THE SO-CALLED “ERROR” OF GOD

This commentary is a little lengthy but teaches a vital lesson for us today; is America beyond destruction and are we Christians secure within the “hedge” (Job 1:10) that God has around us?

The city of Tyre was on an island a short distance from the mainland of Lebanon. The “hedge” around Tyre was both rockiness and the sea itself. Since its origin, none had ever penetrated it because it was naturally fortified.

The Bible, to be Truth, must be accurate. One of the most obvious “inaccuracies,” it seems, is God’s prophecy to Ezekiel that the city of Tyre (Tyrus) would be destroyed by king Nebuchadnezzar II (Ezek 26). The king did attack, but the destruction enumerated by God to Ezkiel did not happen. Nebuchadnezzar’s armies did attack and lay siege to Tyre from 586 to 573 B.C., but they did not utterly destroy that fortification as God revealed it to Ezekiel. Had God erred? We shall see!

Tyre was an island city cut off from the mainland of Lebanon. It was a fortification that not one nation had ever penetrated. That God would tell Ezekiel that Tyre would be destroyed was laughable because it was impregnable.

God specifically said that Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon would destroy Tyre, but it did not happen. Tyre still existed after Nebuchanezzar was long gone. That made God out to be either a liar or weak. When Tyre remained fortified, that diminished the LORD GOD as it seemed that even He was unable to destroy Tyre.

Imagine how arrogant the people of Tyre became after Babylonia failed the mission of God. Their own god, Melqart, had kept them safe from destruction. To them Melqart was stronger than Yahweh. Melqart was the Lebanese version of Hercules whose strength was believed to even hold up the world. When God was down, Hercules in Melqart was still standing. Could God defeat Hercules? His plan was to use Nebuchadnezzar to build an access to the island and break down the walls of Tyre.

The people of Tyre expected Nebuchadnezzar. The LORD GOD of the Hebrews had never been wrong, so they prepared and fended off Nebuchadnezzar.

What if God had not spoken to Ezekiel who then issued a warning to “Tyrus”? Then Tyrus would not have prepared. They already thought of themselves as invincible but were cautious because they were warned. Ezekiel had credibility because of the accuracies of his predictions.

Was God wrong or was He pragmatic? Why did Tyre prepare so well to fend off the powerful Babylonians? It was no accident. If they had not been vigilant, they would have been destroyed. Did God cunningly outwit, outlast, and outplay Nebuchadnezzar to save Tyre; Tyre whose leader, Hiram, had been an ally of King David?

Indeed, Tyre was a sinful city, having a pantheon of gods of which Melqart (Hercules) was the titular god. Tyre deserved to be destroyed because of their blasphemy.

According to legend, Tyre was founded circa 2750 BC by Melqart as a favor to the mermaid Tyros. (Beyer 2022).

God was not only speaking about defeating the people of Tyre, but Hercules and Tyros herself. Defeating them then would have been less daunting, but God seemed to have chosen to defeat Melqart and Tyros in His own time.

God outwitted Tyre by delaying His plan. The siege ended concurrently with the change in leadership from Ithobaal III (meaning “with Baal”) to Baal II. Was that only coincidental or a delay? Would God still do as He said He would?

Note that generals, especially in ancient times, did not win wars alone. They won by the auspices of their god. Wars proved whose god was the stronger.

It seemed to the world and to Nebuchadnezzar that Melqart was stronger than Yahweh or even himself. He was a self-proclaimed God (later) but at that time Marduk was the god of the Babylonians. Perhaps Nebuchadnezzar made himself a god because Marduk could not defeat Tyre!

Marduk was the god of creation, and Nebuchadnezzar even resembled Marduk as ancient statues reveal. Nebuchadnezzar may have even seen himself as Marduk. Tyre humbled him when Hercules proved stronger than his god. As it turned out, the nobody god, Hercules (Melqart), weakened Nebuchadnezzar and God humbled him. Nebuchadnezzar ate grass as an ox (Dan 4:25).

So, Nebuchadnezzar, as the god of the Babylonian Empire, was defeated when he saw the son of God (Jesus) in the fiery furnace. His failure in Tyre had weakened his self-esteem, so Nebuchadnezzar demanded that the people worship him — the same king who had failed to defeat Tyre.

So, rather than diminish Tyre, perhaps God’s priority was to diminish Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar. If he had not been defeated in the attempt to capture Tyre, then Marduk would proven to be stronger than either Melqart or Yahweh. Marduk was the Babylonian creator God — their version of Yahweh. Marduk was an image of God, not the real Thing.

“To everything there is a season (a time), and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Ecc 3:1). Time is a construct for man, but God is the setter and author of time. It is His to do with as He pleases. He set the time for Nebuchaddnezzare; it would be done on his watch. The clock slowed down remarkably for Nebuchadnezzar.

This brings up the concept of free will. Time is the order of God’s Will. He can set the time and change the time.

However, mankind, made in His Image, also has free will. God does not make mankind do anything; not even obey Him. Nebuchadnezzar was not a robot king. Because God knew what Nebuchadnezzar would do — attack Tyre — did not mean that he would win the battle.

However, Nebuchadnezzar set the clock for the destruction of Tyre. God uses unrighteous people for His initiatives. God could have destroyed Tyre His Way by natural causes or miraculous powers, but His desire was for man to destroy what his own hands had made. In this case Nebuchadnezzar failed to destroy what Ithobaal III had made.

There are several places in scripture wherein God “repented” of what He had done (e.g., 1 Sam 15:35), “The Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.” He had not erred but changed His Mind. God is sovereign and He alone can change the events of time! Just as God was sorry that He had appointed Saul, He was also sorry that He had given that tough assignment to Nebuchadnezzar. God never errs!

In the process of time, the city of Tyre (Tyrus) was destroyed exactly as God revealed to Ezekiel. The only change was the time and hand by which it was destroyed. The time would not be the interval of 586–573 BC — Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, but 332 BC after a seven-month siege. God revealed that event to Ezekiel: 

For thus says the Lord God; “Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and many people. He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against you, and cast a mount against you, and lift up the buckler against you. And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down the towers.  By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach” (Ezek 26:7-10) 

Alexander the Great did just that! His army built a long earthen and rock bridge to the island city and breached not only its walls, but the entire island. Alexander defeated Tyrus just as God had appointed Nebuchadnezzar who failed his task. For the first time in history, the impossible was done, but by Alexander from “the north” not Nebuchadnezzar from the east!

Now examine time itself in modern terms. Nebuchadnezzar was the “root cause” — the fundamental event that causes a reaction. Nebuchadnezzar, as king of Babylon, was the fundamental event. His reign caused much turbulence in the middle east. Because of his cruel reign and humiliation, Persia, under Cyrus the Great, defeated Babylon, and then Alexander defeated the armies of Persia. There was a chain reaction. Nebuchadnezzar was not the direct cause, but the root cause.

Compare that to a chain reaction. I could use about any chemical process but rather consider a traffic jam. All the traffic stops when one car stops suddenly, and perhaps it even impacts the one before it; the one that braked suddenly.

Did the event occur because the driver of the front car braked? Indeed, that driver was the direct cause. What was the root cause? Some driver much earlier slowed for some reason, perhaps to gawk at something. When that driver slowed, all the cars behind that one driver slowed as well with each successive driver more abruptly. The car that slammed on the brakes that directly caused the collision was just reacting to all those before him. The root cause was long before, perhaps a hundred cars before; however, the car that applied the brakes last would be held liable. The law makes no attempt to look at videos of traffic movement to determine who first slowed down.

God is fairer; He did not give Alexander the Great the glory. He looked upstream in time and events and provided Ezekiel with the root cause of Tyre’s destruction. Nebuchadnezzar paved the way for Alexander. He attacked Tyre and failed. That convinced the city that they were impregnable. Indeed, Tyre was attacked from the east, surely by both nations — the Babylonians and then the Greeks. However, Babylon came from the east and the Greeks from the north (Macedonia). God knew all along that Alexander would be the direct cause and Nebuchadnezzar the root cause down to the point that He told Ezekiel the attack would come from the north.

Why did God not just say that Alexander would defeat Tyre? Ezekiel, nor anybody else, would have known of whom God was speaking. Substitute “Alexander” in the immediate passages above; “I will bring upon Tyrus Alexander….”  That would mean nothing to Ezekiel or anyone else, so God provided Nebuchadnezzar as the root cause.

In a similar recent situation, illegal immigrants were crossing the borders to the U.S. in California, Texas, Florida, New Mexico, and Arizona. President Biden made V.P. Harris czar to find the cause. As czar, she was the assigned authority; she was “king” or president in that problem/solution analysis. Harris overlooked the direct cause — our laws being broken — and went to the Northern Triangle countries of Central America. She went upstream to find the root cause of immigration. Any fool would have known that traffic stops because some fool(s) long before had gawked at something, perhaps a policeman with radar.

