Friday, October 16, 2020

TAKING A KNEE

 

  Many Christians believe that they are “off the hook” whenever they repent and confess their sins to the Lord when they are “born again” (John 3:7). Indeed, it is written, “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God (Rom 3:25) when Paul wrote of justification. “Justification” is not just as if you never sinned, but that you have sinned, and those sins are not held against you, nor be held accountable on Judgment Day. God will “remember them no more” (Heb 8:12). Not that God forgets, but those who trust Him will not be held accountable.

  Trusting God for grace and deliverance cancels out “sins that are past” as Paul wrote. Sins that are “remised,” or surrendered unto God, are forgotten. Present and future sins have not been remised and Christians are accountable for them. What that means is that Christians cease and desist from sinning, but if they continue sinning, to repent for the remission of those present sins. Since sinning remains a daily activity, the wise Christian will live righteously and confess sins as they occur. God will only require accountability for unconfessed sins.

  Everyone will be at the Great White Throne Judgment:

9 A great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.” (Rev 7:9-10).

  Everyone from everywhere will cry out for salvation. I know, you say that you are “saved” already, but that is not scriptural, “You shall be saved” as, “He that endureth to the end shall be saved” (Mat 10:22). What is it that the Christian must endure to the end? Trust in the Name, Jesus, for salvation from sin. Those who remain in sin are not saved unless every sin is accounted for by repentance.

KEY VERSES: 10 We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, “As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. (Rom 14:10-12)

  As sin is repented of and remised, they are no longer of any account. Repentance, not one time, but all the time, is righteousness. Of course, right living is forgoing sin, but if sin exists, then repentance is required for remission of them.

  Consider those who are Christians. They still sin. The “Christian” becomes one when he or she turns to God to clean out their sins and make them a new creation.

  The deluge was an example of remission. God forgave the world and washed away its sins. He redeemed the world and started afresh. As soon as redemption was complete, the world’s past sins were forgotten, but sin still existed. Immediately Ham sinned because Noah sinned. Noah surely was sorry, but Ham was punished because he was not ashamed that he dishonored his Father. “Sin” is always dishonoring the Father. Thereafter, mankind always needed to continue repentance and God with the remission. It will be that way until the end of the world.

  That is a picture of Christians. Noah was not “saved” as such. He was protected from the elements of the world. He was safe on the Ark with God. When was Noah saved? His flesh was saved when he was on God’s Holy Mountain. His soul was saved when he died. How is that known? “To live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). What is saved at death? The souls of those safe in Christ. When Jesus comes for the bodies of men at the rapture is when the flesh is regenerated and salvation complete. (1 Thes 4:16).

  When Jesus made the propitiation, sinners who trust Jesus for salvation, are saved from past sins because God has remised them. They remain accountable for unconfessed sins. The more contrite the Christians that sin, the more secure they are. “Security” in Christ is putting sins under the blood and washed away, not by water, but by further redemption.

  All sins must be propitiated for, and propitiation is only for those past. They must be extant before they are washed away, hence cleansing is an ongoing process. Christians must allow God to do the washing each day, and for that, they must admit that there is dirt and be sorry for soiling the “temple” of God.

  Unlike the Old Testament wherein the patriarchs “baptized” themselves each day for past sins, contrition and repentance is the New Testament “baptism.” The water is symbolic and a testimony to a circumcision of the heart. Just what is that? “The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live” (Deut 30:6).

  “Circumcision of the heart” is the true “baptism of the Holy Ghost.” “It is the gift of ability to love for God does that bloody deed (Exod 4:26) as Zipporah called it.  Baptism is a testimony that an unwilling person went under the “knife” and a willing person came up alive. It is a confession that the heart has changed from the old sinning person to the new one that is willing not to sin.

  Both Christians and non-Christians will be judged. Perhaps after centuries hanging as prisoners in the second heaven, according to the Book of Enoch, the unsaved will be damned in Hell on Judgment Day.

  The key verses begins with, “We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” All is like “whosoever” in John 3:16. “Whosoever” should be saved, but most shall not be. Those who should but would not, shall perish. They shall present their case to God on Judgment Day.

  On that day, even those without faith will realize that they have been lied to. They will understand that God is both Savior and Judge: “Every tongue shall confess to God.” Why is that known? “Every knee shall bow to Me?” The centurions took a knee to God in mockery that anyone would believe that Jesus is King, but when they are in front of the throne, they will bow, not in mockery, but in reverence and shame. To shameful people the verdict is already known: “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Mat 7:23).

  What gives the damned away? Their works. The works of Christians must be righteous. The works of sinners is unrighteousness. How do you know your judgment in advance? How you work and for Whom you work. What is “works?” Abiding in the prison of the Ten Commandments rather than willingly doing those works.

  The heart of the circumcised person changes them from a worker that needs be cursed to willing workers for God’s Will.

  We all question whether we are cursed workers or willing workers. Satan’s role is to test which you are and convince you that if you obey the Law at all, you are cursed

  The next proceeding in the Court is that “every tongue shall confess to God.” By the way, He knows which sins remain unconfessed but has removed from the “account” those that have already been confessed and He has forgotten. The confession for Christians is easy: I have sinned and come short of the glory of being with You.  (Rom 3:23). God will respond, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” (Mat 15:21).

  The “hope” of Christians is to hear those Words! If anyone thinks that they deserve reprieve, then there should be no hope. Everyone is unworthy of salvation but by grace those who love God, but still fail, shall be saved. The Commandments are easy if they are done out of love, hence the Greatest Commandment – to love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength (Mark 12:30). How is Love demonstrated? By the relishing the metrics of God’s Ten Tenets — the Ten Terms of the Abrahamic Covenant and his “seed.”

  Why the Judgment? “So that every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” God already knows… even the number of the hairs on your head. Why the account? So that you are without excuse (Rom 1:20). Note that God is not really the “Judge!”

  So, you think that you are God? In this case, God lets you be the “god” that you always wanted to be. Go ahead as He is silent for a while. Tell Him why you deserve to die. He gave Adam and Eve the same opportunity, but they each blamed someone else (Gen 3). All God wants to hear is, “I defied you.” Even before the Judgment Seat, those who are not In the coat of safety of the Lamb will still blame Satan or someone else for the things they did.

  Everyone knows their guiltiness throughout life. There is a spiritual calling to repentance (Act 2:39). He knocks; our obligation is to answer. “Conviction” is a summons from the Spirit of God to confess or remain guilty. Remaining in guilt is of the Devil but confessing guiltiness is of the Lord. The emotion of guilt is knowing what should be confessed but refraining from confessing. All hearts will be cleared in front of the Judgement Seat. Christians shall admit that they still missed the mark and deserve death. The unrepentant will never confess to missing the mark, but insist that regardless, they deserve reprieve!

  Even Christians have a tough time dealing with, I deserve. As I write this, I must fight the idea that because I know the Word, that I deserve reprieve. Yet, I realize that I fall so short that I deserve death.

 Why would I get an inheritance when I disappoint my Father so much? Because God has grace on His prodigal sons who desire their inheritance so much that they have contrition for what they have done with God’s bountiful inheritance. I am the prodigal son. I have returned to my Father’s House and to His Estate.

  How about you? Just who do you honor? So many people honor themselves and disappoint their Father. Every knee shall bow. Just when will yours?

(picture credit: Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times)




Thursday, October 15, 2020

TERROR ON THE STREETS

 KEY VERSES: 1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. (Rom 13:1-2)

  Christians are called to be patriotic. Paul was patriotic to Rome, but the Roman government killed him in the end. Paul wrote the letter to the Romans in the winter of 57-58 AD. It is believed that shortly after that, Nero burned the city of Rome, blaming Christians, and Paul was killed for sedition in 64 AD. Thus, only four years after writing the words above, Paul was murdered because a crazy emperor burned his own capital city.  Paul did not necessarily love Rome but loved the saints in Rome (Rom 1:1). Paul taught that the Law was fulfilled by love (Rom 13:10), but the Roman government was hard to love.

  Imagine this: Nero was willing to destroy his own city to undermine Jesus Christ. The emperor-god could not handle the authority of God. Just as always, a dictator tried to get to God through those subject to God. Evil governments readily accept false gods but defy the One True God.

  Rome was the capitol city of the Roman Empire. If they had burned the city, that would be like Christians today burning Washington, DC; our own beloved capitol city! However, Christians did not burn Rome, the ruler burned his own city. Why would Nero destroy his nation’s capital? To undermine the senate so that he would have sole power. Royalty would not satisfy Nero; he wanted to be dictator and to do away with the Roman Republic that had eroded by his time.

  Republics are avenues to achieve autocracies. The former is based on democracy, but when the audible majority want power, their republics easily turn into dictatorships. The senate in Rome remained in power and kept the emperor in check. Nero plotted what I call, “the Roman Hoax.” He did the damage to his own city but blamed it on Christians. In modern times, left-wing Democrats appear to have undermined the US election by colluding with the Russians and blamed the Republicans for what they did themselves. Perhaps Hillary Clinton was willing to burn Washington to rid the city of opposition. Of course, in modern times, setting fires are beneath would-be queens and they would have common people set the fires.

  The left is burning down America city after American city, but who do they blame? Donald Trump. They set the fires but blame Trump for provoking them. It is childish blaming, but naïve children believe fairy-tales and hoaxes rather easily. Some otherwise rational people deny that Democrats are setting the fires, and think Trump is to blame!

  When fires are set, just like Rome, the US government is in danger of falling. Ironically, Nero was after the senate so he could be autocratic, just like in the US, the senate is in danger of falling to so many, many hoaxes “lit” by Democrats everywhere.

  The obvious truth is that Republicans are not burning down America; Democrats are. They are called BLM and Antifa, but they are Democrat voters. Stupid Democrat voters believe that communist anarchists will stop with the President and the Senate, but they will not cease until America is on fire. The goal is to change the United States from a Republic to a union of soviets ruled by anarchists. Just as in France and Russia, the revolutionaries will be murdered by their own “Deep State” for others to gain power. There is no such thing as “civil war.” It is always “uncivil war” because tyrants who use force are seldom a civil in their tactics.

  Who are republicans? In the Roman Empire, they were people content with their government. Rome ruled Judah and its provinces with civility before Nero. Even the deviate, Caligua, ruled Rome somewhat fairly. Claudius did just slightly better, but overall, the Jews had their religion, their theocracy, and their theocratic king. Rome was an imperfect but somewhat civil empire.

  They were tolerant of all religions. Even crazy Caligua was persuaded by Herod Agrippa I to change his mind about putting his own stature in the Temple for that would defile the Jewish Holy Place. To do that would be like Obama defiling Washington, DC with his statue, or has he already planned that?

  Benjamin Franklin, when asked what type of government the new nation has, replied, “A republic… if we can keep it.” Since then, all types of insane ideologists have tried to put an end to our republic. One of the worst ventures was the confederacy; not that the Confederate Constitution was bad, but that the plantation economy was exactly socialism in practice. The idea behind slavery was that for hard work, people would serve the plantation in exchange for goods for the common people; that they would even accept their leaders living in luxury for bare sustenance. The theory of socialism becomes communism when practiced because people prefer not to be slaves so that others need not work!

  President Trump is faced with the same rebellion as President Lincoln. The new battleground remains Pennsylvania. Trump’s own “Pennsylvania Address” would read, “Twelvescore and four years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.” (Rewording of Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” for the modern battlefield).

  The enemy is us! Not patriots, but underhanded traitors who would hoax the nation, costing its citizens $32,000,000! Also, with the cost of losing the legitimate government of the country. That is the way modern “Nero’s” burn down their capitol.

  Satan’s methods are always the same; they destroy legitimate governments and replace them with autocracies. France did it four times, and socialism always failed because it takes communists to implement socialism. People seldom give up their freedom for empty promises! The first case of that was the empty and deceptive promise that the Serpent used for the government in the Garden of Eden to fall. Satan always attacks legitimate governments but his M.O. is to do it from within. God used foreign nations to punish His people, but Satan always used the Jews to undermine the government of God.

  Taken from the key verses, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.” Anarchists are those who reject authority and become authoritarian by doing so. Each anarchist becomes a government within themselves because each do what is right in their own eyes to wit: “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Jud 17:6). Now the US has our own form of authority — the President — but in these days anarchists do what is right in their own eyes. They all become “Nerotic” doing what Nero did. They burn down what is under authority.

  Nero burned buildings but it was not the buildings that truly “burned” but the legitimate government and the invisible Church. Nero was after both the republicans and the Christians, and in America, Nerotics get both groups with one huge fire. We now see our republic ablaze and Christians under attack. All that is wrong with our government is laid on the republic, the Republican President, and the True Church. The modern liberal church even helps the Nerotics light the emotional fires! Scripture calls the Nerotic Church, the “harlot Babylon,” meaning like Rome or even like Babylon itself. [1]

  Adam and Eve would not subject themselves to God. With that they were cast out of their Paradisical Nation and the Garden was destroyed. It remains there in spirit, but in reality, it cannot be found. Because two anarchists believed the “Biggest Lie” ever, they destroyed their republic, and yes, Adam had dominion there. He destroyed what was his just as Nero, and anarchists to this day will do the same thing. They destroy their own country for their own insane ideology.

  Coming after that key verses, “For there is no power but of God.” Adam and Eve thought falsely that they had the power. Satan even acknowledged that with, “Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods” (Gen 3:5).

  Anarchists are as gods.  Those who burn down our cities and kill our citizens, perceive themselves as gods. They are zealots for their cause. Their desire is to end authority and the first to go is the authority of God; each of them doing what seems right in their own eyes. You need not imagine what kind of government we would have with these madmen and women running things because a visit to Cuba and Venezuela are great examples of that! Would you prefer Russian Bolshevism or the German Nazism type of socialism? It would not matter for they are all the same.

  Paul then wrote to the Romans, “The powers that be are ordained of God.” Paul wrote that when Nero seemed civil early in his reign. Nero is a type of Antichrist. At first, he was a fairly good ruler over Rome, then he went insane with power just like the Antichrist will someday. Nero committed suicide after he burned Rome because his ploy for power failed. Galina Veshnevskaya called Russian socialism, “our insane ideology.” Nero’s ideology was obviously as insane as Stalin’s.

  Paul surely did not love Nero, but he tolerated him and his rule because His authority was God. Jesus said that about the emperor whose centurions would kill him: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's” (Mark 12:17). Jesus was looking at a penny with a likeness of Caesar coined on it. He approved taxes and civil government. He had no problem republics led by emperors. He did have a problem with chief priests who committed the greater sin than Caesar’s centurions (John 19:11). He had a problem with tearing down the Church, and that is what Nero tried to do, and what socialism does as well.

  Christians overly tolerated President Obama. We never liked it, but we remained civil. Christians never burned Washington, Detroit, Minneapolis, Portland, nor Seattle when Obama was president. We waited patiently and prayed that God would ordain another “governor” who would govern to the Constitution ordained by God and written by those ordained by God… “the powers that be are ordained of God.” Obama was ordained by God and so was Trump. George Washington was ordained by God and so were all the patriots. Even Andrew Johnson was ordained by God because God allowed that a crazed man assassinate Lincoln. Even Jefferson Davis was ordained by God to change our union of states in dissension to a federation of united states as the name intended.

  Anarchists do not like it, but the President was ordained by God as well. “Make America Great Again” has deeper meaning. It is a turn from division and hatred back to unity. The Spirit of Jesus is with us when everyone is of one accord (Act 2:1). Anarchists always divide to conquer. They foment hatred between people to advance their theories. Jeff Davis said that that the Confederacy “died of a theory.” That “theory” was that people are satisfied in bondage. That is the theory of socialism as well.

  Then Paul wrote, “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God.” Paul was perhaps speaking to the dissatisfied citizens of Rome who were worried about the power in Nero’s hands, or he may have been castigating the Jewish zealots who were the early version of the Jewish Deep State.

  Zealots destroyed Jerusalem. There zealotry caused Titus to tear down Jerusalem and disperse the Jews. Then Titus turned on God; he destroyed God’s temple. Was that Caesar’s fault or the political zealots? I believe that Paul was renouncing the idiocy of a few Jews who thought they could defeat Caesar and tear down the Roman Empire.

  Nero, although ordained by God, whether he set the fire or not, let Rome burn. Obama and his legions may not be lighting the fire but have stoked the anger of the zealots who bring out the flame-throwers! The zealots on the streets of our nation would rather our nation burn than to submit to legitimate authority. Hillary may be America’s version of Brutus who knifed the original Caesar!

  Who are the mob against when they burn down American cities? They, “resisteth the ordinance of God.” Our Constitution and our republic are ordained by God and so are its rulers, regardless of what you think. By resisting authority and assuming it themselves, the war is not against men but God Himself. That is why the Church is always under attack, and many of them with anarchists within. “Social justice” is the theory but “liberation theology” is the communist government within the socialist church. The ordinance of God is charity, but the ordinance of Caesar was taxation.

  The penalty for civil resistance in republics is straightforward, “They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation” (From the key verses). Resisting authority is damning. When Adam resisted God’s authority, he would be damned except for God’s grace. What happened after that? After Adam resisted God’s authority, things got tougher than before!

  This is not a political revolution in 2020; it is a spiritual revolution. Sometimes God allows evil to win battles, but in the end (of time) God wins the War!



[1] Unlike theologians believe, scripture describes Jerusalem better as the “harlot Babylon” in that it has become the “harlot” sitting on the Seven Pillars of Islam that God will renew with New Jerusalem.

(picture credit: Pinterest; "64 AD Rome Burns")



Wednesday, October 14, 2020

THE BIG LIE - MY BODY; MY CHOICE

 

  This pamphlet, as it will be printed in book form, is an attempt by the author to persuade people of the sanctity of life. By that, it is meant that all life has value, none less than another, and that loving people would love others as they do themselves, according to the Golden Rule. It is written that “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it” (Ephes 5:29). Everyone feels that they have the “right to life” but fail to accept that others do.

  Why America? Because its Declaration of Independence is based on the “right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Life is a right given by both God and Country, yet clever people have gradually undermined that. Deception has accelerated. As society become more “enlightened” by the philosophy of the world, the world has become more like the Third Reich. Life in a totalitarian society has little if any value. Life is for the good of the dictator and him only. Life is expendable for their good, and with socialism for the “common good.”

  Why are Democrats socialists at heart? Because it is inborn. The “common good” is the Marxist view of “good.” Whereas good for them is for the welfare of the masses, to God, the “common good” is that none should perish. The philosophy of socialism is that to preserve the good of the most, the rights of the few must be diminished, and since they are pro-active, their method is abortion. Believe it or not, abortion of the least for the common good of the most is Darwinian evolution which was very effectively used by the Third Reich to sort out the weaker from the fittest.

  Nazis eugenicists defined the “fittest” as the Aryan race and the least fit, or unfit, as the Jewish race of people. They picked those perceived as weaker as the sacrifices for the most. That notion is thematic in the Old Testament. Even the Jews were persuaded to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire of images of the false god, Molech. Today, fathers and mothers continue that age-old pagan ritual for their good (sic) and the “common good” of a too populated Earth.

  There are two ways to depopulate the world: (1) By warring against nations, and when there are no reasons for warfare, (2) aborting its innocent citizens. The latter method is the most convenient and the less costly. It is always easier to destroy those less capable of defending themselves.

  Herod could have gone to war with the powerful zealot revolutionaries to get at Jesus. Like Pharaoh long before, rather than terminating all the Jews, for Herod was half Idumean, he got at Jesus by killing the Jewish children under two years old. He destroyed the “seed” of the Jews to get to their new King.

  He tried, just as Pharaoh, to get at the weaker race by the destruction of their offspring. Not by accident, the powerful Democrats rid themselves from their lesser (sic) people through abortion. It is so much easier for them to destroy a weaker (sic) race through abortion rather than lynching them later.

  When Herod failed to kill the baby Jesus, the mob stood in for him, and hanged Jesus on a Tree; the One who was the Most Innocent of the innocents. It would have been more convenient if they had killed Jesus before He was born, but Herod did not believe his own religion.

  Why did Herod want Jesus killed? Because the Jews were inconvenient to his regime. Why did Pharaoh kill the innocents? He was afraid of their strength, numbers, and their God. Why do socialists want blacks aborted? They are afraid of their power and numbers. A colleague supported his pro-abortion position by, “Somehow the birth of undesirable people must be controlled.” Hence, abortion is the tool and the “right to abortion” the cunning way the Democrats got their way of controlling. Ironically, the lack of regulation on the part of liberals is the way to regulating the birth of those they fear.

  “Freedom” is based on the right to life and to live it to its fullest extent. Life is intended to be forever, not for only a few months. That life begins at conception is scientific as well as spiritual. When God breathed life unto Adam, that was spiritual sanctification and the right to life; and when Adam partook of his first breath, he gained the right to breath on his own.

  There was a government in the Garden with one Law; that God did not want His creatures to perish, and the same Law exists today (John 3:16). The respect for life has not changed over the thousands of years but the citizens of the world have become more hardened.

  In the beginning, there were two citizens of the Garden Paradise who favored life but were robbed of it by cunning. Now everyone is cosmopolitan and are “citizens of the world” wherein life is no longer sacred. If they do not kill them by violence between adults, they will eliminate them in the womb much the same as a husbandman would eliminate hornets by spraying their eggs in the nest!

  People ae more than hornets. People, although often inhumane, should still be humans. Beasts kill their young, and some even eat them. Humans are proposing and some even doing that in this century.

  Since the leaving the Garden, humans have become more like the beasts, and at the present, find it easy and convenient for crimes against humanity. Abortion is crime against little humans, but the liars have made it the prevention of eggs, embryos, and fetuses; and have recently created a new type of being — a botched fetus that became human by God’s intervention, but remains unworthy of life.

  Satan’s way was to use the Serpent to abort Adam and Eve before they could be troublesome to him. He wanted the glory, and those new creatures were stealing it. He portended both to godhood and kingship, and to be God and King, God had to be put away. Satan knew that could not be, so he endeavored to kill God’s heirs in the “womb” so to speak. More on that shortly.

  The method would be political and with eugenics? Adam and Eve were “lesser” people than either Lucifer or the angels. “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death” (Heb 2:9). Humans were made in the same image as Jesus and vice-versa. Hence, human beings are a lesser class than Satan and his angels. Because humans are lesser, dark angels want them destroyed.

  In the case of people, “white angels” in the Democrat Party want darker angels destroyed because Democrats have always considered Negroes lesser people. Because they are supremely white, their attitude is that those they have dominion over should be under their dominance.

