Scriptural Legalism Rant; To Teach or Prod

    I have been meaning to write about Scriptural legalism for quite a while. It seems I always find something more "topical" or "worldly" to write or talk about. I am not an in vogue person. I do love to talk and write about what I have learned about our Father, including my own personal relationship with Him. My personal walk with the Father is more then "magical", surreal and rewarding, it is real.
    What I have learned about our Father is that he loves all of us, that is those of us who love him. Yahweh mourns for the ones lost to the evil one. The sad thing is many are led to their death by people meaning well, people who really have good intentions, of course there are many who mislead for their own selfish purposes. The reality though is that it really doesn't matter how you got to hell when your already there, there are no do overs. 
    What all believers need to realize is that their walk with the Father is their own. That doesn't mean "wow I can do what ever I want and there are no consequences".....wrong. You have to get to know Him, even more importantly you have to let Him know you by letting Him in. You get to know him and his nature by reading Scripture. You don't cherry pick verses or chapters, you read from Genesis to Revelations. Then you do it again. And again. He will come to you.
     What the people who press Scriptural Legalism forget is that every believers walk  with the Father is his or her own. We were given the freedom of choice. As much as the Father wants us to make the right decision we are free to make mistakes, including the ultimate mistake.      Scriptural legalists will cite chapter verse letter and law to attempt to "guilt " people into a certain behavior. What they forget is that when Yahshua came to us in the flesh and was nailed to the pole he did away with the legalistic. Yahweh's chosen people couldn't follow the law to the letter and they were trained in it, how could any Gentile. Hence our need for Yahshua. 
       It is great when an individual bears down and learns about the Father by studying the Word. The relationship, however, requires a bit more then study. It actually requires a relationship, a walking talking laughing crying relationship, a profound relationship based on Faith and Trust. When we study and learn we have to remember that we are guides, not answers. When I get questions statements or comments about life tied to Scripture my normal response is to tell them.....pray. You will be fine and you will get a response. I don't typically try to get too involved at first. 
     A Spiritual Legalist will ask questions, most are really traps or funnels to guide their "prey" into certain answers so that they can pass judgement on the behavior using Scriptural Doctrine. I understand we have loved ones we may feel are misguided, and maybe a kind word or a little persuasion might get them right with the Father. My kind words may not be your kind words and sometimes the best intentions backfire because of the perception of "self righteousness". This is one of the lines spiritual legalist cross consistently, it is unfortunate because it drives more people away from the Father then it does draw them to Him.

 So let me do a bit of legalism of my own:

1. The Fathers name is Yahweh, not Jehovah or allah or baal or lord or.....lord is a title not a name. He tells us his name is a blessing. Why would we withhold or change it? Yahweh is the only name I am aware of that is not a noun, it is a verb, I was , I am , I will always be. How tolerant should I be over having Yahwehs name changed to Lord 7000 times in Scripture? How tolerant should I be over others choosing to use Lord? Maybe I should just worry about myself?

2. The Son, Savior and Messiahs name is Yahshua, it means "Yahweh saves ". It is not and never has been Jesus, there is no "J",alphabetically or phonetically, in ancient Hebrew or Aramaic. Just because all copies of Scripture have a footnote stating Jesus means "God saves" does not make it so. How tolerant should I be over poor etymology, I mean my name is Sven, I am sure it sounds like Sven in every language once I have said it( maybe multiple times). 

  Do I tell believers who don't get the names right they are doomed?

3. Holy Ghost? Really? The true translation is "The Set Apart Spirit". Thats it. Holy tells me nothing, set apart means much. Not Holy Spirit, not Holy Ghost. Set Apart Spirit. There is a very good reason for me to hold ground on this one. Short and sweet. Do I chastise or do I teach through love?

4.  Thou shalt not commit adultery....I have written about this before. People really want to focus on what this commandment means on the surface, cheating on your spouse. Yes it shows poor character and a multitude of other human weaknesses. That is not what the commandment is about. Before I tell you what it is about let me prove it through our Saviors words. When he was asked what the most important commandment was he narrowed it down to two, breaking the commandments in half, the first five were about the Father and the second five were about our fellow man. The savior said "Love the Father with all your heart" and then "Love your neighbor as you would yourself".  The adultery commandments is in the first five, it is about cheating on Yahweh with the multitude of "Mystery Religions"in the world. How do you deliver that to people who think they know Scripture? Or maybe they are just lying....

5.Thou shalt not use Yahwehs name in vain.....This is not about poor grammar. I have written about this before as well. This is a clear warning to anyone who misleads Yahwehs beloved from him, mostly this is for the clerics, ministers, preachers, priests who consistently teach for their own profit, who tailor their sermons to fleece their flock, they cherry pick Chapter verse phrase and word in order to invoke an emotional out pouring of..........cash. There are those, however, who mislead by forcing and brow beating people. Yahweh did not win me over with a brow beating, he is sympathetic, empathic, sensitive loving and caring(did I forget omnipotent). If we are learned we have to teach by word and example, not by negative re-enforcement. There are people on the fence who could be shown "The Way" if shown by love. Remember every human is free. You can't win 'em all.

6. Christmas and Easter.....There are few places in Scripture where Feasts are addressed. Leviticus 23 is the best resourse. Here it is( with the Fathers name in Hebrew) You can scroll down, I put it in red as a reference...........

Leviticus 23

23:1 And  spake unto Moses, saying,
23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of , which ye shall proclaim to be set-apart convocations, even these are my feasts.
23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a set-apart convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of  in all your dwellings.
23:4 These are the feasts of , even set-apart convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is 's passover.
23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto : seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
23:7 In the first day ye shall have a set-apart convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto  seven days: in the seventh day is a set-apart convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
23:9 And  spake unto Moses, saying,
23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before , to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
23:12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto .
23:13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto  for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your Elohim: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete:
23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto .
23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto .
23:18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto , with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto .
23:19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before , with the two lambs: they shall be set-apart to  for the priest.
23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be a set-apart convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am  your Elohim.
23:23 And  spake unto Moses, saying,
23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a set-apart convocation.
23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto .
23:26 And  spake unto Moses, saying,
23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a set-apart convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto .
23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before  your Elohim.
23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:32 It shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
23:33 And  spake unto Moses, saying,
23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto .
23:35 On the first day shall be a set-apart convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto : on the eighth day shall be a set-apart convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto : it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
23:37 These are the feasts of , which ye shall proclaim to be set-apart convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto , a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
23:38 Beside the Sabbaths of , and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto .
23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto  seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.
23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before  your Elohim seven days.
23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto  seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am  your Elohim.

23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of .

So where was Christmas? Easter? Not there. Do I even dare go there and start a war with "true believers"? If I were a legalist and wanted to start a revolution I could, just by pressing this point. Easter and Christmas are not called out. The two, however , are tied together and not in a "holy" way. I will stop on this subject here.....for now.

7. Christian. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were translated, in the New Covenant it was found that the word Christian was used only twice. Was it used to describe a new religion? No. It was used in the context of "Brethren". So is there really a "Christianity". I am being flip, of course there is....now. My definition would be a bit different. I would say there are different degrees of Judaism, from Orthodox to Messianic to Grafted on Messianic. I will concess to the definition of Christian, or maybe I should just castigate and chastise.......

8. The Cross. Do I even dare...of course truth trumps tradition. In the Greek text the word "stauros" is used as the implement of crucifixion. Stauros means pole. That is actually the correct description of the implement of crucifixion. There are two methods of crucifixion, one with a simple pole in the ground, person nailed with their arms straight up, or the "T"where the persons hands are nailed to the t and the feet to the post. It was never a cross.

9. Alcohol use. Many want to tell you alcohol was not used or approved of by our Father, wrong. One of the first mentions is with Abram when the high priest of Jerusalem, Melchizedek, broke bread and wine with him, the Hebrew word for wine was yayin, fermented wine not grape juice.  Yayin is used in the Hebrew text over 100 times. Noah drank it. Lott drank it. The Father told his people to enjoy yayin at the yearly festivals. Scripture makes it clear that there is a right way and wrong way to use drink. The word for strong drink is used over 20 times the word is "shekar". I know there are people who would like to have everyone practice abstinence, but lets be real, a Jewish wedding with grape juice, Yahshua made wine for the wedding not grape juice, the Greek word used in the New Covenant "oinos" is used for both fermented and unfermented wine. I think I made my point. Do I chastise those who use alcohol? Do I chastise those who chastise those who use alcohol? Neither are my place.

   My whole point with all this writing is to get people to understand that a a relationship with the Father is just like any relationship and requires time and effort on a personal level. When others interfere in negative ways the relationship can be destroyed. If you are learned and see someone struggling, be tender merciful and inviting not legalistic, judgmental and cold. If they are unresponsive back off a bit and watch for the right moment, wait be patient, the Father will let you know.
                                                         

The Religion of Murder and Intolerance

  So we have had another mass shooting. The first thing our President talks about is gun control. Of course he will refuse to admit it is islam, even if it turns out to be a 100% muslim terror attack. You see for the President to admit it was islam would require him to actually tell the truth....something I now see he absolutely struggles with, or he is just delusional. To go to Cairo in 2009 and state in front of the world that it was his responsibility to help islam with its image was beyond pathetic and irresponsible, it was seditious. He was voted in by US citizens for the job of US PRESIDENT. After reading the koran and its associated writings I am absolutely amazed that any black man would associate with islam.
   I am going to key in some simple facts about islam. Facts a President should be aware of, unless he is pressing his thumbs over his eyes.
1. Here are the two forms of legal lying applied by muslims to non believers that I am aware of
   a) Taqiyya this is person to person type lying, it is done to advance the cause of islam. They are taught to lie and tolerate non believers until they have them out numbered.
   b) Kitman this is state to state lying, by attempting to gain the trust of non believers in order to draw out their vulnerabilities and then defeat them. Like the palestinians do to the world, like Saudi Arabia does, like Pakistan, like, well like all 57 nations in the islamic world do to fleece non believers.
2. Muslims are taught not to harm the innocent, that is what they will tell you. What they will not tell you is that in islam the only innocent people are muslims, non believers are not innocent regardless of sex or age.
3. Because their book gives muslims no way of getting right with THEIR god, the only promise or hope a muslim has is 72 virgins and cups overflowing with wine. Is it any wonder that they are  the most violent ideology that exists today. Oh and women get nothing, they are the ones that populate hell, allahs  prophet said so himself. Obama wants to import more of this problem.
4. So when islam takes over this is what non believers have to look forward to;
  a) If you convert your part of the gang, its all good
  b) If you don't convert but are willing to pay the jizya, poll tax for being non believer, you get to live so to speak..... Now if you pay it guarantees nothing, your muslim neighbors can come into your home and steal anything and a sharia court would not convict them, they can rape your wife and daughters and sons( they are big on boys don't be fooled, they would make the Greeks blush) and no sharia court would convict them, they can accidentally kill you....whoops too bad. If life means that little to you....what can I say.
  c) Die. Pretty simple.
5. Honor killings. Killing women/girls because of perceived indiscretions. It is always the males of the family who get the honor of murdering their daughters , sisters , mothers etc. Nice religion
6. Racism sexism anyism:( these are all from POD quran, not mine)
  a) Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.”
 [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.’”
Ishaq:144 “A rock was put on a slave’s chest. When Abu Bakr complained, they said, ‘You are the one who corrupted him, so save him from his plight.’ I will do so,’ said Bakr. ‘I have a black slave, tougher and stronger than Bilal, who is a heathen. I will exchange him. The transaction was carried out.”
Qur’an 9:97 “The Arabs of the desert are the worst in unbelief and hypocrisy, and most fitted to be in ignorance of the command which Allah hath sent down to His Messenger.”
Tabari II:11 “Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks; Ham was the father of the Black Africans; and Japheth was the father of the Turks and of Gog and Magog who were cousins of the Turks. Noah prayed that the prophets and apostles would be descended from Shem and kings would be from Japheth. He prayed that the African’s color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks.”
Tabari II:21 “Ham [Africans] begat all those who are black and curly-haired, while Japheth [Turks] begat all those who are full-faced with small eyes, and Shem [Arabs] begat everyone who is handsome of face with beautiful hair. Noah prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his descendants met Shem’s, the latter would enslave them.”
Tabari IX:69 “Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah’s helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in Allah’s Cause. Killing him is a small matter to us.”
Bukhari: V9B89N256 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he is a black African slave whose head looks like a raisin.’”
 Ishaq:405 “It is your folly to fight the Apostle, for Allah’s army is bound to disgrace you. We brought them to the pit. Hell was their meeting place. We collected them there, black slaves, men of no descent.
Ishaq:374 “The black troops and slaves of the Meccans cried out and the Muslims replied, ‘Allah destroy your sight, you impious rascals.’” Bukhari:V4B52N137 “The Prophet said, ‘Let the negro slave of Dinar perish. And if he is pierced with a thorn, let him not find anyone to take it out for him.... If he [the black slave] asks for anything it shall not be granted, and if he needs intercession [to get into paradise], his intercession will be denied.’”
                                                                       WOMEN
Tabari IX:113 “Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.”
Tabari I:280 “Allah said, ‘It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.’ Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid.”
Qur’an 4:3 “If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with orphans, marry women of your choice who seem good to you, two or three or four; but if you fear that you shall not be able to do justice (to so many), then only one, or (a slave) that you possess, that will be more suitable. And give the women their dower as a free gift; but if they, of their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, eat it with enjoyment, take it with right good cheer and absorb it (in your wealth).”
Qur’an 4:11 “Allah directs you in regard of your Children’s (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females…. These are settled portions ordained by Allah.”
Bukhari:V1B22N28 “The Prophet said: ‘I was shown the Hell Fire and the majority of its dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful.’ When asked what they were ungrateful for, the Prophet answered, ‘All the favors done for them by their husbands.’”
Muslim:B1N142 “‘O womenfolk, you should ask for forgiveness for I saw you in bulk amongst the dwellers of Hell.’ A wise lady said: Why is it, Allah’s Apostle, that women comprise the bulk of the inhabitants of Hell? The Prophet observed: ‘You curse too much and are ungrateful to your spouses. You lack common sense, fail in religion and rob the wisdom of the wise.’ Upon this the woman remarked: What is wrong with our common sense? The Prophet replied, ‘Your lack of common sense can be determined from the fact that the evidence of two women is equal to one man. That is a proof.’”
 Qur’an 4:43 “Believers, approach not prayers with a mind befogged or intoxicated until you understand what you utter. Nor when you are polluted, until after you have bathed. If you are ill, or on a journey, or come from answering the call of nature, or you have touched a woman, and you find no water, then take for yourselves clean dirt, and rub your faces and hands. Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving.” [The Qur’an claims women are unclean and polluted—worse than dirt.] Bukhari:V4B55N547 “The Prophet said, ‘But for the Israelis, meat would not decay, and if it were not for Eve, wives would never betray their husbands.’”
 Qur’an 33:59 “Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and all Muslim women to draw cloaks and veils all over their bodies (screening themselves completely except for one or two eyes to see the way). That will be better.”
Qur’an 4:15 “If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death [by starvation] claims them.”
Bukhari:V4B52N143/V5B59N523 “When we reached Khaybar, Muhammad said that Allah had enabled him to conquer them. It was then that the beauty of Safiyah was described to him. Her husband had been killed, so Allah’s Apostle selected her for himself. He took her along with him till we reached a place called Sad where her menses were over and he took her for his wife, consummating his marriage to her, and forcing her to wear the veil.’”
Bukhari:V5B59N524 “The Muslims said among themselves, ‘Will Safiyah be one of the Prophet’s wives or just a lady captive and one of his possessions?’”

