Kingdom Come

“Who raised up the righteous man from the east [Abram] gave the nations before him [Abraham], and made him rule over kings [as Melchizedek]?…calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD…

thou, Israel, art my servant / slave, a permanent relationship, Jacob whom I have chosen [to fight with me], the seed / descendant / a generation of Abraham my friend…and said unto thee, Thou art my servant / slave; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.” (Isaiah 41:1-9)

So when Judea was again, under Rome, as previously had happened under Babylon, desolated and its people scattered, YHVH was not abandoning them. He was following the terms of his covenant with Israel to be his witnesses of salvation to the whole world.

“Jesus Christ / YHVH’s Savior the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.“ (Hebrews 11-13)

I spent 60 years defining myself as a Christian while, as a biblically literate individual, struggling with the inconsistencies between the Bible and Christianity – even the brands that claim to be rock solid Bible-believers. Christianity has degraded the whole purpose of the new covenant with the false gospel that Jesus’s death took away the punishment for sin so we can go about our merry way secure in the knowledge that, since we ‘asked Jesus to come into our heart’, no matter what we do, we don’t face judgment. This is a dreadful lie.

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?…our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin…Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body…but yield…your members as instruments of righteousness unto God…Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (Romans 6:1-16)

Adultery and fornication are two behaviors most denounced as sin in the Bible. The is not an arbitrary ruling by a God who invented house rules. This is a fact of life – or death – of the body in conditions like AIDS and infertility caused by STDs, breakdown of the family and by extension society’s cohesion and stability.

If we can recognize that choices made to pursue a short-term pleasure of drug use leads to long-term destruction of the body, soul and spirit, can we not extrapolate the personal, family, social, and international damage caused by physical drug abuse to the abstract but same pursuit of any self-absorption expressed on a spectrum of ignoring to neglecting to ruthlessly exploiting those whose quality of life, or very life itself, depend on us meeting their needs in our tightly interconnected web of life? Self absorption is easy enough to see when it ruthlessly exploits others in pornographic dehumanization, pedophilia, and rape and Me Too! but is also the root cause of broken families, poverty, and war.

Why is it so hard to understand the righteousness can’t be simply declared, it must a choice resulting in changed behavior.

• “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH – BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT!
• God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH – BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT..
• For to be carnally / physically minded / focused is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
• Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, IF so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
• Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ / Mashiach, he is none of his [mashiachs].” (Romans 6, 8:1-9)

Continue reading “171) Israel Among The Gentiles”

When YHVH’s Savior told the rulers of Israel “Ye shall not see me [your King] henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” (Matthew 23:29-36) he remained 100% consistent with the extension of timelines from previous scripture beginning with the establishment of the nation of Israel.

1. “if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments…that ye break my covenant…
   1. I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague…ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you
2. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me,
   1. then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
3. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me;
   1. I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
4. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things…
   1. I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
5. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me…
   1. I will chastise you seven times for your sins.” (Leviticus 26)

Continue reading “172) It Takes As Long As It Takes”

From Matthew 24:

^“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives,

the disciples came unto him privately, saying…what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”

They are expecting this any day now! They were showing him the buildings of the temple in anticipation of their new offices. I can imagine Peter thinking “Please not the treasury, I’m no good at math.” and another fisherman thinking “I’m functionally illiterate, please don’t make me a scribe.” John of course had grown up being highly educated with priestly his relatives and was confident of his place in the hierarchy.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, in essence, “You determine that.“

1. “many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ / the Anointed Heir to the Kingdom; and shall deceive many.” Take Game of Thrones, for example. When Prince Joffrey took the throne the vast majority of people didn’t realize his father wasn’t King Robert. 
2. “nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” George R.R. Martin nailed it in his vividly gruesome depiction of multiple claimants fighting battles on multiple fronts during a time of complete upheaval of daily life.
3. “they shall deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you:” Ned Stark was summarily imprisoned and executed because he testified of the true king.
4. “and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.” The name of Stark carried by the family, household members and bannermen was hunted down to be wiped out
5. “many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.” Starkly depicted in The Red Wedding.”
6. “many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many”. The prime example is the Red Woman who, like Jezebel, leads a fiery inquisition in worship of the red god, R’hllor, the Lord of Light, but there are many, many others
7. “iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold”. Pietr Baelish, Master of Coin and brothels, manipulated kingdom affairs (pun) through sexual depravity with perverse pleasure in the chaos, destruction, suffering and widespread death that resulted. And yes, there’s lots of nudity in GOT. Innocent of wrong is not the same thing as innocent of wrong-doing. You can best believe that plenty of women-for-hire flaunted their wares to Jesus and his disciples as he passed by and were sent by rulers to destroy his reputation. I’ll never forget the look in the eyes of a pole dancer in a strip bar I was dragged into by my own heartless husband, but his plan backfired. Instead of being drawn into licentiousness, I so pitied her bondage that I spent my life making a way out of depravity for people trapped in sin. Was Jesus with me in that bar?
8. “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” Keep this statement in context. It follows and contrasts with “the love of many shall wax cold.” We choose to love – join identity to – either the Christ – or his opposite. “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:32-34)
   
9. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place…then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be…when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors…
10. But of that day and hour / the precise date –  knoweth…my Father only….[for] if the goodman of the house / the god of this world had known in what watch the thief / his adversary the true Christ would come, he would…not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
11. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat / sustenance in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
12. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” (Matthew 26:1-2)

There’s your answer, apostles and all the rest of us. The ministry we will end up in is the ministry where we proved ourselves faithful.

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Although Christianity acknowledges that Jesus Christ is identified by his likeness to Moses, Christianity ignores the importance of Moses and his successors by downplaying their roles as being nothing more than just “types” of Christ. We are discarding our own identity in Christ if don’t understand Moses and his successors’ relationship to the Promised Redeemer.

“And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for THOU must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and THOU shalt cause them to inherit it.

And the LORD, he it is that doth go before THEE; he will be with THEE, he will not fail THEE, neither forsake THEE: fear not, neither be dismayed. ” (Deuteronomy 31:7-8)

“the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister…as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail THEE, nor forsake THEE…

“he hath said, I will never leave THEE, nor forsake THEE. So that WE may boldly say, The Lord is MY helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto ME.” (Hebrews 13:5-6)

The full biblical – not Jewish or Christian – criteria for recognizing the Melchizedekian successors to Moses include ALL leaders in the Kingdom of Heaven:

1. “whom the LORD knew face to face”, i.e. had a unique close association with YHVH demonstrated by
2. “all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt” – hyper dimensional power made possible only through
3. commitment to YHVH’s existing covenant at that time, demonstrated by godly lifestyle and proven by
4. “all that mighty hand, – undertaking battle in the power and glory of God unto death
5. and in all the great terror” – i.e. miraculous victory in battle against the adversary, thereby being granted
6. “the blessing…The LORD came from Sinai…with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words”, i.e. a new covenant producing a higher union with YHVH than the previous covenant. (Deuteronomy 33:1-3, 34:10-12)

Continue reading “SECTION XXXIV: Another Melchizedek Like Moses”

Let the record show that Paul hits every criteria for being a true Melchizedek chosen / messiahed and spoken into being by YHVH’s Savior.

“These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;

• glorify / give victory in battle to thy Son
• that thy Son also may glorify / give victory in battle to thee…
• I pray for them…which thou hast given me; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
  • that they also may be one in us: 
  • that / this is how the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• And the glory / victory in battle which thou gavest me
• I have given them;
  • that they may be one, even as we are one:” (John 17)

Continue reading “174) A Melchizedek Like Christ”

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you…God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.” (Romans 16:25-17)

Once we get the main point of this verse clearly in focus, the middle part also comes into focus.

“according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ,”

“My gospel” is not something new, but equated with / and / i.e. the preaching of Jesus Christ / the son of David. ” (Romans 16:25).

The preaching of Jesus Christ was the one sect of Judaism true to scripture in a medley of heretic Jewish sects following man-made traditions instead. The preaching of Jesus Christ is what Paul converted to.

“For ye have heard of my [Paul’s] conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I…profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.” (Galatians 1:13-14)

Continue reading “175) The Gospel According To Paul”

“The Endless is a movie that plays with our perceptions of time, space, and reality, and sketches the outlines of unimaginable / endless terror…Things become unmoored from scientifically verifiable truth…There are so many strange moments and images, most of them tossed-off…effectiveness comes from comparing what we’re told would happen against what actually does happen.“

And this is where the Word of God telling us in advance of what will happen before it actually does happen is of paramount importance.

The Bible is not a guidebook to a lifestyle, it is a guide to life itself. Only those who develop wisdom and understanding from studying the subject recognize and know how to respond with life sustaining action when confronted by death-dealing forces.

“What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God…when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God.” (Romans 3:1-2, Hebrews 5:12)

So let’s review some of the first principles of the oracles of God, 90 of which are expressed documented just in the book of Genesis as “God said“. Seems to be that’s key. Then roughly half that number are documented in the book of Exodus with the establishment of the nation of Israel.

So it makes sense to back up to Genesis to ensure we’ve captured the very “first” principles of the oracles of God, where we discover that before there was a nation of Israel, Abraham is called – as much into being as anything else in Creation – “the father / authorizer of who belongs in the family with all its provisions”.

“What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?…what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness… faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness…the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was…through the righteousness of faith…of Abraham; who is the father of us all.” (Romans 4)

Continue reading “176) The First Principles Of The Oracles Of God”

The Epistle “to the Hebrews” is, completely against protocol, not addressed as such, nor signed off by the author himself anywhere in the letter. However, the traditional title “To the Hebrews” is very old. Clement of Rome seems to know the letter by this title late in the first century…In one of our earliest manuscripts…Hebrews follows Romans, indicating the book was viewed as part of the Pauline collection.

Continuing this tradition, the Council of Carthage (397) and also the Council of Carthage (419)…which took place under the authority of St. Augustine (354–430)… also declared by fiat that Epistle to the Hebrews was written by Paul, for a time ending all debate on the subject.

The significance of the authority of this document’s writer and subject matter is found in the arguments that have been continuously raised against them to this day. For a correct understanding of Paul’s doctrine of the New Testament Church we must recognize its place in the doctrine of the letter to the Hebrews.

Continue reading “SECTION XXXV: The Epistle To The Hebrews”