The Protestant theme concerning the Bible is that, if you read it often enough, or long enough, eventually this process will cause the installation of the Holy Spirit. Thus, the Protestants are the largest marketers of Scripture on Earth. Motive is everything! What an individual gains from studying or teaching from the Bible, is usually made manifest to/for those with Spiritual eyes to see. The Bible does not exist so that I can join-in with multiple millions of other "teachers" parroting passages. It's not a Christ-career; a God-gig, we are expected, by God, to labor and provide for our own, and this is not a popular theme, especially within cultures that are inherently lazy. We serve God, by serving others, and we do not serve others, by getting them to share their resources with us, so that we do not have to labor. We do not charge them to read/interpret the Bible to/for them. Only the Indwelling Holy Spirit can enlighten us to Gods written word, it cannot simply be explained with words or with interpretations! Indeed, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us; Yahshua Messiah, and then He said that He must be crucified for the sin-debt, in order to usher in the age of the Indwelling. He is no longer with us, He is now in us; the relationship between God and creation changed completely. The time of intermediary ended with the renting of the veil; with the constant barrage of condemnations extolled by Jesus' very lips. And so, as we study the history of Christianity, we see the church becoming big business (via the tax/tithe), and then political, and then adversarial. By the time that Martin Luther arrived on earth, Christianity was all but dead; replaced by a bloated, ritualistic oligarchy that had lost all sight of the Lord Jesus Christ. The human condition prevails when the Holy Spirit is not allowed in, to crush that nature. And so, the only faithful to cling to the living word, were those living it; the Anabaptists! And while the reformers had the right idea, they also got caught up, gradually over time, in the same trap that Satan lays for all who try to comply: Mammon!

Jesus did not focus His ministry on the mammon holders. He went to the economically poor, the Spiritually bankrupt, and the physically lame. All these people, during this time, were the poorest of the poor; they certainly had no means with which to support a growing ministry business: It would be hard to finance a big church-business with these types of people! But then, that's not what Christ is all about; that's not what true Christianity is all about! But the Godless-religious (esp. the Religionists) make it seem so, thus explaining why so many people do, and do not, participate in the businesses of religion. And many of those who do get involved with the Religionists have motives that also do not honor the Messiah! Jesus taught His followers, both then and now, that this life is surrendered unconditionally, so that we would have the opportunity to serve others, instead of self. Mass-materialism, consumerism and careerism is the polar opposite of the born-again lifestyle! The industrialization of Earth, is not of God, as many tried to make it out to be; it was the end-consequence of God being replaced with religion. That's why (it was inevitable that) the headline read: God is dead! God was put to death, and the Religionists took over! To believe that America is, or ever was, a Christian Nation is anathema; it is blasphemy! The Messiah was replaced with religion, long ago; long before the Caucasian Capitalists sailed to the Americas and other parts of the globe, to conquer the indigenous, inhabit their lands, and plunder their silver & gold for the queen. Indeed, manifest destiny was Satan’s crowning glory, in his defacing of our Lord Jesus Christ, and it is up to His children to proclaim from the rooftops, this evil done in His name! We must restore the integrity of our Redeemer to those who see Christians as destroyers of cultures, globally. We must restore the integrity of Scripture, because the advantages of translating Scripture in most every language, gives them the opportunity to read about Jesus Christ for themselves, and then looking at the history of those who profess that faith, even those today, causes them to put the book down, and return to their old myths. We must be true to the word, in deed!

Many are often quick to isolate Scripture when doing so serves their own purposes, but in doing this, they reveal who and what they really are. Ones lifestyle and spending; how one lives upon the Earth (and treats it), is the true evidence of human Spiritual condition. Scriptural isolationism is measurable in ones lifestyle; in ones own body; in ones bank account! All this becomes fruit-evidence of ones true Spiritual condition, or in some cases, simple ignorance of Scripture itself. I know all the Scriptures abused to justify everything I have personally experienced; please do not contact me and parrot them to me again (for the millionth time!). Personally, I always input Scripture everywhere, and it is always the tidbits that get to the core of a particular topic. But understanding Scripture is not accomplished in tidbits, or, how the bulk of the Godless-religious understand it! Nonetheless, I make the assumption that you, the reader, have already read the entire New Testament, and so, it would not be logical to plug in the entire Bible into every page. You either become the Word, or you will live and die in stark oblivion to its content and intent. Verily verily I say unto thee; read the Bible in the context for which it is written. It is not chapters and verses; it is not snippets or sound-bites, it is a living breathing narrative, and it is not broken up into sections, it is a symbiotic compilation masterpiece! But one must also understand the parables, as they fit into the time/culture of Jesus, as well as the intent of that parable. Jesus said that He spoke in parables, exactly to confound the con and confuse the muse. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is just that; the Gospels. The letters (or epistles) of the Apostles are for correction and instruction, rebuke and reprove, of the first fellowships there in Jerusalem and the surrounding Gentile nation-states. They were indeed, inspired by the Indwelling Holy Spirit, but we must realize their intent. The Apostle's Paul, Peter, James and Timothy, did not intend for anyone future, to use those Epistles to correct the Gospels; to redirect the Body of Christ from the Gospel directives. The Epistles were not a new revelation to what Jesus Himself said and did. They were sinful men who were redeemed and Indwelled, and thus, dedicated Christian men with a special inspiration, and with supernatural powers. With that said, however, they were not the Lord; Jesus Christ is our only Messiah! In fact, Paul said:

God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. But I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. But I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name. And I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides these, I do not know if I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones." Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness. But to them, the called-out ones, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1st Corn. 9-24)

Paul was writing to churches who were calling/labeling themselves "Christian", but they had no real clue what it was to be Christ-on-Earth! This was a mystery to them, and this is why Paul had to write them letters all the time; he was trying to put out the fires of sin and deception that crept into the fellowships, he personally began. He wrote them to encourage and to rebuke; to instruct and to correct; to share his heart and his concerns. They were not included in the Canon to be used to create church doctrine from. Many people look at the Bible as one giant storehouse of Gods laws and directives; and it is, in one sense, but many of what Paul was writing had little to do with establishing church doctrine. But that's just what the lazy men and women were doing with them, both then and today! They took Paul's letters of correction (to the churches) as a way to manipulate others; this was not the intentions of God, nor of Paul himself. We only have one Gospel record: The four Gospels of the New Testament! The letters of Paul were not written to be followed or treated like they were from the mouth of God; only Jesus spoke the words of God, and why they are in red in many Bibles. And so, the rest of Scripture, New and Old, all filter through those red letters. Jesus Christ was God-Corporeal; He alone, had the authority to speak for God, because He was/is God. Those who do not believe, are what John called anti-Christ.

1st John 2:15-23 | 4:1-8 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Love of the Father is not in him, because all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever. Little children, it is the last time. And just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, from which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist. Everyone who denies the Son neither has the Father. The one confessing the Son also has the Father. | Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the antichrist you heard is coming, and even now is already in the world. You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world, therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us Love one another, for Love is of God, and everyone who Loves has been born of God, and knows God. The one who does not Love has not known God. For God is Love.

The purpose of the epistles was to show (us) future Christians, what can happen when humans dedicated to sin and Godlessness, will infiltrate the fellowships of God, to prostitute Gods words, and Gods character. They pretend to be Christian, and yet live as the rest of the Godless world lives. Jesus often said: You shall know them by their fruits... in other words... their actions and inactions! Jesus was teaching us all, to look at how people live on the Earth; how they relate to one another; how they Love one another; this is the proof and the evidence of their Salvation and their conversion to Christ. It does not matter what they say or think or believe; it does not matter if they speak God-words with their lips, or go to church, or obey the traditions of men. Indeed, the Pharisees were very devout religionists, but Jesus called them actors on the stage (hypocrites); they were religious frauds who did not have the Love of God in them (they were white-washed tombs full of dead men's bones: Ouch!). When the Holy Spirit unites with our (otherwise dormant) Soul, that Impartation radically transforms us; we are literally born-again; behold, the old is dead and the renewal begins. For most religionists however, church and God are among the stuff that exists for their own personal consumption; they participate in religion for many different reasons, none of which concludes in a major change of lifestyle! They have no intention of surrendering their goals, dreams and aspirations in this life, to become a bondservant of the Lord Jesus Christ; instead, they intend to use God for personal gain. And so, they claim in public that they are Christian; that they are Saved, and yet, their life and their lifestyle is in contradiction to that calling. It is not about merely adopting a belief and then going to church services on the weekend; its not about financing religion and reading Scripture. Its not about getting a Christ-career (a God-job). THIS is the calling; the sacrifice:

Matthew 8:19-22 And a certain scribe came and said to Him: Master, I will follow You wherever You go. And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head. And another of His disciples said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Follow Me, and let the dead bury their dead.     Luke 9:61-62 And another also said, Lord, I will follow You; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.     Matt.9:9 And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax-office. And He said to him, Follow Me! And he arose and followed Him.

Matthew 10:34-40 Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it. He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.     16:24-25 Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall find it.

Matthew 19:21-30 Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you that a rich man will, with great difficulty enter into the kingdom of Heaven. And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. When His disciples heard, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus looked on them and said to them: With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Then answering, Peter said to Him: Behold, we have forsaken all and have followed You. Therefore what shall we have? And Jesus said to them: Truly I say to you that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His glory, you also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. But many who are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

John 10:23-38 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's Porch. Then the Jews encircled Him and said to Him, How long do you make us doubt? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you and you did not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me. But you did not believe because you are not of My sheep. As I said to you, My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand. My Father who gave them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand. I and the Father are one! Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from My Father; for which of these do you stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, "I said, You are gods?" If He called those gods with whom the Word of God was, and the Scripture cannot be broken, do you say of Him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me. But if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.     12:24-26 Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

Matthew 9:1-8 And He entered into a boat, and passed over, and came to His own city. And behold, they brought to Him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Child, be of good cheer. Your sins are forgiven you. And lo, some of the scribes said within themselves, This one blasphemes. And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier? To say, Your sins are forgiven you, or to say, Arise and walk! But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins, then He said to the paralytic, Arise, take up your bed and go to your house. And he arose and departed to his house. But when the crowds saw, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Luke 12:8-10 Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess Me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess him before the angels of God. But he who denies Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven.

Mark 3:28-29 Truly I say to you, All sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and blasphemies with which they shall blaspheme. But he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never shall have forgiveness, but is liable to eternal condemnation.

Jesus was saying that He can take whatever you dish out; He was tortured, cursed, laughed at and ultimately, died for humankind. And so, what's the difference between blaspheming Jesus, versus the Holy Spirit? Because the Holy Spirit is not a physical being, He is Spirit; He is IN me, or, so I claim (or so you publicly claim). If I say that God is in me, and yet, live contrary to that directive; that calling; that example; I will make others, who do not have the Indwelling Spirit, think that I am the final representation of God. When we say we are Christians, we are the current Earthly representative of Christ. I will be claiming publicly, to have God-in-me, but then, prostituting His character with my Godless living. I am as the hypocrites; saying that I'm Godly, but living Godlessly! Therein, I blaspheme the Holy Spirit by this misrepresentation; this false witness; this hypocrisy! Therefore, the Godless-religious are doomed! To blaspheme is not the speaking of words; it is not just what I say, though it could include what I say, or even what I do not say. As all these passages reveal, it has far more to do with my character, than my personality; more with my lifestyle, than my presentation. Everyone has a character; everyone has a personality. It is not the presence of them, but the content! As Paul described to us in First Corinthians, our words are just sounds created by air passing across the vocal cords. Anyone can say anything, but if the words are not backed up with evidence; with action, then they're just noise; as sound; a clanging cymbal. Words are meaningless, actions (and inactions) are all there is! They have no value beyond the sound our ears detect. Jesus said; you will know them by their fruit; He did not say that we will know them by their words. It was not about condemning teaching, it was about the fruit-ministry; that we need to live it out, and then speak about it. We are to live as Christ, not just talk about living as Christ. We are to demonstrate our salvation in our actions, and most importantly, in our inactions; that which we do not do; that which we do not participate in. We blaspheme when we say one thing and do another; this hypocrisy is beyond sin, it is sacrilege because it misrepresents God to others, who then reject God because they reject the speaker and representative of God. If God is in me, as I claim by confessing to be a Christian, but I do not mirror Christ, those who do not know Christ, will only know Him by what they see in me.

Romans 2:21-24 Therefore the one teaching another, do you not teach yourself? The one preaching not to steal, do you steal? The one saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one detesting idols, do you rob temples? You who boast in Law, do you dishonor God through breaking the Law? For the name of God is blasphemed among the nations because of you, as it is written.

James 2:1-10 My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Christ, the Lord of glory, with respecter of faces. For if there comes a gold-fingered man in fancy clothing into your assembly, and if there also comes in a poor man in shabby clothing, and if you have respect to him who has the fancy clothing and say to him, You sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, You stand there, or sit here under my footstool; Did you not make a difference among yourselves and became judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him? But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? Do they not blaspheme that worthy Name by which you are called? If you fulfill the royal Law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors. For whoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

1st Timothy 1:12-20 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who strengthened me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry-- the one who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did it in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before about you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them, holding faith and a good conscience, which some have put away and made shipwreck as to faith. Among these are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

1st Timothy 6:1-11 Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed. And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers. But rather let them serve, because they are faithful and beloved, those of the good service receiving in return. Teach and exhort these things. If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to Godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions, meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is Godliness: Withdraw from such. But Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and it is clear that we can carry nothing out. But having food and clothing, we will be content. But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all evil, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, Godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.

The Godless Capitalist is Spiritually dead with (and because of) greed and hoarding; this is the plight of the super wealthy. They could hoard multiple billions in profits, while people starve around them! Capitalism has so indoctrinated its citizens, that this kind of Spiritual death has been normalized; a brainwashing that has been the anesthesia of the marketers and profiteers who promote the "faith to the brands" mentality to begin with! This "label-loyalty" even spills over into other aspects of the culture, including of course, religion. But religion is just what's left-over when God is taken out of the away! There was, and there always will be, those who use God and religion and Scripture, to gain resources for themselves; to avoid the labor fields. The carnal hominid is driven by the hoarding of resources; they gain security in an insecure world, by this hoarding collection. Look at the many homeless people in urban settings. They are often Spiritually bankrupt (and thus mentally ill; deranged), and as such, they are mere animals with a base-mentality for survival. They have shopping carts filled with junk, but to them it is their survival pack; it is their possessions; it is all they have, even though they really have nothing! But even with nothing at all, they still collect and carry around often big piles of (what most would consider as) trash. And because they have never labored for their own food (growing, hunting, etc.), they have become dependent upon the pity of other urbanites to give them sustenance; they will die in some urban alley, never knowing the life that God has for us all, in the natural world. This applies to everyone who lives un-natural lifestyles. Without living faith, humans become comfortably addicted to taking from other humans; they become addicted to urbanite lifestyles. The taker mentality has been normalized; in times-past, humans fought those who tried to take, rather than labor for their own needs.

Because they do not have faith at all, they use religion as pathway to personal acquisition, as well as the accolades of men. Its a win-win for the Godless-religious, who get an audience, the praises of men, and an income, all rolled into one sweet package (the religion burrito)! We of the Indwelling, are to have nothing to do with these takers. We ourselves, must labor and provide for our own, from the creation itself, as much as we can. It is hard to do this in cultures shaped by Godlessness. But like those few righteous in Sodom City, God has called us to flee from these locations, for the wrath of God is not going to let it go forever. I am not referring to God utterly destroying the Godless cities, that will happen in the end of the age; I'm not talking about Armageddon, and neither was the 1st Timothy 6 passage (above). We are to flee those who are dedicated to living contrary to Christ; we are to flee to another place so that we can live as Christ-followers, and if that means leaving homes and towns and family members (who do not wish to flee), then this is what we must do. That's what the Amish did, and still do! We cannot do as the Godless-religious; they stay/remain in the midst of sin (they remain Sodomites) and allow the sin around them, to draw then in; slowly, over time, so that they do not see themselves in the pit until its too late. And so, we expect the Lord to return at any time, but this message was not about paranoia; it is not about changing our lives as we sit and await the end (like many dooms day cults that set the dates of doom). We are called to be ready at all times; today, tomorrow, next year, next decade. In other words, it is not about the preparation of our earthly things, it's about our Soul preparation. Even still, we are not to be immersed in sin as we wait; as we live. We are instructed over and again, to live as if the Lord will return today, but to still prepare to be here tomorrow, also! We are always dressed and ready to go, on whatever day God calls us home; be it from the grave, or from the housetop (it don't matter to us).

A little note about Bible translations: They're not all equal!

When I see words like "iniquity" translated down to the word "lawlessness", I see the essence of the original language lost on the translator (or reviser). If it be intentional or accidental, I simply do not rely on any one source, for anything, save God! I happen to like the KJV, but it is just a translation of a translation, over many generations. Without the Indwelling Holy Spirit to guide us through Gods word... heck, through everything... we hominids are otherwise, limited to our brainpower. It is the Indwelling Holy Spirit that empowers us and makes us see, we are in darkness! We are Enlightened, not by the reading of words, but by the Indwelling itself. Without that inner Light, we can only see what's in front of us; hence, the cult-like focus on the translation itself. God can reach someone who is deaf & blind and cannot even read brail; How? The Holy Spirit, ask Him! Notwithstanding; I was brought into the faith with a King James Bible (the Cambridge wide-margin), and the KJV is my computers default translation. I also have the RKJV (because I'm its revisionist), and the MKJV, the CEV, and of course, the original Hebrew and Greek. When I do searches and research, the KJV is the default search: I often parallel between then all. I like to do my daily reading from the CEV. If you have the Indwelling Holy Spirit in you, and that relationship is real; profound; life-altering, then you have the very Author of the original Holy Bible, in you now! I am an Author; let's say that the Japanese decided to translate one of my books into their native tongue. Now, I don't speak/read it; I could not confirm if that translation is accurate; if it captures all the nuances I intended, indicative of differing languages and cultures. Notwithstanding, I would rather they have it in their language in any case, than for them to never have it at all.

I came to the Lord in 1990, through what I consider today as a cult. Did this cult hinder what God intended to do with/in me? Perhaps a little, perhaps not; in either case, I'm here now, and so I want to say to all those who get a little too caught up in Bible translation debates, to forget straining at that gnat, and get on with your own walk. To believe that a poorly translated Bible will end up destroying what God foreordained, is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. I have God-in-me; I harbor the very Author of Gods Word, yoked in an eternal bond with my Soul. Do you honestly think that God cannot communicate to me, what God intends to communicate? Are you brave enough to challenge the power of the Indwelling Holy Spirit, with your translation theories? The The King-James-Only Movement is a cult, like anything else humans devise, in order to divide over. The very act of divisionism, is not to separate from the world, it is Satan trampling on seeds! Even the idea of unity brings out the theological guns of ecumenicalism and the one-world government pathology. News flash; God is a dictator; The Lord Jesus Christ will return to utterly dominate the world, and destroy evil with a tortuous flame. There will never be a true, one-world government, apart from what God will establish as the Supreme Dictator over Earth, humanity and the universe! And so, the moral of this story; get a life in Christ, let the word of God transform you so radically, that you will never again, look into the cup of men, and see those pesky gnats; you will drink from the Living Water and forever fly far above all the temporal crap that Godless humans get themselves caught up in. Amen?! Understand this; there will be multiple millions of humans floating in the abyss forever, who could quote the KJV Bible in volume. With rare exception, all English-speaking cults in the past, used the KJV! Translationism is a diversion from transformation! Notwithstanding; If you want it, and you already have the E-Sword Bible program on your PC, you can add the 1611AD KJV to your program as an addition! As a (once) Missionary to SE Asia, I realized that English was a second-language to the bulk of humanity: Aside from the Godless-religious self-centered Americans, the remainder of Gods creations do not read English, and so I always place a language translator at the bottom of all my pages so that the 75% of Gods creation can have this page translated into their own language. You selfish narrow-minded morons would not understand that nor will you ever care. You are the Godless-religious and so you only care about yourself and your own beliefs, you do not actually gnosis God at all, and likely never will. And know this as well; the translator will not translate the KJV properly into their language anyway! That's why I use modern English versions, for the sake of the bulk of humanity, whom God may lead to these pages! The KJV Only cultists only care about being right; their lord is their ego, with pride and arrogance as their internal guides. They are side-takers who love to contend and argue and experience anger and resentment. They are anti-Christ, and will not even know it until that prophetic day (Matthew Seven Christians)! The sad part is that the word of God, itself, has become just another brand name; another talisman to divide over; to argue over, and I'm certain this grieves God greatly. It's become the "my Bible's better than your Bible" as with children who claim "my dad is better than your dad"; it's just that immature and petty.

Bible Idolatry!

There is no universal canon of Scripture that is accepted by all Christians. The best known are the Catholic and Protestant Bibles, which contain eighty-one and sixty-six texts (originally); the Ethiopian Orthodox Church accepts eight books not recognized by other Churches, and the Syrian Church, one of the oldest Christian Churches, rejects five books commonly included in other canons. The Church "fathers" similarly disagreed with one another; many offered their own lists of canonical texts. While there was much overlap, there were no identical lists. These disputes are similar to what is happening to this day; we have the KJV-Only crowd (mostly Baptists), and the emotion-frenzied crowd (Southern US Pentecostals), and stiff-necks galore! Everyone has some level of value they place on the word of God, but none have the definitive idea of what is Gods word and what is not. I stick to the Bible I began with, a Protestant King James Bible, as my study Bible, and I have it on computer, along with the original Greek, Hebrew, and also the best modern American version yet, the Contemporary English Version (CEV). This is a reading Bible, not necessarily a study Bible, but it really brings forth the original text within our modern mindset. And this is perhaps, the greaest testimony against the frauds of the faith; that of having to live ones faith in lifestyle, rather than on side-taking and finger-pointing as a diversion to their otherwise Godless life. I am also aware that the KJV or the CEV are not the one and only true words of God. In fact, it's the Indwelling Holy Spirit within me that tells me what is of God, and what is not. Unlike the Pentecostals, I do not speak in tongues, nor do I believe anyone does, at least, not as they interpret it. In other words, God is God, and can DO anything: But that fact does not mean that God is doing, or saying, what so many try to assign to God. They believe in emotion-satiation as the way to know God; this is what most non-Pentecostals think of when they hear of the Indwelling Holy Spirit.

Competitivism is one major fruit of Godlessness, for it is the core-nature; the totality of carnality that haunts the hominid existing without the Indwelling Holy Spirit ruling and reigning within them. Without God-in-us, the human is indeed, a bipedal hominid, differing very little from the rest of the primate world. The Godless like to take sides, just go to any sporting event. Oh sure, it is not as bloody as it was in times-past, but the carnality is still there, stewing just under the surface! These same Godless hominids participate in the traditions of religion, and their radial carnality surfaces in the us-against-them pathology, where our team is superior to your team. Godless humans who are culturally indoctrinated within Islam, become angry terrorists; likewise, those indoctrinated within Christianity, bring their Godlessness into the religions, where they take sides against the enemies of this Earth. Of course, we of the Indwelling (the actual Saved) already know who the only true enemy is! The Saved have a universal perspective, whereas, the Godless-religious exist trapped within their own micro-experiences (manifest in denominationalism, patriotism, nationalism, racism, secularism, etc.: Us-ism!). But in fact, Jesus Loved and died for, the entire human race; God created this planet for us all! The Godless are small-minded and superficial (and thus, ignorant and easily lead), and see only their own little world! Salvation takes place on a person-by-person basis: It's not the domain of any particular group, or theology, or any other label or brand name. Jesus said of a group or family: Then two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. (Matt.24) This means that the idea of any one group, denomination, sect or race, having more "Saved" people in it than another, is ludicrous. What Scripture teaches us is the opposite; that the Laodicean Age is in full-swing (indeed, coming to its end!), and the numbers of Saved humans on Earth right now, is infinitesimal (my guess would be one of ten million, conservatively). And the majority of those are in the poorest nations, with precious few righteous humans remaining in UnGodly Sodom Annexed! The proof is in the people.

Idolatry is rampant; there are vastly more humans who worship idols than even during Jesus' time, and I'm referring to percentages. We have more human idols than ever before, and the star-struck human race follows the life and the actions of people they will never meet or know. But what is worse, is the Bible Idol phenomenon. Without the Indwelling Holy Spirit turning on the back-light of Scripture, the book itself, becomes just another idol; just another talisman to hold up as "mine"! The Godless-religious use their own selections as a way for them to feel superior to others; the need to feel superior is fruit-evidence of a person who is empty on the inside. The proof that the Holy Spirit is present and dominant within a person is that they are fulfilled, complete, secure, emotionally mature, empowered and self-confident! The Living Water (John 4) quenches all thirst, but without it, the carnal mortal craves, and those cravings are made manifest in actions, inactions, lifestyle choices, and mindset (and so on). The Saved/Transformed are focused on Christ, not on Earthly things. In other words, not on food or fashion, careers or cars! We are what we eat; we are what we spend most of our waking hours doing, and thinking, and purchasing, and entertaining ourselves with. If God were recording every waking minute of your life, what would it reflect? Guess what, He is! The torment of hell is not the works of God; it's the sum of you!

Romans 8:6-9 | 1st Corinthians 2:10-16 For to be carnally minded 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 it be. So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. | But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But {however, notwithstanding} we have the mind of Christ.

Critical Element!

A major "paradigm shift" took place, with the life and death of Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ was not the final act of what occurred during this epoch. It was/is the Indwelling Holy Spirit, that can potentially Indwell humans, that sets the stage for human future. Many see Jesus as the center of the paradigm shift, and He was, but the reason Jesus came to begin with, was to introduce the epoch of God; the Indwelling. Jesus Christ was a man; a human, and was only here for 3 decades. He said that He was going away (physically), but that He was not going away (Spiritually):

John 7:33-43 Then Jesus said to them: Yet a little while I am with you, and then I go to Him who sent Me. You shall seek Me and shall not find Me. And where I am, you cannot come. Then the Jews said among themselves: "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? Is He about to go to the Dispersion of the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks? What saying is this that He said, You shall seek Me and shall not find Me, and where I am, you cannot come?" And in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying: If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, "Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (But He spoke this about the Spirit, which they who believed on Him should receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.) Then when they heard the Word, many of the people said: Truly this is the Prophet. Others said: This is the Christ. But others said: Does the Christ come out of Galilee? Has the Scripture not said that Christ comes from the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him. {as always happens among the Godless-religious!}

Joh 14:6-30 Jesus said to him: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him. Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. Jesus said to him, Have I been with you such a long time and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. And how do you say, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? The Words that I speak to you I do not speak of Myself, but the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the very works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes on Me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater works than these he shall do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you may ask in My name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be IN you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world does not see Me any more. But you see Me. Because I live, you shall live also. At that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who Loves Me. And he who Loves Me shall be Loved by My Father, and I will Love him and will reveal Myself to him. Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him: Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us and not to the world? Jesus answered and said to him: If a man Loves Me, he will keep My word. And My Father will Love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not Love Me does not keep My words, and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me. I have spoken these things to you, being present with you. But the Comforter; the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You have heard how I said to you, I go away and I am coming to you again. If you Love Me, you would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father, for My Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens you might believe. I shall no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of this world comes, and he has nothing in Me.

And so the proof of salvation; the evidence of the Indwelling Holy Spirit, is Love (Gods Love) and obedience to Gods word, which means that it does not matter what it may cost us in this life! Jesus was speaking of the future, which is our past! We must understand that the Bible fits into a timeline, and we must know what a time we live in. The Old Testament is a look back in time; we of the modern era have the great advantage of hindsight; perhaps this is why the numbers of humans were so low in the past, as compared to today. When we look back in time, via the Old Testament, we get the picture of why Jesus Christ had to come to this Earth, and die. Indeed, many will read the first part of the book of Genesis, and read it as if it was written by Gods very hand. But we must understand that much of what was written there, was not a play-by-play documentation of what occurred, just like with the book of Revelation. Much of Genesis is written from visions of the past, just as Revelations was written from visions of the future. I.E.: The Old Testament was not written by Adam or Eve! And so we must understand that it is not a literal document, as is the New Testament, which was written at the time of its events. When we read the letters of Paul to the churches (many of which he had founded), we can see this play-by-play documentation! And so, we must understand that what was written in the early parts of Genesis, was not an account of the creation, but rather, an account of a vision, and just like with Revelations, the vision was not clear, or literal. But this does not rule out its veracity or its meaning for us, as humans-future. In other words, some parts are literal accounts, but others are writings of visions that was not fully understood. After all, John (in Revelations) wrote allot about dragons (A great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads!). Are we to believe there are, or were, literal dragons? We know these are mythical creatures, not literal ones: They are symbolism, not literalism! We must understand Genesis in this same light; indeed, in The Light!

We modern humans know now, that Earth is millions of years old, and so we must take the visions of the beginnings of creation in the light of what we know today, and understand that it was not given to us to take directly, but rather, to help us to understand the place in time, wherein, God intersected with us; where and when God brought us into the bigger picture of Corporeality. There was life on Earth, long before God began the human experiment, and this fact, in no way, defuses the Genesis accounts, once we see them from the light of the Indwelling Holy Spirit. But without that light, the words are all we have, and thus, they can only be seen as literal. But in doing that, we lose the communication with the Soul; the core of what God is trying to communicate to us, as His human creation. And while the cults try to make the Indwelling Holy Spirit some circus act, the true evidence of the Indwelling, is not mystical nor magical; we do not speak in unknown tongues (babble) nor do we carry on like fools (handling snakes, etc.), just because the Scripture mentions miraculous acts that occurred during the birth of the faith. Most of those who believe this, are gluttonous simpletons: Being such a person reveals to us (as fruit on the tree) that they do not have the Indwelling Holy Spirit within them at all! They may be playing with evil spirits, but the Spirit of God brings light and conscientiousness, self-awareness and wisdom into our lives. God-in-us makes us become more like Yahshua; self-disciplined, self-aware, focused, devout, sacrificial (just to name a few)! Jesus Christ would net live an average Capitalist existence upon Earth, go to church services, and then spend the rest of life going into debt as a consumer of mans things! But the Godless-religious who are many generations in darkness, do not have any concept of the God of the universe, and so, they experience human emotions, and then assign God-traits to those emotion-experiences. Without the Indwelling Holy Spirit, the only thing within, is the brain itself, which is how the evil one can manipualte the lost. It is how/why Jesus said:

Matthew 13:16-23 But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear what you hear, and have not heard them. Therefore hear the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the Word of the kingdom and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown by the wayside. But that which was sown on the stony places is this: he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy. But he has no root in himself, and is temporary. For when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the Word, he immediately stumbles. And that sown into the thorns is this: he who hears the Word; and the anxiety of this world, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful. But that sown on the good ground is this: he who hears the Word and understands; who also bears fruit and produces one truly a hundredfold; and one sixty; and one thirty.

Bible Idolizing and the Academics of Scripture:
Because it's Easier to Study It than to Live It!

