Prayers without substance is as useless as  Jack-O-Lanterns warding of evil spirits

 

The Celtic pagan practice of hollowing out a pumpkin, carving a grotesque face and illuminating it  on October 31  was believed to ward off the evil spirits of dead people would come back that night and wreak havoc on those who did them bad during their lifetime.  Obviously, it's based on a faulty theory that dead spirits can actually return to earth, when we know from the parable Jesus told of Lazarus and the rich man in that they most certainly cannot return to earth.

If you know me, I always use metaphors to describe the life of a believer.  I find pumpkin carving a good metaphor for the prayer life of a believer not rooted firmly in the Whole Counsel of GOD.    In its natural state it is attached to the vine which is firmly rooted in the fertile soil and full of what GOD put in it, i.e., seeds and  the leafy veins that feed the pulp of the pumpkin that cause it to grow. When you carve a pumpkin, pull out all the seeds and that slimy stringy substance all you have is an empty shell. You don't really have a thriving vegetable anymore, you just have a mess that will rot away in a very short time.

There seems to be this growing trend of prayer teams popping up with a party line of prayer calls on a weekly basis.  Likewise struggling believers seeking prayer support from strangers has flooded social media.  I really wonder how many of those who respond actually stop and pray for that person.  How do they pray, what do they pray?  How does that person know that those prayers are doctrinally or Scripturally sound?

Everyone is seeking the mystical more these days without seeking Scripture or the historical context of those Scriptures.  The answers that some responders give are usually some worn out verses  that  carry no weight.  How can Scripture carry no weight?  They can simply by being used in the wrong context with the wrong historical context.  Not all Scriptures are meant for every believer, however, the principle behind the Scripture usually can be.  A perfect example is the one Scripture I hate the most.  How does one hate a Bible verse?  One can hate how it’s over-used and used incorrectly.  Jeremiah 29:11, is that one Scripture that irritates the heck out of me.  Jeremiah gave that Scripture in context to the Jews and the 70 year exile that He had ordained for them to bear for their disobedience in idolatry. What exactly is idolatry?  It is mixing GOD’s formular for worship with man’s own ideas and made-up traditions for worship.  In my one of my previous posts, I used Christmas as a perfect example of that practice of idolatry.  The church loves Christmas, because they have their own man-made traditions regarding its practice, but it was never ordained by the LORD as a spiritual act of worship.  (Romans 12:1.) 

In the book of Jeremiah, the prophet was letting GOD’s people know that after their exile, He had a plan to use them, again.  The principle behind that Scripture is true, for the most part, however, it is NOT for everyone.  Who is it not for? It is not for the person who has turned his back on GOD and walked away to the point of being of no use to Him, anymore.  It is NOT for the believer who is Christian in name only, doing his own thing, worshiping GOD in his own way, whether it is agreeable to GOD or not, because he feels good about what he’s doing.  Folks, it isn’t about us feeling good about worship or service to Elohim.  Usually, the church goer is  not interested in learning anything new.  What his pastor has told him is good enough for him, and seeking out the historical context to Scripture is unimportant to him because he already knows as much as he wants to know about the Adonai that he is allegedly worshiping.  Many times, it’s isn’t even Elohim, but an imagined one, one who thinks like he does.

There are some real whacko's out there, self-proclaimed prophets who have decided in their own minds that YHWH has appointed them prophet to the nation.  All you have to do is go to YouTube and in the search box type, "Rapture dream," and every self-proclaimed Joe-apostle/prophet has a video describing some kind of cataclysmic tidal wave or atomic/nuclear war.  It's chicken-little times a million or more. Listening to most of these people, you know that they are not Biblically grounded, but they are mystically assured of their calling.  In other words, they do not realize that what they are saying is not supported by the Bible, as a whole, but the select verses that they choose to support their mystical experience.  Many of them are listening to deceiving spirits that boost them up to prophet status when it was never GOD who called them as prophets, but their own inflated sense of importance in the Kingdom of GOD. 

Now, I'm not saying that GOD doesn't speak to us in dreams, we have Biblical examples that He did, but really, people, do you suppose He is really visiting as many "self-proclaimed" prophets as is on YouTube and other social media sites?  The Bible covers a span of approximately 4,000 years give or take a millennium, and how many times did and Angel of the LORD actually appear in the dreams of His servants?  A handful of times, I would say, and look who He appeared to, what they accomplished, and for what purpose?  I mean there must have been at least a couple of million  of GOD’s people on the earth during those years, and he only appeared to a handful over a 4,000 year span. So what's the chance that He is popping in and out of dreams, sending telepathic cryptic messages to every Joe-YouTube-Prophet? 

I once calculated how many false self-proclaimed prophets might be out there, based on 450 to 1 in 1 Kings chapters 19 and  22, (Elijah/Micaiah). Now, today, if there are 4 billion Christians, using those statistics,  then less than ten thousand or so would-be bonafide authentic people holding the true office of a prophet, called specifically of GOD.  (See To Be or Not to Be a Prophet )

How does this relate to empty pumpkins?  Let me explain. The pulp, the vein and the seeds could symbolize the Whole Counsel of GOD.  The veins and pulp are the people, events, and theme of sin and redemption that interconnect all people, typology, doctrine, and history, in the Bible, and the seeds are the actual Scriptures.  You have to have a perfect balance of pulp, veins, seeds to outer shell and stem rooted firmly into the vine which is nourished in the fertile soil to have a perfectly balanced pumpkin. Once you cut the pumpkin from the vine, you still have a whole pumpkin, which is a useful fruit, but when you hollow it out, taking out the most important parts, then all you have is empty shell. That is the prayer life of a believer not rooted firmly to the Vine with all its parts intact, working properly to balance out the believers knowledge of GOD.

If we don't know the Word of GOD, backward and forward, then our prayers do not carry the power that they are meant to carry.  Do not get me wrong, I’m not saying that I do not believe in prayer, but what I’m saying is that prayer NOT based on the truth in the WHOLE counsel of GOD does not carry the same power. 

Far be it from me to tell anyone something so unScriptural as to stop praying, or that our prayers are not heard by GOD. What I am saying is that if one's prayers aren't bathed in the full knowledge of Scripture, based on solid doctrine in Scripture, with historical context in the content of those prayers, then one might as well be praying to the tooth fairy. Yes, GOD hears our prayers, but is that always GOD answering?  The Spiritual Realm is a very real and very dangerous place if the wrong people enter it through their prayers. (see So You Want to GO Swimming) May I suggest that the devil’s minions assigned to us hear our prayers said out loud?  Do you think it may be possible that they know who is Scripturally inept and who can be deceived? 

Satan is so crafty that even those who are well-endowed with the knowledge of Scripture can find it difficult to discern what is from GOD, what is our own concoction, and what is the enemy feeding our egos and flesh with some kind of nonsense that does not agree with Scripture?   A true prophet of GOD is going to know Scripture like the back of his/her hand, because surely GOD would NOT send out any prophet to preach or be a voice for Him if they were not fully bathed in the full comprehensive knowledge of Scripture and the historicity of GOD’s dealings with His people. .

I've heard some nutty "famous prophets" capitalizing on their 15-minutes of fame, spewing off the craziest stuff, claiming that GOD gave them these prophesies to write down.  To be truthful, his prophecies, and I emphasize the word HIS prophecies sound more like Dr. Seuss on religious psychedelic drugs. I can assure you that  GOD will not give anyone any new prophesies that are not already written in the canon of Scripture.  Whenever you hear anyone prophesy saying that they operate in the prophetic, that should raise a red flag, as that concept is a man-made doctrine, not straight from the Word of GOD.  If he says, “The Spirit of the LORD says,” you can be sure if he is not quoting exactly from the Word of GOD, it did NOT come from GOD. Unless what he says is and exact quote from the Bible, it’s not from GOD in the context that he is using it. 

Back in the days before Christ, the Holy Spirit fell upon GOD’s ordained prophets, and they became a prophet to the nation, however, we are living in the last days where the Holy Spirit dwells within each believer, so national prophets proclaiming that they have a message, (outside of Scripture) for the nation are NOT of GOD.  If there is a national prophet, he/she will speak ONLY the Words straight from Scripture that applies to the spiritual condition of the church. If a stranger comes to you and tell  you he has a message from GOD for you, thank him and let him know that you also have the Holy Spirit, and he doesn’t need an interpreter to give you a message.  He will speak directly to you through your study of Scripture.  In other words, if you aren’t studying Scripture, then more than likely you are not hearing from GOD.  Does GOD give personal revelation? Yes, He does, but for the individual  believer only, one on one, not for the believer to send a message to a nation or an individual.  Sometimes, I will come across a person in whom I sense the Spirit of GOD working, and I let that believer know that I believe GOD is going to use in the future.  I never give details, because I do not claim to know that person’s personal walk with the LORD or the detail of his life.  I just let them know that I have a feeling, and that’s all it is, a feeling, not necessarily fact. I direct them to the Whole Counsel of GOD and I advise them to seek out GOD for their own revelation from Him.

What I am trying to say to you is that the easiest way to tell a hollowed out pumpkin and a fully intact one is the by the weight and mass of the pumpkin when examined.  Careful analysis of what is being said compared to Scripture and the history of GOD's dealings with His people is how one can correctly scrutinize another's "prophetic ponderings."   The only way to be able to weigh the pumpkin and prayers is to know all that there is about what's inside both the pumpkin and the Bible. Therefore, if one is not fully equipped in their knowledge of the historicity of the Whole Counsel of GOD, one can easily be manipulated to believe any deceiving spirit that comes along, and let me tell you, those deceiving spirits are quite cunning and crafty sounding very Scriptural.  Remember, the devil knows way more Scripture than you and I do, and he know just how to use them to trip us up. 

In essence, if one posts a tweet seeking prayer, it is right to pray for that person, but it is even better to direct that person to the Whole Counsel of GOD for help in hearing from GOD.  I’ve spent over a decade in the fiery furnace of affliction and my only means of survival hasn’t been prayer only, but prayer combined is careful study of GOD’s people, especially those who have spent some serious time in the furnace of affliction, where GOD refines the dross out of the sinner and his flesh. 

Someone needs to speak for those who cannot!

 

 I have no husband, to speak of, so I know what it's like to be misunderstood, misinterpreted, misnamed, dishonored and labeled or black-listed.  Rumor has it, I have been black-listed among the pastors of my small town.  How bad can a woman be who is black-listed among alleged men of the cloth?  I cannot tell you why, but I can tell you this, I know the Bible, front and back. Am I an expert? Heck no, but I know more than many.  I say this not to boast, actually, these days, if you are a woman who knows the Bible, you are not liked among men.  I didn't read it to become holy, I read it because I hurt, and hurt a lot. So, a woman who knows what the Bible says is  black-listed, because of sinful human pride, something that comes so naturally, we don't even know it's there.  

My first blog that I ever wrote was titled, "The Woman at the Well was no Ho!"  It goes on to explain how it is that we with 21st Century eyes have labeled what could have been a very a holy woman as a "whore."  That poor woman was not an immoral woman, she was set apart. Oddly enough, the actual definition of the word holy means to be set apart.  She was set apart to be the first missionary, and now, because of the misogyny bigotry of men,  she has a bad rap.  She was a holy woman.  She had  rough life.  She was married five times, and the man she is living with is not her husband, said Jesus.  Now, let me ask you, besides being described as  Samaritan woman, where in Scripture does it say that she was shacking up, sleeping around, spreading herself thinly among the men of the town? I will tell you where, NOWHERE! 

In order to understand the context, one must know the historical context. It was a patriarchal system back in those days, a woman could not live alone. A woman could not work, unless she was a harlot, the oldest profession.  Even those women weren't there voluntarily, no more than the ones of today.  They were forced into it, because either they were abandoned, or had no other way to make an income, because people did not hire women for anything back in those days. Maybe she had no male relative to take her in and care for her.  A woman could become a slave, or servant, if she could find someone to take her in as one. 

 She had five husbands, that doesn't mean she fooled around on them, that means she had five husbands. Back in the day, if a woman made a bad meal, a man could toss her out, and without a family of her own to take her in, her only option would be to become a concubine, find another husband, or become and indentured servant.  Also, the lifespan of a man was somewhere in the mid 40's or 50's.  She could have been widowed one or more times.  

Maybe she was dumped by five husbands, because she was barren. A barren woman in those days were shunned. They were shamed, second only to lepers. This woman could have been one who was taken in as a servant, by a man, thus she was living with a  man who was not her husband.  Maybe she was living with a brother or son-in-law, or a brother-in-law. Here's something else to really consider, no one knows how old this woman was. She could have been 85 years old for all we know. Maybe she was  too old, not of child-bearing years, or she had a reputation of being bad-luck for a man.  

A woman who had been widowed several times was considered a holy woman, believe it or not.  It was said of her that GOD had set her apart to be holy, to be His.  I get this, believe me, I get this.  I was set apart.  Set apart for what remains to be seen, but being set apart means being put through the fiery furnace of affliction for many years, even decades.  She was burned all right, and to this day, she is still being burned, as a woman who was immoral when GOD favored her.  My husband left me.  Does that make me an immoral woman? Let's not just assume things about people, because we can't see people through GOD's eyes, we have human eyes, flawed as they are. 

      So why do I think that she may have been set apart, a holy woman, not immoral? Simply by her conversation with Jesus. She knew Scripture.  She knew what to look for in the Messiah. She understood the significance of Jacob's well, and she knew the controversy between where the Samaritans worshiped and where the Jews worshiped.  She quoted Scripture.  Let me ask you, how many prostitutes do you know that can quote Scripture? Not too many.  

Last but not least, this woman was believable.  This woman was bold enough to bear witness to Jesus. Respectable men back then didn't follow prostitutes when they bore witness about a holy man or a prophet.  Would you follow a prostitute who came up to you in the town square and said, "Come and follow me, I have found the Messiah!"  I am going to gather that you would not.  Neither would I.  However, if a woman who knew Scripture, who was reputed to be set apart by GOD, said, "Come and see what the Messiah has to say," Would you follow that woman? If you were set apart, you'd go to where that woman pointed you. If you were a proud seminary-taught man, you would black-list her and call her a trouble-maker. This I do know, by experience.

So, please, let's cut this poor woman some slack and stop referring to her an immoral woman. She was GOD's chosen instrument to bear witness to the town of Samaria to the Christ, the first one to do so. That's an honor, not a reason to be black-listed as a "ho!"

 

 

 Oh, Not So Holy Night!

 

I have held this off as long as I could, because I do NOT enjoy bursting the bubble of Christians, but once I learn a truth, I’m obligated to share it.  You are free to disagree with me if you like, or you can take the next 363 days, to pray, research, and search the Scriptures to either prove me right or wrong in your own minds, hearts, and conscience.   I don’t answer to GOD for what anyone else does in their relations and worship of Adonai, I only answer to Him for myself and my actions.  I have to do what I’m led to do, based on the truth YHWH reveals to me through Scripture, revelation (Rhema’s), and what I can discover based solely on historical facts.  Believe me, this was NOT an easy decision for me to make. 

We had a very toned down Christmas this year, because to spring this on my children that quickly, so near to the Christmas season, I felt would be unreasonable as a parent. After all, I’m the one who taught them from birth that Christmas was indeed a holy event, because we said it was, but not because Scripture said it was.  We followed the traditions of men, and one man decided in order to coaxed the pagans into this new state religion called Christianity, it was best to adopt their pagan practices, slap a Christian title on them, and declare them holy, because a lie from the pit of hell told these men that they were vicars for Christ, and infallible when it comes to revelation from GOD. 

So, yeah, I’m going after Christmas and going to pop that bubble to for some of you who truly have a heart after GOD, who are more afraid of offending GOD, than man.  This hasn’t been easy for me, either. Heck, I love those traditional Christmas songs from “Last Christmas,” to “Walking in the Winter Wonderland,” (which has NOTHING to do with Christmas, actually) to “Jingle Bells,” (again, Christmas not mentioned), to “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree,” to “Away in the Manager,” to my absolute favorite of all the hymns, “Oh Holy Night.”  I didn’t sing a single one this year, nor were any of them shaking the paint of the walls of my bedroom while me and the girls belted out our favorites with my speakers jacked up to full volume as we danced around the room, having the time of our lives, doing what we do every Christmas.  It was a difficult decision, and I missed the fun of it. 

Once, I learned of just how offensive the whole Yuletide season was to Elohim, I just could not enjoy doing it anymore. The kids really put up a fight about the Christmas tree, and I must say, I caved and let them put one up this year, unbeknownst to them, it’s going out in the trash the next day Rumpke comes to haul away the torn-up gift wrapping paper.  Yes, we did gifts, but there was no Christmas dinner, no holiday music, just gift giving, because they had their gifts picked out before all this truth came in and wiped away fifty-six years-worth of Christmas celebrations and traditions. 

Included for your reading enjoyment is the Twelve Christmas Traditions rooted in Pagan Culture  that the Roman Pope decided, “if you can’t beat them join them,” and slapped a “Christian” title onto these offensive-to-Elohim traditions.  Feel free to take this link, do your own research, and come up with your own conclusion. Again, you answer to GOD for your holidays, and I answer to GOD for my festive days I celebrate in honor of Adonai.  For example, we celebrated Hanukkah this year for the first time. It’s a Jewish tradition based on the celebration of the Maccabees defeat of the first anti-christ, type, (or example) in Antiochus IV of Epiphanes.  That was one cruel anti-semite, who paid and placed his own high priests in the Jewish Temple, and who tortured into submission the majority of the Jewish nation that was left after the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the Temple around 3-4 centuries before him.  Even Jesus honored that Festival of Lights in John 10:22, as he went up to the Temple in the winter to acknowledge the deliverance of GOD’s people from a tyrannical murderous demon covered in human skin.  It is not one of the Hebrew feasts that the LORD ordained in Leviticus, as none of those six feasts are observed by the church today.  That’s a whole new topic on the anti-semitism in the gentile church, which they will emphatically deny is practiced, but yet, is so clearly practiced by gentile Christian church, replete of all signs of any Judaic traditions, lest they be called out as Judaizers and heretics, bring up the Torah in the church.  How dare they do that? Another blog post in the future will be titled, “Oh Where Oh Where has the Torah Gone? 

If the LORD elected to choose a people to Himself, an then only, He should be able to ordained that which is  an acceptable practice to worship Him.  Copy-cat worship is not something He is okay with, because He is GOD and there is no other.  Every time I mentioned this new conviction to someone this year, I got the same argument that I used to give, that we are honoring the birth of Jesus, and yes, you are, but on the wrong day, in the wrong season, and with traditions seeped in idolatry.  GOD’s definition of idolatry in the Old Testament was for His people to adapt the religious practices and false gods of the pagan nations into their worship of the Most High. That was the sin of the high places that the divided nations were guilty of, instead of doing worship exactly how it was prescribed in the Torah.  It was what got them divided as a nation, then the ten tribes of Northern Israel virtually annihilated, and the tribes of Judah and Benjamin sent to Babylon for seventy years of exile, until they learned their lesson.  Let me tell you, when Elohim sends you into a 70-year time out, it’s highly unlikely that you’ll want to repeat the offense, by worshiping Him the way the pagans worshiped their false gods. It is most assuredly offensive to the Most High.

