Author: eejoseph

Witchcraft and worship’s wasteland

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People trained in being saved, whether one is in peril at sea, on the busy highways, or just walking in one’s neighbourhood, are rare indeed, especially when the sun is recently risen to light up the dark places of the human heart.

Christ everywhere is light in a dark place

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Matthew 4:16

When Christ was born sages came from outside of Judea to worship him and God warned them to avoid the local king who wanted to kill the newborn king. They must have wondered how Judeans could have been so disinterested in a person of Christ’s stature. I do.

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

Matthew 2:12

Ancient spellbinding selftalk

The practices they had followed were obviously focused on human things that did not make a person acceptable to God. Both Jew and Gentile has to jump through hoops to get any where close to the suburbs of fellowship with God. It was all human because if God was in it would it would mean salvation, not the types and symbols of salvation. What one said to oneself in ancient Israel did not change common things into sacred or make the physical things into spiritual ones.

It is common to see law and life connected in what seems to be a causative relationship. The Psalms and the Proverbs seem to make that connection.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Proverbs 6:23

We know that no such arrangement ever existed. No one ever got saved because they kept the law. The matter is out in the open. It hardly needs interpretation.

The prison is no longer a threat

Let no one bully you about the law. It was written to deal with sin. It is not a tool for righteousness. It does not serve or belong to the faith journey. The righteous need no law.

This is not a lamp

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

Galatians 3:21

We know no law that ever gave life or righteousness.

It is hard to see how faith and law are related, and we can see how faith had nothing to do with Lazarus waking from his sleep, or law with person dead in trespasses coming to life.

If you like prison and juvenile discipline (tutors and nannies) you will be a law lover. Pity!

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Galatians 3:22

THE LAMB IS AT THE CENTRE OF EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK.

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The honour due to the Son of God appears in relevant scenarios. People who believe and people who do not believe are unquestionably in the drama. It is encouraging to know that secular power is like a dog on a leash, and the keys and seals are in the hands of an unrivalled priest-king, the Lamb of God. As the victim and the vindicator he is in charge of the unfolding actions.

A Lamb Stood – as Just Sacrifice

His sevens show him

  • all-powerful (horns),
  • all-knowing (eyes)
  • on duty everywhere (dispatched globally)

Rev 5:6 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ESV2011

His worthiness – seven times blessed0

The Lamb was slain and is destined to receive the seven-fold complement, blessing, or eulogy (as benediction) (Rev. 5:12).

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive

  1. power
  2. wealth
  3. wisdom
  4. might
  5. honor
  6. glory
  7. blessing

OPENS THE WILL of GOD – a scroll of history

prodiving ASSURANCE, he flips the switch for the must-happen things,

Rev 6:1 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” ESV2011

SHEPHERDS his flock and wipes their tears away

Rev 7:17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” ESV2011

STOOD – is in place with his people

Rev 14:1 Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. ESV2011

IS VICTORIOUS

Rev 17:14 They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.” ESV2011

IS THE PALACE

Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ESV2011

LIGHTS UP NEW JERUSALEM

Rev 21:23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ESV2011

With a little comparison to the news of our day, it is clear that the world is mesmerized by the glitter of merchandize and abuse of power, while the spark of a bright lamp burns within each breast. At the centre of our being is a place where light, home, security, no tears, and complements are the priorities. Who needs darkness, refugees, wars, isolation, tears, ignorance, accusations, or injustice?

The kiss of the Anointed

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The timing of this thought may very well be uniquely timely. As the globe hurtles towards a date with a pestilence. A virus is threatening to bring humanity’s many inventions to a halt. The world itself has a date with fervent heat and nothing the human mind can consider or imagine offers any relief or solution. God has positioned his king – the one he wants to run things – on Zion, and noone gets away without a kiss.

Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Psalms 2:12

Kissing is not only required it is demanded. You perish if you do not commit your life to the Son. This psalm is a fatal threat to the Jewish people. It is a threat to the church that wants to carve out a space like Israel and wear the name of Jesus like an excuse to return to ancient practices. Law and death, grace and life are our choices.

Repentance does not come like clockwork. It is not observed like a festival. One gets it from God, but committed hypocrites need not apply. You want to keep up the dance about being the new Israel and in full compliance with the whole law of God when you cannot even make sense of the ten commandments?

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 3:7

Truly healthy eating

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Since most of us, including our leaders, are incapable of translating what Peter and John wrote the least we can do is drop the lies in the garbage can or get to the text where there is no question about what the witnesses meant and not fall for that lie about the Spirit replacing the Bible.

The books, the people, and their lives

People in New Testament times were coming out of mass illiteracy. People spoke Aramaic and the Bible was in Hebrew. We see the same phenomenon in Ethiopia where they had Amharic and Geez and in the Roman church where they had Italian and Latin. When a matter arose that needed clarity one consulted the Bible and if there were no readers in the household one asked a scribe to read and interpret what the Bible had to say.   The scribe has largely disappeared.  He is replaced by a robot programmed to recite supposedly good commentary.

Some people have thought that all you need is a mystic or charismatic who falls into a trance and telll you what the Bible says. If the Bible (the sayings of Jesus in particular) is the sure ground on which to build our lives the danger of someone going off into a dream or vision to discover is the equivalent of a nuclear blast. Everything at ground zero dies. Do we still not have to return to the Bible to ascertain the truthfulness of everything that is being sought?

Rest and temple

Jeremiah 3:16

Racketeering mob

How, for example, could anyone study the second coming of Jesus for over a year and not notice that the event is on an undisclosed timetable? It is virtually impossible. This is sorcery at its finest. To make a splash about an event that is so secret that God the father alone knows is clear evidence of fraud, but to have those 2nd coming rascals correct that error by building a house on the sand, based on two symbols, the temple and the weekly day of rest, is full evidence of racketeering.

Revelation 11:19

Few things are nourishing as reading the Bible and when that fails to satisfy you can be sure God’s left you to your darkness. One can read a hundred books on grace but one only gets grace by God’s wish, not by forcing his hand with paganistic prayers, folk tales of feigned obedience and fake love.

A beautiful woman blindfolded

I would rather read my Bible in English than hear a vision or dream. God has made available the pure untranslated message of Christ to all. One does not have to be a scholar to see that extreme confidence and healthy eating are waiting behind the confusion of paraphrases, commentaries and translations. Dreams and visions anyone?

Competition kills all competitors

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The focus is human life was never “take care care of yourself by any means”. The right to self-defence seems to apply only to imperial powers and rogue nations.

Are we supposed to believe that the First Nations of the world have given up their right to have secure borders? Does justice and progress give a nod to homicide, sorcery, and theft?

Instead of fostering fellowship and the common good the prime goal is “more for me and my clan”. That is why all the so-called democracies, republics, and theocratic states have deteriorated into dens of merchandising magnates and covetous champions.

Some people have been frantically building walls to prevent the truth about their abominable practices from reaching the outside world. It is probably too late for some. They never took the time to see the human race and this planet as our common bond. Despising others never had God’s approval. Putting my nation and people first is a doomed policy. Why did anyone join the rat race? Get out while you can!

The desolation that follows death

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After they’ve killed you there’s nothing they can do. These words filled up the gap in the lives of Jewish people who were seeing more than a stream of miscarriages of justice. At the centre of Jewish life there was a wholesale ripoff of the poor and the condemnation of innocent persons in progress. No state can survive the desolation due when death becomes a tool for government.

Be merciful, O LORD, unto your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto your people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

Deuteronomy 21:8

The United States just murdered another innocent man. The reason Israel has a Muslim house of prayer on it’s most sacred site is her indictment for loving injustice. Justice is hard to find in America. After the Attorney General misleads the Congress over potus45’s trail of criminal behaviour and the Senate leader announces his distaste for impartial justice desolation is certain.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and all of you would not!

Matthew 23:37

A great economy and more millionaires are not signs of health.  Nothing survives a death cult. Guess who is not interested in the international court.

How global justice is denied
International Court of Justice

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Matthew 23:38