November 26th.

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

There are plenty of warnings from Paul about the coming apostasy, when the truth that he gave to Timothy would be turned into the lie he warned him against. That was when the humans who became leaders in the church gathered other humans around them to tell them what they wanted to hear so they could own and control what Jesus was and did, for their own gain.

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

For financial advantage, and to secure positions of honor and respect, they set the animal nature back in the temple to be worshipped (the abomination) instead of the Son and Father, and made the earth devoid of the truth Paul gave to Timothy (the desolation).

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

The Roman and Greek mythologies are the basis for the christian world. They took the One God of Israel and made three good gods, then they elevated the evil god satan to quasi-god status, because that was the philosophy (many gods, not one God) that reigned in the culture Paul speaks of, which would effectively turn the truth he knew into something it wasn't when the abomination happened over the several hundred years after Paul's departure from the world. They turned the Son, Father, spirit, devil and sinful nature fit into mythological stories which have no more meaning than do the legends and stories about Apollo, Jupiter, Athena or Diana. They're just made up to fit into the world where the animals rule everything—to make what was spiritual and therefore couldn't be owned by the humans into what is natural so they could own, control and profit from it.

But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion's mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom.

There are lots of hidden references here. The first sentence agrees wither the Son's declaration about the message of the kingdom being preached to the whole world, pertaining to Paul and his fellow missionaries, and then the end would come. Paul understood that he was fulfilling the words of the Son.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

The next reference is to the lion's mouth, referring to Daniel because Daniel is the one who first foretold the abomination that would happen over the next few hundred years, which the Son ties in with his own reiteration of that coming abomination, also in Matthew 24. Daniel talked about kingdoms, which is what the last sentence refers to ("The Lord will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom)." Daniel's last kingdom was the kingdom with both iron and clay, which are the political and religious union in Rome that would officialize everything and finalize the abomination as something sanctioned by the government of Daniel's last kingdom. That was when the end would come of everything that was happening on the earth, as per the letters that were preserved which contain the testimony of that period when miraculous things were abounding. Those who were living it thought that it definitely was the end of the world, the day of the Lord that the prophets were foretelling. Although they knew that something was coming, they didn't know that what was happening in them was only going to be a temporary thing and would just die out as per the testimony of Daniel, Jesus and Paul.

At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.

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

At that time if anyone says to you, `Look, here is the Christ!' or, `There he is!' do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time.

Why would God let it happen? That's the kind of question the human animals ask because their mind is so far away from being one with God, because they are wild animals who have no idea about the motives of God since He's so far above their ability to comprehend anything but what they can see and explain with their observational skills that are limited to the natural. The easiest answer is because He wanted to, according to what His purpose was and is. Maybe because He had what He wanted—His own Son was safe and secure with Him, united and made One being. His family—all the holy men from the OT time whom He loved but couldn't be near because they were unclean—were saved by the one who was never made unclean by being led/ruled by the wild animal nature (sinful nature). He was separated from being under the curse by the Father until he was of age and he had learned to choose the right and reject the wrong. Then he was on his own to remember the teaching he had been given and the choose on his own which way he would go—toward the Father or toward himself (like Adam). His own choice kept him clean and made him the spotless Lamb of God, untainted by the wild animal nature, able to be offered by the Father for the reversal of the curse and the redemption of the family of the sons of God.

He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

Either God has been totally withdrawn from the earth, or else He has been so hidden that only the chosen knew about Him. Everyone else just guesses and makes stuff up, according to what they're willing to accept, what fits into their version of the reality they want to have around themselves. Definitely, His truth is not found in the vast number of groups of humans who claim to follow the mythical god-christ made up by the Romans. The modern extension of the mother whore in Rome and their followers (the daughters of the whore who adhere to the many god system of the Romans—the christians) claim to be his bride and claim to know and control the way to God. There is no more actual truth about the real Jesus, what he did, and what he meant to God in them than in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or any other group that gets together based around a set of ideas about anything. The jesus god whom the christians worship is no more real and valid than Daphne or Athena, because it's all just made up and doesn't mean anything. It's all just semi-advanced animals making up stories and myths to suit their needs, what Paul told Timothy the truth they knew would devolve into—just another lie about God, made up by the animals who rule the world and are able to convince other animals they're right because their experts say so.

The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

When the animal is young it is a simple creature. What he wants is only to be taken care of by his parents. He doesn't have to worry about the same kinds of things that he will when he grows up and becomes a parent himself, becoming a place of safety and refuge for its own offspring. However, as the animal grows up it slowly moves from vulnerable to defensive, ashamed and self-protecting as its eyes become opened and it learns the truth about the hostile world it needs to protect itself from.

I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

So the animals grow up they instinctively realize that they're alone and have to take care of themselves, so as they mature they become harder and harder to fend off the hostility of the world. The animals celebrate this transformation from vulnerable child to independent adult as something good. However it's actually when they become fully dead according to how God views them. It is the process Jesus did not go through, and why he remained perfect and unblemished.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves (they felt shame).

It realizes it's naked, unclothed with the love from the Father, which Adam and Eve had before their eyes were opened. All of a sudden, though, they had death clinging to them so they were instinctively compelled by the new fear that was in them to hide and lie, and cast blame on the other (a form of hiding). Because it realizes it is alone, the animal becomes a multi-dimensional hider (liar) so it isn't found out. That's what the humans came from, along with their instinctual compulsion to be hiding behind anything they can find—money, success, identity, honor, respect and admiration, their own family, their position amongst the other dead animals, etc—anything but be found out (especially by themselves) as just another temporary player in a dying creation filled with others just like them, who will only exist for a few years and then will be destroyed and plowed back into the creation to remain an impersonal part of it, forever. Forgotten and left to rot in the ground (the process of becoming one with the earth), without any real guarantee of anything more than that. There are all kind of complexities which it creates, all about the ego, to make itself and the others think it has more value as a complex creature collectively and individually. In reality, everything it gets for itself and surrounds itself with is just another attempt to hide, because it is ashamed and alone and afraid to face the fact of its temporary existence. So it lies and can't help lying because that's the way it makes itself feel safe. It is encouraged to lie and become part of the others who are lying about how they'll never have to die, how they can just do whatever they want and then when they do start becoming aged and frail they can cling on to more lies about some man made heaven where all the good people go (and they all think they're inherently good, ironically because of the same nature that makes them hide).

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.

In its progression from totally vulnerable without the consciousness of the shame of Adam, moving toward the conscious, fully developed animal, it is congratulated on its ability to adapt, to become more self-reliant and independent, because once it is able it can participate in the conspiracy to pretend, along with all the other animals, that there is something more than what can be observed—soon they will all be dead and forgotten. In its attempt to hide from the reality of its condition, it builds up whatever it can around it—things and intangibles that declare its value and worth to the other humans, myths about a god who will save them from their predicament—to hide because it is ashamed and afraid of this predicament, but all it can do is hide and pretend that what's obviously true, isn't—obvious because it's clear that everything dies.

The first humans were captivated by the thought of becoming like God and desired that even though it was not a circumstance that God desired for them. What God wanted for them was a kind of blissful ignorance, finding their safety, security and anything they needed to know in Him. They didn't need to know good and evil, only good, which was God's intention for them. It was not being familiar with all the complexities of evil, or death in all the forms it takes, which is what the humans are now, since the curse got put on them when they were bound to the dying creation by their nature and identity as merely another part of it. The Father is so vast and great, beyond even our ability to comprehend how great and magnificent He is, that He has the ability to know what is best for us, and that is His desire.

Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.

Independent nasty little creatures who hiss at God and know how to take care of themselves (because they're forced to or they'll be killed), is not what God the Father wants for His own children. God wants His sons to be blissfully empty of the ways of the humans who are forced to protect themselves, so that He can fill them with His knowledge and love, and be their protector. The knowledge of good and evil is for the humans, while the knowledge of the love of the Father is for the sons of God. To drop out of the race of the humans and not be an actual part of it is much of what the sons' identity consists of, which when this happens declares their understanding of how futile and useless this existence is, which all the humans spend their entire lives protecting and preserving, just like all animals.

They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
they provoked the LORD to anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

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, says the Lord Almighty."

When the christians say that all men are sinners they don't actually mean that all humans are fundamentally evil, only the ones who don't adhere to the mythology they adhere to, because their very utterance of the fact that all men are sinners means they think they are separated from that condition because they have done something to pull them out of their condition, something that makes them loved by God—adhering to lies made up by men, based on words written by actual sons of God who lived long ago. Underneath their utterances about all men being sinners, their actual belief about themselves is that they are inherently good, because that's how the animal nature works. And they can't even begin to be able to adjust to a stance that would allow them to see it rationally, because that's the purpose of the curse and the secret to its effectiveness. Otherwise they might see and hear, then turned and be healed (God's own feeling about the humans who claimed to know Him, but didn't/couldn't because they loved their own animal positions in the world ruled by animals more than they loved to honor and respect the Father.

The Sovereign LORD has sworn by himself—the LORD God Almighty declares:

"I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it."

If ten men are left in one house, they too will die. And if a relative who is to burn the bodies comes to carry them out of the house and asks anyone still hiding there, "Is anyone with you?" and he says, "No," then he will say, "Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD."

For the LORD has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces
and the small house into bits.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—
you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar and say, "Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?"

For the LORD God Almighty declares, "I will stir up a nation against you, O house of Israel,
that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah."

Jesus' message to the humans he loved was, "Don't be a human, don't live like all the other humans but be the opposite, even and especially at your core. Instead of being ruled by the animal nature which compels you to live for yourself, you will need to be changed into a creature who fundamentally does the opposite of what the humans do, so that you can love God and His true sons instead of your own self all the time. There is no other way to get to Him than that, because His family of sons will not be mere animals, living by the instincts that well up within them, loving only themselves. That is the only thing He loves and is truly concerned about. I am the head of the family, and He cares about me not because of my stature amongst the humans, but my anti-stature. The Father loves me because the humans consider me something that interferes with their need to own and control everything for themselves, therefore should be destroyed, which they will at their first chance. He loves you too, and has chosen you to know what is true, as opposed to (the opposite of) what the humans think is the truth. If you're hated and rejected by the world, you can be sure that you're loved by God, if you are hated because of the life that will live in you."

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 great irony between God and the humans is that whatever they are and love, He is and loves the opposite. What God wanted from Adam, He got from the Lord—the understanding that God did know what was best for him, and his trust. We know that he was vindicated and rewarded by God with life that was truly life, by being remembered by Him sot hat they could be made One. But it wasn't his knowledge of the scriptures that saved him from death. It was not because he did the responsible thing according to the humans (his own flesh and blood family thought he was crazy because he didn't say things they wanted to hear about how special they were because their own flesh and blood was the Messiah of Israel), but because of his obedience to what he knew the Father wanted for him, what went against what the humans wanted for and from him. Because he believed that the Father knew what was best, what showed he trusted Him, and because he trusted Him he was given life and immortality, raised in power.

Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

Therefore Jesus told them, "The right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come." Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.

While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you."

He replied to him, "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."

Think about the life of Jesus in two parts: the first being what we can perceive about him being more than just another of the humans. It's what people responded to when they said things to him like, "We know you are from God because of the things you are able to do (miracles). We know you are a prophet of God, one who teaches with authority." We are able to read about the responses he gave to the learned men of Israel, and can agree about his superhuman abilities, the possession of a wisdom that is beyond what men are able to possess, and an intelligence about the things of God that are beyond the grasp of man.

These are a big part of the reason the lie about him being a god was developed, one of the main working components of the abomination. The activity of the spirit amongst the humans had already faded out a lot, so they just figured that he must have been some kind of god to be so special, which jives with all those mythological stories about gods and men. We know that Jesus himself admits that it wasn't him doing the miracles or any of the things just mentioned. The life of the Father, the spirit of God, was living in Jesus' body. The Father had made His home in the Son's body, and it was He who did the miracles, not Jesus himself, which was proof of something great about Jesus—that the Father chose to live in him, and did.

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, `Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—I have come to do your will, O God.' "

The invisible life of the Father, knowledge about which we are made privy to by way of reading the accounts of the miracles and his authority, was not his own life, but it is why the christians say he was a god. There was no supernatural power that Jesus possessed apart from what existed because of the life of the Father choosing his body, then living in him. It was the Father's will that grew in him (in spirit form) which caused him to know how to choose the right and reject the wrong, and the presence of His life which did the supernatural things that gave him credibility with the intended targets—12 men chosen to be the shepherds of His people who would be under the new covenant.

Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

The second part is his own life as the human who never became an unclean wild animal, as all the rest of the humans must become according to the curse that keeps them away from God. That life of God who lived in him, along with Jesus' own choice to believe the life of God instead of the natural, the way of the humans, kept him safe from that process of becoming dead and unclean like all the rest of the humans. Jesus was made the good Son only by the life of God living in him—only God is good—and he remained the good Son by way of trusting, choosing, believing, and obeying the Father all the way to the end, when he said, "It is finished." That was him trusting the unseen God more than the visible and tangible snake, what all the humans are bound to and cursed with.

It's important to keep that distinction, that 1.) he wasn't able to do miracles or understand scripture about himself, argue and confound the "learned men" on his own, except only by that invisible life of God who made its home in his body. And 2.) he wasn't able to remain unblemished and perfect, able to be the proper sacrifice which could save God's chosen sons, except by him continuing to choose the way of the Father instead of the serpent (the way of the humans). Both of those things are important for the sons, because both are as true for them as they were for Jesus.

Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

It's also significant because it dispels the myth of the religious liars, what Paul warned Timothy about, which creeps into the belief system even of people who have a somewhat correct yet rudimentary understanding of the origins of Jesus. Because of the propounding of that biggest lie on our culture, that Jesus was some god before he was created, there is the proclivity to not be able to see that there were two lives in Jesus' body—his own life and the life of the only One who is good, who actually has life. The christians just believe the lie that he was a god, so the significance of God's life in him is nullified as a token concept, while the christadelphians are so afraid of believing the wrong thing that they steer clear of whatever even resembles anything other than an academic grasp of "the truth" about Jesus.

There is the tendency to think of Jesus as some superhuman being within himself, and forget that the life of God was the thing that made him different. Not just the concept of it, but Him actually living in Jesus' body. Without that life of God who lived in Jesus, he would have been just any ordinary man, nothing special about him. He was certainly not ordinary, he was the first to be truly born from above, of God from natural conception.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Firstborn implies that more would follow, which is what he is talking about to his disciples. He had a "head start" because of the enormity and significance of his purpose, and because he had to remain separated from the animal nature, unpolluted by it. Therefore he had to be born from above even from conception so that he wouldn't go through the process of becoming dead to God by becoming unclean by the process that all humans go through (child to adult via puberty).

I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

However, he is the "firstborn among many," and tells them who were chosen by the Father that just as the power of the life of the Father lived in him, so also that same life and power, which would be him and the Father made One being after he went to the Father, would also live in their bodies. Only, though, if he remained obedient to the invisible life instead of the tangible one, the natural, of that old serpent the devil, which is the way of the humans.

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

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

He very much intended to live in their bodies, in spirit form which would be his new body, as the Father had lived in his body. Although it was the life of Jesus, living in the bodies of those disciples, which allowed them to do the miracles that they did, their ability to do miracles is of only minor importance compared to what the real treasure was in regard to their new "condition" (being born from above, of God, living under the new covenant). The real treasure was their ability to know the love of the Father, who would live in their new bodies once he came.

I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

It wasn't just some notion in their head, some theological understanding of what was right, or the practicing of external rituals. It was a force and power that lived in them, a definite condition they understood was happening inside them, by which they knew the Son and the Father because they both lived in their bodies via the spirit of truth, the comforter. It was the Lord and the Father, making their home in them, dwelling and abiding in them, counseling and teaching them about how to choose the right and reject the wrong.

If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

You heard me say, `I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.