Someone who is truly adept at the New Testament will bring up Romans 14, when Paul declared one man’s unholy day an another man’s acceptable holy day. At least, I would have, and did, until I read the Scripture more closely, and realized that there was an exception in that rule was ( 10 For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through your knowledge the one who is weak is ruined, the brother or sister for whose sake Christ died. 1 Corinthians  8:10-11)   Likewise, in 1 Corinthians 10, the example Paul used referred to the eating of foods sacrificed to idols which was an abomination to GOD.  The details are different, but the principle of the practice is there.  When Jesus came to earth to fulfil the Law, he did not abolish it, he just took the principle of the Law to a whole new level of understanding.    He taught the depth of the Law, the meaning behind the Law. 

  Scripture must verify Scripture and one text taken out of text does not nullify or justify and action that may or may not be ordained by GOD.  With YHWH, it’s is always a heart thing, and never a performance thing.  So, celebrating a pagan’s traditional worship to their pagan gods is essentially the same thing eating foods sacrificed to idols.  Paul said that if they knew the food was sacrificed to an idol or a false god was strictly forbidden, then in essence  us knowing that holly and mistletoe and Christmas tree in your home is doing the exact same thing.  It is not allowed or accepted by Elohim, and it is an offense to Him.

Once the LORD pricks my conscience in this manner, like He did this year, then, I just could never see Christmas the same way ever again. It went from a holy event to a very unholy night/season, and for the rest of my life, I just cannot perceive it as a joyous event if the LORD says in Scripture that it is an abomination to Him.  What I thought for five decades was worship, now I know was an offense.  We are responsible for what we know at the time and what the LORD teaches us, when we are taught it, not before.  My  more than five decades of celebrating  Christmas was not a sin, because we are only sinning when we know it’s a sin. There are unintentional sins in which we will not be held guilty of, and then there are the outright rebellious sins we know to be wrong, in which we will stand and give an account. 

I just can’t do it anymore, knowing what I know, now,  because my conscience before GOD won’t let me.  I would rather offend man, even though it’s NOT what I like to do, than to risk  offending GOD.  If I have to choose between GOD and man, well then man  loses out. So, if I have offended you, I truly am sorry, but I will not repent of something that I now know the whole truth and nothing but the truth about, lest I offend my GOD and Savior. Next year, there will be no Christmas tree in our house, and I hope no Christmas presents. We are going to have to find a suitable substitution, and I can assure you, it will not be on or near December 25, at least as long as I am still breathing on this planet.

 After that, my children will answer to Him themselves.  As I advise all parents of adult children, they are not your children when they are adults, they are GOD’s, and you have to give them back. They now become just your offspring and any advice or counsel you want to give them must be sought out by them, not offered freely or oppressively, because you are not their mommy anymore. You do not answer to GOD for what they do as adults. You are only obligated to the LORD for teaching them what you do know while they are still under your stewardship. When the LORD teaches us new things, it’s because we have come to him to seek new things to be taught. He never oppresses a man into morality, it is always a choice on our part out of the love in our hearts for Him. For that is your bodily act of worship, and the only kind of sacrifice he wants from us.

 ONLY GOD can forgive sins, and ONLY then must we follow suit.

I have been going through the most horrendous spiritual depression, and there is no therapist, no medicine, no cure, accept one, forgiveness.   I've had this horrible war raging inside of me. It has turned me into a raving maniac on-line. One minute I'm shouting from the rooftop, swearing to take down Goliath, the next, I'm doubling back, because I just can't take this anger that comes and goes.  One  day, I think that I've managed it, it's forgotten and forgiven, then I have a flashback, and the burn starts all over, again.  I've been spiritually raped, and I just can't get over it. I'm sorry, but rape is an ugly ugly offense.  What is spiritual rape?  It is the same thing as mental adultery that Jesus talked about in Matthew 5, when we just lust after that married person.  

We are all familiar with what Jesus said, if we lust after a married person, we've committed adultery already in our hearts.    So, it stands to reason if we can commit adultery in our hearts, we can also commit rape.   If a man has manipulated a woman into bed by lies, schemes, and false pretenses, false promises, well then, that man has spiritually raped that woman.  Especially if that man claims to be a Christian.  Now, I'm not saying that I'm not guilty here. I'm as guilty as Bathsheba, but I'm way more sorrowful, and I have paid the price for my sin.  I repented and I've done my time in this prison of unresolved anger.   The offender on the other hand, will not even acknowledge the sin done to me. As a matter of fact, he has taken the road of Amnon in 2 Samuel, and hated me, blocking all communications with me, AND in the most hateful of ways.

To make a long story short, Amnon, son of David, the-apple-doesn't-fall-far-from-the-tree-son, fell in love, or lust with his half sister.  I know, ewww. . He had to have her, so his not so scrupulous pal told him how to get her in bed, and it worked like magic.  Once the conquest was accomplished, she was tossed out on her..., well, you know.  A raging hatred grew in Amnon's heart immediately after that.  It’s cruel fate, and I understand it, having lived it, myself.  He ruined her entire life by robbing her of her virginity and her dignity.  He not only physically raped her, but he spiritually raped her.  

So, I'm guilty, yes, I've repented and GOD has forgiven me, because that is the Grace and Mercy of GOD, but my dignity is gone, and so is my honor.  However, the other party in this not so happy party has not repented.  In fact, he has repeated the pattern with other woman he could do it to.  He has left a trail of broken hearts, and he isn't even the least bit sorrowful.  If he has repented, I would have known about it, because he would have done the right thing, and gone on his apology tour, seeking grace and forgiveness for all his victims.  I’ve given him opportunity after opportunity to receive my grace.  This last attempt was met with my reaching out to him as “marked as spam.”  We all know what electronic spam it, it’s JUNK mail, worthy of the garbage bin.  Who doesn’t hate spam?  Imagine being told, “you are spam to me and I’m sending you to the junk bin.”   I doubt there is an UGLIER thing a person could say and do to another who loved him, blessed him, and cared genuinely for him, even though NONE of those feelings or actions were reciprocated.  I wonder how many times we “mark as spam,” the times GOD reaches out to us to offer grace to initiate a response of repentance and sorrow for our ugly deeds?  

