November 3rd.

2 Chronicles 32 / Daniel 12 / Acts 13

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Brothers, children of Abraham, and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

The irony in Paul's message—what he can identify with because of his involvement in the group of ruling Jews who not only didn't recognize Jesus, but oppressed those who loved him—is that the very ones who claimed to know what the scriptures said, who claimed to be waiting so intently for their messiah to come, didn't even recognize the Messiah when he did come. Not only did they miss him, but they had him put to death. The living word, while reinforcing the testimony of the preserved words, told Paul that he and the other chosen believers were living in a kind of miraculous fulfillment of so many thousands of years of prophetic pointing to the time they were now in, as the people under the covenant they now were witnessing within themselves.

We tell you the good news: What God promised our fathers he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: "You are my Son; today I have become your Father."

The fact that God raised him from the dead, never to decay, is stated in these words:
"I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David."

So it is stated elsewhere: "You will not let your Holy One see decay."

For when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed. But the one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

It's hard to understand how perfect the realization of the fulfillment of so many things must have seemed in Paul's mind. After having thought he had such a knowledge of the OT preserved words, it turns out he had very little, because what he had was the traditions of men. The miraculous reality that he and his contemporaries were the recipients of, and the astounding act of salvation he was experiencing first hand, came from a power that had very little to do with his vast knowledge in human terms of what the scriptures said. Much of his learning was handed down by men as the reinterpretation of what the words said, to accommodate the humans and their culture of living as humans in a world ruled by them.

Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.

The secret message that is contained within the words can't be be reinterpreted so that the humans can understand it, which is why the churches and synagogues are filled with the misguidedness of the humans trying to adapt the words to their lives, as though they were meant to be. When they do try to, there exists an apparent discord of falseness, a transparency of phoniness that doesn't ring true because the message isn't about abstract things that can't be applied to the human existence—they just don't makes sense. The human life and the words of God don't mesh, they cannot be combined. The human experience as wild animals trying to survive is one distinct thing, while the message for the sons of God is another, and their combination cannot be accomplished. That message is either able to be understood, or else all you ever get is the smarmy preacher boy trying to be what he cannot be, trying to transform his reinterpretation of what he thinks his gods must be so that it fits into his and his hearers' filter of what they have already chosen to be able to accept, according to their own animal preferences that aid their dilemma of survival.

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Why didn't they recognize him? He was from another place, of another species altogether—filled with a nature that doesn't suit the humans and their struggle to survive. So they didn't want to recognize him because that would have meant they had to relinquish their hold on what they thought was sacred—their own place at the top of human culture and their assumed privilege to maintain that position of power and the rights for themselves at the expense of everyone else. The animal doesn't care about rights except for itself, and it blinds its host to anything other than what it's already chosen to be able to accept.

If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: `They hated me without reason.'

 

Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses. Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:

"Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going to do something in your days
that you would never believe, even if someone told you."

We have the record of the testimony of the letters bearing witness to the supernatural events, from those who were under that supernatural covenant between the spiritual Father and those who were being transformed from natural animals to spiritual sons—spiritual not meaning they looked much different, but that they could perceive the reality of the Father which was spiritual, not natural. Paul was naturally weak and timid, having a disability that made him seem even more naturally slight like one who wasn't favored by God. His authority was questioned regarding his natural appearance, but Paul knew that the life he was entrusted with wasn't about the natural, which was why he was happy not living in a palace, but like a nomad.

You are looking only on the surface of things. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he. For even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than pulling you down, I will not be ashamed of it. I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters. For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing." We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

It was obviously something phenomenal and miraculous that was happening in this small group of humans who had been taken by this incredible force of power, that which even had outward miracles, written about as though they were almost sort of commonplace. The outward miracles were only to persuade those who otherwise would never be persuaded, because the curse is too strong to just allow someone to let go of their vision and see the Father's reality. It doesn't happen like that because it can't. Anything that is real takes a long time to happen because it's a huge job to transform a blind animal to one that can perceive the reality of the Father. It takes time, patience and suffering the loss of the fundamental self—what the man truly is in his deepest levels. His former animal identity took years and years to form in him, so it's not let go of overnight. Contrast this with the humans who get all whipped into emotional frenzies, doing their altar calls all hopped up on endorphins. Everything's great until they have to go back to their crappy little insignificant lives, wondering where that "holy spirit high" went. Man what a let down. So they go back and try to recreate it in their meetings, trying to get back to where they once started.

