August 22nd.

I have ordered the ravens to feed you there.
So he did what the LORD had told him.
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.
She went away and did as Elijah had told her.
So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.

Trusting the voice of the teacher instead of our own mind is a thing that comes from being familiar with its voice. It leads us away from what we inherently are—only able to trust our own voice—to what we must become, driven by the voice of the teacher who is showing us how to be good sons for the Father, so that we can be in His house instead of roaming around outside with the wild dogs, pigs and goats who cannot come inside the Father's house because they have a wild nature that cannot be obedient and orderly but must indulge in what seems to be exciting for it, but causes chaos because it drives each one to be and live for himself like a wild animal.

God's house is orderly because His sons don't live by the nature that causes the humans to be and remain independent, wild animals who can each one only live for itself. The sons must be transformed into creatures who have another nature altogether, one that conforms to another reality—not of their own as animals who are part of a larger kingdom of animals, each one randomly and chaotically living for itself—but the reality of the Father's world which is orderly and precise, which produces peace and comfort for all who are allowed in.

Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the LORD your God sends you to tell us. Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the LORD our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the LORD our God."

Ten days later the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

When Jeremiah finished telling the people all the words of the LORD their God--everything the LORD had sent him to tell them—Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, `You must not go to Egypt to settle there.' But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon."

There's a lot of temporary intentions that go along with our temporary emotional spurts of devotion, which prompt lots of mouth babble about how we're going to do and be this or that. The nature that lives in us drives us to seek out what we want for ourselves and we're used to getting what we want, what we have determined is best. The condition of being conformed to another reality besides that which is native to us might seem like a good thing to do as long as it remains in the theoretical arena—as long as we don't actually have to do it. We might be overwhelmed by some emotion or sentimentality that would cause us to declare our devotion to the Father and going the way He declares we must go (being conformed to His word and reality instead of our own), but as soon as the emotional winds begin to blow another way, so does our intention as we're drawn back in to the place where we learned to run and hide, where we don't have to be conformed to anyone but our selves and we can just live like all the other wild animals in the forest, doing what they want to do because of the nature that's in them to make that the right thing for them, as per how they learned to deal and cope with the hostile world around them when they became fully dead to God.

Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people disobeyed the LORD's command to stay in the land of Judah. They entered Egypt in disobedience to the LORD and went as far as Tahpanhes.

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy...

Paul was an honorable man according to the humans before he was called to be holy and set apart from them and the world they rule. After, he was dishonorable and shameful because he wasn't for them, didn't validate their world but was positively acting on the word inside of him to become separated from the world filled with humans so that he could enter another world—the reality of being a son to the Father so he could be raised up to do His work instead of the world's work (being one of them, fitting in to their world so that he validated them. Desiring to become separated from the reality of the world filled with the animals that rule it is an active and true way to say you don't believe the lie that they all must cling to, the details of which can change per each one, but all driven by the same fundamental lie they all must believe—that their existence is worth something in and of itself, that they are inherently worth anything in and of each of their own little existences as they go about their wild animal lives gathering and storing up for themselves and their brood like they and all the rest are driven to do by the nature that is opposed to God.

In the ironic twist of God's plan for the humans once the Son was with Him safe and sound, those who were in the time of their actual existence as humans scorned and ridiculed because they didn't want anything to do with the humans, became elevated to kind of cult hero god status, as the apostles are thought of today by those who claim to know the way to God. The name of the jesus god is the highest example of a name which was shameful and dishonorable, turned into an honorable and good name, in accordance with the darkness that was predicted by the apostles when the truth got turned into darkness, and the will and purpose of the animals got set up in the temple, which for Jesus and Paul was the body of the believers—those whom the spirit of the Father lived in (the abomination that caused the state of desolation, which is the present state of the world of humans, the place where the truth of God as it existed in the first century has been made desolate of that truth).

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." But the temple he had spoken of was his body.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

So what did the animals actually do to the truth as it existed amongst the first century believers concurrent with Paul, just after Jesus had ascended to the Father? Didn't they in fact set up the unclean animal—that is, the will and purpose of their own animal nature, in the house of God, which was their bodies, after the example of the Son, who was the first stone laid in the building, upon which all the other stones are laid which rises up to form the house of God? Not the temple that was merely a copy of the better thing, but the real temple, the body of God's Christ, the secret, hidden place of the hearts of those who were called, as per the words of Paul, to be sanctified and holy.

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, "How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host that will be trampled underfoot?"

So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains...

The abomination that causes desolation had not yet happened according to the Son's words, but it was coming. He already established that the true sanctuary—the true temple where God, being Himself hidden and secret truly lived—was not a building, but a human body—the body of the Son who was the first brick of the secret building, the cornerstone. Since he was the firstborn of many brothers, then this interpretation of Daniel's prophesy was not limited to his body alone, but would also be the truth for other human bodies after he ascended, those whom he would inhabit the same way the Father inhabited his body of flesh and blood.

Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ, ' and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

According to Jesus, life wouldn't be too much different than before, with famines and earthquakes, wars, and nations rising and defeating other nations—it would be a long time and the times would seem pretty much like they always had.

You will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

There will be a time of persecution because of the truth being in the earth, that the life and spirit of God and Jesus was actually living in the bodies of the believers who were being inhabited by the spirit of truth. But then something would happen, an abomination in the real temple (the bodies of believers) that causes desolation, when the truth that Jesus had as per Jeremiah 31, that the law of God would be alive in his heart first, and then it would also happen in the hearts and bodies of some other humans, would be trampled underfoot, as per Daniel.

The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord:

I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.

That's what happened in the years following the Son going to the Father. The new covenant was put in place, which replaced the old covenant, when God lived in the Tabernacle and Temple built by human hands. The new temple, as Jesus declared about himself, was his own body, and the ark in the holy place, where God lived, was his heart. He was the truest reality of what all of the OT scriptures pointed to—the Father lived inside him. He was what the tabernacle only pointed to, and the ark of the covenant was his heart where God truly lived.

Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,

for he lives with you and will be in you.

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.

Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.

If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

What was true about Jesus' condition, he also promised to those who were faithful to him, those whom the Father sanctified (set apart from the unclean animals), those whom He had called to be holy and clean sons, unlike the animals who were unclean.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

To remain in the Son was to live in him, which means to be as he was—separated from the world of humans so he could learn the Father's way which is opposed to them. He promised that their faithfulness to do this—separated from the humans at large and form their own group of chosen sons waiting for their brother to come back to them—would guarantee that he would come back to them to live in them, just as the Father promised to come back to Jesus and redeem his body, not let it see the decay of the animal, which just turns into organic matter after its breath is gone. Jesus believed that the Father would do as He promised , and Jesus asked the disciples to also believe that he would come back for them, to remain faithful even though everything on the outside pointed to and reinforced the fact that it wasn't true and it wouldn't happen.

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

That's why Jesus calls believing work, because it's hard to believe in what is there and so incredibly evident on one level (miracles), but on the level of the natural, where the humans live and move and have their being, it seems impossible.

Jesus talked about the time ahead, when the abomination would happen, and the love of most would grow cold, when many would turn away from the faith, would betray and hate each other (instead of love, what only the sons were capable of doing). The animals would eventually take over what he was establishing, and turn the truth into the lie. The apostles also mention at various points a time ahead that would be darkness, when the evil animals would take over the true, sound "doctrine" that they knew.

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

In the years following the first century, the truth of the new covenant—God living in the hearts of His sons—got turned into lies. Jeremiah's prophesy, the condition of God living in the hearts of some of the humans which would transform them from unclean animal to son of God, was trampled underfoot. It's when the religious leaders of the Holy Roman Church took over the temple (the bodies of the sons who carried that truth within them) and set up themselves, the unclean animals, in place of the life of God.

That truth, which was in the world for a short time, went away. It went into captivity, taken over by Mystery Babylon, the mother of all prostitutes—the Holy Roman Church and all the whore babies she had since then. They each look a little different, and a little different than their mother, but they're basically all the same. They all pretty much believe the same lies about Jesus, God, the devil, hell, etc.; that the humans made up in those years following the first century, which finally started being cemented as the official doctrine of the church of Rome in around 300 or so.

They all call themselves the bride of God's Christ. However, they're not a bride, but they're just prostitute daughters of the great whore, posing as the bride, who started it all and still exists. There is no truth in any of their basic tenants about the things of God, and they can never know the actual desire and intention of God in the earth. They're all basically human institutions with rules of conduct made up by whichever of the humans either founded, and/or maintains them.

There hasn't been any truth in the earth since that time, predicted by Daniel while in actual Babylon, then reaffirmed by Jesus. What Jeremiah predicted just before the actual captivity—the new covenant—was alive in the apostles for a short time, but they knew it would be going away into the captivity of darkness, into the new, mystery babylon.

We have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

Peter is prophesying about the false prophets to come, those who will take over what's true and turn it into darkness, what it is today and has been for so many centuries. They all seem to write in one way or another about this time of the end of their prosperity, being alive by the spirit of God living in their hearts. That same spirit which gave them life, what was predicted by Jeremiah and Isaiah, also told them about this coming darkness.

It's not as though God was weak, and He couldn't help what was going to happen—that His enemy triumphed over Him against His will and desire for the way He wants thing to go. It is all for His purpose, as much as the time of darkness between the promise of Elijah and his coming was also His perfection intention.

