NIMROD'S ROCKET TO HEAVEN

 Artifacts from the paleolithic culture have been found of a rocket with a man inside. I don't believe intelligent life on other planets, but I do believe in alien life in another realm. Enoch called them "Watchers." 

Today I present a short chapter from my latest book, untitled at the moment. It is about the contraption that Nimrod built not to find God in heaven.

The people of Shinar were to make a name for themselves — they would venture into the heavens and make them the “Name” displacing God. As the “great hunter,” Nimrod would be the “Name.” Nimrod was not so much out to kill God but to not find Him.

The “name” is sem (pronounced shame) in the Hebrew consists of two letters. The second letter is the mem whose pictograph is water. It appears that sem is dividing the waters, and of course that is what God did.

In quantum theory, “Young’s Double Slit Experiment” divided the waters (light) from the waters (light) to reveal either waves or photons that only appeared when stopped. The fact that there were only two letters rather than the usual three, the “stop” is implied. The pictograph of sem is more than teeth but indicates God’s creativity.

Nimrod was creative as well. He was perhaps a “rocket scientist” who made inventions from the clay in the same manner as God.

Perhaps the “tower” of Shinar was more than a tower. Usually, the ancients in scripture went to high places to come closer to God. Nimrod constructed his tower on a plane in the same manner as NASA and little ‘Rocket Man” of North Korea.

The tower may have had an engine as well because, from the Book of Jasher, Abram was put into a furnace. Was the furnace to harden bricks or was it a passenger compartment because twelve men plus Abram were put inside the furnace for three days and only Abram came out alive. 

Perhaps Genun, the man with Satan in him, had secrets to the space age and Nimrod had access to the mysteries of God! He sought to find the answer to why twelve men plus one would survive a voyage to the heavens. Only Abram did that, and he brought back proof of God. His journey, if it was a journey, may have been to the third heaven that made him incorruptible, and him alone, for even his brother Haran was burned to death in the contraption of Nimrod.

(Note that there are artifacts from that age that has men within rockets. They may have been made by Grigori giants that mated with humans from the episode in Genesis chapter six.)

The people of Shinar said, “Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven” (Gen 11:4). Tower in the Hebrew is a “migdal” Literally it was a tower but so are rockets.

Rockets are built in sections; the powerhouse below and the compartment below. Nimrod’s tower was not to reach the heavens, but its “top,” or ro’s in the Hebrew: resh – aleph – shin. Resh is the head, or top, itself. The aleph is the power that would propel it, and the shin the separation of the top from the tower. Surely Nimrod had fashioned a rocket.

Let’s see if the aleph-bet confirms that:

מִגְדָּל reading from right to left is migdal, Hebrew for “tower.”

Mem-gimmel-vav-lamed whose pictographs are in order right to left: water-foot-nail-staff

The staff represents teaching for learning. The tower was to learn whether God is up there.

Water (mem) refers to the heavens as well; that God divided in two with the shin in the Name. The learning had something to do with the heavens because they were to look unto the heavens for God.

Vav in “tower” has something to do with a nail — to secure as the pictograph indicates. Since the object was to find God, if found, God would have been captured by the “Great Hunter’ Nimrod.

Most important is the “foot” gimmel. It not only represents a foot but the foot of a camel. What do camels do? They kneel to the ground, are loaded, and then they rise slowly and gently like a rocket.

There you have it. The so-called “tower” was a tower indeed, according to the letters of the word. Nimrod was building the tower on a plane for a purpose; he was about to launch his rocket, and perhaps it did rise for three days just as Jasher said, but the rocket exploded, securing only Abram!

Words means things and tower is a fine example. Abram was saved from the fire of Ur

God said to Abraham, “I AM the Lord that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it” (Gen 15:7).

Ur was in Shinar. Nimrod was going to send Abram to the Third Heaven where there was Hell and Paradise, separated by a great gulf (Luke 16), hoping that He would be gone wherever, but ironically, Abram ended up in Paradise and the twelve in Hell.

Nimrod’s invention failed, but God directed the thirteen to their places, proving that He is God, and the tower was a rocket, if my discernment is true.

THE BIBLE: THE WRITTEN WILL OF GOD

 SCRIPTURE

Many churches focus on the New Testament. Jesus said unto the apostles as He “took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink you all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins’” (Mat 26:27-28).

Indeed, the New Testament is a covenant, not replacing the old but finishing it. More on that shortly.

“New,” therein is a fresh covenant, but the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenant were for perpetuity. Hence, the New Testament refreshes the previous Covenants.

Paul wrote about a testament, “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator” (Heb 9:16). The testator of any will is a way of disposing of one’s own affairs. Just who is the ‘Testator’ about whom Paul wrote? The New Testament is essentially probating the Will of God. His ‘Estate’ is the heaven and the Earth, so it should be expected that all of those from of the gens of God should receive their portion of the Estate.

In His divine wisdom, God divided the Estate into two: (1) those who are faithful to Him until the end are to receive the Paradisical part of the Estate and (2) the unfaithful shall receive the ‘burning swamp’ land, so to speak — Hades or Hell.

The last words of Jesus as He probated the Estate was, “It is finished” (John 19:33). The Estate of God was probated by the Son of God, Jesus. He died so that God’s Will be divided fairly. As such, He signed and notarized the Will of God with His own blood. Jesus appeased God by the propitiation of His own blood.

With that said, the New Testament is the ‘codicil’ to the Will of God; “a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will” (Merriam-Webster 2023).

The Adamic, or Edenic, Covenant was the first writing of the Will of God, to wit: “And I will put enmity between you (the Serpent) and the woman, and between your seed (the Serpent’s) and her seed; it shall bruise your head (the Serpent’s), and you shall bruise His heel” (Gen 3:15).

‘Enmity’ is hostility of hatred. Thus, the Serpent as the ‘Adversary’ (Satan) was the penalty for Eve’s kind. (Note that by then Eve’s progeny was a new kind distinct from Adam’s kind.) As the ‘mother of all living’ our kind is Eve’s kind and is a mutation caused by the Wicked One. As such, we think of ourselves as mankind, but we are all born in iniquity, just as David admitted (Psalm 51:5). We all are born depraved, meaning that we “come short of the Glory of God” (Rom 3:23).

The latter part of the Adamic Covenant was who would get theirs and who would not. The seed of both the woman and the Serpent are their ‘seed,’ or genetics. The sons (genetics) of the Serpent will be the ones stepped on, and the sons (genetics) of Eve’s kind would do the stepping.

As it turned out that was a shadowy picture of the death of Judas with Satan gushing out of Him and Jesus who was harmed on the Cross. The Adamic Covenant was all about the Good Friday, AD 33 where it was finished!

We are not God’s children; we are children of the Wicked One, just like Cain (1 John 3:12), but those who are born again are engendered by God (Strong 2006) in some miraculous process that is marvelous.

Since Eve’s kind have already been born, that re-gendering makes Christians ‘sons of God’ by adoption; “You have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’” (Rom 8:15).

It is sad that I must be blunt, but you are not a ‘child of God’ unless you have been born again. That you “must be” (John 3:7) to be “saved” (Acts 4;12). Therefore, rebirth is the cause and saved is the effect. They are not the same events but occurs in the process of time just like life.

Now back to the Will of God.

The entire ‘Bible’ is the Will of God; and it consists of the very Word of God written in some sort of tablet or scroll.

A ‘Bible’ is nothing more than the medium on which any text is written. The Bible could be written on the skins of animals, on stone, on paper, or even written on the minds of men. Jesus was the walking, talking ‘Bible’ since the Words in His Mind were the very Word of God (John 1:1-14). Jesus was the true ‘Living Bible’ because His very Words were God speaking His Mind to change our thoughts to His Thoughts.

Some people even smoke the ‘Bible.’ The paper is not important, but the Words written on it certainly are. So, for the medium of exchange, the important thing is the message conveyed on the paper or stone.

Now for a surprise: Scripture is not the New Testament. All occasions of the word ‘scripture,’ refer to the Old Testament from which the new is an appendage that does not change the original intent but clarifies the intent of the Will of God. The best example is that the Greatest Commandment clarifies the conditions that were an appendage to the older Will of God — the Mosaic Covenant and its ‘Appendix’ — the stones on which the Ten Words of God were written.

Although that ‘Bible’ is long gone, the Words thereon are still preserved on paper. My point is that the Bible can be destroyed in various ways — Moses shattered them — but the Words are for perpetuity. As such, according to John, Jesus was the walking, talking Word that quoted scripture form memory because the ‘finger of God’ that wrote it on stone was Jesus (Deut 9:10).

The two tablets of stone made a Bible made of stone, not the entire text but the ‘Appendix’ that wills so often have.

The Words on those stones were the Thoughts of Jesus. The ‘finger of God’ was dynamic; and it was the Spirit of God that burned those Words onto stone. What was it that the Holy Spirit of God wrote? Virtuous Words… good things that improve the defective beings.

‘Virtue’ is ‘dynamis’ in the Greek, and when God writes or otherwise speaks, it is divine Dynamics — forces that keep things in motion during time.

Any of the Words of God written anywhere in the Old Testament is scripture, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16).

At all times, when the word, ‘scripture’ is used in the New Testament, it refers backward to the Old Testament: the Genesis, the Law, the Psalms, the Proverbs and the prophets. All the words in those writings are 'scripture.” (graphe in the Greek), or “things written down” (ibid).

So far, the Bible is the ‘paper’ on which people wrote down the Thoughts of God because it was by the “inspiration of God” as Paul wrote to Timothy.

The Old Testament is the Will of God — His Thoughts — that have been written on the paper or other medium. The manuscripts on which scripture was written was on the dried skins of animals, so animals were Bibles. But the Words on them, in a manner, kept the Word of God alive.

Paul wrote about the whole armor of God; to take “the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God” (Ephes 6:17). Therefore, scripture — the Word on some medium of exchange — acts like a sword to ward off Satan and Sin. It is not the actual words that do that but the Holy Spirit of God in our shape, called ‘Jesus.’

So, without scripture, even the Christian is defenseless.

Scripture was the ‘weapon’ that kept the wicked ones from the saintly in Old Testament times. The Old Testament was the weapon of God that the patriarchs used to ward off evil, and so it is to this day.

However, the New Testament is technically not ‘scripture’ because it did not exist in the times it was written. The Words of Jesus and the inspired words of the apostles and others were gathered long after they were written. Technically, they are not the scripture mentioned in the New Testament, but they were writings that were judged sacred. 

The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible. For historical Christians, canonicalization was based on whether the material was written by the apostles or their close associates, rather than claims of divine inspiration. (Wikipedia 2023)

 Of course, that is from the Catholic viewpoint and their councils thought some writings worthy of canonization. ‘Canon’ essentially means ‘rule.’

Wikipedia writers determined that they were not inspired rules but manmade rules or opinions. They neglect that the apostles and the church fathers most often knew Jesus personally, even Paul who knew Jesus after He had arisen.

In my opinion, canon is based on the depositions of those who best knew Jesus personally. Each of the writers, endangering their own lives, wrote the truth. Were there mistakes made in writing. Not if they knew Jesus personally, but often they wrote about what they heard and saw.

As with any depositions, the court looks not so much that they all saw or heard the full story but that the stories support one another, and one person’s deposition does not contradict others.

There are cases in the New Testament where one writer might mention one blind man but another two. They remain in agreement because each focused on what was most obvious in their line of view. What they do not see or hear is called a ‘scotoma,’ sort of an unimportant distraction that the writer failed to notice or thought to be insignificant.

The early Church used the best criteria that they had to decide canon. That criterium was that only the writings of those closest to Jesus would be accepted as divinely inspired scripture.

Note the small difference: scripture is the very Words of God that was captured in the Greek from the Hebrew, and from there to the English. Scripture has some inadequacies in whatever language, so, the reader must defer to the oldest known Hebrew copies. (I believe the original writings were in archaic Hebrew, or possibly hieroglyphic Hebrew.)

English is not the very Word of God but a version of the received text (textus receptus in the Latin). It is scripture since it is the text of God’s Words. The actual Words of Jesus in Greek scripture is directly textus receptus as received from the mouth of God.

It is not just inspired by God, but spoken by God, hence the red-letter edition. The red letters are more than inspired like Old Testament Scripture, but actual Words, if in the Greek. That makes the quoted Words of Jesus the very Words of God. With that said, the New Testament is a codicil that explains God’s Will to clarify the misconceptions, primarily that it was not by the Law that the Will of God would be probated, but the intent of the heirs… Are they asking for their share because of the legal requirements, or knowing they do not deserve anything, ask for mercy.

The New Testament clarifies the Law, just as Jesus said, “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets (Mat 22:4), referring to loving God and others. Essentially the will of the inheritors must coincide with the will of the Testator.

As it turned out the Testator, the ‘Word,’ just as Herod the Great before, came back from the dead to probate his own Will.

Herod’s will was read after he died, as if he was still alive, according to Josephus. Each of the writers of the New Testament were testifying to the validity of the Will of God that was probated by His only Son, Jesus.

Who will get what? All will get theirs and the conditions were well explained by the witnesses to the Will of God. The New Testament verifies who gets what and how fair it would be distributed. Each person will indeed get theirs: some the badlands with methane gases that burn continually wherein there is not water to quench their thirsts, and the faithful heirs receive the Garden Paradise wherein the glorious shall dwell forever.

Hopefully, you might have learned several things: (1) That the Bible is just ‘paper,’ (2) that scripture is the Word of God written on Bible, (3) that both sets of papers is the Will of God, (4) that the Old Testament is the full Will of God, (5) that the New Testament is a ‘clarification’ of the misunderstanding of the original, (6) that the Old Testament is the actual Word of God if in the original language, (7) that the gospels contain the very Words of God and that they are as much the Will of God as earlier scripture, (8) that the remainder of the New Testament was inspired by God Jesus to His closest associates, and is canon, (9) that the other writings of the New Testament are depositions that His close associates left behind that validate the conditions for receiving an inheritance, and lastly, (10) that the distribution of God’s Assets will be divided fairly when each their time comes.

 

 

THINKING RIGHT THOUGHTS

Christians are representatives, or messengers, from God. Because of that, how we speak and act either glorifies or unglorifies God. James said it best, “Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be” (Jas 3:10), and Paul added to that, “Now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth” (Col 3:8).

Do it now; cease your vile language and disrespectful behaviors.

Luke explained why the mouth should speak only good things; it is because the mouth is the organ of the brain, as it is written: 

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. (Luke 6:45)

 It is not the mouth that is speaking but what the heart treasures.

The heart cannot speak. Of course, Luke did not refer to the organ, but the entire organism — what is inside the person! The ‘heart’ is the nature of the person. What comes out of the mouth reflects what is going on in the mind.

Jesus, speaking to the apostles, said this: 

¹⁸ And you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak. ²⁰ For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you. (Mat 10:18-20)

 For now, forget their audience; people should speak truth regardless of the audience.

The apostles would appear before kings and Caesars, but God is not a respecter of persons. It is not appropriate to gear the conversation to the audience. Some Christians speak like the prophets in church but like cussing sailors when in the world.

The apostles were to go unto the world. That was their ‘Great Commission.’ What if they spoke like the world speaks? Then their mission would have been to no avail. Suppose they went to Caesar’s party island of Capri. How should they present God to the revelers? Just like another reveler?

The apostles, according to Jesus, would be brought before regals. God arranged that for them once Jesus’s own mission was accomplished.

The mission of Jesus was to present the ‘Good News’ — the gospel message — the truth. Like Jesus would do before governors and kings himself, they would also offend those to whom they spoke.

Jesus led kings and governors to believe that He was King of the Invisible Empire. They surely believed that but would have hated that thought! That notion would have offended them because in Roman times, Caesar was ‘King of kings and Lord of lords’ because kings bowed to him, and he appointed himself Pontifex Maximus — the supreme high priest.

Think on that; Jesus at His numerous trials revealed to them that He was not only the high priest only of Judea, but the Supreme Priest of the Cosmos! He revealed to them that He was the true Caesar, not of the Roman Empire, but the entire universe; that it was Himself that was ‘King of kings, and Lord of lords.’

 Paul said it would be revealed in the millennial reign of Jesus; “Which in his times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords” (1 Tim 6:15).

Now think of the apostles; they were the ‘Court’ of King Jesus. Not only that but they were of the ‘royal priesthood’ (1 Pet 2:9). That itself would offend kings and governors, and most certainly the two high priests who had created an Annas dynasty with five priests ready to be kings like John Hyrcanus long before.

When He spoke those Words, Jesus already knew that He would speak before Annas, Caiaphas, the Sanhedrin, Herod Antipas, and Pontius Pilate, the latter of whom was ‘Caesar’ in absentia since Caesar had been secluded on the island of Capri for several years, leaving the governors to run the empire.

Jesus had already referred to the priesthood as ‘vipers’ and ‘thieves.’ He implied to Pilate that Pilate had no authority, that only Himself called the shots. Think how offended all the dignitaries would be when this man of plain countenance and unbecoming appearance claimed supremacy to them! Think of Joe the Plumber who had the audacity to challenge President Obama! That was what Jesus would do and what He expected the apostles, and all Christians, to do.

Jesus never prepared for what He would say. He needed not to because He was the ‘Mouth’ of God as the Living Word (John 1:1-14). Jesus spoke from experience and all that He said was emanated from the Mind of God. He need not ask God what to say because it was God who spoke, using the mouth of that Person.

Jesus spoke the Mind of God, and since God is Mind and Spirit, then it was the Thoughts of God that Jesus spoke in the Spirit — the bodily shaped phantom of God of an invisible Substance that was revealed at His Baptism (Luke 3:22), as well as at the Transfiguration and Crucifixion.

Jesus never needed to think because when He spoke it was the Truth. Thinking is a process; the input of knowledge (or data), reasoning, logic, and conclusions. Jesus’s Thoughts were the Thoughts of God. No processing of the knowledge was required because God is good. There was no decision making because truth is absolute and requires no processing. Jesus was the ‘Mouthpiece’ of God as the ‘Word’ as He appeared in the Old Testament, and “the Word was made flesh” (John 1:14).

Hence, the nature of Jesus, if a supra-nature can be called ‘natural,’ was goodness and truth. His Thoughts were the Thoughts of God.

In the Old Testament, Moses could not speak well. God assigned Aaron as the ‘mouthpiece’ of Moses, but Moses ended up speaking well because it was God who was speaking through the mouth of Moses. The thoughts of Moses were identical to the Thoughts of God but Moses vocalized God’s will but did not claim those Thoughts as his own.

God as much said to Moses what Jesus said to the apostles, “Take no thought how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak.” The way to do that is through the spoken and written Word.

The apostles were so familiar with Jesus that they thought like Him. His Words were an everyday event and so theirs should be… as well as the words of all Christians. In other words, the nature of the Christian should be like the supra-nature that is called ‘in Christ,’ but not just in word but in spirit and behavior as well.

The mouth reveals the nature of the person, whether it is good or evil. However, so do the other organisms: the personality, countenance, ambulation, and such things. It is not just things that are said that reflect the innermost person, but things that are done.

The flesh is the outward manifestation of the innermost being. For instance, if you view pornography, your innermost man (or woman) is a fornicator. On the other side, if you focus on the Word, your innermost man is righteous in spite of the fact that you sometimes trip over things in the world — the high hurdles of Satan — to make you fall away.

Consider a preacher man that I know, He is neither well educated nor of an impressive vocation, but when he speaks, it is not his thoughts. When I hear his sermons, I am certain that he is expressing thoughts that God instills in him. He is so familiar with God and the Word that he needs not think much on what he says, it just comes out, maybe because it is nothing more than the thoughts of God that he speaks, and he concurs with them! (My friend, Bro. Steve Moore).

Preachers are now the ‘apostles’ who perform the Great Commission and Christians are ‘royal priests’ under them. All Christians, regardless of status or even personality, are to speak truths from the Word.

How can the untrained do that? “For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.” If you have the Spirit of God in you, then it is God who speaks through you. To speak well the Thoughts of God, it is necessary to be familiar with the Word of God. If you do not study the Word, how could you ever speak the Thoughts of God.

The apostles knew the Word because they followed Him day in and at night. They considered all that Jesus said, and His Thoughts became their thoughts, of course excepting Judas whose thoughts were on monetary gain.

Judas knew the Word and the Thoughts of God but weighed them on untrustworthy scales. His thoughts were that money was worth more than life itself for he died for the love of money.

That should be a lesson to everyone. Never focus on money nor things that money can buy; focus on the Words of Jesus and your thoughts may soon be the Thoughts of God.

For example, when I study the Word most days, much of the day, my thoughts are about God. However, if I fail to study the Word in the morning, during the day my mind wonders, often leading me to sin because the thoughts of demons sneak into my mind just as Satan sneaked into the minds of the two in the Garden of Eden.

Demon possession is not only having the evil spirit within but often their ‘stand ins’ — their thoughts. The Word of God blocks the thoughts of demons within our minds.

Our thoughts do matter because the body in general — the flesh — is just the executor of our thoughts.

That should make sense because the Word, or Scripture, is the Will of God, Jesus was the ‘Executor’ of that Will, and as heirs, then Christians are co-executors!

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THE TRUTH THAT REMAINED CONCEALED

 

Herod died and Joseph thought it safe for him to return from Egypt to Judea. That would not be the case, as is written: 

But when he (Joseph) heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene.” (Mat 2:22)

 That Jesus shall be called a Nazarene is not in the canon of the Bible. Therefore, it may be in any of the lost writings of the sayings of the prophets, some of which are mentioned in the Bible. The exact word from the textus receptus is that Jesus would be “kaleo” a “nazoraios” — “proclaimed” a “Nazarite” which is “one separated” (Strong 1890).

But what if it is in the canon of the Bible? Where might it be found? 

²⁰ …The priest shall wave them (the Nazirite) as a wave offering before the Lord; they are holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.’ ²¹ “This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord the offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do according to the law of his separation.” (Num 6:20-21)

 Jesus was separated! From whom? The Judaeans. He was taken to Nazareth to keep Him apart from Archelaus, and perhaps to grow into manhood for His safety.

Herod Antipas had been “king designate” in the original will of Herod the Great, but just a short time before his death, Herod had designated his younger son, Archelaus as king. He appealed to Caesar to settle the inheritance and Archelaus was appointed king, or ethnarch of Judea proper. He was “king of the Jews” because Caesar declared him worthy.

Archelaus was king of the Jews from 4 B.C. to 6 A.D., then he was banished because the Jews abhorred him, so Caesar deposed him. Why is that so important? Calculate the age of Jesus > 6 B.C. to 6 A.D. He was twelve years old and by Jewish Law had become an adult.

The next we hear of Jesus is at twelve years old teaching wisdom in the Temple. Joseph and Mary found Jesus leading the teaching of the adults. He was accepted as an adult. He implored of Joseph and Mary, “And He said to them, ‘Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?’” (Luke 2:49). “Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” (Luke 2:51).

So, there we have it; Jesus was set apart from His infancy in Egypt to his maturity in Nazareth. The “Offering” had been set apart for the time when there was no king of the Jews. At twelve years old, Jesus was accepted as King of the Jews and the absence of Archelaus made Him “king designate” until Caesar would declare Him worthy.

Did “Caesar” ever do that? Well, in the absence of Octavian and Caligua on the island of Capri, and set apart from Rome, Pontius Pilate as prelate was the de facto “Caesar.” When Pilate said, “I find no fault in this Man,” (Luke 23:4), as acting “Caesar,” Pilate was declaring Jesus “worthy,” and washed his hands. As such, Pilate confirmed Jesus as King of kings (Caesar) and Lord of lords (God — the true “Pontificus Maximus”).

The priest would make unto a Nazirite, a wave offering and a heave offering. Do that right now. What did you just sketch? A wave was horizontal, and a heave was vertical; it describes the Cross. The Cross was what made Jesus the worthy sacrifice because He was both the wave offering on it and the heave offering.

The wave offering was for when an Israelite entered the land that God gave them (Lev 23:9). Jesus left Nazareth and came to Jerusalem in Judea. That was His own wave offering — Himself. The wave offering was to be a sheave of grain. Jesus was the “Bread of Life” that was set apart for the wave offering.

The heave offering comes from terumah — “lift up” and was to be offered after eating of the bread of the land (Exod 29:27). The breast was required to be sanctified, or set apart, to be heaved as a sacrifice to the Lord (Num 15:18-19).

Indeed, Jesus was a Nazarene (Christian) because the youth was set apart as the wave and heave offering. He was a Nazarite, not because he resided in Nazareth before coming to the city of Jerusalem, but because the Old Testament (Num 6:20-21) designated Him the perfect and pure offering. Jesus was set apart from two-years old until He was mature at twelve and was ready to be King of the Jews and the ultimate Sacrifice that would make Him worthy under the Law of Caesar.

Never gloss over scripture because those words are “THE WORD OF GOD.”

Jesus was a Nazarene, not because of a brief stay in Nazareth but because therein, the “Father’s business” was to separate Jesus from those who would harm Him until the sacrifice was ready. That He was ready to be King at the exact same time that Caesar deposed Archelaus was no accident.

Herod the Great, according to Josephus, had been king for three years before Caesar declared him worthy. For Jesus, He was King of the Jews but was declared worthy 21 years later by the decree of the acting Caesar. Pilate had written a sign and posted it above the head of Jesus. That did not satisfy the provocateurs: 

²⁰ Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. ²¹ Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.’” ²² Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” (John 19:20-22)

 Pilate as prelate — the substitute “Caesar” — thought Jesus was worthy of the title, and thus Jesus was officially, by Roman Law, made “King of the Jews.” They killed their own king before He could make laws. He had made one Law, however, that must be obeyed, “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Rom 13:10).

There was little love in Jerusalem that day. All had broken the Law but a few: perhaps the apostles, perhaps the repentant thief, His mother and the other Mary, the centurion who pierced Him, and perhaps both Pilate and his wife. They did not harm and therefore fulfilled the Law. All the others broke the Law of God!

Now you know why Jesus was called a “Nazarene” and where it was written.

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IN SEARCH OF NOAH'S ARK - Part 2 of 2

 I thought that I was through commenting on the Ark and its whereabouts, but then I began to read another clue. It was in the first verse of Genesis chapter eleven... to my surprise. So, "Part 2" becomes necessary.

  The Taurus Mountain range is shown on the map in figure #3:

 

Figure 3: Taurus Mountains (Wikiwand)

  There is another clue as to the location of the Ark: “It came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there” (Gen 11:2). That is important criteria because theretofore, everyone has assumed that they were west of the land of Shinar. Refer back in scripture; Noah remained to this time where the Ark had gone aground. Others, perhaps had moved on, [i] but Noah had not, and neither had the Ark.

  Noah and his company moved from the east, the location of the Ark, to the Land of Shinar to their west. “Shinar” is essentially the land between the Tigress and Euphrates River and represents Mesopotamia. In figure #3 it is shown bounded by the area in green. If the land has not rotated, as some suspect at the time of the flood, then eastward would be from the direction of the orient as known today. [1] It would fall within the vicinity of the area marked with a red circle.

  But that may not be the case (that the area had revolved). The area marked in red would indicate the proximity of the Ark.

  If the 300 miles radius from around Mt. Ararat is used, then the Ark would be within the 300 mile radius and to the south of Lake Van — in the water in blue near the red circle. That area would still be in the “nation” of Ararat, the area of Corduene, in Ararat, and perhaps near Mount Judi but way to the east of the mount on or near the Tigress River (on the edge of the circle in red).

  The bow in pink (Figure #3) would represent the rain bow along whose “bow” is the Ark.

  God was thoughtful enough to provide indicators to the location of the Ark. It would not be on any mountain top per se, but in the watershed of the top of a nearby mountain. Boundaries were not set by stone in those days, so the proximity to look for the Ark is just east of the Tigress River inside Corduene and any place around the 300-mile radius from Great Mount Ararat.

  Mount Judi means “the highest” so therefore it would be the peak that Noah would see first, not that he landed on the peak, but that he could see it, or at least it could be a marker as perhaps it was the only peak seen at that time because of the water.

  It is not Mount Ararat that is “Cardu” but Mount Judi! In the Book, Cave of Treasures, the place to which they were driven was “to the mountains of Cordu.” They were in the region of Judi (Mount Cardu) in the Taurus Mountain range. Indeed, the Taurus Mountains are the watershed that nourishes Mesopotamia (Shinar). Mount Judi is also called “Thamanin.” (In a footnote to George Sale translation of the Qu’ran in 1734). That is a corruption, if you remember, of the “City of Eight,” or Noah’s City.

  The City of Noah could very well have been nearer Mount Judi because the building of that city is unknown chronologically. Where did the Ark land? Look for an area where grapes would prosper. Look for an area where one can find tar in great concentrations — an area about the size of the ark. Look for tar in the tributaries of the Tigress River, and upstream look for a marsh with tar.

  Noah’s Ark did exist! Why else would God give so many clues as to its location? The Ark’s existence must be factual because that is God’s Word and is a shadow of salvation to come.

  Look for the midpoint of a rain bow over Mt. Judi from somewhere on the headwaters of the Tigress after a rain. It is said in sacred literature, that an arrow was once through the center of the rainbow. That “Arrow” would be the Ark! It would point to the west right to the center of Mount Judi.

  But the location of the Ark is not imperative. What is imperative is that the rainbow is the “bow” over God’s throne, and the real Mt. Judi is a small mount in Judea where Christ died. It was not the Ark that would save the world, but the “arrow” that pierced the side of Jesus.

  Perhaps the gold, frankincense, and myrrh had remained on the Ark. Perhaps the wise men from the East found the treasures of the Cave and brought them to God’s heir! God would deliver to the rightful owner, the treasures that He gave to Adam for his marriage to Eve, for Jesus to “marry” His “bride” the Church. “And when they (wise men from the East [i]were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh” (Mat 2:11).

  Perhaps the Ark (the arrow in the middle of the rainbow) did point to Judi, but the one in Judea, specifically to where Adam’s skull lies. And that is beneath Golgotha, or “Calvari” in the Latin. Noah was headed to where Adam’s bones would lay, and Mount Judi was on the way there. Perhaps the bow in the sky marked the Way to Paradise that angels still guarded!

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[i] Mat 2:1

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[1] I have written before that the and masses may have rotated in the flood for the continental drifting to occur. (Herrin Daily Thoughts: Eden: Pangea (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com)

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[i] Gen 11:1

IN SEARCH OF NOAH'S ARK - Part 1 of 2

   When looking for biblical things, where first would one look? The Bible. The Words of God must be examined with precision. Nowhere does the Bible say that Noah landed on Mount Ararat but in the “mountains of Ararat.” [i] The next question should be: A specific peak or an area?  since “mountains.” plural means more than a mount, singular.

  The search for Noah’s Ark remains an enigma just as the search of the Holy Grail. Archeologists look for the Ark on Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in that range. The area called “Armenia” today was once spanned a much larger area (See figure #1).

Figure 1: Ancient Armenia: Pinterest; Tapatalk)

  Mount Ararat is north of Lake Van and the city Themanon (“City of Eight”) that Noah built is believed to be on Mount Judi in Corduene, south of Lake Van. The mountain was called Kordu by early pseudepigrapha writers (The Cave of Treasures). The point is that “Ararat” and “Armenia” share the same origin. Armenia would essentially be any place near Mount Ararat wherein Ararat would be known.

  According to early Armenian historians, Ararat (Urartu) includes the area of Corduene. (Petrosyan, Hamlet; 2001; “The Sacred Mountain”). Perhaps the Muslims are correct. Perhaps Noah’s Ark may lie on Mount Judi in Corduene. That contention must be checked by scripture.

  Many centuries after Noah, Jeremiah the prophet said, “Call together against her (Judah) the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz” [ii] As can be seen therein, “Ararat” is a kingdom. That area has people called “Ashchenaz.” That very word is used to describe European Jews who migrated from their to central Europe. Hence, think of Ararat as an area and specifically an ancient kingdom.

  Next consider where Noah landed, to wit: “And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat” (Gen 8:4). The Ark did not land on Mount Ararat or it would have been written that way. It landed on a mountain in Urartu (Ararat) meaning ancient Armenia. Mount Heli is in Corduene, or at that time, southern Urartu below Lake Van.

  But that is not enough. There exist two mountains now called “Ararat” — Great and Little Ararat (See figure #2).

  Noah sent out the first dove to find dry land. The dove found no dry land and returned to the Ark. [iii] Later, Noah sent out a second dove. That dove returned with an olive leaf in her mouth. [iv] The dove found dry land. Greater Mount Ararat is the highest peak in that area. Undoubtedly, the dove found dry land on the highest peak, not on Little Ararat or anywhere else.

  Noah, however, was not on Mount Ararat. The Ark remained where it was until the waters abated. [v] The next event was that the waters where the Ark was at that time dried up. [vi] If Noah had been on Greater Ararat, then he would not have needed to send out a dove. He could not see that high mountain from where he was. That would mean, that neither was he on Little Ararat, but some location some distance away from that high mountain (16, 946 feet high; Wikipedia).

  Mount Ararat can be seen from 33 miles away (World History Encyclopedia). Thus, since Noah could not see Greater Ararat, he was at a distance greater than 33 miles. If Noah was on Mount Heli, that is around 300 miles from Mount Ararat. It would be totally out of range to see Ararat’s mountains!

  Therefore, Mount Heli would be more likely than Mount Ararat, and it would still be in the kingdom of Ararat.

  The dove that Noah sent out returned in the evening. [vii] Certainly, Noah sent the dove out sometimes in the morning because it was not yet “evening.”

   Doves can fly how far? The average flying distance (for a rock dove) is over 600 miles. (Wikipedia; “Homing Pigeon”).  Divide that by 2. Three-hundred miles there and 300 miles back in one day. The rock dove flies on average at 60 mph. It would have taken ten hours to fly from Mount Heli to Mount Ararat and back — from morning to evening just as the Bible says!

  My conclusion, therefore, is that Mount Heli in Corduene better fits the location of Noah’s Ark. The reason that it has not been found is that adventurers are looking in the wrong place.

  Also, rather than looking for wood which perishes, they should be looking for pitch that held the Ark together. Tar (pitch) has been found in southern Turkey in the Taurus Mountain range. The Taurus mountain range is in what was then Corduene below Lake Van where Mount Heli is today. Some care must be taken, however. Time has changed the names of things many times over the millennia, but the best guess is that Noah landed somewhere below Lake Van in the Taurus Mountain range.

  That is where the Bible places it and is the most likely place to look. Perhaps the tar that has been found there is a great clue!

  Also, the Ark is probably not on a mountain peak anywhere but somewhere on the shoulder of a mountain: 

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. (Gen 8:13-14)

   It took approximately 57 days for the water to recede form his elevation to normal. It took 7 days for the tops of the highest mountain to be seen. The water had receded at least 45 sacred cubits (Cave of Treasures; Bible 15 cubits) or approximately 67.5 feet. Using that rate of drainage, the elevation of the Ark can be calculated knowing that Mount Ararat is approximately 16,000 feet. I will leave that for another day.

  The Tigris and Euphrates rivers originate in the Taurus mountains of southeastern Turkey where they are fed with alpine snows, lakes and rains. (Wikipedia). Now is it making sense why the Rivers of the Garden run from the Holy Mountain?

                                             Figure 2: Ararat Mountain; Wikipedia

 

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[i] Gen 8:4

[ii] Jer 15:27

[iii] Gen 8:9

[iv] Gen 8:11

[v] Gen 8:12

[vi] Gen 8:13

[vii] Gen 8:11

GOD IN THREE MODES

  Be patient for a few short paragraphs on nomenclature for it is necessary to consider the textus receptus (received text) from God rather than translations.

  Protestant teaching, introduced by John Wycliffe, is the designation “godhead.” The Latin Vulgate used by Catholics translate the Greek word, “theiotes” in the Latin as “divinum” and “divinitas” in different passages. Both Latin words are singular, but the former is gender neutral and the other feminine.

  In the Greek, theos is singular theoti is plural. Both are used in the Bible. “Theiotes” comes from “theos.” Theiotes is a “state of being God” (Strong’s Dict.) whereas theos is God. Theo is both gender feminine and gender masculine. That makes sense because although Theo (God) is patriarchal, supernatural beings would not be considered male nor females but in appearance. That is implied from this passage about glorification: “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels of God in heaven” (Mat 22:30).

  Of course, that does not apply to angels while on Earth but in heaven alone. Incubi and succubi are angels who come to earth and engage in coitus with humans. Some have written that “Sons of God” who had intercourse with “daughters of men” were incubi. (Gen 6:2). This background is for a purpose. We think of God as “Father” as in “Father God” (John 1:18) the Greek word is “Pater” from which “paternal” comes in English.

  In the biblical context, that would mean from the “seed” of God. That “seed” is not sperm nor ova but the Holy Spirit of God, to wit: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being” (Gen 2:7) and to Mary, the angel said, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35).

  There was no sexual intercourse involved in either God generating Adam nor Jesus. The Holy Ghost of Jesus is thought of as male for two reasons: “He” is the Ghost of Jesus and “He” is the “Living Water” that generated Adam and Jesus (John 4:10). Also, think of the Holy Spirit as the “Seed” of the universe as dividing “the waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6) which is exactly translated, “the semen from the semen” (Strong’s Dict.)

  Furthermore, God is perceived as male because the gender of Jesus is male. He is the Son of God and God at the same time: ““If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him” (John 14:7). God is certainly not female! That comes from feminist heresy and pagan religions. Even the person Jesus is paternal in that Christians are His heirs. Women in those days had no estates and to be an heir meant of the male line.

  All that information circles back to the “godhead” (theiotes), feminine gender for “divine nature” but that is “the state of being God.” Thus, God is paternal and His State maternal. The Godhead is not three “Persons” but three “States” or three levels of substances in one, performing as One.

  The Greek for that is homeostasis, or as pertains to God, three immutable substances in dynamic equilibrium. Those three “substances” of God are Mind, Body, and Spirit (Knowledge, Material, Power). Those substances Exist as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and are eternal and always in dynamic equilibrium. Just as you have seen the Father by seeing Jesus, you also have “seen” Jesus by sensing the  Holy Ghost of Jesus.

  With that said, the “Person” of God died on the Cross, but His other two substances were nailed there as well. When Jesus died, he gave up His Ghost, and Jesus perceived that the Father had forsaken, or given up, on Him (Mat 27:46). God in three substances suffered death on the Cross. His Flesh “slept,” His Ghost departed for a time, and His Mind surely went with His Ghost as ours will with ours (evidenced by Lazarus in Abraham’s Bosom).

  The Jews needed to know that Jesus was their same Messiah. To explain the divine nature of God, the writer wrote:

He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power. (Heb 12-3)

 Examine that closely: (1) Jesus is God’s Son, (2) Jesus is who made the worlds, (3) He is the Brightness of God’s Glory (i.e., He is the paternal “Father”), He is the expressed image of God’s “Person,” and He is Power. In other words, Jesus is God manifested — the three substances of God in One Person.

  Protestants teach that the “Godhead” is “God in three persons.” Indeed, the Godhead is the divinity (substance) of the Christian God (Wikipedia), but it too uses, “in three persons” rather than “substances.” However, Jesus is the expressed image, or that Person. The Godhead is One Person expressed as Jesus. According to scripture, therefore, the Godhead is One Person of three substances: Mind, Flesh, and Spirit.

  Just what is a “person?” One definition is, “One of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians” (Merriam-Webster Dict.). Modes would be substances, and the One Person has three modes of communication with His creatures. Jesus is God manifested. When God appears, that “Person” is called “Jesus.” Jesus is either a brightness (Glory), an image (THE Man, or THE Angel of God), or Power (THE Holy Ghost).