 

  Regarding the unborn, women who favor abortion often say, “My body; my choice.” Scripture says, “Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own” (1 Cor 6:19). The purpose of your body is to “glorify God in your body” (1 Cor 6:20).

  God’s will for mankind is to reproduce copies of themselves, ”Be fruitful, and multiply,” (Gen 1:22) and not only that, but to  “replenish the earth, and subdue it” and “have dominion over… every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Gen 1:28).

  First off, the world is not for the animals or even the trees. People are meant to be superior to and oversee the world. The world is for human beings, and animals and vegetation are to support people, not people die for the world. Yes, even carbon-based energy is for mankind. Animals died that men can live in the harsh climate of the Earth.

  However, people are to be good stewards of what God created for them; to “dress” and “keep” the Garden (Gen 2:15) — to serve and preserve what God created. With that said, the world was created for man and the intent was to populate the entire world. Reproduction is natural, God’s Will, and a blessing. The world is not to subdue people, but people are to subdue the world. They are to use the resources that God created for the benefit of themselves. Animals are meant to keep people safe from the elements of the world using their coats with fur (Gen 3:21), and vegetation is to be used for food and clothing. Because herbs alone were not satisfying, soon God allowed animal flesh to be eaten for food (Gen 9:3).

  With that background, people are to have dominion over the Earth and the animals and vegetation are for the comfort, nourishment, and even friendship to mankind. That was necessary to support reproduction and reproduction in the animal and vegetable kingdom was to support reproduction in people.

  As such, not only are animal and plant life part of the eco-system, but so are human beings. They are for us, and we are for them. If people overkill either animal or plant life, as part of the eco-system, people will die of cold, excessive heat, or starvation. If people burn too much carbon-based energy, they will die and that will keep the eco-system in balance.

  People are not the enemy of the world, but the world is the enemy of people. Because of sin, the first two people were cast outside the Garden Paradise unto the harsh world (Gen 3:24). Out there, the world was against them, and people began to use the resources that God provided to survive. The concept of “survival of the fittest” means that since mankind has dominion over the animals, they are the most fitting to survive. They can adapt the animals and plants for their own use. Because people have superior intelligence, although they are weaker than most animals, as even the smallest can kill us off, because of intelligence, mankind will continue to survive so long as they are humane.

  “Humane” is consideration of animals and people, not trees and bushes. “Environmental” is a better word for consideration of plant life. The humane thing to do for us animals is to care for our nourishment and comfort, and that is why God said to “dress and keep” the Garden. If we do not, then they will no longer dress and keep us.

  Everything in the universe must balance. The world was for people and the people for the world. Sin is using the world for pleasure (Gen 3:6), not just for sustenance but for abundance. Gluttony is a sin because it misapplies God’s intent for the resources that He provides and exposes gluttons as lovers of self. Obese people, unless genetically predisposed, are sinful because they misuse God’s Temple. Rather than for God’s use, it is for their own overuse. Obese people are not good stewards of God’s preserves.

  Thin people should not smile with arrogance. You use alcohol for pleasure and overconsume; you use fuel for pleasure and overconsume. The pursuit of pleasure is poor stewardship of God’s provisions. The most obvious is not fat people but over-consumers. Huge and luxurious RV’s, for instance, reveal what is important to the people who own them.

  Many abortion supporters are the radical environmentalists. They are convinced that the world is for its own existence, and people are poachers. The world has become their “god” because they care more for the world than the people on it. Scripture says to overcome the world, and faith overcomes the world (1 John 5:4). With that, the pursuit of pleasure and the misuse of the things of the world are overcome. True Christians will support the environment by the frugal use of the things of the world. Why? Because for them, importance is not on pleasure but on consideration. Obviously, many Christians fail to understand that, and misuse what God has provided, but no more so than epicureans who live for pleasure.

  Children are perceived as the enemy of the world, albeit the world is their enemy and the one they must overcome. The first thing that children must overcome is life in the inner world of the womb. Drug-use and overzealous pleasure of the mother must be overcome by the infant in the first stages of life. The unborn human being must then overcome pre-natal disease. The most serious crises in the life of anyone is that pre-born children must overcome the primal instincts of the mother. The world is for her, and her alone, and her pursuit of pleasure must not be disrupted.

  The unborn are inconveniences to the world and for the mother. The world sees babies as eating up the resources that they perceive as theirs, and the mother sees babies as inconveniences to careers, standards of living, and even the pursuit of sexual pleasure. The saddest thing ever is that the unborn must overcome their own parents because fathers aid and abet the mothers in ridding themselves of parasites (sic) in their womb, They are made out to be another species — fetuses. But they are human life with their own bodies!

  The “womb” is the space in the abdomen of the woman. Originally the womb was the abdominal cavity that contains all sorts of despicable things. Our insides are indeed ugly. Awful things happen inside men and women, but in this age, the most disgusting thing to many women is that someone else is inside them. They deny that it is another existence,deserving of life, and make the unborn to be parasites in their precious bodies. That disgusts them, or is so inconvenient for them, that they become as beasts and rip apart their own. Sure the “doctor” does the dirty deed, but the female “Zipporah’s” will that, and if the doctor will not do it, they will!

  In the beginning, the first order of things was that the heaven and the earth were generated, and the last rank was that Adam and Eve were. All things between the beginning and the end of generating were ultimately for the two “twins,” Adam and Eve — male and female He created them. The world is the “womb” for all people. It provides shelter, nourishment, and safety. There are two components making up that “womb” and those two things are space (heaven or the invisible) and earth (visible matter for life inside the space). God describes the big “womb” that He made for people as such, “The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool” (Isa 66:1). In between life support and life itself is a spiritual “umbilical cord” that Solomon called the “Silver Cord”  and that that ever it be “loosed” (Ecc 12:6).

  The world is God’s “Womb” for life, and with sin, the world endeavors to abort all life on it. A woman’s womb is her travail (Gen 3:16) and the world is the tribulation of people (Gen 3:18). Note that God had grace enough not to destroy life but made life inconvenient for people. Overcoming the world is returning to Paradise lost. Paul said, “To die is gain” (Phil 1:21), that is if Christ is in your “womb” (the soul).

  Just as the world is the “womb” for God’s creatures, the souls are “wombs” for God’s created creatures. God made the souls of people before the creation of the world. That had to be when the invisible existence was created — the souls of men and the angelic realm.

  Hence, there is also an “umbilical cord” between the souls of men and the flesh men. That is specifically what Solomon wrote about. God provided that “cord” when, “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7).

  Theretofore the soul was invisible life in the heaven and the body visible life in the earth. God’s Spirit was the “silver cord” (umbilical cord), and the newborn man and woman were protected in the “womb” that God provided. There was a dome (firmament) enclosing the Garden and cherubim guards before the Garden’s “vagina” (Gen 3:24). Inside the “walls” of the Garden, life was safe because in the midst of the womb was Jesus.  Yes, “Jesus!” He is the Tree of Life inside the Garden womb.

  Satan endeavors to loosen that silver cord to God because Jesus is the Way to God. In effect, as “embryo” Adam and Eve were attached to the walls (dome) of the Garden of Eden, and the Tree of Life preserved them by providing Spirit, nourishment, and safety in the Garden “womb.” (At a later time, a commentary will be written about the Tree of Life in the Garden Tomb of Jesus.)

  Compare the safety in the Garden “womb” to the safety in a human womb: “The fertilized ovum becomes an embryo, attaches to a wall of the uterus, creates a placenta, and develops into a fetus (gestates) until childbirth” (Wikipedia; “Uterus”).

  The uterus is a pear-shaped dome within the womb of a woman and is so important that it is often considered the womb. Just like the Garden of Eden that protected Adam and Eve in the embryonic stages of their short lives, the uterus is the luscious “garden” to which human embryos are attached by God. The womb of Eve was the place of safety for her children.

  The Garden ”Womb” was violated by Adam at the instigation of the Serpent. Many believe, based on scripture, that one of the pleasures learned from the Tree of Knowledge was “carnal knowledge,” or sexual intercourse; not to multiply but by pleasuring. Cain was not conceived in the womb of God but in the room of Satan; that is the world outside the safety of the womb. Since that time, millions of women have played God by casting their children out of the safety of the womb into the dumpster of the world!

  Satan aborted Adam and Eve by causing them to be cast out of the Garden. Eve was deceived. She failed to understand death because all she knew theretofore was life. As the mother of us all, women still fail to understand just what death is!

  The virus that Satan used to abort the two creatures was sin. He confused the two. They thought it was for life and pleasure in life, but inside, the “silver cord” was loosened and the pair were cast out of their “womb.” The Garden womb was on loan from God and once the Covenant of Innocence was loosened, the two fornicators against God were aborted, not by God but Satan in the guise of God. The same goes for abortion to this day.

  Figure #1 shows the configuration of the Tree of Life along with the configuration of any tree alive. Like Bartimaeus, the author sees “Men, as trees walking” (Mark 8:24) and trees are metaphors for men throughout scripture. The “Tree of Life” is a metaphor for Jesus. Now examine figure #1.



                                          Figure 1: Life Inscriptions from Facebook

 

  As such, Jesus, true to the Book of John chapter one, was in the Garden of Eden and the Paradise in heaven. The “Tree of Life” is therefore the “umbilical cord” between heaven and earth. It is the “silver cord” of which Solomon wrote, as are the Holy Cross, Jacob’s Ladder, and the Ark of the Covenant. As can be seen in figure #1,  life has a “fingerprint” as does all the creation. The “Tree of Life” is imprinted on all other life in a similar manner. Of special note is the similarity between the Tree of Life in the medallion above and the human placenta.

The placenta is in the womb of an impregnated woman. “The placenta is a temporary organ that connects the developing fetus via the umbilical cord to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, thermo-regulation, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply; to fight against internal infection; and to produce hormones which support pregnancy. (Wikipedia; “placenta”).

  Women say, “My body; my choice!” The placenta is not a woman’s “body.” It is an organ on loan from God to serve and preserve the unborn child. For nine months, the organ of the baby’s body, belongs to the baby! Once it is used to preserve life it has no further use and dies. The woman does not require that organ at any time in her life.

  Note the similarities again between the Tree of Life and the human placenta — the tree of life that never belongs to the woman but only to God.

  Human beings are made, according to scripture, as such, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Gen 3:7). The Hebrew words for “in His own image” and “in the image of God” are “tselem tselem.” That is so important that it is written twice.

  Furthermore it is written, “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”  “Our image” comes from one word, adam, in reference to all creatures, not just Adam himself. Just who is “our image?” The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost — all the “images” of God. Like God, “adams” have only one image that is visible, and that “image” is flesh. The other two “images” are the mind and soul.

  Just as the world was created in the Womb of God, so is all life. The image of God in figure #1 can be seen in the river network and God used the same image for the human veins. Why would God altar a wonderful design? That imprint is God’s Thumbprint all over the creation!

  Adam was surely under the Tree of Life when God conceived Him from the dust. God breathed life unto Adam, and the Tree of Life provided the “breathe.” There seemed to have been a “silver cord” between the Tree of Life and Adam. Indeed, throughout the Bible, Jesus is the second Adam; for example, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). Adam, perhaps, was a twin to the Tree of Life, and that the Tree of Knowledge emanated from the Tree of Life but lived as the “tree of death.” Adam was quickened (made alive) when Jesus died, as death is gain.

  The Book of Adam and Eve recounts when Adam was made alive, according to the Edenic Covenant (Gen 3:15). Adam, according to the canon of the Eastern Church, in the Book of Adam and Eve, was taken by Seth and buried under Golgotha. The book, The Cave of Treasures, repeats that:

  When Shem and Melchizedek had deposited the body of Adam in the centre of the Earth… And when the Cross of Christ , the Redeemer of Adam and his sons, was set upon it, the door of that place was opened in the face of Adam. And when the Wood was fixed upon it, and Christ was smitten with the spear, and blood and water flowed down from His side, they ran down into the mouth of Adam, and they became a baptism to him, and he was baptized. (Cave of Treasures)

  Hence, Adam had the Tree of Life breathe life unto him, and the Tree of Death exhumed that breath, and Adam died spiritually. The Tree of Life on Calvary provided living waters to quicken Adam, to renew his life. Just as the Tree of Life generated Adam, the Holy Cross regenerated him.

  The Ark of the Covenant had sacred poles made of acacia wood covered with gold on which the Hebrews would serve and preserve the physical Tree of Life — God Himself whose Spirit sat on the throne between the cherubim. The poles were the Way to the Tree of Life, and the cherubim guarded that Way. We find that the Ark could be carried by that one Way, and if carried any other way, it meant death, to wit:

  When they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. (2 Sam 6:6-7)

  The meaning of “Nachon” is unknown. It may have been another name for Ornan’s threshing floor, or it could have been nearby. Cave of Treasures identifies Calvary as the same place that Abraham was ready to sacrifice Isaac, not Mount Moriah which is thought to be Ornan’s threshing floor and is the present site of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

  “Nacon” is translated as “a set place” (biblestudytools.com). Perhaps that “set place” was Golgotha where Adam was buried, called “Calvary” to this day.

  The Cross represents a threshing floor as well. The horizontal bar points toward salvation on the right and damnation on the left, according to the fate of the two malefactors on either side of Jesus.

  There was one Way to carry the Ark and one Way to the Cross. That Way is by the Tree of Life who is Jesus. Cave of Treasures reveals that the Holy Cross, the Pole or Tree, on which Jesus was crucified was constructed of the wood from those same poles used to carry the Ark. It relates how they were kept and preserved through the ages, (Man’s assignment back in the Garden) and used to redeem all adams.

  The poles were described as of equal lengths of the vertical and horizontal. Since the Cross is symbolic of the Tree of Life, perhaps the Tree of Life was not an olive tree but the acacia. [1] The specific acacia known to the Middle East is the vachellia tortilis — the umbrella thorn tree pictured in figure #2 below:



                                               Figure 2: Umbrella Thorn Tree (Wikipedia)

 

  Look closely at the umbrella thorn tree. It is of equal height and breadth just as the Cross of Jesus would be if constructed of acacia poles of equal length. The Holy Cross can almost be seen in its trunk and branches. Of course, the trunk represents the Vine and Christians in the Church the Branches with God as the Husbandman (John 15:5).

  Now look at your own fingerprint. It is specific to you, and trees have “fingerprints” as well as shown in figure #1. All the Creation has similar “fingerprints” and are seen in the acacia tree as well. The Holy Cross is an image of that Tree and the Wood itself has the same “fingerprint.” Indeed, Christians should see “men, as trees walking” because trees are metaphors for mankind, God, and even Satan. An antichrist, Abimelech, was even portrayed as a tree — the bramble tree (Jud 9:14).  Bramble are trees with thorns. The umbrella tree has thorns and that represents the crown of thorns that was placed on Jesus head to mock him. They made him out to be a king in the order of Abimelech who murdered his seventy brothers to be king. The bramble bush means death. The umbrella tree means life!

  What does this background have to do with the unborn? The unborn have fingerprints. They commence forming immediately and are defined before six months gestation. Human life is defined at the beginning of its life in the womb, just as Adam’s life was in the Garden “Womb.” Fingerprints define identity. Each person is special and peculiar before they are ever born. Of course, some other primates have fingerprints, but they have neither superior intelligence nor a living soul in the image of God. Their cognitive capabilities are limited at the level of the other beasts.

  When fingerprints are destroyed the identity of a person is lost. God identified his “upright” primates with His Mark. I am referring to the Mark of the Tree. To destroy the symbol of God-given life is irreverent to God. It destroys the image that He made with the intention to live. The problem with abortion is that it terminates God-given life and makes the murderer of the child, the murderer of God. “Love” is essentially fidelity to God which means that “hatred” is infidelity to Him. Infidels are those who either never knew God or refuse to obey God they know. Abortion is non-fidelity to God.

  “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him” (1 John 3:15). If hatred is infidelity to the Will of God, then murder is apathy to the things of God. Disregard for life that God created is murder, and thus, those who murder hate the ones murdered and God. Those who claim the most tolerance inevitably are the most intense haters. Politics today are divisive and is hate-mongering over the issue of right to life.

  America was founded on the right to life and the pursuit of the rewards for the living. Abortion is infidelity to the founders’ intentions which were in turn from God’s Intentions. Satan has divided America, and even the world into two factions: (1) Those who value life, and (2) those who do not.

  “Choice” in civics is a political device. It is used to gain power to control people. “Spiritual choice” is a faculty on loan from God. He wants that “none should perish” (John 3:16) but Satan wants that any should perish. Abortion makes it easy for Satan. It is easier to control a few than many. It is easier to supply the needs of a few for the common good, than to supply the masses. Yes, socialism is an instrument of Satan and values neither God nor His “upright” creatures!

  Adam became a “living soul” when he was created. When babies are in the process of creation, their flesh covers their souls. Souls appear as the individuals. When Jesus was baptized His Holy Ghost came on Him “in bodily shape” (Luke 3:22). The souls of humans look like specific humans. We learn that from Nebuchadnezzar who identified Jesus before He was ever born by the looks of His living soul as he identified four persons in the fiery furnace when there should have been three: “The form of the fourth is like the Son of God” (Dan 3:25). The king identified Jesus because His Soul looked like the Man that He became. Likewise, the souls of aborted babies suffer when they are murdered in the womb. They have fingerprints in the image of Jesus and murdering God’s first sons is as if murdering His Second Son!

  The placenta is like the Garden of Eden. It has a tough shield to prevent anything from encroaching on the safety of the infant inside. Not even the blood that flows through the life-giving veins of the unborn belongs to the mother. Often the blood types are even different and if they comingled, the baby would die. That is the same as the Garden “Womb.” When the blood (fruit) from the Tree of Death comingled with the Blood from the Tree of Life — evil with good blood — Adam and Eve died… spiritually, and their lives would be limited outside the protection of the Garden “Womb.”

  Satan encroached in that Womb. He used deceptive means to kill what God created. Today, the “Serpents” are the “doctors” who say they “heal” but murder for the convenience of the parents. Mothers-would-be are deceived. Like Eve, they do not comprehend the finality of death or even that living souls die when the flesh dies. The dome (firmament) over the Garden is symbolic of the placenta in women. God is paternal but His Garden maternal. God created the Garden from the elements of the Earth that He created beforehand.

  God breathed life unto Adam. He is the first son of God. Eve is the daughter of man as Adam breathed His life unto Eve from his side (rib is an assumption in translating). There was a “silver cord” between Adam to Eve. Likewise, life flowed from the Cross when it flowed from the belly of Jesus to Adam and all “adams” beneath the Cross. Jesus’s water and blood provided life to all adamkind; the unborn, as well as those alive at that time, and the dead in Christ. People can kill living souls, but God regenerates those that He made innocent. Abortion is an act of defiance against God and His Purpose for putting on Flesh like ours.

  The placenta, called the womb, is a temporary organ. The Garden of Eden was temporary until Adam was mature enough to leave. The unborn baby is innocent in the womb and is without sin just as Adam and Eve were in an economy of innocence in the Garden Womb. The placenta is the unborn child’s “dome of safety” just as the Garden “dome” was. God used the same structure for birth as He did for creation. Only one Plan was needed, although the material was much different.

  The placenta, as said before, does not belong to mother; it belongs to the baby. It is not the mother’s body but the child’s. “Baby” and “child” are used because the embryo and fetus are stages of a human being. Infant humans are baby beings who have personality, and hence are “persons.”

  Gesell Growth Gradients are measures of an infant’s maturity over time. All the systems of children from conception to puberty must complement each other. For instance, the respiratory system supports the circulatory system, and they develop simultaneously. The same applies to the digestive system and all the others. Almost forgotten is one of the most important faculties of the nervous system — the personality. It is the unique cognitive, behavioral, and instinctual faculties that makes the young person interact with the world. The personality also develops in congruence to the other systems of the body.

  Babies are born with personalities. They exhibit personality in the womb with their emotions and even behaviors. When they jerk from perceived threat, that is more than a reaction; it is fear. A mother’s pat to the stomach and reassuring voice can comfort the unborn child. Fetuses are not something else; they are human beings. To deny the truth is to disrespect God and self. You were never only a fetus; you were a developing human being! Growth means life. Dead things or foreign objects do not grow. Only living things grow, and humans with that ability are not things. Personalities, as well as immortal souls, make them much different than plants or animals.

  To deal with your fear of the unborn, you must recognize the truth. They are neither inanimate objects nor alien beings. They are your “seed.” You planted them but they grow on their own! Your DNA is their DNA. As such, mothers who abort, kill part of themselves. Those who have chosen wrongly with abortion often admit that something is missing inside. Perhaps it is early onset empty-nest syndrome.

  The placenta belongs to the baby:

The fetal placenta (Chorion frondosum), which develops from the same blastocyst that forms the fetus, and the maternal placenta (Decidua basalis), which develops from the maternal uterine tissue. It metabolizes a number of substances and can release metabolic products into maternal or fetal circulations. The placenta is expelled from the body upon birth of the fetus. (Wikipedia; “placenta”)

  What touches the baby belongs to the child and grows proportionately with the child. What touches the mother is a mother’s reaction to the baby inside and belongs to the mother. Mother and child serve one another. It is a type of biological, even spiritual, love. They are two yet they are one. Each is not their own but belong to each other. An abortive mother not only rejects her child but part of herself. Emotionally and spiritually she cannot be complete when pregnancy was for naught.  Three things are missing with abortion: (1) a living being, (2) part of the mother, and (3) the baby’s immortal soul. It too is gone, not forever, but into an unseen existence. “Baby Doe” is always there, and he or she is “gone but not forgotten,” as is often written on tombstones.

  Perhaps “Baby You” can look  through that transparent wall that scripture calls the “sea of glass” (Rev 4:6) “like unto crystal,” and see mother without child, and the man’s seed gone by the wayside as if it is nothing!

  The placenta, just as the Garden of Eden with its dome, separates the unborn baby’s world from the outside world. Of course, there was no defilement in the Garden because herbs were the only food. God nourished Adam and Eve with a spiritual “baby food.” He took care of what little waste there was in some manner.

  Just as there was no further use for the Garden of Eden without people, the dome and its contents disappeared. Just like that, once the dome of the placenta has no further use, it too is expelled to the world outside the mother. It cannot be denied; the sanctuary of the womb is much like the sanctuary of the Garden Dome. Adam was a full-grown innocent babe in that “Womb” and depended entirely on his “mother” for nourishment and protection.

  Of course, God is neither make nor female. He just IS. However, God is paternal and is called “Father” but since God “birthed” and “gestated” Adam, He was maternal as well. Out of respect for God and Adam, God is called “Father.”

  The placenta provides nourishment and protection in the same fashion as the Garden. The “silver cord” is the umbilical cord. Through it, life flows and death removed. The blood of the mother does not flow to the child; it flows to the placenta. The exchange is explained better by the scientists, to wit:

  The maternal blood fills intervillous space through these spiral arteries which bathe the fetal villi in blood, allowing an exchange of gases to take place. In humans and other hemochorial placentals, the maternal blood comes into direct contact with the fetal chorion, though no fluid is exchanged. (ibid)

  To put it another way, the mother’s blood belongs to the mother and the baby’s blood belongs to the baby. They are not one person but two individuals sharing life support. The mother and baby are much like sea divers with one person depending on the oxygen of another! They must cooperate for life to be sustained. When as one, the “mother” diver fails the “dependent” diver, the dependent one dies. If the dependent one demands too much, the mother diver dies. If one or the other dies, a living being is gone from the Earth forever, and the world will miss them in some manner. That dependent diver may be the one who develops a cure for cancer, and that unborn child might have as well.

  When asked by a person why God does not provide someone to cure cancer, Mother Theresa responded, “God did but he was aborted” (paraphrased). Not only does a person die but so does an ideology, a strategy, cognition, invention, motivation, and even love!

  The nourishment through the complicated exchange process grows and so does the developing child. Things do not require nourishment; people do. Things do not eliminate waste, people do. The umbilical cord is the pipeline for nourishing life and a drainage system for discarding waste. Thanks goes to the good mother who takes care of both!

  Since the blood of the unborn child belongs to the child and the mother’s to the mother, they can have different blood types. The child is not solely of the mother’s blood type but a combination of the mother and father. There are A, B, and O genes and combinations of A, B, and O for blood types A, B, O, AA, BB, OO, and AB. Likewise each parent provides a protein (Rh Factor) from both the father and mother. With that, the blood type belongs to the father and the mother, but if it mixes with the mother’s the baby can die. So, if the baby is the mother’s body it too would be the father’s body!

  If the mother’s blood becomes contaminated with the baby’s blood with an opposite Rh factor, mother can experience blood transfusions with Rh-positive blood, miscarriage, or ectopic pregnancy (https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/rh.html). You should begin to see that an unborn baby is not the mother’s body, and the mother’s body is not the baby’s!

  Women rationalize their destruction of another person with that lame claim! Some know that it is lame, but others buy into that “Big Lie.”

  Adam and Eve thought the Garden Womb was theirs to do with as they wished. They “killed” themselves by irreverence to God. Before, they had been immortal, and unnoticed by them was that defying God made them mortal. They indeed would die.

  Sin “aborted” Adam and Eve. They went from “living souls” to “dying souls.” Because God was no longer their Spiritual Father nor biological “mother” they were expelled from the safety of the Garden Womb. They were put out in the heat and cold to fend for themselves. In that situation, God was not cruel because human beings made the choice.

  With abortion, the mother plays God. She chooses death for the baby, and there is no choice for the baby! “Pro-choice” sounds so democratic, but Nazis were elected democratically. What the majority thinks is right does not define righteousness. If the majority says that abortion is not killing, it remains murder. The purpose of this essay is to persuade mothers by the use truth. They can deny the truth, but the consequences shall be with them. They may “perish” the unborn child but unless they repent, they too will perish. Why write this? Like God, I want that none should perish” (John 3:16).

  “Perishing” as three components: (1) sin can kill and often does, (2) the flesh can die, and (2) the soul can die. The parents can kill their souls; they can kill their own flesh with abortion, but (3) the unborn child’s soul can never die. Parents who abort should know that their aborted baby still lives in heaven but unless they repent, their own souls shall perish, and they shall never see that child… nor see God face-to-face except on judgment day. God saves from sin, He saves the soul when the body dies, and He saves the flesh when the soul is regenerated by assuming new flesh.

 That aborted baby, when it dies, translates to the heavenly realm in its “bodily shape.” That child in heaven will look like your child and have your features. When the time comes, it will no longer need your flesh to live, for God will provide new, glorious flesh. He will correct your abortion decision. That child-shaped person will grow to be like Jesus. Perhaps, when and if you get to heaven, you shall see that young son of daughter, full-grown like Jesus, welcoming you into eternal live… if you have repented, despite that he or she was unwelcome in your home.

  If all goes to God’s Plan, even sinners as yourself, will join that child in the protective Bosom of Abraham. That is the same Paradise as the Garden but in a different realm. When and if you look Jesus eye-to-eye, you shall also be able to look at that unborn person face-to-face.

  Or perhaps, you condemn yourself. Perhaps the truth does not set you free from that sin, although it can. What will happen then? Your soul will die forever in Hell. You too will go to another realm but there is a great gulf between you and your son of daughter. You can see them in Paradise, but they will never see you in Hell. Think on that! Think on the guilt that you will bear for eternity.

  Abandon the Big Lie. That baby who is aborted is not your body. It, however, is your “choice.” That choice determines, not only if the baby will survive, but whether you survive death yourself.

  So, you do not believe in God? That is chancy. Even the demons believe in God, and hopefully you are better than the demons. Your unbelief does not change reality. What if you are wrong? That wrong decision will be your death — you, forever dying!

  Now is the time of your salvation — “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor 6:2). Now is the time to repent for what you have done. Now is the time to change your unbelief. How is the time to change your attitude, and now is the time to value human life in hopes that God will value yours in the same way!



[1] The author has speculated in many of his commentaries that the Tree of Knowledge was possibly a fig tree and the Tree of Life an olive. Sacred writings agree about the fig tree, but Cave of Treasures indicated an acacia tree.

Sunday, October 11, 2020

THE THIRD WORD OF JESUS

 

KEY VERSE: For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved. (Rom 10:13) 

  Paul’s letter was to the Romans, but it was about the Jews. Paul never gave up on the Jews although he switched his preaching to the Gentiles, and therein to the Romans. The key verse is a plea! It is never too late. “Whosever” — Jew or Gentile — can be saved. The “password” to the gate to Paradise is the “Name” of the Lord.

  What and where is the gate to Paradise? Jacob’s Ladder and the Holy Cross of Jesus. The path that Jesus led is the Way to Paradise, and the “ladder” thereunto is the Cross, not that the “Jesus Tree” is the gate, but entry into Paradise is by the spilt blood and water of Jesus when He died.

  Paradise has a “hedge” around it. It could be briars or perhaps bramblebushes, but regardless, Paradise is hedged-in for the safety of those within its hedge and to keep evil without! Just like walls between nations that have gates for legal entry, Paradise does as well. It even has “officers” to assure legal passage, to wit:

So He drove out the man (Adam); and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life(Gen 3:24)

 That “Way” remains kept by cherubim, as John saw unto Paradise: “And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind” (Rev 4:6). The “hedge” turns out that to be a barrier described as a transparent but impassible barrier guarded by those whose descriptions fit cherubim.” The Way to the Tree of Life” — Jesus — remains guarded to ensure legal passage.

  Passage is by One Way — Jesus’s Name — according to scripture, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Act 4:12). “The Name of the Lord,” is called Jesus, and that Name is the Way to salvation. The Cross is the Way and authority is through love: “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the City” (Rev 22:14). The “City” was the “Garden.” Paradise was prepared for two, but “whosoever” requires a “City” Paradise.

  The credential for passage is the Name of the Lord, and whosoever calls that Name to the cherubim that guard the Gate have the “right to the Tree of Life.” Those who cannot call that Name as theirs are forbidden passage because they have no right to enter. What commandments are the Way? The Great Commandment of love as enumerated by Jesus Himself — “the finger of God” — who wrote the Ten Words that we take as Commandments (Deut 9:10).

  The “Ten Words” are important because they are the metrics about how to love. Like God, Christians want that “none should perish” (John 3:16) and the Ten Words are how to assure that none perish, including each Christian.

  All of the Ten Words that Jesus said (Exod 20:1) are important, but the critical Word that Jesus wrote is, “Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain” (Exod 20:7; The Third Word of Jesus).

  Note that it is not “say His Name in vain” although that would be irreverent, but “take His Name in vain.” Compare that Word to the key verse: “For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.” Just as in the Third Word, neither does the key verse use the word, “say” but “call” or invoke the Name of the Lord (Strong’s Dictionary).

  Now envision climbing Jacob’s Ladder from the directional signpost, or the Cross. You get to the transparent barrier and scary heavenly creatures ask for your credentials to continue the Path to the Tree of Life. They check your right to passage. What shall you do? Invoke the “Name” of the Lord by crediting Jesus for safe passage!

  Not that saying His Name gives right of Way but invoking His Name. What is in the Name? “Who (Jesus) gave Himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” (Tit 2:14). (And you thought that the Book of Titus had little to say!)

  Now look again at the Third Word of Jesus. “Not taking the Name of the Lord” Jesus without purpose (vain) is the right of Way to the Tree of Life. Those that Jesus do not know may try to climb Jacob’s Ladder, but will not be allowed to enter Paradise. Those shall have no right to the Way to the Tree of (Eternal) Life. “The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain,” or without purpose.

  For them, Jesus died without a cause, and what will God say? “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Mat 7:23). “Iniquity” is living the law of sin rather than the conditions of God’s Covenant with Abraham, better known as the “Ten Commandments,” and given to Moses for what purpose? Safe passage to the earthly Paradise, the “Promise Land.” The Ten Words that Jesus wrote are the One Way to Heaven, and that Name referenced in them is “Jesus.”

  Again, it is not “saying” the Ten Commandments or even doing them; it is welcoming and honoring them as Ways to say, “Thank you Lord Jesus for dying for me.” The Third Word is all about that Purpose. It recognizes that it is not the Cross (or Tree) that saved, but the blood and water than set apart that particular “Tree” and was spilt from the Throne of God in heaven onto His “footstool” in earth — onto the pedestal that supported God’s Flesh on that Tree!

  When Jesus wrote the Words of the Ten Commandments, and said them out loud as well, he fulfilled them, as He said He did, with the Third Commandment:

And he said unto them, These are the Words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses (Luke 24:44)

  When was Jesus “with you?” He was always with you in Holy Spirit and will always be with you as His Holy Ghost. Those Words that Jesus spoke and wrote on stone, were fulfilled when He spoke them in the Flesh of God. For the Hebrew people of Moses’s day, they thought that they were commands, but the Ten Words of Jesus were always the Ten Prescriptions (precepts) for eternal health (life). The Third Commandment reveals the “password” to enter into Paradise to live gloriously and forever!

  In conclusion, the Old Testament is not “old” nor worn out but is the preamble to the New Testament. The former is about what Jesus will do, and the latter about what He did do. Genesis is about what Satan did against God and man in the beginning and the Revelation of John is about what Jesus will do to Satan in the end for what he did back in the Garden.

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Saturday, October 10, 2020

MEN AS TREES

 Notes for Sundays Facebook Live presentation (9:00 am CT)

Garden of Eden, a Garden of Metaphors

Bartimaeus, “I see men, as trees walking,” as he was face to face with Jesus.

As his vision was gradually restored, he surely saw that Jesus is the Tree of Life.

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God (Rev 2:7)

On either side of the river (of God), was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” (Rev 22:2)

The twelve fruits of the Tree of Life were: charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, gentleness, faith, modesty, self-control, and chastity (Gal 5:22-23; Vulgate).

Those who bear “good” fruit are Christians and are symbolic of trees of the Garden.

Adam was assigned to “dress and keep” the Garden or serve and preserve the trees. (Gen 2:15).

God would do that work; all that Adam needed to do was serve the Tree of Life and Preserve the other trees from destruction.

Luke wrote that Jesus was hanged on a tree, meaning the Cross: “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree” (Act 5:30).

Jerusalem is “in the midst” of what once was the Garden of Eden wherein were two trees: Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. Surrounding them were numerous other trees and vines of the Garden.

The Tree of Life (Jesus) was crucified on a symbolic Tree of Life — the Holy Cross.

The Tree of Death was also in Jerusalem in the valley of Gehenna. That tree is symbolic of the Tree of Knowledge of Evil. It is called the Judas Tree because Judas hanged himself from it. “He (Judas) cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself” (Mat 27:5).

Judas tried to pay the price of his own sin by his own works — hanging himself. Judas was cursed because, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree” but “Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the Law” by being hanged on a tree (Gal 3:13).

Judas tried self-redemption and was cursed. Jesus redeemed us all and ended the curse of the Law. That curse was that mankind always thought that they could save themselves by the works of their own hands, Adam and Eve covering their shame with aprons of fig leaves of their own making. (Gen 3:7).

In other words, each man carries their own fig tree. Obviously, the Tree of Knowledge was a fig tree and each man carries a branch of it.

Jesus is the Vine (the trunk of the grape tree) and people are the “branches.” God dresses and keeps the Vine and the branches and is the Husbandman: 

1 “I am the True Vine, and my Father is the Husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. (John 15:1-2)

Olive Trees are planted around grapevines to shelter the grape vine from the world. Olive Trees then preserve the vines, and as such serve them. Adam was to be the “vine” in the Garden, but shirking his devotion to God, Jesus became the True Vine, and mankind the branches.

One Tree had good fruit, and the other evil fruit: “19 The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like” (Gal 5:19-21)

Men are the branches and have either the twelve fruits of the spirit or many of the fruits for the flesh. Judas had evil fruit, silver is the root of all evil, and Jesus the good fruits of the Spirit.

Around the Tree of Life were two malevolent “trees.” They branched off from the same ground that Jesus was rooted in. “And when they (men as evil trees) were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.” (Luke 22:33)

“Malefactors” are those who commit an offense against the Law. Stealing is an offense against the Eighth Law. The two men were thieves: unrepentant thief, Gestas (left) and the repentant thief Dismas (right) (Gospel of Nicodemus).

Dismas means “death,” but he received life. Gestas likely comes from Gestus, meaning “carried.”

So, there on Calvary were two other trees: The Dismas Tree and the Gestas Tree. For Dismas, “To live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 1:21).

“And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43). Why was that? Dismas saw Jesus as the Tree of Life.

On the other hand, the other thief would see Jesus as the Tree of Death in that they all would die that day.

39 One of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, “If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.” 40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, “Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?” 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this Man hath done nothing amiss. 42 And he said unto Jesus,” Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.” (Luke 23:39-42)

“If thou be the Christ” showed that Gestas doubted that He was! Dismas called Jesus “God” and called Him ”Lord.” He recognized Jesus as the Lord God the One and only One who could save him.

 Ironically, Jesus carried the repentant thief to heaven whose sin he had borne, and the one who He could have carried was still-borne.

Next week, the Barabbas Tree.  Our question to ourselves: Is there a Larry Tree… a John Tree,…or a Susan Tree?

In that day (The Rapture) shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them (the branches) that are escaped of Israel (Isa 4:2).

There is hope of a Tree (Tree of Life), if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender Branch (Jesus) thereof will not cease. (Job 14:7)

The Tree here is Jesus and He was cut down on the Cross, but three days later, the Tree of Life sprouted again with the Resurrection. He is the tender Branch who shall not cease, because Jesus is the eternal God. As we are in the image of that Tree, even if death cuts us down, if we are in Christ, we shall never cease. Death shall be our gain!

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