August 16th.

The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. 10 Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command.

Solomon mistakenly assumed he was the son of David who was the subject of Nathan's prophesy about the One who would build a house for God. It wasn't a house that could be seen by the humans and beheld as some sign of natural dominance among the nations of other humans, that they were good and strong enough to have a magnificent building the same way the national ego of the nations around them built monumental things that could be seen and observed by the humans. The house that the Son of David would build would not be a natural one that the humans could claim as their own; it would be God's house that could be filled with His family of sons whose hearts were turned toward Him and away from the animal with its cravings, lusts and instinctual dictates that define the humans as what their hearts hold fast to and follow, what they want by what they run after, not what they claim with their mouth babble.

Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

Instead of being the promised Son, Solomon dwindled into the negative end of the contrast of good and evil, to show what the good Son didn't do as a supreme lesson for the sons of God on their journey toward the Father, as a testimony to reinforce their teaching about what a good son doesn't do (remain driven by the animal instinct). In short, Solomon just did whatever he wanted to do according to the lusts and cravings that were in him to get what he could as per the opportunities he had. Being king he had many, and he indulged in them as though his life were an orgy of sensual and emotional pleasures to be taken advantage of with little regard for the Law that David his father loved and regarded with high esteem, not something to be ignored and trampled into the mud with the disregard that Solomon employed.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

The good Son is the other end of the contrast made via the examination of the lives of Solomon versus the Son of God, whose life is marked first by the Father not allowing the animal to get near him, and then when he was old enough, by not allowing himself to be led by the animal, which would have made him useless for the work he was about to do for the Father (saving the family of his brothers and presenting that family to the Father as a gift). Being obedient to another master than our own self, which keeps throwing up its needs and cravings, is not something to be trivialized as though anyone could do it. Its strength and power to cripple and conquer isn't because of the plan of God's that went wrong, therefore a strong enemy is prevailing. He created this adversary to be just that, which is why it's utterly effective—not because of the weakness of God to prevail, but because of His strength and effectiveness. This condition which rules the humans is seamless and perfect, therefore not able to even be recognized because it works underneath and beyond the humans' conscious ability to recognize and control so they cannot ever, by our their power, get a handle on it or control it any way like they control the natural things in their lives by possessing and controlling as a right of ownership.

Neither he (Zedekiah) nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

The humans want to hear what they want to hear, so they surround themselves with others who reinforce whatever lie they want to believe and get rid of whoever says what's unpleasant. That's part of the animal nature, to survive, and there's no better way for the humans to feel like they're surviving than to surround themselves with those who are like them.

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, he had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.

There is a peculiar power that women have in the world because of the natural instincts living in the humans, which is encouraged and exploited by the humans. It is another characteristic of the animal nature that the humans are completely in prison to serve.The more sexual appeal that a woman has, then the more power she can exercise. Very much like dogs sniffing another dog's ass, men respond the same way because they can't help it—the humans, like all animals, are driven by instinct and impulse, it is what they are led by because they are animals.

The collection of wives which Solomon possessed wasn't all about sexual cravings and temporary human love. It also satisfied the need for safety and security in the form of alliances since his wives were of royal birth, and the egotistical craving that is so powerful in the humans to feel smarter, stronger, righter and therefore more in control on the level where the humans' lives are played out amongst each other—separate from God who exists in another reality and rarely breaks in to the level where the humans' reality takes place.

Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

It's easy to lose heart because it's not sposed to be easy to find God, contrary to popular religious human opinion that He is cheap and easy to find, that anyone can do it by babbling a few words and surrounding yourself with nitwits who spout the same lies to validate and reinforce it in each other. God is hidden on purpose, so that those who want to find Him must search, and that journey requires that the things which hinder (what the animals naturally love) be thrown off and abandoned so that they can continue along on their journey to the Father. There is no church to go to, nor are there any self-proclaimed leaders who perfect their public speaking abilities so they are more qualified to recite their reinforcing lies about the mythical gods made up long ago by other humans who were raised up for God's purpose, just as the original Babylon was His instrument and tool that He used for His sake and purpose.

As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

God doesn't want His own sons to be led by the animal nature. One component of the animal instinct is about sexuality, so the games that go on between them on all levels, from the safe kind of eye flirting (a way to feel some acceptance) to full on intercourse, have their birth and power in the existence of the nature and its drives to respond to an urge and nothing more. The craving to mate is built in to the nature of the animal, its totally ubiquitous condition is evidenced by how so easily and often it's exploited by the humans who turn that condition which lives in the humans into money for themselves.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my animal nature (driven by cravings and the desire to do what I want to do). For I have the desire to do what is good (against what my instinct urges me to do), but I cannot carry it out (because it's seamlessly overpowering and uncontrollable). For what I do is not the good I want to do (to be pleasing to the Father by being like the Son); no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing (because I'm driven by instinct). Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it (the instinctual animal nature marked by fear and hiding, that is alive and dictates to me what I should do via my instincts/urges that rule me).

The point of everything is that the humans cannot just come away from their nature, because it's put on them to keep them where God wants them to be and stay—away from Him. The sons of God who are chosen by Him are given eyes to see and ears to hear what the vast majority of the others cannot, which allows them to choose to retain their old nature, staying what they are, or to have a new nature which comes at great cost because it's so unspeakably valuable. The teacher teaches them that all these games that they as dead humans play are because of the animal nature that lives in to lead and guide them to be what they are in God's eyes—unclean animals which cannot come near Him. If they've been chosen, their Father who did the choosing wants His sons to be led by the same nature that Jesus was led by, not of the animal but of Him. And like the firstborn Son, they too must learn to choose and accept the right (what they must become in order to come near their Father) and reject the wrong (everything they naturally are). The more a son is led by God's nature instead of the animal, the more he'll be able to see what's valuable and not.

Not everyone can accept this word (that it's better not to marry) , but only those to whom it has been given. For some are eunuchs because they were born that way; others were made that way by men; and others have renounced marriage because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.

I wish that all men were as I am.

Marriage is a human refinement of the mating process, how they control it. It is nothing to the sons of God because their Father doesn't recognize what the humans do or the bonds they claim to be able to control by their laws. One selfish and greedy purpose of it is to produce by one's own hand the ability to live on past his death because of his own DNA living on in his offspring. That is perfect for the humans, and was okay in OT times (Jesus was Abraham's and David's descendant because of it, fulfilling God's requirement for Messiah), but the new covenant had not yet been made between God and His sons—the Son had not yet come to make the way to the Father possible. Once the new covenant was given, the way a son would worship the Father was in spirit and truth, not in the natural, the way the humans did before Jesus.

The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection.

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

The sons of God get torn away from the natural creation and become spiritual beings, not in concept but reality. God is spirit, so to know God one must also become spirit, as He is. This happens by the transformation of the body, once purely natural (animal), into an increasingly spiritual body (son), by the power of the spirit that lives in him to do it.

Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.

This is a process that is completely hidden from the humans. When God chooses to give birth to a son, it goes unnoticed by the humans because they are natural and God's family is spiritual, therefore secret and hidden because it's unobserved by the humans. Only those who have also been chosen to be in the family will be able to recognize him as their brother, because the spirit recognizes itself in the others, while the animal recognizes itself in its brothers—why the humans and the sons of God are set against each other.

"They will be mine," says the LORD Almighty, "in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.