(continuation from the last commentary)
With Abel murdered by Cain, the
fittest survived. Abel had been righteous, but Cain brutish just like the
animals that were free-range beasts, so was Cain. He wandered to the land of
Nod (Gen 4:16). The land of Nod east of Eden is ambiguous but was “in front” of
the pleasantries of the Garden. Nod could be his ability to transmigrate
between the invisible world from which his soul came to the firm places, if one
looks at the literal meanings of the words therein.
Cain was by then a peculiar kind
that the “woman” called “Is” in place of the usual word for man, “Adam.”
If that translation is true, then Cain was another kind of being — an
“extant” entity as the Hebrew word points toward. He was not a “man” but an image
that was alien to God. Hence, again if that is true, Cain was half Luciferin
(the “Beast”) and half human being because he was of Eve.
Right now, you may be thinking, That’s
crazy talk! Then Saint John must have been crazy as well, to wit: (1 John
3:11-13): “This is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we
should love one another… not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his
brother, and wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
brother's righteous.
There is much said therein. Cain
was evil in contrast to Abel’s righteousness. That is the same dualism as
today; both the lost that are evil and the regenerated are righteous. As such,
the “lost” who still wander are like their ancestor Cain, because Abel did not
have any progeny. Hence, “The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of
men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all
gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good,
no, not one” (Psalm 12:2-3).
As it was then, it remains so now
because of the sin of the female to which the male concurred. As such,
so-called “mankind,” or even “human-kind” are all together filthy as
swine. Like filthy hogs, we go where we want to go without restriction, and
even the best fences can be rooted under given enough time. Albeit mankind is
not swine, we are “beasts” on the order of the original “Beast” that represents
the “Serpent” of old. The Serpent was not a serpent at all but the “image” (nahas)
of a being with a cunning countenance.
Remembering that God allowed Adam
to name the kinds, after sin, Adam named a new kind that devolved, “Adam called
his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20). That
was said before Cain was born. It seems that Cain was conceived in the Garden
and as such was the product of original carnal sin.
Of course, it is written, “In the
resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the
angels of God in heaven” (Mat 22:30). There is no carnal knowledge (sexual
activity in heaven). “East of Eden” was before time while Adam’s kind were in
the paradisiacal Garden. That supports my contention that time began with sin
and in Paradise time does not exist.
However, the point in the making
is that there was no sexual intercourse in Paradise until Lucifer came along in
an alien body…“Alien” in the sense that Lucifer surely took on the objective
image of Adam, and with it, useful “appendages” that Adam-kind had not needed
before, noting that the woman was of man without any coitus in some divine
process. It would have been a process analogous to photosynthesis, only the
light is the Shekinah Light of God that brought life.
Since original sin, “mankind” is
a changed species. With Abel gone, with none righteous like him, we all are of
Cain who in turn was of the Wicked One. Adam named that new breed of people “Eve”
(Haua) from her original female kind “woman” (Issa). So, when
Adam named the progeny of Eve, Adam-kind became Eve-kind. That is now the
genetic identity of every natural born person, male or female, since Eve is in
all the mitochondrial DNA that is passed down to the male heirs with the male
no longer “the father of all living,” or it would have been written so.
What about Seth? For some time,
the progeny of Seth were the sons of God and were safe in holy Mount Herman.
According to several sacred writings (e.g. The Book of Jasher), Seth’s
progeny interbred with both angels and Cain’s offspring, and further devolved
the theretofore human race.
So, who are natural born citizens
on planet Earth to this day? “You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts
of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not
in the truth, because there is no truth in him” (John 8:44)
Cain murdered Abel then tried to
cover his sin when confronted by God. To this day, that is the nature of the
“beasts” that are called “homo sapiens” (wise men). Whether humans are totally
depraved or not depends on our kind and what they do. In the Book of Jasher,
mankind did every devious thing that could be done, notably: imbibing hard
liquor, living for pleasure, fornication, sodomy with other men, and even
pedophilia with boys.