Any fool should have known that the root cause of illegal immigration, was the law of several countries in Central America. Rather than go to the direct cause of illegal immigration — the U.S.-Mexico border which Biden could fix, she went upstream where it was impossible to fix.

God, in the same manner, provided the root cause of the future collapse of Tyre rather than the direct cause — Alexander. If Nebuchadnezzar had been righteous, Tyre would have failed then. Nebuchadnezzar is the king that made the People of Tyre think they would never perish.

In like manner, Adam is the root cause of our direct problem. He sinned, and one sin became the root cause of our own sins. Although, we are the direct cause, it is rooted in the woman’s attempt to “drive” the male Adam where he was told not to go!

In the beginning, the woman was gawking at the lustrous forbidden tree and possibly the bright angel Lucifer, within the branches of the tree. She slowed down, looked, and Adam slowed with her. They both gawked at the fruit of the tree in a short chain reaction. Soon, Cain was born, and he too gawked. As he wandered the land of Nod, they all gawked, and the book of the generations of man (Gen 5) is about the chain reaction. By the time of Noah, all the “traffic” had stopped, and God cleared the ‘wreck” by removing the “wreckage”from His Way.

When the world collided with God it was not suddenly. One man was not the direct cause; the root cause was the original sin which is passed down to all who came after!

We cannot change the outcome ourselves because the root cause came six thousand years before us. Our works are lame. Only God can clear the Way because we have no power to change our genetics from all that came before us. The only way that we can help is for us to change the paths that we go. We are not to go the way of Satan but take the “bypass” — the Way of God, so that we need not collide with the inevitable!

When we sin and collide with God and His other pedestrians, we are the direct cause. We are to have self-control (2 Tim 1:7), vigilance, and sobriety.(1 Pet 5:8), knowing there will be a “crash” and for us to avoid the traffic of the world so that we are not one of the many possible direct causes of the destruction of the world.

God could have placed the blame on the root cause — man’s encounter with the other kind — that began the final catastrophic event, but each of us can do our parts to not be there when the world collides with the heavens.

Just as it is the driver in the car in front of us to be sober, vigilant, and non-careless to avoid our collision with him; we must do the same. In fact, none of the drivers in the chain of traffic are wise to even tap the brakes of their vehicles. Why? Because all the foolish people down the chain will tap theirs until the last one collides, and soon many will cause a collision chain.

Satan is the root cause, and in His time, God will deal with him. For now, however, we are to motivate His Way for us to avoid our own blame in the Court of God. We know for whom we drive and it is not the way of the World, so Christians are to move cautiously and bypass the way of the world, knowing that long before us, one person (Eve) gawked too long until now all the world gawks at the shiny object, Lucifer, even unwittingly looking at his things.

Us humans usually look at the direct cause. We get angry at each other and even kill to avoid stress. We must not kill each other because the root cause of our stress is our “father the Devil” (John 8:44). It was the Devil’s fault, but we are part of his genetic chain. So, the family of Satan is just as responsible as its patriarch for the things that we do, unless we change “lanes” (our genetics — “born again;” John 3:7).

Nebuchadnezzar started the mission with Tyre, His role was to make them think they were safe. They thought so until Alexander came from the north and perished them who believe that they were so safe that they would never perish.

That is the same perception that Lucifer provides to Christians; that they will never be in peril because they have falsely assumed that they are already saved.

Was the city of Tyre saved from destruction? No, God kept them safe until their time was up, then they perished because they thought that they were invincible. Do you think that way?

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ABOUT THE ANGEL OF GOD

We are all taught to think critically but Christians generally just gloss over the Word of God without fully understanding. That the Bible begins with “Genesis” should be some indication that the beginning had something to do with genetics. In fact, the entire Bible is an accumulation of genetic events! Now proceed with me to critically examine scripture to see how Jesus is God.

Although the distinction that follows is about Sarai and Hagar, the wife and concubine of Abraham, respectively, please focus on “the Angel of the Lord” in this passage: 

The Angel of the Lord found her (Hagar) by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur, and He said…”  (Gen 16:6-7) 

That passage introduces “The Angel of the Lord” to the reader. Is that “angel” an ordinary angel or a special Angel?

The natural thing to do is look for evidence. Sarai had just said, “The Lord judge between me and you in Hagar” in verse five, then The Angel of the Lord appeared to Hagar. Hagar had left camp, and the Lord God soon found her. It was then that Hagar saw The Angel of the Lord. That specific Angel was The Lord God. That is verified with Hagar’s response to the Angel’s promise, “She called the Name of the Lord that spoke unto her, ‘You God sees me.’” in verse fifteen. She called the Angel the Name, “God.”

Hagar identified to whom she was speaking: The Lord God, The Name, The Angel of God.

The Angel appeared unto Hagar. She was not imagining anything.

When God appeared to Jacob many years later, God appeared as a man. Hidden from most is the substance of that “man” (Gen 32:24). More on that in a moment. That “man” was God. Jacob confirmed that when he remarked, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved” (Gen 32:30).

Hagar and Jacob both saw God. God appeared to Jacob as a Man. Hagar saw God as an Angel. In both cases, God revealed His Power. To Hagar He promised to multiply her seed. That was the Dynamic of God.

When He wrestled with Jacob, God withered his thigh and made him “Israel,” the father of the nation. He multiplied Jacob as well. He engendered both their genomes with His own Holy Essence, and as such God lost Virtue in each case. In the Greek, that Virtue is “Dynamis.”

God had come to Hagar in three substances: The Power, The Angel, and The Name. Of course, the Name of God, as He would He called much later, is “Jesus.” Hagar had seen the Power, the Person, and the Holy Ghost of God — “The Holy Trinity.” In the Old Testament, the Dynamis was “The Word of God,” and in the New Testament Greek, “Logos.”

Hence, as John wrote, “The Word was made flesh” (John 1:14). However, The Word pre-existed His flesh (John 1:1-2). Hence, The Word had another substance than human flesh in the scripture (the Old Testament).

Jacon “wrestled’ with that “Man” (Gen 32:24) as is written in the English. It was certainly not a wrestling match but something dynamic happened, ‘abaq in the Hebrew. ‘Abaq means to “float away” as in a vapor (Strong 2006). God endowed Jacob with some unknown substance. That “vapor” was the Holy Spirit of God in the form of a Man, as Jacob saw it.

Now consider what Luke saw at the baptism of Jesus: 

The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him (Jesus), and a Voice came from heaven, which said, “You are My beloved Son; in your I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22) 

Luke saw Jesus, the Spirit of God in bodily shape with the Holy Ghost descending. How? In a vapor (Ghost) whose motion (dynamics) was like a dove. Luke saw the three substances of God together after Jesus was baptized. The Person of Jesus had been baptized in both water and Spirit. His baptism was different, because the Holy Ghost remained only on Him (John 1:33), implying that when John baptized the others, the Holy Ghost did not remain on them.  

Jesus was “assembled” as he was raised from the water. The Spirit of God in bodily shape floated on Him as a vapor with the shape of a man as Jesus received the Holy Ghost.

There is a distinction to be made; only the King James Version of the Bible retains “Ghost” and “Spirit” for the Greek word, “pneuma.” Pneuma is the motion as a vapor.

The Spirit of God is like a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night (Exod 13:22). Hence, Spirit is a vast powerful quantity of Light that appears as darker light in the day and brighter light in the night. [1] The bodily shape of that Supreme Quantity is the Spirit of God in bodily shape – the shape, or image, of a man. In other words, the Holy Ghost of Jesus, if seen in the case of Luke and those with bright eyes at the crucifixion, that Ghost would look like Jesus except  as another substance. Hence, the Holy Ghost is “The Angel of the Lord” which is the Spirit of God in bodily shape.

Essentially God — the “Godhead” — was described by the apostle Paul, “In him (Jesus) dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col 2:9). The “Godhead” is the Person of God, the Spirit of God, and the Power of God (Yahweh). Those three substances make up God, or the “Godhead.” Jesus is the “cup,” literally the “vessel,” (Mat 26:42) for the Spirit and Power of God.

Therefore, Hagar saw Jesus, not in the flesh, but in the Spirit in the bodily shape of a man. Hence, “The Angel of God” is the Holy Ghost — the Spirit of God in bodily shape… the shape of the Person Jesus.

The Angel of God was the Image of God (Selem in the Hebrew) with which the male and female Adamah were made. Adam was an angel of God and his flesh was the vessel in which the Spirit of God was contained. “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45).

