Kingdom Come

Adam joining his wife in death saved her from the dreadful isolation that defines death, but that didn’t reconcile her to a spiritual relationship for eternal life with the Creator.

God can unilaterally forgive sinners but even He can only offer restoration of relationship, which must be accepted by the sinner.

And the LORD God said…Because thou hast done this…thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” (Genesis 3:6-16)

There is a direct connection between

• the woman’s desire for tasty food, pleasure, and wisdom getting her in trouble and dragging her husband down into her trouble,
• and God’s response by putting her desires under her husband’s oversight.

It’s to prevent a recurrence!

It is also to reconcile her broken relationship with her husband. How could he ever trust her in the future if she didn’t admit her weakness and allow him to protect himself as much as her from a recurrence?

YHVH wasn’t setting up a tyrannical marriage system. Adam had proven his love for his wife by dying for her. If the rest of us women screened prospective husbands for Adam’s qualifications we wouldn’t find ourselves desperately backing out of slavery.

Hello! We love that word “boundaries” in psychology, don’t we?

When you hear the phrase ‘setting boundaries’ you might think it’s all about putting up walls or barriers between you and your loved ones. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Continue reading “SECTION XII: Atonement Is Leadership-Driven Reconciliation”

When Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla were coronated, the King’s Champion, following ancient protocol, led them into Westminster Abbey to challenge anyone who contested the new monarch’s entitlement to the throne to trial by combat in a mano-a-mano duel to the death.

“And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits / 18 in and a span / 9 in”, i.e. almost 10 feet…And the Philistine said, I defy the armies / soldiers lined up ready to fight of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. (I Samuel 17:1-10)

Continue reading “65) A Champion Personifies Both The Lord And His People”

Whoever will be saved from their destructive circumstances at any time in history must obey God’s Christ / AKA Champion.

Whosoever will be saved from the same permanent isolation from the Giver of Life as Eve experienced with Adam’s sacrifice of his life for her, must like her repent of their self-indulgent but destructive mindset-driven actions and choose to be transformed into the likeness of God – a son / offspring of God by behaviors proving conversion.

• “And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
  • And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
• And he said, I tell thee, Peter…thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.” (Luke 22:31-34)

We can’t talk our way into heaven. We have to walk our way there.

Continue reading “66) A Champion Can Only Save Those Who Follow His Lead”

When we apply the little bit of God’s documented instructions to the Adams, we recognize the tremendous faith that Adam had in YHVH based on his actions.

Mrs. Adam – “Adam! Adam! I really messed up!  Help me!!”.

• “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat /akal:
  • But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt eat / akal – not! / lo of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:16-17)

Adam – Horrified at her transformation and knowing YHVH is not going to go back on his word about this regardless of pleading for mercy.

That thought sticks in his head – “YHVH is not going to go back on his word.”

“If you eat the fruit you will die” was a warning of a consequence – not a commandment to be punished if broken.

There was only one command, and it was given to Adam, not to his wife.

• “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, [that would be God himself in Adam’s situation]
• and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24)

So in faith that as long as he follows God’s command, Adam remains one – now dead- flesh with her by eating the fruit.

Whoever will be saved from the dominion and destruction of sin in this life and after death must not only believe in God’s power, but act on their knowledge of God’s commandments, whatever their particular circumstances and degree of revelation.

Continue reading “67) Faith Is An Action Verb”

“He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Wherefore…I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men…whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come…

the tree is known by his fruit.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” (Matthew 12:30-37)

It’s easy to recite a creed “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth…”, but actions speak so much louder than words, and reverberate throughout eternity. If someone sincerely believes that we can only live in connection with the Source of Life, they will act accordingly.

Conversely, we can understand that claiming to be “a born-again Christian / saved / filled with the Holy Spirit / or whatever label one puts on their assurance of salvation from hell without any “fruit” / evidence by changed behaviors in accordance with God’s Spirit is blasphemy. 

Game of Thrones does a spectacular portrayal of exactly how this ends.

Continue reading “68) Our Words Justify Or Condemn Us”

I’ve worked with dementia patients, many of whom required being in a locked environment for their own safety. They are firmly convinced that that know how to get home, but will only wander into danger if let out of the building.

Can we not recognize the equivalent mental condition in simply refusing to believe in the possibility of existence after death – most especially the idea of judgment for how one’s life was lived while in the body.

Once we accept that science cannot investigate what happens after death, we are left with two options:

1. remain ignorant of how to find our way to a forever home while blindly hoping for the best,
2. or make a plan based on information provided by someone who is knowledgeable about the subject.

Ancient legends, the biblical account, and physics all agree. Once created as a pattern of electrical energy by the brain, the unique individual defined by his/her soul is fixed, cannot be destroyed and therefore exists forever.

Nothing is more vital to life, freedom, preventing pain and tragedy than truth and following it... Dr. Sean Illing from Yale said that the best way to enslave people is by smashing truth and this is what totalitarians have always tried to do…

Continue reading “69) Belief Without Acting On Facts Won’t Get You Home”

There is a common teaching that there are different ways of being saved from eternal damnation during different eras of time with

1. works of obedience to the law and sacrifice in the Old Testament required for pre-Christian salvation
2. and work-free gift of grace for Christians.

If we stick with a hermeneutical analysis of the Bible we see that there has always been just one way of being saved from sin and its consequences.

Put your faith in the word of YHVH Creator.

Whoa! What about the clear statements in the New Testament, such as:

“by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:10-12)

Doesn’t that make Christianity an exclusive club?

Not if we understand and apply the etymology of the name “Jesus Christ” and what Jesus clearly stated as being the way “unto the Father”.

Continue reading “70) The Only Way To Eternal Life Is Yahway”

A controversial statue unveiled by the Satanic Temple at a secret ceremony in Detroit…

These words and the accompanying gesture are drawn from the ancient works of Hermes Trismegistus which became popular during the Renaissance.

This is clearly a play on the biblical prayer calling for God to empower his followers “on earth as it is in heaven”, which are the above and below the firmament barrier put in place to protect humans from malevolent spirit beings inhabiting the deep we call “space”.

When some of the created hyperdimensional beings split themselves off from unity with God, these creatures lost their continuous source of life energy.

Reframe the vague spiritual concept of immortality with its hyperdimensional physics correlate. All energetic creatures must re-charge their energy through current (get it?) connection to the source.

Failing that, they must feed off another source of energy in one form or another. We can visualize spirit beings acting something like amoebas.

They succeed with humans who are, at best, ignorant and gullible, and at worst, narcissistic and sociopathological enough to believe their own lies.

“the devil…was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

Continue reading “SECTION XIII: Satan’s As Above, So Below”

All spirits are spin-offs of the Creator Holy Spirit, so regardless of the moral or immoral objective of the spirit’s interaction, they all function in the same way with four dimensional mortals.

“a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying…” (Job 4:12-17)

Ahh, but how can a spirit communicate without the apparatus of speech?

Physically, communication begins and ends as energy patterns in the souls of the sender and receiver. Thoughts can be transmitted without sound waves traveling through air. Ever look deeply into the eyes of your teenage crush?

Psychotic auditory hallucinations are another common expression of this phenomenon. I am not saying that all auditory hallucinations are invariably demonic, simply that the human capacity for hearing thoughts without sound waves being generated is a scientific reality.

Continue reading “71) Spirit Possession”