Genun was the great inventor who
conceived so many objects for pleasure. Humans had abandoned the idea of
eternal life in Paradise and endeavored to create their own version of Paradise
— whatever it was that came to mind.
Over time, God emancipated
mankind, and we could choose our own master. Mankind has even rejected Satan,
although “it” — that alien — is the progenitor of all and apparently Eve’s
mitochondrial-DNA came from Lucifer. Mankind are now the “gods”!
The reason, therefore, why we
cannot humble ourselves without God is because sin is new genetics within all
human beings unless it has been cast out by regeneration. King David called
that genetic predisposition, “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). It means that David was
depraved from the womb. It was in his genetic makeup, and nobody is any
different from him.
Just like eating the fruit without
the proper organs, apparently Eve used her pudendum for inappropriate intercourse
with the alien (alien from God), Lucifer.
Eve sinned against her own person
— against her own body for she allowed a foreign being to penetrate what should
not have been penetrated. It appears that because of sin, God did give her and
the male both digestive and reproductive organs to use for pleasure. A
consequence of sin was what? “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your
conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children” (Gen 3:16). Indeed,
conception in a virgin is painful, but pain they soon forget because of the pleasure.
And to this day, there is sorrow, or pain, in bringing forth children, making a
woman question the worth of it; voila; thoughts of abortion. Sexual
intercourse was not meant to be, but since our forebears did it, so we too
must. Sex is not spiritual but of the flesh and the flesh “god” but be appeased
at all cost; even at the expense of others. It is that strong!
Sin exists to this time… Paul
wrote, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he
that commits fornication sins against his own body” (1 Cor 6:18).
“Fornication” was the doing
of the woman even as the male Adam watched (Gen 4:1). The first sin was “porno”
translated as “fornication.” Adam did not know the woman sexually, but knew her
visually doing strange things with the so-called “Beast.” The man watched
porno for the first time and was bewitched by it. Now porno is in our genetics.
We often point to the sin of porno
as worse that any other, and worse when it is incestuous. Indeed, it is a
horrible malady, but sin is not weighted; those who lie, steal, envy, irreverent,
and apathetic to God have the same punishment as one who performs pornographic
activity. Porn is not only what one looks at but includes the performance.
Eve performed, it seems, with
Satan, and the provenance of that was Cain. Adam watched. They both were
involved in pornography.
With porno in their genetics,
there was nothing that they would not do, so because Eve created a being
herself without God (Gen 4:1), she became the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:2) in
opposition to God whose intent was to be the Father of all living. Since then,
all mankind has become pornographers spreading not “living souls,” but “dying flesh.”
God is gracious; He forgave Adam
and Eve because this new kind had lust imbued within their genetic code — their
“genome” — albeit incest is still there to be overcome by all. In other words,
without God, anybody can be perverted.
Thinking that the end of the world had come with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot’s daughters did an awful thing; the oldest said and the younger followed:
“Come, let us make our
father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our
father.” And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn
went in and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor
when she arose.
And it came to pass on
the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, “Behold, I lay
yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go you
in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.” And they made their father drink wine that
night also: and the younger arose and lay with him; and he perceived not when
she lay down, nor when she arose.
Thus, were both the
daughters of Lot with child by their father
And the first born bare
a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto
this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi:
the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. (Gen 19:32:38)
Satan got into the minds of all
three; Lot and his two daughters. Lot became unsober and non-vigilant and
exposed himself both to his daughters and to the wiles of Satan. In like manner
everyone now has a challenge, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary
the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet
5:8).
Satan was involved in the
intrigue, yet Lot was to blame for drinking the wine; he was drugged by his
daughters and his own penis turned against God and toward his daughters.
Lot had been right with God as he
was abhorred with the homosexuality in Sodom, yet he did as bad after he was
saved by God from the fire. That Lot’s wife looked back was Satan’s plan for
the corruption of Lot. You cannot out-wile the Devil, yet we endeavor to do so much
of the time!
Then Lot’s daughters performed
their things. Anyone that knows female anatomy understands that the performance
of women is based on their arousal. (No wonder rape is so grievous for them!)
Which came firstly… the arousal,
or the reason? Were they looking for a situation where it was okay to perform
sexually? That can never be answered, but the Devil was there looking on. He
devised a plan to arouse the triad. That the world would come to an end, unless
they intervened was the plan! So, the two girls became the “goddesses” in the
manner of Eve. They created Ammon and Benammi again without God in the picture,
just like Eve had created for Adam another non-Adamic being.
The “new world” after Sodom
perished made Lot another “Adam” and his own daughters, the “Eves.” Satan had
deceived them again, albeit they were righteous enough to be saved from the
fire.
Many think they are saved all the
while they are in even more jeopardy than before? Why do Christians still sin?
There may be multiple reasons, but one might be that they are thought to be “saved”
already, so as such, they are vulnerable to the wiles of the Devil.
The girls may have thought that
their reason was plausible, but the true sin was that although God had just
saved them from fire, they were not saved from Hell. People sin because they
have some sort of self-induced mindset of invulnerability; perhaps that God
will forgive this sin just as He has looked away from all previous less grievous
sins. Admit it; that is true!
Would beasts have even turned to
their lord, father, and protector? Not many of them do such things! Indeed,
once mankind were like God, but now they are like their “father” the Devil
(John 8:44); father in the sense that sin is genetic.
We all have the capability to do
the most grievous sins, perhaps the same sins that we criticize in others,
given the right time and circumstances. Lot’s daughters made him capable by
some type of provocation. It takes stimuli to arouse a man. To thing that a
drunk person gets aroused by wine is silly; the arousal comes with activity.
A girl once told me, “I’ll dress
however I want; it is the boys’ responsibility to control themselves.” Inappropriate dress is the woman’s way of
controlling men. Of course, the nakedness of a woman is still no excuse for
erotic behavior in men, but it certainly does not aid in the prevention of
unwanted advances. Neither did righteous Lot have a valid excuse but his lust
was in his very genome.
You are no different. Even when
the “sons of Adam” were performing all sorts of sex with anyone, Seth’s sons
were safely on Mount Herman, according to the Book of Adam and Eve. Although
they were far away and nearer heaven than those on the plain, they also lusted
from afar, and joined in the foray, even after being told by God that there was
no turning back!
Each sin is a rejection of God
and almost everyone judges the sins of others worse than their own. When I hear
of the wicked deeds of others, I think of my own wicked thoughts for performing
sinful acts mentally (Mat 15:18-20) are as severe as performing them really.
Any sin, even incest, can be forgiven
by Christ if repented. Repentance is not by word but by deed. It is endeavoring
to not repeat it, even given that you might fail. It is trying not to perform
acts of sin because “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).
Of course, we are never to judge
others unfairly… with condemnation (Luke 6:37). Others are to be judged by the same
metric that anyone would judge themselves: “For with what judgment you judge, you
shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you
again” (Mat 7:2).
Lot had been recently saved from
the fires of Sodom. He had been righteous, but with the right inducement, even
righteous Lot failed.
Then Lot’s daughters assumed that
the world would end without their help, and in a sense, they became the gods
that would save the seed of Lot, so that mankind could still exist.
Many have experienced the wiles
of the Devil without even crediting him. Our own reasoning condemns us. For instance,
even if stranded on a desert island, the first inclinations of stranded men and
women is not how to be saved, but how to be satisfied; salvation can come
after. In other words, the desire to pleasure in sin is stronger than preservation
instinct. Sin can even make Christians forfeit their safety in Jesus.
God put on flesh to experience
something; what was it? To feel the genetic pull toward sin that came from
original sin. He knows it is hard to overcome the Devil because of our own
flesh but that the Spirit is able.
With that said, the solution to
sin is to remain in the Spirit and out of the flesh. It is up to people to do
that, but it is possible. Although it seems to be impossible for us, but with
God all things are possible (Mat 19:26), given enough faith and care on our
parts.
God does not ask us to do the impossible
because all impossibilities are in the flesh. He does ask that we turn to Him for
the things that are impossible for us!
That lust is of the heart seems
vague, but it lingers in our minds. The deceiving spirit of Lucifer since
original sin is ours via genetics. We are indeed like our genetic archetype,
the Devil, just as John wrote. We think that we all are children of God. but we
are born of the genetics of the Devil. We do things that is in our genes from the
beginning (John 8:44); People are not humane kinds at all but the wicked
kind. Everyone is a degenerate and to think otherwise is irrational. Everyone
is more like beasts than beasts themselves.
Humans are the only kind that are
aroused by watching others perform. When the woman “encountered: the Serpent,
Adam watched (Gen 4:1). His sin was pornography. He would have been aroused by
what he was witnessing. Pornography has been on the minds of everyone since!
Porno must be satisfied. Some
even turn to inflated dolls or some other mechanical means. The only real
satisfaction comes from knowing Jesus, seeing what He would do to overcome our
sins.
“Cheap grace” means that when
Jesus died for our sins, we still think we can sin and not be held accountable.
Each sin denies the propitiation
of the blood of Jesus for our “sins that are passed” (Rom 3::25), meaning the
genetic sins because of original sin of Adam and his woman.
Men received their mitochondrial-DNA
from Eve, the mother of all living, and the source of our genetic code. We sin because
Eve sinned; it is in our blood, our flesh and our minds. Eve’s genome is in
every nuclear cell or our bodies, and what did she do? She engaged in carnal
knowledge, I believe, with an alien being from another realm!
That was the worst sin ever, so
why would it be a surprise that her son, Cain, engaged in sex with his twin
sister, Luluwa, according to sacred literature (Adam & Eve LXXIV).
Lulawa was even more beautiful
than her glorious mother! The beauty of his own twin sister made Cain lust
after her! That was his most egregious sin, because his intended was Aklidia,
the righteous twin of Able. Cain hated Lulawa because she was not ordained to be
his wife, so he denied the will of God and took her anyway.
The beauty of the fleshes of the
other genders caused Cain to do an awful thing. He forgot who God was and did his
own will. Cain became the “god” of the Earth and the king outside the Garden.
Lust has prevailed since time began!
I believe that time began with
the first sin when Cain was conceived by his father, the Devil. So long as we
have Eve’s kind of genetics in us, we can still sin.
Jesus was aware of that, so He
propitiated His own Blood with His righteous and glorious genetics in every
nuclear cell of it to displace the genetics of the wicked one.
The point is that those types of
behaviors are genetic. All humans are capable of repetition of all the original
sins. (I believe that somehow the original sin was a violation of all ten
tenets simultaneously).
“All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). That includes everybody, the “whosoever” in John
3:16. The point is that many are inclined to find fault with others all the
while our less cardinal sins are excused by the accusers. Everyone must judge
themselves by the same metric that we judge others. Repeated for you not to
forget:
Judge not, that you be not judged
for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you
mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold you the mote that is in
your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? (Mat 7:1-3)
Whatever sin that can be done, any
human is capable of the same doing. You cannot help yourselves, nor even change
yourselves, because the awfullest sins imaginable are in the genetics of
everyone until they die to themselves and are born again (John 3:7).
Only God can alter who mankind turned out to be after the original sin that was
passed down to all people.
So, you judge others harshly? “Judge
not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned:
forgive, and you shall be forgiven” (Luke 6:37).
You can even murder to cover bad
behaviors! Cain did just that. He kept things from God, thinking that he would
not be caught! Even king David murdered to cover his sexual sin.
Because sins can be covered-up does not
make them lesser sins. Compare what you have done, or even thought. Are you not
corrupt as well?
“Well,” you say, with indignity “I
would never do such things as others do!” Neither would I… unless the flesh
becomes weak, even when the spirit is willing to comply (Mat 26:41).
Even the best Christians are capable of
evil doings! Adam even had God within him when he did awful things. To think
you are beyond that, then you are in danger. Speaking of myself, when I was performing
the best with God, was when I was attacked. I thought I was safe from the
Wicked One, and when I thought that temptations of all sorts overwhelmed me.
Worth repeating is that when speaking
to the Christian elders, Paul wrote, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may
devour” (1 Pet 5:8).
Nothing is beyond human capacity
because the Devil has been in all of us. Sometimes my own thoughts offend me;
that is the sin to our own selves. When I compare the sins of others to my sins that are past, I wince because I too
deserve death, but by grace God has forgotten what I cannot!
Paul, and even several prophets wrote
about sin, “"I will forgive your iniquity, and I will remember your sin no
more” (e.g. Jer 31:34). Not that God erases His Mind but that He will
not hold past sins against you. He knows that they are part of our kind.
“Iniquity” is the performance of sin
due to genetics. Like David, we too were “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5).
That is us all, and the minds of everyone wander like Cains, and like Cain,
everyone endeavors to cover-up what they have done.
That does not make secret things right
but should encourage everyone to judge others by the same metric because
everyone has been depraved, even Christians.
It is easy to accuse others of serious
crimes but any violation of the standards of God are morally criminal crimes
that must be recompensed. Jesus served our sentence for everyone already, but
most will still reject reprieve.
So, you have not fornicated! Everyone
has. When anyone sins, that is fornication against God, ”For you know what
commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus for this is the will of God, even
your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication” (1 Thes 4:2-3).
How so? The Church (all true
Christians) are the “bride” of Christ, the “Bridegroom” (Isa 62:5), “As the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over you.” Sin is
fornication against God because rebirth is the nuptials. The temptation is the flirting
with other gods, and the sin consummation, having intercourse with unknown
gods.
Flirting is not the problem but the
danger. “Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is
finished, brings forth death” (Jas 1:13-14).
James was preaching to the Church — the
assembly of all Christians. He said that even we are subject to temptation and
the outcome may be sin and from sin death. Death is Hell. Yes, even Christians
enter unto unsafe places where their unsafety may be their ruin.
So, you say that you are saved? Satan
tests that on a regular routine. He does not pull you away, but your lusts do.
It is you, not Satan, that trespasses against God. Whether you lie, steal, or
do the most awful things, unless they are repented of, the penalty is death.
Repentance does not come before the trespasses but afterward.
Beasts do not trespass and neither do
those who are not Christians. They belong in dangerous places. Only Christian
can truly trespass.
For years, I indicted myself. The
“lost” do not do that because they account to no one. They each are kings of
their own domains. Only Christians can trespass because trespassing has
direction.; it is going out of the Will of God and each sin is a
trespass further away from the throne of God. Satan’s idea is for you to
go so far away that you become lost just as you were before you found the way.
I have lusted and still do. Generally,
when I lust, thoughts of God contain me within His territory. However, when
thoughts of God are dim, then sin ensues. God does not convict for the brief thoughts
but for the consummation of sins, either mentally or reality.
Of course, those lustful thoughts are
not the Thoughts of God but your own because Satan is the “Old Man” within that
is in your natures.
God does not blame you for having the
Old Man within, but only for not keeping Himself out.
Of course, the “Old Man” is the
creature that deceived Adam. However, if you want the creature out, God will
drive him out.
Those who are comfortable with the
Beast within are lost outside the perimeter of God’s domain and the consequence
is death. Leaving the protection of God are the trespasses, but if you desire
to stay in, God will keep you in the bounds of His Estate.
However, non-Christians are comfortable
being free-range — doing whatever they want to do as if there are no kings (Jud
17:6). You cannot trespass against Satan; that would be irrational for Satan
has no kingdom. For non-Christians, sin is essentially trespassing against
yourselves.
