Most Atheist Are Agnostics and for Good Reason. 

   Whether you are an atheist or agnostic, or you’ve been a prodigal for so long that you question even the very existence of GOD, this is as good as any time to consider the obvious. It is the human condition to question everything and try to distinguish the real from the imagined. GOD made us in His own image, which means he wants us to think things through. Maybe you are looking for something to get you through this sea of despair that is trying to drown you. I want to assure you that I have been in all of those places, so I speak of what I know experientially, if that is even a word. I remember doubting GOD’s existence, actually not believing at all. I remember thinking that Born-again believers were holy-rollers, nuts, weirdos, and not wanting anything to do with them. I also broke up with GOD after twenty-one years of walking with Him as a devout student of the Word. There are many reasons why we break up with GOD. I also can relate to treading water so long in the sea of despair that you just want to stop paddling and use your last breath to suck into your lungs a gulp of that salt-water of death. Drowning can be the easiest or the worst way to go, depending on one’s frame of mind.

     I have lived through and survived the fiery furnace of affliction for so many decades, that commonsense says, this has to be of GOD, and He must have a perfectly good reason for it. I have found that if it doesn’t make human sense, it usually makes GOD sense. I’ve been hurt in every way possible, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I have yelled at GOD, researched GOD, sought GOD, and doubted Him. Each time, though, I’ve asked Him to show Himself real to me, and the faithful GOD that He is, it wasn’t long down the road that He would knock my socks off with something so coincidental to my particular problem that it would be mathematically impossible to explain away. I’ve seen thousands of acts of GOD that are simply inexplicable. Sometimes it’s an event, sometimes it’s a Scripture, sometimes it’s a person, and sometimes it’s aptly placed on my social media feed. Regardless, when I seriously contemplate it, I can hear the Holy Spirit say, "Wrap your brain around it for a few minutes, you'll see that it was Your Father keeping you going when you continue to want to give up."

     Coincidences aren’t chance, because there is no such thing as chance. If there was, then they’d be no such thing as an All-powerful and Sovereign GOD. I tell people the best way to judge one's sanity is this: A sane person with David-like faith questions whether or not he's delusional, and a delusional person is convinced he's sane. So, if you are feeling guilty and beating yourself up for doubting GOD, or skeptical and want to find some way to denounce everything in this world, don’t worry about it. GOD understands. He knows our thoughts before we think them, and He has the answer planned ahead of time. If there is anyone who understands what it’s like to be human, it’s GOD, because he was. He came down here and suffered hell on earth in the physical limitations of the human body. The Bible says, He remembers that we are but dust. (Psalm 103, now go look for it.)

     He understands time as we experience it, even though He lives beyond time because when He came to earth as a man.  When Jesus finally did realize who he was as the son of a carpenter, but the Son of GOD,  he had to wait two decades  to call his first disciple, and three more years to complete the work.  GOD always answers the sincere heart, the one who really is seeking Him. That’s a guarantee. He proves Himself to the sincere hearted, to the broken and contrite, those are His favorite kind. One thing I will tell you is this, He is not an on-demand GOD. He works on his own time schedule, His own way.  He answers us when the timing is perfect, not when we demand it of Him.  

   However, for those with a chip on their shoulder, trying to prove He doesn't exist, you can count on Him not answering.  If one is hell-bent on demanding GOD think and act like a human does on a human's time table, well, you can count on him proving you are right in your own mind, until it's too late, when you find out after your last breath that you were wrong all that time. YHVH GOD will never leave or deny the truth seeker with a humble heart, he will ignore the one with the proud heart, or the one who has created Him in the image of humans. I'm still waiting for GOD to prove to me that I'm right about a few things, I've been waiting thirteen years, but until then, He'll continue Divine Coincidence after Divine Coincidence because He is empathetic to my struggle. He will be to yours also.  After all, He wrote your story before you were even born.  He wrote every mistake into your story, because some of us learn  by trial and error, mostly error. 

AUTHENTIC  VS  COUNTERFEIT    

     I am a writer who hates writing. That's like saying I'm a track star who hates running.  I find writing to be quite a  chore, like cleaning the shower, but it needs to be done. I tell people cleaning the shower clears out the soap scum, and writing clears out my brain. So many thoughts run amuck up there. I used to take ADHD meds, then I went KETO and realized Ketones are so much healthier for my brain, but not quite as effective. Lately, I've been writing a lot about the counterfeit teachings of the Christian Church. It's not like I'm mad at them, but more like I'm mad at the Adversary, who is an expert counterfeiter. 

      What is a counterfeit? It's something that wants to be like the real thing and thinks it's the real thing and doesn't have a clue that it's not the real thing, well, most counterfeiters are like that. I guess you could say my first marriage was a counterfeit marriage. I thought we were spiritual mates, I was sure of it. We weren't. I thought we were soulmates, I was sure of it, I was wrong. It lasted thirty years so it passed the test of time, but I was wrong the whole time. I had no idea who my husband was because he hid his true self from me and himself for so long.  I still don't know who he is or whether he is authentically saved. I'm relieved about there being no hell, though, because that haunted me for ten years. I was so worried that he lost his salvation, at least I know if he has, he won't be suffering conscious eternal torment and torture for all eternity, because that truth was counterfeit too. All these counterfeit truths, or LIES that I believed do make me angry, though. This post took more than a year to write, because I had to be as diplomatic about it as a northerner could be. The BIGGEST and Most EGREGIOUS LIE of Christianity

      The enemy of GOD, sometimes referred to as the devil will do his best to convince people that they are the real deal. He will give them counterfeit happiness, counterfeit riches, a mega-ministry with millions of followers. The thing about the counterfeit is that it always comes first. Take for example King Saul. He was the people's preference. He was tall, handsome, powerful, and GOD even gave him some successes in the beginning, however, his counterfeit loyalty to GOD came through loud and clear within a couple of years of his reign. The devil always starts with a counterfeit movement before GOD's true new thing. GOD allows it, thus weeding out those really not interested in pursuing the truth. Think about the times Jesus healed and fed people. Tens of thousands benefited from his miracles, but only 120 in the end were interested in his truth. 

    Sometimes, I will get into a funk and stop believing in myself and my  calling. When I do I go and listen to a few favorite self-proclaimed prophets/authors/teachers. I have two particular favorites I go to.  They are nobodies in the vast configuration of things, but they do have a large following.  They are on YouTube and Rumble, and I always find myself going back to them. I feel sorry for them, because they are absolutely convinced they are the real deal. They have 100K followers or so. They have written books and are ranked on Amazon pretty high up, but they are as clueless to their counterfeit teachings as are their fans. 

    There isn't a darn thing I can do about it, and it frustrates me, because they have more people praising them and following them who are also completely closed off to hearing the truth. How do I know they are fake? Because they've both predicted things that never happened. One in particular teaches that the 1,000-year of reign of Jesus would come when Donald Trump got re-elected and back into power. She predicted that for eight years. Yeah, she didn't predict he would "step away" from the White House for four years and work behind the scenes. She didn't see that coming. The other made many more predictions and claims "The Spirit of the LORD says," all the time and has published his prophecies as if they are Divinely Inspired Scriptures, with the same authority as the Bible.

     These are not bad people. They aren't building empires for themselves, they have the best of intentions. They want the Kingdom of GOD to expand. They have good hearts. The problem is, they've been blinded for so long to their own erroneous teaching that there is no convincing them that they are way off base. They use the traditional church method of interpreting prophecy. One thing I've learned is that GOD never lets man predict His next move, and they can't see that, they just go with what they've learned all of their lives in the accepted church teachings. 

      Jesus said that counterfeit signs and wonders would be in the last days. The Bible is replete with counterfeit magic arts, all the way back to Exodus and even in Acts 16. Paul was confronted by an authentic fortune teller who was a slave girl, who correctly predicted the future for her owners. Paul, rebuked the evil spirit to come out of her, thereby, he attributed her power to Satan, not to GOD. The Bible tells us that Satan and his minions come masquerading as angels of light.  That's the thing about false prophets, they don't know they are false prophets. So, if they are convinced they are the real thing, then they are experts at convincing their followers of what they believe to be the truth. Deuteronomy 18 is quite specific on how to judge a true prophet from a fake one. 