So does this sound like the type of culture that will assimilate into ours? No of course not. Our culture is colorful and full of life. Theirs is black and white, dreary. We are modern, they are extremely dated. We value life they value death. When you send your child off with an explosives belt to go blow himself up and he does, then hand out candy, that is called human blood sacrifice, it's all bad.
 I would suggest to every American to do an objective and critical study of history in regards to islams 1400 year war of terror waged against the rest of the world. It is an intolerant and suicidal ideology. Right now there are plenty of infidels for them to focus on, once they convert the world the Shia/Sunni schism will go into full war, once one of them has been destroyed, they will find others amongst themselves to accuse of "not being muslim enough" and they will exterminate them and so on and so on until there is only one suicidal muslim left.....and of course he will find a reason to extinguish himself.

Decisions Decisions

Sometimes in life we make decisions that are cataclysmic to our spiritual, emotional and physical well being. But we have to make decisions all the time. The sheer magnitude and volume of decisions we make we don’t even realize. After time the decisions get prioritized, we go as far as sometimes decisions are made sometimes they are not( which is a decision in and of itself). 

  When we decide to get into a relationship there are decisions to be made, getting through the initial excitement

is full of decisions. When we finally decide to commit there are more decisions, life forming and life changing decisions. When these decisions are made both parties need to be in lock step. When one party is not in step or worse left out it brings about resentment, which can lead to hurt feelings which could lead to bad decisions. 

  These bad decisions lead to the death of love. Which is a bad decision in and of itself. But these are the fortunes in life and we live with the good and bad decisions we make.And if we ever figure it out we will probably still make bad decisions.

Bound and Determined Discipline

I like this......now I know why there are so many Subs and so few Doms.....if you can't live without your phone for 5 minutes....if you can't live without Facebook for a day.....if you can't sit with yourself for a period of time, maybe you need to be subdued for a while.....

Meditation and Bondage: A semi-rant

It really has a lot to do with being in the present. I find parallels between bondage and meditation because of the idea that you cannot really know yourself until you learn to feel comfortable with living inside yourself for at least an extended amount of time. In a generation where we are constantly relying on instant gratification, we spend next to no time sitting with our own intellectual minds. Ideas are expected to erupt instantly, where as most artists in history took years to develop even one idea. So while meditating you are to completely live inside yourself with no sense of past or future, once you view yourself from this perspective you can then realize your limits and start to ask yourself what those are in terms of mentality and physicality. When you are rushing around and you are looking for instant reactions, lets say you hurt yourself, you gash your finger.. This makes you slow down. What are you to do? How will this heal in time? It won’t. You are forced to let it heal, and by this we get a hint of our limits. Our patience. I find these small things, like wounds and season changes and sickness to be very humbling.

While bounded you must live completely in the present in order for anything to be affective. The idea is that no matter how much you panic, or try to get out of it- you won’t. You must practice patience and will power to stay within yourself, just like meditation. I find that bondage is a form of meditation. Whether a partner is involved or not, your perception of the self while under extreme restraint is different than under extreme discomposure of the mind (like we experience through this technological age.) Through both bondage and meditation we are forced to live in the complete present; through pain and pleasure in order to fully experience what our bodies can ultimately absorb. If we spend just a portion of our days to really take in our world, or what our bodies can really feel, instead of instantly gratifying ourselves sexually, intellectually, and spiritually.. Imagine how much we could really connect to each other. Imagine how much we could expand ourselves. 

Truth or Consequences?

So what is it going to be, truth or consequences? The answer is ...both. We will reap the consequences of our disregard of the truth, and then we will be confronted with the truth, like it or not. Those who have fervently denied the truth will find themselves wishing they had chosen to fight for the truth.
Lets start with the global warming group. These people have set upon people by using fear. They use half truths and full blown lies to set a scenario of doom that cannot be reversed without all the peoples of the world changing the way they live. I am not saying science is invalid. I am saying science can be manipulated into quite a profitable industry.
The funny thing about this group is that the people barnstorming the world to get the word out are doing exactly what they tell us we should not do. They fly in private planes, are transported in large caravans of gas guzzling SUVs, live in homes so large they could shelter many families. Yet they want to come to your community and tell you that your means of transportation to and from work is ruining the planet, your house is too big, you live a wasteful life that is ruining the earth. They talk about reducing YOUR “carbon footprint”, yet in just one of their crusades to enlighten the world they leave a carbon footprint larger than the average person will leave in years. Yes, they pollute excessively to make you feel guilty about polluting excessively. You see, they know what is best for all of us, how could people like you and I know what these lofty people know.
They say if we do not stop polluting it will lead to global warming. This statement in and of itself is a half truth. Yes our pollution will HELP lead to global warming, along with pollution produced naturally by volcanos, animal waste and gases and plant waste and gases etc.. The result will be something like the last mini ice age that started in 1315. Before that time Europe had warmed to temperatures that are warmer than they are now. England was producing wine that rivaled French wines, which angered the French because they were losing business. Populations boomed. Ice bergs melted. Glaciers melted. The result in the Atlantic ocean was that so much fresh water was released by ice bergs and glaciers it essentially stopped the gulf stream. The gulf stream is responsible for the temperate climate enjoyed by much of North America and Europe. The result, a mini ice age. Climates changed drastically , people and animals died. This is a REAL model of what could happen if things continue as they are, and they will.

Now let’s look at the gay and lesbians who scream that they are an oppressed minority because society at large cannot accept their desire to marry. Really. They claim to be an oppressed minority. If they were not so serious about the subject one could laugh. They claim that by not allowing them to “marry” their civil rights are being violated. As a believer my understanding of the institution of marriage is to “bless those married with children and prosperity”.
First of all I would like to know what they are REALLY trying to accomplish. If this really were about LOVE we wouldn’t be discussing this.If it were about the right to receive benefits like health insurance, or the right to visit their loved one in the hospital, or the right to claim each other for tax purposes, or the right to claim inheritance benefits, or the right to claim life insurance, or the right to prove their love to society ,wouldn’t they be happy to accept the term “civil union”? I am sure that will not do. They want it to be MARRIAGE. You see marriage would make them feel NORMAL, even though they keep saying they are and that there is nothing unnatural with being gay or lesbian, it’s normal, for the Gay and Lesbian lobbies to go through all of this you might think somewhere deep inside they still require that approval from non homosexuals. You have to admit, quite a game. On one hand there is nothing unnatural about being gay/lesbian, on the other hand they demand we accept their behavior without question as normal and natural. What choice do we have? O.Kayyy
Lets face it, this is not about NORMAL or LOVE as much as it is about CONTROL. They want everyone to accept deviant behavior as normal. No questions. No dialogue.No arguments. No decent. The peoples vote doesn’t matter. We want what we want. If any heterosexual brings a logical argument the Gay lobbys' only method of standing up to the test is to SHOUT IT DOWN or whine about human rights/civil rights abuses.
Sex has two functions, procreation and pleasure. As far as procreation goes gays and lesbians are a dead end, lets not argue about lesbians getting impregnated, whatever they say, they still need a male of the species to become pregnant, period( they might never see the male, but a male does provide the sperm). Gay men are the ultimate dead end as far as procreation. So the homosexual lobby has failed the procreation test. Homosexuality is not functional, so it is DYSFUNCTIONAL. What about pleasure, well, I guess pleasure is what you make of it and that is highly subjective, some people find pain pleasant, so I guess all of humanity fails this test or passes it depending on your outlook.
The homosexual lobbies attempt to use “victim status” in a civil rights forum is at best odious. There are real civil rights issues where real people are being hurt and killed. To force society to focus on the gay marriage issue and not on real issues of civil rights abuse is theft, it is irresponsible, it is irreconcilable. My guess is using the word “marriage” is a way to pay back a society, churches and religious people that have long treated homosexuals like less than humans. My personal take is that if a believer in the Savior and Messiah is treating homosexuals badly, he or she has missed the point our Savior was making. Gays and lesbians deserve kindness , respect , dignity and empathy from us not a beat down. This still does not excuse wasting societies resources for selfish reasons, and ultimately, forcing people to have to accept something that is none of their business to begin with. Yes , I know some heterosexuals can ignorant and cruel towards homosexuals, this is totally unacceptable My take is, be thankful that there are heterosexuals.

Next, this will be a quick one. “Politicians represent the people”. No politicians represent themselves, politics is a self serving industry. They say they need more money to help us and then they help themselves to as much of that money as they can. Private limousines, government planes, trips on the peoples expense, trips on lobbyists expense, new furniture for their office, photo ops at McDonalds and then off to the country club for champagne and caviar, affairs with interns and pages and lies upon lies to cover lies upon lies. The government is no longer really running the nation, money is. Does anyone believe G W Bush really cared about common people, I don’t. Does anyone believe Barack Obama cares about the common people, I don’t. Obama touted himself as the candidate of change, did he make any real changes? His administration is just a rehash of what got us to where we are now. Washington insiders, career politicians. People who know how the game is played.
Real change would have been picking people outside of the beltway people who really love this country. Real change would have been to state the truth, income tax is illegal( check the Supreme Court ruling of 1895). Real change would have been to tell the Federal Reserve “ we are done with you and we are not paying you back!” You see the Federal Reserve owns the United States money, which means the Federal Reserve owns the government which means the people are no longer the government, they are the means of “cash flow” for the wealthy bankers and bank conglomerates who ARE the Federal Reserve. These bankers do not have our nations best interest in mind.
Obama IS going to bring change, check that jingling in your pocket, that IS the change. To believe that there is any difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party is to believe pink elephants fly, money grows on trees and Hitler loved the Jewish people. Good luck with that. I am not trying to imply that politicians are monsters,they are human. I’m just saying ‘They are just doin’ their job”.

And now for more lunacy, how about this one. “Islam is a religion of peace”. I may as well start off with the end, good luck with that. First of all look at the behavior. Murder is glorified, honor killings, women are discriminated against, rampant racism and intolerance of other religions and beliefs, lying is honorable and acceptable. How is any of this “peaceful”? Lets face it folks, for 1400 years islam has been doing all of the above. How do you get a man or woman to strap bombs to their body and walk into a crowd of people with only one intention, murder? How do you saw another human beings head off because he does not believe as you do or in a woman’s case , dishonor the man? How can a mother say she is proud her child blew themselves up as a sacrifice for allah and islam? Doesn’t she understand the lesson of Abraham NOT sacrificing Isaac because our Creator DOESN’T want human sacrifice? How do you justify treating women as chattel? How do you explain open hatred of any people, let alone preaching it as some kind of spiritual sermon? How can anyone get upset enough to kill because of some cartoons? Muhammed was not GOD! Why can’t he and his religion/ideology be questioned in open debate? Their only response is to scream about all the violence in the Bible. They miss the part about all those killed in Canaan practiced human sacrifice, but why isn’t that surprising. Since 1979 islam has been responsible for more than 95% of all terrorist attacks. That kind of ruins their little theory about all the violent Christian and Jewish fundamentalists. They say they don’t kill innocent people, but their books tell them only muslims are innocent. Whoops, their spokes people forgot the second half of that. Just remember this, the religion of peace is perfectly willing to kill you to prove they are the religion of peace.