Adam’s angel was a soul with motion. He was dynamic because man was mobile. The first Adam could take God to man within himself, and the male did that when he took God to the woman.

God made the male and the female Adamah alike. They both were a “shadow,” or “phantom” of Himself. The female was identical to the male as far as their angel, or soul, was concerned. Jesus verified that when He said, “In the resurrection they (males and females) neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven” (Mat 22:30). Hence, the angel of both females and males are without pudenda. Their only difference is genetic. So, the angels of men are like heavenly angels; they are the Spirit of God in a “container” of some sort that God identified as a “soul” (nepes in the Hebrew). A nepes is a dynamic creature whose substance is not material but vaporous — spirits (ibid). Hence, the soul of a man is the “angel” of the person.

An ”angel” is a mal’ ak in the Hebrew — a messenger whose substance is like a vapor, or phantom.

The Body of Jesus at His baptism was imbued with the Holy Ghost and with Power. The “Godhead” was assembled in the Person of Jesus when the Holy Spirit of God descended onto Him.

Jesus, at the crucifixion, was disassembled; the Holy Ghost and His Power left Him (Mark 15:37). His Body remained on the cross, and His Ghost in bodily shape “floated” to Paradise that day. That “floating” was the “vapor” (wrestling) that Jacob overcame. That vapor was The Angel of God in Power.

Jesus was “raised from the dead” (Acts 3:15). He was not re-erected but “assembled,” the literal meaning of the Greek word translated “raised.”

Jesus, at the Resurrection, was re-assembled. The Angel of God returned to the tomb, to wit: 

Behold, there was a great earthquake: for The Angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. (Mat 28:2). 

The Angel of the Lord was not just another angelic being, but the Holy Ghost Himself. When  Jesus was raised from the dead, The Angel of God, came to the tomb and was re-assembled with the Body of Christ.

With all that evidence, “The Word of God” was “The Angel of God,” or the Holy Ghost. Jesus pre-existed His Body as a Ghost in the shape of a man. That is the “Word” of which John wrote that was made flesh (John 1:14). Not “made” in a physical sense, but in identity, ginomai — genned. The Genome of God was placed in the “vessel,” or Body of Jesus.

The Body of Jesus was indeed the “cup” that held the Genome of God.

I believe that the Image of God, “Selem” in the Hebrew, was the Genome of Yahweh.

For a moment, examine the science; the Genome is the totality of all the chromosomes of a person. Each and every nuclear cell of the body has a chromosome. Now remove the cells themselves, leaving only the chromosomes in the bodily shape of a man. Chromosomes are whitish in color. Imagine now just your chromosomes moving and articulating. You would appear to be just a phantom because chromosomes cannot be seen without staining.

The Genome of God may be the Divine Chromosome of God, or “The Angel of God,” that later genned Jesus, making the Genome of God visible again because the flesh revealed the Genome of God: 

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:1-3)

 Jesus was not another divine Being and He was not made. He was manifested, or revealed, to be God. As such Jesus is the embodiment of The Angel of God that I believe was the divine Genome of Yahweh whose substance was phantom-like as “selem” means. In other words, The Angel of God was the Image of God from the beginning — His Genome whereon God assembled the organism of flesh with God in every cell of that Divine Creature.

The “Cloud” that was the Genome of God was divided and shared with the male Adam who in turn shared it with the female Adam, making them one with each other and one with God. Like God, before sin, they were glorious creatures each with an “angel” that was pure and white until sin stained their chromosomes to reveal the “serpentine-like” nature within them after sin.

Perhaps their nakedness without shame in the Garden was their pure genomes, and that their shame (Gen 3:7) was after sin was that their evil chromosomes were made public. God saw His Genome in them, now soiled with the filth of sin — the cunning nature of the Beast.

One last point: “The Angel of God” was the Spirit, or Image of God, in bodily shape. It is the Image that Jesus received at His baptism. It was not the water that changed Him but the Vapor from another realm that floated upon Him to make him the Godhead.

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[1] That cloud and pillar of fire is, An Awesome Quantum God, as described in my latest book. A “Quantum” is  packet of energy, and a cloud of Energy is the Almightiness of God.

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THE CONSUMPTION OF GOD'S PEOPLE

To be honest, I am not smart enough to understand God’s parables that He revealed to Ezekiel, so again I was tempted to gloss over my study. However, once confronted with scripture (Ezekiel 24), God revealed to me in thought what the “Jewish Stew” in the time of Nebuchadnezzar would consist of.

In the Book of Ezekiel, God continually calls Ezekiel “son of man.” The exact Hebrew expression is “ben Adam.” Often it is unclear whether God was speaking specifically to Ezekiel, but all of mankind, whether it be then or in the future. God may have been speaking to modern man as well as those in that day, or maybe even just Ezekiel.

However, the parable seems to be for all of mankind — specifically only Adam’s kind. Well, what other kind of man is there? ‘Is (pronounced eesh) were Cain’s and the Devil’s kind.

Was God dividing the kinds again? Perhaps. Scripture is much about dividing the kinds from the kinds; “According to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, said the Lord God.” (Ezek 24:14).

Who are the “they”? They are the “bloody city” (Ezek 24:9) under the direction of the king of Babylon. That event was about Nebuchadnezzar laying siege to Jerusalem. It would come true. However, it applied both those of that time and surely in the end of time during the apocalypse.

Because Jerusalem was so wicked in those days, they Jews would be “eaten” in a sense which God described quite well as a “human stew,” — “Adam Stew” — bones and all: 

Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. (Ezek 24:5) 

Who would cook the Jews? Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. Who would light the fire? The Lord would do it (Ezek 24:14). Why? What was so wrong with God’s chosen and peculiar people that He had saved from peril so many times? Speaking of the city of Jerusalem and her people, God explained to Ezekiel their wrong: 

She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. In your filthiness is lewdness (Ezek 24:12-13). 

The remnant of the Hebrews — the Jews — once God’s chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2) would perish as if in Hell. The boiling pot with flaming fire was just a parable of things to come. The Babylonians, as far as it is known, never made “Jewish Stew.” Perhaps, God was revealing to Ezekiel the recipe for “Luciferin Stew” for whosoever does not believe (trust) in Him (John 3:16)

I believe the parable was more about the Antichrist and judgment than it was about the destruction of Jerusalem, albeit it may be about both. Albeit they knew the demonic Nebuchadnezzar, but ancient Jews were not familiar with the Antichrist. Nebuchadnezzar might very well represent the Antichrist. Indeed, he does, or should I say that Nebuchadnezzar was the Antichrist!

Christians think of one “Antichrist” in the end; “The Antichrist.” However, John wrote, “As you have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many Antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (1 John 2:18).

The topic was last times. There would not be many at the same time, but one after another. I submit that Herod the Great was the Antichrist because he was against Christ and a type of Christ as king of the Jews who tried to kill Christ.

I submit that Judas, after the death of Herod, was the Antichrist because he too was against Christ, even dying on a “tree” like Christ. He too endeavored to kill Christ, but he was as cowardly as Nero. Some Muslims believe that Judas was the Christ. That makes Judas the Antichrist in his turn.

Simon Magus was the Antichrist in those days in his turn because he claimed to be Christ as well as he created the anti-Christian religion of Gnosticism.

My point is what John said was true that there are many Antichrists and all those people had Satan in them, just as with Judas (Luke 22:3).

Satan has one among many characteristics that God does not; he is not omnipresent (Job 1:6). He can only be one place at any given time. That there is many Antichrists at the same time is not theologically sound doctrine.

Who in the Old Testament had Satan, Lucifer, in him? The Serpent was some occult image with Satan in him.

Since Abel was the Christ-type (righteous Abel, Mat 23:35), and Cain murdered him, Cain was the Antichrist as the son, or gens, of the Serpent (1 John 3:12).

During the time before the flood, Genun, the son of blind Lamech, had Satan enter him and he did many evil works. Genun was the Antichrist that caused the flood of Noah’s day.

There were many consecutive Antichrists in the Old Testament, and one of them was Nebuchadnezzar who had Satan in him. (Nimrod, the “great hunter” of God was another in his time.)

However, Satan is just a tool to test mankind — Adam’s kind. God does not test Lucifer’s kind because there is nothing to test. They are his kind, “Is, that God does not test. Why should he? They belong to Satan, not to God. When God spoke to Adam he was referring, not to ‘Is but to Adamah. He was speaking about sons of God of which Adam was the first. He was speaking to those engendered by God whether before Christ or after Christ who is God!

