August 27th.

So now the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours.

The world ruled by humans is given over to the lying spirit in the mouths of all the self-appointed prophets who make up and say whatever it is that fits into what they want to accept and believe because that feels best to the nature that rules them. The way of the animal is opposed to the way of God. The ability to know the way of God (because it must be specifically revealed) left the world and the way of the animal completely rules it. The animals know the way of their made up gods because it comes from within them—their gods conform to what they need to be and remain—so all they do is to mix what their gods have told them with their own will and purpose, then call it god. That is the tradition that follows what the humans did between around 70 a.d. and 400 a.d., when the unclean animals set themselves up in the true temple (bodies of believers) and took over the truth of the apostles—becoming the abomination that caused the desolation of the true God living in the bodies of His human sons as per Jeremiah 31, which was the new covenant on the earth.

"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.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, "
declares the LORD.

"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.

"No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD.
"For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

Although just as this new covenant was promised by God, who put that word in the prophet's heart, mind and mouth, so was its demise. What happened in the first century was only supposed to last a few short years, then in a.d. 70 it began fading out, and finally the truth would be completely turned into a lie after around 400. Whatever sprang up out of that lie comes from the lie, not the truth that existed in those who lived under the new covenant.

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.

You must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

The humans started mixing the will of man—having their own power and control over each other—with just the opposite of that, what was completely initiated and controlled by God who is the spirit, the truth as it was given by the Son then existed and was growing by the unseen power of the Father and Son as the new spirit, who instituted the new covenant in the first century. The same Son who started and finished the work was still at work although now in a different form which could inhabit the bodies of the chosen sons while it lasted, until the Father and Son retreated from dealing so closely with the humans because now they were together as one,a nd could enjoy each other without having to be involved with the humans and their bothersome problems and independent, God-hating nature. It takes a lot of work to deal with the cursed humans, so after the Son had established his covenant and was safe with the Father, they rested. The sons who heard the shepherd's voice and lived under the new covenant were prophets, but not actually prophets, because they had the life of the only true prophet living in them, giving them life, teaching them by the living word that lived inside them.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.

Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD here whom we can inquire of?"

The king of Israel (Ahab) answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah."

Micaiah was only one, set against the king's prophets who had the power of agreement with themselves and the king. Elijah was one prophet set against 450 false prophets, all in agreement with themselves and the same king of Israel, Ahab.

All the other prophets were prophesying the same thing. "Attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious," they said, "for the LORD will give it into the king's hand."

The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Look, as one man the other prophets are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably."

But Micaiah said, "As surely as the LORD lives, I can tell him only what the LORD tells me."

Micaiah knew what the voice of God was telling him. It was clear to him, but only to him, and it didn't align with what the humans wanted to hear. The humans hated him and put him in prison because he said what was true, not what they wanted to hear.

This is what the LORD says: "If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it."

Leave your orphans; I will protect their lives. Your widows too can trust in me.

The Father promised the Son—even in the words of the OT scripture preserved for him to be able to hang onto in his heart and know, reinforced by what the voice of the Father (the spirit) was telling him about what he had to do—that He would take care of the men He had chosen for Jesus, even though Jesus was going to die and physically abandon them. However:

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.

How could he come to them—how would he be able to show himself to them if he was dead? By sharing the body of the Father when they were made One being, when the Son ascended to Him. The Father could only inhabit one human body, that which was not touched by the animal, which was pure and clean so that He could live inside His Son. The Son was the hybrid component of what the spirit became when he went to the Father, like a buffering agent between those humans who were still unclean, yet destined to become transformed, and God who could now live in them because of the Son living in Him, as that buffering agent. Not for everyone, though, but only for those who were given, chosen to take part in the life.

I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you.

Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

He knew what the word was saying to him, that he must go ahead on the road that none of the humans could have chosen by what was in them, that which was chosen by the Father for him. To drink the cup of God's wrath, to take the wrath of God into himself when he didn't have to because he was the only one who ever existed who didn't deserve to drink it; but ironically was the only one who was worthy to drink it. And he drank it for the sake of his brothers, the object of the Father's love, all those He wanted to be with Him where He was, but couldn't because they were cursed, separated from Him because of their nature as unclean animals.

You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.

Jesus knew what he was going to do; Peter didn't, because Peter was still led by the animal instincts, concerned with the things that animals are programmed to be concerned with (their cause, which Peter who was ignorant of what God had planned didn't want to come to an end). Peter thought he was doing the Lord a favor by convincing him that he knew better, that Jesus must have been mistaken, that he wasn't actually hearing the word of the Father inside him which was hidden to the humans (like Peter) and only heard by the Son. Like Abraham heard the word of God inside him, but it wasn't apparent to everyone else. It wasn't validated by those around him, otherwise it would have been easy for him to say yes to God. Also, if he was a god himself it would have been easy for him to say yes, in which case the whole point of the Son's suffering becomes a theoretical sham (the condition of all forms of christianity, who hold that he was a god, ironically thinking they're doing him a favor by it). Peter was forced to trust and believe that the Son heard the voice of the Father speaking to him, as the Son himself had to trust and believe that he heard it from God, that it was true as God was true. But because he was a human and not a god, nothing was just "in the bag," or the whole point of the Son's life of obedience would be the shame that it exists as in the christian world, where his being lifted up to eternal godhood makes him worthless because his obedience to the Father becomes a joke and sham, and makes the whole christian story ludicrous.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

We know they didn't fully trust those who were listening—Sarah laughed and Peter, speaking for all of the men, tried to persuade Jesus away from what he knew, as that which only he heard. Abraham even listened to the nagging voice of the one who thought she knew the way better than he did, just as the first human listened to the voice of the helper and allowed that to lead him away from what God had told him. Jesus didn't listen to Peter, because although it would have made him happy in the moment—to be relieved that he didn't have to actually drink from the cup of God's wrath—it would have been only a temporary thing that Jesus gave to Peter. The very one who was going to benefit from what Jesus was going to do was trying to talk him out of doing it, because he didn't know what was best.

But the man who loves God is known by God.

It was Jesus' love for the Father that drove him, because he knew what Peter didn't know, and he knew that Peter didn't know what he knew. Not because Peter wasn't smart enough, but because the voice of the Father was only living in the Son who was clean, although human (because he was born of God from conception and therefore remain untouched by the animal, never going through the human process of death by transformation to fully dead, mature animal). The secret voice of the Father had convinced the Son to go the hard way, to drink from the cup of His wrath, while not convincing the disciples according to His purpose—so Jesus would have to trust the Father, and so he wouldn't be able to rely on anything in the natural, even those men who were given to him. Jesus had to believe and trust the voice of the Father even though the men who were closest to him tried to sway him away from that right path because they were fully ignorant of what he was actually going to do—for them.

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Peter had the support of all the other disciples, none of whom could have comprehended what God was doing at the time, all of whom would have assumed they knew the right way, because of the animal nature and the consolation it always seeks in finding agreement with itself in the other humans. At this point, the disciples would have been confident enough about being especially chosen by God, above all the other humans, to even oppose Jesus—to try to convince him that he didn't hear the voice accurately. Their preaching missions, going out without Jesus, healing and driving out demons by the power of God, would have reinforced this—even giving them a confidence that maybe they didn't need Jesus, that they could do the things of God on their own, without him, the way they thought was best. It's this kind of false confidence that allowed them to think they could oppose him, all for God's purpose. It's this kind of false confidence that causes chaos and havoc in the family of God, when everyone thinks they can just do whatever is inside them to do, no0t recognizing what has been put into place by God in the first place (not them or anything they may think in their minds about how things should be—not accidentally the way that benefits them).

Some people are still so accustomed to idols...

This is an incredibly important statement for the sons in the present age because it says something about the transformation they must go through as the witness of one who was certainly under the new covenant before it eroded.

We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords" ( the cultural basis from which christianity sprung with all its Greek and Roman "gods"). Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord (Son, made Lord because he obeyed God), Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. But not everyone knows this.

The residue that is inside the sons from their former life as mere animal who hear and listen to the animal voice inside them isn't negligible, but overpowering and deceitful. That's because it's a mechanism from God who makes no mistakes to be just that—seamlessly efficient in order to accomplish its purpose of keeping the humans away from Him. The ironic flip side is that this is the same nature that draws the christians to their gods, because they consider themselves so inherently important and superior, which is of course the same feeling their gods have about them, so they want every last one of them crammed in to their made up heaven where the made up gods live—not a dissimilar story than that of the Roman and Greek mythologies which gave birth to all this false religion.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me.

The animal nature as it lives in those who are chosen to become transformed away from it doesn't just die, but actually becomes stronger because all of a sudden it's being marked for death. The delusions of those who trust in their own mind instead of what God clearly set up cause much havoc in the first century churches as they were setting themselves up against what God had set up in Paul as an authority because he humbled himself and heard the voice of the Son. The humans heard the voice of the animal which caused chaos to come in as they opened the door.

They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.

Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all."

