ISRAEL-LOVER since EKKLESIA ATE MY DESTINY I Decided Not to Wait for God to Make Me a Boot-Licker: “All Who Looked Down At Israel In Contempt Will Lick Her Boots.” (See Isaiah 60 MSG.) Thomas Pelham Gross: Copyright©2015 Bethesda Farms Introduction: “Ekklesia”, the Word That Ate My Destiny 1. People Pools Were Called ekklesia by Greeks Greeks could call “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” ekklesia. The conspiracy of the bride’s brothers who got together and pretended to teach the groom Greek words he “needed” to know for the wedding (but were teaching him vulgar words not suited to mixed company) also could be called ekklesia. The pooling, gathering, convening, assembling or congregating of two or three could be just as well called ekklesia as two or three million. 2. Example from the Bible And when Paul wanted to go in to the people, the disciples would not allow him. 31 Then some of the officials of Asia, who were his friends, sent to him pleading that he would not venture into the theater. 32 Some therefore cried one thing and some another, for the assembly (ekklesia) was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together. Acts 19:30-32 (NKJV) An Explanation from Greek Strong's Number: 1577 Greek Word: ekklhsia; Transliteration: ekklesia; Phonetic Pronunciation: ek-klay-see'-ah Root: from a compound of <G1537> {“ek”, meaning “out”} and a derivative of <G2564> {“kaleo”, meaning “called”} and so, simply, “called out”} Vines Words: Assembly, Congregation 1) a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly 1a) an assembly of the people convened at the public place of the council for the purpose of deliberating 1b) the assembly of the Israelites {in the Jewish Old Covenant which Yeshua came to fill full for the Jews with the Jewish New Covenant and UPON WHICH YESHUA ANNOUNCED HE WAS BUILDING HIS KINGDOM.} 1c) any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance, tumultuously —Strong's Greek & Hebrew Dictionary 3. EKKLESIA has had a hard run of it for some 5 centuries. It has been mistranslated, misused, and ab-used to misdirect, mistreat, and confuse. This ought not be so— especially using the Bible! Certainly, Yeshua never intended it when he applied it to his motley gathering of “Xs”: Ex-tax collector, ex-fishermen, and ex-castoffs. They were all religious misfits, following Yeshua around over Israel, hanging out to learn about the Kingdom of Heaven Yeshua said he was packing—and unpacking. But outwardly they were not breaking any fast-track discipleship records. They were more concerned about getting a high-titled place in the upcoming Kingdom in Israel. In fact, they had just been having a rather heated discussion among themselves which one deserved to be the greatest. This, when Yeshua was staring death in the face, and they were going to be forced to follow him in his resurrected, invisible body. Jesus is human, you know; so he must have been going, “Whooooooo—eeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! THIS is gonna be fun!” He couldn’t even hold their attention. “Who are the people gathered out there saying I am?” “Okay. Now who do you in here say I am?” Peter: “You are the Messiah-King of Israel, Son of David, Son of man, Son of the living God.” “WOW! Where did THAT come from? Not from flesh and blood; not from a human. “My Papa in Heaven revealed that to you, Peter.” Yeshua’s thinking, “ALL RIGHTTTTTT! That’s what I’m TALKING about! My Papa’s got a grip on Peter now by the Holy Most. And if Papa’s got him, he’s got my whole little crew. Hey! Hey! I’ve got global ekklesia out of Heaven going on here in my misfit ekklesia! I finally got ‘em where Papa could reach and get ‘em out of heaven—and just in the nick o’ time.” “Listen up, fellows; on your confession of this revelation, out of Heaven from my Papa of who I am and what I’m about, I am going to build my world-reaching, Israel-nation-centered, familykingdom gathering. But don’t tell it just yet—not until I’ve had time to take care of my little unfinished business in Jerusalem.” 4. What I Learned Could Help You. 1) WORK WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: 2) Searching The Scriptures and Letting Them Testify of Yeshua and What He’s About (with ‘aha’ moments flowing into streams of revelation). 3) Seeking First the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness. 4) Holding Sacred the Big Picture of God’s Redemptive Plan. 5) Considering Commentaries. 6) Letting God be True and Every Man a Liar—No Respect of Persons. 7) Loving and Seeking to Serve All; Trusting None but Yeshua. 8) Checking Hebrew and Greek Text for Accuracy and Honesty of Translations. 9) Considering Context of First Occurrence. 10) Considering Hebrew and Greek Idioms and Customs of the Times. 11) Considering The Septuagint. 12) Yielding Continuously to the Holy Spirit for Prophetic Meaning and Application. 13) Dealing Always Straightforwardly with the Word of Truth. 14) Persevering in LOVING Truth. 15) Staying out of Word-Battles. “You Shall NOT Fight in This Battle.” 16) Remembering a Slave of the Lord Shouldn’t Fight. 17) Staying Away from Stupid and Ignorant Controversies. 18) Being Kind and Gentle in Correcting. 19) Watching Out for Demonic Illusions and Professional Liars Dealing in Demon Doctrines. 20) Seeking Wisdom in Word Choices in Order NOT to Promote and Pass on Demons That Now Hide in and Behind Once-Good Words They have Now Corrupted and Polluted. A. "You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. John 5:39 (NKJV) B. Why do I persevere through it all? For the sake of those who have been chosen, so that they too may obtain the deliverance that comes through the Messiah Yeshua, with eternal glory. 11 Here is a statement you can trust: If we have died with him, we will also live with him. 12 If we persevere, we will also rule with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us. 13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself. 14 Keep reminding people of this, and charge them solemnly before the Lord not to engage in word-battles. They accomplish nothing useful and are a catastrophe for the hearers! C. Do all you can to present yourself to God as someone worthy of his approval, as a worker with no need to be ashamed, because he deals straightforwardly with the Word of the Truth. But keep away from godless babbling, for those who engage in it will only become more ungodly, and their teaching will eat away at people like gangrene. 2 Tim 2:15-17 (CJB) D. So, flee the passions of youth; and, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love and peace. 23 But stay away from stupid and ignorant controversies — you know that they lead to fights, 24 and a slave of the Lord shouldn’t fight. On the contrary, he should be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and not resentful when mistreated. 25 Also he should be gentle as he corrects his opponents. For God may perhaps grant them the opportunity to turn from their sins, acquire full knowledge of the truth, 26 come to their senses and escape the trap {think “conspiracy”} of the Adversary, after having been captured alive by him to do his will. 2 Tim 2:22-26 (CJB) E. But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron... 1 Tim 4:1-2 (NASB) F. The Spirit makes it clear that as time goes on, some are going to give up on the faith and chase after demonic illusions put forth by professional liars. 2 These liars have lied so well and for so long that they've lost their capacity for truth. 1 Tim 4:1-2 (MSG) 5. Humans and Their Isms—Been Around a Long Time With demonic illusions, professional liars not dealing straightforwardly with the Word of Truth, and stupid, arrogant controversies, should we be labeled paranoid when we’re on the lookout for spiritual conspiracies. Someone has said, “Just because you’re paranoid that they’re out to get you does not necessarily mean they’re not out to get you.” Humans have been prone to worship themselves—and what they come up with—ever since Eve and Adam turned their back of the Tree of Life to picnic under the KNOWLEDGE of good and evil tree apart from God and his revelation. Ever since. I promise you. Men LOVE their ideologies—make idols of them, worship and serve them, sometimes to the death. (We’ll see what lives after November 6, 2012.) Ideologies are concepts, paradigms, thought-track systems with pre-set bounds and goals not to be broken or yielded. Humans love coming up with something of their own to set out before others to manipulate their minds in that human’s chosen ideology or concept. The movement in that direction is what we term “humanism”. No other god required. THAT is god—so fall down—or back off, buddy. Doctrines of demons hanging all over the Ideologue (idiot-log) Tree. Any departure from an Israel-Centered Family-Governing Kingdom under Messiah-King Yeshua automatically drops its fruit in humanism’s philosophy bucket. If the one called “Adversary” can rip out one word of truth from the Scripture, and pot-plant his translation into the plug he pulled out, he has reinserted a seed of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil apart from the GodTree of Life. He is trying to get the jump on the New Jerusalem Eden headed down upon Israel from heaven. Jewish John already saw it—on the way coming. This pop-planter, seed-dropper is the Adversary that picked a dark night to broadcast weeds that were look-alike (think ‘knockoff’) wheat. He seeds a concept, waters and feeds it—waiting for his chance to take over the world-field forever. He threatened to cut off the head of the New Covenant Greek to English translator of “ekklesia” unless he cut out the truth-plug and inserted in its place the word he was ordered to put in the text. It was not an empty threat. He complied. Sad to say, translators since, who were under NO such threat, have carried on the practice—mainly for favor and popularity. One word. The elephant in the room. Nobody wants to talk about the elephant in the room. He’s got them squeezed against the wall—and he’s blocking the door. A demon doctrine directing thought traffic, NOT just against Israel; it’s bigger than Israel. He’s pushing his concept with a lock-tight paradigm AGAINST the Israel-centered, Yeshua-led Kingdom of Heaven coming on earth like it is in heaven. One word. Aintat a mess! And we all, like the dumb sheep he makes us, keep lining up to stick out head over in his little feed bucket to see what Israel-absent, nokingdom, instead-of Christ thought he wants to feed us next and now. So sad. One word; big elephant; little room. Blinded, stupid, ignorant, and I would say gutless—but I best not. Not nice. The invisible, controlling elephant concept squeezing and strangling the kingdom out of us. In case you are that 1 of a 1000 who will even CONSIDER talking about the one-word elephant that’s smothering the kingdom out of us, I have pulled out some scriptures for you to consider by the Holy Spirit to get TRUTH to pop the plastic, see-through ellie. Take your time. I am greatly indebted to David H. Stern for his DECADES of labor in producing The Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) and the accompanying Jewish New Testament Commentary which I ALWAYS consult and build on. No serious Bible student is without one—unless nobody has told them about it. Consider yourself told. Dr. Stern calls his Complete Jewish Bible a “version” rather than a translation. He details the reasons for it. For instance, he uses “executed on a stake” instead of “crucified” or “crucifixion”. “Executed on a stake” is not a pure literal translation but conveys the message in a way so as not to unnecessarily offend Jewish people who were slaughtered by the millions “under the sign of the cross” which makes them think Yeshua belongs to the gentiles who were out to massacre them. Result: “NO thanks! Not this time. Never again.” I am doing a similar thing with “ekklesia.” I am NOT translating it into English. I am NOT translating ekklesia into English in the pages below (or in other pages in this article or in other articles related to it). I am rendering the meaning of the word as per the 20 considerations above—plus the following: a. “Israel” has for generations in some circles been made out to be—would you believe it— something other than a Jewish nation. So you can’t just say “Israel” without adding the word “nation” or the twister will do his usual thing and make it a floating mirage of myriads of people—none Jewish. b. “Jesus” has been so long associated with a completely non-Jewish people, totally disconnected from Israel with no acceptance of his being Israel’s Messiah that it is needful to use his Hebrew name Yeshua (which his mother used to call him to dinner). c. Gentiles have sung every season for who knows how long, “Noel, Noel; Noel, Noel; born is the KING OF ISRAEL” and still do not own a clue (judging by their religious lifestyles and goals) that he IS the King of Israel—BORN TO BE—just like we sing! d. But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain." 7 "I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to Me, 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. 8 'Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Your possession. 9 'You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware .' " 10 Now therefore, O kings, show discernment; Take warning, O judges of the earth. 11 Worship the LORD with reverence And rejoice with trembling. 12 Do homage to the Son that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, For His wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him! {Israel is the Firstborn son. Yeshua is the only born-of-woman Son, ONE with and filling full the Firstborn. You can NOT separate them: try it at your own peril.} Psalms 2:6-12 (NASB) God could well be talking about Firstborn Israel: Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed , saying, 3 "Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!" 4 He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them. 5 Then He will speak to them in His anger and terrify them in His fury, saying... (See above paragraph.) Psalms 2:1-5 (NASB) If he were talking about Yeshua, the son of David, apart from Israel and King David of Israel at the time, why did he say, “Let us tear THEIR fetters apart, etc.”, rather than HIS fetters and HIS cords? King David was “anointed” as King of Israel. Does “their” refer to the people of Israel under David? Why would anyone “of the nations” that are in such an uproar presume to think God would “give them the nations for their inheritance”? UNLESS they were quite involved in a conspiracy to shut out Israel and replace her and her Messiah Yeshua with a “knockoff”, non-Jewish “personal savior jesus” and a “knockoff” kingdom nowhere about Israel but floating like an untethered balloon and rubbing clouds with the god of this world’s second heaven? e. Yes, Israel is a nation, but Israel is not only a nation,; Israel is also a family—of Abraham, from whom Yeshua comes. Therefore, Israel is Yeshua’s family. The Kingdom of Heaven is a Family Dynasty Nation with Earth headquarters down on the ground in Jerusalem Israel. The Messiah King has a Father Dome over him on earth and his family rests and loves with him in the ambiance of the Dome—the King’s Dome, from which he, along with his family, “Dome-inates” all creation—from Zion, Israel. 6. EVERY Instance in Which “EKKLESIA” is used in Israel’s New Covenant Scriptures— the New Covenant God Promised Israel Through Israel’s Prophet Jeremiah for Israel to Fulfill her Destiny through Her Messiah-King Yeshua. Per Reasons Given Above, where ekklesia occurs in the text, I have inserted “Messiah-King Yeshua’s Israel-nationcentered, family-kingdom gathering” except in the first use of it by Yeshua in Matthew 16:18. (Note that “ekklesia” is NOT used in Mark, Luke, or John and only on these 2 occasions in Matthew. Yeshua was, has been, is, and always shall be locked directly and straight into Kingdom. NO MIDDLE MENTAL INSTITUTION required or allowed. As you flow through the context of all these Scriptures, you will sense the unbroken continuity of Kingdom focus and building—always including and around Yeshua IN ISRAEL as her King and King’s-Dome Groom.) Church is not the building – Even with a steeple But the best news is – Church is NOT the people By the Holy Spirit Churchers Break Free to Build KINGDOM! “Free at last, free at last; Thank God ALMIGHTY, I’m free at Last.” Dr. Martin Luther King I was in Memphis TN that night – with a fully integrated group. For a fly-through of my life, visit www.amazon.com, Author’s Biography: Thomas Pelham Gross. I’ll add to that. But why have I spent the last decade writing to express from Scripture Israel’s place in God’s plan, and expose from the Bible that church is really Babylon wearing a mask, a humanistic mask, thus making church a masquerader? I have answered that here and there in 20 books, YouTube clips, and numerous articles. Here, I have put together in ‘a book of the books’ previews of all my books. This one thing I have learned the hard way in sharing my experience for 13 years. Israel’s place in Papa’s Heart HAS TO BE EXPERIENCED by the Holy Spirit of revelation. That is, it is INSPIRATIONALLY, not INFORMATIONAL. IT IS ABSOLUTELY UNTAPPABLE, UNREACHABLE, UNTOUCHABLE AND UNAVAILABLE TO EVERY HUMAN HUNTING IT INFORMATIONALLY. YOU WON’T GET THE MYSTERY OPENED TO YOU HEADFIRST—ONLY HEART-FIRST. Information can let you KNOW HOW GOD CARES for Israel. From there it’s up to you. Remember the Script in the title: “All Who Looked Down At Israel In Contempt Will Lick Her Boots.” (See Isaiah 60 MSG.) I pray and trust that what Dr. Daniel Juster said about my book, Israel’s Holocaust and Resurrection may be truthfully said of all these writings. He said, “This is very good. I was quite taken with the depth of it. Real love, justice, judgment, salvation without humanistic sentimentality. IT COULD WAKE PEOPLE UP. Bravo.” Emphasis is mine. Do you think being spiritually awake nowadays is a good thing? What with all that’s erupting and corrupting about us? Most sleep—then die. If I have done nothing beyond a wake up, I’m content: “If I have helped somebody as I passed along, then my living has not been in vain.” This books-gathering appears to be my last—at 86 and facing many challenges. But not what I will, Papa; yours all the way to the end. I am publishing it at the lowest price allowed on Kindle. I have no provision to publish beyond that. I’ve never seen a book set up like this one. It aims to give you a big-picture of my entire library. (There are writings on my website WWW.ISRAELHEARTBEAT.COM that are not included in any of these books.) The books are first listed by titles only – in no particular order except those in a series; they are in numerical order in the series, while being stand-alones. The idea is that you look at the titles and let the Holy Spirit pick out one for you to check out. Then comes another listing in the same order; but with chapter headings and a few pages – usually the introduction. On Kindle http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Pelham-Gross/e/B002KYH2OQ books in a series have the same cover picture. Four are also in paperback. Aha! That “This is it”, satisfying ‘aha’ moment eluded me as I studied (my wife says I don’t read it) “The Tasty Buds Restaurant” menu for the first time. Then I saw it: ‘Sample Platter’. AHA! This is it. But back to here from the eatery there, one needs to read the Pelham’s Bunch* menu of book titles. Take your time through the titles first, then chapters or quotes from each. You will find your own ‘aha’, depending on where you are in your EKKLESIA or ISRAEL perspective. (EKKLESIA belongs with ISRAEL, not with church.) Then place your order with www.amazon.com and ask for waiter ‘Thomas Pelham Gross’ in Kindle Books. Seriously, he is most honored to serve you. *Pelham’s Bunch is a name given in derogatory contempt to those of us who broke away from a true-move-of-God-turned-cult back in the Seventies. ‘THOMAS PELHAM GROSS’ BOOK TITLES AS OF 5-5-15 A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. Lovechild Forever: Flying High-Wide and Lonesome on a Special Assignment Israel's Holocaust AND RESURRECTION: A Devotional Reader on the Last Days The Church Has NOT Replaced God's Israel: Putting Israel Back in the Picture Candle Clutchers in the Nations: Beacon-Beaming Israelighters Breaking Up the Baddest Bastards of Babylon God's Israel First, Getting Us Out of Paleville's Babylon-Built, Bastard-Bucket Church Religion: Pop's Edgy, Erotic Poems, Stories & Stuff In Defense of MESSIANIC Israel, The Nation God Owns NOW: A Response to the Lie that Yeshua Did Not Come as Israel's Messiah God's Israel Trumps Church-Sacred Cows Like 'Soul Winning': Big Diff in Winning Souls and Making Disciples in God's Israel-Centered Kingdom on Earth Israel Under Fire, UFOs, EMP, Aliens, DNA & Inter-Hyperdimensionality: Hello Goshen in the Nations; Israel's Got a Problem Papa Comes To Church Wearing Messiah Yeshua’s Reborn Israel As His Wife? Now What Do We Do! THE FOLLOWING ARE IN THE SERIES: “KINGDOM DISPLACES CHURCH (WHICH TRIED TO REPLACE KINGDOM):” #1 Israel Displaces Church – 21st Century’s Most Controversial Read: 22 Reasons That Church Was Never God’s Plan A for Bringing in His One-New-Man on Earth K. #2 YOU COULD BE A CHURCHNECK: Confessions of A Church Addict -- Century 21's Most Controversial Read Continues L. #3 Excuse Me Lady, May I Have Your Dragon’s Last Dance? Lady Shulami And Midwife Jezzi: 21st Century’s Most Controversial Read Continues M. #4 LOOK PAPA! NO MORE CHOKEHOLD! I AM Now Free to Finish Your Kingdom Here on Earth! N. #5 Don't Let Israel-Ignorant Oppressors KEEP ON: Using God's Finest Like They Were Cheese on a Mousetrap J. THE FOLLOWING ARE IN THE SERIES: “MYSTERY-BRED MANNA.” O. P. Q. R. S. T. #1 How Abraham Went for Broke and Changed the World: Abraham's Nation-Israel is the Hope of the Nations #2 ISRAEL FRUIT but DON'T Eat The Peelings: Fruit of Heaven-On-Earth Grows on the Israel Olive Tree #3 “It’s the Messianics, Stupid”: Papa Likes Her Like That -- Israel for His Wife #4 Israel Cousins Win in the End: Sweet Baby Revenge; But It Was Not About Israel #5 Only A Truth Lover Can Survive: Global Tsunamis Now Raging into a Supernatural Swirling Converging Vortex Around Jerusalem #6 ISRAEL THE WOMAN OF THE YEAR: Some Call 2011 "The Year of the Woman" END OF SERIES You Don’t Have to ‘Do Church’ to Please God: How Dare You Hypocrites Preach Everything Under The Sun And Not Give A Rip About My Getting My Son Ruling As My King Over My Nation Israel From My Throne In My City Jerusalem On My Dirt On My Mount Zion? V. If You Are Jewish, This Gentile Thanks You: Next Year in Jerusalem? W. Dancing In The Moonlight With The Shulammite: Messiah Yeshua Has Freed Us For Freedom! U. NOW ‘THOMAS PELHAM GROSS’ SERVES UP HIS SAMPLE PLATTER A. LOVECHILD FOREVER: FLYING HIGH-WIDE AND LONESOME ON A SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT After a decade of diligent digging, Jeremiah and crew set aside pickaxe and digging tools. They all saluted and chanted “Yougo Girl”, “Yougo Girl”, “Yougo Girl” until she stepped from the back of Hope Shed where workers had finally found and freed her. She showed she got her gait back, and then some, as she strode right out through them. Every step shouted “Princess!” Worth all their sweat, she was! Her uniform hid nothing of what had made her a beauty queen. The world’s best surgeons had replaced the leg she lost in Operation Cast Lead. Her walk spelled “Queen Coming” with every step. She had all her confidence back. Her teasy, somewhat-but-not-too-sensuous smile, rang heart bells long silent. Loud-bold but not brash; dignified but not aloof; assured but not aggressive or arrogant; in charge without overlord. Here among her family she was in fullbloomed presence, flushed and gushing life—without being sexually lusty. Pulling eye-balls like a steel magnet pulls crumbs as she sauntered forth. Her face held headlights, fire-dancing, set smoothly in soft moonlight, glowing-bright. All features as fresh and lush as dew-drenched clover in early spring. Her perfume, Shullah Essence. Coal black curls played sneak-a-peak from under her cap. Even the tools used to free her, now laid to the side in Hope Shed, knew she was theirs forever. They were surely hers for that long, always at her beck and pick. On her way to work. Daughter of Jephthah, Dynah (“Dee”) Mite… Across town, her best-buddy-pilot ‘Jay’ punched Shaw’s phone number as he swung into the plant entrance. No answer. He left a message: “Gotta cancel on you, big brother. Sorry; I’ll explain later.” He held out his work tags to Michael, standing outside the Guard Post. Mike nodded, stepped back, bowed and gave Jay a big wave-through like he was flagging jets on a carrier. Jay pulled into his regular parking slot and trotted toward Bay 6. Haysu looked up and did a break dance move. “Man, you look good today!” he joked. “Shaw didn’t show this morning and I need a crew chief wors’n a damned terrorist needs killing.” “That’s pretty bad,” Jay grinned. “You know the drill. You’ve covered for Shaw before. Will he ever grow up, Jay?” “Oh yeah, he’ll make it”, Jay said, adding under his breath, “He’s got to; he’s my brother.” All week they were secretly loading DUKE6 for scheduled liftoff. Loaders were behind when Jay took over as shift foreman. He sent each driver a gallon of water and an empty gallon jar with a scribbled smiley-face note: “Pee in the empty but don’t quit loading. We gotta git ‘er done! J.” 4:00 PM. Jon has an emergency, signals Jay and drives the forklift over. Jay hops on and wheels it. Jon is back in 10 minutes, fully relieved and ready to rumble. Jay jumps down and lets him. By shift change, Shaw’s Team was caught up. Jay took a deep breath and headed outta The Barn, sweaty and bone-tired. He walked into the house, pulled a big Cream Soda outta the fridge, and dropped into his chair. News time. He clicked just in time to hear: “This is Shepard Smith with a Late Breaking News Bulletin. A JetWay plane has just crashed and exploded. We’re waiting for details.” “JetWay?” Jay’s tiredness gave way to a sick feeling in his gut…. http://www.amazon.com/Lovechild-Forever-High-Wide-Lonesome-Assignmentebook/dp/B007QWXOVM/ref=la_B002KYH2OQ_1_22?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430925830 &sr=1-22 B. ISRAEL'S HOLOCAUST AND RESURRECTION: A DEVOTIONAL READER ON THE LAST DAYS Devotionals “The one thing I ask of the LORD— the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, delighting in the LORD's perfections and meditating in his Temple. For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock. Then I will hold my head high, above my enemies who surround me. At his Tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts ofjoy, singing and praising the LORD with music” (Psa 27:4-6 NLT). Book on a Page: I AM the Resurrection Section A: Getting Ready for the Read Dan Did It! Then There Shall be Great Tribulation Please Read, Then Proceed Three Couriers Came—First a Jew Dedication Page: Here Come the Locktights Special Appreciation Foreword: Why a Devotional Reader? Introduction: Too Good to Be True Section B: One Thinking Revolution 1. Define the Indefinable? 2. Backdrop for Revolution Thinking 3. Pro-Semitic Thinking 4. Snapshots 5. Seeing Regulates Thinking 6. Robert Oldmind’s Thinking 7. Faith Thoughts—Part 1 8. Faith Thoughts—Part 2 9. “God is BIG!” Thoughts 10. How a Mystery Unfolds 11. “Who Me?” 12. Two-Realm Thinking 13. Re-thinking What Jesus Came to Do 14. Treasure Hunt Thinking 15. Satan and Suffering 16. How God Loves Justice Section C: Fresh-Thinking God and the Jews 17. Thinking Through Pain 18. “Impossible” Thinking 19. Jesus’ Holocaust (Art Katz Cont.) 20. The Work of the Holy Spirit 21. Oh God! An Epiphany Please! 22. Holocausts—Side by Side 23. Nation or Notion? 24. Four Forevers and One Everlasting 25. Gentle and Ruthless—Side by Side 26. Adam Sold God Down the River 27. W-a-s-t-e-r Works for M-a-s-t-e-r—Part 1 28. W-a-s-t-e-r Works for M-a-s-t-e-r—Part 2 29. Why Put Israel in All This? 30. It Is a Mystery 31. Israel Missed Her Moses 32. Last Day Scriptures—Part 1 33. Last Day Scriptures—Part 2 34. A Last Days’ Overview 35. Passionate First-Love Rekindled 36. From Job to James to Gamliel Section D: Resurrection Thinking 37. Is God Out to Kill Us All? 38. Different Forms of Life 39. God Loves This Low-Life World 40. The Holocaust—One Last Time 41. Learning Our Lesson 42. God’s Government Keeps Coming 43. The Voice Calls 44. Israel Comeback Reminder 45. Lazarus’ Kingdom Call 46. We Have an Emergency! 47. Restoration of Israel 48. Disaster-Handling Faith 49. Appreciate Israel 50. Our Father in Heaven 51. Resurrection Today 52. Heidi Baker Goes Where? 53. God’s Gauntlet to Gentiles 54. I Will Rejoice! 55. Divine Decoys Carry On Hey We Made it—and I Thank You! About The Author Plowing The Plumbline Book on a Page: “I AM the Resurrection and the Life.” No thing, no entity, no body ever truly solved or saved outside this Passage Way. Nation Israel’s acceptance of Resurrection will be Life from the dead for the world. When Nation Israel rises up again, she brings with her the whole world. It is not recorded that God ever said that, or caused that to be said or written—about any other nation or people group. Only about Nation Israel. God has chosen to salvage humanity through Resurrection. How else? When all have sinned, the wages of sin is death, and the whole creation lies in darkness of death? How else? God resurrects Jesus and makes him to be Resurrection to live in cooperating persons by the Holy Spirit in order to salvage Israel from among the nationsin order to save the nations in order to save the planets in order to save the galaxies to save creation. A very orderly process—set by God. Untold whole civilizations have gone bust trying to change it. Now it’s your turn. You want to mess with it? Listen. (I hear someone yelling out from the crowd of readers): “Instead of messing with God’s order, why don’t we all cooperate into it, focus on getting Nation Israel Resurrected and get on with the process?” Would you take that question please? That’s the book on one page. Hopefully, the 55 meditations throw a little light into this ongoing orderly process and how to give yourself into it—if you so choose. There’s always that free will choice we all recognize. C. THE CHURCH HAS NOT REPLACED GOD'S ISRAEL: PUTTING ISRAEL BACK IN THE PICTURE “While nations and religions shake with rage, BUT I’ll remarry Israel at center stage. Whoever is seeking first my kingdom may come.” This Book is dedicated to PETER LOTH, a Holocaust survivor, born in Stutthof, Poland's death camp. Peter, I dedicate The Church Has Not Replaced God’s Israel to you, along with your faithful wife Valerie, children, family and all survivor families. We are blessed indeed to honor you. Heaven forever forged you into our hearts. We love you. Pelham and DeDe. You may meet “Brother Forgiveness” on www.forerunnerministries.org. Explanations: Yeshua is Hebrew for Jesus in English; Adonai is Hebrew for Lord. He is the Messiah of Israel. Messianics are Jews who have come to experience Yeshua of Nazareth as their Messiah. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Church Has Not Replaced God’s Israel: Putting Israel Back In The Picture Introduction: Get the Big Picture First Part I: Immersed Into Israel’s Messiah Chapter 1: Theology? Chapter 2: Same Jesus, Different Box Chapter 3: When a Forerunner Runs Chapter 4: Immersed is Good Chapter 5: Christians, Come Home Chapter 6: The Revelation is Upon Us Part II: Where Did This “Gospel” Come From? Chapter 7: Black Light Divided Us Chapter 8: Exposing This Black Darkness Part III: Re-immersed Into Israel’s Messiah Chapter 9: Put Israel Back In Chapter 10: Count the Christians In Chapter 11: Why Did Jesus Die? Chapter 12: Can You Love too Early? Chapter 13: Common-care Love Chapter 14: Love on in—Blood Deep Chapter 15: Anybody Got a Plan? Chapter 16: Loving-in-the-Gap Intercession Part IV: Kingdom Gospel Vs. A Different Gospel Chapter 17: Are You Ready for Kingdom Hurry-up? Chapter 18: DeDe is Back from Israel Chapter 19: It’s Testing Time Chapter 20: Elijah’s Highway Chapter 21: Traveling Elijah’s Highway Chapter 22: Traveling on Leap-out Faith Chapter 23: Traveling to Israel (Rapture) Chapter 24: They Threw Him Out of His Vineyard After Hurricane Katrina INTRODUCTION: Get the Big Picture First Church Forgot In The Church Has Not Replaced God’s Israel I’m seeing the reason we as church people experience so little of God’s fullness, so few of his outlandish miracles—and what we, the church, can do about it. I understand that any old donkey can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. It seems the church forgot our Carpenter is a Jew. That could be why we're missing the presence many of us are longing for—the presence that does what the real Jew—Jesus—did, does, and sends his people to do: establish a government on healing the sick, raising the dead, cleansing lepers, and driving out demons. Freely you have received, freely give (Matt. 10:8). I noticed Matthew 10:5–7 too. These twelve (all Jews) Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’” We know about the “go ye” in Matthew 28, but somehow we have disconnected from the Matthew 10 message of the kingdom. Why? We’ll be looking for an answer. Church Sputtering Power-wise, we have to admit the Western church is running on fumes; miracles are few. Fullness-of-the-Gentiles work is in full swing elsewhere in the believing world with Matthew 10 activity going on while we Western believers are mostly longing spectators. I’m not seeing the dead raised and miracles flowing, so I have concluded church change is not an option; that the only solution is church revolution. When we lost our Jewish connection, we got some bad gas in our church tank. We're just sputtering along. Could our jesus be an “other” jesus? Part I points out that we all have some form of theology and begins looking at the good, bad— and yes—the really ugly. It rolls out a good forerunner who ran for nothing because he didn’t run with the full message that had to be delivered. Then we look at the Word of God to see how good it is to be immersed into the real Jesus, the one born in Israel, who died in Israel, broke out of his grave in Israel, is coming back to Israel, and coming back to us because of Israel. We’ll see how Christianity and the church are undergoing radical transformation from the inside out to “change the understanding and expression of Christianity in one generation,” as God spoke to Mike Bickle in 1982. Also in this part, John, apostle of love, lights the way home to our Father. Part II deals with the ugly in detail: that nasty replacement theology. In May 2002, I saw clearly this disconnection—the church-unhook—saw it from the Word of God—by the Spirit of God through a man of God, Messianic (Jews who believe in Jesus Christ of Nazareth) Jewish Rabbi Jerry Feldman in his Shalom Emporium. I came to understand we had been diverted into that “other gospel” Paul warned about. It’s scary to see clearly how many other-jesus crooks are clawing for our souls. The church has to go back through the real Jewish Jesus to the Father’s first-love—Israel. I understand that Yeshua, the resurrected Jew, and His Father are one in their connection and lockdown with nation-Israel. It's a mystery unraveling. “The church replaced Israel” line of thinking trapped and wrapped us 1600 years ago into our present disconnected condition. It was not our fault; we had it done to us. We didn’t birth it. True, it is not ours, so we don't have to keep it. It's long past time to switch off the black-light theology that split us from our Jewish roots, it is time to kill demon-induced killer-theology, and get grafted back into the nation of Israel. How can this be? Part III offers an answer. Part III hooks us back to where we used to be—as a church—immerses us back into Israel. “Why did Jesus really die?” Check that out closely. We once-aliens (Gentile Christians) are the have-nots who now get a pay-back chance to love the Jewish people and nation into their Godgiven destiny of blessing all nations, including Arab nations, through their Messiah. Who understands God's practical plan for Gentile Christians to pay back Jewish believers? The church gets immersed back into Israel for God’s government, one that brings justice, righteousness, peace, love, and family rule. Part IV finds us at the crossroads with a challenge of an earth-time. Which fork of the times will we take? Will we hold onto the “other” jesus who is a church crook, and continue on with another gospel? Or, will we pursue with passion the Jesus called Yeshua, Israel’s Messiah, the King of the Jews, the kingdom builder; he who heals the sick, cleanses lepers, raises the dead, and casts out demons? Will we hang onto the religious-junkie jesus, or will we repent and turn back to the real Jesus and break free with this resurrected Jew? Leap-out faith says, “Jump through this Jerusalem gate with us, the once-heathen, once-alien Gentiles. Join us at the Jesus gate for your entrance into Jerusalem. Be an active participant in the world being raised from the dead.” Then what about the rapture? Is its destination heaven? Or, is it a supernatural rally to move troops into Israel on the end-time stage? Then we face the question: “Did our church fathers throw Jesus out of his own national Jewish vineyard to steal his family inheritance?” Study it anew with a Jesus-Jew view. Church and Kingdom To me, kingdom and church do not mean the same thing. The focus in The Church Has Not Replaced God’s Israel is forever kingdom. It is critical to keep this in mind, cover to cover: I make a clear distinction between kingdom and church. If you think this is blasphemy or nitpicking, look prayerfully at the scriptures under the influence of the Spirit. It’s in the scriptures, but we missed it. This whole book is kingdom focused—not church focused, nor individual focused. Keep this uppermost in your thinking, or you’ll be hunting me with the hounds. As I see it, some kingdom workings are in all believers and some in the church corporately. I take that for granted. Our challenge lies in seeing the purpose of these kingdom workings in the believer, in the church, and how God’s plan moves from believer in the church toward kingdom fullness, toward flipping the ages over into full-blown kingdom age, moving us from the first Adam (fallen age) to the last Adam (kingdom age), and establishing the government of God on earth forever. Matthew 6:33 is my compass. Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. That and nothing else. You can figure out what not to put first. D. CANDLE CLUTCHERS IN THE NATIONS: BEACON-BEAMING ISRAELIGHTERS BREAKING UP THE BADDEST BASTARDS OF BABYLON [Credit: “Candle Clutchers” has been expanded to include material from Thomas Pelham Gross’ “church CHOKEHOLD broken”, “Israel Reborn”, “What in This World has Israel Got to do with Me?”, “’Know Someone Jewish?”, “The Buck Stops Here” and “Shut that Dog Track Down” – most of which may be read on www.israelheartbeat.com.] SCANNING THE ‘SCAPE SECTION 1: Beacon Beamers Part 1: It Would Have Been Better Part 2: If You Knew, Would You Tell a Jew? Part 3: Keep Contending Earnestly for THE Faith SECTION 2: Israel Reborn from Street 101 Part 4: Caution Calls Part 5: Oh Brother! Part 6: “Killed” & Still Coming On Part 7: I Didn’t Know I Was Making an Idol Part 8: Getting Past the Idols Part 9: Street 101 Part 10: The Coming Physical Attraction Part 11: Our Bad: “Now Deal With It!” Part 12: When Chickens Fly Part 13: Scriptures for Your Convenience Part 14: Shut That Dog Track Down (Formerly “What Has Israel Got to do With Me?) SECTION III: The Buck Stops Here in Israel… Part 15: …Along with the Cow AND All the Bull – spit Part 16: Other Scriptures Revealing Jesus as Israel’s Messiah (in spite of the “Hagee Heresy”) Part 17: The Cow and Her Keepers SECTION I: Beacon Beamers Introduction: Israel’s Unbreakable Land Covenant This Israel thing is not about Israel. “I am bringing you back, but not because you deserve it.” “I am not doing this because you deserve it. O my people of Israel!” “On the rock of this confessed revelation from My Father, I will build Our IsraelCentered family kingdom and defend Our reputation.” “My Father will send me back to earth bodily ONLY when Israel calls me back by My Messianic Name Yeshua.” “And when I bring you (Israel) back, people will say, ‘This former wasteland is now like the Garden of Eden! I, the LORD, have spoken, and I WILL DO what I say.” (From Isaiah 25, 53, 57, 62, 66; Matthew 16, John 14, etc.) Then he said to him (Abraham), “I am ADONAI, who brought you out from Ur-Kasdim to give you this land as your possession.” 8 He replied, “ADONAI, God, how am I to know that I will possess it?” 9 He answered him, “Bring me… 10 He brought him all these, cut the animals in two and placed the pieces opposite each other; but he didn’t cut the birds in half…. 12 As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell on Avram; horror and great darkness came over him…. 17 After the sun had set and there was thick darkness, a smoking fire pot (Father God) and a flaming torch (Yeshua) appeared, which passed between these animal parts. 18 That day ADONAI made a covenant with Avram: “I have given this land to your descendants… (Gen 15 CJB) Father God (smoking fire) would keep His side of the covenant. Abraham’s (opposite) side of the covenant would be kept by Son-of-God/son-of-David Yeshua (flaming torch) because Abraham and descendants would not be able to keep it. This way the full covenant would be truly kept completely, thus assuring that the Land would be Israel’s FOREVER. (Gen. 13:15; 48:4, Exodus 32:13, Deut. 4:40, Joshua 14:9, I Chron. 28:8, Isa. 60:21, Jer. 7:7; 25:5, Ez. 37:25. Part 1: It Would Have Been Better Candle clutchers carry the burning candle until they see “The Way.” They WILL see The Way – Israel will. God-Guaranteed. It would have been much better for all of us, Jew and Non-Jew alike, if the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel had not started “church.” That’s why he didn’t. ‘Didn’t need it. It is demon-bred, demon-born, demon-run and demon-torn. Roman Catholic Church – and all church thereafter of any name or description. When the protestors left and formed Protestant churches, the demons divided up and some demons rode out of Rome on the heads of EACH AND EVERY PROTESTANT. They took over rulership as soon as groups organized. Demonized. The Roman mama whore and all her run-wild daughters of dead religion. 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus… (Rev 17:5-7) From that time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, “Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom (not church) of Heaven is near!” (Matt 4:17 CJB [Complete Jewish Bible]) There is no substitute for the kingdom of heaven – for the gospel, the good news, of the kingdom of heaven and for her instructions of truth. Yeshua spoke her Wisdom, “You, therefore, pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven! May your Name be kept holy.10 May your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven.” (Matt 6:9-10 CJB) But first, about this candle. Not your ordinary – and not shining ordinarily in an ordinary location. And certainly not carried by ordinary people. Unique, these carriers. Called, chosen, faithful. This candle light is unquenchable, pulled and driven by an unstoppable Force. This candle is special-made to break-dark where dark has determined to dwell forever. This is the candle about which it is said that the gates of hades shall not overcome it. Dark so tight it chokes, so blinding it smothers. It falls back before no light other than that given off by this candle carried by warriors like no others. This candle is a weapon crafted to pierce, part and shatter – so God-light breaks eternal for all humankind. Her light lazer-cuts through would-be snuffers of all rank and order for light to burn further and brighter. But who keeps on gripping and living with these piercing candle-weapons? Carrier or Clutcher? “Until They See ‘The Way’”. The difference in a carrier and a clutcher is “until.” Carriers will, on occasion find good excuse to lay their candle to the side; not clutchers. They KNOW the price others paid – Jews in particular – for the candle; they KNOW the price others will pay – Israel in particular – if they loosen their grip for ANY reason. So the clutchers love Jewish Yeshua and his Jewish family until their gentile life melts over into their candle. Happily, sacrificially – never artificially – shining payback Love-light to Papa’s Jewish household. Grafted in and shining. Adopted into and thankfully shining. No lay down. No put down. No lies and no compromise -- Until Israel Sees “The Way". Part 2: If You Knew, Would You Tell a Jew? A. Remove the Stumblingblock from the Way of My People A. Isaiah 57:13-15 Orthodox Jewish Bible (Orthodox Jewish Bible -- OJB): 13 When thou criest for help, let thy [idol] kibutzim (heaps, collections) save thee; but the ruach shall carry them all away; hevel shall take them; but he that putteth his trust in Me shall inherit eretz, and shall inherit My Har Kodesh; 14 And shall say, Build ye [a road], build ye [a road], prepare the Derech, remove the michshol (stumblingblock, obstacle) from the Derech Ami (the Way, Road of My People). 15 For thus saith the High and Exalted, Shokhen Ad (the One Who abideth forever, i.e., the Shekhinah) Kadosh Shmo; I dwell in marom v’kadosh (the high and holy place), with him also that is of a contrite and lowly ruach, to revive the ruach of the shefalim (humble, lowly ones) and to revive the lev nidka’im (contrite of heart). Isaiah 57:13-15 Complete Jewish Bible -- CJB): “But whoever takes refuge in me will possess the land and inherit my holy mountain… Keep building! Keep building! Clear the way! Remove everything blocking my people’s path! I live in the high and holy place but also with the broken and humble, in order to revive the spirit of the humble and revive the hearts of the broken ones.“ E. GOD'S ISRAEL FIRST, GETTING US OUT OF PALEVILLE'S BABYLONBUILT, BASTARD-BUCKET CHURCH RELIGION: POP'S EDGY, EROTIC POEMS, STORIES & STUFF (IMPORTANT NOTE: This was first published as ‘Pop’s Poem Lite’ so you will see these words used instead of the above title.) Contents Don’t you just LOVE “The Shack” by William P. Young! I read it through—and over. A First-Word Apostolic Call Out Introduction: Hanging Out Love #1. Bareback’n #2. Riding Double on the Rainbow #3. Naked and Raw #4. The Eagle and The Dove #5. The Wild Child #6. Morning Musings #7. Sweet Blossom #8. Real Eyes #9. One Dumb Sucker #10. The Final Solution #11. I Got Carried Away! #12. Where’d Dat Dark Go? #13. The Wilderness Song #14. Singing Love 3:16 to Children #15. Love Shines Through #16. The Man Has Come to Town #17. Take a Chance on Love #18. Sweet Baby “Little Child” #19. Friend of Mine #20. The Posse Rides #21. Satisfied Blues #22. They Kissed—and... #23. Dancing in Her Feet #24. Seventh Street Hurt #25. Mountain Mama Moaned on Down #26. Burning Man Rides #27. This Train’s on a Runaway Track #28. Love Labors Long #29. You Smelled the Coffee Yet? #30. She Was a Hooker #31. Oh the Kingdom is Here #32. This Horse is Made for Walking #33. Shackytown Woman After-Talk Pelham’s Personal Apostolic Callout #34. Scattered Body Parts Gusher Prophecies #35. Now I’ve Got a Brand New Family A First-Word Mind WIND-blown? If you’re running half-past late, ‘better you—do—a skip-to-my-Lou—and come back to this one at suppertime. Too bad though. The roses smell great—but, hurry; you don’t want to be late. Sniff sniff. A WORD-PREYlewd -- PRO-LOGUEing in -- A friend -- Pre-view -- 4-u -- Please do – Read -1st, not fast – MANnotKIND – MADNESS -- Building up de fences -- Man sins -- God de-sins -Lands YESHUA -- BingOH! – MANsKIND –Again -- Defenses gone -- Airborne Love – Again -Gone fishing, BABY – People – Treasure – Hidden – Mysteries -- Manna fresh -- Joy full – Peace – Plenty-- Hmmm hummmm – GOOD -- PAPA’S house -- ALL to gather now – Love – BIG – One -- G-O-ne -- D-O-ne – ALL – New – forever. Meanwhile, back on the (rose) farm. Welcome to Pelham’s world of outlandish poetry. My writing instructor—yes, I did have one, thank you very much! ONE. As I was about to say, my teacher dissed poetry sumpin fierce: “Do NOT turn in poetry to me. NO poetry!” Granted. It can get as corny as grandpa’s crib, but then fun is like ice cream. Don’t you find? Lots of flavors. So I still write it. Sorry, Prof. One flavor of my fun. Maybe you’ll find a little fun in here. Hope so. Poem Lite. ‘Have to spot you though. She’s a little heavy on the front side, but that’s not ALWAYS bad (or silicone wouldn’t be in such high demand). Anyway, many outstanding, dependable, capable, and Godly leaders, mostly secular, are saying, “If you’re not worried now, you just don’t know what’s going on!” Poem Lite seeks to speak into this from a positive, Papa perspective. So stay on track and read yourself happy. She’s a Windy-winding trail. Ride her out. We really are headed somewhere good. Apostolic Call Out Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues, 5 because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes. 6 Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her. 7 As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, 'I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!' 8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: death, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!" Rev 18:4-8 (NET) From reading that I gather God, because he IS Love, could put up with, fairly well, a lot of man’s stuff—but—when it piled up all the way to block his window on the world? Well, as one has said, “He had had it up to here!” When Jerusalem became Babylon, Israel became Babylon, and church became Babylon? WAY too much Babylon! Paleville bucket-religion every way he looked. So God put out his messenger with a simple message: come out! What do I then do? I come out. While I’ve got some mind left, I stand before Him in absolute awe, with utmost respect. Some would rightly say, “In fear and trembling.” Expectantly “I will wait all the days of my life for my change to come. You will call, and I will answer you...” Job 14:14-15 (CJB) Here’s a reason God is so fed up—and a reason I’m all right with God making me just as fed up as he is, same fed-up. ‘Has to do with Love—His Love. Hanging out Love. Introduction: Hanging Out Love THIS is not religion; it is not show biz—It’s all about LOVE; that’s what it is All about love till the blood ran down—About this love coming to your town It’s about love with spit in your face—while tears run down to mix it with grace It’s about love when the whips cutting meat—When the hammer’s pounding nails in your feet It’s about love when you’re dying like a thief—Wracked with pain and your family in grief It’s about love looking at your mother—And having to turn and give her to another It’s all about a cross that they dropped in a hole—And praying for the ones who jarred your soul It’s about your church leaders, cold-hearted stones—Delighted for a soldier to break your bones The soldier said no; he’s dead already—And he jammed a spear up through his belly Some said his heart was broken; I don’t doubt—This has to be what Love’s about The blood of God seeping into sand—Oh what God-love for man! Come on together; lay differences down—Remembering when heaven soaked the ground Let him soak us now since blood’s turned to love—As the Spirit lands, smooth as a dove You’re part of this love that just won’t quit—You heard talk of love? Well, this is it. All roads lead to Jesus; he’s the Way—One with our Father to glorify your clay The High Way to heaven, dropping on down—Shining with love and running through town Touch-time is here; let your heart reach out—Touching him’s what love is all about First touch Jesus; then touch another—Soon everyone you touch looks like your brother (or your sister, son, daughter, father or mother) Then you’ll understand how Jesus could say—Do my Daddy’s will and you’re family today Coming, looking at Jesus; gathering all around—Where fires of glory hit blood on the ground Tears turn to rivers and rivers run love—The whole Father family landed with the Dove Flowing by the Spirit, the bride says, come—Every soul that’s thirsty, and drink you some You can bathe in his Love and give it away—Out of the heavenlies from your special place He’s not dead; no longer in the tomb—He’s a Love Pearl shining, lighting up your room NOT about religion! NOT show biz! Hanging out with The Man RESURRECTED; that’s what it is! Here we are— And here is religion—and those trapped in it—and their final-forever un-resting place: These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. [That’s us, right?] These were redeemed from humanity as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.... 6 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, and he had an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language, and people. 7 He declared in a loud voice: "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!" 8 A second angel followed the first, declaring: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great city [SHOW BIZ!]! She made all the nations drink of the wine of her immoral passion." [And there went religion, along with all trapped in it.] 9 A third angel followed the first two, declaring in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and takes the mark on his forehead or his hand, 10 that person will also drink of the wine of God's anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke from their torture will go up forever and ever, and those who worship the beast and his image will have no rest day or night, along with anyone who receives the mark of his name." 12 This requires the steadfast endurance of the saints--those who obey God's commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus. 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: 'Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them." Rev 14:4-13 (NET) #1. Bareback’n Let Jesus into your rodeo—He loves to perform Sticking bare feet in the stir-ups of your sea—He tames your raging Storm Then he hands her off to you—‘Entered for the Triple Crown You win all races going away—Bareback’n the storm meant to take you down #2. Riding Double on the Rainbow 1. As long as glory makes the mountains shine--I ride the rainbow with this love of mine I hold her in my heart as gently she sways--And saturate her life with my heavenly grace 2. I squeeze my love all through her soul--Nestled up with me on a rainbow roll We ride the rainbow of judgment passed over--Through the new earth with untouched clover 3. Smelling fragrance of flowers never sniffed--Gazing and searching treasures for gifts We ride the rainbow with colors of love--Enfolding below on up with above 4. Weaving through time with eternal thread--Sewing in life where it’s all been dead Riding Rainbow’s Love and grace too--Seeing regulators many - regenerators few 5. Oh love o’ mine, forever entwined--Two riding rainbow for one Light to shine Love o love o’ mine, two now made one--A miracle of creation in the Jesus Son #3. Naked & RAW Looking at Empty shoes and moaning out the blues, ‘cause it’s a low down crying shame The Man hung way up, laid it all way on down, and won’t nobody pick up His name 18. He lost his shoes back somewhere, crawling and clawing his way up the hill Ain’t nobody nowadays found ‘em yet; we been too busy grinding at the mill 2. But somebody, sometime got to wear them lonesome shoes Quit grinding at the mill, look on the hill where Jesus paid our dues 3. We all want to wear fancy slippers, and hang out at the foot of the hill Eating and drinking and being entertained, leaving Jesus to pay the bill 4. But Papa’s got something to say when you go through the checkout line You may think you have really arrived—with God nowhere on your mind 5. Till Papa jumps out with a lightning strike to check out your walking shoes Saying, “What you been living like all this time, since my Boy paid yo’ dues?” 6. See, when you really use His name is when you lace up them lonesome shoes Tie ‘em in a double knot and keep on walking, even while you moan the blues 7. When you’re really wearing His shoes, you can know His Papa well Then you can live in the Flame, use His name and roll back the powers of hell 8. ‘Cause His name means His very own life and His very own self He’s taken over in them laced up shoes and you ain’t got nothing left 9. That’s what it means to wear His shoes and ain’t nobody doing that today So we gotta go all the way back to naked and raw, like when he busted the grave 10. Just going back a few hundred years, trying to figure out what went wrong Ain’t gonna cut it and put us in His shoes; we been playing church too long 11. All the way back to the very beginning when He came to ‘em heaven-sent And breathed out power, and fiery tongues flashed and here they all went 12. Wearing His shoes, living in His name and the devil was singing the blues Jesus was living again, delivering the people and giving the prisoners good news 13. Peter preached bold with no education outside what was naked and raw He just used the Fire; the Fire found the words and Jesus was what they saw 14. But we got all smart and refined, naked and raw was too unsophisticated “God, you have to honor our great seminaries; we done got educated 15. “Surely thou dost not wish, Oh great King, that we wear sandals drenched in pain Wouldst thou not bless our great institutions where thou canst give us great gain? 16. “Oh thou great provider, wouldst thou not dress our feet with institutional brand names? Whilst we jockey for positions, play politics for churches, and invent religious games?” 17. Asbestos education makes you dead in the head; what you need is an old pair of shoes Walking in the Self of my free-born Son, spewing words of Fire with heaven’s good news 18. I’ve got all the words you’ll ever need, wrapped up in my burning body o’ Fire Study to feed the flames as you worship me; Don’t study to feed that liar F. IN DEFENSE OF MESSIANIC ISRAEL, THE NATION GOD OWNS NOW: A RESPONSE TO THE LIE THAT YESHUA DID NOT COME AS ISRAEL’S MESSIAH (FORMERLY “In Defense of Messianic Israel: The Nation God Owns—in Spite of John Hagee’s Great Theological Invention”) Meet Cousin John Dualey Hang down ya head John Dualey -- Hang down ya head and cry Hang down ya head John Dualey -- Or Po-Boy ya bound to die Ya tryin’ to eat your cake, John Dualey? -- Eat it and keep it all too? Common folk around will tell ya -- That’s sumpin even you can’t do You ridin’ on the wrong horse, Dualey -- Jus’ one thing you can do Put down that horse ya own -- She ain’t even good for glue God’s got some Jews now b’lievin’ -- Or maybe you jus’ won’t see He’s grafting-in Gentiles with ‘em -- Gonna break all Israel free Messianics moving in His love -- He’s made ‘em His living key To release resurrection power -- To raise the nation up Royally All Israel shall be saved -- A few Gentiles grafted in God wrote it in the book o’ Romans -- Where in the world have ya been? Better hang down ya head John Dualey -- Hang down ya head and cry If ya keep on dancin’ the dual-eys -- Your works all are bound to fry Ya-been plowing a blind mule, Dualey -- ‘Been milking on an old dry cow Wake up to smell the revelation -- And grab a resurrection plow Lift up ya head John Dualey -- Get outta that Last Days’ lie Turn ‘round your head John Dualey -- Or Po-Boy ya bound to die Po-Boy don’t have to die – Po-Boy don’t have to die (Apologies to John’s cousin, Tom Dooley—who probably never practiced dual-covenant replacement theology a day in his life.) Introduction Who is Messianic Israel? Let’s answer that right off the bat. This nation God owns includes all people carrying Jewish DNA who have received Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah and are caught up into a lifestyle around Him—whether on the Land of God’s Israel or on the sands of another shore—whether they have made Aliyah yet or not. This nation God owns scripturally includes some non-Jewish, Jesus-obedient souls grafted-into Nation Israel, i.e., not caught up in their own church importance, not trying to get believing Jews to forsake their responsibility as God’s Israel Nation in order to “join their church.” Hello Church! How smart is that? You know—like the whole tree is somehow supposed to “humble itself” and somehow get itself fitted into a few branches instead of staying a tree, giving root and life-sustenance to the “once a branch, now trying to be the tree,” refusing-to-get-smart, limp, limb-scragglies dominating the true Church, messing with the true bride. Not nice! And yes, I do know about the “one new man.” He lives—and will rule this physical, natural world— in and through Church empowered Messianic Israel, the nation God owns—with or without Reverend Hagee’s endorsement. The “one new man,” when you get a good scriptural close up, is liable to look a lot more like Resurrected Nation-Israel than like a Church. “Get outta here?!” Now, now; don’t grit your teeth. It’s not healthy. I know how you feel; I was not earlier taught that either. Just hang loose here with the Holy Spirit of Fresh Revelation. What could that hurt? ‘Might bust a tradition or two— but hey—remember Jesus! This book is about that. Chapter 1: The Twister A “twister” is one who deliberately distorts or perverts the meaning of something—a distorter. “The John Hagee Controversy” ‘Heard of it? Well, we’re in it. Ever heard of the Reverend’s brainchild, CUFI? Where and how does its piece fit into the kingdom-of-God-on-earth puzzle? Christians United For Israel. ‘Certainly sounds good, and may be a good thing; I’ll tell you why in a minute—but these headlines reminded me of something: “Shuttle Discovery Successfully Launches Into Space; Sunday December 10, 2006 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery lit up the sky…” Booster rockets had exploded and moonlight faded back. I was reminded that soon these rockets would fall to the side as the shuttle hit its stride. Just so, CUFI has exploded to light up the American sky—and what do you know? There in the middle of it all is little Israel. The whole world just got reminded that something is going on with Israel. It only needs ask, “What—and where is God in whatever is going on in and around Israel?” But CUFI is booster designed—and, as we all know, boosters are created to fall behind. CUFI A Voice to the Nations Israel, on the other hand, is here to stay—and stay—and stay on. On—and on—and on. That’s the honest truth—undiluted, unvarnished, undeniable, untwisted. God wants to warm up the world to that cold-hard fact: Israel is here for the long haul. Hello nations. Are you listening? This is what CUFI is lighting up the landscape for the world to look at and yelling for the whole world to hear. Will America hear this voice of a few hundred thousand stirred souls? Will the world wake up to this warning cry? God’s Got a Global Gathering Going on For I [God] will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem…Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. (Zech 14:2-3 NKJV) Who is paying any mind to God saying he will “gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem?” Is anyone getting ready for that gathering? Or does the following best describe us? "When the Son of Man returns, the world will be like the people were in Noah's day. In those days before the flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came to destroy them all. "And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. Yes, it will be `business as usual' right up to the hour when the Son of Man returns. (Luke 17:26-30 NLT) The Main Thing Now here’s the thing. Somebody ahead of me has wisely said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Somebody else said, “All distractions are equal.” In light of such wisdom, I’m saying, “Watch out for Twister.” Number one on his to-do list is “distract all believers away from the main thing.” What is the main thing? According to Jesus: “…seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…” (Matt 6:33 NKJV) Would “first” make that the main thing? That was God talk—first, first. First what? First the kingdom of God and God’s righteousness. It (He) came to the world in the Middle Eastern Garden of Eden. It (He) came back into the world in Israel through the Jews giving birth to Jesus. It (He) will be established in this world through Jesus coming back into Israel. Righteousness is a Person—a God-Person. Whatever people, whatever nations, and whatever geography God needs to wipe out, clean up, regenerate or rearrange to establish permanently a righteous kingdom on earth, he will do it. He will kill, clean, change, or any combination thereof to take care of his business. His kingdom will ultimately absolutely come upon this earth just like it is in heaven. His pleasure will be done. He will work his plan all the way to the finish. Those who don’t think so should not call him God. If he does not have the power to carry out his plan—or he lacks the guts to do it, he simply is not God. Call him something—anything—but don’t call him God. Watch Out for Twister CUFI (along with the rest of us) should watch out for Twister. He’s out to distract Jesusfollowing, bride-minded, kingdom-focused, Israel lovers and make us fight one another. He’ll foster anything and sponsor any move in order to divide us and throw us off the main kingdomof-God-on-earth-as-in-heaven thing. We must each abide with love in our place on the team. I don’t see CUFI squad with the responsibility of taking the ball across the goal line for the kingdom touch-down. I see it set up to let the world know there’s a last days’ playoff going on and where the stadium is. CUFI is public relations. PR people don’t suit up to go into the trenches—but somebody does have to sweat it out—disciplined and down in the trenches. Who’ll do this? Chapter 2: Sweating In the Trenches When God showed up in The Shalom Emporium in Kansas City in 2002, he unplugged my spiritual ears and opened my eyes about Israel. He used Messianic Rabbi Jerry Feldman’s decades of disciplined study in the scriptures to leap out and strike me in the heart with a personal Israel-encounter. The Spirit of revelation showed the place of the secular nation but focused on re-born Messianics as the heart of Israel’s lynchpin, kingdom-on-earth destiny. I then found myself at The International House of Prayer Kansas City where God taught me through the disciplined love and prayer-sweat of Mike and Diane Bickle and their big night-andday family team. There I met those Messianic apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers from Israel—all drenched in disciplined sweat from their many years in the trenches to get their fellow Jews to see Yeshua (Jesus) is their Messiah. These Messianics (Jews who know and follow Jesus as Messiah) imparted into me freely from their maturity in Messiah. They shared with me their gain. I learned to know their pain. I subjected the feelings from my own experience to the truth I learned from them as I was researching the scriptures for myself by the Holy Spirit. I follow their example and share freely what God has taught and matured in me about his heart for Israel. It is not that I’ve come by some great private revelation of my own and turned into a God hotshot. Quite the contrary. My experience was totally unexpected—not dreamed of, not prayed for. Truly it is an ongoing experience with God, launched from the heart of a Jewish man of God using the Word of God by the Spirit of God. It is God all the way—out and out—through and through. God gave me fresh eyes for Israel. Six years later, I’m still unpacking that two hour download—after books, booklets, and dozens of articles. I have no say-so in how this plays out in my life—didn’t start it, don’t know how to keep it going, don’t want to stop it. One thing I can do is guard against Twister perverting it and cheating me out of it. I’m wearing, without and within, half-a-century’s worth of scars from tangling with Twister in the trenches. Yep. I’ve learned a pain or two about his twisting—and let me tell you: I Hate Getting Twisted I got twisted into thinking being filled with the Spirit and speaking in tongues was “not for today” and suffered needless years in a spiritual desert. I got twisted into preaching that popular, hell-swelling “gospel” of “once saved always saved if you’ve said the sinner’s prayer.” I got twisted when one of the most powerful pioneering outpourings of the twentieth century got perverted into a cult. As a result, I got twisted into doing things and having things done to me that I don’t want to think about and you don’t want to hear about. Then I got twisted by replacement theology that had me believing the church replaced Israel. God had to bust me out of that. God is so very merciful! Don’t you hate to be caught twisting in the wind? It hurts. I hate getting twisted—and getting trapped into being used by Twister to twist others is downright terrifying. So, yes, I’m wary. Believe it! I’m vigilant—okay—call me outright suspicious. I live on alert, trusting God to clear me past the gift of suspicion into the gifts of the Spirit. At this age and stage, I’m hard-set against Twister distorting my epiphany and screwing me down hard and fast into a place God didn’t intend. If you fit (or think you fit) in CUFI….? Keep on loving Israel—with both eyes and both ears wide open and your heart open to the Spirit’s guidance. Always let God have the right-of-way to make changes any way and anyhow. Watch out for the distracting lure of the spotlight—enticing you toward following personalities, cameras, headlines, and leaders known world-wide. Watch out for arrogant and pride-dealing Twister. I have told you how I see God using CUFI. Now I tell you what I see about my long-time opponent, Twister. A. He will make much of the fact that CUFI is an alliance made up of Christians, Orthodox Jews and Rabbinical leaders. This gives Twister a huge opening—and he never fails to capitalize on one. It is widely known and well documented that Orthodox Rabbis and their Jewish constituency persecute Messianics in Israel. Yeshua lovers and followers suffer enormously and continuously at the hands of Secular Jews, Orthodox Jews and Orthodox Rabbis for revealing Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. Money sent from America that is not sent to Messianic ministries is often used to finance Jesus rejecters so they can persecute Messianics in the streets and prosecute them in the Israeli court system at every level of government. These Messianics are my spiritual family. I am horrified at the thought of giving money where it will be used to hurt my family, make them miserable, try to bankrupt them, jail them, drive them out, and kill them. For me to participate in CUFI would be like loading the gun for somebody to shoot my son. No, no, no. That can not happen. It will not happen. I am definitely not called to do that. What I can do and will do is this. I will pray for you who say the Spirit has led you into CUFI—and for those who are in there because you have not yet gotten the big picture. Maybe you have not had the privilege of sitting at the feet of today’s Messianic apostles and prophets God has set in place to lead us in this last days’ showdown. Maybe you have not met them and their families personally and become one family with them in Jesus. I understand what a difference that can make. I’ll guard against Twister turning me against you and dividing us Israel lovers. B. CUFI leaves the impression that it is alright with God not to reveal Jesus as the Messiah of Israel and the only way of salvation for Jews. It leaves the impression that “you Jews could be alright with God just because you’re Jewish and because Israel is the apple of God’s eye.” That of itself is blatantly twisty. Will Twister miss this chance to divide Israel lovers? He is vigilant, committed, and razor sharp about his business. He will “sit at the gate” with that to distract and divide. Watch out for him—while remembering Romans 8:28. Take heart; God is getting Israel “on the map” through CUFI booster rockets. Eventually these must peel and fall away. I keep confessing how God works in all things for the good of those who love him and are lined up with kingdom-first-on-earth priorities. Love one another and love all Jews. True love is defined by these Messianic ministers laboring faithfully in Israel. Quoted from their newsletter by permission (with names deliberately omitted). Support the Rabbis, or the Messianic Body In Israel? I…feel I need to explain something…I've had about five different people ask me if I thought that it was right to give their money to the rabbis for their works as a way of blessing Israel. Here is my reply: Isn't it better to invest in helping the Jewish people to know their Messiah? Without faith in Jesus, the Jewish people are doomed to eternity in separation from God. This is the greatest opportunity that has ever been presented in 2000 years of history to reach the Jewish nation with the Gospel of Yeshua their Messiah. I believe that we should focus all of our effort and resources on straightforward, uninhibited communication of the good news that Yeshua is the hope of Israel. So much resource and effort are being invested in the political, social, economic welfare and military and security welfare of the Jewish people by the Israeli government, the USA (America gives billions of dollars to Israel every year) as well as Jewish philanthropists and well meaning Christians, but frankly, how much is really being done to bring the clear message of Jesus to the Jewish people? How many Jews have ever read the New Testament? How many Jews have never even considered that Jesus is the Messiah? So few are actually telling Jewish people about their Messiah. The believing community in Israel is not even close to 1% of the population and often struggle for its very existence—often persecuted by the very rabbis that Christians support. We love our people and we love the rabbis and the orthodox Jews. I, (pastor), grew up in an orthodox synagogue and was even able to share about Yeshua with my rabbi just before he died. We believe the most important thing we can do for Israel and the Jewish people today is help them come to know Yeshua, their Messiah. He is their only hope. This is the day of their salvation. God did not bring them back to the land to die in unbelief, but to reveal to them Yeshua and we need to invest in making him known. We believe an investment in Messiah's Body in Israel, men and women who serve this nation by comforting terror victims, feeding the poor, serving in the army (something the religious refuse to do) and risking their lives to bring a message of hope in Messiah is of great significance for the Jewish people today. Now I too will be bold and tell you that the Bible way, the Jesus way to love the nation of Israel is first through the Messianics in the Land. C. Messianics Are the Love-Throughs Twister can hide this truth from participants of CUFI—from donors and recipients alike. He can block the convicting work of the Holy Spirit necessary for salvation, and blind Jews and Christians with a romanticized, humanistic, prideful and religiously carnal “touchy feely” that passes for scriptural, spiritual love. Let me show you the unique position that makes Messianics perfect love-throughs. Read all of Romans 11 first. But some of these branches from Abraham's tree, some of the Jews, have been broken off. And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, were grafted in. So now you also receive the blessing God has promised Abraham and his children, sharing in God's rich nourishment of his special olive tree. 18 But you must be careful not to brag about being grafted in to replace the branches that were broken off. Remember, you are just a branch, not the root. "Well," you may say, "those branches were broken off to make room for me." Yes, but