Am I My Brother’s Keeper??

You damn right! Have we forgotten we ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE?

 

Genesis 1:26-28
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

 

Dominion: Control or the exercise of control; sovereignty.

The Father’s greatest and best has become LOST! When did collective dominion become individualized? What has happened to the huMAN that he believes he is the only ONE in the universe? What happened to the greater good? The huMAN was given dominion because he was the creation most like Him, but we use that power for selfish means. Male has become male, female has become female, and the huMAN no longer exists. Have we not learned from the parents before us?

 
Genesis 11:1-8

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

 

 

Jasher 11:1-8

And Nimrod son of Cush was still in the land of Shinar, and he reigned over it and dwelt there, and he built cities in the land of Shinar. And these are the names of the four cities which he built, and he called their names after the occurrences that happened to them in the building of the tower. And he called the first Babel, saying, Because the Lord there confounded the language of the whole earth; and the name of the second he called Erech, because from there God dispersed them. And the third he called Eched, saying there was a great battle at that place; and the fourth he called Calnah, because his princes and mighty men were consumed there, and they vexed the Lord, they rebelled and transgressed against him. And when Nimrod had built these cities in the land of Shinar, he placed in them the remainder of his people, his princes and his mighty men that were left in his kingdom.

And Nimrod dwelt in Babel, and he there renewed his reign over the rest of his subjects, and he reigned securely, and the subjects and princes of Nimrod called his name Amraphel, saying that at the tower his princes and men fell through his means. And notwithstanding this, Nimrod did not return to the Lord, and he continued in wickedness and teaching wickedness to the sons of men; and Mardon, his son, was worse than his father, and continued to add to the abominations of his father. And he caused the sons of men to sin, therefore it is said, From the wicked goeth forth wickedness.

So long ago, yet so present in we continue with this same behavior. Setting men before the Father because they talk a ‘better’ game, wars fought over women, lands, and treasures…all of which were already given…never satisfied with what we have and always wanting more. WE’VE BEEN GIVEN THE WORLD!!

 

Why is it easier to take more than your share instead of making do with what you have been given? We look to what others have or don’t have and forget there is a reason…a purpose larger than any of us can percieve. We argue about ancient words written instead of the meanings behind them.

 

We have dominion over madness because WE MADE IT that way. The HuMAN has lost his way and the world has followed suit. The Earth is confused with her seasons, the animals are confused as to where to go and what to eat, and we stand around as if we are not responsible for the confusion.

 

Deuteronomy 4:25-31

When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

 
Its time to return to the Father. STOP BLOCKING BLESSINGS!!!

Can you remember…

when you were 16 years old? How many things did you do then and since, you wish you could take back? Can you remember one single event marking that year of your life? How many of you even remember being 16?

Susan Kruzan remembers…..

What is the definition of first degree murder? Are extinuating circumstances considered or are they dismissed as sorry excuses for bad behavior? When asked if she felt she should be punished she said, “Yes, but for how long? I don’t know….You just can’t take someone’s life and think it’s ok.”

People have  often asked why I DO NOT SUPPORT the death penalty, and this is why! My Father teaches forgiveness and grace. This girl has grown up in PRISON. Her first warden: MOM, second warden: PIMP, third and final warden: STATE OF CALIFORNIA. This is another example in how the system is set up to CREATE and PUNISH failures. Where do we go from here? How do we call ourselves a CIVILIZED society when we abandon our children and then send them to prison. For what? Breaking the law in places or situations they had NO BUSINESS in the first place!

The time has come for us to wake the hell up and smell the eggs burnin. Roman Polanski sits in a Swiss prison while he tries to scrounge up $4.5 million in bail and the FRENCH PRESIDENT  fights for his release! When a victim tells the court she had NO CHOICE but to kill her abuser, how in the hell can we not believe her when the ABUSER seems to always supercede the VICTIM?

Who was Adam?

Adam was the first man…or was he?

Religion has taught us one story while in school we learn of another. Both seem to contradict each other but is it really a contradiction? Why are we willing to accept the idea of an ultimate creator but deny one of its creations? If God is the creator of everything then that includes science right?

Proverbs 30:5-6

5 Every word of God proves true;
   he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
⁶ Do not add to his words,
   lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

 

Believers take comfort in this particular scripture and accept it on faith that man will not add to, change, or tamper with “God’s Word” in any manner.  How do we know it wasn’t placed there by authors who knew all of it was a lie? The thought of this makes some of us extremely nervous. The very foundation of a belief system shaken because of a silly thing called science.

If God is the Creator of All, why does it even matter? People have a problem accepting the practicality of Darwin, but he may have been on to something. He speaks of man evolving physically from Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, and Homo Sapiens blowing the lid off traditional thought of one source. Could there be elements of Darwin’s theory in Scripture?