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

The need to be the one who is right, to set ourselves up as him who would be the greatest, the one everyone else listens to, is a super powerful component of the animal nature, that which wants to come in and rule the sons and make them act like the animals who need to emotionally and mentally survive, which this component addresses. It is against what the Father wants to see living in His own sons because it's the spirit of the created adversary. Since the humans are above all else programmed to survive, of course their first and foremost thought and attitude would have been to convince Jesus away from what he said to them, partly out of fear of themselves losing what they wanted, partly out of a human "compassion" for Jesus, thinking they could keep him from harm, doing the right thing, yet another deception of the serpent.

Jesus was led by the Spirit...those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

However much Jesus taught them to love and not be led by the animal that wanted to make each one want to be the greatest, nevertheless that didn't mean love went so far as to accommodate the men by giving in to their delusions of what the animal wanted to make them do, to try to sway him away from what the Father told him was true about him, and them. Love is the thing which continues to try to turn the others back toward the Father even in the face of retaliation because of fear and reluctance. Love isn't the thing that caves in to the animal because it's more convenient.

You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.

Jesus was being led by the spirit, the voice of the Father, who was leading him in the way that no one around him understood. Jesus heard the voice of the Father and the disciples heard the voice of the animal. In retrospect it's easy to say that he was right and the disciples were misguided, because we're familiar with the account. Similarly, it's easy to say that it was the right thing for Abraham to be willing to kill the child of promise, almost easy in fact because of the privilege of hindsight.

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.

Being in the time is the important thing, while it was happening there was no hindsight for Jesus, although he did have the account of Abraham to reinforce what the Father was telling him. But the world around him, even those who were chosen to be a specific comfort to him, those who at one moment knew who he was, who believed him to a certain degree (enough at least to leave their earthly existences to follow him); were in the next moment trying to persuade him away from what only he knew was the right way. Just because Peter knew who he was, that didn't carry over to Peter assuming he knew the way to God. Peter was a spokesman for all of the men.

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"

Then came the words, that Peter didn't know the way, and was being a stumbling block in the already difficult path that Jesus was walking on, listening to the Father, drinking the cup of His wrath even though he didn't deserve to, even though everything on the outside, in the natural, even in the sentiments of those closest to him, pointed to something else—that it would be a waste for Jesus to go to his death, just as Abraham would have been tempted to think that it was a waste to kill the promised child, against God even.

The disciples also told Jesus that was he was saying was against God and His purpose, that dying would be a waste, killing the momentum they had already gained with the people and their belief in Jesus (as long as he was healing people and doing miracles). That produced a great flurry of momentum that the humans put their hope and assumptions in—assuming that they knew what the will and purpose of God was—that the earthly kingdom of David they hoped for was actually being ushered in after all these years of darkness. That was a strong tide for Jesus to go against, and he was the only one, at this point, who knew what the true purpose and will of God was.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

Then, after a week of struggling with the will of the men, led by the animal, opposed to the way and purpose of God which only Jesus knew about, the Father validated and vindicated Jesus.

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah."

Here is the babbling Peter, thinking he knew what was right, thinking that he had something to say about the OT scriptures, trying to trump Jesus and his words by being some kind of self-appointed expert of the law, talking about the feast of booths, etc.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!"

Here is the vindication from God for the disciples' sake. "Shut up, quit speaking about your presumptions and just listen to Jesus and what he has said is the right way, because he is the one who I've been speaking to."

When the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground, terrified. But Jesus came and touched them. "Get up," he said. "Don't be afraid." When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.

When they looked up, the OT prophets, that which they assumed to know so much about, were gone and only Jesus was left. The purpose that everyone thought they knew, and their presumption that the God of Israel would never abandon her, was based on their erroneous readings of the OT scriptures; and wrong. They didn't know what God was doing, because the many references to Israel by the prophets, that which they put their hope in, wasn't about Israel, or Jews, or any of the natural sons of Abraham. It was all about the sons of God, His true, hidden, purely spiritual family whom He has been secretly gathering up from amongst all of the nations of the earth. That is who Jesus came to save, not the nation of Israel, as populated by mere animals, which became the purpose of Peter and the other men (especially Judas, who gave his soul for the presumed righteous cause of God).

The disciples couldn't see the vision Jesus had, or hear the word that Jesus heard—it was hidden, so they had to believe him over all of their presumptions. That was impossible because the animal was all they had to be led by, but they were forgiven because of that. Even though they couldn't know what Jesus knew, they nevertheless believed him enough to try to be faithful to him, as best they could considering their condition. Their faithfulness, even though flawed, is measured against the unfaithfulness of Judas who emphatically said no, that he would not accept what Jesus told them must take place.

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all."