despised, for the LORD has worked
“A work, and has validated your fears for the nations to tremble.
“For you have not prophesied in vain, but have established your word
“As a judgment against the nations; ask and it shall be granted.”
I would not be fearful, but would ask this,
“Let the maid give birth, and let the Assyrian be broken in this land.
“Let the thorns grow up, but Milk and Honey be eaten by your servants the Prophets
“And Apostles, those who were not hypocrites.
“Give them the desires of their heart, which is food and sustenance,
“And satisfaction with offspring, and let us feed on milk and honey
“For our lives,—and the safety our souls with good.”
The LORD says, “One more thing you must ask.”
“Then LORD, let me have the desires of my heart
“To establish Your Word throughout all generations,
“And do not cast my soul into eternal torments,
“But give me everlasting life in your Kingdom. Amen.”
That people get a guaranteed day of rest.
That people have off their holidays.
That the poor can eat, and aren’t harassed by the government for panhandling.
That the poor can always get shelter.
That abortion be a capital offense.
That freedom of speech is upheld.
I believe in Net Neutrality.
That people not get arrested for crimes they didn’t commit.
That investigations work on evidence, and not subliminal tests.
That courts work for justice, and not quotas.
That people have the right to property.
That people have the right to practice their religion.
That people have the right to bear arms—didn’t see that one coming, did you?
All 27 of the amendments, except prohibition, unless it is Marijuana.
Article 1 Section 8 which states this is a utilitarian economy, not a capitalistic one.
That communists be allowed to eat from their books.
That socialists be allowed to eat from their books.
That capitalists be allowed to eat from their books.
That I be allowed to eat from my books.
That the Bible be upheld in all of its principles,
Not just the ones we like to cherry pick.
That people realize “Charity” was a better word than “Love”
In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13.
Marriage be between a Man and a Woman; no other thing.
That the nation be a Christian Nation above all other things.
That the nation uphold its founding values, found through the ENTIRETY
Of the constitution, which includes public funds for research
Public funds for Roads, public funds for libraries
And public funds for Post Offices, and also caps on trade inequalities
And regulations on measures and standards.
That so called Christians stop being hypocrites.
B. K. Neifert 