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 

According to science unforseen circumstances catapulted man to the top of the food chain. Is it hard to assume then, life didn’t go on as ‘God was creating it’ just as it does today or that we wouldn’t be able to tether a dinosaur to a leash? 

Genesis 2:1-3

¹Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ²And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. ³So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Can Christians accept this particular verse as proof that ‘humans’ were just created in first chapter and not anyone in particular? It would definately explain the gaping hole between the first verse and second verse of chapter 2 and why the story seems to repeat itself.  We have all the proof we need that Earth existed long before man whether it be six days or six millenia, so maybe consideration should be made for the language used instead of depending on a literal translation.

Most of us have depended on the expertise of someone else to translate and interpret various texts so that we may obtain meaning. What needs to be understood is more is involved in the process than matching word for word. What happens to ideas when there is no literal translation from language to language? What about comparative and relative language that is translated literally when an interpretation should be made because of cultural or regional differences? Will our descendants think we have magical powers while reading our texts in the future because of statements like He left in a flash or She appeared out of no where?

Were colloquialisms and regional dialects even considered? Could raining fire and brimstone be interpreted as an active lava flow descending from a mountain into an occupied valley, a pyroclastic explosion with a superheated debis field, or a combination of the two? It was enough to scare the life right out of Mrs. Lot.

Genesis 2:7

⁷ Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Ecclesiates 3:18-20

¹⁸I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. ¹⁹For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. ²⁰All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Beast? Did I read that correctly? No advantage over the beasts…vanity? What is the major difference between man and beast?

Isaiah 52

¹Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city;  for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.²Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

We can plainly see from Isaiah the meaning of dust is not necessarily dirt from the ground but maybe knowledge of God’s law and the meaning of creation. So what does that say for Eve? Scripture tells us she was created from Adam’s rib. Maybe she was a cousin or from a neighboring tribe, but Eve would have had to been enlightened or well on her way being described as a suitable help-mate for Adam.

Ezekiel 37:1-6

¹ The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. ²And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. ³And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” ⁴Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry  bones, hear the word of the LORD. ⁵Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. ⁶And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

This has a familiar tone for fans of the historial novel The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jane Auel. Ayla is a Cro-Magnon five-year old orphaned in the aftermath of an earthquake. Too young to care for herself, she adopted by a Neanderthal tribe driven from their cave by the same earthquake. It maybe fiction, but this story depicts the physical, social, and psychological differences between the species as the child grows to womanhood giving the reader a clue as to how life may have been for an awakening Adam and Eve.

This brings new meaning as to what could have happened in the garden doesn’t it? There is scientific proof the different species of man coexisted together, but is there biblical proof? Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden because they ate of the tree in the midst of the garden. What kind of tree?

Ezekiel 31:3-9

³Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds. ⁴The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field. ⁵So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long from abundant water in its shoots. ⁶All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations. ⁷It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters. ⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty. ⁹I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

Tree is an obvious metaphor for a country or city-state within an empire (forest). We learn from scripture the serpent tricked Eve into committing a sin she later shares with Adam. A violation so grave they are immediately evicted from (the empire-forest) Eden. Adam would have build his own nation as did Cain after he murdered his brother.

This new revelation of Adam makes me wonder. What happened to the other ‘trees’ in the garden? Is science our proof that God really does exist?

A Message from the Angels…..

My dear friends, we love you so very much.

While you are upon this earth we ask you to practice love and tolerance for beliefs different than your own. By all means, stand in your own sacred center and only allow those behaviors that are right for you into your own life, but please refrain from judging others. Each person upon this earth, no matter, how hateful or how loving is on a quest for love… whether they are aware of it consciously, or completely ignorant of the fact.

When you disagree with someone, that is fine. You were not all meant to agree with one another. Think how boring your earth would be if there were only one kind of tree, only one kind of flower, only one scent, and only a limited range of sound. It is the very differences, the exquisite variety, that makes your planet, and indeed your human race unlike any other. You were never meant to be alike, worship alike, dress alike, look alike, or think alike. You were instead meant to form a beautiful kaleidoscope of of being-ness that in total is created in God’s image and likeness. Even the dark serves a purpose to define the light. You could not easily see a candle flame in the light of the sun, could you? But you can make it out quite clearly in a darkened room. And so even the souls whose behaviors are sadly dark serve a purpose for they help you see, by contrast, your light, your goodness, and your love. Bless them for this role, set clear boundaries, or let them be and move away from them. Refrain from judgment dear ones, for each soul is truly doing the best they can in the moment – certainly not the best they are truly capable of in potential, but the best they can in each moment.