The Jews of that day required judgment because they had gone astray. They had followed Satan after God had saved them from Pharoah (another Antichrist). God was about to make His people, “Satan Stew,” not because He relished it, but that they required sanitation by fire and heat. That “Jewish Stew” was a type of Hell and God would use Nebuchadnezzar as the Antichrist to punish His people.

That is how God will use some Antichrist in the end to punish some in Hell as a few are rewarded in Paradise. That does not seem fair, but once sons of Adam, not always sons of Adam. “Elected” as God’s people, they selected Satan as their master. As their “master,” it was the Antichrist’s, Nebuchadnezzar’s, role to punish them. Being Antichrist is a busy and bloody job. Nebuchadnezzar was the butcher who would cut up the Jews to make “Jewish Stew.”

Nebuchadnezzar was the king of kings as an emperor, and he made himself lord of lords when he had a statue of himself to be worshipped. He was a pompous leader who God humbled, bringing Nebuchadnezzar down on all fours to eat grass like a beast (oxen; Dan 4:33).

How did that make Nebuchadnezzar the Antichrist? Well, the nature of Lucifer was described by Isaiah, to wit: 

How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how aet you cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” Yet you shalt be brought down to Hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isa 14:12-14) 

God will do that with Lucifer (Satan) in the end (to the fiery pit), and he did it with Satan in Judas when he fell to the ground, burst, and Satan came out. (Acts 1:18).

God also did that with Nebuchadnezzar who surely had Satan in him, but in the end, he was also brought to his knees just as scripture says about the Beast, “on your belly you shall go” (Gen 3:14). Not crawl on his belly but die diminished. Satan in Judas went that way, and so did Satan in Simon the sorcerer, according to history.

Some say that Nero was an Antichrist because he persecuted Christians and burned Rome. He was diminished just like Nebuchadnezzar, and he too killed himself. Nero after sinning by aborting his own child and killing his wife, married a boy who he castrated to make him a different kind — a trans-kind. That was more than God could stand. There is not one sin that Nero failed to sin, even claiming himself to be God.

Unlike Jesus who went to His death bravely and peacefully, Nero was so cowardly that he could not suicide himself, having a servant circumcise him from the world! That was the end of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty forever. Nero Caesar was diminished by God in the manner of Nebuchadnezzar and again, Satan did the dirty work.

Another Antichrist arose in the late 1920’s and by 1941, Jews were punished just because they were Jews. That time, Herr Hitler was the emperor king who would play God and die in the pit of his bunker. Hitler was one of the many Antichrists which God was warning Ezekiel that would come.

Who knows who the Antichrist is now, but there are not many, but one at a time! There is somebody out there right now who is great and whose destiny is diminishment by God. It is somebody that is endeavoring to diminish God, replace Him, and change the world with a great reset. The time is at hand this moment with the Great Reset and the dawning of the Luciferin Era (Aquarius).

In Ezekiel’s time, who was in danger of perishing, even in the Jewish Stew that Nebuchadnezzar would prepare? God’s chosen and elect people. In a sense, the stew was to “feed” the Antichrist, Nebuchadnezzar. Will there be a “Christian Stew” in the end? 

(The elect, Christians) Casting all your care upon him; for He cares for you. .Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Pet 5:7-8) 

In the days of Nebuchadnezzar, God’s chosen people thought that they would never perish, they were non-vigilant, and while they “slept,” God was preparing a “stew” of His people. He chose the Antichrist, Nebuchadnezzar, as the “chef” to make the stew to which God would even light the fire under them by judgment to his standards, not the king’s!

Why should Christians, the elect, be vigilant about the coming Devil — the final Antichrist — unless their safety was in jeopardy? Just as the Jews of God’s parable were the ingredients for Nebuchadnezzar’s “stew,” even to this day Christians could be the ingredients for the Antichrist’s last meal. (Note that the Lord’s Last Supper was not eaten by Him but by Judas who alone sopped the body of Christ in the blood of Christ.) Judas ate “Christ’s Stew” unworthily.

Why was Nebuchadnezzar able to consume Jerusalem so easily? Because they were not vigilant. They failed to understand that they would end up as “soup” in the pot of Nebuchadnezzar. God could save all of them from the alien “Devil” just in time, but He did not. It was God who even planned Nebuchadnezzar’s “menu” of His choice people. Do not be surprised if when you discover that you are not already saved, as you have been told, but preserved for God’s purposes.  There is a difference!

God was not speaking just to Ezekiel or sinners (Is’s) but Adamah, sons of righteous Adam (i.e., elected Jews then and Christian now.)

Adam’s kind is again in jeopardy just as God’s people were in ancient times. We should have learned the lesson of the Jews, but all the while Christians are still non-vigilant. It is not Satan’s people that the Devil delights to consume but God’s people. Beware the wiles of the Devil!

 

 

 

 

POLITICS AND THE CHRISTIAN: A PARADOX

Well, it is an election year. Will democracy survive or will it not? Nobody asks if our republic will survive?

In a few words a “democracy” is majority rule, and a “republic” is representative government so that the minority is not neglected. The United States is a republic.

Obviously, the fear of so many of us is that the minority will be forgotten and there will be a one-party government in the manner of the Confederate States of America. Theirs was that the few Republicans that were there had no voice in anything. The South voted for the Democrat of their choice and Republicans were required to do as they said.

The Confederacy was a democracy ruled by Democrats wherein the voice of the minority was suppressed. The Democrats could not even get along. The vice-president, Alexander Stephens was useless to the president, Jefferson Davis. The Democrats, although they thought they served the same purpose were not even in accord even with one another. That even extended to the war among their generals with both each other and their president.

The South struggled with the North because southern Democrats struggled with each other. Not to be outdone, even the Democrats of the North struggled with each other and with the Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Democrat Supreme General, George B. McClellan, was a thorn in the side of President Lincoln because he failed to follow the leadership of the Lincoln. Soon, he would run for president himself!

To be truthful, things were not rosy among the Republicans, but for the most part, they remained united, not to save democracy (The Confederacy), but to save the republic (The Union).

If people were good, democracies would be good, but mankind is infected with iniquity — original sin. Democracies without God are doomed to failure, and to be honest, so are republics. The former is basically a plutocracy that is ruled by the wealthiest. They work by buying the votes of the less wealthy. Generally, they no longer provide whisky and favors for votes; it is more subtil; they promise rewards for the votes. The wealthy do not mind giving crumbs to the poor to gain or retain power; especially when it is the common man’s money that they will use to pay the foolish commoners.

Again, democracy is defined as majority rule. Is it really? The powerful rich always rule. They somehow get the less educated to support their goals by use of the press and other media. It is sad, but voters still do not understand that it is them who pay for the “free things” that were promised to get powerful or popular people, elected!

The Bible says something about democracy: “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Jud 17:6). That is a “democracy.” It is a government without one king, but a government wherein everyone is “king.”

The crazies ruled their own domain as well as the sane ones. There was chaos in those days because people were not in accordance with either God nor each other. Everybody wanted things their way.

The economy was like Burger King’s wherein each can have it their way. However, even Burger King^® provides a choice. A good restaurant does not force its way on you, nor another, your way on me. A pure democracy is chaotic and insane because there is no compromise; the one with the greatest numbers have it their way!

The problem with democracies is that people have different principles, called “ideologies” in political speech. One citizen might want regulations for his own safety and for his family, and the next independence from the government entirely. You cannot have it both ways, so people resort to “politics” to have it their way.

Politics, according to Webster is, “the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government.”

What was the first sin? A cunning act to win control over the government of the Garden wherein God was LORD, Adam had dominion, and the other animals were under his dominance. The original “government” was a theocracy, not by some evil presence, but a Good God, and in that theocracy all things were “very good” (Gen 1:31).

The Law in that domain was one: The Supreme God has all authority and that was conveyed with one Law — never to trespass onto the Estate of God by taking things that are forbidden; things that do not belong to you. (Not even taxation but charity.)

We are taught to believe that democracies are good, and even Republicans have sought to create democracies wherein chaos rules. The outcome in so many cases is revolution, chaos, and dictatorships. That is because people still want to do what is right in their own eyes.

The only case in history wherein everyone was of one accord was in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost: “When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place” (Gen 2:1). Why so? It was because all the men there followed Jesus (Acts 1:21). Jesus was their “Rabbi” — their “Master.”

The Church was founded that day. The Church is a theocracy with Jesus as its head. It is not by majority rule as the Council of Jerusalem proved, but by wise examination of the Will of God (Acts 15). If the tenets of God are followed, then accordance ensues.

James was the leader of the council, but he bowed to the council of Paul who provided the wisdom, not the tacit law, of God. There was not a political revolution about who would be greatest, nor even cunning. Paul just revealed to them what Jesus above had show him about the rule of Law. It was Jesus that truly ruled, and each in a sense, took a knee to Jesus.

