September 12th.

Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the utterly detestable things the house of Israel is doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.

Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, 'The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.'

The secret places seem hidden, and they are to the humans. However, what goes on in the secret places of the heart declare who the man is before God because He can see. The man can keep those places hidden from all the other humans, and he thinks they are also hidden to God. Those are the things that will be used to judge him, not the things done on the outside that other humans can see. If it's giving the man disgrace because he doesn't conform to the way the humans approve, God isn't behind it because He doesn't approve of the humans and the systems they create, especially those in His name. If it is giving the man honor then surely the honor's already been given and that will be their reward because God doesn't reward humans for being good humans—that's what other humans are for.

I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

The sons of God are different than the humans because they have been chosen to be transformed from one with an unclean heart (what all human naturally, instinctively have—why Paul says that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God") to a son with a heart that is honest and clean, although not automatically, instantly or without intense pain and suffering. Since the heart is where one lives and dies before God, that is what's important. The way of the humans is to observe, evaluate and judge everything by what they can see, hear and understand with their natural eyes, ears and mind (everything but the secret contents of the heart).

The important thing for the son to pay attention to is what still lives in his heart to continue to make him unclean before his Father. It isn't up to him, though, to make himself clean. The teacher lives in his heart to teach him from the inside, in the place where no human could ever reach (why he's effective and genuine). It is the life of Jesus in spirit form and those messengers who are working to teach the man how to be a good son for the Father. They show us what we are still trying to hide in our heart, what we want to cling to and hold on to, what we still secretly love and run after; which by doing so will continue to define us as an animal, not a son of God, and will continue to keep us separated from the Father and our brothers.

Being pure in our heart is a difficult thing, because what we learned in our former life is that we could hide its contents from everyone else. For instance we could be "good" on the outside, in front of the humans where they are allowed to see, yet in our heart have any life we wanted, doing whatever we want, keeping any secrets we needed to keep—and we knew that no one would ever see or know what we did. The reverse is what the Father does for His sons who are purposefully made to look bad on the outside because they are choosing Him, which is a formula established in the firstborn Son which applies to the rest of them. The logic behind it is that the opposite is true about them—the outside doesn't matter, but the contents of their heart does, and that is what the Father is interested in—not the things they do in their animal bodies but what and who they are because of the contents of their heart where only He looks. The reality in God's world is the opposite of what it is in the humans'.

Why did God give Ezekiel a vision of the evil things done in secret by the elders of the house of Israel, in the most sacred place where God was supposed to have been living? Why did Ezekiel need a vision to see these detestable things being done by those who were the shepherds of His people? Because he couldn't see them, because they did these things in private, in the secret places when they were presumably being the shepherds of the people of God.

The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right.

The words of the prophets preserved for the Lord were to teach him about the spiritual reality, what they pointed to—what they were a reinforcement of. Being pure and devoted to his Father happened in his heart, where only he and God could see. On the outside he appeared to be just another human, even the bastard child of a sinful or disgraced mother. In other words it wasn't what he appeared to be on the outside that contained his true identity, what mattered about him. The external mattered so little about him that it was okay for him to just be killed by evil men who beheld him as a sinner because he didn't conform to them. He purposely healed on the sabbath just to promote that point, to provoke those who judged him. Out of the heart comes all the evil of man—the workings of the animal nature that sets itself up against God in many ways, because that's where it lives to define who and what the man is according to God who can see where the humans can't even see themselves (because they don't want to face it what they are, they'd rather hide). It is this tendency that affects the sons toward the bad because it keeps them dishonest, turning away from becoming honest with their Father by being led by the animal instinct to run and hide instead of facing what's there.

The things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'."

Jesus knew this from experience, because the animal wanting to take up residence in his own heart are what makes up the temptation story, which is perhaps the most fundamental thing to understand about what truly happened. Jesus knew and believed at this point that he could have had all the things that the humans run after—to be the king of Israel, to have instantaneous respect, honor and glory from all the Jews everywhere (even the leaders), because he knew that he was the Son of God, the one whom all Israel had been waiting for, as per the prophets:

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

He could have used his power to command legions of angels to overpower the Romans and bring the kingdom of God to the earth, because he was the One who was assumed to have been sent from God to do just that. However, as much as he knew that he was the One, he knew something that nobody else knew—that the Messiah would not do all that, but would suffer and die for the curse on his brothers (those same prophets who looked forward to his coming).

How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

The temptation is real because he knew it was possible, and there was that possibility welling up within him that made him think, that tried to sway him to follow his own desires welling up within him, that which had the ability to tempt him because he was human. The animal was allowed to tempt him to follow his own path, to make his own way independent of the Father's wishes—to be as Adam was, wanting what the Father didn't want him to have. Understanding his human identity as the firstborn Son and not a god, and understanding the way the devil, satan works (not the bad god who comes in from the outside—not an entity at all but a super power force that rules the humans via their instincts) is a profound foundation toward understanding everything. But only those who are being given eyes to see and ears to hear will be able to.

"If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." (satisfying the natural appetites)

"I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours." (deceitfulness of riches)

"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down from here. For it is written:" 'He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.' " (ego vaulting—promoting the self instead of God, proving his Messiahship to the humans, getting the honor of that position for himself)

Though they all individually point to some aspect of the way the animal works, they have an overriding message about taking by force by the power of his own hand instead of patiently waiting like a good son, for what the Father will give him. The only reason he would choose to wait was if he believed the Father would give him what the Father wanted him to have instead of what he was being tempted to choose to take for himself by the power he definitely had to do it. The devil was not some outside entity leading him around and tempting him, but the thoughts and evil that were tempting him to take what was rightfully his because of what he now knew about himself, by the power he knew he now had, for his own gain—to satisfy, fulfill and promote himself. The hard thing, the way that the Father wanted him to go, was to wait for Him to give Jesus the actual good things (the spiritual things that God could give). Those were things that weren't "in the bag" because he was *not* some all knowing god (otherwise they would have been, and the story wouldn't make any sense). Therefore he had to trust the Father that they were real and true, even though he couldn't hold on to them and own them.

These are super important things to understand because it is the definition of faith and belief for those who are chosen to exercise it by having to choose. To not take by his own hand because he believed the Father would give him what was better even though everything in this reality (which is passing away) pointed to the opposite truth—to get what his flesh and blood mind were being tempted to think were valuable, to satisfy his own natural cravings that were welling up within him when he was weak in his natural body, most prone to being tempted to be unfaithful to the Father—was the better way.

The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life.

That is why he was commended by the Father, which is not some arbitrary and meaningless token thing it must be if we adhere to the thought that he was a god, which is what the entire christian world rests upon (why it's not valid, because it's based on lies and mythology). The real Jesus was the Messiah for the secret, chosen sons of God, whom the humans wouldn't recognize either, just as much as they didn't recognize Jesus. They were looking for someone they could naturally identify with, who would conform to their preconceived notions about what he would do for them.

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.

Just as soon as Peter declared that he knew who Jesus actually was, then he began to tell them the truth from the scriptures about what the Messiah's actual fate was.

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.

The significance of the Messiah of Israel's life and work was not natural, but something that couldn't be seen by the humans. The humans cannot know the spiritual world or reality because they're natural, all about this world, this creation, this life, this earth—these eyes, ears and mind. The humans cannot trust the world they can't see, because they can't access it. So they can't know, trust or ever love God either because God is spirit—not flesh and blood. When God works around the humans, they can only see what their natural minds tell them is happening e.g., Mary was unfaithful or was raped, we are adulterers and delusional sinners. Because they aren't privy to the spiritual events that were happening then to Jesus, and are happening now to us, they haven't any other option but to do what their natural minds tell them to do, which is God's plan and purpose, not something gone wrong that we have to fix.

All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath began to teach the people. They were amazed at his teaching, because his message had authority.

Why the stark difference between the faith of the people in each of the separate towns? The town of faithless people were the ones who by their natural faculties thought they knew who he was, and couldn't believe that this other reality could be true about Jesus. As long as he was just an honorable teacher, and was aligned with their expectations from a prophet—what they had made all the prophets into, serving them and their natural cravings and desires for respect and greatness—everything was fine, and they could even accept him being a prophet.

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.

When he said what was true, factual even from the scriptures, then they wanted to drive him out from their midst, because he no longer was aligning himself with what they wanted to hear. He could have easily said everything they did want to hear, and gather for himself the accolades and respect from the humans whom he was most tempted to want that from—not strangers but those who knew him. Instead he purposely said what he knew they would react to, knowing the way they thought about themselves and the religion they wanted to hold onto instead of the true God who wasn't interested in what the humans loved (their own definition of righteous identity that conformed to what seemed appealing to them—they are better, smarter and righter as per the animal's needs).

"I tell you the truth," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed--only Naaman the Syrian."

That is opposite to our own natural human inclinations, why we have so many times wanted those who have known us in our past to recognize the spiritual events that have taken place in and around us, what only we know we are becoming to God. That is a big component of the animal nature, to be esteemed by those who know us, to be recognized and seen as God sees us, because it satisfies a deep ego craving within us to be validated by the humans. It is very strong and significant, hard to see and impossible to deny. It is something that has to be worn down in us by just being still and walking on the road that leads to honesty and purity of heart before the Father who sees. It is something that takes a long time to even begin to start to take hold in us.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

The Lord knew what was in man's nature because that very thing (the force of satan the wild animal instinct) tempted him to follow it as all of the humans must, since it is the nature they are cursed with. The devil wanted to live in Jesus' heart along with the spirit. If he allowed it to, if he allowed himself to be led by it, then it would overpower and contaminate the good (the spirit and life of the Father) which lived in his heart. Then he wouldn't have been the spotless Lamb of God who could take away the world's sin from the sons of God so they could be remembered. If he followed the animal—that powerful force of satan which causes the human to follow it blindly—then there would be no salvation for the family of God.

He knew this from the scriptural accounts of the Israelites, who were a natural copy of the sons' spiritual reality. He was the only human who was kept clean and uncontaminated by the nature that lives in all of the humans by the Father until he was ready to choose himself. Then when he was ready to choose, he chose the Father instead of the animal. He acted so that he didn't allow himself to be driven and led as such, because it was required of him to be and remain perfectly clean, the spotless Lamb of God who could take away the sins of the sons of God and make them spotless even though they were completely given over to death, unredeemable (under the curse). The tendency to want to believe the snake's lies and so indulge himself with the things of the animal was what tested Jesus to be unfaithful to the Father. The snake told him that these things were good and could satisfy him, and he was tempted to believe that, in which case he would have been being led by the animal nature—of the serpent, the devil, the beast—rather than the nature and spirit of the Father who lived in him to keep his heart pure.

The spiritual reality—the thing that was stronger in Jesus and that he knew because he heard the voice of his Father speaking to him (what the humans couldn't hear, but what Peter finally did)—is that allowing these things to abide in our heart will turn our hearts away from our Father. Allowing ourselves to be led by the serpent, the animal nature, which leads all of the humans and therefore defines them as animals instead of God's sons; will also effect to define us as an animal if we allow it, which is not the Father's desire for us. That's what we fully were before, and were excused from doing it because it's all we knew. However, to whom much is given, much will be required.

The way we are being taught is the same way that Jesus was taught; it is the same process because it is the same spirit doing the teaching, which leads the transformation from mere animal to son of God. That is the most important thing to God, yet to the humans it means nothing because their goals and values are opposite to God's. So it was for Paul and the other apostles—being taught by the spirit living in all the sons, to root out the evil from the secret places of the heart so we can enter in to the place where God is, where we are honest before Him because we know He sees our heart and there is nothing we can hide from His view. To see the animal nature for what it is and to come out from under its bondage—to return to the land and rebuild the temple and remove the desecration. Whatever we are required to do, the Lord has done before us. In whatever ways we are tempted, the Lord was also tempted before us.

This is why it is so odious to think that he was a god before he was created, as it strips him of everything he was and did, and gives us no purpose or value. The reason he came and the work he did—his value to God—then becomes totally unimportant, because it would have been easy for a god to deny himself the cravings of the animal to lead him. Jesus' faithfulness to God becomes not a victory and something great, but a joke if you believe he was a god. That abomination is one of the main thrusts of what happened in the years shortly following the first century, when many sons were born to God, and the spirit of life inhabited the bodies of men on the earth. It is the lie that the entire christian world exists upon.

It wasn't easy for Jesus to not run after the things that the animal tempted him with, which is why he is loved by God. He was a human whose body was inhabited by the life of God living in him who taught him His way instead of the way of the animal, but he had to choose which way to follow. He loved his Father enough to deny the animal the right to rule and lead him, which becomes our motivation too when we are born of God as he was, yet still living in these bodies of flesh and blood.

As we come to know our Father in an actual, living relationship we also start to do and not do things out of a reverence, love for, and a desire to please Him—and the brother who went before us to provide us with a great salvation. It is a response to the gift He is giving us as we realize the unspeakable importance of that gift to guide us into what is real in the spiritual world, which is the only thing that matters since the world and its desires pass away, but the one who pleases God lives forever.

Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they sang:

"Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
and honor and glory and praise!"

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing:

"To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!"

The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped.