OUR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

 

We are to humble ourselves, according to James the brother of Jesus. James could have written, “God is my brother,” and he would have made a great name for himself! Rather, James wrote, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10).

The brother of Jesus was not God, and he knew that he had no power to lift anyone up, down, or even sideways. James was a humble man! James, after the death of Jesus, was the head of the Council of Jerusalem who decided the Law. However, James was not an apostle, and as such, his significance in the Bible is secondary to Peter and even Paul. He was even okay with be less than Paul in stature.

Jesus also seemed to deny His own family: 

The multitude sat about Him, and they said unto Him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers without seek for you.” And he answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brethren? (Mark 3:32-33) 

James was the brother of Jesus, albeit he was the son of Mary and Joseph. (Catolics say that the brothers and sisters of Jesus were cousins because to believe otherwise would be cause for Mary not to be venerated.) However, in this case, Jesus even denied that Mary was His mother.

Jospeh was the supposed father of Jesus (Luke 3:23). I go one step further… Yahweh was not the “Father” of Jesus in a biological sense. Jesus IS God! He was without father or mother as was said about Melchizedek (Heb 7:3). (Melchizedek may have been the identity of “The Word” in scripture.)

James knew his place; he knew the real Jesus; that He is God in the flesh. James could have had bragging rights: My brother is God and expect reverence. However, James humbled himself. He literally abased himself by admitting that there is no basis for distinction. He knew that he was not the brother of God, so he did not seek favoritism nor veneration. (Neither did Mary who was a humble woman.)

A key characteristic of a true Christian is humility. Humility is knowing that you cannot lift yourselves up, but like James, only the Lord can lift you up.

Lifting up can have two meanings: (1) hypsoo and (2) hypsoo in the Greek… “lift” and “up.” Perhaps it was not meant to be redundant. Jesus can lift you from both sin and beyond. He can raise you from the dead at the resurrection. Jesus can change who you are and where you are to go. Lift would mean elevate your existence from sinful man to righteous man, and up would be from this world to another realm. Jesus can do both of those things; He was not redundant.

James insinuated that you cannot elevate your own selves, and neither can you take yourselves to heaven. You, just like him, have no special powers to be God or even a god.

James had a clear understanding that sharing the household of Christ did not make him a Christ. He was merely James.

In the Greek of that time, both James and Jacob were of the same Hebrew root — Yaaqob (Jacob in the English). What is so peculiar about the name, Jacob? He was renamed “Israel” by the phantom man whom Jacob wrestled. Jesus was “Israel” in a symbolic way. James was not!

James was in a sense, “the servant of the Lord” according to naming conventions. Jesus (aka “Joshua”) was “THE SERVANT OF THE LORD.”

James could have made a name for himself as the servant of the Lord. However, that was the role of Jesus who was born to serve the Lord by being the Lord God.

I have a problem, and you might as well — we serve ourselves. We come short of the Glory of Jesus like James who could have been born the Christ.

The problem with almost everyone is that we are essentially our own gods… not really, but in our own minds and activities. Anytime even Christians sin, it is self-exalting; that you know better than God!

We look at God’s Law’s as restrictive; that we cannot do what we really want to do. Like Lucifer, that idea is making oneself out to be God. The Law of God — The Ten Commandments — are basically ways of preserving ourselves from self-destruction. (Satan never destroys anyone as the situation of Job proves; Satan can only influence us by promising things and when we deny them, he can harm our bodies.) Sin is essentially each person shooting themselves with the “fiery darts” that the forces of evil provide for our destruction. We kill ourselves by sinning.

Indeed, lying can kill you. Indeed, envy can kill you. Indeed, adultery can get you killed! You get the point. Satan need not kill you because lawbreakers essentially kill themselves!

Sinners exalt themselves by believing that they are beyond sin. Sinners diminish God in deference to themselves when they ignore the will of God.

So, you think that you are humble and beyond pride? That is what Satan would want you to think. The fact is that we all are born debased. King David, who most people exalted, admitted that he too was debased… He wrote, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5). We may think that we are not base, but we all are as sons of Cain who was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

That notion should humble you; it did me. I was not born a “son of God,” I was born the “son of Satan” by the blood of Cain. Only Jesus can regen you to make you a “son of God.”

James knew that he could not lift you up because he too was “shapen in iniquity.” Mary and Joseph did have carnal knowledge with each other after Jesus was born in a pure womb that was clean from sin.

James knew what it meant to be humble as he stood by his supposed brother. He lifted no one up in stature nor elevation. He died a humble man. Annas the high priest, Josephus wrote, had James stoned to death. The priest debased James, making him as uninteresting as the harlot who had sinned.

On the other hand, Peter requested that Nero crucify him upside down because he was humble enough not to be martyred in the same manner as Jesus. Crucifixion was for important people and stoning for the riff-raff. James was humbled even in death, yet every time a Christian sins, he or she is exalting themselves, and let down, down.

We are to humble ourselves, according to James the brother of Jesus. James could have written, “God is my brother,” and he would have made a great name for himself! Rather, James wrote, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10).

The brother of Jesus was not God, and he knew that he had no power to lift anyone up, down, or even sideways. James was a humble man! James, after the death of Jesus, was the head of the Council of Jerusalem who decided the Law. However, James was not an apostle, and as such, his significance in the Bible is secondary to Peter and even Paul. He was even okay with be less than Paul in stature.

Jesus also seemed to deny His own family:

 

The multitude sat about Him, and they said unto Him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers without seek for you.” And he answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brethren? (Mark 3:32-33)

 

James was the brother of Jesus, albeit he was the son of Mary and Joseph. (Catholics say that the brothers and sisters of Jesus were cousins because to believe otherwise would be cause for Mary not to be venerated.) However, in this case, Jesus even denied that Mary was His mother.

Jospeh was the supposed father of Jesus (Luke 3:23). I go one step further… Yahweh was not the “Father” of Jesus in a biological sense. Jesus IS God! He was without father or mother as was said about Melchizedek (Heb 7:3). (Melchizedek may have been the identity of “The Word” in scripture.)

James knew his place; he knew the real Jesus; that He is God in the flesh. James could have had bragging rights: My brother is God and expect reverence. However, James humbled himself. He literally abased himself by admitting that there is no basis for distinction. He knew that he was not the brother of God, so he did not seek favoritism nor veneration. (Neither did Mary who was a humble woman.)

A key characteristic of a true Christian is humility. Humility is knowing that you cannot lift yourselves up, but like James, only the Lord can lift you up.

Lifting up can have two meanings: (1) hypsoo and (2) hypsoo in the Greek… “lift” and “up.” Perhaps it was not meant to be redundant. Jesus can lift you from both sin and beyond. He can raise you from the dead at the resurrection. Jesus can change who you are and where you are to go. Lift would mean elevate your existence from sinful man to righteous man, and up would be from this world to another realm. Jesus can do both of those things; He was not redundant.

James insinuated that you cannot elevate your own selves, and neither can you take yourselves to heaven. You, just like him, have no special powers to be God or even a god.

James had a clear understanding that sharing the household of Christ did not make him a Christ. He was merely James.

In the Greek of that time, both James and Jacob were of the same Hebrew root — Yaaqob (Jacob in the English). What is so peculiar about the name, Jacob? He was renamed “Israel” by the phantom man whom Jacob wrestled. Jesus was “Israel” in a symbolic way. James was not!

James was in a sense, “the servant of the Lord” according to naming conventions. Jesus (aka “Joshua”) was “THE SERVANT OF THE LORD.”

James could have made a name for himself as the servant of the Lord. However, that was the role of Jesus who was born to serve the Lord by being the Lord God.

I have a problem, and you might as well — we serve ourselves. We come short of the Glory of Jesus like James who could have been born the Christ.

The problem with almost everyone is that we are essentially our own gods… not really, but in our own minds and activities. Anytime even Christians sin, it is self-exalting; that you know better than God!

We look at God’s Law’s as restrictive; that we cannot do what we really want to do. Like Lucifer, that idea is making oneself out to be God. The Law of God — The Ten Commandments — are basically ways of preserving ourselves from self-destruction. (Satan never destroys anyone as the situation of Job proves; Satan can only influence us by promising things and when we deny them, he can harm our bodies.) Sin is essentially each person shooting themselves with the “fiery darts” that the forces of evil provide for our destruction. We kill ourselves by sinning.

Indeed, lying can kill you. Indeed, envy can kill you. Indeed, adultery can get you killed! You get the point. Satan need not kill you because lawbreakers essentially kill themselves!

Sinners exalt themselves by believing that they are beyond sin. Sinners diminish God in deference to themselves when they ignore the will of God.

So, you think that you are humble and beyond pride? That is what Satan would want you to think. The fact is that we all are born debased. King David, who most people exalted, admitted that he too was debased… He wrote, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5). We may think that we are not base, but we all are as sons of Cain who was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

That notion should humble you; it did me. I was not born a “son of God,” I was born the “son of Satan” by the blood of Cain. Only Jesus can regen you to make you a “son of God.”

James knew that he could not lift you up because he too was “shapen in iniquity.” Mary and Joseph did have carnal knowledge with each other after Jesus was born in a pure womb that was clean from sin.

James knew what it meant to be humble as he stood by his supposed brother. He lifted no one up in stature nor elevation. He died a humble man. Annas the high priest, Josephus wrote, had James stoned to death. The priest debased James, making him as uninteresting as the harlot who had sinned.

On the other hand, Peter requested that Nero crucify him upside down because he was humble enough not to be martyred in the same manner as Jesus. Crucifixion was for important people and stoning for the riff-raff. James was humbled even in death, yet every time Christian sin, he or she is exalting themselves, and let down, down.

Water baptism is man letting down a person that lowers his own expectations. Baptism is humility that before you go up, up you must first go down, down to repent of who you have been.

THE WAY TO PRAY

So, you don't how to pray or what to say! Jesus understood our timidity! We do not inherently know how to pray to praise God, so He gave us an example of what God wants to hear. Jesus gave a way to pray that pleases Him as He is God Himself.

“Hail Mary’s” are not the way to pray and neither is a public display of wordy prayers. Praying should be simple and to the point. Jesus gave an example about how we are to pray: 

⁹ After this manner therefore pray you: “Our Father which is in heaven, Hallowed be your Name. ¹⁰ Your kingdom come, Your will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven. ¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread. ¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. ¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” (Mat 6:9-13) 

Christians are not to pray that exact prayer, but in the same manner, and each prayer should be different: “When you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking” (verse 7).

Praying in that manner should be praying in that fashion, not in those exact words. The order of the prayer should be in this manner: 

·         Address the prayer to the “Father” — The benevolent Creator God and Savior. Designate which “Father” by the One God that is in Heaven. (There are many more who claim Godhead, so direct your prayer to the real God. We are to pray to nobody else nor any other God in accordance with the First Commandment (Exod 20:3). Anybody includes Mary, the supposed “mother of God” who is just a human image, not God, nor even His mother!

·         It is to the “Father,” not Mother Mary. That is specific for even Jesus denied that Mary was His mother (Mat 12:48).

·         With that said, saying “Hail Mary’s” while fiddling with a rosary to count the repetitions is disrespectful to Father God even if it venerates Mary. “Veneration” is respecting Mary. Mary is a “likeness” of God — made in His Image: “You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God…” (Exod 20:5). Venerating Mary makes God jealous for she is not God.

·         Hallowed be His Name: Venerate God not Mary! “Hallowed” means to venerate, albeit veneration seems benign, if done to another being or even an idol, but it is blasphemy to God.

·         What is the Name of God? The “Father” is without a Name; He just is the Name. He called Himself, “Jesus” to specify which God. The Name, “Jesus” alone is to be venerated because Jesus is the only Way to Heaven; be it body, soul, or communication: Jesus Himself said, “I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). That includes going to Heaven or praying to the Father, “For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 2:5). Mary nor any other person can mediate on your behalf, not even the preacher. Prayer is between you and God. The preacher may lead in prayer, but you must pray yourself; not just listen-in on his prayer but to communicate with God yourself. No longer is a priest or bishop necessary… “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of Him” (1 Pet 2:9). Prayer is praise of God, to wit: “Hallowed be Your Name!” You can say that without a mediator if you pray to the Divine Mediator, Jesus. Having a preacher or priest pray for you does not substitute for you praying yourself; it only supports your own prayer.

·         You are to pray, “Your Kingdom come.” It is not to pray that this kingdom on Earth remain but that you look forward to being with Him in person to see His Divine face yourself. It is hanging onto the promise of Paradise, not hanging onto the temporal things of the world. It is not wishing to die, but to die to the world. You must die to be “born again” (John 3:7). His Kingdom coming begins in your hearts. You must desire the Kingdom of God not dread it! With that said, you must seek to love the promise of the Kingdom of God more so than the kingdom of mammon: “You cannot serve God and mammon” (Mat 6;24). Praying “Your Kingdom come” is disowning the things of the world and the master of it — “The Prince of the Power of the Air” — the spirit of Satan (Ephes 2:2). You must not only choose the Kingdom of God but live it as if already in His Kingdom. (Mammon are the pleasantries of the world.)

·         Asking that God’s Kingdom come is His “Estate” of Paradise in Heaven. You are to pray, “Your will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven.” The entire Bible is more than history or even theology; it is the “Last Will and Testament of God” and the New Testament a codicil — a supplement —to the original Will, revealing the probation of God’s Will upon His death. How are things to be done in Heaven? Much differently than here. We are to endeavor to do things on Earth as in Heaven. In Heaven, it is God on the throne; nobody else; neither Mary nor us, and certainly not Lucifer. The economy on Earth is Luciferin whereas the economy in Heaven is godly and righteous. Iniquity is the economy of the Earth, and you are born iniquitous (Psalm 51:5). In Heaven, that iniquity, the desire to sin, will be eliminated. We are to ask that God remove the desire to sin from us now so that you do now what you will do in Heaven. To get the inheritance of the Father, you must do the will of the Father while you are still able.