We know that the life that is inside us is the same life that the first century believers experienced and knew as the only real thing, but we don't see it anywhere else. Maybe it's been happening all along, just hidden from the humans; maybe it's been gone from the earth for all these centuries. Whatever the truth is, it's God's intention for things to be as they are, and He will do His will on the earth, and have what He wants as He gathers up His family of sons from among men, to be His, with Him where He is.

Since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe...For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

The true life of God is about the transformation from unclean animal to clean, holy, sanctified son; which becomes the spiritual reality and truth according to God. At the same time there is a transformation of the particular individual, from honorable, respectable human whose life agrees with the other humans to shameful sinner, and dishonorable fool according to them. That is the actual life of Paul, not some hero saint whom everyone would love, but an undesirable, a shameful failure of a man who was "over the top," and who had no respect for anything the humans considered sacred or respectable. He was like a scourge to most of the humans who were alive at the time, a joke of a man who was mostly out of his mind. The only people who actually respected him and loved him, were just a handful of humans, in whom the life and spirit of God lived, as it lived in Paul.

Another transformation is of God Himself, going from a "consuming fire," literally One so hot that no flesh could go near Him without the possibility of being burned up, to being redefined as Love—as a close, loving, caring Father who could be called Daddy instead of YHWH.

He was One so great and awesome that His face could not even be looked at, One who would break out and kill any man or animal that got too close to Him. Then, at the appointed time after the long period of darkness between the promise of Elijah and his coming, He became One who hid Himself  and all His awesome greatness in the lowly body of one man. God humbled Himself to the point of offering His own son up to be killed so that He could live in the animals He intended to transform into children—so that they could call out His name, of their own loving Father, and know Him and His care and concern for them as close, loving sons of His. All day, under the law, God consumed the flesh of animals. The blood was constantly flowing from the altar. He even had to warn men, as He did with the children of Israel, not to come to close to approaching Him because there was the possibility He might "break out" against them and kill them.

God built that state of anger and protective warnings around Himself for the men of Israel with the sacrifices—consuming the flesh of animals rather than the flesh of men, allowing the blood of animals to flow instead of the blood of men—instead of the way God was manifested as the very definition of Life itself near the end of Jesus' life. At that point, because God Himself was coming so close to being redefined as Love—as a Real Father rather than an angry, "consuming fire"—no flesh, no man could go near Jesus or touch him without being healed, cured, physically regenerated. It's no accident, either, that God went to the despised, the poor, the sick and needy.

Touching Jesus stopped the flow of blood, as it were. What a perfect miracle—God was coming to the end of having to pour out blood to forgive sin, "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin." Jesus was the perfect offering. In him the fire was cooled and the flow of blood was stopped. God went from being defined as death to being defined as Life.

Now we come back full circle to the reason why God spoke in parables instead of straightforward—why He didn't want them to "turn and be healed." The thing God did to protect Himself before from killing men and burning them up, He, as has been stated previously, also had to do in His new state.

He put up a protective wall so He wouldn't give Life to all who approached Him. He had to send men a strong delusion concerning Him so they wouldn't "turn and be saved." God turned men over to the lie they preferred, He sent them a road block indicating He is someone else to protect Himself, His heart and His Truth; and to protect the inheritance of those He loved and WANTED to live in as His sons.

God, rather than making His gift of true life cheap by giving it to all men who approached Him, sedated men with the lies that they preferred rather than the truth, which is Him. He did this for the sake of His Name in Jesus and for the love of those who He wanted as sons to share His Body of Life.

He drugs them with that preference men naturally have to want to sleep, lie, and be drunk. God simply gave them over to it. He withdrew the Truth of Himself and allowed the flesh to comfort itself by its own "love" of self. He set it "free" to stay in the prison it loves so he could be free to completely and undividedly love His own sons and "break out against them" in all consuming love. He gave His own sons the gift of His own nature, which is Life; and He gave man over to his own nature, which is Death.

The transformation of love—a miracle indeed. The true life of God is all about the transformation.

Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth."

This word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in Lower Egypt--in Migdol, Tahpanhes and Memphis--and in Upper Egypt:  "This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Today they lie deserted and in ruins because of the evil they have done. They provoked me to anger by burning incense and by worshiping other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew. Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!' But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods. Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today."

"Now this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant? Why provoke me to anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations on earth. Have you forgotten the wickedness committed by your fathers and by the kings and queens of Judah and the wickedness committed by you and your wives in the land of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed my law and the decrees I set before you and your fathers."

"Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to bring disaster on you and to destroy all Judah. I will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine. They will become an object of cursing and horror, of condemnation and reproach. I will punish those who live in Egypt with the sword, famine and plague, as I punished Jerusalem. None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives."