September 6th.

Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house. You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious. But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.

Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe. And he said to me, "Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the house of Israel." So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it." So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. Then I was told, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings."

I have food to eat that you know nothing about. My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

The words written on the scroll was the word, or intention of God—what He desired to take place—that the prophets took into their body so that intention became theirs, an integral part of them which sustained them as food sustains a body, but spiritually instead of physically, so they could know the word and intention of God and speak it with His authority.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

It is what the Son of God "ate," what he became and what he lived for because he consumed that intention of God like food. That living word is God's purpose, and it lived in their hearts so that it took them over and they became an integral part of another creation, invisible to those who are part of this natural creation, temporary, inferior and passing away. In order to accept and understand the word of God they had to become something they weren't, they had to be transformed from one thing to another, and they had to eat God's purpose so it became part of them, so it became their purpose and intention on a level they could never create via their own power to effect anything within themselves. In other words, only the true and active purpose of God can make it genuine, and no matter how polished one makes himself (church leaders) by his own power, it will always be like spraying perfume on a turd. The outside might smell nice but the inside is just a turd.

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."

To take Jesus, as the bread, into us is to take what he is into our body so that it becomes an integral part of us. Like food it transforms us, sustains us but not physically. That is what physical food is for, and why he made the distinction between it and the other invisible food he had that the humans knew nothing about. Because they were still purely natural, they could only be concerned about natural things—what they were going to eat, where they were going stay, what they were going to wear, how they were going to survive.

Jesus himself was the word of God. His very life was the intention and purpose—the very will of God. He was the way God wants His sons to be, the model and example for all the rest of them—what they have to become in order to be pleasing to the Father. Jesus' life is the desire of God for any of the humans He chooses to become His sons. Making him into a god means that he can never be that example for the sons because he has been elevated to another plane that is inaccessible to the humans if he was a god and not the firstborn Son of God who was a human and not a god. His ascending to a level nearly equal with the only God came after he went to the Father and became One with Him. When the two became One then the Son was like the Father. Before that time, the Father lived in the Son's body—from conception, which is how Jesus' life is different than all the other sons—which is why it is said he was like God, and why he had the authority of God. It is why he knew who he was.

I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.

For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

If we think about what we're concerned about and are able to be honest about it, then we can know a little about where we live and what we are—what we are choosing to define ourselves as by what we live for, run after, follow. While the humans are concerned about temporary human things, Jesus was concerned about pleasing to the Father, even if it meant the extraordinarily difficult task of doing what the Father wanted instead of what the animal was tempting him to grab and take for himself what was die him, being the Son of God.

If you are the Son of God," he said...

There's no point to the outcome of this exchange which can actually apply to and affect the sons who are in these bodies of flesh if they adhere to the lie that the Son of God was always existing as a god before he came into the world as a human. The consequence of that lie isn't a minor thing; it means that you are believing in and serving a totally different, made up jesus which cannot save anyone because it's not real. Though the whole world was given over to that lie, the sons must know who their savior was, and is in order to be able to comprehend him. Perhaps more importantly, they must know what's required of them—to become as he was, since he was a human who was born of the Father (the first to be). Not as the milk-toast jesus the liars created when he left the word of the liars, whom they try to emulate when they go to church with their requisite artificial behavior they think is necessary for obedience to their made up gods.

Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

The definition of the way of following the true Jesus doesn't come from the humans; nothing comes from them except what comes out of what lives in them, which is not good, but against God in every way. What is required of all God's chosen and called sons is to follow the Lamb wherever he goes; meaning to be as he was, to go the way he went.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

No one comes to the Father unless they go the way he went, giving up his right to rule the Israelites as was his right, since he was the Messiah and could prove it easily. But he purposefully did not prove that he was the Messiah, because that is the way of the secret son whom the Father wants to be hidden within the world of the humans. Although he knew who he was, and a handful of men became convinced of the same, the right to assume that position—the first thing the humans would have done—was the opposite of what the Father commanded him to do.

The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

What is required of any son is the same as was required of the firstborn Son. To become like him in this earthly, temporary existence is impossible for the humans to pull off with their little dog and pony shows or their affected behavior about how they imagine him to be, then becoming it. Being transformed into a creature who isn't concerned with human concerns, but instead with the concerns of God, isn't something that can be done except in the pitiful way the humans always do it. And the humans aren't about to listen to anyone about what wool they're being able to pull over some gullible eyes, so there's no point in trying to reform them. The sons' only option is to come away from the humans so they can hear the voice of the Son, who lived to teach a small number of humans about their true Father, and who still does the same, only more effectively because he can now live within them to teach them, as the unseen spirit of the living God and Father of those who are being inhabited.

Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.

Whether or not we become like him in his present existence (one with God, and him, and all of God's chosen sons) is dependent upon whether or not we become like him in his former existence (as the human who was the firstborn Son of the Father of the chosen sons). God and His will has always been invisible to the humans, who are low in makeup and nature compared to Him, because the present creation is low and inferior compared to the spiritual. The humans are an integral part of that inferior creation, temporary while He has no beginning or ending. Jesus was once like us, but has been transformed to being like God. He exists beyond what we can imagine with our inferior faculties, and he goes where men can't control him with their natural abilities.

I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going. I am going to the Father.

He lives in the invisible places where man cannot go, and sees where man cannot see. It is the content of these secret places which will be used to finally judge each man according to what he is in regards to how God wants him to be—whether he lived his life doing what he wanted, or what God wanted, whether his concerns were about himself or whether he was concerned about God and what He wanted—whether the man ever looked for the hidden God (whether he wanted to find Him or not). It doesn't seem like such an outrageous desire for the creator of something to desire that what He creates actually does want to be pleasing to Him by some desire to want to find Him.

Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, `This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.'

"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple."

These are not minceable words, they are straightforward and true. They will be what men who claim to know the way to God are judged against, and there will be no defense about being fooled by our selves or the "experts" whom we chose to trust, whose polished acting job we gullibly bought into because it was easier than doing the work of finding out ourselves what is required. Being cursed humans, our concerns will automatically and constantly revolve around ourselves—who *we* will marry, how many kids *we* will have, how *we* will feed ourselves and our earthly families that *we* chose for ourselves, where *we* will live, what job *we* will have, what human identity *we* will make for ourselves amongst the humans, etc. If what we are concerned about is how we can survive in all the ways we think we need to all our life, we can hardly say that we are concerned about God and His desires. We couldn't expect to be very pleasing creatures to Him who created us.

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

The lie of the liars is that they can take up their right to live as mere animals 96% of the time, and then go do some religious thing—whatever has their god's name stamped on it—and that will be doing them the favor of being concerned about their concerns, the requisite things in order to get something from them (go to their made up heaven). Then they say that spending most of the time working for the things that perish—what food they'll eat, what house they'll live in, and all of the other human crap they're constantly engaged in—is actually doing their gods' work too. And the final lie is that the ultimate work of the gods must be in converting other humans to their lie, so their lie can continue to be validated by others adhering to it and the whole thing can exist as one neat little capsule of lies all wrapped up into itself.

You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

The heart contains the secret things that a man is and does, what his true motives are, and where his true devotions lie. Because the Lord is able to see and understand all these secret things in each man's heart, they will be the substance of how he is judged, whether good or bad. Although we do know this we look past it because we  are being beguiled by the same forces that beguiled the Israelites Ezekiel was sent to, and their fathers before them, as the land was becoming purified by the judgment of God, and Babylon the servant of God.

It is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

Because of so much deception by the serpent who lives in our heart, our aim to have a pure heart will be marred by all the lies that still exist within us, keeping us a slave to serving ourselves. Listening to the word that speaks to our hearts and tells us what's true is the only way we can continue to be becoming even the least bit useful or pleasing to the Father, because of our unfortunate condition of being totally inundated with the lies of the snake who lives in us. The only way to the Father is to listen and endure, and be transformed by His power—we don't have any except to listen and accept the hard thing. There are many distractions along the way, and chances to veer off the path.

Jehoiada then made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people that they would be the LORD's people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people. All the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him. The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

The things we love will be constantly before us, begging us to serve them, to be the god of our heart. They are tangible because they are natural, physical things, or ways we learned to love and serve ourselves before, when we had no God—no Lord and master instructing us, no living word guiding our heart and teaching us how to be good sons for our Father.

Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.

Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

"I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore come out from them and be separate," says the Lord. "Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters."

The temple of God cannot be desecrated by what is unclean. When that happens, God completely wipes it out so that it can't be used for anything good. Whatever about the old way, where we used to live and what we used to be—what we were concerned with—whatever continues to reinforce what's unclean in our heart, we will have to move away from. Slowly the word teaches us and allows us to see, then move away from those things that damage us in ways we cannot even comprehend. They are ways that are from below, earthly, natural things that the humans are concerned about; not from above, of God, what concerns God. The ways of the human animals are fine for them because it's what they are and all they have, it's what they learn to be and love as they fully become one with the natural creation. Those ways hurt the sons of God because they reinforce what isn't good, but what's bad—earthly, of the adversary. They proliferate the lie that there's something at all good in the humans, what they have, love and run after.

It's so insidious that it cannot be fathomed unless the teacher lives in the same place the adversary lives, because that is the deception of the snake which lives in our heart to constantly drag us away fro the Father and back to the earth, where the things of the earth and the humans rule in the hearts of men, who can only be concerned about those things. It's actually the condition that God set up—and why it's so utterly effective—so that none would be able to get to Him unless they are given the secret understanding, and begin to walk to Him the same true way the firstborn Son walked. It's a long, slow process of transformation that allows us to be effectively unconcerned with all of the human things, not just as theory but the reality of the state of our heart, which will be the criteria for our judgment.

The first step is beginning to see that being concerned with the things of the humans cannot help us, but hinder us, and that it isn't true that they can be mixed with being concerned about the cares of the Father. A pure heart that is devoted to the Father comes at the expense of the heart that is actively concerned about human things. Next is seeing the humans for what they are and what they always do—contaminating and always desiring to rule and own everything, to sway everyone and everything around them to their will and purpose. It's always the same with the humans; they cannot change their nature.

For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say to him, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I can't; it is sealed." Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I don't know how to read."

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals."