ON SELF-ESTEEM

Having an overly high estimation of oneself is not a good thing; a realistic viewpoint of yourself is healthier. However, the problem is what is realistic?

Society allows us much latitude in that respect. I have a distant cousin that on occasions, takes “time to love herself.” That is vanity; “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it” (Ephes 5:29) Of course, “man” therein is generic; it applies to women as well.

Vanity is “inflated pride in oneself or one's appearance” (Merriam-Webster 2025), or conceit. Taken to the extreme it is narcissism… self-admiration, or godlike. Those who value themselves too much become psychotic.

Lucifer had the classic case of over self-esteem: 

Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols, the worm, is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

How have you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How have 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 shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms. (Isa 14:9-16) 

Lucifer was pompous; that is vanity. How so? It was his own voice that he relished… the very sound of his own vocal cords.

The Word of God was insignificant to him. That was an overly high estimation of himself. Lucifer had delusions of grandeur, thinking that He was the Lord God. Rather than adore God, he adored himself.  Lucifer dreamed of importance and indeed, as the next part of the chapter reveals, Lucifer will be the Antichrist in the end. He will be like Christ in position and authority, but he will still be the “Beast” (Rev 13:1-10).

Of course, the Beast will be just a man, but he will rule and claim godhood himself as the “Beast” is within his person. He shall be pompous like the mightier beasts: the lion or a dragon, for instance.

“Pomp” is “a show of magnificence: splendor. the pomp of a royal ceremony: showy display.” (ibid). The current saying is “like a pig with lipstick.” The Beast will be a famous person with Satan in him who parades as a person of great importance.

Nimrod, as king, wanted to make a name for himself, so he sought to kill God (Gen 11:4) and the people were with him. He was a great hunter, but God was Almighty. Nimrod was an Antichrist because he estimated himself too highly. God destroyed his tower and diminished Nimrod. God revealed the great narcissist to be the “worm” that he was.

In modern times, the most noted case of high self-esteem was in the person of the little corporal Adolph Hitler. He imagined himself to be great and of course his own race the almighty ones. God using sane people cut him down. Like Judas, who God cut down by having him suicide himself, Hitler suicided himself. He did make a name for himself, did he not? His name is associated with hatred to this day. Hitler is accused of being insane, but he had overestimated himself; he was just a little corporal, but he reimagined himself as Caesar.

Hitler did not start out as a megalomaniac; he became one. He first saw his elementary paintings as works of art. In his own eyes, he was an artist. Soon, he saw himself as a great leader and persuaded others that he was. People follow maniacs who others admire. The more people that admired Hitler, the worse he became. Soon, most of those in Germany thought of the “worm” Hitler as Fuehrer and followed him to destruction.

His insanity was contagious as he made little people seem great. His advisers and officers were for the most part little people in society when in German uniform made them important. Self-esteem destroyed Germany and it may you as well!

People can have a realistic perception of themselves. What is realistic? We are not God’s children, or “sons of God.” Natural born “common men” are devils: “You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (John 8:44). The Devil is the “Beast.” We are all born sons of beasts, yet we think of ourselves as “sons of God.”

“We are all God’s children,” they say. God says different. We are “aliens” in God’s world. Paul refreshed the memory of the people: 

Remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” “by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world, but now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Ephes 2:11-13) 

Common men and women are neither gods nor sons and daughters of God. They are alien beings, sons of beasts, in God’s world.

Animals are castrated to remove the “beast” in them. Castration can make a wild pig tame with snip, snip where it counts. Circumcision was for the Jews; to tame them of the “Beast”  within. God asked that they cut off their pride. God did not circumcise them, but the men did. God desired that the Beast in them be cut-off more precisely with circumcision of the heart, to wit: 

Only the Lord had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart and be no more stiff-necked for the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regards not persons. (Deut 10:15:17) 

You are not God, nor will you ever be! You might be able to circumcise the foreskin of your sexual apparatus, but lust will remain. To cut off lust requires that the heart be circumcised. Like the pig, the Great Vet does the castration, but unlike pigs, you must submit. Like pigs, mankind fights castration of the heart until the last breath, but God’s “surgery” is not painful at all but a relief to get rid of the burden of the flesh by just sniping away at the hardness of the heart a little snip, snip at a time.

Jesus is a gentle Physician: 

And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, He saith unto the man, “Stretch forth your hand” and he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. (Mark 3:5) 

Just reach out to Jesus and be made whole with no effort on your part other than trusting Him. It is not your hand that fixes all things but the Power of God in Jesus that can restore either hand or heart. Circumcision is a softening of hardness of the heart… neither you nor doctors can fix pride, but Jesus can!

Most people will deny that they have pride. So, what is it? Exaggerated self-esteem. You are not to overly diminish yourself because God values you. That is not an exaggeration. How much are you worth? Judas was not worth thirty-pieces of silver. The value of the “Antichrist” was very little. Then Judas solved his delusion, by playing God by killing himself to absolve his own sins. That had no value to God, so God sacrificed Himself because we are not gods and cannot do that!

Thinking that your own works can save you is not only preposterous but insanity. Many mental cases believe that they are either royalty or gods. That is crazy talk but too many think they can save themselves by their own works. Sin is genetic, so forget that idea for only God can change your genetic identity by His Power, not yours.

The concept of self-esteem is even wrong. We naturally value ourselves. Judas felt so much pain for who he was, that he killed himself to escape who he was. He did rid himself of Satan inside, but it was to no avail. He failed to wait until the end of the day when Jesus would take care of Satan Himself. Suicide is a futile attempt to play God on yourself.

Those pretty young things that stand in front of mirrors and take selfies have severe cases of pride. To be honest, think about it, humans are ugly inside and beauty is superficial. We are indeed like pigs wearing lipstick. Rather than adore God for His Glory, mankind still glorifies themselves in all sorts of ways: we adorn ourselves with lavish clothing, cosmetics, and even tattoos and piercings; yet we remain animals to God unless he takes away the self-adoration.

The flesh is not for beautifying but just for us to exist in this cruel world (Gen 3:21). However, we take our plain “comforter” and make it a “coat of many colors.” We are not satisfied with what God provides for us but what we provide for ourselves.

How can you adorn yourselves when God stands there rigid just waiting for you to adore Him? God gave up His flesh for us, why can we not give up our flesh for Him? Fleshes are the idols of mankind. Man adores his own idol so much that they creep to the mirror like Narcissus to admire themselves. God thinks that is disrespectful to Him, but to some of us, it is weird to adore yourself rather than God. Rebirth should take pride and nail it to the cross.

What is past is past. You cannot undo what you have permanently done. God has the capacity to forget what you have done (Heb 8:12) and looks only at what you are now willing to do. A good reflection for God is you standing in front of a mirror and looking deep within to see who you really are. What is truth? It is what you are inside. The outside is a façade that fools even you.

Jesus was God inside. His flesh was just a manifestation. That same flesh with Satan within would have been the Beast — the Antichrist. It is not the outside that God sees but the soul within the person. It may be invisible, but it is the real you! James wrote this about that: 

God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. (Jas 4:6-10) 

What does God mean? Compare yourself to Him. He can lift you up, but you cannot! The sight of your true self in the mirror is resisting the Devil. The Devil, like in the original sin, wants you only to see the outward appearance, not the beast within. That was the delusion of Adam’s woman that made her the new kind, Eve. Her vision was dimmed. She could no longer see the things now unseen, but just the things of the flesh. The woman went from glorious to beastly because she no longer had the capacity to see truth — what Lucifer was inside and what she herself had become!

What has mankind become? Self-adorers. Those who have not been born again focus on themselves. Many Christians worry about where their flesh will go in the end but forget that salvation is the soul (1 Pet 1:9). God will provide new incorruptible flesh for those who have been “reseeded” by His genetics, so quit the worrying about your flesh.

If death does not frighten you the failure of the flesh is worse than the failure of the soul which too can fail (Heb 6:6).

So, the condition of the flesh is much ado about nothing. God values your beautiful soul more than your animalistic flesh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

We all have been there; done that. We all have made mistakes and regretted that we have. If there is no regret, but only the desire to protect oneself from public scrutiny, oftentimes a cover-up ensues. I hate to make mistakes but worse yet, I hate to be found out.

I am not unique at all; I think that others do suffer the same pride.

In my dealings over the years, as far as anyone knows, I seldom made mistakes. Why is that? It was not that I did not make mistakes, but I made the mistakes right without anyone even knowing that they were made.

I was imperfect but retained my integrity because I made my mistakes right. I did right for the wrong reasons but in the end things ended well. The only thing about that was that I worked hard to protect my impeccable record which I knew was peccare; that I had come short of perfection. In other words, I was “prideful,” not only me, but that is the nature of mankind due to original sin.

Nobody likes to be wrong. If they are, then they disappoint themselves.

Kings usually have too much pride, but even they are there by the grace of God. One of the best kings ever swallowed his pride:

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. (2 Chron 32:26)

Notwithstanding what? “Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him” (2 Chron 32:25). Hezekiah did many good things to win the battle against his enemies but in the end, despite Hezekiah’s perfect planning, God saved both him and the Jews.

In the first part of chapter 32 is a list of all the things that Hezekiah did. Then, there is the one thing that God did that surpassed all the good things Hezekiah had done. It was God that saved them, but history wrote that Hezekiah was nearly perfect and most of the credit did go to Hezekiah.

In the end, what did Hezekiah need? Humbling, and the one act of God humbled the king. He avoided the wrath of God because He in his heart knew that it was not his works that saved them but the grace of God!

Mankind has a terrible disease: “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts” (Psalm 10:4).

Paul wrote, “Whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor 10:31). Apparently, Hezekiah, for a while anyway, got the glory, but in the end, it was the Glory of God that saved them. He missed the mark, but caught himself in time; indeed, he had come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23).

People like to hear how well they are doing. I enjoy that myself, but without God my good things are nothing. They are as filthy rags to God (Isa 64:6).

I write what I believe are well-composed treatises but is it me that writes wisdom; not if I believe the words of the song, “Yet not I but through Christ in me.”

Every time that I write, I fear that the wicked one in me might come out and that I will make theological mistakes and such. I will only be perfected once I am glorified at death to be like Christ. Until then I will have imperfections regardless of how hard I try, to wit: “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us” (1 John 1:10). His Word says that we all have sinned. I admit that I have sinned and still do sin, but by grace, if I remain in Christ, it is not counted as sin.

Hezekiah was “humbled.” Hezekiah was literally brought low. Outwardly he was a king but inwardly he knew that he was not. He realized that only God is King and that he was only king by the mercies of God; then God had mercy on both him and his people.

What if Hezekiah had had a triumphal parade like the Roman Caesars would do? Like Vespasian, years later, that would have given himself the credit. Hezekiah knew that it was not his good works that had triumphed but the works of the invisible God.

For me, I endeavor to write only what I believe God as revealed to me. The readers may get angry with some of my commentaries, but they are not mine. Sometimes, my bias does sneak through, and often I do err. We all do, and even as I write, I catch and correct my own errors. I do that for two reasons: (1) to retain some degree of credibility and (2) so that others can get to know God better. It is not to misrepresent God nor present myself better than what I am.

At one time, I thought that my religious leaders were sin-free. Was I mistaken! Even pious Mr. Howard, from my youth, struggled with pride just as we all do. That remains our genetic weak spot (called “stronghold”) because that comes with our birth. We are not glorious beings who do not err, but inglorious bastard sons (in a genetic sense) of “our father the Devil” (John 8:44). We have the same countenance, unless it is resolved by rebirth, that Lucifer has.

Our “countenance” from the psalm is how we appear to others; it is whether our faces display anger or not.

The literal meaning of the Hebrew word for countenance is “nostrils.” What makes mankind different than the gorillas so much that we are accused of being their kind? Our nostrils. Gorillas reveal anger by the flare of their nostrils. The nostrils reveal the thoughts inside the beast within us. When we think of an angry man, we often reveal their anger in pictures by flared nostrils. Indeed, anger makes humans like beasts.

A true hypocrite can appear tame just by retaining a good composure. The Pharisees were known for spouting off scripture like a water gun spraying victims in the face. Many of the victims were deluged with scripture all the while the vilest of the Pharisees were doing nothing more than waging war on those who sinned just like themselves!

I am indeed hard on myself, but I know the source of my shortcomings. I was born this way just as King David when he admitted to that in Psalm 51:5. God expects me to be perfect, knowing all the while that I will fail. He gives me credit for the willingness to hit the mark although generally, I miss it. He is patient with me.

What do gorillas do when they show their pride? They stand tall and beat their own chests. Perhaps Hezekiah realized that he too was capable of that as well, so with that thought, he was humbled — he was brought low to the ground just as gorillas are wont to be most of the time.

The countenances of some individuals are deceptive. Lucifer presented himself as the “bringer of light” all the while he brought the “darkness” of sin.

Isaiah, referring to Lucifer’s pride, said, “Your pomp is brought down to the grave” (Isa 14:11). It was his pride — his arrogance to be God.

“Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” (Prov 16:18).

We just saw that with President Biden! He certainly has an haughty spirit (arrogance) and just when things looked good, he fell.

He dug his own grave, so to speak. He deserved what he got because he was so arrogant, even without merit. Biden’s fate was because he was an angry man whose expectations were for everyone think and do like him. When most of us think of Biden, we think of an angry old man who to his peers appeared as a warm-hearted generous elderly person who should be respected.

Biden knew his capabilities and resigned. It took many years to expose such arrogance.

However, this commentary is not about him. It is about us all. We all have too much pride, but God, in the end, will humble us for being so pompous.

It is okay to correct your mistakes but not at the expense of God nor others. That is the basis of the Greatest Commandment.

Most people, if they admit it, are conditioned. We each know our own fallibilities and project our failures onto someone else. We are indeed as little children that must be remolded.

What do little children do when confronted with a wrong? Well, Joey did this, or Mary did that. Pointing out the wrongs of others does not atone for our own wrongs. They are not “Christs” who take on our sins for remission, but that is the way we act. Because others cheat or steal, for instance, is not justification for us to cheat and steal. As an example, because the government is poor stewards of our money does not make it right to cheat on taxes.

What stands between God and man? Pride! The Serpent got it right: “You shall be as gods” (Gen 3:5). Now all the while we judge others to Hell, we forget our own pomposity! We are all Pharisees in the eyes of God unless we are humbled. What did Jesus call them? Vipers” – serpents — because although they wanted others to do good, they were beyond that themselves, as if they were gods.

Mankind overly estimates themselves. I do as well! None are immune from thinking of themselves too highly. Unless we are born again, we are of the wicked one just like Cain (1 John 3:12).

Our problem is our countenances; we present ourselves as perfect all the while hating our imperfections. The obvious way to alleviate that gap is to project our failures onto others. Have you ever noticed that the fifth phase of a failing project is to blame others?

Using Biden as the example again; that arrogant old guy has blamed all his failures on the previous administration. What happened to him? He suffered the wrath of even those he thought loved him. Now he has turned on them, ignoring all his own failures. That is the classic case of anger projection.

It is not only Biden that does that; it is common to us all unless God overcomes that for us, and he will do that: “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10). Hezekiah did that and the Lord lifted him; He was revealed as a great king, not because he did all those things, but because he humbled himself!

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SICK IN THE HEADS

Mankind, specifically Abraham’s kind, was the problem; Jesus, the Messiah would be the solution. What did God reveal to Isaiah about that? “You will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint” (Isa 1:5).

The Jews would become more and more revolting to God. They were not only revolting in their morality, or lack thereof, but would continually revolt against the Lord God. They would become more and more decadent to the point of depravity. Judah’s problem were the Jews!

The future emperor and general, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, is given credit for the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of Judah during THE revolt — The Wars of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus.  The tetrarchy of Judea was the legacy of the ancient Judah. The revolt which God revealed to Isaiah would begin in 4 B.C with the death of Herod the Great and the rejection of his son, Archelaus, by the Jews. The revolt would not end until Judea was destroyed and the Temple of God along with it. Finally, Jerusalem was destroyed in 132 A.D. and Judea disappeared to history as the area was renamed “Syria Palestina.”

The problem was not the Romans; it was the Jews just as God showed Isiaah. They were all sick in the head and they would go faint, becoming weaker and weaker.

The Hebrew word translated head is literally, “shaken.” Their sickness of the “head” was their minds. They became more and more confused as time went on!

They would become “faint” because of their prideful thoughts. How faint and for what reason? “The day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low” (Isa 2:12). The so called “Lion, Judah,” would be reduced to weakness, but still proud and aloof.

The Book of Jasher reveals Judah, the son of Israel, to be a “lion’ with strength enough to by himself destroy the enemy’s armies. They still thought of Judah as invincible, but that nation and peoples would be destroyed from within.

Technically, according to Josephus, the Romans with Titus in the lead did not destroy the Temple of God; the Jews themselves did that while Titus was endeavoring to save the House of God. The Jewish zealots, the Jewish band of thieves, and the Jewish sicarii destroyed the Temple; then the city of Jerusalem, and the nation of Judea followed.  Those Jewish malefactors are of the same ilk as Barabbas who escaped punishment as the innocent Messiah died.

Jerusalem and Judea began the death process in 4 B.C. and in the process of time — 136 years — Judea was dead, not to be resurrected until 1948 when the nation of Israel emerged from its ashes, and Palestine ceased to exist.

Israel, in a sense, is Judah resurrected to be the “Lion of Judah” once more. As God revealed to John, “Weep not: behold, the ‘Lion’ of the tribe of Judah, the ‘Root of David,” has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof” (Rev 5:5). The “Lion of Judah,” was Jesus all along, not the man, Judah. It will be Jesus whose wrath will be loosed.

That too was prophesied by Jacob (Israel), “Judah is a lion's whelp (puppy): from the prey, my Son, you are gone up: He stooped down, He couched as a lion, and as an ‘old lion;’ who shall rouse Him up?” (Gen 49:9). God is the “Old Lion” and Jesus the “Old Lion’s Whelp.” Judah, the nation, would not depend on Judah but on Jesus.

Consider the main points of today’s commentary: (1) The Jews were sick in the head and their weakness was because of their spiritual malaise, (2) Judah (Judea) would cause their own nation to be weakened, and (3) only Jesus could fix their sickness and restore them to what they were before. In Isaiah’s vision, Jesus was the Messiah who would deliver the Jews from their weakness, all the while they still wait on another descendent of King David.

Jews are not stupid; their intelligence quotients (IQ’s) are said to be on the average, 116. Their “sickness” is still spiritual.

To this day, they remain ignorant of who the Messiah really is! Prophecy points to Jesus as the Savior of the Jews, yet the Jews remain too proud and aloof from the rest of us. They are no longer God’s “chosen” and “peculiar” people (Deut 14:2); Christians are (1 Pet 2:9). However, they still act the part all the while depending on the most so-called “Christian” nation in the world.

They are weak but we are strong; they are weak, but God is strong. God gives them strength because, He said, that “a small remnant” would be saved (Isa 1:9). That pertained to the Jews then and in the end when 144,000 Hebrews shall be saved when Jerusalem will be made anew, John saw that; it,  “had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel” (Rev 21:12).

That “wall” was mentioned by God to Isaiah; God showed him that futuristic wall: God was speaking of the end-of-days to Isaiah, showing Isaiah the identical image that John would see centuries later: 

Upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures, and the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. (Isa 2:15-17)

 Lesson learned, or should have been, by the Jews — God’s chosen and peculiar people. Another lesson that Christians should have learned — also God’s chosen and peculiar people!

The lesson that should have been learned is that Judah would be destroyed by their sickness of the head.

Judah was soon destroyed by Babylon, the nation that God planned to discipline Judah.

Judea was destroyed again when God, who planned Rome, allowed them to be blamed for the destruction of Judea. In both cases, it was the Jews with the sickness of the head that destroyed. Babylon and Rome were merely “instruments” that God used for the Jews to cause themselves to perish!

God did not punish them in either case; they inflicted their punishments on themselves because of their audacity to be so proud and arrogant. The destruction of Judah and Jerusalem were inside jobs. In the first case, Babylon was the punisher for their rebellion from God.

When Judea and Jerusalem went the second time, “Mystery Babylon” destroyed them, about the Jewish Revolt it is written: 

The Jewish defenders were split into factions. Simon Bar Giora and John of Giscala, the two prominent Zealot leaders, placed all blame for the failure of the revolt on the shoulders of the moderate leadership. John of Gischala's group murdered another faction leader, Eleazar ben Simon, whose men were entrenched in the forecourts of the Temple. The Zealots resolved to prevent the city from falling into Roman hands by all means necessary, including the murder of political opponents and anyone standing in their way. (Wikipedia 2023)

 Josephus wrote that the zealots began to destroy their own city while Titus saved all that he could of it. A few walls and lesser buildings are still extant.

Those three groups were the same type of malefactors that were on the crosses alongside Jesus: Dismus, Gestus, and Barabbas were their names.

Barabbas was released and served more time in the “prison” of the world ruled by the Romans; Gestus was crucified and imprisoned in Hell ruled by Satan, and Dismus was made free and released from his “prison” — the flesh — to be escorted to freedom in Paradise that very day. Jesus made him free!

Just as Judah was always destroyed from within, so was Rome and the world will be as well.

Rome was revived by Vespasian Caesar and his two sons, Titus and Domitian. However, the destruction of Rome was by the spiritual laxity of the Romans themselves.

Nero, although he set fire to Rome, Rome survived. Then came the Germans who history credits for the fall of Rome. Again, Rome was destroyed from within as its citizens partied as Rome fell. All governments made by man fall, not because of their enemies, but because of themselves.

In the end, Satan does not win the nations. He, as the Antichrist, is not to be blamed, but those who take the mark are the ones that causes the world government to fall.

Cosmopolitans — the people of the world — will cause their world to fall, not Lucifer (see Isa 14;11-14). Lucifer gets the credit, but it is us who overcomes the world in a wicked sense. The fall of the world will be like the fall of it in the days of Noah, the days of Judea, and the end of days. We humans are the “beasts” that will cause the world to die out.

Right his moment, the United States may be breathing its last breath. It is not so much Biden that is causing our Constitution to weaken. It is the people whose heads are sick. Biden is not really doing anything; something or somebodies, behind the scenes are his puppeteers. Those beings are the citizens of the United States that take in aliens just as in the days of Noah (Gen 6:4).

The Christians in this nation are overwhelmed by alien Muslims. They have already established an invisible empire within our nation. They are the evil ones that shall have our women to destroy our Christian peculiarity and convert by miscegenation Christians to non-Christian paganism. You failed to see America rotting from within the educational, industrial, and even the religious systems; and you have failed to address that it is us destroying us!

Now you see it on university campuses and on the streets, while still failing to understand that it is us who are destroying us!

How sick in the head can humans be? God indicates that humans are so sick in the head that only He can make us whole again. Calvary was the “shield” for our confused thoughts. Calvary is the “cranium” in the Greek, not because it looks like a skull, but because it has the power to shield those whose minds are sick, so sick that they would rather die than confess their pride and arrogance.

Just as I thought GMC was too big an industry to fail, many think that about the United States. GMC failed and no longer exists. The United States can fail, and it will be because of us;  not Biden, not George Soros, and not Barack Obama. When you vote for people who support the most awful and lewd things, it is you who are destroying our nation, and you that will cause the world to die. You are the “climate change” that will destroy the world someday, long before the carbon-based fuel does.

The economy of the Jews was changing. Before, God and been their God. Judah was destroyed because each of them became the gods of Judea!

We criticize Hindi’s because of their thousands of gods; that is laughable to us, but Christianity has even become a religion wherein each person is their own god. That should be obvious by now as even Christians accept the same things the Jews did so many thousands of years ago.

What remained of Israel had a problem, to wit: 

Therefore, you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. (Isa 2:6)

 Immigration weakened the Israelites. After the war, the Babylonians replaced the lost population of Israel with Kuthites from Babylon. Thereafter they were no longer Jews but Samaritans, an unclean people. Israel became the mysterious Babylon people because easterners intermarried with Jews and made them less Jewish; they were no longer chosen and peculiar people!

Apparently, Palestinians pleased themselves with the children of strangers. Pedophilia, as in the days of Noah, consumed the Palestinians. It is not widely known but Muhammad himself married a pre-pubescent girl. He was a pedophile, as he would be called in these days.

Is it merely coincidental that pedophilia and the underage exploitation of girls (end even young boys) is at an all-time high? It is the same sickness of the head that God revealed to Isaiah.

Mankind has become worse than the beasts now in the “Age of Aquarius” — the Luciferin Age. Rectums — garbage disposals — have become erotica as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah that God showed Isaiah what that was all about (Isa 1:9).

Adam was made glorious in the Image of God; now mankind has degenerated that we come far short of the glory of God! The Jews in the days of the kings were almost as degenerate as the people are today. We are no longer “children of God,” but bastard children of our spiritual father — the Devil…. Unless Jesus has got into you via His Holy Ghost.

Mankind has degenerated by themselves and devolved in a manner like spiritual “entropy” which is irreversibility in human processes. How could the Jews be fixed? How can we be fixed?

Jesus could fix them… and us; “O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the Light of the Lord” (Isa 2:5).

The Jews sought to build back better when they accepted the half-Arabian Herod, as if he was Jewish. He had no claim to the Judean throne because he was not a true Jew. 

In the end, only Jesus can build back better, as John saw in the Revelation. All attempts by mankind to build back better is because of pride and aloofness; strangely characteristics of the man who many consider to be the fake president as the Jews accepted the "fake Alexander" as their king!

 (Note: fake Alexander claimed to be the long dead son of Herod the Great. Only Caesar recognized him as a fraud all the while he was king in the minds of the Jews... those who were sick in the head.)

THE HOUSE OF MOSES

Jesus started the discussion with the saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's seat” (Mat 23:2). That seems onerous but the hidden history of Moses must be understood.

Moses was most certainly very powerful during the reign of Pharoah Ahmose I. Several of the family of Ahmose were named ‘Ahmose.’

 Ahmose I established the New Kingdom after the defeat of the Hebrew friendly Hyksos who were Pharaohs during the royal reign of Joseph, second only to Pharoah.

The Hyksos are believed to be of Canaanite origin. They ruled only the delta region of Egypt simultaneously with the sixteenth and seventeenth dynasties of the Egyptians. Ahmose I established a ‘New Kingdom’ from the foundation of the fifteenth through eighteenth dynasties.

Several subsequent names of the Pharaohs consisted of the root word ‘Mose’ — Thutmose I, II, and III. The name ‘Mose’ is truly Egyptian. Many linguists accept that “Mose’ means ‘Son of’ or ‘child of.’ For instance, Ahmose (also Amosis) would be ‘child of the moon.’ Mose would just be child, or son, of whom was unknown to the sister of Pharoah when she named him.

The name ‘Mose,’ later called ‘Moses’ by the Hebrews, was an Egyptian and royal name as well. His name was basically “son of Pharoah,’ and Moses was part of the New Kingdom Dynasty.

The Book of Jasher is mentioned in scripture several times. The following is about Moses from that book: 

1 And Moses, the son of Amram, was still king in the land of Cush in those days, and he prospered in his kingdom, and he conducted the government of the children of Cush in justice, in righteousness, and integrity.

2 And all the children of Cush loved Moses all the days that he reigned over them, and all the inhabitants of the land of Cush were greatly afraid of him.

3 And in the fortieth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Moses was sitting on the royal throne whilst Adoniah the queen was before him, and all the nobles were sitting around him.

4 And Adoniah the queen said before the king and the princes, “What is this thing which you, the children of Cush, have done for this long time?”

5 “Surely you know that for forty years that this man has reigned over Cush he has not approached me, nor has he served the gods of the children of Cush.”

6 “Now therefore hear, O ye children of Cush, and let this man no more reign over you as he is not of our flesh.” (Jasher 76:1-5)

 The land of Cush (Kush, Nubia) was once part of greater Egypt, “Much of Nubia came under Egyptian rule during the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 BC)” (Wikipedia 2023).

The New Kingdom era began with Ahmose I and in Jasher, it states that Moses, at that time (ca 1550), was King of Cush.

Jesus compared the scribes and Pharisees to Moses; them sitting on Moses’s seat, the throne of Moses. They were acting as if they were kings! Moses was sitting on a ‘royal throne’ ultimately in conjunction with Ahmose I. In comparison to the Romans, Ahmose I was a ‘Caesar’ and Moses a royal king in the House, or Dynasty, of Pharoah.

As far as Pharoah Ahmose knew, Moses was without father or mother in the manner of the biblical Melchizedek. Speaking of that ‘priest,’ Paul wrote that he was “King of peace, without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually” (Heb 7:2-3).

Melchizedek may have been the pre-incarnate Jesus and as King of Salem, that did not mean Jerusalem perchance but just a place of peace.

Moses was a shadow-like figure of Melchizedek. Although not in Israel, he was very much a King of Peace; his purpose was to free the Hebrews from the bondage of Egypt, which represents sin.

The scribes and Pharisees acted as if they were royalty (Mat 23:4-7). However, unlike Moses, they put the Jews in bondage. They sat on Moses’s seat in a sense but were very unlike Moses. God placed Moses on the Cushite Throne, but especially, the Pharisees believed that they deserved the throne.  How so?

Supported by the Pharisees, John Hyrcanus II was briefly both High Priest and king of the Hasmonean Empire (Judea, Samaria, and even Nabatea).

The Pharisees perhaps saw themselves, contrasted to the Sadducees, as heirs to the throne of the Hasmoneans since they supported Hyrcanus. They saw themselves as royalty and Jesus pointed that out to them.

Since Moses was not a worshiper of the Cushite gods but the One True God, he was both a king and a high priest of Yahweh. Like Jesus, long after, he was the son of the ‘god’ Ahmose I who was accepted as a god because he reasserted control over Nubia to the south — Cush — and obtained the gold of that area (Which became Solomon’s gold in later centuries.)

Certainly, Moses, although his parentage was unknown… ‘son of _____’, his adopted cognomen was after Ahmose I. He was the son of ‘blank’ and ‘blank’ and ‘Ahmose’ in the mind of Ahmose.

By all rights, the sons of Moses should have been kings; their names were Gershom and Eliezer. Their mother was Egyptian, so they were sent to be with their mother in lower Egypt. Then they disappeared from scripture. They were meant to be God’s kings but had defiled blood in them, so Moses essentially adopted Joshua to be his son. As such, Joshua was essentially the king of Israel, and although not called a priest, he was as much both king and priest over the Hebrews.

The Mosaic kingship was God ordained, and being of the House of Abraham, which Jasher makes a king (of peace — Abraham’s Bosom), Joshua was as much a king of peace as well.

Before long, royal kings evolved from Abraham and Moses, and most of them were evildoers (e.g, Ahab). The Pharisees behaved more like the Israelite kings of the northern kingdom than the ethnarchs of the southern kingdom. They were of the House of Moses, but evil and more like the House of sinful Ham (the Cushites).

There is much more to the story about the comparison of the Pharisees to Moses. However, hopefully you get the idea that Moses was a royal king and the Pharisees sought to be like him in royalty but not in spirit.

 

EVERY WORD MATTERS

Today, I was tempted to gloss over and skip a biblical passage because it was hard to understand. Then, I was tested; I was challenged by God in my mind to sort through it because all of His Words are essential doctrine.

Some things in the Bible are vague. I approached today’s passage trusting that although I have yet to understand it, that God will guide me through it.

Since Jesus spoke those things, they are pertinent, if not for the heavenly realm, but in human affairs. One vaguery follows: 

Verily I say unto you, “Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Mat 18:18)

 What did Jesus mean? The subject at hand is about disagreements between brothers (verse 15) and how to resolve those differences by establishing the truth (verse 16). If that fails to reconcile, then the Church should be consulted (verse 17). With those things said, the context is about reconciliation after there has been a disagreement among individuals.

To reconcile is “to restore to friendship and harmony” (Merriam-Webster 2023). It may be that there was no friendship before to reconcile!

The context is much about friendship, so Jesus was surely speaking of friends, or two who should be friends.

He used the two words, ‘bind’ and ‘loose.’ The former is a bond between something. Perhaps Jesus was speaking of friendships — two Christian brothers in harmony — in accord with one another. (Yes, there can be discord between Christians that should be resolved.)

Christians were of one accord when the Holy Spirit of God came upon them (Acts 2:1). They were bound together by the Spirit of God. As it is on Earth, so it will be in heaven, Jesus implied. Conversely, if Christians are expected to be in accord in heaven, the expectation is that they must be of one accord on Earth.

The other key word is ‘loosed” which means unbound or dissolved. Then, whatever is dissolved on Earth will be dissolved in heaven.

Next Jesus presented a hypothetical situation wherein one manservant trespassed against another one. Jesus likened heaven to a certain king, obviously that would later be Himself (verse 23).

One of the King’s servants owed his Lord quite a sum of money. That servant, “in heaven” would have the account settled; “His Lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made” (verse 25).

That same servant worshipped his Lord and out of mercy, “The lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt” (verse 27).

The same servant approached the other servant who owed him and asked for payment right then. He “cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.” His Lord pointed out to the first servant that He had had compassion on him but that he had no compassion on his fellow servant (verse 33). As it turns out, the Lord was just in His judgment: 

His Lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So, likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if you from your hearts forgive not everyone his brother their trespasses. (Mat 18:34:35)

 The ‘economy’ in Paradise in heaven prohibits trespassers. It is God’s Estate and only the righteous will be there. However, Jesus was speaking of Earth and heaven. ‘Heaven’ is not a place but another realm. ‘Paradise’ is a certain place in the realm of heaven. Scripture refers to Paradise as a Kingdom, not of this world, but a heavenly Kingdom.

The Book of Enoch separates heaven into two places: Paradise and Hell with a barrier in between. Luke chapter sixteen also divides heaven into two places: (1) comfort in the bosom of Abraham (Paradise) and (2) torments (Hell), with the two separated by a great gulf (Luke 16:23-26).

Jesus spoke in general about two brothers. The story of the rich man and Lazarus is about two who should have been brothers but failed to reconcile while on Earth. However, when he was already in torments, the rich man endeavored to justify himself to God and for God to have mercy on him, as he had mercy on Lazarus.

Their acts followed them to heaven. The rich man should have been a friend who showed patience rather than disdain for the poor man Lazarus.

Jesus, in his parable of the two servants, was encouraging reconciliation while here on Earth because the case would follow them to heaven. Both would go to heaven but because things were not reconciled on Earth, the case against them would be decided in heaven.

Abraham’s bosom was like a ‘placeholder’ until Jesus would ascend; then it would be the Bosom of Jesus wherein the righteous dead would rest. Hence, Abraham’s bosom was comfort in heaven until the Jesus would be there to comfort them.

Before Jesus died, Abraham was the ‘Lord’ of which Jesus spoke in heaven. The Book of Jasher reveals that Abraham was a king in his own domain who lived in Canaan land. Abraham was the king and lord in heaven and certainly the ‘Lord’ of whom Jesus spoke with an eye on Himself very soon.

Jesus was explaining to His disciples that they should resolve their differences here on Earth, or He would resolve them in Heaven; that the rules in for entering heaven and the rules here are harmonious; that you cannot be one thing here and another thing in heaven.

Jesus was speaking of the first day in heaven — Judgment Day — when judgment will be based on acts here on Earth.

The rich man was much different when he was in heaven. He had been merciless on his estate but when on God’s Estate, he was contrite. He should have reconciled with the servant, Lazarus, and the LORD GOD while on Earth because although he was not bound on Earth, as he should have been, he was bound in heaven. He could not escape justice! Justice should be served here, and a trespasser or debtor here should not expect reprieve after it is too late.

How would the dead be expected to reconcile if the living cannot?

You can prepare for heaven! Heaven is God’s Estate and to live in harmony while there (forever as the case may be), we should be able to live in harmony for a short time while on Earth. A heartless person is not expected to be kind and friendly in heaven if they were not while on Earth. The grace of Jesus is patient; even if a person changes at the last moment before dying, it is never too late to be kind and considerate.

The malefactor on the cross was a thief. He could not pay off his debt to those from whom he stole. Even with that, he could pay homage to Jesus, and that was the acceptable sacrifice; to give his person to God for God redeeming his soul, even if it was at the last moment. Everything needs to be reconciled here, in heaven it is too late!

On a personal note, I learned that lesson before it was too late. I had a woman at work who hated me. To be truthful, I was unkind to her as well because we were competitors for the same job. We felt that we had to outperform each other rather than work together!

Then her young mother died unexpectedly. I empathized with the pain that she must have been experiencing. God led me to send her a sympathy card. To be truthful, I did that because I am a Christian. As a Christian, I am expected to be kind to my enemies.

When my adversary returned to work, she thanked me. She said that I was the only one from work who sent her a card or expressed sympathy. The Lord was patient with me and with her! We reconciled and were no longer enemies, but good friends who thereafter worked well together.

Neither of us waited until it was too late. We resolved our differences here; judgment day would be too late. We loosed our animosity here, so that we would be free in heaven.

My hope is that you get the point; that to be with Christ in heaven, we must be in Christ on Earth.

This scripture was hard to understand, but I must say that the Lord guided me through it very well, hopefully to His satisfaction!

 

TRUSTING GOD TO DO HIS OWN GOOD WORK

 KEY VERSE: “And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me” (Mat 11:6)

 Jesus therein added another ‘beatitude;’ another “state of blessedness” or “supreme happiness” (bliss) (Harper 2001-2023).

‘And’ in the key verse means “likewise.” Likewise, what? That Jesus heals the sick and such from the previous verse (Mat 11:5). That would offend some. Why so? Because only God could do such things as giving the blind reception of their sight, the lame walk, the lepers cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead raised up, and for the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Many were offended at such a thing, but all those things verified that Jesus was the one on whom John asked and on whom the Jews had been waiting.

As it turns out, all those things offended the Jewish leadership enough that they wanted to kill Jesus. For what? Doing things that only God could do, and even the simplest thing as revealing the truth to the poor!

In modern days, many scoff at the notion of God healing. When someone has been ill but is made well, for them, Jesus has nothing to do with it. The doctor only diagnoses and treats; God does the healing, but nobody anymore seems to credit God, and if they do, they are called a ‘fanatic.’ Nowadays, few wait on God to provide the final method of healing the infirm.

I have had many friends that seemed to be dying, and rather than wait on the Death Angel, their caretakers became ‘gods’ themselves.

Dr. Kevorkian killed the infirm compassionately, but it remained him who did the killing. He was even imprisoned for mercy killing.

They, at one time, shot horses out of mercy for the creature. Now that is seen as cruel, so they merely change the process. They “put them away” in some humane manner. Pets of all types are put away in a humane way, generally by a lethal injection of some sort. Many would rather have their pets die without pain rather than have them in pain and still be alive. Mercy killing animals seems to be the humane way of killing brutes.

Paul wrote a truth, “For me to live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). [1] Implied therein is that if the Death Angel comes for a Christian, then death is gain, or a reward; that death should be welcomed.

One fine Christian lady was a faith healer and when she became quite ill with cancer, she turned to God, rejecting the treatment by a doctor. At first glance, it seems that her faith had killed her. However, just as it is the Angel of God that keeps a person alive, it too is the Angel of God that removes the last breath from a Christian. Her faith had healed her; she was given the reward of eternal life!

Many scoffed at the faith healer who seemed to be like scripture says, “Physician, heal yourself” (Luke 4:23). She seemed to be unable to heal herself; even though others saw people healed in her presence. It is because the woman was not doing the healing; it was because she had faith that the Holy Ghost of Jesus could heal the sick.

Jesus revealed that even death does not hinder him, bringing the dead man Lazarus back to life even though he had been dead enough to stink.

I submit that the lady’s faith did not cause her death but healed her. She trusted Jesus and Jesus healed her!

We only think of Jesus healing the sick and raising the dead, but the ultimate healing is death for the dead suffer no more because their flesh is no longer alive to suffer. God finishes the good work in you when the genome of the dead is raptured, and new incorruptible flesh is placed over the living soul. That reconstitutes the Garden of God and creates a New Garden in Paradise.

Paul revealed a mystery to the Christians at Corinth: 

⁵¹ We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Cor 15:51-53)

 Jesus said about his healing and preaching, “Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me.” If “whosoever” is not offended at the healing and preaching of Jesus, he would not be offended if he changed them all the way to a new creature when Christ comes for them.

Many scoffed at that as well! Before Jesus generates new flesh for Christians, the dead must arise from their graves for the blessing.

Imagine the multitude who witnessed the death of Jesus. Some saw the Holy Ghost leave Him, yet He revealed that He continued to live on. The earth split asunder, not to receive the dead body of Christ, but to release the dead from their prison; to wit: 

⁵² And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, ⁵³ And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. ⁵⁴ Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.” (Mat 27:52-54)

 Jesus raised people from the dead; he raised even the long dead; perhaps He even raised John the Baptist and Adam. [2]

The centurion and the hundreds saw Jesus die and on Resurrection Sunday they must have been gathered as a unit, still guarding the area, as is the case with any crime scene. The graves were opened and those who had been dead went into the city, but the Roman guard did not pursue them because they understood that Jesus was indeed who He said He was; that Jesus was God in the flesh. They would have seen the dead walking as an army of King Jesus.

The Roman legion did not scoff; they were not offended that the ‘Great Physician’ could heal Himself. They were not surprised that the grave was empty because they saw so many graves that were emptied.

They never pursued Jesus when He escaped, surely because they would be pursuing God! Jesus, although convicted and murdered for His offenses, was never pursued by the Roman army. It appears that many were convinced, even Pilate, that Jesus was God and that any true God could escape punishment.

We think of Houdini and his tricks. Jesus made Houdini seem an amateur. Jesus walked to the Cross with the crowd screaming for His death, and then God came undone as He revealed the Light, the Man, and the Ghost of Jesus. [3] Then, those who were patient enough to wait – the Roman Legion who were persuaded — saw Jesus regenerated as He merely walked through the walls of the tomb with glorious, regenerated flesh.

The Jews were offended; they remain offended to this day! Jesus revealed His Identity to the mob but most of them refused the truth; that Jesus is God in the flesh. They have not been blessed because they refuse to accept Jesus as the truth; that He is the Messiah in whom they wait.

The centurion, ‘Longinus’ by name, was not offended by what he saw. The other centurions who mocked Jesus and gambled for His apparel, once they witnessed Jesus come undone, they became a new legion who could see living souls all around them arise from their graves. God had changed them; they by then had bright eyes and could see what others could not see!

Earlier in this commentary, I touched on death and the humane way of killing. Jesus was killed humanely for according to the chief priests, it was for the benefit of the Jews.

In their eyes, they were doing a good thing. They were protecting their God, fearing that their God was incapable of fending for Himself. Their ‘Almighty God’ who they claimed, they made feeble. He was a God that could not fend for Himself, a God who was so weak that death could hold Him, and a God that could not heal, even Himself. They themselves became ‘God” because it was them who would overcame the meek, seemingly defenseless man on the Cross, just hanging there waiting for the angel of death to take Him.

Jesus, in the key verse, was speaking about the Jews and whosoever questioned His abilities. If they accept that Almighty God is as mighty as He claims, then they would be blessed with extreme happiness — with bliss in Paradise.

Soon, I will be doing a video on the old subject: a glass half empty of a glass half full. Many see death as emptiness while others see it as fullness, or completeness.

For some, Jesus’s healing and teaching was the glass half empty but for some, it was the glass half full. In this situation, the ‘glass’ is the cup, or vessel, of Jesus. They failed to see what was in the seemingly empty part of the glass — the Holy Ghost who is the Power of God.

The Jews did what seemed to be a humane thing; they killed a ‘crazy man’ that perceived Himself as God. That was the ultimate sin for them, and the best they could do is to kill the Man for saying it. They could not wait on their Almighty God to heal the insanity of the man; they surely saw it a way to reward him with an afterlife, of course caring not that it might be in Hell for His claim.

Society has yet to learn their lesson. We still kill for humane reasons; babies are killed in the womb because that is the ‘humane’ thing to do. There is no way that they could be happy, so women ‘bliss’ their own children by taking their lives from them.

Not to be outdone, families even take the power of God into their own hands; they cannot wait on God’s Death Angel to come, so they ask that He come quicker. I am referring to euthanasia.

If the Jews had been godly, they would prayed to their Almighty God to heal the ‘crazy man,’ Jesus. But, no; they would not wait on God to cure His infirmity, so they took it into their own hands.

Even many well-meaning families slip into Satan’s trap. Hospice seems a good thing, and caring well for the dying is indeed humane. However, is it humane to withhold food and drink from the dying? I believe that the truly humane way would be to pray for God to act quickly to bliss the dying person, not to withhold life sustaining nourishment from them. It is as if the Angel of Death requires help to come, not in God’s time, but in our timing.

However, hospice is meant to be a good thing and as with all things too much ‘goodness’ kills as the Jews showed. As it turned out, Jesus excused those who thought they were doing good things for God, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted His raiment and cast lots” (Luke 23:34).

‘Euthanasia’ is humane people doing what they think is good and means death done well. It is done well by others without having to wait on God. Some of them just refuse to die and linger even longer; maybe because the Death Angel awaits the good people to leave the scene.

Jesus would say to them, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” and then they would continue their ‘good” work and part the raiment and cast lots, just as they did with Jesus. In modern terms, they would probate the wills and debate on who gets what.

Sometimes death is speeded up for the love of money and the division of the estate. At other times, probably most often, it is so that the loved-one does not suffer. (Or is it for the living to no longer suffer?)

But who knows what suffering, or not, goes on in the minds of those knowing where they are and why they are there?

This is not to condemn any family members nor even hospice. Their motives are good. Who knows how much quicker a sick person might die if we just leave them alone with the Angel of God to Comfort them as they of course administer drugs for the pain.

What should we do to make death easier? I pray that God takes me swiftly and without pain, and when the Death Angel comes, for my family to welcome Him. They too can pray that Jesus comes quickly and that death for me be painless.

(picture credit; encounterhumber.wordpress.com; "Encounter with Christ")

 

 

 

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[1] For more on that philosophy see my book with that title.

[2] See my book, The Skull of Adam, for more about raising the dead at the first resuurection.

[3] Refer to my book, Adoil Come Down: Arkhas Came Undone.

ARROGANCY THE PROBLEM: GOOD WILL THE SOLUTION

   The end comes just as those on earth all have much the same attitude. The stars will no longer shine, nor the heavenly bodies give their light. God revealed that age to Isaiah:

“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible” (Isa 13:11)

  The focus in this commentary is the end cause of the apocalypse: evil, wickedness, iniquity, arrogancy, pride, and haughtiness.

  Firstly, examine iniquity. It is simply the guiltiness of depravity. Everyone is born in iniquity just as David (Psalm 51). Everyone is depraved even as they are delivered to Lucifer from the womb. The only thing other than the blood of Jesus that can save them is total innocence just as with Eve.  The newborn baby, just like Eve, has no knowledge of evil, so children are safe until they soon acquire that carnal knowledge.

  Born in iniquity is the propensity to do evil: Speaking of themselves the Israelites said, “There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart” (Jer 18:12). That is depravity, and with no hope; that is total depravity. However, there is hope, and that is in the Savior. God provided grace to all mankind; and hope is available to all (John 3:16).

  It is necessary to understand that everyone will die a physical death and that only Christians will never die a spiritual death. What stands in the Way of eternal life? Not Lucifer, not any person, and not the world. You stand in the Way. You are the obstacle that must be overcome. Jesus has already overcome Satan and the World, now you must overcome you!

  Just as you push your way through the birth canal, you must push your way through the gravity of evil. You push, but while you push, God pulls. The two in unison is rebirth. God has already created the safe environment; your job is to desire to be therein! It is not ergon work, but katergazomai, or an accomplishment without work.

  Note from both verses (Isa 13:11 & Jer 18:12) iniquity is not the things that anyone does, but the nature to desire to do those things. The “spirit” in the Christian is the fortitude that God imbues to quench that desire for natural things. Paul pegged it, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).

  That is the dualism that is even in the Christian. The enemy is not the Devil per se but one’s own flesh! The Devil only offers temptation. He knows just how weak the flesh is because the flesh of any person has the desires of the Devil in them.  Just what is that? Pomp.

  Pompousness is best described by the “nature” of Lucifer, the Devil himself:

¹³ For thou hast said in thine 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: ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isa 14:13-14)

  Pomposity in the Hebrew is ga’on which means self-exaltation; called pride in the arrogant person. A sinner need not exalt Lucifer, but only him or herself to accomplish (Greek; katergamazai) his goals with him doing no work.

  Luciferism is ergonomically attained. They are his goals, and the sinner accomplishes them for him, not by works, but by thoughts. That is why the faculty of the human will is so imperative; it is not what you do that condemns or saves, but what you are willing to do. Katerngamai is the mental “work” of willingness. Lucifer only transmits his will through his thoughts and naïve humans do them most often, given the choices not to do or to do them.

  Sinning in the heart is sinning without ergon working: “Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile a man” (Mat 15:19-20). The hands, eyes, mouth, and other things are only tools to do the work; the “heart” is the willingness to do those evil works. The “heart” in scripture is not anatomical but mental. It is an invisible faculty that is inherited from the Wicked One so depraved that only God can fix it.

  The inherent nature of human beings is depravity and the cause of that is pride or self-exaltation. Indeed, even Christians worry more about self-esteem than esteeming Christ!

  The nature of man, since original sin, is to diminish others to exalt themselves. The accomplishment is therefore to divide human beings into lesser and higher strata, the easiest of which is race. The original sin created a lesser class of human beings. The first stratum is angels. Lucifer became the “sophisticate” and Adam and Eve the servants.

  Jesus, as the Word, made coats of death and put onto the two so that death would always be with them; albeit the garments of Adam and Eve would keep them safe from immediately dying until Jesus would come to save them. However, they were still bondservants of Lucifer who continually misguided them with temptations (Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts With Satan).

  Adam and Eve were the first of mankind to become enslaved and since then all are born in bondage. Thus, a second time (the first was division of the angels into 1/3 and 2/3), mankind had already diminished to mere slaves.

  Then Cain and Abel were born, and the third division of beings occurred. The biological fittest of the two survived, but the one most spiritually fit lived on in another Paradise. Abel did not die! His blood still cries out from the grave (Gen 4:10)! Cain was cursed but Abel was rewarded with eternal life.

  Then Seth was born and by the time of Noah, the world was divided again. As I wrote in my book, The Omega Variant, existence is about spiritual division from the time of Adam until the time of the Second Coming of Jesus. The Bible is essentially two books in one: the Book of Division and the Book of Healing.

  Throughout the Bible, one person or groups of people became arrogant and thought that they deserved more than the others.

  That remains the basis of both crony capitalism and socialism. Pure capitalism is an existence without slavery. It is each attaining what is deserve. Crony capitalism, with slavery as its prime example, is the most arrogant obtaining what they do not deserve. It is using other human beings as mere capital to grow prosperous (usury). The best example of that today are hedge fund pimps and their “whores” in government, the media, and even the church!

  One woman referred to Obama and the invitees to his birthday party this year as “sophisticated.” The implication was that they were immune from the transmission of COVID because they were
“better” than Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” that were deplorable only because they would not vote for her!

  In this New Age, the “sophisticated” have divided the world into various “oppressed” groups. They have accomplished the oppression and have convinced the naïve that others are the oppressors. (Lucifer remains cunning to this day!) Who was the original “oppressor”? Lucifer. But who did mankind follow to this day? Mostly their Oppressor!

  Jesus came to redeem mankind from bondage to Lucifer and themselves. They are their own oppressors doing the will of their father the Devil. Jesus came for real equity to free the oppressed, even those who fail to realize just how oppressed they are: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free… If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. (John 8:32-36).

  The problem to this day is that the flesh is weak. People adore themselves so much that they diminish others. Even Christians purvey the notion that their ideas and ideologies are better than others. That is why there are denominations of Christians, and each wrongly think that only they are right (righteous).

  Included in those denominations are the most dogmatic “denomination” of all — those who proudly claim that THEY are the only and true Bride of Christ! They have divided the invisible universal Church whose “one baptism” is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.

  Throughout scripture, Lucifer has divided people in mostly two ways: (1) miscegenation to dilute the special blood of His chosen and peculiar people, and (2) pride; the arrogant dominate the lesser.

  Intermarriage has diluted the blood of the Hebrews until it is virtually non-Jewish. Intermarriage has failed to work, and that I do not mean in a derogatory sense, so in this New Age, the “Sophisticates” — the arrogant — have devised a way to diminish and mutate the blood without semen!

  The messenger-RNA diminishes the Virtue of Jesus. Rather than Him as the true Messenger, the Sophisticates are. Next comes the gate-RNA that has the capability to mutate the blood but also the thoughts of mankind: “China has done human testing to create biologically enhanced super soldiers, says top U.S. official” (Dilanian 2021). If they can create super soldiers, they can create compliant men!

  Bill Gates and his sophisticated crony capitalists paid to create the “monster” — gate-RNA. It perhaps is the New Age “cherubim” that guards the Way to the Tree of Life, and the Chinese super soldiers are the seed of Cain who couples with us “Sons of God.”

  I am implying that vaccinations, using synthetic RNAs, are the very tool to divide when further division is hardly possible. Already so many of those who have been jabbed with RNA acid, feel superior to those who have not! The very nature of many of them have changed. Many Christians who have been vaxxed now feel morally superior to those who have not.

  Look at the thinking behind the vaccines: Many trust science and the government over scripture and the Word of God, while those who have not been vaxxed may have spiritual reasons to remain pure in blood.

  The unvaxxed must remain humble themselves. Neither are we better persons for strict obedience to what we perceive as truth, and we are to continue to love others without regard to their thoughts and actions.

  It does hurt though, not that friends treat other friends as lepers, but that they are so easily led astray. I have written a book to warn them and will give it for free just to get them to see that the “science” is not the science, but the truth is in the Word of God. They have heard the science, but have they studied the truth and the fallacy objectively. If they have studied the science, have they studied the Word?

  One person admitted that he had studied the science but had not studied the Word because the latter took too much time. The Word must supersede science because science is merely the study of things that can be seen or measured. Even with that, truth is hard to measure because of the nature of man to be inclined toward evil. In other words, mankind is easily beguiled.

  One man has no guile in him. That is Jesus. Guile (Greek; dolos) is craftiness. The Word is without guile but indeed scientists are crafty. In whom do you trust? I trust the One who Wills that my blood remains pure! That you disagree is none of my business, and that I want to remain as pure as I can is not your business.

  Your choice is yours alone. Jesus loves you either way. My choice is mine alone, and Jesus loves me even if I am wrong because my motives are from His Word. He has no desire for us to be divided because of misinformation on either side — the same deception that Lucifer used to stake his claim on the blood line of Eve.

  If you despise people based on their vaccination status, then you have been had by the evil ones. Think on that; you have ill will toward even Christian friends when agape love is goodwill toward all men and God! 

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