GOD's Prophets and Heroes  Would Have been Put Away Today

     I had this friend who was my best friend for over twenty years. Twice GOD took her out of my life, and twice I brought her back into my life. I was doing what other church people said I needed to do, and that was to forgive, even though she was never sorry. Well, that’s never been my understanding of what Jesus said in Matthew 18, but that is a different blog I wrote some months back.  Because my friend worked at a hospital the a clerical position, she seemed to thing that qualified her to diagnose me as mentally disturbed. I suggested that we could love each other and be friends, but only if she stopped telling me what I needed to do. I’ve never once told her what she needed to do or be like in her life, yet she seems to not be able to resist advising me to go against what GOD is leading me to do and say.

     In Christianity today, we find two different basic kind of people.  There are the Miss Betty Baptists who worship a much more sane and logical God, and then there are the false name-it-and-claim-it people who re-write the New Testament and cherry pick selections of the Old Testament to support their crazy claims.  Today's focus is on the Miss Betty Baptists of today, the ones who say the Bible is the truth, but they deny the "insane" things heroes of the old did.  It's okay for them to be in the Bible for story telling, but it's not how GOD operates today, to them only. When Paul wrote Romans 15:4  he was speaking specifically of the Hebrew Scriptures, because Paul always quoted the Hebrew Scriptures, what the Christians call the Old Testament as it is obsolete.  

     Let’s make a brief list of things GOD told His devoted servants to do that by today’s standards would get them locked up. (When a writer says they'll be brief never believe them!) Let’s start with the Abraham, whom GOD told to sacrifice his son on the altar. He went as far as bringing his son up a mountain, tying him down on the altar and holding the knife over his son’s head to sacrifice his promised son as an act of obedience to GOD. Suppose Miss Betty Baptist had witnessed this. Today, she would have have called in the authorities.  Abraham did have a servant with him, but he had the wisdom to leave the servant behind.  Sometimes, we have to leave a friends in the past, halfway up the mountain top to be with YHVH GOD.  He tends to isolate His chosen so they hear only from Him and learn to ignore and silence the naysayers. 

     Let’s move on to one of my favorite stories, one that you won't hear taught in today's church, or at least you won't hear the truth of it taught.  This servant of GOD joined the enemy nation to hide from an angry king, lived there for sixteen months, murdered thousands of innocent men, women, children, and infants, without the direct command of GOD, keeping some of the plunder for himself, and lied to his General of the enemy army about it. He made sure to leave no witnesses alive to rat him out. Then when the king of this enemy nation was going to attack his own brethren in Israel, this servant was first to volunteer to prove his loyalty to the enemy nation and his own warrior skills to that general by volunteering to kill his own people. When he was rejected by that general's own soldiers, that general, who found him quite worthy, had to send this servant back to his home camp and force him to sit this battle out. The general said of this servant, “He has undoubtedly made himself repulsive among his people Israel; therefore, he will become my servant forever.” (See 1 Samuel 27). This servant was labeled by YHVH GOD Himself as a man after GOD’s own heart. Today's Christian doesn't know or even understand the depth of depravity that man reached because today's pastors put a western Christian spin on it.  When you read this part of the Hebrew Scriptures, you will note this was not a holy war that YHVH GOD commanded David to do, even if they were among the peoples who were never annihilated as commanded three hundred years prior during Joshua's generation. That makes him a mass murderer by today's standards.  Shoot, he would even top Jim Jones if he were judged today by the worldly Miss Betty Baptists of today. 

    Those are my two favorite stories of what Miss Betty Baptist would have criminally prosecuted. Now, on to some of GOD’s anointed prophets, like the one who was told to literally eat, by chewing and swallowing what we call the Bible today.  After that, he was commanded to lie on his left side of 390 days, and when that was complete, to lie on his right side for forty days with all the sins of the GOD’s people listed laying right beside him. Shall we mentions the visions he saw in the sky and wrote down?  He would surely be put away today.  Another is, of course, the lowly one who  took 32,000 troops, letting 22,000 who feared fighting for the LORD be dismissed from the army, then 7,700 dismissed because they lapped up the river water by cupping their hands and drinking from their hands also be dismissed. He then gave the remaining 300 troops only pitchers and lamps and told them to surround a camp of 132,000 well-armed enemy combatants to just shout and yell at his signal.  Today, he would surely be relieved of his command and sent to the brig for the mentally unstable. 

   The problem with most Miss Betty Baptists is that they do not believe that YHVH GOD of the Hebrew Scriptures is the same GOD Jesus spoke of in what they call the New Testament.  Most Miss Betty Baptists think too highly of themselves, hence YHVH GOD of the Hebrew Scriptures cannot work through them, because they have put him in their western contemporary Christian box. There are some church people who believe just going to church is serving GOD. They will tell you that they have their 15-minute devotions with the LORD and that makes them a devoted servant, but stepping out in faith to do the things others call absolutely F'ing crazy is too far for them.  

    I’m considered mentally unstable by some for believing that GOD would use a lowly unknown like myself. Answer me this, did Gideon consider himself a lowly unknown? Did David? Did Ezekiel? Did Isaiah, and every other person called of GOD consider themselves too lowly?  Yes, they did, but GOD did work His mighty power through them? Seems to me the more church people box GOD in the less He does through them.  Mind you, we need to discern if those who fall down laughing hysterically in the spirit, or have feathers and/or glitter  dropping from the ceilings in their arenas  and call that a work of GOD are crazy or are manipulating and deceiving.  One needs spiritual discernment these days to not only believe that GOD does miracles, but to know which are man-made performances of a god they created or the ones spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures. 

    If YHVH GOD has called you to do something most people would call crazy, try to find an example of one in the Hebrew Scriptures and discern whether it fits into the  character of GOD.  I can assure you, if YHVH GOD calls you to a work, it won't be one that boosts your ego or inspires national or world-wide fame in you.  In fact, like most of GOD's true heroes, it will make you want to run and hide because it will require great sacrifice on your part and a lifetime in the fiery furnace of affliction as an outcast by those accepted by the church today.