They followed wise council, “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thes 5:21-2). Paul used that process, and so should we.

The Church is still extant after nearly 2000 years because of that advice. The Council of Jerusalem was the first political act of the newly formed Church. The Council proved, or tested, the misunderstandings and held onto what is good. As such, much of the Law had been misunderstood, so they held onto what was understood by them all. There were no abstentions nor hard feelings. The majority did not rule, but the rule of God persuaded them all to agree on the things of God. The first Church was not denominational; they all agreed because they all considered all things and retained what was good.

It could have been the end of the Church. The Church could have been divided into two or more factions. Because the majority did not rule, but that Paul inspired by God, persuaded them to do the Will of God, not by commands, but to please God.

If the majority had won that day, the minority would have walked out and formed their own version of the Church.

To be honest, the Church has done that ever since. Because Catholicism did not adhere to the scripture, Protestants walked out. Whether you are a Catholic or a Protestant is an ecclesiastical decision; it is the politics of the branches of the Church. The Church was split in the 1500s because of majority rule. The rule of the majority — the Catholics — created dissension and the minority left. Since that time, even the Protestants protest one another. The Church organization is presently in chaos. That is where democracy takes even Christians.

Democracies are the rule of the majority without regard to hanging onto what is good. It is what is best for the most. Marxism (communism, progressivism, and the like) is democratic by design: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” (Karl Marx). The needy at that time were the majority, and the plutocracy was the minority. They each were to be of one accord, but not out of charity but by dictate. That one glorious idea has caused so much consternation and division today that about everyone hates each other. His idea of democracy, even a republic, if you think about it, was good, but in practice it was chaotic.

Why has Marxism always failed? Because God has not part in Marxist governments; the leaders become the autocrats — the one’s with absolute power. Stalins and Hitlers became the “gods” just like Micah who became the king in his own eyes and his son the priest (Jud 17:5).

Democracies are well-intentioned, but in practice, the wealthy elite are the benefactors. Democracies are the “survival of the fittest” and eventually, the most powerful will emerge as dictators that seek their will be done. (To Hell with those who think otherwise.)

The Democrat Party were the Marxists even before Marx. How so? The plantation system was communistic, to wit: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” The plantation economy was set up communistic; those with ability were the workers: the field hands that picked cotton, the stable boy, the kitchen help who were like family, and the black overseer who really managed the plantation. They were the ones with ability.

Who were those with needs? The gentlemen and ladies of the plantation and their children. The slaves took care of them from the cradle to the grave. What they did not “need” for their extravagance they shared unequally with those who worked. The “needy” were the Democrats who struggled to maintain their clever system. They still maintain their plantations, now big cities, so succinctly that the blacks still think they are free even as they are beholden to the Democrat Party. [1]

Just like reconstruction wherein Democrats made their “Uncle Tom’s” afraid of Republicans and freedom, and now Biden has said, “‘If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” He knows that black people seem to want Democrats to protect them from Republicans. In fact, Biden fears Trump because he might finally, really set the blacks free from Democrats.

I have attacked democracies fairly. However, republics are subject to misuse as well.

Marxism has shades of republicanism as well.

Marxism in practice is communistic wherein a bureaucracy operates everything for the good of the community.

Both the House and the Senate are republican by design. We vote for them to run the “plantation” because we the people have different goals. The Constitution meant well by creating a republic, but because of tenure, the republic is by now mostly just part of the bureaucracy.

Recent events show that the President does not run things nor does Congress. The Congress has become a mass of elite bureaucrats that suck the life from our nation as they make themselves wealthy at our expense. Benjamin Franklin saw that coming when he called our system of government, “a republic, if we can keep it.”

The republic is now threatened by both parties because of discord. The statesmen are continually undermined by “progressive” Democrats and “never Trumpers.”  

So, to whom can the people turn? A populist: “a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people” (Merriam-Webster 2023). People look to Trump, not because he is a Republican, or even because he is not a Democrat, but because he is for the common people. Trump sees us as virtuous common people and his policies are constructive to improve the people.

On the other hand, Democrats see the people (voters) as stupid (Jonathan Gruber), “a basket of deplorables” (Hillary Clinton), and MAGAs “threats to democracy” (Joe Biden). Not to be outdone Kamala Harris sees us as merely ways Democrats harvest voters.

I asked Googled^® a question, “What derogatory name did Kamala call MAGA supporters?” All that Google returned were hundreds, if not thousands, of what derogatory name Trump called Harris! That, naïve people, is communist, even Nazi, propaganda and both are Marxism in practice. Democracy has not only been threatened but implemented and silly voters even fail to understand that what must never happen again is happening again!

Both Harris and weird Walz has called Republicans “weird.” That certainly is a vote getter (sic)! The Democrats are the “party of hatred”!

Any media search reveals almost nothing about mean-spirited things Democrats say, but twists all things that Trump says.

Pravda was the communistic media. Our media, for the most part, is now communist Pravda-like. Because the media says it so repeatedly, should make astute people willing to, “Test all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.” Most of what you read and hear, expect it to be evil.

Test all those rantings of media personalities. Are they mean-spirited and hateful? Are they truthful or merely cunning? Trust God, not the “Prince of the power of the air,” Satan. The media so cunningly twists things that even brilliant people are deceived.

Why would you want a herd of name-calling beasts to run our National Plantation? Based on their record of the Trail of Tears, slavery, Jim Crow, and now anti-Semitism, why would you want the biggest threat to democracy ever (Democrats) in control of our republic? They have always been on the wrong side of history, so why do you think now would be any different?

Think people! We all want good things but a few of us will be required to pay for the desires and whims of about every weird group that holds out their hands to demand a share.

I will be mean about one group, like Russian operetta, Galina Veshnevskaya called Marxist thought an “insane ideology.” [2]

Do I expect many to change their viewpoints? No. You have been fed the Pavlovian treat so many times, that even if you don’t receive a treat, you will still ring the Democrat “bell.”

"Pavlov Dog Experiment;" YouTube

 

 

 

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

[2] For more on that see my book, Galina, An American Story.

ON HUMAN RIGHTS

It is election time and for the Democrats, the critical issue is that women should be able to abort the reproductive process. Both participants did indeed begin the reproductive process, due to either bad choices or a moment of lust. They both had the capacity to avert conception by facing reality; that they are not just pleasuring but beginning a long process. Conception lies entirely on both the man and the woman; they both caused an outcome for which they may regret.

It is not the business of the government to prevent their pleasure, but it is the business of the government to protect human life. That is the purpose of good government; it must even prevent wars and mob action. It is also responsible to maintain order by preventing negligent people from doing whatever it is they want to do that would infringe on the rights of others.

Government's sole purpose is safeguarding the individual and his/her inherent, inalienable rights; each societal institution that does not benefit the nation is illegitimate. (Thomas Paine; Rights of Man, I, London, 1795, pp. 125–126).

That needs some clarification because society today does not like big words. Inherency comes from the constitution or essential character of anything. The “constitution” of any individual is their birthright, not to be first but the right to exist.

Paine said that human rights are to “safeguard the individual” – a distinct existence. In practice Paine was writing about a person’s right to exist, not just for a moment but a right to a life.

Next to be addressed is “inalienable” — the right to not surrender what belongs to you. Inalienable refers to essential rights that cannot be debated. They are rights just because you exist. That brings up the question; When do individuals come into existence?

The renowned philosopher, Rene’ Descartes, wrote, ““I think, therefore I am.” Hence, any human existence is cognitive and if there is neurological action, then a “thing” exists and has rights as a human.

So, when does the individuals’ brain waves begin to function?

When does a fetus have brain activity? The first synapses in baby's spinal cord form during week 7 of pregnancy. By week 8, electrical activity begins in the brain — allowing your baby to coordinate his first (spontaneous) movements that doctors can even see on an ultrasound! (de Bellefonds 2021)

 

Figure 1: Unbotrn Baby; (ibid)

 Scientifically, a “fetus” is a “baby,” according to the above, when it is able to communicate. An ultrasound measures that ability. So, science says that a fetus is a baby when its brain begins to control its movements; hence the inherent sucking desire that will remain in the baby even after its birth. The babies’ own brain takes that thumb to the mouth. The babies’ own brain is what causes it to reel when the womb is invaded from the outside; that has been called a “silent scream” in fear to live on!

Cognition and behavior define human rights. Of course, the “rights” are not for animals, but for humans, belonging to mankind (sorry PETA). A human moves. It does what “it” thinks, therefore it is a human.