The spirit isn't for man's entertainment, or to get him high so he can actually believe that something which is a lie is actually true. That is what the holy spirit god is today for those who think they must be inhabited by it, just because they want it or think they deserve it—as though it were such a cheap-ass deal that it could be in all those countless christians who adhere to the lies they are told, given over to them by some way they think they feel. Yet the humans who think they're witches also feel something that makes them think their witch identity is real, as do those who believe the rocks have power, and the mormons feel a burning in their bosom that verifies their Joseph Smith and other rich white men as prophets deal to be genuine. The christians would say all of that is done by demons, keeping everyone from knowing the lies they adhere to. We say it's the work of God's workers, keeping the humans (including the christians who hold fast to mythological lies made up by the Romans) away from Him. Even those who are convinced there isn't any God "feel" like they are right, which is a convincing thing for themselves that human intellect is so superior, even though it obviously isn't at all. But they are given over to that because they want to believe it.

While the whole world chases after whatever they want to adhere to, the sons of God are chosen by the Father and called by the revelation of His reality. They don't need to prove anything to the humans because they can't. They just have to go to the Father.

I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

The condition that accompanied this new birth was God actually living in the hearts of a group of humans He was choosing to become His own people, the true people of God who could know Him as a love-inspiring Father instead of a far away, fear-inspiring God. This condition was described as predicted by so many of Israel's prophets, yet the teachers and leaders of Israel, so highly esteemed by themselves and the other humans, didn't know what it was, how it would look, who would give it, or anything else about the truth of what God was doing and going to do. So when He did it right in front of their noses, it just passed them by without them being aware anything had even happened. For them and all the other presumptuous and unappreciative leaders of "God's people" on the earth, existence just went along as usual.

From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.

Trying to figure out all the dates is what humans think they must do, because of the need to control and own the word—to make it for their purposes so they can appear to be the ones who are right. The egotistical craving to be acceptable/exceptional is a very essential, enduring and powerful component to the animal nature, one we can clearly observed at work in the humans (because we can recognize it in our animal selves). What is clear is that there is no testimony past the writings of John, about 95 a.d. The writings of the "apostolic fathers" are without the spiritual genuineness that marks the words of the apostles (because the animal was already starting to take over and humanize, naturalize the church—making it into a human institution which could be administered and controlled by animals for their own sake).

As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.

After a little while past John, the condition that existed just started to die out, and went away as the humans consolidated their power and took it for their own purpose, to do what animals are compelled to do with everything that's valuable—own it, control it, so they can use it for their own will, purpose and gain. Within a few hundred years, the entire truth was changed into a lie, as Jesus and the spirit, which was the vehicle of the condition Paul was under, were turned into the good gods. The devil was turned into the evil demigod fallen angel creature who was tempting the humans not to turn away from God, but to turn away from the holy roman church, and the leaders who turned the truth into a lie as it all is today, her prostitute daughters who all look a lot like their great whore mother.

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. This title was written on her forehead:

MYSTERY
BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Abominations as per the words given to Daniel, which made the earth desolate of the good gifts given to men for a short while. Abominations instead of faithfulness; prostitutes instead of the faithful bride. They carry on the lie of their original mother, the whore who assumes the role of the bride of the Christ, what the believers in the first century were in truth. That truth and condition, where the living God actually lived in the bodies and hearts of some humans, went away as per Daniel's prophesy, because of the abominations of the great whore mother. Then the earth was made desolate of that condition and the power that drove it. It was taken up into heaven, like Elijah, and so it wasn't seen on the earth, and has been that way since.

So many thinkers and experts have claimed to know the way to God. One of their fundamental errors, that which nobody seems to know, is something that is very simple, and explained by the very words they claim to live by. However, just like the Jews who killed their Messiah, the experts have no idea what the truth looks like, because it hasn't been made available to them, as it existed in Paul who lived in the first century. So they've just continued along for so many hundreds of years, trying to materialize some condition that isn't actually available, by doing what their fathers did a long time ago—owning, possessing and controlling the way to God. As if they were so many power brokers and God was so weak that He would allow it, condone it, or anoint these frauds and despots to do so many things in His name. Because this condition is allowed to continue along, people assume it must be true because they don't know God or how He is operating, and think He must be like a man.

The leaders of the christian churches control the earthly institutions which are the prostitute babies of the great mother whore, the original Babylon of the new age, who took the new covenant into captivity just as Babylon took the copy of the Israel of God into physical captivity. It's no accident that Daniel lived in the original, natural Babylon, and from there he wrote about the new Babylon, when the true people of God would go into this other type of captivity, of a spiritual nature as the truth was turned into a lie and the unclean animals, the leaders of the "church," replaced God with themselves—therein lies the abomination—and created the new condition of an earth which was made desolate of the power that existed in the first century.

After removing Saul, God made David their king. He testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.'

It wasn't just lucky for David to be chosen over Saul. God chose him for a reason. This is a very telling sentiment spoken by Paul about David being approved by God, because it specifically tells us why David was approved by God and pleasing to Him. It also says that Paul understands the secret knowledge of a son of God who has been given the key to be able to know what the humans can't know unless they've been chosen to know. It's good to think about the contrast between Saul and David; specifically what Saul did, who was not approved by God, and what David did, who was. The only thing worth attaining to and living for in this life is to be approved by God, so if we desire this we should think about this. The testimony of God in the phrase "He will do everything I want him to do," is key in David being approved by God.

"Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

As a result, he (a son of God living in the first century, whom Peter was exhorting) does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

We know that a few times God told Saul specifically what to do and not do, and Saul altered what God said. He strayed from the direct commands of God and changed them. He did what he was told not to do, and didn't do what he was told to do. This made Saul detestable to God, who wants the man who is to be His servant to follow His word and command fully, not deviating from what he knows to be right, not modifying what he has heard because he hideously wants to control it for his own purpose, which is abominable.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

The word of God is straight and true, for a purpose the man is even be aware of, which is why God wants the man to just follow. Especially because it doesn't seem right to his natural senses, no matter what the consequences might be, because that's how God tests His sons, and makes them obedient to Him, instead of what they see, hear and understand with their natural faculties (how He turns them from deaf, dumb and blind animal to a son of God).

The human animal is wishy-washy, tentative and temporary. He gets blown around by every wind that comes along, by every deceptive thought which springs from his animal nature. Not from the outside, from some evil place ruled by some external "devil" and his army of demons; it comes from the inside, from his own thoughts that rule him and all the other humans. That terrible devil that the liars tell him is outside of him, lives in him, it is him and what he is defined by, because it leads and guides him as his teacher and master:  "You don't have to actually do that. God didn't say not to do it—a little bit would be okay. It wouldn't be so bad to do it. You will not surely die. Turn the rock into food. Show the people who you are. Take your kingdom—it is yours after all."

God is the rock who doesn't falter or change like the shadows that shift all day long as the sun passes through the day. When we know what we should and shouldn't do, then our obedience to that is for a reason. God loves the man who does everything He wants him to do, and not what the man wants to do, because what men want to do is driven by the animal nature that is always there and always wants to rule them, as per the serpent's desire that the first humans trusted it instead of God, which is allowing it to rule them and lead them, because they trusted it. If they listen to it, give in to it, they are allowing themselves to be ruled by the snake, and not by God. Most of the humans who ever lived have no choice but to be ruled by it, because only a tiny fraction of them have been able to see, hear and understand what's true according to God, not the other humans who can't see.

That was Saul's mistake (and Adam's, Solomon's, Cain's, and everyone who lets himself be deceived by the animal nature instead of God). It doesn't matter why he made the mistakes (fear, presumption, peer pressure or greed, all caused by innate cravings, needs and desires—the natural instincts, the animal nature). What matters to God is that he altered what he knew God wanted him to do. He didn't believe that God was actually in control, so he had to take the situation into his own hands. He was tested and he failed, and the reason it was such a big thing is because of the position he held as leader and shepherd of God's people. To whom much is given, much (obedience) will be required from that one.

Jesus turned and said to Peter, "...you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men (the animal)."

A week later, God spoke directly to Peter as he was presuming to be the one who was right, who owned the truth:

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!"

We know that Saul did not always do what God wanted him to do, and David did (except once, for which he and his natural sons paid a great price), which is the intended contrast in the Acts verse. It is also the intended contrast in the interaction between Jesus, who heard what God wanted him to do, and Peter, who only had in mind the things of men (the animal and its innate desires).

Peter represents the human animal, which all the sons are, before they are transformed. He wanted Jesus to continue doing the miracles and show the people who he was and take the kingdom, because Peter was convinced that Jesus was the Messiah, and that the kingdom was rightfully his. But Jesus knew that he would go down a different path, which no man would have chosen, but which God wanted him to do for His purpose, not any man's, or even his own. He did it for Peter's sake, even though Peter couldn't recognize the infinitely good thing that Jesus was doing/being for God's sake, to provide Him with His family and home to live in.

This is another part of the new gospel, that which isn't new at all—the message for the present age of those who will be called to desire to follow the true Jesus, not the made up one, and therefore be approved by God as clean and able to be brought near to Him. Because that human who was an animal has been consecrated, set apart and made holy by the intention of God to make him a son and a true part of His family.

Denying the animal and its needs, wants and desires; and instead turning to God, as per the secret words of the voice inside him, doing what He says is right instead of what the animal in us wants us to do—or what anyone else wants or expects us to do, even if it means suffering, shame, grief, rejection or heartache in our natural existences, which in a very few years will be over.

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

 

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