·         Next you are to ask for supplication: “Give us this day our daily bread.” That asks that God provide nourishment to further our existence while on Earth. It also means much more than that: “Jesus said unto them, “I AM the bread of life: he that comes to Me shall never hunger; and he that believes on Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). Going to Jesus gets you no real bread but more Jesus. With Jesus, all things are possible because Jesus is God revealed to mankind (Mat 19:26). Seek Jesus and all your needs shall be met. Note that the “bread of life” is not pleasurable things but sustenance. We may go hungry but if in Christ, Christ will sustain us. In a sense, the prayer is not asking for “bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Mat 4:4). The “bread” that we are to pray for is not leavened bread, nor even unleavened, but the very Word that Jesus said to mankind. We are to hunger for His Word, not victuals that He knows that we require.

·         “Forgive us our debts.” The translators in The Book of Mark used “trespasses” rather than “debts.” Of course, we all owe God even for our existence, but trespasses means that we entered the Estate of God unworthily. Of course we cannot pay God to go to Heaven, nor even work to get in because the charge is free. Trespassing is entering the Estate of God without being of the family of God, or even going to a forbidden place on God’s Estate. The original sin was mankind of both genders going where they were not to go. The woman failed by entering forbidden territory without questioning the ”Serpent,” Lucifer, if he was really the Authority. The woman failed because she knew that the Serpent was not the Proprietor and entered the forbidden place regardless. Adam knew the Law but had failed to reveal the Law to the woman. The sin of the woman was by omission and the sin of the male by commission. Therefore, even trespassing without knowing it is trespassing is forbidden, and we are to seek the knowledge of the Kingdom of God to avoid trespassing against Him. (The worst sin ever was a sin of omission, Jesus understood why He was crucified, “They know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). They should have understood scripture that revealed what they would do!

·         Next consider the injunction, “as we forgive our debtors.” Again, consider debtors as trespassers. Even those who owe money trespass against your property. A benevolent person forgives those who owe them if they have no ability to pay. Likewise, those who infringe upon your person can never “un-infringe;” that is irrational. Ideally speaking, your debtors are those who owe you an account for your discomfort. If you never forgive others for your stress, then do not expect them to relieve the stress they have for you. Holding animosity against those who trespass your person, don’t be shocked when they trespass your space with impunity.

·         Next, consider, “lead us not into temptation.” God does not tempt. Neither is it His pathway to sin. In other words, we ask God to block the path to sin and He will. Temptation is the trespass where we are not to go. If we don’t go onto the property of Satan, Satan cannot tempt us. He stays on his ground if we stay on ours, so to speak. God only allows Satan to tempt to see if we will fail as with Adam and Job. Adam failed; Job did not, although both had a hedge of safety about them. Adam’s was a literal hedge and Job’s invisible, albeit Satan could plainly see it (Job 1:10). Leading us not into temptation is never skirting the hedge of safety about us. If we, as Christians, could not go where we should not go, why would we pray to God to keep us from sin? We are safe unless we follow temptation — the very pathway to sin; “When lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death” (Jas 1:15). Lust is the “bait,” or temptation that is the cause, and the effect is sin.

·         Next consider the request to “deliver us from evil.” God does that by blocking the pathway to temptation. It is like this; don’t go there unless you are prepared to die for whatever the pleasantry or fun might be, you will die for it. You need not worry about one sin, but one sin leads to a greater sin until God is as dead to even Christians (Heb 6:6). Sin kills God one increment at a time, and as we kill God, we die inside. We know what the future holds; God does not die, but we may very well die if we go where we should not go. It is not like a person dies for one sin, but thousands of sins does make one depraved being. “Iniquity” is the constant practice of sin that is our “inheritance” from the Wicked One. We do not know how many sins are enough for God to pardon, but God knows. God delivers His children from sin one sin at a time until we have become acclimated to not sin. Thusly, to deliver us from evil is harmonizing with the will of God. It is not that God makes us comply but delivers us from the necessity of complying by desiring to do His will.

·         Why should we care about what to pray? Jesus even provided the reason: “For yours (God’s) is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.” God is sovereign and as His subjects, we should want to honor our Lord and King to please Him. It is not because our Sovereign makes us obey, but in a paradisical kingdom, we should want to live in accord with God and others, or it is not paradisical. If discord is what pleases anyone, the place for them is Hell where everyone hates everyone else, their sovereign (Satan) hates them, and they hate their sovereign.

·         “Forever.” Such a simple word but such a long time! It is not that there will be a new regime if we are patient and hold out, but that there are two kingdoms from which to choose. God does not send us to Hell and neither does Satan, to his credit. Everybody chooses their own eternal destiny, and it is as easy as choosing whose side it is to whom you belong — Christ’s or the Antichrist, Satan. The Holy Cross verses the Judas Tree are the only two choices. Do you trust mammon like Judas or Father God like Jesus? Even the priests had no use for Judas, and they were the greatest evil that day. Judas chose eternal death and sentenced himself, knowing full well that you cannot undermine Christ and love Him at the same time. His “wage” for that was much more than thirty pieces of silver, but eternally dying. Those who do not follow Christ, or even turn from him, get the same pay for the same time; they die, die, die to the nth power — forever; they indeed shall “surely die” (Gen 2:7) with death never consummated. It is an eternal process wherein time does not exist, but only forever and ever. Think about the payment that must be made for the fatal error of not trusting Christ for your eternal livelihood! 

I have taught you many implications of that pattern for praying. Words mean things, and prayer is expressing sincerity to God. Too many of us, me included, pray vainly. Jesus provided that example for praying to avoid the vanity of wasting your time in praying just words to hear the sounds of your own voices!

Where and how to pray? 

When thou pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, ‘They have their reward.’ But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly. (Mat 6:5-6) 

Standing in Church praying out loud gets you the immediate reward — prestige. From God, it gets you nothing! If you want to pray sincerely, go someplace and pray secretly because the conversation is between you and God with no need for eavesdroppers nor admirers for such very good-sounding prayers.

If the audio is for men, then your audience is them. If your silent prayer is to God, then your audience is God.

So, now pray the way Jesus said that you should pray.

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TO SEE JESUS IS TO SEE GOD HIMSELF

Today I will be brief; I will only mention genealogies, not go into detail. Hybrid genealogies will not get anyone a room in the mansion of God in Paradise. Paul wrote that you cannot count on your forebears to be heirs to God’s Estate there, not to “give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do” (1 Tim 1L4).