Even the science of philosophy and medicine agree; that a human exists at seven weeks in the womb after coitus. “An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a test to record the electrical signals in the heart. It shows how the heart is beating” (Mayo Clinic). The babies’ brains are communicating with their hearts — they are alive human beings in a stage of development that can be measured. Objects cannot move on their own. To believe that the unborn, after seven weeks of rest, are objects is refuted by scientific evidence. Hence, abortion is not terminating an object (merely a fetus) but a life that should have rights as any human being.

So far in this commentary, the scientific evidence is that the unborn become human beings when they think on their own, even if it is inherent and just a natural response. Organic objects cannot respond unless they are alive. A piece of coal is organic but not alive. Discarding an unborn human to the garbage pile is much more than throwing out the ashes of coal. Inhumane abortionists don’t think so!

If the unborn were just material objects, then discarding them would not be an issue, but it is because they exist as living organisms who depend on a female human being for nourishment.

Unborn babies each have their own heartbeats. Their own heart responds to the messages emanating from their own brain. The mother does not direct the heart to beat nor the life-giving blood to flow; the babies’ own vital organs do that and it is measured by instruments of science.

It is not as feminists say, “My body; my choice.” Scientifically an unborn human being is not the body of the woman, but a separate existence that moves on its own. It is because it thinks!

Now for some theology, which just happens to agree with the science. “Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?” (1 Cor 6:19).

Women, even your body is not your own if you are human. Your bodies belong to God. They are the “vessels” that house your souls. The human soul is not like the others in the animalia kingdom. You exist because God breathed life, not into your nostrils, but literally into your minds, to wit: “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7).

The dust was from the “Estate” of God. You all were formed by some other being; “chance” has no power to do anything! The LORD GOD fathered you and therefore within any person lies the now dormant essence of God. Humans, even after sin, has the residual genetics of Yahweh. The God breathed life unto that body that He made.

Theologically speaking, the bodies of humankind come from God, both the outer person and the person within, which we call the “soul.” Scientifically and theologically the unborn existence is not the body of women but a part of the Person of God and His Substance. The dust is objective man (or woman) and the soul the spiritual man that is God in you.

However, sin eroded the dust from God, and it was filled in by the Wicked One, making us depraved and imbued with iniquity. That “dust” could have been the carbon-DNA that is the identity in each person.

You never made yourselves, so how could you make what is within you? You did not even cause that life within you for as God said, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jer 29:11; NKJV). That “piece of coal” that you think is within you — that organism — has a purpose, according to God who gave you “a future and a hope.” What God has given, women want to take it away. They defy God.

So, what if women do not believe in God? You are from His body, and it is His call to decide your future. God will judge you! If you don’t buy into that; then that is quite chancy and arrogant. It is as if you created yourselves but you inherently know that is not true!

Eve said to Adam after sin, “I have gotten a ‘man’ from the Lord.” That reasoning made her the goddess. She had no power to create anything. Cain was begotten, not by the LORD GOD, but here new “lord” Satan. That “man” was a being not of God, so humble yourselves.

That a human life exists as early as seven weeks duration is the acceptable, undeniable proof because nobody should argue with an electrocardiogram (EKG, or ECG); they are a fool to argue with the science. Only an insane person would argue that an EKG does not measure movement of some sorts, and that it detects life. An EKG is the evidence that the object within the mother exists and that it measures even the thoughts of the little human within.

However, life is not just electromotive but dynamic. Anything that moves of its own accord is life.

Right before ovulation, the egg inside the follicle detaches itself. The follicle starts to release chemicals that encourage the nearby fallopian tube to move closer and surround the follicle. The follicle swells until it bursts open, ejecting the egg and fluid into the abdominal cavity. (Women's Royal Hospital 2024) 

Women do not move their ova; some Thing with Dynamic Power does that from above. When the time comes, Virtue from God above moves one egg into position to attach itself and then it seemingly bursts all by itself and moves into position, ready for one of the many sperm to detect it and attach as if they have a will of their own. Most of that occurs oblivious to the females and they have no part in what is going on within their wombs. That is “the science.”

That is also the “miracle of conception” because it happens without aid from either the man or the woman. Without brains to think on their own, both ova and sperm are directed in their movements to make a life. Conception is a miracle, and life is the product of that miracle

Eve thought that she was the goddess; that she provided the dynamics within her body. In her innocence (ignorance, or even arrogance) she gave credit to herself. The cries of ignorant women are an ancient scream, “My body; my choice” is the Lilith within every defiant woman.

Just who is Lilith? Not another wife of Adam, but the succubus within women. Lilith is the dominant gene, or spirit, from the “shadow” of Lucifer that lies within every woman. Feminists worship Lilith rather than the LORD GOD. Lilith is the dark shadow of the Wicked One that is in the genomes of so many women. 

She (Lilith) also appears in Kabbalah as an evil reflection of the feminine aspect of God along with Samael. Jewish feminists, seizing upon her assertion of equality, have reclaimed Lilith as a symbol of autonomy, independence, and sexual liberation. (Lesses 2009)

 

Figure 2: Lady Lilith (ibid)

 Lilith was called a “screech owl” by the prophet Isaiah (Isa 34:14). In legend, she is known as the creature of the night that robs the nest of its young; hence she is the muse of abortion. She is not a feminist woman that sought independence from the man in the beginning, but the spirit of sin from the dark angel, Lucifer. She is the muse of evil, yet modern feminist women worship her!

That little being has more than substances and electro-motion, but a soul as well. When an infant is born, it has a personality — something that distinguishes it as an individual. The newborn baby is not just like the mother but has characteristics of its own. Certainly, the newborn is not the body of the mother because she expels it; it moves on its own, thinks on its own, and behaves on its own. Women have their own EKG because they are alive. The unborn have their own distinct EKG that differs from the mothers to be. That same instrument can be placed on the baby, and it detects another EKG! To even say, “My body; my choice,” is insanity!

The soul, however, cannot be measured. It is because we think, as Descartes indicated. Those who think it does not exist, to them it does not. For those who think the soul exists, it exists.

Everyone is born with an instinct, and that is to survive. The unborn have that in the womb.

Birth itself is the survival instinct when the baby senses the mother’s body can no longer stand it. Mothers in general instinctually want the baby out of her body, and usually the sooner the better.

Some mothers cherish the unity between herself and her unborn child. Such mothers instinctively desire that their unborn children survive both within and without their own bodies! They are rational mothers compared to the insanity of some women who care little whether they end their own gene pool by cutting off just a “limb” at a time of it. The unborn are more than branches to be pruned from trees but are budding “trees” themselves!

This applied to Jeremiah and to you as well, God said, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born, I sanctified you” (Jer 1:5). God’s purpose and plans for Jeremiah existed while he was still within his mother. God got into the soul of Jeremiah before he was ever born; he became a person with a unique personality! His personality was his alone, and yours is yours alone. Jeremiah was literally made holy to be put in the womb. God endowed him, and you, with a soul before you were ever placed in a woman’s womb!

Referring to marriage, Jesus said, “What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mat 10:9). Of course that applies to holy matrimony, but Jesus made that a general statement: “what” is not just marriage, but anything. God joined together our souls and our bodies in the womb, and mankind, even women, are not to put it asunder. People abort their children as easily as they abort their marriages. The marriage is sacred and so is its activity and outcomes.

Married people think of sexual activity as recreational, but the purpose is to multiply; for them to multiply their own genetics. Sex is for much more than pleasure but for creating little human beings that have their own personalities and existences. Casual sex for pleasure was not the command!

So, when does the heart begin to function? When the brain does. According to Giselle’s “growth gradients,” all systems grow at the same rate to support each other. Personalities began at the same time as the heart is developed. When the heart began to beat, the unborn child had its own personality, and as the heart grew, so did the personality. All babies are born with fully intact personalities that began development the instant that the sperm of the father fertilized the ovum of the mother.

Then God clearly provided the vessel for incubation — the placenta — on loan to the baby from whom? The mother? No; from God.

The placenta is the “tent” that is on loan from God to grow the unborn baby. It is the tabernacle (tent) that is the “temple” provided by God which makes your body His, as the verse says in the passage above.

The placenta is the “temple” of God that is the vessel that holds your own little “tabernacle” — the human soul which the other kinds do not have!

Once you need it, God erects the placenta, and once it is no longer needed, God vacates it. Once a temple is required again, it is God that provides it, not the mother. Think you can do it as long as you please, women, but it is not you who makes the placenta just when needed. In fact, you are not even aware of its existence until after birth!

The blood of an unborn baby is not the mothers. The placenta is like a tabernacle that keeps the rain out. The blood of the mother does not mingle with the blood of the unborn; its blood is uniquely his or hers and the science of blood typology confirms that.