So, I imagine you can fathom the battle going on inside of me.  Christians, i.e. church people have been taught the wrong thing for generations, and that is the reason for the horrible battle we feel with hurt multiplied by guilt.  I'm free now, not any happier, but at least I do not have to do that which I cannot do:  

F-O-R-G-I-V-E    

I doubt anyone knows how much of a relief this is.  I know, I can hear you, too, saying, "Jesus tell us to forgive seventy times seven.  Allow me to educate you on something I see in this Scripture that I never saw before.  

When Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven time?"  Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times."    We have  been taught this verse so out of context it's not funny.  That's the problem with being a Christian and just going to church to be spoon-fed, or in some cases bottle-fed the Bible.  We are taught random Scriptures, and a pastor will build a whole sermon around this one Scripture. Even if the entire sermon is way off the pendulum of what is and isn't acceptable to GOD,  because he used a Scripture that seems to be in line with the sermon, we just believe him.  Did you note that little slight of hand?  The Scripture is in line with the sermon?  Shouldn't it be the other way around?  The sermon is in line with the Scripture?  

Let's note where this Scripture is; smack dab in the middle of Jesus instructing his disciples what to do about someone who sins against us.  In verse 15, it is clear that if this person does not recognize or acknowledge their sin against us on their own, we are to take it to them.  (Note, this is a brother in the LORD, we cannot do this with people outside the church.)  If this person repents, apologizes, Yay!  Yet, if not, then we should take one or two witnesses with us.  Again, if he repents, Yay!  Lastly, if this person continues to deny his sin, then boot him!  This means, NO FORGIVENESS.  This person now becomes the one worthy of the garbage bin.  If Jesus doesn't forgive him, then who are we to usurp Jesus's authority.

Next, Jesus give the parable of the unmerciful servant who owes his master big time.  He pleads for mercy and receives it.  He then in turn goes to his servant and demands payment for the little owed to him. This minor debtor pleads for mercy, but the swindler has no mercy and throws him in prison.  When the master finds out about this, the master hits the roof and the stuff hits the fan, for the unmerciful middle-management jerk, who thought he was more than he really was. The next time this unrepentant “rapist,” goes to seek some favor or deliverance from GOD on a matter in which he he cannot handle, relief will not be on the table, not until he repents of the deeds he has done to others. 

Do you see a co-relations here?  In all these situations, there is repentance. Just what is repentance?  Defined, it's changing one's mind to agree with God, in this instance about our sin.  If our mind is made up, and we don't believe that we sin, and we don't believe that we need any mercy or forgiveness, then we are granted what we don't want, no mercy, no forgiveness.  If GOD isn't going to forgive someone, we cannot, either.  Note in the story of the prodigal son, the father never went chasing after the wayward son when the wayward son ran out of money.  The father waited and watched from afar, until the son came to his senses.  Likewise, GOD doesn’t always chase after us if He knows that our hearts are hardened permanently, however, if GOD knows that we have a heart after His, hidden under all that dirt, he relentless chases us, but not necessarily with more handouts, but more trials, persecutions, problems than we can handle, until we come to our senses. 

Now, let me get this straight here, we all sin against GOD, thus what Jane does against GOD is none of my business, but if Josh Pew Warmer sins against me, and he refuses to acknowledge his sin, GOD hasn't forgiven him of that sin, nor should I.  Think about it, we can't give what we are not asked to give.  If GOD does not forgive Josh Pew Warmer, we have no authority to go over GOD's head, because there is no over GOD's head.  I know this goes against everything you've learned, however, I do believe that is why the church is in the mess it is in and ineffective in reaching people with the power of the Holy Spirit.  They Holy Spirit does not act when people think of themselves as the Holy Spirit and take on matters man’s way, or interpret Scripture in ways that man thinks it should be.  In other words, the doormat doctrine is not in the Bible.  Maybe if we stop forgiving those who aren’t forgiven by GOD, then they won’t be free to continue to perpetuate spreading their sinful seed around to unsuspecting, and other stupid women like me.   

In 1 Corinthians 5,  Paul says boot the sexually immoral brother. Don't hide it, sweep it under the carpet or affirm it.  For the brother who thinks that the sexually immoral brother is NOT sinning against GOD, or the church, then both need to feel the door hitting them in the @ss on the way out. We have no right to boot the non-believer who does not already have the Holy Spirit, but only the believer who claims to be a believer.  He is doing far more damage to the body of believers by claiming to be one, sitting in a pew every week, unscathed, and continuing in his lifestyle of an unbeliever. 

Scripture always needs to verify Scripture and I wouldn't be me if I don't go back into the Old Testament to find where this principle originated.  It takes us back to the book of Joshua.  I am sure that you all know the story of Joshua and the Israelites circling the city for seven days then shouting down the walls, (by GOD's Hand, of course).  There was one other thing GOD commanded, and that was "don't steal any of the goods for yourself."

Wouldn't you know it, there was a bad apple in the bunch, and Mr. Achan got a little greedy.  He just plucked a few devoted things for himself, just a little, not much, a couple of gold coins nobody would notice, perhaps.  Nobody but GOD would miss it.  Because of his sin, the next battle did not go so well, and they all went running home with their tails between their legs, all those who survived, that is.  When Joshua sought from the LORD why,  the LORD let it be known that there was a bad apple.  Here's the part, though, he didn't tell him who it was.  Joshua had to call the tribes one by one, heads of clans one by one, fathers once by one.  Finally when they got to Achan, he knew perjury was out of the question, because GOD knows when we are lying. Congress may not be able to tell the difference, lie detector tests sometimes can sometime not, so are not reliable, but don't you try to get your sin past the Almighty, because He was up there watching it, play by play, tapping his fingers, knowing that this was not going to end well for the bad apple.

This is why I don't get televangelists who fleece the flock.  They apparently do not know the Bible or GOD, but he knows them. He knew them before the sin, during the sin, and after the sin.  So, back to Joshua, Achan confessed and sadly for the Achan family tree, the bud stopped there.  GOD had the entire family "put out" of the camp, in a very permanent sort of way.  So, to sum up, one bad apple in the whole bunch surely does spoil the entire barrel.  One approved sexually immoral person in the church ruins the entire congregation, rending them powerless to fight the enemy we fight today, the dark forces, principalities, authorities, or as I called them, the rip-tides in the Spiritual Realm.

So, Scripture must verify Scripture.  Now, I'm not telling ANYONE to go out and take revenge, that's GOD's job. What I am saying is, cheap grace ain't no grace at all.  Cheap grace is permission to do it again, and again, and again.  Cheap grace is forgiving the sin that GOD has not yet forgiven.  Cheap grace wreaks havoc in the body of the church and the body of the "victim."