It takes faith in the genealogy of Jesus for the reward; your own genealogy is of no account. You must not value that you are the sons and daughters of noble people but are the “adopted” sons and daughters of the Holy Father that is in heaven, to wit: “You have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’” (Rom 8:15).

Adoption into Christianity is not by the blood but by the Spirit. It does not matter who your ancestors were, but who you are in respect to Christ. As it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). About Adam, it was written in Genesis 2:7, and about Jesus it was written in John 1:4; that Jesus was the light of men.”

Somehow, Christ is in us, not by genealogy (His DNA) but by the reflection of the Light (1 John 1:5) of God unto people. Paul clarified that ordination: 

He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephes 1:4-5) 

Where would a person look to find that appointment? Before the foundation of the world! God made the other kinds, then made mankind: “God said, ‘Let us make man in our Image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion” (Gen 1:26). There was the “election” before the foundation of the world… mankind was selected above all the other animals.

(Note that chapter one must be the foundation of Paradise in heaven because chapter two is about the creation of things on Earth.)

 Indeed, if that is true, and it seems to be, mankind were predestined to be the holy ones, not even the angels in heaven, let alone the beasts.

It is our kind that was selected; those with human genomes — with the DNA of God in every nuclear cell of their bodies.

It seems that before God did anything, that man had no seed within him, as did the other animals and plants (Gen 1:29). Only after sin did man have seed within him like the other beasts.

To validate that God made woman from the belly of man; it was a type of spiritual cloning, using modern vernacular, only it was the “Seed of God” that was spread. Apparently, the Seed of God is His “quickening Spirit” that makes life, not a type of biological reproduction. And so, it is with “born again” which is engendering by God above with His quickening Spirit.

To be blunt, mankind was to reproduce spiritually not sexually, and with the new identity of the woman after sin, Adam named her kind, “Eve.” She became the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:20) and she gave birth to genealogy when she created Cain (Gen 4:1), the son of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

Ever since Cain was delivered by the seed of the Wicked One into the womb of Eve, everything since that time has been genetically. Nobody, with the exception of pure Jesus Christ, can trace their ancestry, unadulterated, back to God.

It is rebirth by the Spirit of God, not by the seed of mankind. Regardless of the unclean genes that are within us, the Spirit of God can even overcome our genetics. Thus, perhaps others tampering with our genetics is the ultimate sin and that was the sin of Eve with the Wicked One.

That brings me to the genealogies of Jesus in the Bible. Matthew, in chapter one, began the genealogy of Jesus with “the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Mat 1:1). Jesus was not the son of David nor the son of Abraham, but He, it was supposed, shared their genetics. He was there because Eve was their kind and as a result, the flesh of Jesus, although pure, was the same as Eve’s.

Matthew’s account of Jesus’s heirs was through Joseph who was the supposed father of Jesus (Luke 3:23). Luke presented the genealogy of Jesus somewhat differently because Jesus was not the biological seed of Joseph.

Luke saw things much differently than Matthew who looked only at the improper paternity of Jesus, He wrote: 

Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am well pleased.” (Luke 3:21-22) 

Luke could have stopped with that. The “Father” had engendered Jesus from above; that which Jesus Himself referred to as “born again” (in the English). God Himself had “fathered” Jesus, but not by using genetic seed but the “quickening Spirit” of the Holy Ghost. Father God had changed the genetics of Jesus brought to Him by King David, into pure genetics. He was the supposed “son of David” and was taxed in David’s birthplace, Bethlehem, as an heir to David.

Then Luke presented the case for the genetics of Jesus beginning with Joseph all the way back to Adam and God Himself. (It did vary differently from Matthew’s rendering for some unknown reason, perhaps because men make mistakes.)

That was insignificant because both Mary and Joseph were related, and at some point, they as everyone does, shared genealogy. Luke’s account could have been only that Jesus is the “Son of God” because he apparently saw God regen the flesh of Jesus via His quickening Spirit. However, he too got wordy.

On the other hand, Mark gave us a short and straight genealogy of Jesus when he simply wrote, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God…” (Mark 1:1). What more words were necessary since the paternal genealogy of Jesus as the “Son of God” was direct. Mark saw the baptism of God to Jesus wherein the Holy Ghost was imbued within the man.

John was a little wordier with his genealogical account of Jesus, speaking of Jesus (verse 14), John wrote this about Him: 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.  (John 1:1-4) 

There were not just two but four genealogies of Jesus in the Bible! Therein John wrote about the genealogy of Jesus, and it was not by whose seed was whose, but who could create without seed in the same manner of God with Adam and Eve in the beginning. It was not by Adam’s “rib” that God made the woman, but literally by the curved part of his person (Strong 2006). God had breathed life unto Adam and Adam then breathed life into his woman.

Just like Paul wrote, Adam was created by the quickening Spirit of God breathing life unto him, but Jesus, because He was God and there in the beginning, is the quickening Spirit of God (i.e., the “Holy Ghost”).

The quickening Spirit that creates life is the “Dynamic” of God that John called “The Word” and Genesis called, “The Voice.”

John was the “beloved.” He knew Jesus more intimately than the others. He realized by inspiration that Jesus was not the biological “Son of God” but the Spirit of God in the person, Jesus. Genealogy did not make Jesus “King of kings and Lord of lords” but the Holy Ghost did that at His baptism, and Him alone (John 1:33).

Mary had received the Holy Ghost for a few moments, then even then, the Holy Ghost left her. When the time was ripe, God Yahweh Himself went into the Person of Jesus.

Yahweh is the invisible Presence of God and hence the “Image” (phantom, ibid) that made the first Adam who breathed life unto mankind. Jesus, on the other hand, as the “last Adam” was the “Breather of Life.”

As John, pointed out “The Word” of God is the Dynamics of the Spirit of God that imbues life. In other words, Jesus was not descended from God but IS God. He is Melchizedek, who in turn, Christ was like: “Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abiding a priest continually” (Heb 7:3).

Jesus had no endless genealogy. Mary, as He implied was not even His mother (Mat 12:48). Jesus had no genealogy. He was like the woman before she was degenerated into Eve’s kind, but that woman was “naked” in the sense that she had no human flesh; it was some unidentified incorruptible, glorious substance. Eve had obtained human flesh when God had grace on her and Adam’s kind (Gen 3:17).

Jesus had no genealogy; He was supreme, not because of King Abraham or King David, but because He is the Supreme Being, Yahweh.

They supposed that Jesus was the ”Son of God,” in a biological sense, but the crucifixion revealed the Spirit of God leaving Him. The crucifixion proved that Jesus was not the “Son of God” through repeated generations but was the actual Genome of Yahweh in this world.

Indeed, Jesus had within Himself the Image of God, but it was by the same mechanism as the first Adam, albeit Adam was like God but not God, albeit Jesus is God in the flesh of a man.