remember—those branches, the Jews, were broken off because they didn't believe God, and you are there because you do believe. Don't think highly of yourself, but fear what could happen. For if God did not spare the branches he put there in the first place, he won't spare you either. Notice how God is both kind and severe. He is severe to those who disobeyed, but kind to you as you continue to trust in his kindness. But if you stop trusting, you also will be cut off. And if the Jews turn from their unbelief, God will graft them back into the tree again. He has the power to do it. For if God was willing to take you who were, by nature, branches from a wild olive tree and graft you into his own good tree—a very unusual thing to do—he will be far more eager to graft the Jews back into the tree where they belong. (Romans 11:17-24 NLT) Look back at my underlining about grafting before you read the following—also with my underlining. Messianics as Grafting Interstock Explanation: Israel is the cultivated olive tree that provides the stock. The Gentile dominated church made up of true believers is the scion. CUFI may be the “tape, rubber, and nails…used to achieve close contact.” Hold that thought and read this; then I’ll elaborate. Grafting (From The Encyclopedia Britannica): Grafting involves the joining together of plant parts by means of tissue regeneration. The part of the combination that provides the root is called the stock (Israel); the added piece is called the scion (true believers in the church). When more than two parts are involved, the middle piece is called the interstock (Messianics). Stock cambium and scion cambium respond to being cut by forming masses of cells (callus tissues) that grow over the injured surfaces of the wounds. The union resulting from interlocking of the callus tissues is the basis of graftage… The basic technique in grafting consists of placing cambial tissues of stock and scion in intimate association, so that the resulting callus tissue produced from stock and scion interlocks to form a living continuous connection. A snug fit can be obtained through the tension of the split stock and scion or both. Tape, rubber, and nails can be used to achieve close contact. In general, grafts are only compatible between the same or closely related species. Success in grafting depends on skill in achieving a snug fit. Warm temperatures … increase callus formation and improve ‘take’ in grafting. Re-read and think of the stock as the nation of Israel that receives the graft. The scion is the Gentile who gives himself or herself to get grafted into the stock-nation of Israel. The interstock is the Messianic Movement in Israel which receives the scion-Gentile graft. This interstock also receives the broken off Jewish branches back into the cultivated tree-nation of Israel from which they were broken. Grafted-in Through Messianics Notice: grafts are only compatible between the same or closely related species. Gentile Christians are not of the same species as unregenerate Jews that make up the secular State of Israel. Therefore, Christians cannot be grafted directly into the natural nation of Israel. Messianics in Israel are Jews biologically and, in that way, are compatible with the secular nation of Israel. They are embedded within the nation. This positions them uniquely to become the interstock. They are compatible on one side (biological) with the secular nation, and compatible on the other side (spiritual) with “born-again” Gentile Christians. They are especially crafted of God to be the “bridge-graft” between the unbelieving Jew and the believing Christian. They are a Jew so they are “of the Jews.” They are Jesus disciples so they are “of the believing Gentiles.” Christians, who can not be grafted directly into Israel, can be grafted into Messianics who are already part of the nation-family of Israel. Such a graft will take because Christians fit with Messianics and Messianics fit within Israel because of their Jewishness. Do you get the picture? Believing Jews and believing Gentiles are both one in Messiah. Messianics are in the middle between the believer and the Israel nation. They are the inbetweens; called in grafting the interstock. They are growing out of the nation of Israel and they are allowing themselves to be cut open (“wounded”) for believing Gentiles to be stuck into them (grafted) so as to form one tree (of life in the earth). In other words, Jesus is living in the Messianic Jew or Movement in Israel. Living in the Messianic heart, hand, and head, Jesus reaches one hand to the Israel nation and the other to the Gentile believer and makes of the two one new creation which expresses itself through a re-born Israel nation. If we were talking about Oreo Cookies, the Messianics would be the sweet in the middle that holds a cookie on each side. Messianic believers are sweet tasting, living sacrifices to God, already on the Israel-nation olive tree, open to the “wounding” of us wild Gentiles so we can become part of their olive tree—wild branches grafted (baptized by the Spirit) into their cultivated tree so that we Gentiles can assist them in making enough Holy Spirit oil to light up all the nations. This is why I call Messianics the “Love-Throughs.” The Lynchpin In my earlier writings (like 5 years ago) I called Israel the lynchpin that locks the nations in place for the kingdom of God to take over creation. I will now be more specific and say it is the Messianic Movement within the nation of Israel that is the lynchpin. That is a more precise understanding—even if it is less politically and ecclesiastically correct. Our love of Israel must go much deeper than the romantic, tour the Bible Lands, walk-where-Jesus-walked level. Is that not the level from which CUFI is drawing strength? Anyway, God is pointing to Israel and that is a good thing. I likened CUFI to the space shuttle’s booster rockets. These rockets don’t last the whole mission but they do get the space-walkers off the ground with a noisy burst of power, usually accompanied by great fanfare and publicity. Everyone knows the boosters, once having done what they were designed to do, will burn out and fall away. No one cries over the boosters “failing.” They have not failed, but rather have done what they were supposed to do—give themselves for mission completion. There is, of necessity, a separate mechanism designed and developed to provide power for the final stages of the mission. That “Main Thing” Focus Here’s what I desperately want to get across: booster rocket personnel and other personnel will remain members of the successful mission only by working together. Twister wants to mindblind us and throw up a stop-blocker with his age-old divide-and-conquer strategy. We are not ignorant of his devices so it is mission-critical that every department of this kingdom-in-Israel project continues mission-prioritized for mission success. This mission will, beyond any possibility of failure, eventually succeed. The question is: who will be there for the ultimate hook up and lock down? We must not, for the sake of our own place in the mission, allow ourselves to be twisted so as to become divisive and competitive. We must not be distracted toward becoming a liability to mission accomplishment. We will not be diverted and perverted by personal preferences, private doctrines, profound theories, perfumed programs, pressured agendas or pushy personalities. We shall shut out Twister so that we will not get peeled off and fall away. We will not get sent home before we reach the enemy’s camp with Yeshua, Israel’s Messiah. Our loyalty will be passionate, our submission to mission objective complete. We shall overcome—we have overcome. Holding fast to this confession, we each ensure that we get permanently placed—instead of replaced. The booster rockets are designed for an awesome explosion of launching power, but when they peel away, who will power the shuttle to its destination? Do you want to be peeled with the part-of-the-ways or embedded with the all-theways? Another way of asking it: Do you want to go all the way to the enemy’s camp with Gideon-Jesus and see the enemy turn tail, or do you want to get cut and go back home? Gideon did the gathering; God did the picking. Gideon did the calling; God did the cutting and the choosing. Think about it as you read the inspiring account in Judges 6-8. “Here I am, Lord, choose me! I’m ready to cry out, ‘the sword of the Lord and of (insert your name)!’” CUFI may be great for launching your interest in Israel, but is that where your gifting can bring the most glory to God? Booster rockets get blown to the side and fall off! Booster Power to Shuttle Power CUFI’s thrust is political and national—in principle and in practice. It is, of course, of some spiritual impact (Romans 8:28), but the thrust, the focus is not personal and spiritual. If it were, it would not bypass believers to work with unbelievers. It would not practice prosperity toward Orthodox Jesus-rejecters and poverty toward Jesus followers whom the Orthodox Rabbis and secular government leaders persecute and prosecute. They attack believers verbally and physically on the streets. They burn down their buildings and boycott their businesses. They demonstrate and threaten their homes, families, and congregational meetings. The primary political and national focus of CUFI promotes and finances this activity. Are you sure this is where you want to stand with Israel? As a believer? If you are not a Jesus follower, then you may not have a problem with your money going for that. Maybe you don’t like Jesus either. The thing is, by keeping the main thing the main thing, you earn eternal rewards by morphing with the Jesus side of Israel. These rewards are yours long after the warm fuzzies of helping a secular nation lie stone-cold dead. Here we have to step out of our booster and shuttle power analogy. But God does this in the grafting of the wild and cultivated olive tree in Romans 11. That grafting of wild into cultivated is not normally done. Neither is it normal for the boosters to change and become shuttle power— but it can be done. I know because I changed. I used to send money to the Orthodox Jewish Rabbi who pulls millions from Christians and Jews every year—until I learned from believing Jews in Israel that he used his money and influence to fight them on every hand. He has millions—with influence and affluence; Messianics have room, board, and miracles—with despising and persecution. I changed. I quit boosting and started shuttling—to Messianic ministries. Think about it. Jesus and Paul I’m sticking with Paul’s olive tree analogy. To be joined scripturally to Israel requires the grafting that we just mentioned. You can not fulfill the scriptural plan by joining yourself or your group to the secular/Orthodox Israel nation through gentlemen’s agreements, oral or written, and sealing these agreements by money changing hands. The scriptural plan calls for believing Gentiles to be grafted into the believing, living, Israel-nation tree by the Holy Spirit—spirit with spirit. It is not sufficient simply to honor the nation. You have to get grafted into it through Jesus. Without the graft, you don’t have the sap-of-life (Holy Spirit) connection. Israel has no life apart from her Messiah Yeshua through whom Gentiles are grafted into the nation. CUFI keeps Yeshua out of sight. Don’t you know this can’t hold up down the stretch? That will not “take us all the way into space,” or to the New Jerusalem space shuttle. Holding Jesus on the back burner could blow up the whole stove and house. That kind of devilish wisdom is what plunged the church into her present-day disastrous condition. Twister distorted our mission and made religious perverts out of us. What a monstrous deception! That’s why the world on our watch is subjected to such severe judgment cleansing—we got twisted. I hate getting twisted! (Or did I already say that?) I love getting untwisted though—cleansed and put securely wherever the Mission Project Director needs me. Listen Up! My Wife Has a Question. “What’s so hard about understanding we’re supposed to give to Messianics?” And your answer is? Here’s my question: “What would happen if we handed to a tried-in-the-fire-for-decades Pioneer Messianic Apostle like Dr. Daniel Juster, Director of Tikkun Ministries International (www.tikkunministries.org), a check for $7,000,000? Imagine for a minute. Now who would delight to distract us from such an eternally rewarding investment in believing Jews? Watch out for Twister—he is a robber. Give to Jesus receivers or Jesus rejecters? What a no-brainer! But each is accountable to God for his or her own answer. Anyway, I wanted you to know of this more excellent way. For greatest returns on your investments, go to the most Gentile-operated Israel-focused website available and look prayerfully down the blogroll on the right: www.IsraelOwnsTheChurch.com. Switch from booster to shuttle power mode. Why not? Why not get set for the long haul with the big everlasting payload? Get on in and let’s get this ball over the soul line. One you’ll want to check out, besides Dr. Daniel Juster’s www.tikkunministries.com, is this international partnership called International Coalition of Christians and Messianic Jews (ICCM), an arm of Promise Keepers, led by Coach Bill McCartney and Colonel Raleigh Washington. Captain Yeshua takes the ball all the way downfield into the real end zone. It answers Jesus’ prayer in John 17 for Father, Son, Spirit, Jew and Gentile family all to be made one. Now that gets my attention. Who is walking around with any thankfulness a-tall who would not want to be used in seeing Jesus get what he deserves from his suffering? I know you saw Mel Gibson’s motion picture, The Passion of the Christ? Here in Tikkun Ministries and ICCM is where the Spirit puts my Israel epiphany and the fruit of my Bible study. He writes my name, not on the CUFI rolls, but on the ICCM roster for everybody to look at—especially Twister. Let him see me on this last days’ space crew streaking through the heavenlies with Captain Jesus—locked into my eternal destiny. Hey Coach! Put me in! But, meanwhile, back at the farm—or more properly, back on the playoff field, a situation has developed: one ongoing that demands immediate strict attention be given it before the game goes into overtime. Chapter 3: A Quarterback Warrior Weighs In -- Rick Joyner’s Response to John Hagee. G. GOD'S ISRAEL TRUMPS CHURCH-SACRED COWS LIKE 'SOUL WINNING': BIG DIFF IN WINNING SOULS AND MAKING DISCIPLES IN GOD'S ISRAELCENTERED KINGDOM ON EARTH (FORMERLY PUBLISHED as “Calling Up the Born-Again Sacred-Cow and Her Win-Souls Calf: Doc Diagnosed a Cold; She Died With Swine Flu.) (Sacred cow: something exempt from any criticism or interference) Wait up! I KNOW You! Just give me a minute or two to remember—while you’re reading. What if I told you of this great football dynasty that now, not only cannot get through The Red Zone to score, but does not even have the goal line in mind or sight—not even in their game plan? What would you say? (Keep reading; I think it’s coming to me.) How long do you figure this dynasty will last? How long will fans follow? How long will topnotch coaches come on board? How long will the owner put up with this? How long can he survive if he does put up with this? Will he keep on rolling out the dough? (It’s getting clearer now.) ‘Same with this sacred cow. How long will the Owner keep a cow, not only who is not producing His herd, but which does not even have herd production on her mind or anywhere in her plans? She refuses to breed with His Bull. She’s far too “holy” for that. Her only calf is so old, and she has kept it such a baby so long by licking on it that the calf is past the reproduction cycle and unable to contribute to a herd—if she wanted to. The old mama cow keeps fattening herself at the Farmer’s trough, grazing up His pasture, getting in the way, and lowing loudly and pitifully because everybody in the pasture won’t keep licking all over her spoiled-rotten calf like she does. One sick situation! ‘Glad I’m not the Farmer. No herd in sight for the Owner. His cow is in an incestuous relationship of “I have had a baby and I’m done.” The only building I see going on is a mounting relational implosion that is duly and rightfully destined. Her Owner cannot afford to keep on shelling out the corn and dishing out the dough when she’s producing no milk and no beef. I know what my dairy farmer Dad would’ve done—called Knight Brothers, trucked them to the auction, sold ‘em for hamburger meat, and bought another cow. Anyway, that’s what I’m dealing with here. OH! NOW I REMEMBER! You are that Truth-seeker, aren’t you? If you were not that one, you would not be reading an unreligious, un-pedigreed plowboy. Maybe you stumbled into a Sovereignly-set, Truth-trap. If you really are the one, I’ll bet you’ve just plain had it: * With Christians out pestering folks to help them “win” one soul for each dollar of America’s deficit (or some such preposterous number “the Lord spoke.”) * With Multimillionaire/billionaire televangelists madly manipulating for still more money, either because they’re already “winning” a zillion souls, or they desperately need you to “sow your partner seed” with them right now so they can “win” a gazillion souls. * With trying to find a group who have found the secret of getting God to show up when they do—with so much power nobody has to keep repeating how “the anointing is here,” “the glory has come,” “God is in the house,” etc. * With people who act like they have lassoed truth and corralled it in their little herd over in one corner of the field. * With church leaders who are too scared to lead and too insecure in the truth to let anybody else lead. * With such sanctimonious churches that they only see their one cow and one golden calf—and you would like to ask them, “When did the Holy Most God make you Holy Spirit to do all this instant, pressure-driven, soul-winning anyway? I read: Even those closest to you—your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends—will betray you. And some of you will be killed. 17 And everyone will hate you because of your allegiance to me. 18 But not a hair of your head will perish! 19 By standing firm, you will win your souls. Luke 21:16-19 (NLT) That reads like there is a lot more to soul-winning than a one-shot, stay-out-o-hell ticket. If that be the case, whatever “decision” you lead me into right now will require some standing firm, and it will ultimately be my responsibility to “win” my soul by that standing firm in obedience to the Lord of my soul. You already know, do you not, that it was outside the door of a sacred-cow church that Jesus was standing and knocking, hoping at least one person would hear him and open the door? You remember it was to a sacred-cow church that Jesus said, “You make me puke!” Listen, if none of this strikes a chord with you—or if it hits a sour note, I sincerely apologize. (I have no desire to scatter pearls to a wild hog.) I was wrong; I mistook you for somebody else. Striking resemblance there. Wow! I’m sorry. Maybe I’m seeing who you used to be—before the sacred cow licked you scared to death? Anyway, carry on, mate. Tally hey, tally ho. Contents Foreword: First, A Secret Introduction: Common Sense Honesty Part 1. Re-J(ch)EWING a Few Scripts A. The Cat’s Out o’ the Bag—Matthew 23:39 B. Number or No Number—Romans 11:25 C. The Word “Christ” in Israel’s New Covenant (Testament) D. The Word “Church” Part 2. That Born-Again Sacred Cow and Calf A. Braking News! B. The New Birth C. The Thieving Church D. Hit T’em Brakes, Sonny! E. Crucified Out of Religion Part 3. Parables of The Teacher A. The Farmer Scattering Seed B. The Wheat and Weeds C. The Mustard Seed D. The Yeast E. The Hidden Treasure F. The Pearl Merchant G. The Fishing Net H. Comments: The Israel Barn I. Comments: Fire in the Field Part 4. Lay Up Some Stuff for Yourself (Jesus said it!) A. What Kind of Stuff? B. Stuff Gets Sticky C. Stuff Gets Stolen D. Experiences Are Treasures Part 5. Next and Last A. Next B. Last Foreword: First, a Secret “Shalom, Son-Lover. This mission, should you choose to accept it, is to reveal Our Last Days’, age-changing mysteries to Our very own herd, Our church-within-a-church, Our Israel-withinan-Israel. Your assignment is to write down clearly—for Our children to understand and for their confusers to be unable to decipher—the instructions that will enable Us to bring in FULLY on earth, through our growing little herd, the Government of Our Father. Should you accept this assignment, your team is developed and deployed, well trained and already in the field. You will know them by a whisper: “Amayn and amayn, may the King of Israel reign.” As always, if you should be accosted or apprehended, the sacred-cow church will disavow you and any knowledge of this operation. Any support they seem to offer will SELFdestruct in six, sickening seconds. Good goings.” Thanks Good Buddy! A decade ago, a good friend gave me copies of The Complete Jewish Bible and The Jewish New Testament Commentary by David H. Stern. My Bible has never been the same. To my knowledge, it is the ONLY Bible translation totally free of Anti-Jewish tinged thingies and trip-ups. What about most other translators? We, of deep Southern roots, would say, “Bless their hearts; they messed us up bad by sticking-in their own ideas and opinions into Holy Bible translating. Shame on them!” Dr. Stern’s comments on this material are lock-down, honest-before-God, Holy inspired scholarship—too lengthy to quote in this short project. Besides, you will want to buy his works. Just “Git ‘er done,” as ol’ Prez “W” would say: http://www.messianicjewish.net/. In a Nutshell—There IS a Nut Do we understand that there is a tasty-fruit Israel, squishy with Holy Juice, tucked ‘neath the national Israel, pomegranate peel? Then, we should likewise get it that there is a tasty-nut inside the wild-gentile, walnut-bitter and hard shell of the old institutional, sacred-cow, world-andworldly church. The Juice-Nut fruit within these two outer shells is well worth the effort required to peel away or crack off what’s on the outside to get to what’s on the inside—the faithful remnant of Jewish Jesus followers and the faithful nucleus of Gentile Jesus followers. Here we are peeling and cracking. Keep your eye on the prize—and don’t hurt the goodies! This juice-nut heart is undercover touching and cooperating fully with the Father of all creation—through Jesus—in order to get his whole handiwork back under his loving protection and government. Who leads the way in this church get-back program? That’s easy: the one who said he was The Way (The Truth, and the Life). Who said, “I’m on a search and destroy mission; I am God out of heaven, come to destroy the works of the devil?” Who said, “I came to seek and deliver back up to my Daddy all he lost when Adam and Eve deeded away his Eden Garden Property?” Who said, before giving up his God-Life on earth, “I’m sending Another to keep working with you— and I will still be working with you—to search and destroy, to take back and deliver up?” That is why you will find this shirttail full of Juiced up folks working with the Holy Spirit and constantly yielding their lives for God to take their (selfish) rights-of-way away. They are busy establishing God’s governing power on earth to the same degree it is established in heaven— until you can’t tell them apart—because they are NOT apart. They are one. ‘Long way to go yet, but they are on track, trusting and constantly refocusing their eye on the prize. There’s a Godgoal up ahead. Living, moving, breathing, eating, sleeping, working: LORD! Your kingdom come; your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Not my will but yours. Not my way but yours. Not my life but yours. Not my church but yours. Not my program but yours. Not my plan but yours. Not my ministry but yours. Not my nation but yours. Not my Israel but yours. Not my king but yours. Your king, the King of the Jews, King of Israel, King of creation. How Did The Sacred Cow Church Come About? So come on, let's leave the preschool finger-painting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self-help" and turning in trust toward God; 2 baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. 3 God helping us, we'll stay true to all that. But there's so much more. Let's get on with it! Heb 6:1-3 (MSG) We did not get on with it. And we ended up with a sacred-cow gospel and a soul-winning, golden calf. You don’t think that’s possible? Check this out: I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and following a different gospel-- 7 not that there is another gospel; but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or (an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell! 9 As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell! 10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people; or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ! 11 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. 12 For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ. Gal 1:6-12 (NET) You don’t think Paul was plain-spoken enough?! Was he not saying, “Let these perverts with their humanistic, sacred-cow and calf gospel go to hell where they belong? What they are pedaling is NOT God’s good news that Messiah is here with his new government controls to rescue on-earth creatures along with God’s whole creation in order to protect it from Satan.” People Perish When there is no vision, people lose their way. When this happens, they are thrown into personal survival mode, focused on person—theirs and others. They emphasize a personal born-again experience, and perpetuate this emphasis to the exclusion of God’s focus. Their focus is to get people born-again. How did the Godless state of Israel come about? When a nation loses the vision of her destiny, the nation perishes. Israel’s destiny is to be a light to other nations. Here is God with a near-sighted church and a no-focused Israel. The church wants to get a person born-again; God wants to get his whole creation (including the persons who so choose) bornagain. Israel wants to get their nation back for the Jews; God wants to get their nation back for them to be a light and give his Life to other nations. So the church is set on getting a soul born-again. Israel is bent on getting a nation born-again. God is out to use the church and Israel to get the whole creation born-again. Let’s get on with it. You see how the juice and the nut both end up with hard outer layers? You see why God has to get rid of the hulls? He can flat-out do it; he is doing it; he will do it. He is working all these things together for eternal good to those inside these hardened hides whose hearts are hoping and trusting and obeying and loving him for him to work with them to make earth like heaven. Introduction: Common Sense Honesty If we were left alone, common sense honesty would be enough for us to understand that God’s plan is to rule Earth forever through a Jerusalem-based government (called a kingdom) that is formed around an obedient Israel nation. BUT—we have not been left alone for our minds to pick up on the simple truth that the simple Galilee carpenter’s son came down out of the Hill Country hollering: “Change your mind! I have brought you God’s Government out of heaven into Israel.” We have not been left alone, I say again, for our honest, hungry heart and mind to receive and process this power-providing plan God has given us. If we had been left alone, we would have responded with a changed heart that welcomed the ruling power of God into our lives to give us a transformed, renewed mind with which to operate in God’s ruling power here on earth now. It is the “here in Israel forever on earth” part of The Preacher’s message that has been, and still is, the most messed over. In this little book I am barely touching the tip of the iceberg. The whole Bible has been smeared throughout with “mere-human” (as opposed to Holy Spirit transformed) minds translating it into the “common man’s vocabulary.” These great minds were boasting great intellectual prowess, yet sometimes zero Holy-minded inspiration. Such have been our most influential Bible translators, expositors, interpreters, preachers, teachers, theologians, and leaders for generations. Most certainly, these great minds were not themselves left alone to be honest before God in their thinking and labors. Many (sometimes the most persuasive) were under the DIRECT supernatural spell of Satan to use the Bible to spawn doctrines of demons to misdirect us. They thought, since they were supernaturally inspired, that the inspiration must surely be coming from God. They could not see that it was coming from the supernatural god of this world, Satan. They wrote, preached, taught, strategized, and led us by these “inspired” revelations and interpretations for centuries, resulting in our basic church foundation resting on Satanic sand. We have built our Christian house on this shifty silty-sand, and we live comfortably and confidently in it—clueless as a hypocrite. Little do we know that scales from an Israel-absent mindset have grown down over our spiritual eyes. Nobody shoved a mirror in our church-face and screamed, “Look at your house-self sitting on Satan-sand!” We luxuriate arrogantly, humanistic-centered, kingdom-up-in-the-air-off-in-the-future, with our Gentile-intellect scaled over with dried out Serpent stuff. So Adam-antly PROUD of it, we are too! My question to you is this: Is there ANY way to get simple truth over to a people thus blinded, and “feeling” safe and secure in their belief system. (Was not this the case with the Pharisees in the Bible who kept rejecting Jesus until it was too late for them?) At what point does one risk offending them, as Jesus kept on doing with the experts of the Bible? Indeed, at what point do you start plotting with Divine Wisdom to offend their minds to knock them awake and give them an opening to see the truth—as Jesus made a practice of doing? What is it worth to them for someone to offend them out of their lazy-minded lethargy and treacherously blind state of mind? All I know is that every time I have said I was no longer going to write material offensive to the carnal mind (“nobody will read it”; “it turns people off”; etc.), somehow I find myself right back at it again. What! Am I stupid or something? A glutton for punishment, a negative-headed nut? I don’t know. I only know that’s how it is. Do whatever with it. So herein is but the tip of this not-so-niceberg revealing but a hint of what men, some wellmeaning and others not so, have hidden from us. They did it with their replacement theology, dual covenant teachings (like Reverend John Hagee’s), and a whole host of other unique blends of humanistic, Israel-sentiment and arrogant title-itis power-grab greedy stuff. All of these, always with agendas of either Israel-not-at-all or Israel-anytime-but-now. Because of their inhouse statues, these are far more destructive over the long haul than the Hitler-Iran “final solutions.” You will see here only a few of the key scriptures that turned my whole mind and life around when the veil came off my mind in 2002, and I got glimpses of Israel’s place in God’s Heart and Last Days’ Plan. We are caught up in that plan in your generation. Nothing you can do about it. Prayer: “Lord, use this pen-tip to pierce the blinding scales and lift the generations-long veil of demonic doctrines that have blinded the understanding of your people. Let your governing power fully come forth on earth through Yeshua (Jesus) in Israel until your will is fully and completely done on earth as it is in heaven. Let your already Completed Jews (Messianics) in Israel move FULLY into their destinies as your instruments in The Land for all Israel to be saved and become your Light to shine gloriously through all the nations.” And on this mountain [in Israel] He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched [literally, “woven”] over all nations. Isaiah 25:7 (NASB) Part 1: Re-Jewing & Rechewing a Few Scriptures H. ISRAEL UNDER FIRE, UFOS, EMP, ALIENS, DNA & INTERHYPERDIMENSIONALITY: HELLO GOSHEN IN THE NATIONS; ISRAEL'S GOT A PROBLEM (FORMERLY “Israel Under Fire—UFOs, EMP, Aliens, DNA & Inter-Hyperdimensionality Goshen—The Church’s Worst/Finest Hour”) Preface: Stop! Hope Goshen is Here, Don’t Give Up! Introduction: What is Goshen? Answered from Israel Chapter 1: EMP, UFOs, Aliens and the Like Part 1: ‘Ever Heard of EMP? Part 2: One Nation Under Fire Part 3: Faction Running Lights into Ultimate Inter-Hyperdimensionality Part 4: Aliens, Dimensions and Such Stuff Part 5: DNA Part 6: He Holds All Things Together Chapter 2: Second Coming of Christ Part 7: Laying the Israel Track Part 8: How Many Second Comings? Part 9: FutureComingatYou Chapter 3: All Aboard for Goshen Part 10: Desire First Then Will Part 11: Matthew 23:37-39 is Last Days’ John 3:16 Part 12: Woodshed to Watershed Part 13: Romans 8:28 Part 14: Stupid People Part 15: Has God Really Given Us a Goshen for Today? Chapter 4: The Goshen Family Part 16: Created to Cluster Part 17: Finger of God Part 18: God’s Got a Goshen Part 19: Wheels and Beings Part 20: I Can First Imagine Chapter 5: Faction-Action Goshen Traction Part 21: Peeling Rubber on a Real Road Part 22: Getting to Get to from Have to Chapter 6: Heavenly Hyperdimensions? Part 23: Where’s Your Group Going? Part 24: The Plundering of a Common Morning Part 25: Turtle Dove Singing in Goshen! Part 26: Singing on the Wind Part 27: Written on the Wind are the Secrets of God Preface: Stop! Hope Goshen is Here, Don’t Give Up! Hope Goshen’s Safe House factors in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks, flu virus pandemics, weather-gone-wild, terrorism rampaging, UFOs, aliens, nephilim, DNA, hyperdimensions—the whole kit ‘n’ caboodle—and still holds safe and steady. You may not see it but the Safe House is absolutely, unquestionably, and historically in place right now. It just needs attention. ‘Kind of like when tripping: fog can be down with visibility zero but the Interstate is still there. Just because you cannot see your Safe House does not mean it is not here. ‘Does not mean you are not already in it and well protected against what you sense coming at us and on us. In your house you can’t see your roof but chances are it’s still covering you. This Goshen time I visualize as being like the time of Israel between Egypt’s bondage and Canaan’s blessing. All during that time their only compass for survival was a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud, and their sole provision was manna from heaven. Manna means “What is it?” So it is that the Church during her Goshen time will be continually asking the Pillar, “What is it now and next that we must be, do, and say?” Safety lies solely in obeying the Pillar Voice. Don’t lose hope and give way to blustery storms out of sheer hopelessness. True, the Church is going through her wilderness on her way out of fallen-world cultures (Egypt) in process of her grafting-back-into-Israel olive tree. Your enemy’s plan is to blind-storm believers into focusing on the wilderness instead of the Pillar and drive them to say and do bad things to themselves and those around them—to make them hurt themselves and destroy their relationship with others—to destroy the family relationship God has provided. He can NOT destroy us. He can only influence us with fear and confusion in the direction of getting us to destroy ourselves and each other by selling us a no-hope, I-got-you-now scenario. He’s driving us to talk and live like “Oh, it’s bad now, looking gloomy up ahead—AND THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.” Liar, liar, hell’s own fire! I don’t have to own that—and you don’t have to buy into it. In this book, I am out to prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt (o juror!) that we CAN do something about it. I am doing something about it, and you can too. I’ve got the Big Man’s Plan and I’m building on a Goshen Safe House you can believe on over into and become a better kingdom-of-God-on-this-earthlike-in-heaven builder than you ever dared dream possible. This Safe House is in Jesus in Church in Israel in God. Safe. True though it be—and so there most certainly looms heaven-struck fiery fingers converging civilization into one boiling-vortex caldron over Israel to change ages into new heavens and new earth—you, my friend, are Divinely positioned to help rescue millions! What say we get busy about it? Here’s an inspirer for the road (Read all of Joshua 5 and 6 for the whole story): Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt." ... they celebrated Passover....11 The very next day they began to eat unleavened bread and roasted grain harvested from the land. 12 No manna appeared that day, and it was never seen again. So from that time on the Israelites ate from the crops of Canaan. The LORD's Commander Confronts Joshua 13 As Joshua approached the city of Jericho, he looked up and saw a man facing him with sword in hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you friend or foe?" 14 "Neither one," he replied. "I am commander of the LORD's army." (In other words, “I’m not here to take sides; I’m here to take over.) At this, Joshua fell with his face to the ground in reverence. "I am at your command," Joshua said. "What do you want your servant to do?" ...Joshua did as he was told. Josh 5:9-15 (NLT) The seventh time around, as the priests sounded the long blast on their horns, Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!17 The city and everything in it must be completely destroyed as an offering to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies. 18 Do not take any of the things set apart for destruction, or you yourselves will be completely destroyed, and you will bring trouble on all Israel. 19 Everything made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron is sacred to the LORD and must be brought into his treasury." ...21 They completely destroyed everything in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys—everything. 23 The young men went in and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all the other relatives who were with her. They moved her whole family to A SAFE PLACE near the camp of Israel. 24 Then the Israelites burned the city and everything in it. Only the things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of the LORD's house. 25 So Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute and her relatives who were with her in the house, because she had hidden the spies Joshua sent to Jericho. And she lives among the Israelites to this day. Josh 6:16-27 (NLT) (Isn’t that something! Nothing and nobody salvaged of the “prospering” Jericho population except the town whore and her family! Surely we can learn something from that. In this Last Day we’re living in, the only thing to keep us alive is being rightly aligned with Israel through Israel’s Messiah Yeshua, Church-Head, and King.) Introduction: What is Goshen? Answered from Israel Answers from Dr. Dan Juster’s book Revelation The Passover Key: The Passover of Exodus As we shall show, the foreshadowing events of the Book of Revelation are found in the Passover of Exodus. Israel was kept from the hour of trial (the plagues of judgment upon Egypt) by being protected in the land of Goshen. We see in the Book of Revelation that God will have His Goshen for His people, keeping them from the hour of trial. This does not mean that some will not be called to sanctify the Name of God as martyr witnesses. However, Jesus promised that not a hair of our heads would be lost, even though some would be sent to death. This is how complete the promise of the resurrection is. Some are kept from the trial by being able to sing through the flames, as did Ridley and Latimer in 17thcentury England. Others will be kept in supernatural protection in cities of refuge that will be like Goshen. No matter what God’s manner of keeping us safe, we will not be subject to His judgments and will only be subject to the call and will of the Spirit of God concerning our witness in the last days. For some this will mean supernatural escape from the forces of evil. For others it will mean enduring these forces even unto death by supernatural enabling. (Pp 10-11) On Revelation 7:1-3—The Sealing of the 144,000 His command is that they not harm the earth, the sea or the trees until the servants of God are sealed upon their foreheads. The plagues which have occurred and those which follow are not to fall upon the committed believers. As Israel was protected in the land of Goshen, so believers who are sealed will be protected. I believe the prophetic words coming forth today concerning cities of refuge in the last days is a true word. Not only will there be individual protection, but God will lead His people to places of protection which will be like Goshen was in Egypt. I mention this because it is in keeping with the theme of the protection of God’s people. It is my belief that Jewish people will also be protected by believers in these places of refuge. (pp 43-44) On Revelation 11:7—The Two Witnesses I believe that as Jesus said that no one had power over Him, but that He would lay down His life, so is the situation with the two witnesses and the various segments of the restored Body of the Messiah of the last days. We will be fully protected in many ways: in Goshen of God or protected cities, through supernatural acts of Go and in many other ways. (p 48) On Revelation 12:1-17—The Woman, the Child, Israel and the Church As God ultimately protects Israel, so He protects His faithful remnant of Messianic Jews and their brothers and sisters from all nations in lands of Goshen, through His supernatural power at work in them, and by the blood of the Lamb. There will be cities of refuge and areas where God’s people are in control. There is ultimate protection even for those called to martyrdom. Not a hair of their heads will be lost. Indeed, His faithful people will rule and reign with Him in complete victory. (pp 52-53) On Revelation 18 God’s people are called to come out of her (v. 4) we are to be separate from the world system, living according to the holy standards of God by the power of the Spirit. This call to holiness is necessary if we are to avoid the plagues of God’s judgments. It is crucial that we realize that protection from the plagues in the Goshen of God is for God’s holy people. Carnal, worldly, compromising “believers” will not be protected from the plagues of the last days. Chapter 1: EMP, UFOs, Aliens, and the Like Part 1: ‘Ever Heard of EMP? Saturday, February 14, 2009 is the date of this WorldNetDaily Exclusive, “Congress warned: U.S. risks ‘catastrophe’ in EMP attack—Expert: Growing threat posed by Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, terrorists.” It was posted July 10, 2008 by WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – A top scientist today warned the House Armed Services Committee America remains vulnerable to a "catastrophe" from a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack that could be launched with plausible deniability by hostile rogue nations or terrorists. William R. Graham, chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack and the former national science adviser to President Reagan, testified before the committee while presenting a sobering new report on "one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences." It is the first report from the commission since 2004 and identifies vulnerabilities in the nation's critical infrastructures, "which are essential to both our civilian and military capabilities." Not taking the steps necessary to reduce the threat in the next three to five years "can both invite and reward attack," Graham told the committee. The scariest and most threatening kind of EMP attack is initiated by the detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude in the range of 25 to 250 miles above the Earth's surface. The immediate effects of EMP are disruption of, and damage to, electronic systems and electrical infrastructure. Such a detonation over the middle of the continental U.S. "has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures that support the fabric of U.S. society and the ability of the United States and Western nations to project influence and military power," said Graham. "Several potential adversaries have the capability to attack the United States with a high-altitude nuclear weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse, and others appear to be pursuing efforts to obtain that capability," said Graham. "A determined adversary can achieve an EMP attack capability without having a high level of sophistication. For example, an adversary would not have to have long-range ballistic missiles to conduct an EMP attack against the United States. Such an attack could be launched from a freighter off the U.S. coast using a short- or mediumrange missile to loft a nuclear warhead to high altitude. Terrorists sponsored by a rogue state could attempt to execute such an attack without revealing the identity of the perpetrators. Iran, the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism, has practiced launching a mobile ballistic missile from a vessel in the Caspian Sea. Iran has also tested high-altitude explosions of the Shahab-III, a test mode consistent with EMP attack, and described the tests as successful. Iranian military writings explicitly discuss a nuclear EMP attack that would gravely harm the United States. While the commission does not know the intention of Iran in conducting these activities, we are disturbed by the capability that emerges when we connect the dots." Graham reminded the committee even smaller nuclear weapons can create massive EMP effects over wide geographic areas. He also pointed out that United Nations investigators recently found that "the design for an advanced nuclear weapon, miniaturized to fit on ballistic missiles currently in the inventory of Iran, North Korea and other potentially hostile states, was in the possession of Swiss criminals affiliated with the A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network." Theoretically, an EMP attack is devastating because of the unprecedented cascading failures of major infrastructures that could result. Because of America's heavy reliance on electricity and electronics, the impact would be far worse than on a country less advanced technologically. Graham and the commission see the potential for failure in the financial system, the system of distribution for food and water, medical care and trade and production. "The recovery of any one of the key national infrastructures is dependent upon the recovery of others," he said. "The longer the outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery will be. It is possible for the functional outages to become mutually reinforcing until at some point the degradation of infrastructure could have irreversible effects on the country's ability to support its population." Graham took the EMP debate out of the realm of science fiction by reminding the committee that as recently as May 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Russian leaders threatened a U.S. congressional delegation with the specter of such an attack that would paralyze the U.S. He also quoted James J. Shinn, assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Security, who two weeks ago told the same House committee that China'sarms buildup includes exotic experiments with electromagnetic weapons that can devastate electronics with bursts of energy similar to those produced by a nuclear blast. "The consequence of EMP is that you destroy the communications network," Shinn said. "And we are, as you know, and as the Chinese know, heavily dependent on sophisticated communications, satellite communications, in the conduct of our forces. And so, whether it's from an EMP or it's some kind of a coordinated [anti-satellite] effort, we could be in a very bad place if the Chinese enhanced their capability in this area." Graham says terrorists who get their hands on one or a few unsophisticated nuclear weapons might well calculate they could get the most bang for their buck from attempting an EMP attack. Recovery from a widespread EMP attack could take months or years, Graham warned. The fact that key components of the U.S. electrical grid are not even manufactured in America and must be ordered a year in advance from foreign suppliers suggests just how complicated and timeconsuming recovery might be. The high state of automation within America's utilities further complicates recovery. There just might not be sufficient trained manpower available to get the job done in a timely way. "The commission's view is that the federal government does not today have sufficient human and physical assets for reliably assessing and managing EMP threats," said Graham. "The commission reviewed current national capabilities to understand and to manage the effects of EMP and concluded that the U.S. is rapidly losing the technical competence and facilities that it needs in the government, the national laboratories and the industrial community." NOTE: As of this writing, President Obama is calling for a drastic budget CUT in spending on this. Part 2: One Nation Under Fire Nations Will Fall I (The LORD) will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem….Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations… Zech 14:2-3 "It shall be in that day that I (The LORD) will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zech 12:9 All Other Nations Will Fall—All but One "But do not fear, O My servant Jacob, And do not be dismayed, O Israel! For behold, I will save you from afar, And your offspring from the land of their captivity; Jacob shall return, have rest and be at ease; No one shall make him afraid. Do not fear, O Jacob My servant," says the LORD, "For I am with you; For I will make a complete end of all the nations To which I have driven you, But I will not make a complete end of you. I will rightly correct you, for I will not leave you wholly unpunished." Jer 46:27-28 To which nations has God driven Israel? For the LORD will scatter you (Israel) among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. Deut 28:64 (NLT) Remember: For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem... Zech 14:2 Speaking of the same event: It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zech 12:9 So if you wanted to be safe, in what nation would it be really smart to take some part? As “grafted into” and “one with?” (Romans 11) Following is an article from THE Jerusalem POST, dated on my 80th birthday. Thanks God for honoring me with this watershed announcement! Column One: Surviving in a post-American world Apr. 9, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Like it or not, the United States of America is no longer the world's policeman. This was the message of Barack Obama's presidential journey to Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq this past week... Finally there is Israel. If Obama's assertions that Israel must support the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state, his declarations of support for the so-called Saudi "peace plan," which requires Israel to commit national suicide in exchange for "peace" with the Arab world, and his continuous and increasingly frantic appeals for Iran to "engage" his administration weren't enough to show Israel that Obama is sacrificing the US's alliance with the Jewish state in a bid to appease the Arabs and Iran, on Tuesday Vice President Joseph Biden made this policy explicit. ... That is, the Obama administration prefers to see Iran become a nuclear power than to see Israel secure its very existence... And the Obama administration's intense efforts to woo Iran coupled with its plan to slash the US's missile defense programs - including those in which Israel participates - and reportedly pressure Israel to dismantle its own purported nuclear arsenal - make clear that Israel today stands alone against Iran...caroline@carolineglick.com. Copyright 1995- 2009 The Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com/ Part 3: Faction Running Lights into Ultimate Inter-Hyperdimensionality! Faction fac·tion [fákshən], (plural fac·tions) n 1. technique of dramatizing history: writing…that portrays real people or events by dramatizing the facts using the techniques of fiction 2. dramatized work based on real life: a piece of writing…that portrays real people or events in a dramatized way [Mid-20th century. Blend of fact + fiction ] Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Twenty UFOs Spotted Flying in Formation Over England Thursday , June 04, 2009 Stunned families watched as more than 20 UFOs buzzed over awestruck Britain Sunday. The lights in the sky lined up in a flying formation before disappearing upwards into space. One close-encounter snap was taken by quick-thinking engineer Paul Slight, on his mobile phone at about 10:30 p.m. local time. He was coming home from a day out cycling with friends in Lincoln, eastern England, when they spotted the lights in the sky. The eerie extra-terrestrial crafts were hovering in the night sky over the town, moving in different directions before eventually shooting straight up into the atmosphere. In a series of stunning images taken over five minutes, Paul, from Lincoln, captured the objects together and even flying in an apparent formation. Paul, 54, said: "There were 26 of them at first, dodging and darting in between each other like they were playing a game. "After that, seven more arrived from the right hand side and weaved through the crowd of lights like strange kinds of aircraft. After five minutes of moving around, the flickering yellow objects hung in the air for a second then shot off into the sky and disappeared." Why Study UFOs and EMPs? Get wisdom, get understanding… Do not forsake wisdom…love her… Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Esteem her…embrace her….She will set a garland of grace on your head and present you with a crown of splendor." Prov 4:5-9 (NIV) The old prophet looks to see what God is doing and what God will say. As I look and see what’s coming, coming, coming—and I see nobody (much) even looking in the right direction, I remember God and John. "See, I-AM coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay all according to their deeds. [Notice: not words or beliefs, but doing-lifestyle.] I-AM the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life. Outside the city are the dogs—the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers,and all who love to live a lie. Rev 22:10-15 (NLT) Faction Running Lights Now I’m thinking like Habakkuk: I will stand at my watchpost; I will station myself.... I will look to see what [God] will say...Hab 2:1 (CJB). I-AM is Eternal—what space nerds would likely label the ultimate inter-hyperdimensional. [Much more on that later so stay with me here now.] On a blank page, write D1 in the corners for I-AMs ultimate inter-hyperdimensional “personality.” The whole page belongs to I-AM. This is eternity (D1). Draw a large oblong wheel (circle) on your page. This represents the time-space dimension (D2). Satan or Lucifer was a top eternal angel leading worship of I-AM in D1 eternity. He had been created out of love with a free will [more on this later] but rebelled and willed, essentially, to swap places with I-AM so as to be worshipped himself. To end this rebellion against love, I-AM created the time-space dimension (D2). He cast out of D1 into D2 Satan along with the angels who sided with him. This confined these eternal beings to the time-space dimension for the time being. Satan and his angels are for all practical purposes locked up in this time-space dimension as their “home” although they are eternal spirits. Time is a separate (but not independent) dimension from the space dimension and both are apart from the I-AM dimension (but not apart from IAMs dominion. Why did not God just leave this D2 time-space dimension solely occupied by the rebels forever? A REMINDER so you don’t freak on me: This whole UFO Section is inter-dimensional faction (not exegesis): i.e., “writing…that portrays real people or events by dramatizing the facts using the techniques of fiction.” If this gets too weird for you to handle, skip to the next chapter—but you might miss something. Inter-dimensional thinking does not always begin with premise and flow logically to conclusion. It could begin with promise, provide running lights in some manner and leave you with Love to live in and Truth to rest in. It’s been decades ago but I remember it well. I had been struggling to get my mind around something in the Scriptures that made no sense logically. A thought zinged into my confusion and it was like God said, “I don’t have to be logical.” Instant alert: “Sir?” “I don’t have to be logical; I created logic. I use it for my purpose, like I want to, when I want to and how I want to.” I’m also learning that “chronology” is not nearly as critical in understanding I-AM and his ways as I once thought. THEREFORE—no need to be distracted with how, where, or when this series will end—nor how much time it will use up. Einstein claimed to have proven mathematically that time is an illusion (or a dimension?). So there could be a Reality Dimension outside time. Love Gone Long? Why didn’t God just leave this D2 time-space dimension occupied solely by the rebels forever? Why put humankind here? In seeking to answer this question we might get a deeper understanding of love. But first, let’s back up a bit—and take a long look at Love in Person, our Papa God. Not only is he I-AM eternal [outside time-space dimension limitations with his omnipresence, i.e., “Here I-AM everywhere all at once”]; he is also Spirit; and God is Love—eternal Love by the Spirit. He is full to overflowing of eternal Love by the Spirit. He is bursting with timeless-spaceless-limitless Love. He is eternal Love by his timeless-spaceless-limitless, “here I-AM all at once” Holy Spirit. He is, without hesitation or interval or interruption, burning with passion to multiply love exponentially eternally. And guess what. We are woefully limited in even imagining the intensity of this desire. Having been conceived and born into D2 time-space dimensions, we are trained by our surroundings and our relationships [not to mention our born-wrong genetics] to think plank-like rather than wheel-like. We think plinky planky plunky like, six-side boxed in time-space, rather than opened out wheeley-freely. We read that through Messiah our Abba has seated us in the heavenlies, but in translating that we have to add “places” because our thinking is that since we are sitting down, we have to sit on something. Yet, our own dictionaries offer other meanings for the word like: a position as a member of an official body or group. We want everything nailed down by plank-like how long, how high, wide (and handsome), how thick, what kind of physical material is this seat located in what precise time and space location? “Heavenlies” in our thinking can’t just be a dimension of Life and Love that we have been “officially membered” into. This conception would be beyond our size, space and time dimensions and regulations—and therefore totally beyond our human control. We couldn’t afford to think about letting things get out of (our) control. (How does it go—“My thoughts are not your...?”) I learned that way of thinking well from all things must be done in order teachers who just assumed and taught that order meant their (ages old traditional boxed, ritualistic “safe”) order— not exploring God’s order about speaking in tongues and “spirituals.” And how ‘bout “Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts?” (1 Cor 14:1 NASB). ‘Know why gifts is italicized? Not to convey emphasis or a quotation as we often use it. Your Bible notes will tell you it is because the translators have “helped” us by filling in a word. I accept that. After all, you can’t just leave “spirituals” hanging out there free-swinging. ‘Gotta nail that thing down. So they put in gifts, abilities, etc. Why, if you just left “spirituals” hanging out there all lonesome with God they might turn into who knows what kind of out-of-our-order and therefore out-or-our-control dimension! I know; they mean well—for the most part. That is, except the ones with knowing anti-Israel agendas. They don’t mean well, they’re just mean from hell. But moving on here. Jesus went nose-pressed against this very wall of thinking when he launched with “Change your thinking (repent) because I’m here packing another dimension (kingdom).” Ever since then time rolls (us) on with Yeshua challenging us every thought of the way to rise into his thought-Way. He happens to be the One for whom, by whom, and to whom are all dimensions including D2 time-space—which, by the way includes gravity. I-AM’s dimension influences gravity [and logic], not the other way around. Say: if you're wondering how scriptural this whole inter-dimensional thinking idea is, how about that great gulf that was fixed between Lazarus and the rich man? Are there three distinct physical places, or could they be in three spiritual dimensions? Simply creating angels by the millions, full of this Love, was failing to cool Father’s insatiable yearn-burn to explode love exponentially throughout all eternity. This eternal love fire burns as a fusion of Truth (Father) and Word (Truth “broken down” Son), while Spirit (“Carrier Mother”) fuels it eternally. Was Jesus, who said he was one with his Father Love, also saying he was Love fullness of the Godhead bodily when he said he was the Way, the Truth and the Life? Anyway, we now have the I-AM dimension (or realm), D1, and the time-space dimension, D2, where “he who was” (with I-AM) is being held by I-AM (“He Who was, Who is, and Who keeps on coming.”) I-AM is holding at bay he was—“Was with me, but not anymore.” Keep in mind that I-AM is the-Beyond-us Creator of all dimensions and accesses all dimensions sovereignly at his own good pleasure. Let’s say for the sake of seeking out the hidden that Father, Word, and Spirit are a family unit of parents and child(ren). This would mean that somewhere in some “side” or “inside” of God, somewhere in his Spiritual DNA throbs the female capability of the whole impregnation and propagation process, including repetitive creative carrying-to-term for fresh birthing. Did I-AM’s creative Heart and Mind conceive something more loving than creating a familycluster of angelic beings, messengers, and communicators? What if God got this idea to multiply Love [i.e., “Himselves” or “Themself”] by Loveselves to infinity in love-family cluster dimensions? This would mean eternal Love Fire could conceive of family regeneration on an eternal scale—and therefore could be capable of conceiving and birthing family-love regeneration clusters on an eternal scale. “Time” out here to consider. Which is in which? Is Love in Life? Or is Life in Love? Can we think Fusion? (This is not very high falutin theology but I still think about the unimaginably Majestic Godhead Trinity as swirl ice cream. Spooning it up and right outta the box, I can eat vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry—all in one bite, or each individually, or in any chosen combination. All ice cream and all really, really good. None of the flavors care how I’m eating them.) To be Love, it is a given that God has and/or is Life. Life-less cannot be love, have love, or love at all. To not be dead is to be alive, to have life. At the heart of life is will [welcome to scary.] In order to give voluntarily, some “equipment” had to be provided in life and love to distinguish between compulsory andvoluntary. This equipment is what we call “will.” (Will you or will you not? Will to or will not to? Will into life-love or will away from life-love?) To have life is to have will. Will has a flip side: will not. Hello choice. Choose to (will to) have life or choose to (will to) lose life. Life or death (which is not choosing life): mankind’s constant call is choose, choose, choose; choice, choice, choice. Scary, scary, scary—for all humankind. So to have love, life is required. But love, by nature, cannot be required—else it is not eternal love. Requirement cancels out eternal love and produces a mutant, a variant, a deviant, a strange not-love that wants to wear the love label. Since eternal love cannot be required, then obviously it must be voluntary; it must be willed or chosen. Love is inherently Give. Love is Give. God so loved the world that he gave (overflowed with give) Eternal Love flows from Life by will, and with Give at the core. Love flows Life and Life flows Love and both flow outward, not inward. Love-Life lacks the capacity to implode; it cannot turn inward; its very nature is to explode. The choice of life carries the will to [or not to] love and therefore the will to [or not to] give. God Life and Love and Give are a three-way freeway; not to be separated. So if God as Love is to explode throughout eternity, how shall he do it? He can do it through a created being (“man”) with life and will—the will to choose to love (which must include the option not to love in order to keep love’s voluntary nature intact). We have defined faction earlier. Faction is the word Wendy Alec, co-founder of GOD TV, uses to describe her book series, The Chronicles of the Brothers. But what do I mean by a dimension? “level of reality: a level of consciousness, existence, or reality ; mathematics coordinate for space and time: a coordinate used with others to locate a point in space and time; physics property defining physical quantity: one of a group of properties or magnitudes such as mass or time that collectively define a physical quantity [From Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.] Let’s say a level of reality: a level of consciousness, existence, or reality made up of I-AMenergized, creative-operating principles released by Him for His peculiar pleasure out of that particular dimension. These principles are Truth-formulated and Love-saturated. I-AM enjoys each dimension for its uniqueness, and also gets a kick out of inter-relating them, fusing their principles, injecting one down through the middle of another and exploding its principles out through another one (or more) dimensions, rolling them inside-out, outside-in, etc. He is God— having fun. (How novel.) Needless to say, he is endlessly ecstatic with his limitless, creative Love-Truth-Justice nature. Very loose and playful about the whole deal. I. PAPA COMES TO CHURCH WEARING MESSIAH YESHUA’S REBORN ISRAEL AS HIS WIFE? NOW WHAT DO WE DO! (FORMERLY “Now Whaddaya Do? Christ Comes to Church & He’s Wearing Messiah Yeshua’s Reborn Israel”) Introduction: Concrete Pavement is Good – In Its Place 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. So They Want You to “Join the Church,” eh? Grow Up or Die in the Nursery There it is Right There Once Upon A Time There Was A Good God In Heaven The Wisdomine God Used Nations to Prime His Earth-Pump Israel Israel Degreedy Witch 8. Is There Not a Cause? 9. Church Goddoomit & Israel Be-domed 10. Proper Papa Diagnosis 11. When God Shot Ellie 12. On This Rock 13. How Do You Feel When Somebody Lies to You? 14. Preemptive Strike—on ISRAEL? 15. Once Upon a Decade 16. Twin-Tower Breasts 17. Wheat ‘N Tares And The Man Upstairs 18. Kindness & Ruthlessness Side by Side 19. You Have to Go Through Israel to Get to Heaven 20. Kingdom Rollout in 4s 21. EKKLESIA 22. What I Learned 23. Scriptures Printed Out Where Ekklesia is Translated in the Singular 24. Scriptures Printed Out Where Ekklesia is Translated in the Plural 25. “KINGDOM” Scriptures in Israel’s New Covenant 26. “KINGDOM” Lives in Israel’s DNA Introduction: Concrete Pavement is Good – In Its Place As one who grew up fighting mud to get to town, I know how wonderful it can be. Good in its place but that’s not to say it compares with gold. It could, however, get you to where you could get to the gold – if you know when to leave the Expressway. Gold is Gold, no matter where you find it. Am I right? But test for Gold before buying! Truth is like that. If the Gold dealer won’t let you test the purity, either he knows it’s not Gold or he knows the Gold is not his to deal lawfully. Either way, you best pass up the offer and move on. Truth is the same way. If the nugget tests out to be Gold/Truth, if the owner is certified legal, and the price is to your liking, it is then that somebody has happened upon a decision. 83 year old Jed sat in a plain wheelchair by the side of the road, holding out a sign to passers-by. It was not that of a hitchhiker—or a beggar. It simply said: “GOLD” – with an arrow pointing in the direction of the off ramp just beyond him. Few paid any attention to the gray-haired old cripple or his handwritten “GOLD” sign and arrow. Most just laughed, snickered, or shook their head and kept barreling down the Expressway. He told those who did stop that he had personally seen, felt, and ‘experienced’ the GOLD himself. He knew it was there; he had tested it, and attested to its purity. He urged them to follow the yellow gold signs after turning off, mine and experience the GOLD for themselves: “The field is open to the public and it’s finders-keepers”, he urged, “Mine on your own and own for yourselves until your heart is content.” Why was he not mining for himself, if that be the case? “But who would stay put and hold up the sign for others like you to see?” he asked. Who knows what will become of the old 3x-divorced ex-cult leader Truth-Seeker willing to stay put and hold up a sign for his Papa’s family? If all travelers get a shot at the GOLD, what does that really matter in the grand scheme of things? Two Things Matter Most A. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her little bitties under her wings, and you would not let me! Look, now your house is left unto you desolate. You shall not see me again, until you welcome me back with a “Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. (See Matt 23:37-39 KJV.) (1) The world’s wars worsen, violence increases, abortion flourishes, human traffic skyrockets all over the world until Jerusalem makes peace and gets peace from the Prince of Peace, her Messiah-King Yeshua, son of David, Son of the living God. The world gets no peace until Israel gets Peace. (2) Israel does not get this peace until Yeshua Messiah comes back to Jerusalem. (3) Yeshua does not come back until Israel calls him back. (4) Israel will not call him back until Israel is enlightened and empowered enough to call him back. (5) Only Messianics can ultimately reach enough of Israel with Yeshua’s kingdom gospel, and disciple them to the maturity required for them to call Yeshua back. (6) Empowering Messianics is God’s topmost, utmost priority today. What’s yours? B. “Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.” Matt 6:9-10 (BBE) 1. So They Want You to “Join the Church”, eh? Well. You join if you want to – I guess – unless you want to do what God wants. Church is NOT as advertised. It is diametrically opposed to what it says, looks, acts like, and seems to be. It is very moldable and morph-friendly. You can’t tell what it is. I don’t own up to “belonging” to it – and I don’t mind telling you why; I’m about to. Ready for it? But You MUST get this one thing clear going into this; else YOU MISS THE WHOLE POINT! I am writing from heaven’s perspective and speaking spiritually—of spiritual ‘things’ (revelations of Truth). I am NOT – NOTNOTNOT – speaking personally. If you take this personally, you will get thrown off track and, if you are a churcher, offended and terribly upset. I am NOT focusing on persons; I am focusing on a person-positioning mindset, and a personpooling mechanism that brackets one or a million persons to be delivered to a pre-determined non-kingdom destination, a prostitution institution that for centuries has corrupted Christ’s teachings, twisted his truths, imprisoned his people, and muddled their minds into a state of antikingdom, anti-Christ, anti-Jewish futility. Church is not a building – With or without a steeple. The best news is: church is NOT the people. The word I find to accurately describe church is constabulary, a people-controlling, philosophical, networking, mental maze-dazer. Church is a concept, a closed, pre-disposed, mind-clamping, heart-hardening, kingdom-absent, Israel-bypassing thought system. It was contrived, invented and put into practice by Satan, implemented by Constantine, named and raped into the Bible through deliberate and continuing MISTRANSLATIONS from the 1500s to the 2100s. Here are a few reasons that come to mind for NOT buying into this thought system, and for avoiding it like the plague it has been, is, and shall be until Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah of Israel comes back to Jerusalem to clean all earth systems. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Church is a bastard bin (spiritually speaking!). Church is a bastion of buzzards. Church is a beast. Church is a blood waster. Church is a bloodsucker. Church is a bride replacer. (7) Church is a bridegroom replacer. (8) Church is a bridler. (9) Church is a bundler. (10) Church is a burglar. (11) Church is a buzzard’s buffet. (12) Church is a carnivore. (13) Church is a casket closed. (14) Church is a chained gang. (15) Church is a chameleon. (16) Church is a child-whore. (17) Church is a chore house. (18) Church is a christian cave. (19) Church is a concept. (20) Citadel of cowards. (21) Church is a constabulary. (22) Church is a controller. (23) Church is a copycat’s pair-o-dice. (24) Church is a counterfeit. (25) Church is a covenant killer. (26) Church is a creativity killer. (27) Church is a crisis breeder. (28) Church is a crowded coven. (29) Church is a deception. (30) Church is a demon. (31) Church is a dragon drooling. (32) Church is a fairy’s fancy. (33) Church is a fake. (34) Church is a good news instead-of. (35) Church is a gospel replacer. (36) Church is a habit. (37) Church is a hitchhiker. (38) Church is a Holy Spirit replacer. (39) Church is a home for every unclean flying bird dropping unclean gospel. (40) Church is a home to say-a-prayer, zoom on up there gospel. (41) Church is a hypocrite hangout. (42) Church is a Jezebel’s palace. (43) Church is a killer. (44) Church is a kingdom come-alongside. (45) Church is a kingdom instead-of. (46) Church is a kingdom lookalike. (47) Church is a kingdom replacer. (48) Church is a kingdomless corral. (49) Church is a leech. (50) Church is a leviathan. (51) Church is a liar, liar, pants on fire. (52) Church is a manipulator. (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) Church is a masquerader. Church is a Messiah instead-of. Church is a Messiah replacer. Church is a misdirection. Church is a misnomer. Church is a mistranslation. Church is a monster mad. Church is a NIXIT. Church is a paradigm. Church is a people pen. Church is a power. Church is a pretender pool. Church is a principality. Church is a prison. Church is a prostitution institution. Church is a rapist repose. Church is a rebel-rouser. Church is a religion. Church is a replacer, anti, instead-of GOD—period. Church is a robber. Church is a Satan Center. Church is a seducer. Church is a serpent. Church is a sinner’s sucker bait. Church is a snake den. Church is a soul stealer. Church is a spirit of anti-christ. Church is a spirit of anti-gospel. Church is a spirit of anti-Israel. Church is a spirit of anti-Jew. Church is a spirit of anti-kingdom. Church is a spirit of anti-messiah. Church is a spirit of anti-Semitism. Church is a spirit of split ‘n’ git. Church is a spirit. Church is a splitter. Church is a sure-thing left-behind. Church is a talent taker. Church is a thief. Church is a thought system. Church is a time eater. Church is a vampire graveyard. Church is a witch’s wonderland. Church is an adulterer’s avenue. Church is an imitator’s dream come true. Church is an imposter. (99) Church is an innovator’s jungle. (100) Church is an interceptor. (101) Church is an interrupter. (102) Church is an inventor’s nightmare. (103) Church is an investor’s Black Monday. (104) Church is an Israel instead-of. (105) Church is an Israel replacer. (106) Church is an Israel-absent mirage. (107) Church is an opposer. (108) Church is an unholy temple. (109) Church is compromiser’s corral. (110) Church is dissolving. (111) Church is evil’s presence. (112) Church is fallen and can’t get up. (113) Church is Israel-absent. (114) Church is Israel-idle. (115) Church is Israel-ignorant. (116) Church is not a FIXIT. (117) Church is not broken. (118) Church is not Life oriented. (119) Church is not permanent. (120) Church is not renewable. (121) Church is not restorable. (122) Church is not revivable. (123) Church is not the body of Messiah Yeshua. (124) Church is not the bride of Messiah Yeshua. (125) Church is not what Messiah Yeshua heads up. (126) Church is not what/who Messiah Yeshua died for. (127) Church is not what/who Messiah Yeshua is coming back for. (128) Church is not who Messiah Yeshua takes to Jerusalem when he comes back. (129) Church is not what/who will pray Yeshua Messiah back. (130) Church is Presence absence. (131) Church is prognosticator paradise. (132) Church is prophetic-prohibitive. (133) Church is prophet-pouncing. (134) Church is regulated disorder. (135) Church is sin waiting at the door. (136) Church is temporary. (137) Church is Trick City. (138) Church is Whorehouse Headquarters. (139) U-ADD Church is Not Broken Most of the time, they want you to join church and help them fix it. Church is not broken! It is doing just what Satan envisioned and installed it to do; that is, replace kingdom, and thus replace Israel because you can’t have kingdom of God without the kingdom, firstborn-nation Israel. In spite of all the above, Church is God’s crowning Romans 8:28 masterpiece now put out on display, and destined for display throughout the heavenlies forever. ‘Proof positive He is able to make ALL THINGS work together for good TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM and are called according to his kingdom purpose, following him obediently as King. ALL that Satan dreamed up when he invented Church, all with which he purposed to compete with, overthrow and replace kingdom, all his strategies, tactics, methods, devices and intentions—ALL of that God simply used for a season to give reprieve from physical slaughter for his faithful remnant in the nations and Israel so they wouldn’t be wiped off the face of the map. This season lasted until God had enough faithful and obedient Messianic Jews back in the Land of Israel to form his Israeli remnant. Now, to this faithful Jewish remnant, God is grafting in and adopting into his family the faithful and obedient non-Jewish remnants in each of the nations. One new kingdom Man Creature, Jew and Gentile. BUT WHO KNEW!? No wonder Yeshua wept over Jerusalem and his guts cried out prayer down over his people standing under his crossbars: “Father, forgive them; they have no understanding of what they do.” He saw them; he heard them; he felt them; he KNEW them: “They are like sheep without a shepherd.” Their shepherds had sold them for money, prestige, power, pleasure, ‘wine-womenand-song’. He may have died crying, Mack; but he’s coming back balling the jack. You got it! I AM is the turn-around God of all ages. He’s building his Israel-domed kingdom right up through the big middle of the God-doomed Church. That’s right (according to the Scriptures). God will ultimately gain more glory through Church than through any other movement started against him since Eden. It is HOW he does it that leaves me tongue-tied, looplegged, slack-jawed, drawer-dropped, boggle-minded and shock-footed. Definitely not happening like grandpa’s preacher said it would. Maybe you’ll help me with this? If I’m seeing this from God’s perspective (after 10 years and 20 books), we just hit critical mass and blew past the last hope – the point of no return to that fabled life of baseball, mom’s apple pie and pa’s Church religion in the good old U.S. of A. It’s all Gone With the Wind: God’s cleansing. Like I say, help me discover how terribly wrong I am. ‘Cause ‘till you do… (1) I can see Christ loving Miss Israel, or even Miss America, but I can’t picture him being in love with Miss Translation. (2) I can’t see picture Christ heading up a global Scriptural Mistranslation. (3) I can’t imagine John writing to the 7 Mistranslations. (4) I can’t think Christ would give himself to all his sufferings and death for a Mistranslation. (5) I can’t get wrapped around Christ saying to Peter, after his revelation confession from Christ’s Father, “Upon this confession I will build my Mistranslation.” (6) I don’t begin to understand that God would receive people who were daily receiving Yeshua as their Messiah and add them to a Mistranslation. (7) Miss Translation was entered into the contest by a different sponsor with a different plan, purpose, and goal. (8) You don’t even see my problem, do you? ‘Guess you can’t help me then. 2. Grow Up or Die in the Nursery! So come on, let's leave the preschool finger-painting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self-help" and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we'll stay true to all that. But there's so much more. Let's get on with it! (Heb 6:1-3 MSG) Not Again—and Again! THE FOLLOWING ARE IN THE SERIES “KINGDOM DISPLACES CHURCH (WHICH TRIED TO REPLACE KINGDOM)” J. #1 ISRAEL DISPLACES CHURCH – 21ST CENTURY’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL READ: 22 REASONS THAT CHURCH WAS NEVER GOD’S PLAN A FOR BRINGING IN HIS ONE-NEW-MAN ON EARTH (FORMERLY “CHURCH. The Solution or The Problem?: Offering 22 Reasons Church Could Be The Problem” THE DOO BEAR*** PROLOGUE: Why Church (NOT Persons) Could be the Problem (NOT the Solution) INTRODUCTION: Weak Expressions SECTION 1: When Men Forgive God Part A: The God-Blame Idiots Part B: Satan’s Super Glue Part C: Getting Last Days’ Real—at Last SECTION 2: Satan Goes to Church? Part A: Eggs and Dairy, Anyone? Part B: Church. Where’d it Come From? Part C: Truth. Who Wants It—REALLY? SECTION 3: 666 is NOT 700 Part A: What is UP With This Guy! Part B: Looking Toward THE LIST Part C: Yeshua’s Got an Overton Window Part D: Taking a Break With Our Friends SECTION 4: Don’t Go There Part A: First 20 Reasons Not to Play the Game Part B: Reason #21 Not to be on The Imposter Roster Part C: Reason #22 Not to Wear 666 Clothing SECTION 5: The Hijacked Kingdom Part A: Slick-Shutted ‘n Kick-Butted Part B: Master Mind Manipulator Part C: Fire and Axes Part D: Growing up, UP, ON UP! SECTION 6: David’s 400 Cave Men Part A: Man on a Mission Part B: Innocent Blood Part C: The Silent Siege (www.bound4life.com) Part D: David Camps SECTION 7: Different Strokes for Different Folks Appendix 1: Recapping—and Rolling On Up the Road Appendix 2: Running The Gauntlet Appendix 3: Mapping Elijah’s Highway Appendix 4: Oh The Kingdom is HERE (Song-Poem) Appendix 5: Top 50 List On Spiritual Maturity (2 pages) Appendix 6: Confession of a Church Addict (1 page cover for next book) ***DOO BEAR—in mind: this offering is a STUDY GUIDE of a poor person-in-progress— hardly one claiming to have the last polished word on ANYTHING! PROLOGUE Why Church (NOT Persons) Could be the Problem (NOT the Solution) Church governing of the people is on the Babylon Order, rather than the Kingdom Order. Church as it is practiced in the traditional sense is done top-down, overlord governing style instead of the Yeshua-set leadership pattern of bottom-up servanthood. Babylon, my friend, is dead and well (entrenched) in your neighborhood. Your soul’s safety lies in “coming out of her box , my people”, and moving into the liberty of the wide open kingdom of God. For freedom Messiah has died, arisen, and made us free. Free to eat his flesh, drink his blood, breathe his Breath, live his Life, and build his kingdom on earth just like it is in heaven. Free to eat all Truth revelations and yield to all the workings of the Holy Spirit in order to follow him all the way back to Israel for his Royal Coronation as King of the Jews. I have become almost as wearied of “think out of the box” as I have been for years of “Don’t you feel the glory in here?” Scripturally speaking, if said speaker WERE “under the glory,” he or she would NOT be standing and spouting. As one old preacher well said, “You don’t have to advertise a fire.” What would be hilarious, if not so disastrous, is that the poor person urging everybody to think out of the box would most likely be the first to jump up and DEFEND the box, making endless justifications for the box’s existence. Think of it like this: You are supposed to think outside the box—but you are standing and living inside the box. You think with your heart and head, right? Both of these happen to be located in your body— above your butt, legs, and feet. Why not get off your butt, up on your legs, and order your feet to take your whole body outside the box? THEN, and ONLY then is it possible for your poor heart and mind to be relieved of all the box stress, confusion, and mess so it CAN think out of the box. Don’t be stupid and stand inside the box trying to make your thinking take place on the outside. Give it a break; BREAK OUT! Why not simply declare: “Box Be Damned (condemned)?” With the jail-box down flat like the walls of Jericho and Babylon, the jailbird folks can walk out. Free to live gloriously—or sit there and die stupid; their choice. Until then, the people are not given much of a choice or much of a chance. Satan likes that. I don’t. Speaking a bit irreverently but not irrelevantly, Jesus took his ass right up to Jerusalem—right through the milling masses of preachers, teachers, deacons, elders, board members and all their cronies who were using true Judaism to manipulate and maintain control over the trusting people of GOD’S chosen Israel. THERE the son of David/Son of God took care of his Father’s business—dying OUTSIDE THE CAMP to get it done. Have you ever considered following Yeshua outside the camp right through the milling masses of church preachers, teachers, deacons, elders, board members and all their cronies who are putting on a kingdom front and using true kingdom principles to manipulate and control through church programming the trusting God-hungry people in the nations for their own gain? If you have—and if you do, you could save a nation or a kingdom like Jesus did (His Father working through you). You could also die in the process like Jesus did. ‘Still want to be like Jesus? INTRODUCTION: Weak Expressions Truth Revelation My expressions of the Truth revelations in this book are woefully weak and terribly inadequate in conveying the impression they have made into my life. The Fire of it has enflamed my heart and branded my soul forever. (And THAT is a Gross understatement.) “Words cannot tell” has been worn out, but when you are at a loss...? This is fruit from one man’s ongoing study of the indwelling and oncoming kingdom of heaven on earth like it is in heaven. May it enlighten your eyes for the lamp of God’s truth to open up, not just a pathway, but the HIGH Way for you, clean into your full destiny. Truth revelation is a truth-based revelation of Messiah by the Holy Spirit that creates axe-words and phrase-swords to chop and cut through underbrush, vines, and weeds of old, useless, outdated, turned-evil mindsets, in order to release fresh revelation onto newly created Highway Thought Tracks. They become a network that ties together new heavens and new earth understanding. Word-based revelation for a new generation of long-running, spiritual desertdefying creatures. I call them camel-goats—BAD dudes. Desert Road Warriors and Highway Builders. Truth written is called Bible. Truth revealed from the Bible is called knowledge. Truth-revealed knowledge applied is called wisdom. Truth lived perfectly is called Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus). Truth in action is Truth revelation. This book is truth-based action in the form of writing regarding the biggest and ultimate goal of all which Truth is about. To say this book is not all OF the Truth would be to state the idiotobvious. To say all of this book is truth-to-the-page for the coming New Age would be to challenge you as a sage. You need challenging because there is only One of those. All the rest must leveled-out learn from Him: Who-Was Who-Is-and-To-Be; the One-come willingly, respectfully, yet desperately to free you and me from our truthlessness for us to rise out of our ruthlessness as God’s creation. The worst is that, until HE came, we KNEW—and WHAT we knew was all truth-less and useless—and less ‘n less ‘n less, the further down life we traveled—while getting more ‘n more ‘n more factual. The more we learned and the smarter we got, the dead-dumber and numb deader we became to Truth. For truth is not learned so much as EXPERIENCED beyond man’s mere mind. We were taken from our Maker and made into learned spiritual imbeciles who prodigiously procreated inhumane populations. All our facts apart from the Person of Truth were life-less, ARE lifeless; therefore Truth-less, for all real truth carries inherently that God-Germ of Life. May your psyche ‘come down’ with a ‘bad’ case of God-Germs that are smeared on these pages—only to rise again, of course, shattering the dark scene about you with a Truth-burst explosion of Light. Shine on, shine on. Harvest soon, singing: Shine on, brother; shine on sister—This is the Day to shine. Shine a little brighter as a darkness lighter—Shine on, neighbor, shine on. Truth shine on. Priority and Relevance When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your KINGDOM come. Your will be done ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. (Luke 11:1-4 NKJV) You know who was talking of course. So were you taught to say this when you pray? And do you NOW say this when you pray? SHOW TIME! But seek FIRST [priority] HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS [relevance], and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Don’t worry about tomorrow—tomorrow will worry about itself! (See Matt 6:25-34 Complete Jewish Bible) If, instead of writing this manuscript with The Overton Window principle, I were utilizing the exegetical method; I would probably start with the following points. (1) Seek (2) First (3) God’s kingdom (4) God’s righteousness (5) Things (1) I would point out this is a commandment, not a choice. The verb is plural, so you don’t seek as a lone ranger—or you may easily be turned into a lone wolf, eating sheep instead of feeding them. (2) You are to do this seeking, not fifth with ‘things’ but first, as in first loving the Lord your God with all your breath, soul, heart, mind, body, strength of life and being. (3) The kingdom of God is a dome (body) of people gathered by and around The King of Righteousness as the head of the dominion-holding government. (4) But God chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise; God chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the strong; and God chose what the world looks down on as common or regards as nothing in order to bring to nothing what the world considers important; so that no one should boast before God. It is his doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. HE HAS BECOME wisdom FOR US from God, and RIGHTEOUSNESS and holiness and redemption as well! Therefore — as the Tanakh says — “Let anyone who wants to boast, boast about ADONAI.” (1 Cor 1:27-31 CJB) (5) Stuff is added ONLY according to what you need in order to succeed in carrying out 1-4. But if we build it, will they REALLY come? Let’s ask somebody who’s been there. Moses So Moses FINISHED THE WORK. [He built it.] 34 THEN [they came] a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because THE CLOUD ABODE THEREON, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE. Ex 40:33-35 (KJV) THEY CAME! It was WORK, but they built it. (Read about it in Exodus 39. WORK—for EVERYBODY.) 42 According to ALL that the LORD had commanded Moses, so THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID ALL THE WORK. 43 Then Moses looked over ALL the work, AND INDEED THEY HAD DONE IT; AS THE LORD HAD COMMANDED, JUST SO they had done it. And Moses blessed them. Ex 39:32-43 (NKJV) Daniel Also Saw These King-Domers Way Back When But in the end, the HOLY PEOPLE OF THE MOST HIGH WILL BE GIVEN THE KINGDOM, and THEY will rule forever and ever." Dan 7:18 (NLT) Then Along Came Revelating John Laying it ALL out! THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS AMONG MEN, and He will dwell AMONG THEM, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be AMONG THEM , Rev 21:1-3 (NASB) From that I get the idea God’s Grand Plan is for him to live HERE ON EARTH among us. Did you get that out of it? If we build it, will they come? Uh-h-h, did you see the “IF”? We didn’t quite build it yet. True; they will come, but man o’ man, have we got some work to do—in Jesus Mighty Name! K. #2 YOU COULD BE A CHURCHNECK: CONFESSIONS OF A CHURCH ADDICT -- CENTURY 21'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL READ CONTINUES Introduction: Driving Out Free—and Singing: Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Father I’ve got a living in that other realm—I’ve got a living in that other realm Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, for a yoke that easy I’ve got a living in that other realm—I’ve got a living in that Father realm Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, for a burden so light In this life I’m living in my Papa’s realm—In this life I’m living in my Papa’s realm Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Jesus For this life I’m living in your kingdom realm—For this life I’m living in our Papa’s realm 1. I Was a Church Addict Confession is good for the soul? The Romans say so. Anyway, I made mine. So, is my soul better for it? I’ll let you read and decide. I WAS ADDICTED. There. I said it. The following will help you understand my old addiction. You see, I did not know it was an addiction. Nobody ever taught me there WAS such a thing. If you’re never taught, how do you find out? Maybe by suffering it out? Until God in his infinite mercy comes to your shriveled psyche? Shows up and then shows that “The emperor is naked!” And he is NOT who he said he was AT ALL. We have, all these generations, been putting king’s clothes on him because he has been manipulating our imaginations of spirituality! (If you don’t know the story, Google “The emperor is wearing no clothes.”) Sad as all hell itself is that this process of shocking machinations is a learned behavior that we have passed down from one generation to another. It is a spiritual, emotional and behavioral condition that affects an individual’s ability to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship with GOD OR HUMAN. It is also known as “relationship addiction” because people with it often form or maintain relationships that are one-sided, emotionally and spiritually destructive and/or abusive. This addicted behavior is learned by watching and imitating other family members who display this type of behavior day in and day out. My behavior affected my wife, parents, friends, children, and co-workers. It was terrible. It made my family dysfunctional and caused family members to suffer from fear, anger, pain, and shame that was ignored or denied. Underlying causes included addiction by my parents and friends growing up, addiction by my self-appointed or recommended spiritual counselors and mentors, resulting in further spiritual and emotional abuse. My family did not acknowledge that problems existed. My church did not dare speak of the spiritual nakedness of leadership or Church Corporate. They didn’t even talk about them, much less entertain a THOUGHT or confronting them. As a result, family members learned to pretend they could see that the king was wearing the finest royal garments. From there, they repressed emotions and disregarded their own spiritual needs. They became “survivors.” They developed behaviors that helped them deny, ignore, or avoid difficult emotions. They became churchoholics. Family and friends became detached and warped into introverted loners. They didn’t talk about the church nakedness (absence of God’s Spirit), about problems it was fostering or the abuse that was festering and spreading. They WERE AFRAID to bring up any of that or confront anyone about it—and many times forbidden by leadership to mention anything “negative.” They got to where they didn’t feel. They didn’t trust. The identity and emotional and spiritual development of my family and friends were CRITICALLY INHIBITED AND IMPAIRED. WE ALL BECAME CHURCH ADDICTS. We sacrificed our needs to take care of the naked, sick, pretending-to-be-whole church that was pretending to live for others—all the while living for themselves, yet not for themselves, BUT FOR HIM WHO WAS DECEITFULLY CONTROLLING THEM. We could not be our creative ‘selves’. Some tried to feel better through destructive lifestyles, and they became even more addicted—other addictions adding more guilt. Some developed compulsive behaviors like workaholism, alcoholism, gambling, or indiscriminate sexual activity. All this piled atop their churchoholic-driven souls: “Got to go to church. God is MAD at ME when I don’t go to church.” GUILT, GUILT, GUILT. Piling on. Bearing on down. I HAD GOOD INTENTIONS. I tried to help people and groups experiencing difficulty, but that developed into compulsive caretaking. That led to my taking on a martyr’s role to become a benefactor to a person or a church in need. I would cover up for the churchoholic preacher and make excuses for the church, using scriptures to back it up—thinking I was pleasing God. I didn’t want them to suffer the consequences of their own spiritually delinquent behavior. The problem was that these repeated rescue attempts only allowed the churches and leaders to continue on a destructive course to become even more dependent on the pope-ish, naked emperor-leader preacher or pastor—who was taking his whole ‘flock’ down deeper into the Hole of Despair. I developed a sense of reward and satisfaction from “being needed” by these churches (deceived into thinking I had the solutions!!). That made me addicted to being needed. What a convoluted MESS of confusion! Addicted to THAT; horrors! When the caretaking became compulsive, I felt choiceless and helpless in the spiritual and social relationships in church circles, BUT WAS UNABLE TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE CYCLE OF BEHAVIOR THAT CAUSED IT. YES; I WAS ADDICTED—A CHURCH ADDICT, and I couldn’t get free. In varying degrees of intensity, I exhibited the following characteristics: An EXAGGERATED sense of responsibility for the actions of others A tendency to confuse love and pity with the tendency to “love” people I could pity and rescue A tendency TO TRY TO DO MORE than my share, all of the time A tendency TO BECOME HURT when people didn’t recognize my efforts A tendency NOT TO REQUIRE CHANGE from one eating up part of my life. A BIGGY! A SENSE OF GUILT when asserting myself Problems with relationships/BOUNDARIES Overly concerned about OTHERS’ theology and beliefs about God A tendency to think the revelations of others must take precedence over mine This led to doubting my ability to hear and obey God so I could fulfill my destiny This INHIBITED my speaking with TOUGH-LOVE AUTHORITY from the Bible I became CONFUSED about where I fit into God’s plan; how to live pleasing to him I WAS A CHURCH ADDICT. A lot of Power, revelation, change and growth was necessary before this addiction was broken. A lot of desperate prayer, earnest searching of the Scriptures, and reading books of others on the same research. I had to learn to listen to the Holy Spirit and to say “no” when He said “no”; to be loving yet tough, and to rely on what God revealed to me out of the Bible. I found freedom, love, and serenity in my recovery. HOPE lies in learning more and growing more. As with any addiction, THE MORE YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT CHURCH ADDICTION, THE BETTER YOU CAN COPE WITH ITS EFFECTS. Being open to learn from others’ experiences and revelations from Scripture, and receiving help from them empowers me to live a healthier, more fulfilling life. I am able to love “church” people and leaders WITHOUT PRETENDING the king and his band are wearing righteous robes authorizing them to rule over me and my family. Yes. I was a churchoholic. But then when I woke up to this, I FELL RIGHT BACK INTO THE SAME TRAP, trying to un-trap others. Seeking desperately to spring others from the trap where I had been tormented for decades, I WAS CAUGHT IN THE TRAP of feeling like I could never give up on ANY ONE OF THEM! WHAT? Did I think I had become God just because he had freed me? These two traps have exacted a heavy, VERY heavy toll—but then, you wouldn’t know about that. You can’t relate. Or, can you? I learned that being a churchoholic was the spiritual state that Roman Emperor Constantine’s Christianity and church has been sweeping God-hungry souls into since 313-325 C.E. Satan has hurled the waters of a global tsunami on humanity, sweeping earnest souls into his slavery state all these centuries. What a MOST troubling—WHILE EXTREMELY LIBERATING— revelation to come into. Sobering, yet most exciting! True, I WAS carried along with the waves, seeing no signs of let up, and no calming cure in sight. NOT THE CASE ANY MORE! I say right here RIGHT NOW, “IT HAS ENDED! In Yeshua HaMashiach’s Mighty NAME. The Cure is come! The curse is GONE. And I mean to pass the Truth Serum on to you. But trust me, I will not get trapped again into being addicted to “saving” you. As someone has hard-suffered to well-learn, “He is ALL God—and I am PART!” Pass it on—‘cause: “It’s a chungle out there.” Church crap-traps on every corner. (I am indebted to www.nmha.org/go/codependency for some of the above expressions.) “Good” Church Is Not Church. Not really. Not spiritually. Good church is kingdom making a break for it. Kingdom awakening. Revival is not good church. Revival is God using the few kingdom-hungry souls caught in church to blow out the church walls for his Love to roll out all though the streets for his kingdom to come and his will to be done on earth like it is in heaven. He’s moving to ride his chariots through cultures with a flesh-burn Fire roaring the world over. Are you hungry for God’s Presence? Are you ready for BREAKOUT? For FREEDOM Christ has made us free! The hungry wannabes who are ready will burn over into the roaring, purifying flames and keep right on burning. The nevermind churchers and poachers tangled and mangled, burn back, away and down in Babylon Town ashes. Truly, this go-round, it is turn and burn in, or spurn and burn out. Out of God’s will being done in your life on earth as in heaven. 