     I'm not a prophet, I don't predict what GOD is going to do, however, I have theories that I keep to myself. When it does happen, I keep that to myself, also. It's only for me. It is YHVH GOD affirming me that I should continue to do that what I'm doing and just rely on Him to get it where it needs to go.  You'll never find me on YouTube or Rumble, I'll always be an author in hiding.  I'd rather GOD get the credit and I remain in the shadows, unseen.  That way I'm not disobeying GOD, but I'm not out there trying to build a name for myself either. 

     The only way to know the difference is to be like the Bereans in Acts, who fact checked Paul on everything. That's why I insist on my readers fact checking me. Don't just take my word for it. Seek out the truth for yourself and let GOD use the Holy Spirit as your guide, the way John said he would in the 1st book of John, another major hint, go find it for yourself. Don't just take your pastor's word for it, because, friends, he may be wrong but not know he's wrong.  Don't take my word for it, search out the truth for yourself. 

    We are supposed to drink eight glasses of water a day, well, might I suggest that we study eight chapters of the Bible a day? Which Bible? Well, of course I'm going to recommend the one I use.  (The Complete Jewish Study Bible)  Yes, I realize that will take more than one's fifteen-minute devotional that we purpose to squeeze into our busy lives, at least five or six out of the seven days a week GOD has afforded to us. Going to church will not make you an expert in Scriptures, so spare me the Hebrews 10:25-fall-back verse that people use to rebuke me for rebelling against the establishment. Hebrews 10:25 is not literally defined as once a week, for 90 minutes, sitting quietly while spectating a carefully orchestrated worship service, which really is just a mind-conditioning session, or a brainwashing. I’m speaking in general terms here, so I’m not speaking of all congregations, but the majority of Hebrews 10:25’ers.

    I’ve been to many churches in my 35 years walking with GOD, and I never felt comfortable or felt like I belonged there. I just never fit in. So, I asked GOD, "Why do I keep leaving one and going to another, and repeating this same pattern?” I loved His answer,

“Have you ever thought that maybe I was the One making you feel uncomfortable there, because I didn’t’ want you in a church building, but rather I wanted you learning from Me directly, like Paul did, alone in the wilderness?"

    Now, of course, I'm paraphrasing GOD's voice, because GOD's voice sounds much like our own, because the Holy Spirit doesn't have vocal chords. Make sure that voice comes straight from Scripture, and matches with the character of YHVH GOD Himself, and does not appeal to the human ego. If GOD tells you something, most likely it will be uncomfortable and really stretch you to step out where the water is cold and the fish are more like piranhas. You can expect to be bitten or rather eaten up by other church people who do not like what you have to say. If the masses don't like it, it's probably from GOD.  GOD also always repeats Himself, so if you can find it in the Old Testament, you can call it for the latter days, but in the Spiritual and on a global scale. 

    King David was given the blueprints of the Temple that his son was to build.  King David wasn't allowed to live to see it built, because when man does something, man tends to take credit for it as did King Solomon who built the first beautiful Temple. Solomon got the glory for the building, but David had the original blueprints. David didn't get the glory for building it, instead, he got labeled, "a man after GOD's own heart." Now, that's a better glory than building anything. I sure do hope that when the Remnant is strong, bearing fruit, that someday, after I'm gone, they will say of me, "she was a woman after GOD's own heart."

 The Arrogance of Man and

the Ignorance of  the Sheeple

(Another revised post)

I've learned over the last twelve years of intense Bible study more than I had learned in the twenty-five years of previous study, cumulatively.   Before these past several years,  I was the typical, spoon-fed New Testament Christian.  I was a carport.  I broached that topic in a previous blog. (GOD Doesn't Fix What's Wrong, He Starts All Over Again)    Then, the bottom fell out in my life and I was dying from the inside out.  The only way to survive was to go back to the beginning and start studying GOD’s Word all over again, but much differently than the previous years of studying under a pastor or church leader.  This time I was in search of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 

  GOD brought me to the Old Testament cover to cover, which I call the Hebrew Scriptures, because the New Testament church thinks it's obsolete. He showed me just how wrong I had been taught for two-plus decades in the church, and how to properly read prophecy according to His prophetic terms and not according to man's accepted church timeline.   I have learned so much about  history and prophecy because He put me in there in every Bible character’s role. He helped me find His heroes who could help me get through this devastating time, by studying what they did.  I learned about people in the Bible that I had never heard of in my previous years of consistent studying.  There are quite a few that really fascinate me, but none more than Zerubbabel.  Every time I would ask a pastor about Zerubbabel’s prophecy, they didn't know what I was talking about.  I think GOD has purposely hidden that from today’s clergy and Bible teachers.  I can’t begin to explain why, but I have Scripture to support that.  Someday, I'll write on Zerubbabel's prophecy, but the point is, no one knows it who has spent their life sitting listening to their educated pastors. 

I  believe that much of Hebrew prophecies to the kingdoms of the Northern Tribe of Israel, and the southern tribe of Judah, are symbolic and foretelling of the church.  If you really study that time period of about 400 years, you will see the church age in living color.  It’s truly quite fascinating how the books of the kings seems to foreshadow some spiritual giants of the latter days.  What I learned is that if it happened in the natural in the Hebrew Scriptures, then it happens in the latter days, but on a spiritual level and on a global scale.  It’s called typology.  So, I believe that today’s clergy and yesterday’s Bible scholars and Bible commentators have missed something big, and not because they were in the wrong, but because they did not live long enough to observe GOD’s workings with His people, and I believe that GOD purposed to  hold back revealing it.  The majority of the Christian church do not even know the true history of GOD’s people from a chronological standpoint.  I know this because I was an avid student of the Word, but it wasn’t until I was 20+ years old in the LORD, before I really started studying it. Most people have no idea who Zerubbabel is.  The statistics are that 90% of Christians know only 10% of the Bible, and I believe it.  Most Christians cannot put the major and minor prophets in chronological historical order, and to whom they were speaking and what was the historical context that that prophet’s message. Isaiah 29 predicted this day.  Imagine, this is the latter days, and GOD is speaking to the apostate church. 

¹⁰ For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, the seers. ¹¹ The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed  book, which when they give it to the one who  is literate, saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” ¹² Then the  book will be given to the one who  is illiterate, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I ^[ cannot read.”¹³ Then the Lord said,

“Because this people draw near with their  words and honor Me with their  ^]lip service, but they remove their hearts far from Me, and their reverence for Me consists of  tradition learned by rote,¹⁴ Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed.”

 Traditions of men, didn't Jesus say this?  I’m not talking Roman Catholicism, here, I’m talking, getting up every Sunday morning, sitting quietly, spectating a finely choreographed worship service by an incorporated entity call “a church.”   The vastness of Biblical illiteracy is the nutrient deficiency along with other cancers which have literally killed the body of Christ.  It's scary and dangerous just how many people will blindly follow a leader who is widely known  by the masses but a fraud known by GOD.  I think we are starting to see the fall out with all the sexual clergy abuse being exposed in the protestant church by these rock-star pastors who have built empires for themselves.  Seems the Protestant church was too quick to accuse Roman Catholic priests, when they themselves were doing the same thing.

Now, some of you may be thinking that I’m a trouble maker, upsetting the status quo. Once, a local pastor actually said to me, “I’ve heard all about you in our ministerial association meetings, and I was advised to keep an eye on you, because you were a trouble maker.”  He said that to me while both my husband and I were battling cancer.  That pastor is a complete fraud and was working only to build a name for himself.  I saw right through him, eventually, my husband did too, and we left.  At first I was very hurt, after that, I just got MAD!  I tell the truth, a truth most Christian do not like to hear.  I rock the boat. I’m not one of the sheeple. (a new term coined by the Trump Patriots during the COVID debacle. Turns out we were right about it, also.)   I’m not going to sit politely and pretend that the man up in that pulpit has all the answers and I’m to believe every word he says, just because he went to seminary.  None of Jesus's disciples were educated men.  Paul the Apostle was educated and he considered his education rubbish in comparison to really know the true Messiah. 

When one of my daughter's graduated, she got a senior class superlative. MOST OPINIONATED!  I was so proud of her for that. It’s not what most parents would be proud of, but me, I am thrilled because she’s a chip off the old block.  I take that as a compliment in my parenting.  She’s a strong woman who stands her ground. She doesn’t back down and follow the crowd, she thinks for herself. So, here is where I am going to get very controversial.  Based on the above Scriptures, plus multiple others, and the historicity of GOD’s dealing with His people, I see the Glory of YHVH GOD leaving the Church, as He did when He left the Tabernacle in Shiloh, the Temple in 586 BC and the Temple again in AD 70.  The letters to the churches in Revelation predicted He would.  We know now that they were prophetic, but I highly doubt that John knew that these letters would describe two thousand years of a church age.  Most of them had no idea that the church age would last 2,000+ years. Even Paul the Apostle believed Jesus would come back in his lifetime.  The mere fact that there were only two churches Jesus did not find fault with simply proves my Remnant theory.  GOD’s hand of blessing is moving away from the church and will be blessing and working through the Remnant.  The Remnant will gather a harvest of disciples, not converts, but be true to the Great Commission to “Go and make disciples teaching them to observe  all that Jesus commanded.”  Let’s observe the original Greek:

Note the different wording than what we learned. The Gospel is meant to have feet and arms and be on the move.  It's not supposed to be locked behind closed doors for 90 minutes a week.  Evangelism was never GOD's intention, but creating students of the Truth, those who want to find it for themselves.  He tells us in Jeremiah 29:13  to seek Him with all our hearts and minds, and we will find Him.  The church is only interested in the previous verses about what GOD will do for them.  They want to be comfortable and financially blessed.  None of GOD's heroes in the Scriptures were comfortable, most were persecuted for rocking the boat.   So many translations have corrupted the original intent. Now, I’m NOT against different translations, I’m all for them, but when it comes to finding out the original intent, a serious Bible student will always go back to the original language and cultural context for more details and a better interpretation.  Based on the history of GOD’s people, I see a definite pattern repeating itself. Ecclesiastes is clear on the fact that there is nothing new under the sun that GOD has not already done. The problem is man, not GOD. 

A perfect example is that the church is so obsessed with the accepted church age timeline that she has her head up her butt, just waiting for the Rapture, and  almost seemingly excited about the Tribulation period for all those sinners out there to taste the wrath of GOD.  Pardon my expression, but there is no other way to describe it. They are not watching for the Remnant, let alone interested in being it.   The church is full of arrogant bullies in the pulpits these days, especially those mega churches with budgets in the tens of millions.  With some preachers, if it’s not in a commentary by the scholars, then, it’s not accurate.  How dumb is that?  What were the commentators of old but mere mortals who didn’t live long enough to see GOD's Hand through the ages?  Only by actually living through history will knowledge increase, and wisdom for the wise.  We have a hundred or more years of history of living through than the commentators. We have seen more, the more we see, the more we see a pattern.

Raise your hand if you think for one minute that GOD will let arrogant, mortal man, full of sin and pride to predict His next move?  Haven’t we tried that before and failed?  Did the Northern Kingdom Israel see the Assyrians coming in to conquer them?  Did Judah see Babylon coming for them, even though they were told?  Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jeremiah, the prophets did, but did they believe them?  So, lets do some basic math.  If there were say 450 false prophet for every one true prophet in one small nation, how many false prophets could there be world wide now?  (1 Kings 17-19, 1 Kings 22)  If there were a couple of million people, at best, back then in Israel, , and that’s an exaggeration,  let’s assume there is about 4 billion Christians in the world today, can you do the math? Now, with social media, any Whacko Wendy can get up and broadcast her predictions or absurd rapture dream. How many do you believe might be authentically anointed and appointed of GOD? Do you suppose many of them want a camera in their face?  I dare say no.  Again, another post: To Be or Not to Be A Prophet,  I'm not one to point fingers and start naming names, I'm just more interested in getting people to seek out the truth for themselves.  GOD did not put us here to point fingers, but most people don't want to do the research themselves to find the truth.  

Being spoon-fed or bottle-fed 90 minutes a week is good enough for them.  It's my job to point out mistakes in the common accepted teachings, it's not a pleasant job, but either is cleaning bathrooms, but someone has to do it.  I'm not thick-skinned, and the older I get the thinner my skin gets, however, a lie is a lie and time doesn't change that.  I've graduated seven out of my eight children into adulthood, not one did I push to be a Rhoads Scholar, but they pushed themselves.  Six of them were all self-supporting by age 20. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, but the one thing I've always done is teach them to think independently and to seek the truth.  Some have, but all have walked away from the church.  I do hope some return to GOD, but I hope none return to the status quo of the church, because they won't find the truth there.  It's an ugly truth, but so isn't aging!  We don't get more beautiful on the outside.  This is something I'm having to face every time I walk by a mirror.  No pun intended, well, maybe intended a little! 

TOSS the CROSS

        My next act attempt at shocking you would be addressing this problem of wooden crosses scattered all over the planet.  I’m not doing this for fun,  but once I learn something in Scripture from GOD, it is imperative that I share it, lest I be held accountable for someone continuing in a tradition  that could very well be an abomination to the Almighty.  Some people who read this won’t care, because you’ll say that I’m being ridiculous, and that’s fine.   For those others who are sensitive to GOD’s Holy Spirit and leading, not wanting to commit any kind of offense to The Most High,  you may not sit in that pew looking up at that cross again without wondering if it offends GOD.  

I’m calling it a carved image, because that is what it is. It is wood carved out of a tree, which grows from the earth.  That one hanging up in front, over the baptismal, or the one on the top of the steeple, or the one with Jesus still on it, (the Crucifix), or the one hanging around your neck right now, could it be the exact kind of carved image GOD meant in that second commandment to not create any carved image.   As usual, when I heard this from a Messianic Rabbi that I’ve been listening to, as of late, of course, I want straight to the Scripture.  I got right to  the Hebrew,  and I investigated his claim, and by golly, I got the SHOCK of my life. I’m still not recovered from this.  Let's take a closer look at Exodus 20:4.

     As you can see in this verse, (of anything) is parenthesis, because the Hebrew word for image in this verse could lean more toward man or animal, as in gold calf?  However, by inserting the word    כֹּל  (kol) in there, that now covers the WHOLE gamut of images or likeness of ANY thing on earth below or heaven above.  For you protestants who thought that the Catholic statutes were an abomination, you might want to rethink that about your giant empty cross that you bow down to when you make your way up to the altar on Sunday morning, for an altar call and meeting time with Jesus.  Crucifying someone on the cross was considered the most shameful way of executing the most vile of criminals.  Jesus, our Savior, subjected himself to dying the same manner of murderers, thieves, and societies most iniquitous degenerates who would be sentenced to die a horrific death. 

Would you hang a giant wooden noose up over your baptismal in your mostly black congregations?  I dare say, no you would not.  Well, could GOD sees the cross as if it is a noose to us.  Open your Bibles and count how many times GOD condemns His people for crafting idols of the surrounding pagans and incorporating them into the Temple.  Now for those of you who actually know something about the Bible, you'll say that GOD instructed Moses to carve an image similar to an almond branch for the lampstand, and cherubim with extended wings over the Mercy seat.  Those are carved images, right?  Yes, they are.  However, GOD told them to build them for the Tabernacle.  GOD never told anyone that I know of to carve the image of the "noose" Yeshua gave up his life on and put it up in churches all over the world, calling these church buildings GOD's house, or the house of the LORD, which they are most definitely not.  GOD destroyed the one place on earth that He dwelt with His people.  After that, His Holy Spirit dwells within us, so essentially, we are the "house of the LORD," and very mobile, not buildings of mortar and stone. 

     GOD wanted His people to stand out and be different from the surrounding pagan nations. He did not want His people to resemble in any way the detestable ways of pagan polytheism of the pagan nations around them.  I spoke to my daughter about this, and she said, and I quote, “I always thought of it as a guillotine type symbol, anyway.”)  No more accurate way to describe it.   The carved image of the cross has for so long been a part of Christianity over a thousand years, and we have been conditions to (love) “worship” the carved image.    It’s going to require a whole new way of thinking to see that wooden cross, or that metal cross on your neck, or earrings the way GOD sees it.  Remember, GOD doesn’t think anything like man, and man can’t think anything like GOD. (Isaiah 55:8-9) Therefore, what GOD hates, man usually loves. What man loves, GOD usually hates.  One must learn to think on a completely different level when it comes to what GOD may want or like in us.  Most likely, what GOD wants or likes in us makes no sense to us, because we are but mere mortal humans incapable of thinking in GOD's higher ways.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying we should hate the cross, we are grateful for what Jesus did on it, but should we have that graven image around our necks? Are we are no different than the Israelites who bowed down to pagan idols, incorporated pagan rituals and even temple prostitutes into the Temple services.   I did some research to see just when the cross became a symbol of Christianity, and wouldn’t you know it, it is the fault of that tyrant emperor Constantine. He didn’t just make Christianity legal, and stop the persecutions, he made it the official religion, thus f0rcing it upon all of his subjects, whether there was a regeneration of the soul or not.  He incorporated their pagan practices, symbols, idols, and rituals into his new church in order to ease the transition for the polytheists of Rome.

Contrary to popular belief Jesus did not invent Christianity, Constantine did.  The Greek word for church in the Gospels is not  what we do (are) today.  The Greek word, (: ἐκκλησία, ας, ἡ) ekklésia  is what Jesus said he was his bride.  That Greek word means called out ones, whereas, Constantine converted forced conversions and began the practice of building  oikodomé  which means a building used for spiritual enhancement. GOD destroyed the central worship center when He put the Gospel in legs and arms as the new mobile Temple, meant to spread, not gather.  For further references you can read those blogs.

 This is going to take me some time to adjust our thinking to because we’ve so accepted the carved wooden image as a symbol of the love Jesus had for us for 1600 years.  Nothing changes that that love or act of self-sacrifice, it is too much for us to grasp.   I hated to be the bearer of bad news, but that giant wooden cross hanging up, in your oikodomé  buildings could just be an abomination to GOD.  Are we willing to take that chance?  Here something else to think about. How many people are wearing crosses on their bodies but not walking as Jesus walked?  Doesn't that cheapen the symbol just a little to you? 

 The BIGGEST and most EGREGIOUS Lie of Christianity

    I'm going to challenge everything you've believed all of your life if you grew up in the church.  I know that I'll be stepping on some toes with this TRUTH, actually, I'll be stomping on them, because I'm that angry.  For some reason, in the beginning of 2024, I sensed the death of my earthly father was coming, and he's been an atheist all of his adult life.  I feared eternal conscious punishment for him more than anything. I tried to have conversations with him about GOD for thirty-five years as that was how long I was a devoted believer.  Even the year cancer came calling, that man wanted nothing to do with talking about GOD with me.  Days before my father died, I went on a road trip with my 2nd son who is agnostic when it comes to GOD.  I tried for four days to talk about GOD with him, and he wanted nothing to do with it because he said, "I don't want to believe in a loving GOD who sends people to hell."  

   Wow!  That was a conviction of guilt, because I raised five of my eight children in the church. We were there every time the doors were open. In 2018,  I left the church when I started really studying the Bible, and I could no longer allow the bottom three to learn the lies like I did the first five.  In 2018, my eldest did an ancestry search and she discovered our Jewish heritage, and I excitedly embraced it.  I refer to myself as a Messianic Jew. I praise GOD for it, because it was the out I needed to leave the Christian church. I wasn't leaving Jesus, (Yeshua) as my Savior, but I was leaving Christianity because I had learned too much about it's origins which I've written in previous posts.

     If you are reading a Bible with the word HELL in it, you are reading a corrupted translation of the Bible.  As I stated before in previous posts, the original languages of the Bible are Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.  Before the New Testament was written, the Hellenistic Jews, (Jews baptized in the {Greek} Hellenistic culture) translated the Old Testament, which I will refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, into the Greek Septuagint.  What they did was take the Hebrew mindset and try to translate the Scriptures into a foreign language with a foreign mindset.  When Yeshua (Jesus) came to teach the TORAH, which means instructions, he taught his Jewish followers with the Hebrew mindset and cultures in mind.  When the New Testament writers chose to put his words down, they wanted his words in a language that most people understood, and they wrote it in Koinonia Greek.  It was as common then as our English is world-wide now.  Then, after the Gentiles took over The Way, as Shaul/Paul called it, they took GOD's word from a language most people understood and translated GOD's words to a language hardly anyone knew. Why would they do that?  I think that is obvious, whoever controls the Word, controls the world.  They did not want the common man to have the freedom to explore GOD's original intentions, because they had evil intentions of their own.  

    The best way to have complete control over the people and force them to follow their religion was to create fear and bondage, which the Roman church excelled at. They accomplished their desires and stole the truth from the common man.  The Roman Church began adopting other religious practices and "baptizing" them into their new religion called Christianity.  That is the sin of syncretism, combining  GOD's intentions for His people into other religions and doing that which is evil in His eyes. That is the sin in the book of Judges that the generation after Joshua were guilty of and why everything went so bad during that time.  Combining the Mosaic Laws with the religions and cultures surrounding them is spiritual adultery.  This plague did not leave GOD's people until the Babylonian exile.  Well, it returned with a vengeance, because the devil is in the business of religion, he is superior over man in that respect.  There is nothing new under the sun and the Roman church is just as guilty. 

     The concept of hell came from ancient Greek Mythology and in the 14th Century, an Italian Poet named Dante wrote a fictional version of this mythological place.  The Roman church saw this as their ticket to gain even more control over the Biblically illiterate, and they ran with it.  That in a nutshell is the history of the doctrine of hell that we've been taught and brainwashed to believe for nearly 800 years.  When I learned that truth about the history of hell, that's when I really dug into the Scriptures to find the "hell" we've learned. To my wondering eyes, I could not find one mention of eternal conscious torment for people.  I could not find one mention of people having immortal souls, UNLESS they turn their lives over to Jesus to live with him in paradise. 

    I don't think that I have to tell you how absolutely furious I was about being lied to for 800 years.  I looked up every verse that Christians use, and every single one is used out of context, and they've even replaced the words Jesus used like Hades, Sheol, and Gehenna and replaced it with the made up word  hell.  They inserted the English word Hell where it never belonged.  I began studying this and continued to do so for over a year.  I won't try to write all that I've learned in this short blog, but I will challenge you.  If you really want the truth, if you really want to know YHVH GOD as He truly is, if you really want to walk as Jesus (Yeshua) did, then you have to go back and unlearn the lies and start all over again.  Several years ago, I tossed every English Bible I owned and bought The Complete Jewish Study Bible, by David Stern.  It wasn't until recently that I discovered one very important verse in the Bible and took it deadly seriously. Job 42:

7 It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has. 

     GOD's wrath blazed against Job's friends for lying about Him, and it was only by the Grace and Mercy that He had Job pray and offer sacrifices on their behalf that He did not destroy them right there and then. The Bible is clear that GOD detests lying lips. Lies against Him and His Son are an abomination to Him. Hell is a lie, and it is the sin of blaspheming GOD. Might I suggest that you take that warning very seriously and do your own research. I will leave you with these two questions:

   If there was a place of eternal torment, then why is it never even eluded to in the Hebrew Scriptures by any of GOD's appointed Prophets? If there is a place of eternal punishing, not punishment, (punishment being a one time thing), then why is it never mentioned by Jesus, Paul, Peter, Jude or John? Revelation 20 only speaks of eternal punishing and torment of the devil, the beast, and his prophet, but it says nothing about people. In fact, if you do a search about what happens to those who do evil, the ENTIRETY of Scriptures say that they are destroyed, perish, killed. Even John 3:16 says the word PERISH, not eternal conscious torment and torture. Please, do not blaspheme your Heavenly Father and spew lies about him regardless of how many years these lies have been told and by whom.