I like to use my imagination: The “Image” of God was literally the “Shadow” (Selem) of Yahweh, the Invisible God. (Strong 2006). Yahweh was indeed a Phantom Being. He was Spirit, but Spirit that could and would take on the form of a man as Luke wrote of His baptism: “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, “You are My beloved Son; in you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22).

“Son” therein does not mean a created being as John pointed out (see above). but His Genome.

A “genome” is the totality of the DNA with every nuclear cell of the body combined. The Image of God very might well be all the chromosomes of God in bodily shape. Imagine, if you will, all the invisible chromosomes (not stained to see them) in bodily shape; that appearance would be a Phantom Being, or the “Holy Ghost.” Because Jesus was the “Son” of God, then within the flesh of the man (Adam), there was the very Image of God. Jesus seems to have the very Genome of God within His Body because, as He pointed out, “He that has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9).

Take away the flesh of Jesus, and what would remain? The Genome of God in the shape of a man, having even the Power of God. That is what happened on Calvary. Jesus gave up His Power that was the Genome of God that had been within Him. Without God in Him, His Power was drained. What was the Power of God doing in those three days? Providing the Virtue of God to all mankind!

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THE WORD: THE ACTIONS OF GOD

Ezekiel again had a close encounter with God, “The Word of the Lord came again unto me, saying…” (Ezek 23:1).

The Word was active in scripture, according also to the gospel of John:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3)

The Word came often unto Ezekiel and so it is with Christians. “The Word” is now written, but with Ezekiel it came unto him from the Thoughts of God.

Most Christians, during their catechism, have been taught that “The Word” is both Jesus and the written words of the Bible.

“Word” in the Greek is “Logos.” Most Christians have heard that translation at one time or another. However, The Word Pre-existed the New Testament, so it should be expected that it should be the same existence in different languages. In the English it is “Word,” and in the Greek, it is “Logos.” What is it in Hebrew? That will come later.

In the Old and New Testaments, The Word showed ownership. In Ezekiel, The Word is of the Lord, and in John, The Word was God. The former is a trait of God and the latter the very Identity of God. Traits are passed down genetically. Identities are genetic. In this age, the Identities of beings and even plants — all life — is encoded in the genome of people. (The “genome” is the totality of the genes in all the nuclear cells of the body.)

Humans have genomes as do all the creatures; it is their identities “burned” into their flesh by nucleic acids. In other words, the identity of every person has been burned into every nuclear cell of their bodies.

As “Father God” Yahweh is the Dynamic of the burning process. He burned into every nuclear cell of Adam and the woman His Image (Selem in the Hebrew). The two Adamah were like God but of very different “spins,” one being make and the other female. However, both were of God who shared His Dynamic with the first two human beings, but not with the animal kingdom.

Selem literally means “shadow” or figuratively “phantom.” I propose that the Image of God and both the male and the female of the species was chromosomal.

What would they look like “naked” (Gen 2:25)? They were “bare” (Strong 2006). Perhaps the two had no opaque flesh but were phantom-like beings; not truly ghosts but appeared to be like ghosts.

I submit that they may have been chromosomal beings who both had God showing in them. In other words, they were glorious beings like God who was also chromosomal, being the very Genome of Jesus who was the “Son of God,” not in a biological sense, but by genetics.

The Greek expression is “khroma-soma” which mean the “color of the body.” The Body of God and the bodies of both the man and the woman had color, a very white color. So white that is was nearly transparent. To be revealed more clearly, chromosomes require staining with any of the basic colors.

Now imagine them “naked;” they would have appeared to be ghosts just like selem means. In other words, the chromosomes of the first two human beings were showing. They were without flesh since chromosomes are in every nuclear cell of their bodies. I submit that their flesh was of some type of transparent covering that revealed their souls (nepes; Gen 2:7) — their inner creature. Hence, the inner creature of mankind was their “soul” and they were not ashamed of their nakedness because within their covering, they were like God.

It appears that “The Word” was the Phantom Image of God that moved among mankind (Gen 3:8). The Word walked among them. Perhaps The Word, “The Voice” was the Genome of God that was naturally chromosomal and who could be identified only by His actions, or dynamics. They could not see God but only “heard” Him coming. That was the same for Ezekiel who did not see God, but certainly heard Him as the Word, speaking.

Naturally occurring chromosomes appear, not white, but in white light, invisible, requiring that they must be stained to be visible. God was not stained by anything, so God appeared to mankind as The Word. He too was “naked” in a sense because He was invisible to the eyes of His two creatures.

That sin is a “stain” is more than a euphemism, as you shall see! Even Job, speaking of his own birth, indicated that he was born stained (Job 3:5).

Perhaps you are beginning to understand; the Bible is all about genetics from the word, “Genesis” to the phrase “born again” that literally means to be “engendered from above.” Most call that expression “regeneration.” God removes the stain with an infusion of The Word, and with the Christian, the Image of God is renewed.

It took time for existence to be fully generated, and it also would take time for regeneration to be fully accomplished. It must be endured to the end (Mat 24:13) when the soul is saved (1 Pet 1:9); being that inner creature that is made anew. Hence death accomplishes glorification and Christians who endure to the end will be remade in the Image of God; which is what? Their Identities will be washed of the stain and their souls will be like God’s Invisible supernature.

Christ in us is The Word of God within our souls (Ephes 6:17) — the very Image of God within us. Christians change genetically, and the new nature (the new creatures; 2 Cor 5:17) emerges from the old, stained creatures.

How can one determine if their souls have Christ in them? It is by whether The Word is within them. The Word begins with the mind, so the mind must lie within the soul, not the brain. The brain is merely the “vessel” that steers the life that God gave us. The Word is the Pilot within our souls. The Word reveals where we go wrong; it is our moral and spiritual compass to get us to where God is!

Abraham, like Noah before him, who found grace (Gen 6:8), had The Word come into him as well, “The Word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, ‘Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward” (Gen 15:1). Abaham was made a “saint” when The Word of God came unto him. Abram was regenned and he became a new creation, then called “Abraham” — “The Shield.”

Hence, The Word is what protects our flesh until new flesh is put on, as with Adam and Eve (Gen 3:21). With that said, we must imbue The Word to remain safe until the soul is saved. Christians, like Jesus long before, have God growing in them. So long as Jesus was wearing flesh, he was vulnerable, and like Him, Christians, so long as they wear the flesh of an animal, are vulnerable as well (1 Pet 5:8).

So, what is “The Word” in Hebrew? Dabar. A “spoken” thing. The Word was the “Voice” that moved in the Garden. The Word is the Action — The Dynamic — of the Invisible God. Adam and the woman heard Him approaching. Maybe God did not even speak to them, but they knew He was there by His influence on the things of the Garden. The firm things moved as God approached and since Adam and Eve did not see Him but saw His Movement; they knew it was God who approached them. Therefore, how does God speak to mankind to this day? Not audibly but by His actions.

When The Word came unto Ezekiel, he knew it was God because his thoughts were not his own, but the Thoughts of God to him.