By avoiding judgment you free yourselves up. Rather than having to spend copious amounts of time and energy in defense of your perspective, or teaching another, you simply own what is true for you, express it if need be, and release whether or not the other changes, understands, or even likes what you say. You then, in response, can make healthy choices, because you have communicated and received a response. You now know where you stand. You now know where the other person stands. You can make a new choice. You can express your heart even more. You are creating real movement by embracing this level of honesty and non-detachment.

By contrast, arm-twisting, manipulation, coercion, or any attempt to ‘make’ another soul grow or change is a waste of your precious, loving, time and energy. Offer your gifts of wisdom but if the other does not wish to hear them or make use of the, let it be. They will grow in their own time.

You are all here for the very same reason dear friends – to learn that you are indeed children of God, born of His love, breathing by His will, and striving to clear yourselves of the illusions that you are anything less. Some of you are more conscious of this than others. Do not judge the unconscious ones for they are most in need of your prayers, and your love.

Love does not dictate that you must remain around or give in to these hurting souls, but rather love asks that you be as compassionate and kind as possible – no matter what your choices. You can love and set firm boundaries. You can love and walk away. You can love and ask permission to share your point of view. Love acknowledges the soul within and chooses wisely which behaviors you will support and which you will choose to withdraw from. Love walks hand in hand with truth, clarity, wisdom, and discernment. If you need help finding the healthy way to love an unhealthy person – be it talking with them or walking away from them, pray for help – these prayers are held in high esteem and always answered in their proper time.

We love you so very much.

– The Angels

Ann Albers

http://www.visionsofheaven.com/AAngels/newsletter_2009_0919.html#AngelMessages

Thank you Mr. President

Many of us secrectly wondered, “If we help you will you forget?”

We wondered what we were getting into because you came out of no where like a shooting star. We were inspired by your willingness to admit you didn’t have all the answers and that you may make mistakes. Some of us have forgotten you said you would work hard to correct them as they came to light. Many have also forgotten you are not a dictator and there are several people with whom you consult, who have a say in the decisions you make and that you just can’t go off on some tangent “all willy-nilly.”

No Mr President, you have to be careful with every step you take and every word you say. You have the weight of the world on your shoulders, and still had time to be a father to this nation.

Sasha and Malia are the luckiest girls in the world, because with everything already on his plate their Daddy took time out of his day to give words of encouragement to millions of kids who may not have had anyone to do that for them. I live in one of the districts where it was decided your message wasn’t important enough to interrupt the school day. Some were given an excused absence so they could be taken out of school and view it off campus, but you had to give them prior notice and I was concerned as to what they would miss.

We’ve been promised it will be made available for the teachers to use at a later time, but with parental permission only. I had to ask myself would my children ever be able to hear your message. What teacher is going to devote a day to a speech if half the parents in the class don’t want them to hear it? I couldn’t take that chance.

I taped it, so we could watch it as a family last evening. My son began kindergarten this year and his attention span wasn’t long enough to hear the entire message, but he was surprised to hear you included the kindergarteners! My girls have been told the importance of getting an education, and given encouragement and the proof they can obtain any star they shoot for! So if no one else will say it I will….

Thank you Mr. President!

Thanks for giving a damn when it seems the rest of the world doesn’t care to.

Goodbye…

Today we said goodbye to an angel.

He spent his life in the service of others at a sacrifice of himself. Regardless of what others may think I was convinced of that today.

A man persecuted for much of his life and whose only joy was that which he could provide to others.

Brother Sharpton said it best: “There’s nothing strange about this man, only strange that he had to go through it!” I hope all of you will pray this with me today:

God I offer myself to you, to build with me and do with me as you will. Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do your will. Take away the difficulties. Let victory over them bear witness to those I would help with your power, your love and your way of life.

Another Era Ends…..

To the King of Pop:

There will never be another!

Michael Jackson
1958-2009

How do we lose Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett in one day!? Man!

Rest in peace!

A Perfect Time for Unity

We have been splintered far too long, and it seems the gaps are growing at an exponential rate. An old mentor of mine has asked why is it suddenly important for Congress to work together? They weren’t asked or may be not expected to collaborate during the past administration, so why the push? It would seem this is a growing problem, and a strange outcome for a country founded on the concept of team work. The founders came to this country for a new life. Whether it was by choice or by force, it is a fact they all worked together to make this a place called Home.

It is also true, if they had not worked together, this country would have never have obtained the status of World Power she now so desperately tries to keep. We are faced with trying to undo things these men and women worked hard to prevent. No one group is supposed to be above another, but those in power suffer from major superiority complexes. Our current president is embarking on a similar struggle, and his constant reminder that ‘we are all in this together’ seems a bit forced. Almost as if it is something he says over and over to convince even himself.

Each generation a new group is isolated from the rest and the results are disasterous to the nation as a whole. A thick line is being drawn between individual freedom versus national freedom under the guise of Conservatism vs. Liberalism. Each person is expected to go out and earn a living to pay their fair share. Some are able some are not. The question becomes what happens to those who are not able? Most people assume the groups are small and will automatically be covered by those that care for them, but it isn’t happening.

Thanks to Brian Milburn for permission to use his video.

First Man: Me? No, I don’t want to be involved at all. Bye.

-Second Man: Politics? No, I don’t get involved in politics. Thank-you, no!

-Young woman on train: What? No, no. I’m neutral.

-Young man with camera: I don’t get involved in politics. I prefer to stay away from it.

-Jamey: I’m deaf. I applied for a job here. They turned me down. I CAN work!

After interaction with deaf and hearing people in bar fails

Amy: It’s not fair!

Micheala: Hey, what grade did you get?
Johanna: I got a B
Micheala: I got an A
Johanna: Really?

After interaction with her hearing friend…

Micheala: I want to learn! I want to improve, but they won’t let me

This is a dramatization of REALITY!!

I would suggest that both Conservatism and Liberalism contribute to the growing numbers of these small groups. Its a balancing act of the greastest proportion. How much is too much? When are we cheating ourselves and others. Dissention comes from those who, for whatever reason, cannot come up with their share. I would like to think most people don’t have a problem giving to the less fortunate, but it is when that giving becomes excessive as people begin to take advantage.

The key is making sure people have their basic needs, and trying every option available to make sure they are able to do so on their own. Too often we get in the habit of overstepping in the help department, confidences are lost, and one begins to rely on the assistance instead of making the necessary changes to remove the need. We lose focus and begin to think we know what is best or the opposite affect of not wanting the burden.

It is fair to expect everyone to do their fair share, but only after we level the playing field and give everyone a chance!

Bailout Idea!

Our economy is a mess, and taxpayers are being expected to foot the bill. I have no problem paying may fair share, business or personal, but how do we know they won’t squander those funds too?

I don’t know about you, but I’m thouroughly disgusted with how things are turning out. Companies like Enron, WorldCom and others have been allowed to walk away from the havoc, some have not even got a slap on the wrist.

Why can’t the government require these individuals to payback all the money above their regular income? I don’t advocate taking from the rich and giving to the poor, but as a business owner I don’t get a bonus if the company is in financial trouble.

I am in full agreement with those who believe we cannot spend ourselves out of this mess. Spending is what got us here. I say they go back to all those individuals and collect the golden parachutes! Some of it is taxpayer money right?

All of these companies asking for bailout funds need to give back ALL bonuses. If your salary is $500,000 a year then you need to give back everything above that.

No money should be spent beyond the cost of doing business. All profit should be reinvested into the companies until they are operating in the black for at least 4 quarters.

If this isn’t enough, then ask taxpayers to kick in to help out! We didn’t do this by ourselves and we shouldn’t be expected to foot the entire bill. You want people to sign off these bailouts, then SHOW US how sorry you are instead of just saying it!!

6 wasn’t enough…now 14 too many? UPDATE:

The Los Angeles Times is reporting she also owes $50,000 in students loans, but she has $165,000 for IVF treatments. She stated in her interview she didn’t expect public assistance to help her financially, but she has a website where she is soliciting donations!

Is this a case of selfishness? Pride? Mental illness? What happens to 14 children while their mother, who clearly has some psychological issues, figures out what to do now? Nadya Suleman is single, has no job, lives with her (older) parents, and now has 14 children. What’s wrong with this picture?

Before the anti-abortionists begin to rally, no one is saying she should have eliminated them. Personally once I had had the six, I would have donated the remaining embryos to other couples who might would have wanted them. There were countless solutions to this particular dilemma, and she ignored all of them.

I guess its not too late for her to put them up for adoption, but that isn’t for us to say. As taxpayers there are many other things to consider when looking at how this supposedly occured. Where did she get the funds to support multiple trips to a fertility clinic?

Suleman said she had saved money and used some of the more than $165,000 in disability payments she received after being injured in a 1999 riot at a state mental hospital where she worked. She also told NBC that she does not intend to go on welfare, though her publicist confirmed Monday that Suleman already receives food stamps and child disability payments to help feed and care for her six other children.

Well this explains her employment status! Money she saved, disability payments from a previous job for the state, disability payments for disabled children (from the previous IVFs), and food stamps. According to this article she went on disability in 1999, and exactly ten years later she’s the mother of octuplets!

