Tuesday, April 23, 2024

SEEING OURSELVES AS THE ACTORS

Just as God got fed up with the Jews, I fear that He is fed up with us. We have devolved further and further since Israel was destroyed so many years ago. It became desolate, having no more than twelve people in it, so says the historian Montefiore.

Whereas they were desolate in both numbers and righteousness, the world now is rich in numbers but desolate in righteousness. That God has let us live on in these great numbers, shows just how merciful He is to us!

Of all the millions of people that have been estimated alive at the time of Noah, only eight escaped destruction; that too was a measure of God’s mercy.

God said about Zion in the vision of Isaiah, the following: 

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts My Soul hates: they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them. (Isa 1:13-14)

 Isaiah saw into the near future but what prophets saw then, are examples of what they see regardless of time. As, Michio Kaku said, “Time is a construct,” not of God but by us.  Scripture applies, therefore, regardless of time.

I have written before that before sin, there was no time because organic material (us) never decayed to even measure our time. 

King David asked about the future:

 

How long, Lord? will you hide yourself forever? shall your wrath burn like fire? Remember how short my time is: wherefore have you made all men in vain? What man is He that lives, and shall not see death? shall He deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? (Psalm 89:46-48)

 

Both David from times past, and now Isaiah, saw Jesus hiding His face from us. That “face
 that they would see was the Divine Face of Jesus. Isaiah and David both saw Jesus from afar… far away in time, as if He was right there.

David made the comparison between his own time in the psalm and God’s time — forever. Would God hide His face from mankind forever? He was speaking of Jesus when He asked the question; Jesus would be the man who could deliver David’s soul from the hand (direction) of the grave (Hell).

It is the soul that shall be saved. That event is at death for the flesh must die for the soul to be saved. To be “born again” (John 3:7), the flesh must die. No, the flesh need not be crucified in the manner of Jesus, but the heart must be circumcised (Rom 2:29).

The “heart” in scripture is the core of anything. The core of mankind is his nature, whether good or evil. It is the will of sinful man that must be crucified. That is the event that saved the repentant thief on the cross beside Jesus; his gave up his will that the Will of God be done.

Now back to Isaiah. He was talking about the human will with its vanity —Doing things empty of meaning. Vain oblations would be like putting water in the fuel tank of a Rolls Royce just so that the vehicle would seem powerful and treasured. In a spiritual sense, it is bringing yourself to the altar before God to seem pious. (I fear that I do that often with shallow prayers. Despite that, I am appreciative, but do not express it enough.)

God revealed the vanity of holidays to Isaiah. The Jews had their new moon festivals that they performed ritually, but it meant nothing to God, nor them. Those activities were for themselves for God had his fill of them. Imagine how God feels now about Easter, the pagan holiday of rebirth, when few even believe in Spiritual rebirth! The Easter ritual is now more about the goddess, Easter, than about the Resurrection of Jesus.

Imagine how God feels about Christmas. It is no longer Christ’s mass where He is honored, but your mass where He turns into things you want, even in your mouth. Christmas is indeed now a “transubstantiation,” not where the bread and wine turn into His Body and Blood, but where your wishes turn into presents for yourselves. (I do not celebrate Christmas with gifts and such for my family, but with the gift of honor for my Savior. That angers people!)

Even the “calling of assemblies” offend God! It is vanity for Him, and vain worshipping for ourselves. Whether modern worship is worshipful, or not, does depend on the eye of the Beholder, but not our eyes that behold it. When we assemble it must be to please God and not to entertain ourselves. Church must be to magnify God, not to please ourselves.

If you have ever become angry in church about the service, ask yourselves, “Does it magnify God or just disappoint you?” For instance, is the music worshipful or is it showmanship? Do we clap for God or clap for the performance? (I just do not clap; God does not need clapping but welcomes outstretched arms.)

God showed Isaiah, “The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint” (Isa 1:5). It is not the hands, feet, or any part of the body that is sick. It, however, is the whole head that is sick. In the Hebrew head is the ro’s that is literally all shook up! It is all shook up in the manner of Elvis; it is confusing pleasure as a measure of sincerity.

The problem most troublesome in contemporary times is that men and women are all shook up; they are confused. Trans-anything is confusion, and it are minds that are all shook up.

Some are even trans-entertainers. You’ve seen it; wherein the lead singer is playacting Elvis with knees bent and groin protruding as if Elvis lives.  They “take a knee” to Jesus, so to speak, but not in sincerity. Many do not, but those who do, their showmanship gives them away.

Transgenderism, transexualism, transhumanism, and such are confusions of the mind. People think that they are all God’s children when they live according to their “father, the Devil.” It is true; the Devil (Serpent) was a “trans-being;” a confused angel who made himself a man to be more like God, all the while his worth was as a worm (Isa 13:11-14).

Man was created glorious in the Image of God and look what those images do? Things the Devil does, even down to its way of thinking and acting… God revealed to Isaiah about how people think:

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa 55:7-9)

God was telling Isaiah that the thinking of His creatures was confusion. Their thoughts and ways were not what would be expected of those made in His Image, but trans-thoughts; thoughts that could be expected from children of the Wicked One. As such, everyone, in a sense, are trans-humans because we were made to think and act like the humans that God created, but think and act like the Beast.

Lucifer — The Beast — portended to be God, albeit he was a maggot, according to God (Isa 14:11). Maggots are trans-creatures; they are worms that become flies. Lucifer is indeed “Lord of the Flies” (Beelzebub) but before that, he was a “maggot.” He was a trans-creature who transmitted its kind to mankind.

Life for us has been a living act; we say that we are God’s children, but all the time act the Beast.

Have you ever felt that your humility is pomposity? I have! Do I do things to exalt God or is it for me? Even while I write this, I ask myself, “Is it for God or me?” Oftentimes I sense the truth. Sometimes I do write to impress; that was what God meant when He told Isaiah about the vanity of it all.

Acting Christian is taking God’s Name in vain. What is God’s Name? He is called, “Jesus.” Isaiah surely saw into the future when people casually took the Name, “Jesus” with emptiness — voidness of meaning. Was the crucifixion a story or was it the truth? For most, it is a story that is played out once a year, whereas it should be remembered as often as we meet when we commune together with God.

Even communion has become a vain ritual. I have seen it taken unworthily and given vainly. Communion is to remember the death of God as the Blood and Body of Jesus. It has become shallow — something we do because we are supposed to do it!

As you may now understand, even our assemblies have become vain. Now, while only a few perform the rituals, the emptiness is in the pews as the congregation watch in vain.

Even the call to repentance is lackluster. While the preacher says, “All eyes closed; all heads bowed,” for many that is tacit approval to take a nap while standing like a horse asleep.

Yes, we are all born trans-humans! That is the humility that we should have. We are not “all God’s children,” however we can be. We can be reborn and made whole, how our ancestor once was. Made whole is who we should be by God’s design, and it indeed is an issue of the blood like the woman who touched the garment of Jesus.

Sin is in our blood from Eve — the female “Adam.” The woman, once of Adam, after sin, was of the Serpent. Adam immediately named her new kind “Eve” for she had transgressed against God. She had become a creature, not one that was the Inage of God (Selem), but the image of Lucifer (nahas). She transgressed and since she had, God made her a trespasser — part Adam and part Lucifer. Eve, as “the mother of all living” was the genes that were passed along to her demon child Cain (1 John 3:12) whose genetics are in all of us. That we have transgressed is more than with sin but the instinct to sin,

So, what God saw in those who worshipped Him was all an act put on by devious creatures that made them appear to be children of God. God saw through the façade, tired of the acting, and sought genuine worship.

Modern worship seems to be much the same. Holy Matrimony is mocked in the church as those who shack up play their expected parts.

Others even come for the people rather than God. Welcome to the “Fraternity of After Meeting Snacks.”

Don’t worry about hunger and thirst, we shall provide it all without regard for Jesus who is for that very purpose (Mat 5:6).

God not only showed Isaiah them; he also showed Isaiah us!

 

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