According to Isaiah God “said” this: “For My Thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My Ways” (Isa 55:8). Hence, God speaks to us in thoughts. We must test all things and hang onto what is good (1 Thes 5:21).

It seems that The Word of God is not the paper (Bible) on which the Thoughts of God are written, but the inspiration of God (2 Tim 3:16). Hence, scripture is not the written Word but the Thoughts of God. Because God was with us, “The Word” walked and inspired mankind verbally. However, The Word is not the English version but the very Greek Words that Jesus said. The red-letter edition of the Bible, if it had been in Greek, would have been The Word; the very Good Dynamic (Virtue) from the mouth of God.

Jesus lost Virtue to make people whole. Somehow The Word inspired certain people, among them was the woman with a “blood issue;” perhaps genetic hemophilia that is usually most affects males. When Jesus made the woman whole again, he changed her genome and no longer did she carry a genetic malady. “Haemophilia C occurs equally in both sexes and is mostly found in Ashkenazi Jews” (Wikipedia 2023).

That the woman had a blood issue is important. If it was hemophilia, the woman acquired it from the defective X-chromosome of either her father or mother. Fathers cannot pass it down to males. Why is that so important? Because it is Eve that is the mother of all the living (Gen 3:20). The woman’s X-chromosome was stained in a sense. It had nutated genetically.

Generally, hemophilia is a male dominant defect. The woman, because she was Jewish, would have had Hemophilia C. People with hemophilia C are the “bleeders;” the woman just could not stop the bleeding, so in a sense, the Blood of Jesus “bled” for her as he Himself lost Virtue. Could Jesus have bled right then to lose Virtue? That is certainly a possibility.

However, not only was her blood issue cleared but she somehow got a little God in her soul. “Wholeness” is not just the flesh but her soul was fixed and she should have sinned no more; but she still wore sinful flesh, so Jesus asked her to do the impossible because the flesh is the image, not of God, because it was “stained” by the Serpent, which I believe was the bacterial DNA in the mitochondria that only the woman has the dynamic to do. And so it is that only she is the “mother,” or gens, of all the living.

“The Adversary” got unto the woman while she was being formed in the womb (iniquity, Psalm 51:5) through her autosomes. One of her 44 chromosomes were recessive. It got into her from some past ancestor. Satan could have done that. Jesus, however, fixed it! The Word — the “Virtue” (Dynamic) from Him got into her. Hence, it seems that “The Word” of scripture is the Good Actions of God to overcome the world.

Perhaps that helped, or did it only hinder. However, it does make sense in all respects.

 

 

 

 

THE ABOMINATION OF USURY: A TYPE OF SLAVERY

 Usury is prevalent in the world as it always has been, but even most Christians fail to see that sin. Please take time out to understand that representative politics is usury when it is for devious purposes, mainly for power over somebodies.

 

God revealed the offenses that Jerusalem had done that made it doomed to destruction. Yes, things do offend God and He takes retribution. In today’s vernacular, God sent a mean “tweet” to the people of Jerusalem using the pen of Ezekiel, to wit: The word of the Lord came unto me, saying…” (Ezek 22:1)

God “tweeted” several things; among them were this one, “Now, you son of man (Ezekiel), will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yes, you shall show her all her abominations” (Ezek 22:2).

God assigned Ezekiel to be judge of over Jerusalem. God is Supreme, so Ezekiel was made a supreme judge in the court of God.

Although nobody is to judge (Mat 7:1). Ezekiel was to judge the people using the standards of God. God provided the standards in chapter 22 that were the fair metrics for Ezekiel to judge, fulfilling part two of the judgement clause of Jesus, “With what measure you mete it shall be measured to you again” (Mat 7:2). However Ezekiel would judge, it would be the same standard that he would judge himself.

Today’s focus is on a seldom discussed issue:

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek 22:29)

That is not the worst accusation among many of that chapter, but it does need discussing. This offense, like all the others in this chapter, are “abominations;” they are some things that are disgusting to the Lord.

The accusation that God made about Jerusalem is that they had vexed the poor and needy. They had been mean-spirited with the poor and needy. Another word for that was that they had oppressed the poor and needy. Another word for that is suppression (Strong 2006).

Socialism is based on the idea that poor people have been suppressed from having the things the wealthy have. That is the basis of DEI in modern lingo: diversity, equity, and inclusion.

DEI is a noble attempt to be fair to everyone, but it is problematic since it makes sinful people part of the welcomed diversity. Diversity is meant for those who cannot help the state in which they find themselves, but God had found the Jerusalemites to be disgusting with all sorts of sexual inclinations: “You (the people) have despised mine holy things and have profaned my sabbaths” (Ezek 22:8).

Of course, Sabbaths are one holy thing wherein God’s people were to refrain from doing about anything to revere God. They were not to work at all, but to spend all their day, focusing not on themselves, but on God.

Sabbaths are a challenge — to go one day and one night without sinning. If you do nothing but think about God, then there would be no sin. In fact, every day should be a Sabbath Day wherein God’s people take a break from their sins. Christians are to take a break on the Lord’s Day, Sunday, albeit God rested on Saturdays in the beginning and after the crucifixion.

From a utilitarian perspective, Sunday has become the Sabbath day because western people have traditionally worked from Monday through Saturday, so Sunday was the day of rest, and to be honest, Emperor Constantine stole the pagan holiday “Sun-Day” out from under the pagans.

If people took one day to rest from sin to revere God, then which day should not be significant. Even though Christians choose which day, even they do not keep Sunday as the Sabbath day! That the Jews failed to keep any day was problematic to God (Ezek 22:8)! By profaning the Sabbath, the Jerusalemites had “wounded” God (ibid); they had hurt God’s feelings.

The people had despised God’s holy things. Many were sexual in nature, but oppression was just as disgusting to God.

To be honest, Marxism is a noble attempt to do good things. Karl Marx’s good will for man was expressed by his cardinal declaration: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Indeed, those who have not the ability, should be provided for by those who do have the ability. Note that it is based on ability, not motivation. In practice, that has been rewritten to satisfy the slothful, “From each who are motivated, to each who are not motivated.” Sometimes the most motivated are those who are handicapped but somehow still provide for themselves in spite of it.

Furthermore, the “needs” have become the desires of the heart, down to the point that socialists expect others to pay to abort their children; mostly because the women and the men were not motivated enough to show constraint, or at least some protection! That unborn children will be inconveniences does not meet the standard of “needs’ and neither is it equitable.

The American version of equity is the “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” according to the U.S. Constitution — the very basis of our government.

The distortion of Marxism is that happiness is the responsibility of those who work, albeit our patriots did not seek, nor guarantee, happiness but only the pursuit of it. Marxism has been distorted to include happiness, and unless the loud mouths are happy, then they rebel. That’s why all the dissension and the burning of big cities — the government is not guaranteeing their happiness.