Most who become Protestants get caught up in the knowing: that s, they learn a little from one Pastor/teacher, and soon think they know all their is to know. But the Bible itself says that "in a multitude of teachers there is wisdom"! We must listen and learn from many sources, and take all things back to the word. However, what ends up happening, is that people become religionists, but never Spiritually transformed. And this happens today, in such great numbers, that Jesus referred to them in Matthew 7 (see my book, Prophetic Matthew Seven Christians). My list of Pastors, Doctors and Professors is extensive (my mentors): Now, this number is not necessary for most; I've worked in Christian Ministry, first employed by the BGEA (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) during the early 90's, where I worked at a radio station that was both FM & AM; one was praise and contemporary Christian music, and the AM was mostly teaching. I'd listen at work, and then at home when not at work. When I came to Christ in 1989, I had that instant craving for the word, and dug in deep and wide (and I'm still there 2 decades later)! What I've notice over the years, is that the "Bible believing" Protestants become dogmatists about the word; about some stance they have sided with. They have never been transformed Spiritually (born-again), they just found some ideal that they could ally with other humans, to oppose yet other humans. The Bible and Christianity became just another wedge, and the secularists especially, jump all over this! We see this secularism in the Godless world, in the Muslim world, and in the Hindu world. It is the us-against-them pathology/mentality. But when the individual human surrenders unconditionally unto the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and dies to the here and now, this individual opens up his/her volitional Soul to the Indwelling Holy Spirit. Once that Spirit Indwells the individual, a radical, measurable transformation takes place, and that transformation is not religious in nature, it is ones lifestyle, ones mentality, ones intellect, ones directives. We only need to read the Bible with God-eyes to get a glimpse of such Spiritual transformations. From Peter to the Rock, or from Saul to Paul, such a transformation is not just radical, it's powerful; it is not just life-altering, it's life-surrendering!

I am a New Testament Christian, and I think that the Old Testament has an entirely different purpose for us post-Pentecost. That is, we who live in unconditional surrender to the will and the usage of the Lord, we have the possibility of having God-in-us; something that was not possible without the redemption of sin, that Lamb of utter sacrifice; that sin-debt paid for on the Cross of Golgotha. Jesus came to make the way for this Spiritual epoch to be possible. But this is not to take anything away from the Old Testament; indeed, my life would not be fulfilled without it. We are supremely blessed by the existence of the Old Testament (the OT), and I could not fathom living without it. It is an awesome and incomparable documentation of God interacting with early humans, and thus, it is vital to knowing God. The OT pointed us to Christ; it is the forecast to the coming Messiah: Jesus Christ our Lord and our God! Jesus was God in the flesh (God-Corporeal) who came to Earth to make the propitiation for all the darkness that is within us all. Without Him, we would have no hope; we would be in eternal darkness. Every human has a Soul, but that Soul is dormant, and it cannot be awoken or enlightened, until we surrender unconditionally unto the Lordship of Jesus Christ. But the presence of the Soul, creates within all humans, a longing to know God. This is why people try to find God, in a variety of ways. The tribes of old (and even some to this day) attempt to know a deity; this is why all humans look for God, with what they know. Many go to church, still others seek God within Gods very creation, as we witness with many indigenous humans. The dormant Soul hungers for the bread of life; it thirsts for the living water; it stumbles in the darkness seeking the light. But only those willing to surrender unconditionally to Christ, will ultimately find the bread, the water and the light! God will judge those who never had the opportunity to know Christ, based on their characters; based on their lifestyles. But to know all about the Lord Jesus Christ, and then to reject Him, is to seal ones fate; for these, it would be better if they were never born! Indeed, self-righteousness is a manifestation of Godlessness; pointing out sin will not convert people to Christ!

The Indwelling is not some minor effect of being Christian, it is all there is! Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone, but He is not the rest of the building; we are! We, that is, the Body of Christ, and, we are not a part of the Body of Christ, just because we follow some religion; it has absolutely zero to do with which Bible you possess or which church you attend or what is your language our skin color. There are both Saved, and unSaved people, peppered about throughout all of Christendom, for it is more about the individual willingness to yield up our lives (our dreams, our careers, our goals, our things) and consider them all dung (as the Apostle Paul put it); to lay our very existence unto the foot of the cross, and then, getting up and walking away from it; to metaphorically wield the knife over our child-sacrifice, as with Abraham; to sell all our worldly riches and give it to the poor, so that we can follow Him, as Jesus instructed the rich ruler, and disciple want-to-be! God is looking, not at our religion, but our submission, not at our earthly focus, but at our celestial focus. There will be the Saved and the unSaved, among the Amish, the Baptist, the Orthodox and the unorthodox; among the Syrians and the Ethiopians, and Spanish and the Americans, the Russians and the Europeans. In other words, God knows the heart of us all, and so, that will be the final core of Judgment. But know this; Jesus came to Earth and died, to bring about the Indwelling Holy Spirit, for it is only that inner Light, that directs us into all things God. I can see Gods writings in texts that were left out of the final orthodox canon. Does this hamper my faith? Not a speck. The Indwelling Holy Spirit teaches me, not mere words on a page. God reveals Himself to myself; I could follow Christ (unto death), even if all I ever had, was one Gospel book! And so, why all the fuss over what is "of God", and what is not? This is a debate that was born, and is perpetuated, by the Godless-religious of past-present-future. They are the vehicles of Satan to continue to do just what Jesus said would happen; study the parable of the wayside seed. The Orthodoxy, without the Indwelling Author of Gods word, had to try to figure out all that was written, from their mortal brain. Without the Indwelling Holy Spirit, religion becomes just another culturally convenient entity to avoid laboring; the Godless, and the Godless-religious, are slave to their own laziness; their own carnality. Religion became for them, an opportunity to "get off the farm", as it were. Jesus said that most of humanity will prefer going down the Broadway to destruction, than the sidewalk to the Kingdom; this is a fact and so you must expect to see it in real life. The majority of humanity will see the glitz and glamour of the big cities; lots of people and lots of businesses going on there; they want to take what they have, and squander their youth, as did the prodigal son. But in real life, few ever return broken and humbled and ready to repent and give up their carnal lives. Many instead, stay in Sodom, and build churches there; they get hirelings to run them and tell them that everything is going to be alright! This is how the businesses of religion got started. This is how the orthodoxy got big and powerful, and why people allowed them the elevated status they projected. The simpleton wants to be lead; they want to be told what to think; conversely, the Indwelling gives us the mind of Christ, and we do not need to be lead or taught.

Like the Pharisees of Jesus' time, the men who saw an opportunity to stay clean, sedentary and well fed, did not have the Indwelling Holy Spirit of God, to guide them, and so, the books of the Bible was their tools; their weapons; the sword. They had a social and/or political agenda, and so the books that most served those needs and desires, are the ones that are held up; but, those that did not help their causes, were banned. This happens to this day; the Godless-religious spend years trying to work out what they want to see for themselves (in this life), and they master their interpretations from one Bible, and then, another book comes along, or another translation, and they have to start all over, as it were. They just get all their theological ducks in a row, and then along comes some other thing that makes them have to study more, or to revise their former assessments. Easier to just ban anything that disrupts their little sand castles! But that Sword, cuts both ways, and as we see in human History, it has divided asunder, just as Jesus said He would (Matthew 10): It has divided the frauds from the followers. And so, the thing to look for; the fruit that shows itself to all, is not in the books that one person holds sacred, and another discards; it is not in the brands of religions nor the drums of theology; no, the fruit to look for, was set before us in the life, the actions, the lifestyle, and the end-result, of the life of Jesus Christ; or Master Yahshua! All things were done by Christ, to usher in the age of the church, but that church was not a building, a hierarchy nor a denomination, it was (and is) that peppering of individual's globally, that individually and independently surrender their existences over to the bondservantry of, and unto the Lordship, of Jesus Christ, and everything else in between, is just Satan squashing seeds!

Luke 17:28-36 So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed them all. Even so it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day he who shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise, he who is in the field, let him not return to the things behind. Remember Lot's wife. Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two shall be grinding together, one will be taken, and the other left. Two shall be in the field, one will be taken, and the other left.

2nd Peter 1-14 (cev) Sometimes false prophets spoke to the people of Israel. False teachers will also sneak in and speak harmful lies to you. But these teachers don't really belong to the Master who paid a great price for them, and they will quickly destroy themselves. Many people will follow their evil ways and cause others to tell lies about the true way. They will be greedy and cheat you with smooth talk. But long ago God decided to punish them, and God doesn't sleep. God did not have pity on the angels that sinned. He had them tied up and thrown into the dark pits of hell until the time of judgment. And during Noah's time, God did not have pity on the unGodly people of the world. He destroyed them with a flood, though He did save eight people, including Noah, who preached the truth. God punished the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and this is a warning to anyone else who wants to sin. Lot lived right and was greatly troubled by the terrible way those wicked people were living. He was a good man, and day after day he suffered because of the evil things he saw and heard. So the Lord rescued him. This shows that the Lord knows how to rescue Godly people from their sufferings and to punish evil people while they wait for the day of judgment. The Lord is especially hard on people who disobey Him and don't think of anything except their own filthy desires. They are reckless and proud and are not afraid of cursing the glorious beings in Heaven. Although angels are more powerful than these evil beings, even the angels don't dare to accuse them to the Lord. These people are no better than senseless animals that live by their feelings and are born to be caught and killed. They speak evil of things they don't know anything about. But their own corrupt deeds will destroy them. They have done evil, and they will be rewarded with evil. They think it is fun to have wild parties during the day. They are immoral, and the meals they eat with you are spoiled by the shameful and selfish way they carry on. All they think about is having sex with someone else's husband or wife. There is no end to their wicked deeds. They trick people who are easily fooled, and their minds are filled with greedy thoughts. But they are headed for trouble!

While we are here on Earth, we are to avoid those who live in mortal sin; those who practice sin day and night. We are not to stay immersed in it. We can go into the cities of sin, and try to do mission work; to do good works, and to share Christ with the lost. We are to set up camp there, but not build our homes and plant our gardens there! Our communities where we raise our families are to be Godly places; holy sanctuaries, if you will. If the sin-soaked lifestyles of the Godless, effect our wife or our family, we are to move out of it; we are to flee to Zoar! Lot may have gotten his wife and daughters out of the city of Sodom, but he was too late in getting the consequences of that lifestyle baptism, out of his own wife, and he lost her in the retreat. Indeed, the sin had also branded his daughters as well, and they lost their moral compass by association (Genesis 19). And so, what we learn from this narrative, is that we are to flee from the midst of Godless living, and try to set ourselves apart from it and them. We understand what Proverbs proclaims: Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he (or she) is old, he will not depart from it. In other words, for good and for bad, whatever we place our children in the midst of, they will be branded by that upbringing; they will become the consequences of that influence, because for children, they become copies of their cultures; they become acculturated! It is not until they reach the age of accountability (the exact age, only God knows); in the Jewish tradition it was the early teens. This is why we Anabaptists do not believe in infant or child Baptism, because it requires a full consciousness of what we are dedicating our lives to. It is not a means by which we prevent our children from becoming sinners, to protect them from sin and death, or to assure their Souls in Heaven regardless of how they live. This was why the Anabaptists separated from Catholicism (well before Martin Luther was born), and why the Catholic Papacy martyred them (see page/chapter titled: Anabaptist).

Yahshua Messiah!

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Copyrighted Excerpts from Author Paul Andrew Anderson!
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