Not only is that little body not the mother’s but neither is its blood. The blood of an unborn baby can be tested, compared to the mother’s and reveal scientifically, that the child’s blood is not the mother’s blood. That is the science, yet millions of women scream that we should share their fantasies — that their unborn child is just their bodies, or at least some object to be tossed.

Sane people are expected to go along with their fantasies, and to vote their insane thoughts. They really know that abortion destroys a living soul but insist that you deny the truth as well… both the science and the reality of it! For them despite the truth, they still believe that the unborn are something less than an existence that should have human rights — “his/her inherent inalienable rights” — the right to exist; or as our Declaration of Independence states; “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Partially due to Thomas Paine, a war was fought for the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Men died that others could live, yet fickle men and women would give up what the patriots fought for and believed in; that life is endowed by the Creator, and that it belongs to Him and Him alone.

What patriots fought so hard to preserve, deceived women seek to throw it away! Abortion is not a “human right” as Kamala says, but the right to life is. Not only that, but abortion is unpatriotic as well. Those who would abort the American idea, are as seditious as Benedict Arnold!

However, there is hope that can be provided by a gracious God. We can cease the alienation from God and become His again, just for the asking.

As Paine wrote, it is the “Government's sole purpose” to preserve human rights, not to preserve the insanity of those who would even murder their own!

 

 

 

 

 

SAFE OR SAVED: THERE IS A DIFFERENCE

 I have been putting off this topic but even now my own church people often claim salvation as finalized by one trip to the alter. They may feel secure now, but their faith may make them vulnerable to spiritual attack when they now least expect it! It is a hard thing to write, but here it goes:

As a precursor, "sozo" in the Greek can be translated as either "safe" or "saved." Likewise, "soteria" can be translated as either "safety" or "salvation." Context makes a huge difference. Also, note that the parent English Bible, the King James Version, was mainly translated by Calvinists and that it is a version, not the textus receptus. 

Have you been in the Presence of God? If so, you may feel so safe that nothing can undermine you, even get under your skin. The Jews traveled in the Presence of God, yet Satan still got into them; they had been "saved," so no worries!

My purpose is to reveal what scripture leads me to believe is truth. It may offend because the truth does offend, but my intention is to reveal the danger that lies ahead with unsound doctrine.

Sometimes it would be much easier if I did not question doctrine. Face it, Calvinistic doctrine is easy doctrine. The acronym for their five points is TULIP, summarily meaning the following: (Saul 2018) 

1.      Total Depravity: The belief that sinfulness pervades all areas of life and human existence, and that people cannot independently choose God.

2.      Unconditional Election: The belief that God can save everyone without any condition.

3.      Limited Atonement: The belief that Jesus died only for the elect, not for everyone.

4.      Irresistible Grace: The belief that God's grace is irresistible and that the elect cannot resist it.

5.      Perseverance of the Saints: The belief that the elect will persevere in faith and good works until the end of their lives. 

The reader can refer to the source for more comprehensive understanding of those points, but I will now focus on the idea that the person has no responsibility nor activity in the process and that God is Sovereign; that He alone has supreme power and is in full control. Indeed, that is true, and if you do not believe that, then you diminish God.

The concept of God is that all things must have been created because it is unscientific to believe that anything happened without a cause. Hence, the basis of faith is that God is the only and “First Cause” to put it scientifically.

Since God is reality (He IS Existence; Exod 3:14) then individuals cannot overcome the science. As it turns out, only God can alter His creation and His creatures. God has free will in that He can do whatever pleases Himself, and the Earth was populated for His pleasure, and for His alone.

The Sovereignty of God also includes the capacity for Him to make decisions. He determines what is right and good but is fair in judgment. Our own wills can influence His Will whether it be for good or ill. However, God is a free agent to do what He pleases and his subjects lives, freedom, and happiness seems fair play to Him.

God indeed has free will does He not? or He would not be Sovereign and as such there would be no God. Without God there scientifically would be nothing, for the things that were made is the evidence that God exists (Rom 1:20).

It should be obvious that things do exist. Life is reality, not an illusion. Anyone can touch and feel things and both sense pleasure and pain. You know that things are real because you have senses.

So, the argument that there is not God is insanity. You may argue What is God? but any rational person can understand that Some Powerful Thing, an unseen Divine Being, created all things, and has Supreme Power. If you do not believe that, then continue no further, because only s fool would believe that all there is was without a cause — an effect without a cause is unscientific!

So, let’s agree that God is Supreme. Part of that Sovereignty is the capacity to do His own Will freely without interference from anyone. In fact, the entire Bible is “The Last Will and Testament of God,” and the New Testament a codicil… a modification of The Will of God without having to rewrite the entire will. It is not that God changed the basics nor His heirs, but the “codicil” was to clarify the deceased, the heirs, and the meaning of the conditions of the Will of God.

Hence, the Will of God is just that — a written copy of His will for His man-heirs for His Estate. It is His to do with as He pleases. The Bible is the Will of the Sovereign God for His Estate and His people.

In the Will, heirs who are emancipated are excluded from His Will and they are free to do as they please. The conditions of the Will grant freedom to please or displease God. He is not a tyrant, but a King that loves all His subjects. However, the subjects in His Kingdom are there by choice. They must recognize the Sovereign, that it is His Estate, and that the Sovereign is in control.

The Bible is a record of the Will of God to be done, as the prayer indicates: that “Your (God’s) kingdom come, Your (God’s) will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Mat 6:10). God is asking that the prayer of the believer should be that the Will of God be done — all the conditions of the Will — and not the will of each person.

He asks that the will be the same for both of His Estates; the one here within the world and the one in another realm. His Will cannot only be adhered to in one or the other but in both places. You must choose whose Will it is that you choose to follow in this world to live in the Kingdom of God.

Lucifer is a squatter and fake ruler on Earth. Paul wrote, “in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince (Ruler) of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephes 2:2) The ultimate "ruler" for those that disobey is an invisible pretend God, Lucifer (Isa 14:13-14).

Hence, in this world, there are two masters. Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Mat 6:24). Your ability is to choose whether you serve God or Satan. God does not force Himself on you, nor did he make you a child of the Devil.

The original sin is of our progenitors who made wrong choices, and now since it is genetic; we are indeed depraved people, but if we were totally depraved, then the decision for us would have been made by Eve, as the mother of all living, back in the beginning. Everyone would be cursed with nowhere to turn for grace.

Mankind is worth saving and God provided the Way; He came into the world, took on our sins — our genetic depravity — and died, so that we need not.

The concept of “irresistible grace” is that you can neither accept it nor reject it (grace) since you are not God. However, God has Free Will and wrote His Will for us. We are not His “children” genetically but by “adoption,” God “predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His Will” (Ephes 1:5). So, God has a Will to dispense grace onto whom He pleases without any action by any other being.

If we were God’s children because of our birth, then indeed we would have no choice; we would be what we are genetically, and that is of the Wicked One. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, because your genetics are not the Genome of God. If they were then you would be born preserved and ready for heaven whether you resist the call or not.

Yes, you are called to be children of God: Paul wrote, “When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace…” (Gen 1:15). God’s grace was due to His sovereignty. God adopted Paul when after he left the womb then Jesus called Paul in His time.

He calls whosoever and whenever He chooses. We cannot call ourselves to God because we are not God. Great care must be taken because we cannot decide when to answer the call. Hence, it up to sinners whether we answer the calling of God, but not the time, situation, or place. We cannot decide to go to church at any certain time and expect to be converted. God determines that, but perhaps going someplace to make yourselves prepared is your choice only in preparation for the calling as if now is the time to begin salvation.. You cannot say, “I will be persuaded today at the end of the church service,” because that would make you Sovereign.

However, you were predestined. John wrote about that, “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). When were you predestined? That would be in the beginning, would it not? Well, if you are a human being, yes you were predestined. Where would you look for that? To before time began.

You were predestined after the animals were made: “Let us make man in our Image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth” (Gen 1:26). God decided that it would be upright man that would be imbued with His Image, not the animal kingdom, nor even angels. Mankind, of all the kinds, were chosen. It was humans that would have dominion above and beyond the rest of the kinds. Mankind would dominate the other kinds and even Satan. It was us that would be like God and not any others… sorry, Satan, it was not you and your demon angels!

Mankind was predestined. However, what happened? Mankind, the woman of the species, made herself God (Gen 4:1) and lost what God had predetermined for her progeny as the mother of all living. By disobeying God, God emancipated both her and her lost husband. A new kind ensued wherein both the Spirit of God and the spirit of Lucifer fought an internal battle for the soul of the Adam and Eve, the sons of God, the progeny of the ‘adam and the Serpent.  Mankind was no longer the only human existence because the male named a new kind of extant being, “Eve” (Gen 3:20). She was not totally depraved because her genetics were of both God and the Wicked One as John wrote (1 John 3:12).

Mankind is depraved, but not totally so, because God had grace on them and provided for their safety and preservation coats of skin (Gen 3:17). He, like John who wrote, “whosoever” should not perish “for God so loved the world.”

That is past tense. It was the Will of God from the beginning, that all of us, not just a select few, would live forever. The “election” was for all mankind. Where in the Law does anyone read about any other predestination or election? What is there is there. Anything else is adding to the truth to make things easier for mankind to go to heaven.

If we had no part in our future, then we could live for the Devil and still squeak through the portal to Paradise and get back in! Why else would God have the gate guarded to the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24)? Obviously so the unworthy cannot get back in without the code Word, “Jesus” “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”(John 14:6).

Jesus put a condition on obtaining eternal life: “Whosoever believes (pisteuo) in Him.” It is whoever maintains fidelity to God. That implies that fidelity can recede. It is not a one-time event, but an enduring faith that you exercise. Hence, eternal life is conditional; you must obey the will of God to the end (Mat 10:22). There was not one condition for the Jews and another for the Gentiles… whosoever must endure to the end. Endurance is your responsibility. The Will of God places that on you!

 It is Adam’s kind that must “dress and keep the Garden” (Gen 2:15). As Sovereign, God soundly placed responsibility on mankind. Maintaining the Garden is maintaining the Estate of God, both in heaven and on Earth just as the prayer goes. It is both maintaining the land, the Kingdom wherever it extends, its economy, and the very Will of God. It is your responsibility, as the very intended Image of God, to perform all that He wills for you to do.

The Sovereign God made things simple for those hard of understanding: love God and other human beings. Basically love (agape) is goodwill toward God and your fellow “whosoevers.” That is the condition to remain an heir to the Estate of God; to maintain the conditions for adoption.

God’s Will is that all who are His Image be adopted. Mankind was the only species made in His Image, were they not? There were not sub-kinds until sin when Adam wandered off to his own estate in the land of Nod — anyplace that he willed to go.

God calls everyone but only some respond. If you do not go to Him, adoption cannot take place. We must be persuaded, according to Paul, to follow Christ, not just for awhile but to continue following Him, to wit: “Many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. (Acts 13:43). How far to continue in grace? All the Way so long as you are able to follow — to your own death or to the rapture, whichever comes first.

Paul wrote, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). The “gain” is salvation which occurs at death, but there is a condition attached — live as Christ; to maintain the Image of God in which the Holy Ghost imbued you; to “dress and keep the Garden” by maintaining goodwill for God and others. That is to maintain the grace and faith that your Sovereign God has so generously provided.

“Saved” is a future event. It is when a person dies and the soul, engendered by God (“born again;” John 3:7), is fully made whole again. “You shall be saved,” at it is written so many places! 

(God) Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see Him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1 Pet 1:8-9) 

We are not God. It is Him who decides when to save and who to save. When is the time of salvation? Paul, in the passage above, places the time of salvation as when the faith that God provides terminates. Christians must endure to the end to be saved. You cannot decide when it is because you are not Sovereign. It is God’s Estate and while in His Estate, we do not make new rules!

Furthermore, it is God that truly baptizes with the Holy Ghost. It is God who is sovereign, not the water and the preacher. You do not decide when God baptizes. God will take care of that whether you are near water or not, because it is the living water of the Holy Spirit that begins the generation of a new creature.

Denominations and creeds are always making new rules for salvation. On the Estate of God, the rules have been intact since day one and the codicil left them remains intact. How to dress and keep the Garden Estate of God? “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and His commandments are not grievous” (1 John 5:3). They are easy!

What is your part in your destiny? Do whatever you want to do because you think you are already saved? No, you are to keep His commandments, which is to operationalize the love, or goodwill, of God… for both Him and His other creatures.

Hatred of either God or others is cause enough to be removed as an heir to the Estate of God. His mansion has a room only for those who do His Will; hence salvation to that place is conditional for the duration of your presence while here on Earth. You must comply with God here to be able to comply with God there! God is not a divine idiot or a "Woke" God who accepts any criminal onto His grounds.

God has a timeline for our lives and our future. It is this: “Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Rom 13:11). Salvation is not now but getting nearer. It is a future event. It is now the time to be awakened. When God calls, we must both hear, and answer, the knock. If there is no response to God’s knocking, then the call is missed. We do not determine when the knock occurs, but we do determine whether the knock is answered or not.

 (Perhaps a better expression of conversion is "awakened.")

“Born again” is the “awakening” when a sinner is persuaded that Jesus is God and can save us. It is understanding that God will indeed preserve us by providing His whole armor to withstand the wiles of the Devil (Ephes 6:11).

If the Devil could not get us, why put on the armor that God provides? It would be like Adam saying, “God, I don’t want your coat of skin because we can take care of ourselves.”

The Devil can still perish you, so God advises you to watch out for your own safety, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). Why would God warn you to do anything for self-protection if you were not in peril? God seals you by providing the armor, but you must keep it on. Your safety depends on you following the wisdom of the Sovereign of the Estate.

Now to wrap this up. Calvinism is “cheap grace,” but grace did not come cheaply. God Himself suffered death for your presence on His Estate forever. Grace is living in the Presence of God the Father, Jesus having the Power of Authority on your behalf.

You cannot live like the Devil and expect to retain adoption. However, God will keep you so long as you desire His love. You can emancipate yourselves but once emancipated, always emancipated; there is no turning back (Heb 6:6). That “falling away” is not just for the Hebrews for God is not a respecter of persons; it is His rule! Falling away is “apostasia” in the Greek; it is defection from God, obviously after once having affection for Him. Only you can prevent perishing for God preserves you well. You must remain clean for the seal not to be broken by you, for those of you understand the cold-packing process.

People continue to look for the easy way. The easy way is already there; God knows your destiny and because a Christian regains the Image of God, you just like God, have a free will. God does not force a sinner onto His Estate nor does He forbid those who know that He is the Way!

Christianity is a participatory activity. If you enjoy being of the family of God, then you would want to promote God. For years, I failed to promote God, and as I matured, I promote the Word beyond any human doctrine.

Cheap grace is living however you want to live as if there is no King on the Estate of God. That has been the misconception since ancient times: 

While in His domain, Moses revealed the Will of God, “You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes” (Deut 12:8). There are rules for the Kingdom and the Kingdom of God begins here. Christians cannot do whatever they want to do here, then expect to change when in heaven. God has already decided the time and the place, and it is not subject to your thoughts. Christianity and its economy begin here. You should desire to do the things here as they are done in heaven, or that is just a futile prayer to deceive God.

You are indeed once saved; always saved because salvation is not until God’s time; it is for those who endure to the end, as Paul wrote, for the soul to be saved.

That you are secure in salvation is not the argument, but the time of salvation. Your Christian life while here on earth is a time of preservation as David surely wrote, “Preserve me, O God: for in You do I put my trust” (Psalm 16:1). Again, therein is a condition — trust. Trust is “fidelity” not just a moment in time. Trust must be maintained in Him for so long as you live. What must you do? Nothing physically at all; just maintain the faith that God gave to you.

Preservation is much different than salvation; it is a condition of safety until the time of salvation.

It should be clear that you are not saved if you are a Christian. What is it that you have? Paul wrote about that; “That every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end” (Heb 6:11). You must remain diligent, and salvation is that hope… “Let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. (1 Thes 5:8). Again, hope means a future event. It is fine to feel the hope, but the reality of it, is that salvation is at the end of your days on Earth whether it be by the rapture or death!

This may sound cruel because everyone says it; however, you are not saved but because of your trust in the Lord Jesus, you shall be saved. Salvation is not in the flesh because you will get new flesh, but the soul that God filled will be rewarded with residence on the Estate of God in heaven.

To believe that you are already saved and secure from the Wicked One is non-vigilance and insobriety.

We play to God’s rules, and they are very clear — the Devil can get to you when you are least aware, and that is never fearing the wicked ones as if you are already in Paradise. 

Adam and his mate felt safe when they entered the place of temptation because they had the Presence of God within. We know the outcome; they were in dire straits and in perilous times. They could have remained dead to God, and only God knows the outcome.

That you are saved because of one trip to the alter is one of the cunning ways of the Serpent. Faith is a variable that may fluctuate; however, it must be maintained. [1]

Just as the Serpent said to mankind, “You shall not surely die” (Gen 3:5), Calvinistic “eternal security” is perhaps the same cunning way to obtain your soul.

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[1] See my book about faith, To Die is Gain.