People are not happy (content) because nothing is holy to them. “We the people” still do mostly unholy things and pay for them by resting from God one day a week. Sunday has become more pagan than ever; it is now “Our-Day” where even Christians do whatever they want to do to be entertained.

A deacon I know voted against Sunday evening services because his children were too busy to rest to please the Lord. That is the purpose of a Sabbath — to “unbusy” ourselves.

Although God does not want to oppress His people, neither does He want others to oppress their neighbors. Good measures outside of the talents of God are worthless. Albeit “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” is a noble idea it is godless.

That would mean it is us who blesses, and God is even cursed by Marxism. They think, We do not need God to bless us because we can take care of both ourselves, and others without the intervention of God. To depend on God was silliness to Marx who expected willing workers to provide the “charity” or be vexed.

Because people are not really the beneficial gods, then tyrannical governments must force people to be more “generous,” hence the introduction of repressive taxation. Rather than progressive, socialists (the left) are the most regressive of all people that gather in the name of equity and love!

Socialism is repressive, even oppressive. To be fair, we the people are classified between those with ability and those without ability — the “needy,” using their word.

How is that oppressive? If anyone has brown skin, they automatically become “the oppressed” and those who do not see their color as an obstacle to success are classified as “the oppressors.”

Socialists require a sign like the ancient Jews (1 Cor 1:22). The sign that people have no abilities is their degree of blackness. That is the progressive way of delineating between the supreme race and the inferior races. If you are a person of color, you obviously cannot do things for yourselves; that is the way they think. “Equity” is not equality but giving more to those who seem less, so they are on par with those with abilities.

Now think of slavery. The blacks were the oppressed, but they also had the ability. The gentlemen of the plantations made them think that they had no abilities, all the while they leeched on the abilities of the slaves. The gentlemen deceived the negroes, and successfully convinced them that without the nobility, blacks would be no more than helpless children who he must take care of from the cradle to the grave.

Those “gentlemen” and “gentile women” were Democrats, and their sin was usury; they oppressed others for their own livelihoods. They themselves were without much ability in the field and kitchens, so they stole the abilities of their “lesser” people for their own glanderous live styles. Even before Marxism, they were inherently Marxists. Marxism was born when Adam had to work because he had sinned, and since it was to be hard work, mankind got others to do their work — namely those of dark skin for the most part (Gen 3:19).

Slavery is the ultimate case of usury. Slavery is making people think they have no value while at the same time using their valuable abilities!

So, what is usury? You probably do not know what it is, but it is the Democrat M.O. “Usury” is interest on a debt. The Judeo-Christian thing to do is to repay what is owed but not to profit from the lack of ability to pay now.

Slavery in the United States began with indentured servitude wherein the immigrant owed the sponsor for travel from the old world to the new.

William Johnson, a free black man, saw an opportunity; that it was conducive to keep the servants forever. The work beyond what was owed was usury. Johnson was paid in full and with interest. Hence, slavery is using people for gain which is the sin of usury.

Democrats owned the slaves and fought a war to keep them. Then after the war, Democrats in unity voted against the amendment to free them.

Then they created a shadow government — the Ku Klux Klan, the “Invisible Empire” to prevent them from succeeding. When that failed, new sets of law were sponsored by Democrats — Jim Crow laws that kept them in their places; ostensibly as lesser people who could be contained in the confines of their invisible empire, perhaps vicarious “plantations” that exist in mostly big cities. [1]

Progressive Democrats still consider the brown races inferior peoples who, without their assistance, are helpless little children with no abilities of their own to pursue happiness and prosperity. Hence, brown and black peoples to this day remain in chains and as you can see by demographics about 75% of the black race is still chained in a plantation that they cannot see that even exists.

They do have abilities, and like Lucifer who deceived God’s servants into becoming his servant, the dark races buy into the premise that they must be inferior because without Democrats, they have no value. Indeed, when the War ended, the South made it even without slavery, or so the liberals of that day thought.

Slavery still exists almost two hundred years after it “ended,” but it is more subdued now. Now blacks are content with Juneteenth — a day for them to make them feel freed.

Most blacks now enjoy the thought that they need not work in the fields, but are sort of like their former masters, living near them in a wing of the manor, almost like them, but not quite.

Democrats have a love of money… a cardinal sin. They prefer a lot of money all the while their black voters only want some of that money. Democrats do not care, so long as blacks do not become “uppity” and want part of the plantation for themselves. Right now, the whites reside in the big guy’s White House, but now they must allow the “uppity” dark ones inside the House to keep them content. They know in advance that white guys will still rule but the black guys and gals will be their “foremen” and “forewomen.”

Why do Democrats want Kamala? Because she will do as she is told to do. That is the nature or Democrats. They have been that way since they paved the way for the Trail of Tears to direct the Indians to contentment.

Never believe what people say they will do but judge them for what they have done. That’s what God directed Ezekiel to do, and that is fair and equitable.

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[1] For more on that consider reading my book, A Day on the Democrat Plantation.

HATED FOR THOUGHT CRIMES

Both politicians and people of faith should present their cases for their faith and then refrain from other ado, thusly to avoid hostility and ill will.

The mind is a beautiful thing that rejects encroachment. In other words, we are happy to live a myth since it delays coming to grips with the truth, Politicians and theologians often trespass into the world of the others. Even more so, entertainers enter the minds of others, often so easily, that we are unaware. In a sense, we are indeed whatever mode of entertainment that we choose to participate.

For instance, I avoid both rock and rap music because the messages are the most secular of any other genres. Oftentimes they are not only secular but wicked. All music forms present messages that are accompanied by a tune to make them palatable.

Entertainment is like giving your dog and unwanted pill by placing the awful pill in a doggy treat. Most often, those who love entertainment swallow the “pill” because they enjoy the emotion and satisfaction that is derived from it. Like Pavlov’s dog, they don’t care if an object is forthcoming, so long as they are able to salivate. Provocative music is a great example for that type of hollowness.

By now, musicians are surely infuriated. Do not be for that is just my opinion that is backed up by much psychological research, as well as evidence from real life. If I am wrong that is just the opinion of one person. Why should anyone care about what I think unless it threatens their own “forts.”

People do erect barriers. I do as well even though I try not to! Few of us want to hear the opinions of others because we are then forced to challenge our own. Most people are comfortable living a lie because that is the version of reality that causes them the least stress and anxiety.

Poltitics is the most gruesome. For instance, I do not watch the Democrat National Convention because it is stressful to me. How could anyone believe all the lies; the main one that suddenly Kamala Harris will be the best president ever. I know the real Kamala from years of listening to her stupidity. That is my opinion and right now many Democrats will cease reading because they are comfortable being a Democrat regardless of who their leader might be.

They are more uncomfortable with the alternative, Donald Trump. People vote for the party with which they feel comfortable. Because people nearly always vote a party line, and so did their parents or other mentors, they vote that way because they feel comfortable.

