Handcuffs off (no “please” required)!

When you have missed the one and only gospel you probably should not be talking about true anything. The books and videos of our traditions are a near constant stream of almost great opinions so we have no choice but to remind ourselves that the attraction of elect status, like Israel, is a fatal delusion. Faith that includes law is jail time and deadly bondage and as soon as we discover grace the handcuffs are off.

Same language different realm

Though we acknowledge that the options are distinct and the stakes are inestimable North American society is still entranced by exotic words and cultures. The fathers of the church used the language and stories of the Old Testament to say something about God that was a refreshing change from the law and the prophets.

If all we take away from reading the Old Testament is law and obedience we are vulnerable to a lifestyle of anger, futile cycles, symbols, and childish consequences. Even an experience item like the Sabbath becomes an idol instead of a gift made for humanity, especially when it is not accepted as a symbol of rest.

If all we take away from reading the New Testament is law of obedience we are very likely to have not been touched by the light or we are distancing ourselves from the gospel. Either scenario will deny us the benefits of grace. The Bible was written to awaken faith because law was not going to ever bring pardon and adoption.

Imprisoned then freed



23) But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24) Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:23-24

Law and Faith are not partners

12. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that does them shall live in them. 13. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: 14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:12-14

A desolate house

Where the Solomonic temple stood in Jerusalem stands a mosque.  Is that a sign that Islam has taken over the world of religion?  By no means. It is the graphic of God’s disgust with Israel and Judah.  The Jewish house of prayer was twice destroyed and the meaning of such a development should not elude us.

Yahweh’s temple may have looked like this

The leader is impeachable

“For Mitch McConnell to say he’s working with the White House, coordinating with the defendant in this trial before the trial has even begun is atrocious,” said Painter during a CNN panel discussion. “He may think he’s a judge impaneling an all-white jury for a Klansman trial in Mississippi in 1965. That’s not the kind of trial we have.” (Newsweek)

The man is a walking corpse, devoid of conscience, admitting that there is no such thing as truth  and that he has no interest in having the Senate examine the vast body of evidence of the criminal DNA and rap sheet of impeached potus45.  Unlike the Jewish High Priests American members of Congress have no hereditary path to their offices. They all should have term limits to prevent goons like Jordan, Rep. Collins, Senator Collins and Rep.. Gaetz from stifling the next generation’s impact on the nation’s course. Let Israeli electoral doldrums be a warning to all politicians who want to be in power for life.

In the foreground, the supposed remains of the temple.

Israeli politics manipulates religious grouping and American politics thinks it can succeed with a right wing fascist agenda (with support from nominal Christians) by manipulating the Supreme Court.

Why Congress crashes

McConnell’s approach to Senate trial reminds me of the question about the authority of Christ and John the Baptist.  When you cannot admit the truth say nothing.

23. And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? 24. And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? 26. But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet. 27. And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

Is it not likely that the monuments and functioning buildings of US democracy will become heaps?

There is no way, except that American politics is the same as a council of the wicked, the 4th Reich, that potus45 remains in office.

A long stream of air

How long it takes to tell a person what he or she needs to be saved reveals how perverted one’s gospel has become. The more minutes the less reliable the message.

All those type and antitype charts and genealogies may look like due diligence but they such the life out of the lifegiving message. The core message does not take a day, much less a week.

4) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. 5) Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6) From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7) Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. 8) But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 9) Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10) For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11) According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

1 Timothy 1:4-11

Jerusalem the abused

This treasure of real estate does not need an endorsement from anyone, least of all a nation that shows little regard for Jerusalem’s peace. In fact her residents do not care that much either. David took steps after being crowned in Hebron to live in Jerusalem and house his families there. The political moves of an American president in 2019 do nothing to Jerusalem’s status.

Great nations have gone to Jerusalem but few have joined the Jews in worshipping Yahweh. When the city was emptied there was some export of Jewish religion and Jerusalem remained the beloved centre of Jewish hopes and practice. In neither case was any foreign power trying to change Jerusalem from being the place for Yahweh’s name.

The tombs of Judah’s kingdom are in Jerusalem. The living residents of Jerusalem have much to live up to. The attempt to deny Jerusalem her cosmopolitan nature endures as the ultimate unfaithfulness. She has troubles no foreign or local power can relieve. The news that the US president is moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is a case of smoke without fire, and the smoke smells like patriotism and racism.

The deep dark dungeon

If for believing adults the success of the gospel is obedience to God’s commandments and if only spiritual (reborn) persons can render this obedience how sad a comedy of mistakes is the subjection of children to law and obedience!

Are we disciples of Christ or our peers? Our peers are part of the crooked generation from which we need to save ourselves as we turn to Christ. Is light really welcome? A list of demonic doctrines and xenophobic purity can hardly be called godly instruction or lifestyle.

There is nothing to tell your child about the great salvation when you have told them all their lives and tried to live yours as if nothing mattered besides commandment keeping.

The religious movements of our times are the work of liars and demonized children who would rather create scandalous theories than to confess their mistakes and turn to Christ. The darkness is near complete.

15) Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken. 16) Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. 17) But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

Jeremiah 13:15-17

King of Peace

If we accept that the best laws can be negative, tribal, oppressive, and lack impartiality no future beckons, and only the bloodletting and fierce political combat by any means appears as certainties.

What is happening in the United States are the closing moves of the preparation of global dictatorship.  No good can come of a supreme court that is stacked with judges with fascist, quasi-Judeo and quasi-Christian commitments.

Social upheavals

Much of the moral morass in which we find ourselves is explicitly perverse. The wickedness in high places of which the Scriptures speak is a phenomenon happening with the approval and bankrolls of the world ruling powers. The church has its own wicked performance too but is not a world-ruling power. The heavenlies is the realm of spirits.

The trend of government is to at least avoid the appearance of intrusion into religious matters and vice versa. It won’t be long before serious consideration is contemplated about the contributions of the three faith communities with seeming vested interest in the final peaceful disposition of Jerusalem.

International Interest

It may seem like a most worthy venture when the international community begins to demand a voice and action towards Jerusalem’s peace.
Zechariah (12:3) has an early warning out.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

The nations -all earth’s people- will be in the wrong side of history. The end of unconditional support for Israel is inevitable. People know what justice looks like. The international siege of Jerusalem will trigger events that shape the end of the age and Zionite destiny.

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:2

Do not hurt yourself

The Jerusalem heritage does not mingle with mediocrity. It does not peddle prophecy or wage war. The city can only persist when the best of two traditions are combined. Jerusalem is royal territory and as such has it’s own unique seal and destiny.
It is not surprising that God empties the city when its residents betray its sanctity.

Leadership under scrutiny


Priests and rulers (academics, tribal heads, elders and princes) have each sought to be the supreme authority. This is where the bad smell persists. The kingdom of priests of the Sinai Covenant (Exodus 19) has not become a reality because the combination of priest and king can never seem appropriate within the confines of the Law (commands, statutes, judgments). No foreign power or policy will ever dominate Israeli life and the hope that a Mosaic and patriarchal society is the future of Israel is delusional. If belief in Moses was real then Melchisedec’s pattern of leadership would have been understood and accepted. Our Lord’s evaluation of Israel is an “F”

The ministry of Christ as high priest includes him being King. This is the critical matter of governance in Israel but it has been overlooked and sometimes deliberately ignored when we try to address the final destiny of Jerusalem, indeed, its peace

11) If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12) For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Hebrews 7:11-12

Kingdom without a king

The promise of priestly community and service had its days and moments of awakening but overall the monarchy and the priesthood were fast asleep. Through its own survival instinct and the pressures of governing the priesthood declined

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Hebrews 9:11-12

All of us who see ourselves as inheritors of the kingdom have at one time or another contorted ourselves and the message in order to appear as belonging to something we admire. Jerusalem has not chosen peace as long as its residents leave the bright light of salvation to keep their tradition. Believers like to think that they chosen the king of peace because they are enrolled as followers of Yeshua of Nazareth. However, as long as salvation and holiness have foundation in laws, prophets, reform movements, or levitical priestly services peace will elude everyone.

Prophets do not survive

If the ministration of death – the Words of God written in stone – is the transcript of God’s character what is the death of Christ at Golgotha?

The minute a prophet raises questions about the source of salvation and the character of Christ is the minute we see that the apostolic foundation is not a construct of the 1st or 15th century. The gospel is an eternal construct involving the blood of the Lamb. The ancients, prophets, kings, and righteous men had no insight into what God was planning for the end of the age. They do not survive the coming of light into the world.

22) For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23) And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

Acts 3:22-23

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

Luke 16:16

Every movement since the Way in New Testament times seems to want to intimidate and brainwash people with its views.  The Jewish people tried that.  They wanted to dominate the way with their devotion to and views of their patriarchs, Moses, and prophets.  The movements all turn their backs on the priorities of their confession.  Moses and prophets come to an end. 

It is a sure sign that something demonic is afoot when prophets and apostles come out of the woodwork having not a clue about what the apostles left once for all for us to follow.  They all want to make chosen people of themselves along the pattern of Gods election of Abraham’s descendants. They even make a mockery and shipwreck of the toys (types and shadows) by trying to adopt them as realities of the grace of God. Above all, these movements encourage people to say there is no certainty that salvation is of the Jews, in Christ alone.  “Save yourselves” they say. We must save ourselves from the crooked generation that shuts Christ out of its plans.

Deep southern drawl

If American greatness is anything we can tag it as a southern drawl. That would remind everyone of the bloodletting that haunts the nation’s nobles. Since a third of the population is firmly deceived by the drone of greatness returning we are certain that a deep southern drawl, embellished with hateful speech and illegal policies, is a better definition.

Ditch your dad

Every rock we overturn in the age of ready media reveals mutants of the worst kind. Canadians know the flaws in our first prime minister and we have no plans to disown him.

Suicidal society

Canadians also repatriated the constitution and topped it off with a charter of rights. We are not amending it to glorify violence and capitalism. Our national police force has been under attack for grave errors and poor practices and we are not condemning it as a failed entity.

National ID not a den for any religion

Canada’s political leadership for the last decade championed a black hole of right wing so-called values while the Americans were blocking dialog with hetero ideologies, plotting to create barriers to immigration, glorifying gun violence and paying lipservice to a Christian morality.

The slippery slope

Our social fabric is rich whether people want or like hyphenated labels or not. The people we meet or pass in the course of our daily lives are happy to be religious or not. Canada is still a safe place even though gun violence is on a steep rise; safe until we bow to international pressure to worship the wonderful and imminent beast.

All nations bow

John tells us about a beast coming up out of the earth (Rev. 13:11), a different (one might say opposite) location from the first beast; this national is the spitting image of lies and deception. According to John, this entity had two horns like a lamb (symbol for the saving Christ), and he spoke as a dragon (symbol for the destructive the devil).

Miracle trap and legal necessity

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Revelation of John 13:15

And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

Revelation of John 13:14