Finally, for now anyway, the media. “The Main Stream Media”.
In order for lies to work, you have to have a means by which to convey information, then the lies. Word of mouth would be one way. To get the information and news out en masse newspaper, television and radio have been the standard for a long time. The internet is new and flourishing, but I suspect( speculation on my part) anyone over 25 years old gets half their information from newspaper, TV or radio.
We all know newspapers,TV and radio stations have owners, owners who have opinions. Owners are beholden to advertisers who also have opinions. There is big money involved. What could possibly go wrong? The USA is a capitalism based, free market economy, so we don’t really care where the money comes from, IT’S MONEY! So lets add some wealthy people from other countries, other countries who may or may not have our best interests in mind. Lets have these people buy into newspapers, TV and radio stations, hire journalists who cleanse/edit/censor the news. This is done so as not to offend or put the wrong spotlight on all or particular people. The media are so used to misrepresenting the truth now, they don’t even really hide it. Maybe they don’t even realize they are doing it. Just two examples from recent headlines; “Youths destroying stores in a major Scandanavian city” or “ Dutch citizen stands trial for planting roadside bombs in Iraq”. Maybe I am just s a bit critical, but it seems to me, in my opinion, when just reading those headlines, on an NBC affiliate on the west coast I was having a hard time picturing large gangs of blonde hair blue eyed Nordic hooligans ( sorry for the stereotype)destroying seven grocery stores in one town. As far as the “Dutch” citizen planting roadside bombs in Iraq, I just can’t seem to picture the “little Dutch boy” with his finger in the dike planting roadside bombs in Iraq.
The United States main stream media don’t have “political correctness” down to the degree the media in Europe do, I have lived in Europe and have family there, but the US media is well on it’s way.
It is truly sad to see, I grew up watching Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley you kind of knew you could trust what they were telling you, so we thought anyway. Maybe that is how the young people of today see current news anchors and reporters.
One thing is certain today though, like it or not, believe or not, accept it or not, almost every bit of news you get today has been cleansed and censored of as much truth as the owner wants. OK maybe not the stock market reports , sports scores or the weather, it would be a little more difficult to half truth a winter storm, but boy howdy if they could!
So what’s it going to be? Truth or Consequences? The truth has its’ own consequences. Avoiding the truth usually has worse consequences. Standing for the truth takes courage, you have to be ready to fight, EVEN IF YOU DON’T REALLY WANT TO. Taking the other path and surrendering to lies and half truths is like surrendering your wife and virgin daughter to be raped, tortured and murdered before your very eyes. Liberty or death! Freedom of speech or war! Freedom of religion or war! Equality for all who wish to live peacefully under the rule of law! I am not advocating violence in any form against any group of people. I AM pointing out how important it is to see how serious the situation has become, IT IS THAT SERIOUS. There IS a reason we have been given judgement, intolerance is not ALWAYS bad. There is only one way, you must find your way back to the Creator .

Tolerance

Tolerance. The word that the politically correct wield at all in order to drive their agenda. "What agenda is that Gentilesven?" you ask. Control, power, wealth, with an emphasis on CONTROL. In order for you not to be judged intolerant you must tolerate everything. Do not dare to speak the truth, you intolerant neanderthal. You must tolerate murder in the name of religion, you must tolerate reverse discrimination, you must tolerate child molesters, you must tolerate rapists, you must tolerate people who hate you based on(fill in the blank), you must tolerate whatever the government decides to force upon you, and don't you dare speak out in your own behalf. That means if they want to take your money and spend it on illegal immigrants or on an illegal war or on their yacht or pay for sex with an under aged page then you just shut up, they know what's good for you better than you do.
You must tolerate the term intolerant racist if you speak out about the evils of islam, amazing, I didn't know islam was a race. You must tolerate being called a hater if you describe someone by color( unless they are white, of course), even if it is required. You must tolerate being called a "breeder" if you are not a homosexual, heaven forbid what would happen if you actually opened your mouth and had an opinion about what was said about you. You must tolerate having money taken away from you in order to give an illegal immigrant health care, education, food, shelter, a car, a home and some extra money to send back to their nation of origin( or if your muslim you send it to your imam in Pakistan so he can give the money to a terrorist group to kill you) I could go on and on about what the PC want you to tolerate.
Sadly, many people are pushed into silence for fear of being labeled intolerant. What happens when people are silent? Study Germany between 1933 and 1945. Oh that could never happen here. Right. Wrong.
The agenda is set. Allow illegals into the country to shore up your voting block, tell them it is the racists who don't want them here. Kiss up to the (put your oppressed group here) because they can run to the ACLU( whom you need in your pocket to help steal the peoples rights) along with all the other down trodden groups(ethnic, religious, homosexuals etc.)
Just like too much of a good thing can be bad, too much tolerance leaves an imbalance. There is a reason for intolerance, just as there is a reason for tolerance. There are things that can and should be tolerated ands there are things that should not be tolerated. I have listed a miniscule list of things that the PC culture wants to force you to tolerate.
I think it is time for a little intolerance( not violence, intolerance, there is a difference although the PC would have you believe they are the same) Here is a list of things I cannot tolerate any longer: Fighting a war that was started based on lies, GWB lied, he knows it. Look it is very simple, if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction then why would you send 100,000 plus troops into an area where these weapons can be used on them, that would be immoral, and if they were not there it was a lie. Islam is a religion of peace, it is a noble religion. My ass, read their book(s), they teach their children murder and rape and pillaging is good. Illegal immigrants are not the problem. Really? Next time I am paying taxes I will send you the bill. If you want to support illegals take them into YOUR home and pay their way, if you are unwilling to do that then shut up, I did not ask them to come here and by definition they are ILLEGAL( next PC move will be to come up with a less "oppressive" term, illegal its so... so ... well , illegal). I can no longer tolerate a government that serves itself at the expense of the people. We have a president who could care less about what the people want, a congress that has nothing planned except to collect their pay and take extended time off, hell, they got elected, they don't need to do anything else. They want to shove crap down our throat while taking everything we work for to sustain their lifestyle( see the Kennedys, the Bushes, the Kerries, John Edwards, Dick Cheney, the Clintons etc. etc. ad nauseum) . I cannot tolerate the media, they lie and then they lie some more then they cover their lies with more lies( kind of like politicians) until there isn't even a trail of crumbs back to the truth. These arrogant people believe they can sway what happens in the world( and they actually do). When the media doesn't lie, it forces immorality onto the people under the guise of entertainment( sadly there is a market for hogwash). I cannot tolerate the racists who murder, you are entitled to your opinion, not someone elses life. I cannot tolerate the people who feel they are entitled based on race, religion, etc.( see islam) I cannot tolerate people who use the term "nigger". I have heard black people say "white people cannot use this word , it is our word"( see NPR radio June 2007) . Here is something you all need to know, it is NOT your word. It comes from the German word "negger" which means "negro", it was not and is not a derogatory term in German, the word was misunderstood by English speaking people who turned it into a word of ignorance. If you want this word , well you can have it. Why anyone would want to use a term of TOTAL IGNORANCE on themselves is sort of like me wanting to build a water treatment plant in my back yard to prevent my restroom from stinking after I have defecated. I cannot tolerate homosexuals telling me that homosexuality is natural, that it is good, that there is nothing wrong with it. I am tired of them screaming that they cannot tolerate people like me( heterosexual). Do what you want in the privacy of your home, I cannot see you there, so I don't care. When you go to the streets and try to shout down the truth it just shows how out of touch you really are. I cannot tolerate the anti-abortionists who try to "save " people from themselves and the unborn babies they carry, look, I understand what you are trying to accomplish, I don't believe in murdering babies. The truth is Yahweh has given us freedom, we can choose to do right or wrong, it is each INDIVIDUALS choice and we WILL pay for making the wrong choice.We also have a Savior. Yahweh sent Yahushua to save us from ourselves if we so choose, so how can any man stand in the way of the Savior and his relationship with any individual. When that individual stands in Judgement are you going to push the Messiah aside and say "I'll take over here Yahushua", my guess is that would be the fast track to the abyss. I cannot tolerate the clergy who have been lying to the masses. God has a name, Yahweh. He wants you to know it, he wants to have a relationship with each and every one of us. The clergy( all religions) would have you believe you have to go to church/synagogue/mosque in order to be with God, wrong. Yahweh hates religion, politics and the media because they all LIE. They have replaced Him, His Word and his feasts with false doctrines, false festivals and false names( there was no Jesus, the letter "J" was not concieved until the 15th century by anglo saxons, there is no Jehovah , lord presents its' own problems just by defintion, God does not want to be our "master", this is not even addressing the real name Lord Baal). I cannot tolerate the organizations that want to take my rights away while promoting evil. Organizations like the ACLU and CAIR and LA RAZA. These entities promote their own agenda and steal our rights at the same time. How can you have muslim prayers in schools when other religions are denied the same right. I guess if you get cash from the Saudis it goes a long way, ask CAIR. I guess CAIR is sharing the wealth with the ACLU. LA RAZA presents its own problems, they haven't figured out the war is over and they lost. I cannot tolerate the tolerance afforded to muslims when they themselves are the most intolerant and murderous group on the planet. Our government chastises Israel for defending itself and sends money to the idiots attacking them. 
There is soooo much more to be intolerant of , this post will be continued at a later date!