People are like Pavlov’s dog that soon got adjusted even receiving nothing whenever the bell was rung.

People of color have been conditioned in that same manner. So long as the Democrats promise, they salivate even at the thought of getting something in return for their allegiance. Now, most blacks are satisfied with little as their masters become richer as the bell tolls, meaning the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange. Their conditioning provides the power for others to get rich at their expense, but they feel more comfortable with Democrats because it is in their blood due to centuries of servanthood to the Democrats on their plantations.

For myself, I feel comfortable voting Republican because I have prospered during the years of Republican rule. It is not so much economical for me, but I feel more comfortable with the party that has been right the most in history.

Democrats created the Indian “Trail of Tears,” slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, and now they have “reimagined” America. Based on their political genetics, would any sane person believe that their “Great Reset” would be good for blacks or any Americans? Can you not see that the Democrat Party has divided America based on race and even sexuality, pitting almost everyone against each other. Their ideologists have created a trans-sexual people, a transhuman people, and even a transracial people by encouraging miscegenation in nearly all entertainment commercial breaks.

Why would the progressive media present so many mixed-race and homosexual commercials? For you to get the message that what was once taboo is now okay. Even conservatives are now quite comfortable with those lifestyles. It is not that they are wrong but that their messages are paid for by we the people who may have different opinions.

Now back to my premise. If someone wants a mixed-race marriage that is none of my business. If anyone wants to commune with the opposite sex, neither is that any of my business. What IS my business is that they endeavor to force their opinions on us by repetition.

Aldous Huxley wrote, “Sixty-four thousand four-hundred repetitions make one truth.” Of course, repetition has nothing to do with truth but it is psychological conditioning. My point is that you are cunningly conditioned continually, and you are fine knowing that your thoughts are not your own!

Now for some theology: The so-called “Serpent” said to the woman when she was tested whether she really belonged to God, “You shall not surely die” (Gen 3:4). First off, due to translations and the repetition so many billions of times, many Christians accept the idea that the female of Adam’s kind was talking to an intelligent snake. Now, let me say, only one time; She was talking to Lucifer whose nature was as a snake — “cunning” (Strong 2006). That Lucifer appeared as a serpent makes Christianity seem more mythological than if the angel, Lucifer, was a cunning, alien beast.

Because of the talking serpent, what would most people think? Judeo-Christianity is much like Greek mythology, and then they would reject either one.

 So, it was Lucifer who said that you will “surely die.” No, Lucifer did not say that; he said “mut, mut, mut” if he spoke the Hebrew language. He repeated, if it had been in English, “die, die, die.” My point is that repetition was used even with the first sin to imbue sin. Lucifer had conditioned the woman, and she became sub-servient to him (Gen 4:1).

Because Eve is our “Adam” as “the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20) are nature is like hers. The “Devil” Lucifer got into her genes, not through her pants as she was naked, but into her nature. Since that time, due to “original (genetic) sin” mankind is easily deceived.

Repeat anything many times and foolish men and women will most often go for the bait. We are so easily conditioned by deception, that human beings are more gullible than dogs who can sniff out those with evil intentions. To circumvent that, evil is always presented as “good” as was the case with Eve’s first encounter with Lucifer (Gen 3).

Now back to the comfort zones of us humans. Evil people feel more comfortable with other evil people.

In politics, evil people agree with a political “platform” whereon the majority adhere. Examine the two platforms of the major parties; both sound beneficial, do they not? The cream-of-the -crop writers do a paramount performance in making evil things seem good.

Marxism itself sounds good, but to implement legalized theft — equity — requires great control and supreme force.

Just as Eve was bewitched by the free things hanging on the tree, she failed to look long range and so did the male Adam who watched. The woman did not die and that made the “Good God” out to be the Deceiver and the Deceiver out to be the good guy.

If the man had waited for the long-term results, he would have known for sure that indeed both would die, die, die! Which they did long-term (930 years for the male.)

That seems generous, and most of us would be satisfied with that, but compared to eternity, as Adam found out, even a millennium was nothing!

The point therein is that we should all look at the long term. What will things be like in the future for we the people?

All that we need to do is look at the past and see the future. The most dominant hoax ever pulled on mankind was to trust the government that would make even the world prosperous for a thousand-year reign. That was what would be the goal of the Third Reich.

Those with money, due to inflation, obtain more wealth while those with limited money can buy less. As such, inflation makes some richer as the masses get poorer. We are in such an economic state at the present. We are on the verge of a return to Nazism.

Inflation caused Nazism. Their German marks were worth more to burn as fuel than to buy things. During the Weimer Republic, diners paid first because the prices would rise as they ate. Eating was a privilege because money was trash to be burned and it took thousands of marks to even eat at all.

Republics are almost always bound  to failure because the “representatives” spend your money as their own. Republics are easy pickings for Marxists who truly desire to make things better for mankind, but without a God to direct a long-lasting recovery.

Marx meant well with his socialist “Communist Manifesto,” even failing to realize that there would be many “Hitler’s” that would use it for evil purposes.

Stalin even out-Hitlered, Hitler!

Because something is meant to be good does not make it good. Marx, from his grave, has destroyed more nations than any dictator ever by the misuse of what seemed good; that became insane ideologies.

In general, nations that are about to fall can be revealed early on by their inflation rates. Those trillions of dollars that have been spent so wastefully, giving things we don’t have to people with needs and now wants; the inflation curve reveals we are not a great nation but like demon-possessed pigs, and the cliff is near and convenient.

Dictators buy votes by spending fake money that they make. Dictators don’t even care whether it is real money or not, so long as their serfs think it is money. In America, there is no longer real money for the masses. The privileged have real money: gold and silver but all the people have is worthless paper money that has utility so long as the people have faith in their fake “god.”

Inflation is the most divisive thing since God divided the waters from the waters. Inflation creates the have and the half-nots but so long as politicians promise more of worthless paper bills, they are deluded into keeping things the way they are.

The people have been deluded and lived an illusion for nearly fifty years. We are not great and to even want to make us great again is anathema to those who gain from our delusion of prosperity. They will always promise “soon” but soon never comes1

What you have read, if you read this far, is my opinion, but it is based on reality. We see it happening, yet deny what must never happen again, is happening again. The Great Reset of our world’s leaders is making things bad again, yet that is okay with the people because it is coming so gradually that the change goes unnoticed.

My problem is that I have noticed the gradual, insidious change and realize it is not pleasing to me nor God.

Now you can do three things with my opinion: (1) Care less, (2) get angry and hateful because you have different beliefs, or (3) accept my premises. However, you should not hate me because I think the way I do!

Hatred of ideas are “thought crimes” in totalitarian countries. Hating us, even MAGA deplorables, based on our thoughts and ways, is punishment for the way we think, and how you think decides whether we the people of the Constitution are the existential threat or those who hate us so much that we need to be silenced.

Thought Crime - by Michael Huemer - Fake Noûs