I can't say that I feel better because I don't have to forgive what GOD hasn't forgiven, because here is the tricky part.  I want to forgive like GOD forgives.  I have had a sad life, and there are way too many hurts that GOD has allowed to happen to me that intimately portray GOD's hurts we cause Him.  I read that GOD feels our pain when we are in pain, I beg to differ.  I believe we feel GOD's pain when we sin or are sinned against.

 

 My Beautiful TEN Bicycles from GOD, Planned and Built Before the Creation of the World!

As a mother of eight, I'm sure it would be difficult to believe that I once struggled with infertility after my fifth baby.  I know, that's not infertility if you have five children.  Let me tell you, if you know there's another one coming deep down in your heart, and your doctor tells you that you're too old, and be thankful for what you have, grateful and satisfied is NOT something you can depend on feeling for the rest of your life.  I knew I needed another baby.  Who needs another baby after five?  A mother in whom GOD put the desire to have babies, and did not explain to her why, it was just there.  During that difficult time, I had heard a story about a father who bought his young son a bicycle for Christmas, but he bought it in July. He hid that bike, for six months, knowing full well that this was going to be his son's best Christmas ever.  Every night at bedtime, he got down on his knees with his son while the boy asked GOD for a bike. The father kept adding a new detail to the bike while they prayed to GOD for Him to bring it on Christmas.  Of course it was a detail that the bike already had. Eventually, that son had a perfect picture in his mind and heart of the type of bike he wanted for Christmas.

Of course the father agreed with the son, and encouraged him that GOD delighted in giving him this, his heart's desire, and well he would, as he was the one who placed this desire in his beloved son's heart.  The father built the son's hope and expectation up and placed the desire of that particular bike in the son's heart, knowing full well, he had it already bought it, and it was  waiting for the son, so as to build the boy's faith in GOD.  It seems kind of primitive and elementary of an example, a earthly father who love the LORD would set his son up like that for a carnal desire, but it had ramifications throughout that boy's life, because he trusted and delighted in his Godly father, and as an adult, he was able to delight and trust in his Heavenly Father.  

That is why Psalm 37:4, is my life's verse, because my desires aren't really mine, they were put there by YHWH Himself.   The Hebrew word for "shall give,"  means set or put, therefore, if we are delighting and trusting in GOD for our lives, completely, the desires of our heart, GOD set or put there.  He put them there, because he wrote those things in our life story long before the creation of the the world.  They did NOT originate with us, but with GOD even if we think it was our own desire based on our own experience of what our heart has seen in our future.  (Psalm 139:16).  Two good examples are, first, was my obsession to move here to Kentucky 25 years ago, and all eight of my babies.  

GOD began this work early in my walk with Him.  I was only five years old in the LORD, when I became obsessed with moving here to Kentucky from Massachusetts.  I did not even know where Kentucky was, nor what any of it was like.  I thought I wanted to move here because my best friend moved here, and I was just longing after her.  Then, in 1993, she invited me here.  I immediately fell in love with the Commonwealth and the beautiful landscape.  That was it for me, I HAD to move here.  I dragged my family out six months later, and my husband also decided that moving here was a great idea.  From that day forward, I cried every day for it. People kept asking me why Kentucky, and I couldn't explain it, I just desired it with my whole heart.  I just wanted to so bad. I had no idea then that GOD had put it in my heart, because GOD had planned for us to make our life here.  He was gracious to me, and the desire only pained my heart for six months.  

The next lesson in GOD putting a desire in my my heart took ten years for GOD to accomplish in me.  It wasn't until after I had my last child, and the next in explicable desire came into my heart, that I finally realized that my desires for these whacky crazy things never did originate with me.  I mean, who wants eight babies, right?  For the next fourteen years, before every child was conceived, I desperately wanted another.  When my sixth child wasn’t as easy to conceive as the others, I went into a tail spin of depression and despair, because my doctor had told me that at 39 years old,  I was “too old,” and I should be grateful for the five blessings I already had.  I was grateful, but I knew in my heart, there was another one coming.  Long story short, I went to a new doctor who diagnosed my problem as hypothyroidism, and three weeks later I was deliriously happy and very pregnant. The desire never went away, and two more blessings were sent to our already tightly packed home. Then, after the eighth one,  whom we named Max because we reached our max, the desire left, completely.  

Two years later, at 48 years old, when I found out I was pregnant, I will admit to being quite disappointed, because I didn't want another. It took a couple of weeks for me to finally get to the point of saying, “Not my will, but yours, LORD, and I accepted the probability of a ninth child.  A few weeks later, at my first doctor’s visit, I learned that I had miscarried.  I can’t say that I was devastated, because I wasn’t.  It was never my heart’s desire to have another, nor was it the LORD’s. I needed that lesson, and I have leaned on that truth to get me through these past eight horrendous years, because GOD has been building that "bicycle" in my heart for over eight years, every detail of it.  Christmas hasn’t arrived, but He keeps leading me to believe that it’s coming soon. He’s even thrown in some bonuses details that I didn’t “desire,” a head of time, but am thrilled about, like finding out today, my baby’s having a baby! 

Here I am, twelve years after my eighth child was born, and eight years after GOD put another desire in my heart, I find myself in quite the pickle.  Yes, I know this desire came from GOD, and all the details along with it, however, it's been eight years. It seems that the first lesson of six months, then the next of eighteen months, hasn't taught me a thing, because I still cry every night over this desire that GOD set in my heart.  Yes, the details have changed a bit over the eight years, but the principle is the same.  When we are grown up enough in the LORD, the challenge of working out that desire can sometimes become a major storm in our lives, tossing us with every twenty-foot wave.  The LORD fashions the heart, (Psalm 33:15), He rules over every living creature and being, (Psalm 24:1), and He will cause us to suffer for the good that He planted in our heart, because it's the story he wrote for us, long before we were ever a dream in our mother.

JESUS IS A CONSPIRACY THEIST

(Part 2) 

(If you haven't read   Part 1  you aren't going to really get part 2!)
     

     I keep getting confused between the church and the divided nations period,  because the similarities are so striking.  Why do you suppose?  My tin-foil-wearing-hat--friend, learn this one thing and learn it over and over, man does not change, and neither does GOD, only the clock changes, and the pages of a calendar.  You know what they say, a man who doesn’t learn from the past is likely to repeat it.  We all but wiped out learning the vibrant rich  historicity of GOD’s people in the church today. It's all about Jesus in the New Testament, Paul as his prolific writer, as if Jesus really wasn't all that involved in the Old Testament days.  The average Christian didn’t even know what I just explained about their civil war and their corrupt kingdoms, which GOD allowed/caused, because they wouldn’t keep contemporary “idols” worldly paganism out of the Temple and daily burnt sacrifices.  They mixed in the white flour with the wheat flour, and all they got was indivisible processed flour which could be blown away by a good stiff breeze.  Sound familiar?  (Another blog )

I’ve seen many so-called self-proclaiming prophets with their doomsday scenario warning, preaching and hollering in the streets, prepare to meet your maker, because the end is at hand, and they mean the second hand on the clock, not the hour hand.  I am thinking GOD is at the hour hand, and they are spinning by Him so fast, they don’t get it.  One Messianic rabbi (I don't ever mention names) is  out there selling his wares, making the den of robbers (Luke 19:46,  Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17)  look a small corner market.  He even compared some of Israel’s kings, good and bad to ours, (Presidents) and inferred that GOD was using our leaders in the same roles, like President Trump is portraying King Jehu.  (If you don’t know King Jehu, maybe the stunning similarity between Bill and  Hillary Clinton as a type of Ahab and Jezebel might help.)  Does that  make more sense?  I know the striking similarity is kind of peculiar.  Here is what I learned and why that assumption is wrong. He is wrong to compare events in the natural then with events in the natural here.  That borders on replacement theology, and you are going to have to research that one on your own.

I’m not saying history doesn’t repeat itself, but GOD is specific about one life, one death, and then judgment. There’s no reincarnation, no one is returning to attempt a re-do at what failed 3,000 years ago, or so. However, if you apply the story and historicity of the things that happened in the natural then, you can pretty much see a spiritual re-do in the church. This isn’t replacement theology, it’s called a type, typology, foreshadowing. 

Here is a picture perfect portrait. The Northern Kingdom split and took  the ten tribes with them, and in order to keep their people from venturing back to Solomon’s Temple and risk losing their obedience and devotion, they created their own capitol city in Samaria.  Jeroboam even re-wrote the burnt offering’s procedure manual and brought in anyone who wanted the job of leading the new “religion” of the Jews, or so what they called it.  This was the new Judaism, and they got to make up the rules, bring in whatever pagan rituals they wanted, like sacrificing their children in the fire to Molech, temple prostitutes and orgies at church.  Now, who wouldn’t love a free for all every week when they gathered, getting naked and having some “innocent” fun?”

Well, in AD 333, Emperor Constantine allegedly became a Christian, because it suited his political aspirations, and he decided to make/force his entire army and subjects declared Christians.  There were forced baptisms, or death. New pagan rituals were brought in, and their ‘gods,’ were incorporated by giving them “Biblical” role models and names.  That way the people could ease into their new religion, and they wouldn’t have to change too much. The people wouldn’t revolt and if like man’s nature always proves, absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Eventually, this new anti-semitic religion, which now had a new name, could fade out slowly all things Judean.  They even forced some of Jewish people who were descendants of the original 12 tribes who were carted off to Rome as slaves in AD 70,  to change their names because they were too “Jewish” sounding.  So Issak, became Saako, or Sacco, and Simon, became DeSimone, nice Italian names with that nice Italian flavor and sound, and my grandfather's parents' name.  They even made their own capitol city, a new one, not Jerusalem, naw, they like the seven hills of Rome better, not to mention that all the best emperors/politicians  flocked there.  (I’m thinking DC and RCC is that what you are thinking?) Eventually this “Christian” church became so powerful; it was impossible to distinguish the church from the government.  In fact, the church ran the government and the neighboring kings and queens, lest they be sent to hell by the pontifex at the time, because whatever he said, goes.  If the pope is sending you to hell, off to purgatory you go, because he had a heart, and decided there should be a truck stop on the way to hell, so those who screwed up their lives, like EVERYONE does, they could go wait there and hope that their relatives love them enough for the church to gas up their trucks and send them to north instead of south. 

Eventually, there was a revolt, and a new “sect” of people came out of there and they wanted to return to the basics, only so much time had gone by, like a millennia, they didn’t even know the basics anymore.  Anti-Semitism was alive and well,  so, they did the best they could, but remained married to the state for safety.  This group couldn’t stop their in-fighting either, so they split up into about 50 different states, I mean denominations.  Are we seeing a parallel here, government working with religion and religion controlling government?

If you study that period of the divided nations and the church age, it’s almost if they are twin sisters.  Even some of the Southern Kings, were reformers, for example, John Hess could play the role of King Hezekiah, an early reformer, and Martin Luther would do fabulously as Josiah, because he found the missing Law/Bible verses that brought grace back into the fold. 

So, if the church age is similar to the age of the divided kingdoms, what could possibly come next?  Ah, the rapture because things are getting so bad here, the worse they get, the closer we are to the rapture,  Ehhhhh!  Wrong. 

You see, right before final judgment of a people, GOD brings  peace and prosperity. GOD blesses the nations before He lets them be conquered. He lets them have their cake and eat it too. I don’t know why, maybe He was trying to woo them back, or maybe He knew the prosperity would lull the sheeple into a deep sleep, and cause a pruning or pulling out the serious searchers from the hobbyists who gather just that once a week, and do their daily 15 minute Bible devotion as if they were getting their ticket to heaven punched. There are hints in Scripture that this is exactly what GOD is doing. It's not the end that is coming, it's the party before the end.

(Matthew 24:38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,)

     There is a time and event/era in the Bible that all the scholars have slipped over, missed it's importance in these latter days of the church age.  They missed, a prophecy, a foreshadowing, a natural event that happened in the Old Testament but hasn’t happened in the spiritual yet, in a global fashion.  What’s that? Well, GOD had the northern kingdom wiped out by the Assyrians, a dreaded fierce people and it never rose, again, Could this be a foreshadowing of the Global elitist, the pedophiles taking down the Vatican with them?