State of California wants to know where all their money is going? Investigations have begun into the practice of the doctor, but what about the Welfare Department? Cracks aren’t supposed to be this big! This woman managed to save over $165,000 in income from a state job, and for the bulk of that income she didn’t WORK!!

I don’t know about you, but it sounds like the biggest welfare scam in history to me! She claims she’s fixated on having children, but her mother says she visted a different doctor for this procedure. How were her parents able to convince the other specialist not to treat her again? California is the Vanity Medicine Capitol of the U.S., so we know money talks louder than aging parents.

Angela Suleman said Nadya’s boyfriend was the biological father of all 14 children, but that she refused to marry him. “He was in love with her and wanted to marry her,” she said. “But Nadya wanted to have children on her own.”

What happens to a welfare scheme if there is a man involved? She only wanted a sperm donor?

The State of California has been in fiscal trouble for a long time and the citizens have been fully aware. I know this because of the ramblings of family members who live there. It would seem to me someone who is soley dependent on the state for income for herself and for her children would need to ‘step up their game’.

I don’t know who this woman thinks she’s fooling. but I’m not falling for it…at least not yet. Something is very wrong here. I would suggest a neuro-psychological evaluation to make sure she wouldn’t harm to these children. I don’t mean to sound judgemental, but she herself admitted she put her life and the lives of her children in danger to satisfy this insatiable need for a large family.

Conspiracy of Hate

Genesis 1:26-28

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” [NASB]

 

It is important for us to understand this conspiracy of hate has been drafted since our creation by an individual who refuses to understand just how precious we are. Satan is described as our greatest adversary, but this is wrong! The greatest adversity comes from within, because a lie has been told and we refuse to accept TRUTH. We have become obsessed with the differences on the surface of ourselves forgetting all that is important is within.

YAHAWAH does not have skin to color, so why would it matter that we do? YAHAWAH does not have a heritage or culture laden with history, so why would it be an important factor in our lives? All of these things are idolatrous and take away from a very important mission. We are a clone of an original masterpiece! Bear with me as I make another point.

Charles Darwin rocked everyone’s world with his theory “survival of the fittest,” but I ask you how this is different from Scripture? Evolutionists believe because we are classified: Hominidae Homo Sapiens we are descended from apes, but even they can’t agree. Similarities aside we are the only CREATION that has LANGUAGE.

 

John 1:1-5

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. [NASB]

 

This is what truly set us apart from the rest of CREATION and why we have dominion over everything. Communication is one thing, but it is nothing without LANGUAGE. It isn’t about WHICH it is about the ability. We have proof of this each time we apply for a new job. They pay extra for the ABILITY to use more than one language. What would the earth be like if all creatures had language?

 

Genesis 11:1-7

Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” [NASB]

 

Evolutionists believe the other species of “man” died out as new species evolved, and each overlapped in their existence. Homo erectus died when Homo neanderthalersis, died when Homo sapiens. I don’t like making assumptions where the YAHAWAH is concerned, but I do find it interesting his people are called sapiens and they are supposedly the only species left.

 

Genesis 3:14-15

The LORD God said to the serpent,” Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;

And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.”

Scripture says yes! Not only did we coexist we partook of their ways! We used the gifts given by the Most High and shared them…used them for foolish and wicked things separating us from all that was good and pure! Not once, not twice, not even three times, but continuously! We took them as wives and husbands and had children by them; we worshipped with them, fellowshipped with them. During Noah’s time man lived to be at least 300 years old. What happened? Why is that no longer the case? Today a human is lucky to make it to the age of 70 or 80 years old. Hmmm… the other species of man died out and Homo sapiens are the only species left….coincidence? I think not! Each generation has been given prophets revealing the truth and each generation has ignored His warning!

 

Genesis 6:1-7

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

The LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

This isn’t about black or white, African, Latino, Christian, Jew, etc. This is about the Nation of Israel—Homo sapiens….Image and Likeness of the YAHAWAH. Yeshua, Yahoshua, Jesus, whatever you chose to call him—was our LAST WARNING!! There isn’t a need for more. Either you believe or you don’t. I charge you not to fall for the lies of Satan or his evolutionists. The seeds of perdition are not dead, but have gone into hiding. Our faithlessness has allowed them an avenue of destruction beyond understanding.

 

2 Peter 3:3-8

 

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

Our battle is not with each other brothers and sisters it is with a force so destructive we must fight it from within. We must continue to seek TRUTH and WISDOM no matter the cost and HIS righteousness will follow.

 

Shalom

Universal Law or Gay Rights?

God isn’t against Gays and Lesbians! Plainly said, parents love their children they just don’t like what they deem ill-behavior. Protesters say they are tired of being treated as if they are less than human, they are not deserving of the same rights as others, and they want legislation to improve their daily living.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it won’t improve or change anything. You will concede that life happens when male joins female correct? This is the natural or universal law. Sperm joins with egg, cell division takes place, and baby shows up later.

If you want to take religion out of the equation, fine we can make a scientific argument. God created science too. Basic genetics tells you what you need to know. Woman = XX Man = XY. Vitality comes from men not women. This is why he is the leader, and this is the true definition of marriage.

I am a believer in the premise that ‘shit happens’, and this is the state of things at this time. Men and women have found themselves attracted to the same sex and given up on following natural order for whatever reason. Life is hard and as backward as it is, believers and non- do listen when God says, “You are not promised tomorrow.”

That being said, I believe I’ve earned the right to return to the religious side of this argument. I want to stay as non-denominational as possible and look at these from a legal perspective. Miriam Ben-Yaacov explains it perfectly in her article The First Covenant-Torah of Eden.

Seven flaws came into Creation when Chava (Eve) and Adam ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, according to the teachings of the Ari z’l (Rabbi Yitzchak Luria). Fixing these flaws necessitated the Seven Universal Laws:

1. Do not worship idols. (Genesis 3:5)

2. Do not commit blasphemy. (Genesis 3:1)

3. Do not steal. (Genesis 3:6)

4. Do not murder. (Genesis 4:8)

5. Do not commit sexual immorality. (Genesis 6:1-4)

6. Establish courts of justice. (Genesis 6:5-7)

7. Do not eat the flesh of a living animal. (Genesis 9:3-4)

It is my opinion these are the foundation of all law since the fall of man. Regardless of what you believe there have to be standards in place to guarantee our survival. Homosexuals attempt to compare their plight to the Civil Rights Movement, but it is only in part.

When you are chastised, beaten, tortured or murdered it is against universal law. If you are maimed, taken advantaged of, or robbed it has disturbed natural order and you must be defended. At the same time your sexual orientation itself is a disturbance of the natural order. Should that be ignored?

It has and for a very long time. You have been allowed your pleasures and even allowed to establish families to carry on your name, and because forgiveness has allowed this much ‘grace’ you ask us to rewrite the law?

Be satisfied Brothers and Sisters it could be worse. We have to find away to get back to the Father. There is much disagreement about how that is done. I believe the best course of action is to work with what has been given to us and figure out what it all means.

Love each other as we love ourselves and stop asking for the impossible.

Is Christ God? (part 1)

My first answer to this question is No, but it is a knee jerk reaction. It is important we return to Scripture to be sure. A gracious friend and faithful truth seeker pointed me toward an article called: 10 Claims in the Bible on the Deity of Christ by Tom DellAringa.

I appreciated that it was a genuine article and not a watered down sermon. It is important to examine each reference to the Bible and fully understand the author’s dissenting view. I also must mention my skepticism of the Christian church and their infatuation with the man they call Jesus Christ.

Skeptics and followers of other faiths that also deny his divinity and know of his Jewish roots call him Yahoshua ben Yosef. I haven’t learned enough Hebrew to understand this distinction, so I believe for this purpose I will just call him Jesus. I also do not presume to know which is correct, but wish to examine the Scriptures as I understand them.

1. John 8:56-59- Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

To understand this verse and what Christ was actually saying to the Pharisees, we must go back to the Old Testament where God revealed Himself to Moses in Exodus 3, in the burning bush. When Moses asked God what name he should report back to the Israelites to prove that God had sent him, God replied “I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”

I AM is literally “I will be what I will be (or become).” And Moses understood that God’s people would recognize that name as representing God Himself. We can see this in the response of the Pharisees – they take up stones to immediately stone Christ to death for blasphemy, but of course Jesus escapes through there midst (right in the middle of them) for Christ said in John 10 “I lay down my life, that I might take it again.No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself.”

By equating the name “I AM” to Himself – before Abraham’s day – Christ was literally saying that he was one with the Father – that they were the same. If the Pharisees – the experts of that day in what such a thing would have meant – understood it that way, then there is no other alternative for us today.

I agree that one must return to Exodus to understand the meaning of I AM, but that is it! It seems to me DellAringa and the Pharisees literally meant Jesus saw Abraham with his own eyes. If you read the entire chapter Jesus reveals his identity in verse 28, and the Pharisees misunderstood him even then. The passage says, “I AM hath sent me to you.” God hath sent me to you.

Jesus says, “Before Abraham was I AM” Before Abraham was God. DellAringa continues in error with, “If the Pharisees – the experts of that day in what such a thing would have meant – understood it that way, then there is no other alternative for us today.” Excuse me? Just because they misunderstood Jesus, I’m supposed to purposely misunderstand him too? Huh? I don’t think so. My soul screams NO!

8:21-30 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?” And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.” They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father. Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.” As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.

If Jesus is God then how did Stephen see him standing on the right? (Acts 7:55-56) Why did he claim to see the ‘Son of Man’ standing to the right of God, instead of claiming to see God?

2. John 10:30-33- “I and My Father are one.”Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”

Here there is little explanation needed, for the Pharisees themselves provide it. Simply put: “for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” They understood this based on His comment “I am my Father are one.”

Little explination is needed to show they misunderstood him yet again! Ok I totally agree with that too. What was Jesus really saying though? It is found in the next verse:

John 10:34-38- Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’? If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

Isn’t this a direct reference to Genesis 1:26-27? Let us make man in Our Image. Jesus reveals his identity again and everyone ignores him! He confounds them only to escape again! He doesn’t claim to be God, nor does he compare himself to God, he only claims to be like him. Why? Because it is in his Word.

3.John 1:1-3- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John begins his gospel by proving that the Word was indeed God Himself. There is no need to delve into Greek theory or wonder about what is being said here, for it is crystal clear. In these three verses we find that the Word not only was at the beginning and with God, but the Word was God. Furthermore, he is the creator – “All things were made by him.” “The Word” is Jesus Christ in the gospel of John. This means that the Bible here claims that Jesus Christ pre-existed his physical birth. That he literally created the universe. We already have Christ in point #1 pre-existing Abraham, who had lived some 2000 years before Christ.

I cannot agree with point 3. Jesus, Christ, nor Jesus Christ are mentioned in the first three verses of this gospel. Any assumption of Jesus physically being the Word of God is on behalf of the author. In fact the first person mentioned after these verses is John the Baptist. It is interesting to note John is the gospel that focuses mainly on what Jesus did and not his message making it one of the most idolatrous of all the gospels.

Veneration and worship of a teacher who stressed that honor and glory belonged to God. ALONE! (John 8:54, Exodus 20:3-4) This would include his son!

4.Mark 14:61-64- But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

For those who would tell you that Jesus never claimed to be Christ, this verse clearly shows that He did. Then he further states that he will sit on the right hand of power, and this time the high priest rends his clothes he is so angry. “What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.”

Please pay close attention to the question he is being asked. “Are you Christ, Son of the BLESSED?” Jesus only reaffirms what he has been saying all along. Yes! I am the Christ! Son of a man who tells you if you remain faithful and obedient to God’s commandments you become His! Where is the blasphemy? They believed because Jesus said he was a child of God, that he was equal with God, that he was God. Jesus never said that.

Are you children of the living God? Ask a kid what he wants to be when he grows up and he says a policeman, a fireman, a doctor, a lawyer, etc. Jesus teaches us that answer should be “like God!” Do I blaspheme by saying this? No, because if I remain faithful and obedient to His commandments, I become His child, and become akin to Him! DellAringa assumes, because Jesus says, “I am” that means Jesus believes he is God, but he’s only answering the question.

Genesis 21:1-2- Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

Does then Abraham believe he is God in this passage? DellAringa has fallen into the same trap as the Pharisee High Priest. We are Blessed that it hasn’t cost someone their life this time.

Part 2

Another Case Against Human Deism

Why would God sanction human deism when He already knows it doesn’t work? People hold Jesus to a different standard when it comes to the Laws of the Father and man’s obsession of self continues to be the one thing keeping us from returning to the Father. People like to blame Eve, and rightly so, but I’m beginning to wonder what exactly happened in that ‘garden’ that has made man so darn ‘hard-headed’?

God has given us a simple command from the beginning. Love Him with all of your heart and mind, obey His commandments, and love others as you love yourself. Well it sounded simple huh? What does it really mean? My husband says, “Man’s purpose in life is to love God and spend his life promoting His creations. Anything that does not promote life is against God–PERIOD!

Whatever sin committed by our Foreparents had nothing to do with eating fruit, but everything to do with self-promotion–PRIDE. If not, then why is it the greatest sin? Why, then is all sin traced back to PRIDE?

Genesis 3:1-6

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Now why did Eve take the fruit? Surely not because it was good for food, they had plenty of that! Could it be that she and, later, her husband desired to be like God? (There is only one God–they would have known it because it has been the law from the beginning) FAST FORWARD

Genesis 11:1-7

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Again, man becomes obsessed with himself to the point he wishes to be like God. Can’t kick them out of Paradise–been done already! He can’t send a Flood–been done! He’s shortened the lifespan, limited the type of food they eat, limited contact with certain people, the only thing left is to splinter the language! Another fix that doesn’t work!

God decides to concentrate on a ‘priest-class’. A group of people to teach the rest. A group of people that would make sure His Law reigned SUPREME with assurance one day this class would no longer be needed. (Jeremiah 31) Satan has never really been able to consume the entire lot, and there always seems to be one that lives against the grain. Satan has never been able to shake the Spirit of God’s children, so he decided to become their faith.

2 Timothy 1:7

For He hath not given you a Spirit of fear, but of LOVE, POWER, and a SOUND MIND.

Faith is an extension of these three and cannot exist without them. The devil knows this, uses it against us, and has some of you sold ‘HOOK LINE AND SINKER!” Pray before and after you read. Ask the Father to reveal it to you, and thank Him later. Soon you will realize all He has to offer and what Jesus implored us to do.

Pride goeth before the Fall, and I am fairly certain the Father would not send a human representative/Messiah/Christ/prophet to instruct me to equate myself with Him. It is unlawful!

Bible Study John 10:22-42

This passage is often used by Christians to affirm that Jesus was in fact God. I have read this over and over again and I just can’t seem to pick up that vibe. I will be using the New American Standard Bible for this post, and I should say it is my preferred translation because it doesn’t cause a headache when I read for understanding.

10:22-30

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.

“But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. “I and the Father are one.”

I do not deny that Jesus is the Messiah. I do not deny he is Christ. I deny that he is God. I believe the confusion comes from when he says, “the Father and I are One”. Genesis 2:24 says a man shall leave his parents and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. Does that mean a husband becomes his wife and a wife becomes her husband? Of course not. The two may take on part of each others name, but that is as far as it goes. The ‘marriage’ is two people working in accordance and both must comply. It is the same with God. To be God’s son (child), one must follow His commandments and love Him. Pay close attention to what Jesus says next:

10:32-39
I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’? “If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.

What law could Jesus be talking about here? He says its in scripture and cannot be broken. So where is it written in scripture?

Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

It would seem to me this statement alone proves that Jesus believed he was just a man. He was only different because he chose to love the Father, give reverence to Him, and follow His commandments. He accomplished it without belittling, force, condescension, murder, judgment, yet with gentle rebuke. Did he call for the stoning of the moneychangers? Did he join in the stoning of the adulteress? Did he cast Peter aside for his constant denial of the truth? No, in fact he left the ministry to Peter and what happened?

Jesus is also saying it is possible for anyone to achieve this, all they need to do is just believe! But belief seems to be a problem Israel has had from the beginning. They are obsessed with setting up idols for themselves and doing things their own (PRIDEFUL) way. Now they have fallen in love with His ‘son’ and forgotten all about Him. Now in modern times He has been replaced–Jesus is God, and he is now our salvation.

What of the One who created Jesus? Has He lost all importance with this reverence for His son and the woman He chose to birth him? Israel and her Gentiles are destined to remain in captivity following the gods created by them and their captors: Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Mary, the saints, televangelist preachers, politicians, money, sex, drugs… need I go on?

Truly, truly, I say to you before Jesus, I AM!

Black, Brown, White..

There seems to be an uproar over the last part of Dr. Lowery’s benediction during the Inauguration Ceremony on Tuesday. This was an emotional moment for this country. A time when it seems like nothing will ever be enough to get us out of this mess we have made for ourselves. I was actually moved by what he had to say and was almost shocked when I heard others believed it was anything but uplifting.

I’m going to assume there are some that believe he is a watered down version of Dr. Jeremiah Wright, and after listening (reading) to some of the comments I can say you are allowed. However unfortunate it may be, the truth is this country has never really been exposed to African Americans in the way they have in the last 2 years. It’s been raw and for the most part, uncut and people don’t know how to take it when they hear how we have dealt with racism. The things said in churches, barber shops, beauty shops, on front stoops/porches, and car ports are an everyday thing for us.

As a collective, we never thought to watch what we say, what we wear, or the people we choose to associate with that was reserved for a select few. Historically is was called passing that evolved what is now been dubbed ‘selling out’. I do not believe it was Dr. Lowery’s intention to be racist or devisive but merely quoting two songs that have brought us to this moment.

Lyrics
Dr. Lowery is 87 years old and I guess he could have picked “We are the World” or “Heal the World” but he didn’t grow up singing those songs. Dr. Lowery shared with us the political songs of his time. Please listen to the whole song and you will understand why he chose to quote from it. Like many of the spirituals it is a work ‘anthem’ written to empower us to get off our lazy duffs and do something.

That day finally happened..Earth and Heaven rang y’all!!