The Border Rant

( Updated; I am a United States Citizen now)
Before everything gets blown out of proportion, I am an immigrant, a card carrying member, totally legal and working on my citizenship ! O.K I admit it, I am from Europe I don’t count. The great thing about this nation is that I may not count as an immigrant to this societies’ standards, but I am still entitled to "free speech". Soooo.... I would like to know how a person, whose very first act inside this nation was to break the law, is entitled to a portion of the money I pay in taxes. Before I go too far let me make clear that this rant is not about people from other nations, it is about the people in this nation. I understand why people want to come to this nation. I love this country, this nation, the United States of America. It is a beautiful land, large, it feels free. The people are diverse and generally friendly and tolerant. I also know there are people who are coming here to harm this nation because they hate what it stands for, something they can never have, even if they lived here, freedom. This freedom was not achieved easily, it has cost a lot of blood , sweat and tears. . We have had leaders who stood up for this nation, who had integrity. We have had leaders lead this nation to the top , and sadly we have had leaders take us down the wrong path. It appears our "elite leaders" have decided over the recent years that maintaining the sovereignty of our nation was somehow "politically incorrect", somehow the people who are paying their salary don’t seem to matter once they are "hired" to their high paying , tax free , special privileges and moneys, position( maybe it’s the special money ! ). From top to bottom, our nations leaders are taking a pass on their responsibility to us. Their responsibility is to their constituents. Our national leaders refuse to show any kind of "bolas" when it comes to the issue of this nations sovereignty. I would like to hear just one more "expert " tell us how" if we don’t fight the terrorists over there ,we will have to fight them here". Knock knock knock, hello, news flash, the enemy is here. They are crossing the chalk line we call a border. Our border is not about depriving any particular race of people a better life, it is about protecting that better way of life, it is about protecting the ideals of this nation, freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom to worship, or not, freedom to travel where ever you want, freedom to work , to live and pursue happiness( or not ! ). Freedom for all! There are many people from all over the world who are illegally crossing our nations borders, whether by land or by sea. At this time it appears to be our southern border with Mexico that has the most activity( all of our borders need to be sealed). Sure we could blame Mexico and its’ people. We would be wrong. It is not just Mexicans and it is not their fault. We are not crossing their border, because if that were the case, it WOULD be their fault, they would have to stop it. The truth is , it is OUR border THEY are crossing, so WE have to stop it.( when I say they, I do not specifically mean only Mexicans, or even people from Central and South America, there are Asians and Africans and Arabs and Russians and terrorists). If we want to have control over our sovereignty we have to do whatever it takes. It is up to US ! We can stop it, if we want to. If you listen to our inept leaders "there is no way to stop it "or "it would be cost prohibitive"( right , the government is frugal). Look, the example has been set. Look back to "old" East and West Germany. What separated those two nations for all those years other than ideology. A fence. Not just a fence, a double fence with a wide path in between, with towers that had overlapping and clear views. with a well maintained dirt road running the entire length.( I am not going to recommend land mines, unless we go to war ! ). "Oh my we cannot militarize our border". HELLO! The border is already militarized, the smugglers have better weapons than our border patrol and law enforcement, they are brazenly attacking them and chasing them from their facilities. Militarize it, what better place to build Army and Air Force posts along with reservist bases. Why should anyone outside this nation have any say about where we station our military in our land. As long as we don’t plan on invading Mexico or Canada what harm can a fence and our military do. Hurt our neighbors feelings ? Sorry. I predict we will all get over this. I am asking our representatives to do the job we are paying them to do, protect the welfare and safety of the people who pay for everything. This is about keeping the enemy out , protecting our way of life and what is ours.

RACISM BY STATUTE

I realize in the previous post that some of the things I wrote could be taken as racist comments. Let me clarify, briefly, I am not now nor have I ever been a racist, nor do I have any intention of becoming a racist. When I write and speak about Islam I am speaking about an ideology, not any particular race( as muslims will tell anyone, muslims are from many nations and many races). I have been studying what is written in the koran, that is where my information comes from. Here are a few tidbits that muslims believe( remember, muhammed was the perfect example and his diety wrote the koran). I wish the progressives would wake up before the toast is burned.....


Ishaq:243 "I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!' He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom." [9:61] "Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey's.'"
Ishaq:144 "A rock was put on a slave's chest. When Abu Bakr complained, they said, ‘You are the one who corrupted him, so save him from his plight.' I will do so,' said Bakr. ‘I have a black slave, tougher and stronger than Bilal, who is a heathen. I will exchange him. The transaction was carried out."
Qur'an 9:97 "The Arabs of the desert are the worst in unbelief and hypocrisy, and most fitted to be in ignorance of the command which Allah hath sent down to His Messenger."
Tabari II:11 "Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks; Ham was the father of the Black Africans; and Japheth was the father of the Turks and of Gog and Magog who were cousins of the Turks. Noah prayed that the prophets and apostles would be descended from Shem and kings would be from Japheth. He prayed that the African's color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks."
Tabari II:21 "Ham [Africans] begat all those who are black and curly-haired, while Japheth [Turks] begat all those who are full-faced with small eyes, and Shem [Arabs] begat everyone who is handsome of face with beautiful hair. Noah prayed that the hair of Ham's descendants would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his descendants met Shem's, the latter would enslave them."
Tabari IX:69 "Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah's helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in Allah's Cause. Killing him is a small matter to us."
Bukhari: V9B89N256 "Allah's Apostle said, ‘You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he is a black African slave whose head looks like a raisin.'"
Ishaq:450 "It is your folly to fight the Apostle, for Allah's army is bound to disgrace you. We brought them to the pit. Hell was their meeting place. We collected them there, black slaves, men of no descent.
Ishaq:374 "The black troops and slaves of the Meccans cried out and the Muslims replied, ‘Allah destroy your sight, you impious rascals.'"
Bukhari:V4B52N137 "The Prophet said, ‘Let the negro slave of Dinar perish. And if he is pierced with a thorn, let him not find anyone to take it out for him.... If he [the black slave] asks for anything it shall not be granted, and if he needs intercession [to get into paradise], his intercession will be denied.'"

LOVE

If you understand this.....there is still hope for you...

1 Corinthians 13

13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
13:4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Time Our Only Commodity

TIME our only  

So in this life we all take a unique journey. The path we take is based on our own free will, and of course the amount of free time we actually have. Jobs and careers don't typically free us, much like religion they bind us. The rules were meant to be broken argument fades when you realize most rules are just over ellaborations of our moral code, in other words, stupid rules will always be broken, the core rules should never be broken....love, trust, dignity, respect.....but there are always going to be people who don't get it and never will, evil people. The only thing we have to work with is the time we have been given, nothing else. Reach out and do the best you can with the time you have......

My Continuing Struggle with Easter

Mithros

I am always asking what we are celebrating at Easter. As a child I looked forward to chocolate eggs from Peter Cottontail and other goodies. As I got older I was told it is a celebration of Jesus dying on the cross for us. I just could never get away from the rabbits and eggs, what did this have to do with our savior.  

  As I got older and went on my worldly secular way embracing "pop culture" and all the unimportant nonsense that comes with it, I never questioned the "rituals " I was taught as a child. I went with what I was taught, nobody would teach me wrong, right? Not purposely anyway. So I went on my blissful merry way........trusting what I had been taught. 

  Trusting what your taught can be deadly,  I was taught that islam was one of the Abrahamic religions. Islam is an evil suicidal death cult. Islam is an ideology. 9/11 got me to study the quran because I wanted to know where exactly these people got the idea that it was acceptable to murder in Gods name. which turned me back to the true word of God

  So after 9/11 I became interested in Scripture again, this time with an older more patient mind willing to do critical thinking. And critical I have been.

Jesus/Yahshua was nailed to a pole on Passover, Scripture tells us this. So what were we celebrating in 2008? 2008 is not the only time we see this. If easter is about our savior why the rabbit and the eggs.....

 Here is an interesting exert from Ken Powers book " A Future History" I am not saying this is gospel but it should get you to think and maybe even get down to some investigating.....

"All that being said, note that we’re well over halfway through the Revelation when we see one of the primary players for the very first time: “And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” (Revelation 14:8) If we can figure out who or what Babylon is, we’ll be well on our way toward understanding what angers Yahweh in this present world. Useful information indeed.

The angel here was referring to scripture: “Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.” (Isaiah 21:9) When Isaiah penned these words, Babylon’s (i.e., the city’s) glory days were still a hundred and fifty years in the future. But by the time John’s angel repeated the refrain, Babylon as a political entity had been dead for half a millennium. So it’s clear that neither messenger was talking about temporal military or political power. Rather, both passages speak of God’s judgment upon idolatry. Fornication or adultery, as we saw in Hosea’s prophecy, is invariably a picture of false worship—of giving to another “god” what rightfully belongs exclusively to Yahweh. Isaiah talks about the “carved images of her gods,” but idolatry goes beyond the worship of “graven images.” It is anything that takes the place of God in our lives.

I can’t speak for the whole world, but I know Americans pretty well. We worship some very strange things. Of course, there are the big three (power, sex, and money), but we obsess over pointless fluff as well. The toys. The career (or worse, the work itself). The car, the house, the lawn, for cryin’ out loud. Relationships, recreation, children, friends, health, political causes—even church. I have heard of fundamentalist Christians being accused of worshipping the Bible. Intrinsically, there’s nothing wrong with any of these things—not even power, sex, and money—but if these things obstruct or take the place of our personal relationship with Yahweh, they become wrong; they become our “carved images.” The good things in our lives are gifts from God—they’re not supposed to be mistaken for gods themselves.

Babylon, then, is a code word for idolatry. But it’s also a physical place (a few miles down the river from Baghdad), with a history that collided with that of God’s people on occasion. Some Bible expositors teach that it will rise again as a world power in the last days. And at first glance, a few passages like this one seem to support that view: “Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, ‘Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.’ So I asked, ‘What is it?’ And he said, ‘It is a basket that is going forth.’ He also said, ‘This is their resemblance throughout the earth: here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket.’ Then he said, ‘This is Wickedness!’ And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth. Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. So I said to the angel who talked with me, ‘Where are they carrying the basket?’ And he said to me, ‘To build a house for it in the land of Shinar [Babylon]; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base.’” (Zechariah 5:5-11) God is telling the prophet that he intends to “keep a lid on” the whore of Babylon until her “house” is ready. Is this a literal place, or only a metaphor for the form she will assume in the last days? Let’s look carefully at the record.

We first see the city in Genesis, shortly after the flood. “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another… ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’ But Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And Yahweh said, ‘Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth; and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11:1-9)

A cursory reading of this passage might lead you to think that Yahweh was a petty and vindictive God, afraid that people would get so smart they would accomplish great things. So in a jealous fit, He used his magical powers to squash their dreams like a bug, changing their language comprehension so they couldn’t communicate with each other. That picture couldn’t be farther from the truth. What actually happened was that Noah’s great grandson Nimrod, along with his wife, Semiramis, began a secret cult that deified its founders. It came to be called a “mystery religion” because its hidden doctrines were revealed little by little to its followers—the really nasty stuff remaining a secret until the devotee was too compromised to back out. Yahweh chose to divide the populace to slow this insidious false doctrine’s spread among men.

Though the details have been muddled by time and a plethora of conflicting traditions, the religion seems to have been based upon the aggressive personality of Nimrod and the insatiable ambition of Semiramis. Nimrod was known as “a mighty hunter before the Lord,” that is, a warrior, a conqueror, a despot—the first of his breed (after the flood, at least). His ruthlessness led to his being worshiped as a demi-god during his lifetime.

Semiramis may have been born of humble stock, but her beauty elevated her to the position of Nimrod’s queen. Being the wife of a demi-god had its perks, as you might imagine. But Nimrod died unexpectedly. Faced with seeing her position of power evaporate for want of a male sitting on the throne beside her, Semiramis became pregnant—long after Nimrod’s untimely demise (oops)—and bore a son, Tammuz, at the winter solstice. The boy, of course, was claimed to have been miraculously conceived, and he was marketed as the fulfillment of the Messiah prophecy of Genesis 3:15—the seed of the woman who would crush the head of Satan. Semiramis was positioned as the holy (if not quite virgin) mother, the queen of heaven, having been impregnated by her now-fully-deified late husband. This made Semiramis the prototype for the goddess of fertility. Because he was born near the winter solstice, on December 24th or 25th, Tammuz was worshiped as the Sun God, the conqueror of winter’s darkness, celebrated by the burning of the “log of the son,” or “yule” as it’s called in the Chaldean tongue.

Alas, no good scam lasts forever. According to the legend, Tammuz was killed in his fortieth year by a wild boar. (By some accounts, it was Nimrod who was boared to death, but the legend stuck to Tammuz, who was supposedly the reincarnated Nimrod. Other accounts state that Nimrod was slain by Shem (Noah’s son) for his idolatry and cut in pieces as a warning.) Satan needed a rebirth or resurrection miracle if he hoped to pass his boy off as the Messiah (remember, the Genesis 3 prophecy had said the serpent would only “bruise his heel”), so Tammuz was said to have been brought back to life as a miraculous egg that descended from heaven into the Euphrates River, from which hatched a rabbit. Tammuz’ birth was celebrated every December 25th by hanging silver and gold-covered balls upon an evergreen tree. The phallic inference was lost on no one. It was a fertility cult, after all.

Every spring, the faithful would feign sorrow, “weeping for Tammuz,” for forty days (cf. Ezekiel 8:14), one day for every year of his life. At the end of the mourning period, though, there was a day of great rejoicing for the reincarnated “son of god.” That day they would ritually slay and eat the boar that had killed Tammuz. There was also a ritual in which the high priest of Babylon would impregnate a lucky “volunteer,” whose child could be expected to be born the following winter. Here’s where the thing got really demonic. The highlight of this annual spring festival of Semiramis (who was also known as Astarte by the Assyrians, Inanna by the Sumerians, Asthoreth by the Caananites, and Ishtar by the Akkadians) was when the priest would ritually kill the three-month-old baby who had been conceived during the previous year’s celebration, dyeing Ishtar eggs red in the innocent child’s blood.

I don’t know how to break it to you, but your “Christian” holiday traditions are a lie, right out of the pit of hell. It was not Yahshua who was born on the 25th of December; it was Tammuz and every subsequent permutation of the “sun god.” Evergreen trees hung with festive balls, holiday candles, mistletoe, yule logs—even the Christmas goose—all have pagan origins, and they’re all an abomination to Yahweh. (All of the historical evidence points to a birthday for Yahshua at the Feast of Tabernacles, in the autumn of 2 B.C.) And Easter? Forty-day Lenten fasts preceding the big day (and lascivious carnivals preceding Lent), colored eggs, and the traditional Easter ham were all instituted to honor not Christ, but Satan’s false redeemer, Tammuz. It’s no wonder Yahweh declared swine’s flesh unclean in the Torah.

All of this was Satan’s counterfeit of Yahweh’s plan for the redemption of mankind. The center of worship for Nimrod’s mystery religion was Babel, or Babylon, one of four cities he founded on the plain of Shinar, in the Euphrates river valley. Yahweh, of course, could have wiped out Nimrod’s little scheme on day one. But as we have seen time and again, God is (if you’ll pardon the expression) pro-choice. He won’t force anyone to love him, but rather lets us choose, for good or ill, and then usually gives us time to repent of our bad choices. That’s exactly what He did here. The earth’s languages were divided in the days of Peleg, who was six generations removed from Noah—two generations past the time of Nimrod (though on a different branch of the family tree). And why did Yahweh choose to split up the families of the world like this? It was primarily to separate—to keep holy—the people through whom He would someday provide the Messiah. We see this pattern of separation and isolation recurring in scripture, first here, then with Abraham, then with Moses at the Exodus, then with Joshua at the time of the conquest of Canaan. And what were the Canaanites doing that was so horrible they had to be wiped out? They were following the mystery religion of Babylon!

The city of Babylon went through its ups and downs (as city-states are wont to do), finally to reach its glory days under Nebuchadnezzar II in the sixth century B.C. At the very height of its power, as the Chaldeans were carting Yahweh’s rebellious people off in chains, the prophet Jeremiah, “Mr. Diplomacy,” declared concerning his nation’s new masters, “‘They shall not take from you a stone for a corner nor a stone for a foundation, but you shall be desolate forever,’ says Yahweh.” He gave the quartermaster of the captive Jewish King Zedekiah a message to take with him to his new home in exile. “Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, ‘When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words, then you shall say, “O Yahweh, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.” Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. Then you shall say, “Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.”’” (Jeremiah 51:26, 60-64) “Desolate forever,” and “sink and not rise” sound to me like the city of Babylon is finished as a political entity. It will never rise from the sands of Iraq to be anything more than an archaeological dig, a tourist attraction. The spirit of Babylon however, the insidious fraud meant to replace Yahweh in the hearts of men, is a different story. That never left."

       

  Scary, scary, scary. Remember there is nothing wrong with a healthy dose of intolerance!

     

STAND UP

 

                                         STAND UP

Our Father in Heaven wants us to stand up. He doesn't require us to kneel or bow or lay ourselves prostate before him. More times than not when one of the Prophets or Apostles fell before him they were instructed to get up or lifted up. The Father wants a relationship based on equality, he wants our friendship. When I read the word Lord in scripture I cringe, I understand its use in context and judge nobody for using the title. The title means master and the Father does not want a "master- servant" relationship, however Ha Satan does.
  Satan is a title as well, Hollywood and uneducated people foster the idea that "satan" is a name, his name is Lucifer. Evil is clever but no genius, hence the continual attempt to counterfeit Our Fathers relationship with us by cloaking religion as relationship. Religion is not relationship, one of the definitions for religion is "to bind", which our Father does not want to do to us, he wants us free. There is an entity that does want to bind us.....the adversary, the accuser, Ha Satan....
  The mystery religions that Lucifer has developed and fostered are all very compelling and lure man to his death. The sad thing about these mystery religions is you are usually in too deep to back out by the time you realize what it really is. Hence the term mystery religion. We know Ha Satan is angry and nothing makes him happier then destroying the Fathers children both physically and spiritually. The spiritual war has been going on since Adam.....now we are going to be facing a physical war to coincide with the spiritual war. When one accepts the mystery religion knowingly it is tantamount to putting a bullet in your head. Right now there are over one billion living dead walking on this planet, these are Satans children. These people will strap bombs to their body to murder others because the others will not worship Satan as they do. They are not worried about dying because they are already dead, thus their loving embrace of death.
There are between 5 and 8 million of the living dead in the USA, they have military type camps all over the nation, two for sure here in California. If concerned citizens complain about these camps( gun fire and bombs going off) they are branded "racist".  One thing always thrown out in front of believers is that there is violence in Scripture, particularly the Old Covenant,  and there is. Joshua( Yahshua) was told to go into the lands and kill everything that breathed, men women, children, animals. What most people don't know is that the people Joshua was told to kill were practicing human blood sacrifice, not unlike strapping a bomb on a person, blowing them up and celebrating in the street over death. These people sacrificed their children. This was unacceptable to our Father.
   It is time to stand up. Charles Martell did in 732, in 1683 the Polish King Jan Sobieski with an army of Polish , German and Austrian soldiers did, We are at a time in history where evil is rearing its head in full view of everyone and nothing is being done to stand up to it. Who has the courage to call evil.....well evil. It is time to stand up.