The southern kingdom of Judah got a few more chances to get it right, because they did have some righteous kings.  Eventually, though, they were dragged off to Babylon, about 600 miles away, or maybe an ocean’s worth.  Geological humor there.  I’m talking the Mediterranean, NOT the Atlantic.  GOD kept warning Judah of a 70 year grounding, time out, captivity, being sent to a foreign land, being slaughtered and suffering if they chose their own way, and not His prescribed religious orders. Those prophets GOD sent to Judah were Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Joel, Micah, and Ezekiel.    GOD told the prophets what was around the bend.   The problem with those prophets is they got vision from GOD of the future, but no time-line.  So, for example, Micah was about 150 years premature with his predictions and consequences, so no one paid attention to him, I mean after all, decades went by, and he was a self-proclaiming party-pooper prophets.  They labeled him as a false prophet and wrote him off.  Habakkuk even gave some details of the invasion by Babylon,

Habakkuk’s ‘prediction/conspiracy-theory prophecies were about five years prior to the first invasion where Nebuchadnezzar lay siege around Jerusalem.  A way to conquer a nation is to starve them, to weaken them. Make them sick, make food and toilet paper impossible to get. The fear alone would drive many to end it all, because the broken ones could find no hope.  Nebuchadnezzar  cut off all in going and out going flights, highway, roads, so no one would enter or leave.  He left an army of “protestors” outside the walls of the city.  If anyone attempted to leave, they were beaten and killed.  The Babylonians were not nice people. They were savages. (Read Habakkuk 1)  

Habakkuk got that vision and little head’s up FIVE years or more before it became a sad reality.  It was if he had a Q board to tell him what to expect, in details.  The Person running the board was the original Bread from Heaven.   Do you know just how long waiting FIVE years is when you are waiting for what GOD told you, assured you, and showed you He was going to do, especially when it meant a drastic life-changing event or death of a nation/persons?   I do.  It’s freaking agony. 
Okay, so the weakened Juhahites and left-over remnant of the other eleven tribes were dragged off to Babylon to serve and live with  the Babylonians.  They were told to blend in.  They were instructed to live peaceably among the pagan nation, not rebelling, but building homes, having families, growing food, oh, and “evangelize” a little about the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when the occasion arose.  Seventy years is a long time for a people to assimilate into a very WEALTHY and prosperous nation.  Eventually, they fit right in, like it was home sweet home, and the Babylonians were there friends and neighbors.  Sure, they missed the old country, the old days, but the money was flowing, the people were growing, and easy street became a very friendly neighborhood. (Do you see the mega-church similarities?) They could grow and become a huge conglomerate church, I mean people, creating prosperous business for themselves, enjoying the good life. That was until GOD showed Daniel that part in Jeremiah’s writing that said the time out was limited to seventy years.
So much for that prosperity, they were going to have to pack up their belongings, go back to their ghost town Jerusalem and rebuild from the ground up.  GOD didn’t’ call all of them. He only called about 42,000 plus their pets, flocks and goods and staff, I mean servants.   He even had the good King Darius help fund the venture and with his blessing, too (Tax exempt status).  King Darius liked the Israelite’s GOD, he liked everyone’s gods.  After all there are many ways to The Holy City, right? Not one specific route or mode of travel is required by GOD, shoot, there’s tons of paths along the highway and byways of church Constitutions.
GOD moved in the hearts of a select remnant to go back and start over from the basics, the purity of true worship, not clouded with Babylonian-style cultural additives.  It was a hard road, the received lots of persecution from the people who stayed behind all those seventy-years and mixed in with the pagans Assyria left there from a hundred years ago.  The more persecution they suffered, the harder they worked, the more important became the work for GOD, and no non-Jew or even Jew-mix was going to take part in rebuilding GOD’s Temple.  No marketing techniques needed, they didn’t’ need to incorporate, because they were small group, self-governing, determined to try to finally do it right before GOD.   They finally finished the Temple and the city walls in record time.  The Temple, at the time was small, but pure. They realized that  it’s not about brick and mortar, campuses and cathedrals, it’s about worship, pure and  simple and straight from the heart. 
Sadly, for them who remembered the good ole’ days, and the glory and splendor of Solomon’s Temple, Zerubbabel’s temple was pale in comparison. They made some necessary changes by creating the scribes/media among the priestly families.  Ezra wrote their long journey from David’s days to the exile  Eventually, as man always does, it took only about a couple hundred years for them to become corrupt, again, giving into the reigning regimes persecution and compromising the Scriptures to save their own butts.  A revolt by the Maccabees, miraculously restored the Temple worship after a tyrant defiled it.  They still couldn’t get that loving GOD and each other right, so GOD was going to have to send His Son down there to take over and straighten those confused flawed, but lovable chosen nation of GOD.  
I’m wondering if you are getting any of the hints here.  I did what Q did, I threw a few hints and clues along the way, so that if you really wanted to know where GOD is, what He’s doing and who He’s calling to rebuild his spiritual  “temple,”  you will have to do some digging and researching to seek after His own heart.  If you like it in Babylon, because it’s prosperous and comfortable, by all means, stay if you want, because if you prefer Babylon, it means GOD hasn’t moved on your spirit to leave Babylonian Contemporary culture where the church is hard to distinguish between the world and the government.  That’s really bad if the western church can be compared by GOD to the DC Swamp and it’s crooked politicians.  Let me tell you, that is exactly how GOD see the bulk of the prosperous RICH church (Revelation 3).  
I don’t expect to make any friends with this blog post, in fact, like our wonderful POTUS,  Donald Trump, I’m an outsider, I can’t be bought, I can’t be swayed to do it the way we’ve always done it, and for sure, I’m not the most genteel of gentiles.  Shoot, I’m not even a gentile any longer! I don’t do things the way the world and the church do things, I operate out of my small corner of the world with my sling and my stones.  (Allen means stones)   I’m out here on this very lonely roadway in the wilderness heading back to “Jerusalem” to rebuild, to start over, and I’m waiting for GOD to send some companions and co-workers, because heaven knows, there’s NO way I will get this right if He put me in charge, unlike Ezra, I’m a complete screw-up! 

 
      Don’t tell me I have to go to church to be a good politician, I mean Christian and do it like everyone else has always done it before, because even if I’m on this wilderness road all alone for the rest of my days, there is no way in Hell, I’m going back to Babylon!  I have my exile family, my QPatrtots and we are a family.  We aren’t a church; we are revolutionaries, we are patriots, we are regular people who thank GOD every day we are Americans,  and we are trying to restore our grand Republic.  The QAnon connection is ALSO Biblical, and I found it.  You see, the “handwriting is on the wall!”   (See Daniel 5)
   Side note, I see signs of GOD everywhere because I look for Him everywhere and He gladly obliges.  GOD loves numbers, and He speaks to me through numbers and happenstance.  Note the 19 at the bottom of this page.  Nineteen in Hebrew stands for Divine Judgment, and the 19^th letter in Hebrew is Qof, what we would call Q in our alphabet!  Judgment is coming, but the some of the church is clueless as to who it is going to be.