  A person is also “the body of a human being” and “the personality of a human being” (ibid). Hence, “person” always refers to a being in human mode or substance.

  Whew! All that to say, “God is One Person with three modes of operation Who is manifested in three different substances, all in harmony with each other another.”

  With that, it is proper to call Jesus “God,” and it is proper to call God’s Spirit, the “Holy Ghost” of Jesus. The former is the manifestation of God in material, and the latter the manifestation of God in Power, or non-matter. However, it is not proper to say, “Jesus and God” or “the Holy Ghost and Jesus” because all three are One God.

  It is important to know the nature of God. He is neither male nor female, but His personality is male and His Creative ability as well. His nurturing mode is female as Eve’s who was also generated from the Holy Spirit through Adam and was assigned the nurturing role.

  Also, the nature of God is not multiple personalities but one Person with one Personality. That is important because heretics say that the “godhead” is a three-headed God, and consider Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Ghost as three individual “Gods.”

  Neither is there a female personality or counterpart to God. There is no “Mother Nature.” He is “Father Supra-Nature” Who nurtures!

  Neither was there a “demiurge” (a separate Creator God). Jesus created it all! That is what God is called when He manifests Himself! He manifested Himself gloriously when He showed His Power to generate all things! Material is not evil as Gnostic heretics claim because an evil “god” did not create. The misuse of material (the world) is evil. God told how to use the Garden but Satan how to misuse it.

  Neither was there two creations. God is the Knowledge of Good. He does not make mistakes. Satan is the author of evil knowledge, but it was not his tree. He misused what God made. Evil was in the tree so that mankind could choose for themselves just who is their God.

  God had the foreknowledge and knew the choice would be wrong just as with the angels. He planned on manifesting Himself to mankind for the express purpose of saving them from themselves! Jesus was there in the beginning (John 1) not because God screwed up, but because given choices, he knew people would.

  The “supra-nature” of God is grace. He made us without the ability to save ourselves. Hence, his nature was graceful, and he created Flesh for Himself to do that for us! Those saved, in the end, will be like God again — in His image: with pure mind, with incorruptible flesh, and full of the Power of God. We too will walk on water like Jesus; we shall stand on the sea of glass (Rev 15:2)!

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds. (Heb 1:1-2)

  The different modes of God are different ways that he speaks to people. The Father spoke to the ancient Hebrews, the Son to the multitudes of people, and the Holy Ghost to the “lively stones” of the Church. It is God who always speaks but in different “bandwidths:” Preserving on the Way, redeeming those who know the Way, and guiding the Way to the Tree of Life (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost).

  Now for a further test from scripture: “For in Him (Jesus Christ) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Col 2:9). Jesus is the bodily form of the Godhead! What happened when Jesus was baptized? “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him” (Luke 3:22; KJV).

  The “Holy Ghost” is the Pneuma (Breath) of God specific to His Person, Jesus. It is the same Pneuma that breathed life unto Adam. God breathes, the Holy Spirit is His “Breath”, and Jesus is the “Cup” or material container for His Breath. Once the Cup was broken, the Holy Spirit in bodily form was emptied, until the broken Cup was regenerated. Now the Holy Ghost of Jesus is again in the Cup, and that “Cup” freely pours Living Water into the souls of Christians.

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THE WAY

  What does the Bible say? When confronted with a tough situation, the solution is often obvious. However, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Col 2:8). To whom should Christians turn?

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your bequests b known to God; and the peace of God… will guard your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ. (Phil 4:6-7) 

  Throughout the Bible, the Hebrews turned to anything but God, and that angered Him. Christianity is “trusting God” rather than ourselves or others for that matter (2 Cor 1:9). Why are prayers not answered? First off, Christians fail to pray, but even when they do, there is little trust in God.

  No one can “fix” anything, but God can repair “everything,” yet people trust everyone but God! My prayer is to trust God in all things, but I doubt the efficacy of my own prayers. We all think, This issue is to tough for God, and then to whom do we turn? To those with the philosophy of men! Philosophers cannot fix anything. That is in psychology textbooks. You cannot fix yourself; that is in God’s “textbook.” Only God can fix what ails the world and he has promised to heal the world (Acts 28:27); yet we cannot even trust God to heal our smaller problems. No wonder God is angry with us!

  If parents “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov 22:6). I like to think that I trained my children that way, but with hindsight, I failed. They thought that I was too strict, but I was not strict enough. Otherwise, I would be enjoying the company of my children right now! They have gone their own way. Of course, they can be admired because they are successful, but success pales in comparison to unity. My mistakes are past, but yours are in may not be!

  “Stop the world and let me get off” were the lyrics to an old song. That is what needs to happen! Christians are to “get off” the world and into the outstretched arms of Jesus! Christians cannot turn to the world for comfort. Comfort can only be found in the Peace of Jesus’s arms!

  Christians claim to love Jesus. Just how are we to demonstrate that love? Honor, magnify, and follow Him. What do we then do? We follow the ways of the world, dishonor God, and magnify the philosophy of men! What then could possibly go wrong? Everything!

  To whom do you turn? My bet is that you first turn to the world, and when the world fails you, only then do you turn to God. Although He has grace anyhow, that grace cannot be tested, or there will be consequences. What is wrong with the world yesterday, today, and tomorrow? Christians do not trust Jesus for anything but turn to the world for everything!

  There are two philosophies. Never expect those trained up in the philosophy of men to admonish the Doctrine of God. “That aint goin’ to happen!” as the Facebook meme says. What can you do as a Christian? Train yourselves in the Doctrine of Christ, then train up your children the way they should go. Philosophers say, “Let them do as they will!” Satanists say, “Do what thou wilt; that is the whole law.” What do people do? “What is right in their own eyes” (Deut 12:8). What does God say? Do what is right in God’s eyes.

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