Beasts do what is right in their domain. They copulate at will and are instinctual enough to generally stay away from their kin and humans. They follow rules with which God endowed them. God set rules for mankind; To save me the trouble of discovery, Wikipedia lists forbidden sexual relations:
The relationships
prohibited by Leviticus 18 are:
One's mother (Leviticus 18:7)
One's father (Leviticus 18:7)
One's stepmother (Leviticus 18:8)
One's paternal or
maternal sister (Leviticus 18:9)
One's paternal sister
through one's father's wife Leviticus 18:11 ()
One's daughter
(inferred from Leviticus 18:10.
One's granddaughter (Leviticus 18:10)
A woman and her
daughter (Leviticus 18:17)
A woman and her
granddaughter (Leviticus 18:17)
One's aunt by blood
(Leviticus 18:12–13)
One's father's brother
(uncle) (Leviticus 18:14)
One's father's
brother's wife (aunt) (Leviticus 18:14)
One's daughter-in-law
(Leviticus 18:15)
One's brother's wife
(sister-in-law) (Leviticus 18:16), with
the exception of Yibum
One's wife's sister
(sister-in-law) during one's wife's lifetime, even if since divorced (Leviticus 18:18)
There are more prohibitions in
chapter twenty. However, fornication with anyone not the spouse is forbidden
because it is adultery. Furthermore, lust is forbidden as well, “Sin begins in
the heart and mind, and people think about sin before committing it” (Mat
15:9).
We accuse others of sinning. We
may have not been incestual, but even thinking to the extent of enjoyment is
sinful. They are rigid standards, but God is graceful. Christians who think
they do not sin lie to themselves: (1 John 2:4), “He that says, ‘I know Him,’
and keeps not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
Christians still do sin, but real
Christians repent of sin. God reprieves because God’s Genome in Jesus was
tempted by the Devil. He knows mankind’s problem and it is our fleshes. We are
the “gods” before conversion and gods obtain what they want.
Unfortunately, sex is what so
many want, and they will go further than the beasts go to obtain it. The beasts
instinctually know what is forbidden but us anthropoids miss the mark. Mankind
is worse than the beasts, yet we still call ourselves “humane-beings”!
This commentary was written so
that Christians quit excusing our own sins as we are captivated on the sins of
others. This commentary by no means excuses any sin because any sin is
inexcusable. However, all sin as wicked and is inexcusable, but covered by the
blood of Jesus… if Christ is in the person when the death angel comes for them.
Jesus sees the forgiven person as
a new creature wherein “old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new” (2 Cor 5:17). The old guy still looks like he always did, but inside
of him, God, “begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus
Christ” (Phil 1:6).
When people see a Christian, it
is not the finished product that is seen, but what God has begun! Rebirth (John 3:7) is not completion, but
a beginning, of a long process that ends with glorification when Jesus comes
again. Christians are expected to be perfect, but sin is so engrained that it
takes time. There are no perfect people walking around, so get used to it.
Christians are far from perfect because the perfection is induced by Jesus when
He comes for those dead in Christ to perfect them with incorruptible flesh (1
Cor 15:52).
What people see is the “Old Man.”
However, there is much ado within that depraved body. God is doing a good work.
I am an old guy; God is till
doing His good work in me. That does not excuse my sin, but I realize that I am
not finished in the long process of glorification but can be when I am
resurrected from my sleep.
So, do you still sin? Satan uses
every sin to make you still feel unworthy, and indeed we are never worthy of
Christ. Because I still sin, sometimes I doubt that I can hold out until the
end. Grace is that Jesus will take imperfect me into His realm. I will not be
made perfect until Jesus comes again, so I am not perfect, and neither are you,
so to judge others is ignoring your own depravities.
Christianity is not complicated.
The cessation of sins is genetic, so there is no way we can overcome the world
— our genetics. However, Jesus did just that for He said, “Be of good cheer because
I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). He did that with our depraved genetics
because up until this decade nobody, but God, could reidentify us by gene-editing.
Now is the time to be humbled by
who you are and allow God to lift you up just as James wrote.