2. CHURCH. What it is and is NOT HOPE: Writings from theHOPEtank and on www.israelheartbeat.com are for those with a passionate desire to be “sons of Issachar,” to know what’s going on in this season and what Messianic Israel and engrafted gentiles should do to cooperate, as co-workers, with God’s purpose for HIS creation and all creatures therein. This may shock you: Church is NOT a PHYSICAL building. Church is NOT a PHYSICAL group of people. Church IS, at its very core, an invisible, supernaturally evil FORM of MANAGING people. Never has one missed translation led to more missed understanding, missed direction, missed and dissed information than that of Matthew 16:13-20. It is the cause of countless people being misdirected, misled, mistrained, and misspent. It is an utter and absolute tragedy of the worst proportion imaginable, causing temporal devastation and eternal damnation of human lives. God have mercy on those who perpetuate it—and those who compromise on it when they are awakened. In the Old Testament: Satan masqueraded his way into God’s work of Eden. Once gaining AN ENTRANCE through Eve’s heart, he had a foothold-presence beachhead from which to wage war FROM WITHIN the garden. In the New Testament: Satan masqueraded his way into God’s WORD on Jerusalem. Once gaining AN ENTRANCE through translators’ PENS, he had a foothold-presence beachhead from which to WAGE WAR FROM WITHIN THE BIBLE. He gained this foothold—MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT—when he FORCED translators under penalty of death to translate the Greek word ekklesia as church. From that first book in the Bible, and from that first mistranslation of that ONE word, Satan skewed in HIS direction ALL THE REMAINDER OF THE BIBLE through the MISUNDERSTANDING of that ONE word that is referred to more than 100 times—on out through The Revelation. All these generations, Holy Spirit has been flashing HUGE red Lights of “STOP! STOP! STOP!” Men compromised, went around the signs and drove on—carrying us with them in our blinded state. We depended on them TOO LONG. Enough a’ready! BUT NOW—at the LAST of the Last Days of this old order—NOW—in OUR Day, God is burning through to us with his eyes of Fire to HEED THE FLASHING LIGHTS and respond to the early bugle call of Messianic Israel’s shofar. Under His glorious Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation our understanding is resurrected through the mind of Messiah, alive in us, to lay hold of THE TRUTH that “church” from its devious intrusive, inserted-inset was to distract and divert us from “kingdom” in order to prevent Yeshua Messiah from being called back to earth’s Jerusalem by Messianic Jews. Here’s a little list you may have fun with (if you don’t get mad about it). You Could Be a Churchneck 1. If you leave a church meeting glad God’s through with you for another week, you could be a churchneck. 2. If you leave a church meeting feeling like you’re through with God for another week, you could be a churchneck. 3. If you’re REALLY tired of being a part of chin and grin in the meetings, growl and scowl pretend afterwards—and you keep going there—you could be a churchneck. 4. If you’ve been ‘tending for a spell, see NO connection between what’s going on in there and what’s happening in the real world—and you keep going there—you could be a churchneck. 5. If you hear the word “kingdom” and the first thing comes to mind is a meeting hall of a well known cult, you could be a churchneck. 6. If you’ve been going to meetings listening to sermons and lessons on how God’s gonna do a “beam us up, Scottie” and leave creation to Satan, you could be a churchneck. 7. If you’re going to church meetings where Israel NEVER comes up—and you’re still going there—you could be a churchneck. 8. If somebody mentions Israel and your first HEART-response is “who cares?”, you could be a churchneck. 9. If Israel is often mentioned in “your” group, and not a dimed thing is ever DONE for Messianic Israel—and it’s still “your” group—you could be a churchneck. 10. If nobody in your religious group has ever taught you the difference between secular Israel and Messianic Israel—and you’re still giving your dime to that group, you could be a churchneck. 11. If nobody’s ever taught you that true non-Jew Jesus-followers are grafted into and made ONE BODY with Messianic Israel—and you’re still all gungho where you’ve been learning for more than a month—you could be a churchneck. 12. If you leave church guilt-loaded to the gills that you will NEVER be able to live right and do enough for Him so that God really likes you—and you keep going back THERE—you could be a churchneck. 13. If your kids keep telling you “this sucks”, and deep down you know it’s so, but you keep dragging ‘em to the dragon’s church pit—you could be a churchneck. 14. If you have a hard time imagining Jesus and the early eagles requiring all the bells and whistles your favorite preachers and church require “for the ministry,”—and you keep putting in the plate—you could be a churchneck. 15. If you scrape your pennies together for “Pastor’s Day” so your pastor gets a top o’ the line Caddy every year and gets to spend more than you make in a week on his week’s laundry and dry cleaning bill, and you keep doing it, you could be a churchneck. 16. If you go to church and a so-called brother keeps putting his hands on the women who make it clear they don’t want him to, leadership says, “Oh just pray for him,” and do nothing—and you keep going there (or taking your wife there)—you could be a churchneck. 17. If someone preaches a sermon from the Bible on being filled with the Holy Spirit, offers prayer with laying on of hands; people fill the front and aisles for prayer; the pastor whispers, “Do NOT lay hands on these people!”—and you’re still preaching or going there, you could be a churchneck. What’s a churchneck? A neck that tries to turn the body away from kingdom on earth to church on the broadway layaway and flyaway. 4. First Pope Peter? Roman Hokey Poked Us Below is the Original Crime Scene. I have broken it down into 10 segments for examination. Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ (or Messiah) 13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, (1) "Who do MEN say that I, THE SON OF MAN, AM?" 14 So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15 He said to them, (2) "BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?" 16 Simon Peter answered and said, (3) "YOU ARE THE CHRIST, (4) THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD." 17 Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for (5) FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO YOU, BUT MY FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN. 18 "And I also say to you that (6) YOU ARE PETER, (7) AND ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY (8) CHURCH, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 "And (9) I WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, and (10) WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH WILL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN, AND WHATEVER YOU LOOSE ON EARTH WILL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN." 20 Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ. 21 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. Matt 16:13-21 (NKJV) Let’s go over the scene as honestly as we can, considering our pre-disposed, prejudicial bias in this case. “Help us, Holy Spirit of Revelation!” L. #3 EXCUSE ME LADY, MAY I HAVE YOUR DRAGON’S LAST DANCE? LADY SHULAMI AND MIDWIFE JEZZI: 21ST CENTURY’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL READ CONTINUES Here’s What’s Looking At You Foreword: You Put Up With It Introduction: Annie’s Got Her Itch Up 1 Dance: Author’s Bettin’ On Donkeys 2 Dance: Call Her Shulami 3 Dance: Those Trains Are Running Again 4 Dance: God Does Not Want You… 5 Dance: Kingdom Enough 6 Dance: Life In The Blood 7 Dance: Blood On The Wind 8 Dance: Created To Do... 9 Dance: Goshen: Bubl Thru Trubl 10 Dance: The Woman’s Got a Husband 11 Dance: Smoking Oven’s Burning Torch 12 Dance: Israeli Captain Rides To Rescue 13 Dance: Dragon’s Last Add-On 1: Displacing Church With Kingdom Add-On 2: More Scripts For Convenience Add-On 3: Heidi Baker & “Chariots of Fire” Meet Shulami: Now a great sign was seen in heaven — a woman...pregnant and about to give birth, and SHE SCREAMED in the AGONY OF LABOR...about to give birth.... Rev 12:1-4 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) Now Meet Jezzi: In the Spirit...I saw a woman...dressed in purple and scarlet, festooned with gold and gems and pearls. She held a gold chalice in her hand....I could see that the woman was drunk, DRUNK ON THE BLOOD of God's holy people, DRUNK ON THE BLOOD of the martyrs of Jesus. Astonished, I rubbed my eyes. I shook my head in wonder. Rev 17:3-8 THEMESSAGE (MSG) And The Dragon: A great Sign appeared in Heaven: a Woman dressed all in sunlight, standing on the moon, and crowned with Twelve Stars. SHE WAS GIVING BIRTH to a Child and cried out IN THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH. And then another Sign...: A HUGE AND FIERY DRAGON!.... With one flick of its tail it knocked a third of the Stars from the sky and dumped them on earth. THE DRAGON CROUCHED before the Woman in childbirth, POISED TO EAT up the Child when it came. Rev 12:1-4 (MSG) Hello Jesus; Do We Need You! "Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. YOUR KINGDOM COME. Your will be done, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.” Matt 6:9-10 (NASB) So It Ends This Way The Beast [Dragon] you saw...is about to ascend from the Abyss and HEAD STRAIGHT FOR HELL (Rev 17:8 MSG). Then I saw A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH... I saw the holy city, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN out of heaven from God.... And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and GOD HIMSELF WILL BE AMONG THEM...." And He who sits on the throne said, "BEHOLD, I AM MAKING ALL THINGS NEW" (Rev 21:1-5 (NASB). ‘Just thought you’d like to know up front—before we deal with the dragon. FOREWORD: YOU PUT UP WITH IT As long as I put up with it, I will get it. And I can’t call it rape when I’m consenting before witnesses, cooperating, and begging for more action. Apostle Paul wrote: I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your MINDS may be corrupted from THE SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST. 4 For if he who comes preaches ANOTHER JESUS whom we have not preached, or if you receive a DIFFERENT SPIRIT which you have not received, or a DIFFERENT GOSPEL which you have not accepted—YOU PUT UP WITH IT. YOU...PUT UP WITH IT! Such are: --FALSE Apostles, --DECEITFUL Workers, --TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For --SATAN HIMSELF TRANSFORMS HIMSELF into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if HIS MINISTERS Also Transform Themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works... --YOU PUT UP WITH FOOLS gladly... YOU PUT UP WITH IT: if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face.... from 2 Cor 11:1-33 (NKJV) Ponder Points: Satan has ministers. Satan transforms himself. Satan’s ministers transform themselves. Satan’s ministers come bringing a different spirit—and you put up with it. Satan’s ministers preach a different gospel—and you put up with it. Satan’s ministers are deceitful workers—and you put up with it. Satan’s ministers bring you into bondage—and you put up with it. Satan’s ministers devour you—and you put up with it. Satan’s ministers take from you—and you put up with it. Satan’s ministers exalt themselves—and you put up with it. Satan’s ministers strike you—and you put up with it. Why? Why Do You Put Up With It? Because THEY DECEIVED YOU! You must wake up and snap out. HOW? How did they deceive you? HOW can you snap out of it? When you get this, you WILL wake up, snap out of it, and get OUT FROM UNDER the Constantine-brand Churchianity’s ongoing evil orgy. They tricked you by giving you ANOTHER jesus! Not the One Paul preached. Is the One Paul preached the One you have? HOW DO YOU KNOW? How can you tell? --Paul’s Jesus (Jewish name: Yeshua) is a Jew and HE LOVES ISRAEL. Israel is his priority. --He is NOT coming back until Israel calls him back.(Matt 23:37-39) --He alone can defeat Satan and take the world back to his Papa who made it. --He WILL come back when Israel calls him back as their King to do just that. --He WILL rule 1000 years on earth THROUGH his faithful Family servers to do just that. Is this the Jesus your preacher is bringing to you and revealing to you? Is this the Jesus whose plan he/she is following? If not, THEY HAVE THE WRONG jesus. Plain and simple. If your preacher is all about church and NOTHING about a MESSIANIC-ISRAEL-CENTERED KINGDOM, your preacher has the wrong jesus. He has a DIFFERENT spirit, and YOU, my friend, are caught in the Spider’s Web, being lulled to sleep under a DIFFERENT GOSPEL than the one Paul preached. So who do you trust more—your preacher or Apostle Paul? “Well Pelham, I’m sticking with my preacher and praying for him/her. He/she’ll come around.” You’re PUTTING UP WITH IT. Hoping they’ll “catch on?” THEY WON’T. You’re in trouble. They are LOCKED inside The Church Cant-hepit Penitentiary run by Israel-absent, demonized ministers (as advertised above by faithful Apostle Paul). They are TOO SCARED to be any part of a jailbreak. Question is: ARE YOU? The fearful will die in their church rut PUTTING UP WITH IT, and not inherit the kingdom of God. What are your preacher’s credentials? Here are a few of Paul’s: Paul’s Credentials --Are they servants of the Messiah? (I’m talking like a madman!) I’m a better one! --I’ve worked much harder, --been imprisoned more often, --suffered more beatings, --been near death over and over. --Five times I received “forty lashes less one” from the Jews. --Three times I was beaten with rods. --Once I was stoned. --Three times I was shipwrecked. --I spent a night and a day in the open sea. --In my many travels I have been exposed to danger from rivers, --danger from robbers, --danger from my own people, --danger from Gentiles, --danger in the city, --danger in the desert, --danger at sea, --danger from false brothers. --I have toiled and endured hardship, --often not had enough sleep, --been hungry and thirsty, --frequently gone without food, --been cold and naked. --And besides these external matters, there is the daily pressure of my anxious concern for all the congregations. Who is weak without my sharing his weakness? Who falls into sin without my burning inside? (from 2 Cor 11:23-29 CJB) BY THE WAY, this IS the Jew who GAVE HIS LIFE to get the gospel of the kingdom to non Jews. Do you have a clue what is going on all over your world right NOW? Does ANYONE believe this 21st century train can be stopped without Paul’s Yeshua coming back to Israel with His Papa’s armies? If so, they gotta be blind-brain dead. We are headed for Zechariah 14 in a culture that’s hell on wheels with Haman at the throttle—by permission of God-on-Fire, ENRAGED over the treatment given HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL! It’s “Look out, Lottie” time! The Simplicity That Is In Christ: --Only Yeshua coming back to Israel can stop (or slow) Train 21. --Only Israel can call Yeshua back. --Only MESSIANIC Israel is positioned BY GOD to get Israel to call Yeshua back. --Only by LIVING as one with Messianic Israel can I have part in getting God to send Yeshua back to stop or slow Train 21. --Come on. Convince me I ought to be crying over church’s weak readings on the Last Days’ People Preparedness Meter. Church was INVENTED to replace kingdom and Israel, thereby ABDICATING earth and her populations to Satan. On earth as in heaven comes about fully ONLY when enough Jews are calling Yeshua Lord— and back to Israel as King. (Matt 23) Therefore, when I am hooked to and daily pouring my whole life into the MESSIANIC’S get-Israel-into-her-Yeshua-loving-destiny bin, I am a heaven conscious and God-kingdom relevant part of the solution to world peace. ANYWHERE short of that, AT BEST, I am irrelevant, part of the problem, and adding weight to it every time I breathe. But I’m after Paul’s Jesus. I like their same-set of credentials. And yourself? ‘Think you’re too old to break out now? ‘NEVER too old to get free, my friend! You may be too contrary, but not too old. How old was Abe when he heard God say, “Get outta Dodge?” 75. Read it: Now ADONAI said to Avram, “GET YOURSELF OUT of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and YOU ARE TO BE A BLESSING. I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU (Abraham), but I will curse anyone who curses you; and BY YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED.” So Avram went, as ADONAI had said to him, and Lot went with him. AVRAM WAS 75 YEARS OLD WHEN HE LEFT Haran. (Gen 12:1-4 CJB) Non Jewish believers are grafted into believing Israel so you gotta line in and can hook up—if you will. Both Paul and Yeshua are in Abraham’s line. Through Paul’s Yeshua, you can be too. You’re not too old to BLESS ABRAHAM’S SEED, MESSIANIC ISRAEL, and be a blessing to all the families of the earth by LIVING grafted into True (Messianic) Israel. (See Romans 9-12) INTRODUCTION: ANNIE’S GOT HER ITCH UP Annie (as in ‘annie’-christ) itch traffic has peaked across the globe. Missives from the Twisted Mister are going out through the air from his church headquarters for his minions to manipulate maddened mankind’s masses. Sonman stepped out and swung with all his might to stick his Diamond-point pick-axe into the rocky Land’s War Book. It stuck. When he yanked it back, a peephole popped open to a level of never before seen treasure-filled rooms. He saw them; saw how the entrance to them was being blocked, and what to do about it. A sign. And he wondered—couldn’t help it if he wondered. But he knew why Annie had her itch on—and couldn’t wait to scratch. Annie was against (‘anti’)—and—in favor of REPLACING—any kind of kingdom-birthing with church Smurfing. Annie no-likee Holy Most Brooding-over to birth. Holy Brooding-Over Creativity 1. Over the face of the waters to birth earth 2. Over Rebekah to birth Esau & Jacob 3. Over Miriam to birth Yeshua from the womb 4. Over a believer to birth Yeshua from the human spirit 5. Over all believers in the heavenlies for Yeshua and his whole family to be birthed out of heaven into earth to change the ages. Sonman had found his spirit Brooded over and whirled about by Heaven to face head-on the endtime, gloat-bloated, full-throated Annie-Messiah, punch-drunk, churchneck religionists who make Haman-Hitler’s Jew-Slaughtering Third Reich Kingdom look like kindergarteners playing Kill Baby in church nurseries under Ku Klux Klan sheets. Sonman lost his appetite for everything except to taste the promised Jesus Justice Thrust to erupt the Constantine church crust with a Messianic Israel–centered, Final Reich Wakeup. The woman in hard labor and screaming in agony to give birth has already gone through this process—in another realm, in another dimension, another age of time and space. All other Hovering and Brooding was prepping for this ultimate delivery. In this birth, the Jacob twin coming out is still holding the heel of the Esau twin in front. THIS time, however, the grip is not to supplant but to impart power into Esau’s heel and throughout his body for him to lead the way out and break water for both as one to be born out, creating and entering fully into Abba’s new age together. Hang On To Your Holy Most Hat The last one out (Jacob as Yeshua) is last THIS TIME because, since the other preppings, he has descended to the lowest place, conquered, and then ascended to the highest, and is pushing his way out behind his highly Glory-Charged brother Esaus-all-made-one into One Regenerated Israel Nation. In the prepping birth from Miriam, Yeshua (Jacob) was the first one out of the Womb of the Morning (through Miriam). The first one out of that womb and the first one to go in to the Far Country (heavenlies). There he re-possessed authority given man (Adam) long ago and long since given UP (by that same Adam). He came back down to His near country and offered this full authority to his twin Esau (Israel, not yet having entered into the New Covenant promised through Jeremiah and the prophets). The twin from the Far Country (Jacob/Yeshua) left the near country to be ruled over by his twin (Esau WHO RECEIVED JACOB (YESHUA) as Father’s authority holder and giver), promising to help him from the Far Country (along with His Papa) whenever he needed and asked for it. THROUGH empowering this twin (the Jacob-receiving Esau), Papa and Son will rule earth with him. But he is given license and authority to take and hold dominion and rule over all that is not in Far Country (heaven). Therefore, the kingdom rule of a new heaven and new earth is by both brothers as one accepting the double-barreled revelation on earth from their Father in Far Country. One Simon Peter (Esau) and One Yeshua HaMashiach (Jacob) (Matt 16:16ff). Twin first-born (Esau) says to the now heel-holding Empire-Empoweror twin (Jacob/Israel), “All I have is yours because without you going into the Low Place, ascending to the High Country and coming back to Empower me to bruise Satan’s head with my fiery heel, I never would have had power to take dominion and possess The Land. I would have brought forth nothing but bad gas and possessed nothing except Dragon terror, death of darkness, and despair of destruction. Here. It is all yours—for our Papa’s sake. And Jacob said, “It is all OURS for Papa’s sake. So it was theirs together—two brothers, one kingdom in Israel under One Loving Father—and a whole great big family stretching throughout creation. Rev 12:1-6 (CJB) Now a great sign was seen in heaven — a woman clothed with the sun, under her feet the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and about to give birth, and SHE SCREAMED IN THE AGONY OF LABOR. Another sign was seen in heaven: there was a great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns... Its tail swept a third of the stars out of heaven and threw them down to the earth. IT STOOD IN FRONT OF THE WOMAN about to give birth, so that it might devour the child THE MOMENT it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, the one who will RULE ALL THE NATIONS WITH A STAFF OF IRON. But her child was SNATCHED UP to God and his throne; and she fled into the desert, where she has a place prepared by God so that she can be taken care of for 1,260 days. Rev 12:1-6 (CJB) It Happened, Is Happening, Shall Happen Her Child was born. Her Son was snatched up to God and his throne. Part of the prepping. She did flee into the desert. She was taken care of there in a place prepared by God until the time allotted by her Husband had run out. This Sonman does/shall rule all the nations with a staff of iron by being birthed out of Heaven again—a MAN OF WAR CHILD OF THE SAME WOMAN, coming this time with His Papa and all the New Covenant, reborn Jacobs and Esaus. The same Woman who Brooded on the face of the waters in creation; the same Woman who Brooded over the waters of Miriam’s flesh in Incarnation creation. The same Woman who Brooded over Israel NATION for impregnation; the same Woman who Brooded over all humans WHO WOULD LET HER; the same Woman who is now screaming in hard labor to birth the One New Man Creation out THROUGH ISRAEL NATION into earth’s atmosphere. Next I saw The Womb opened... He (the one coming out now) had a Name written which no one knew the first time He came but Himself... “He will RULE THEM WITH A STAFF OF IRON.” (SAME SERVANT/SON/NATION Isaiah saw) ... on His robe and on His thigh He has a Name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. (See Rev 19.) “Move over, little kings, ‘cause BIG KING’S moving in!” That’s why Anti itch is NOW peaked. Annie has tried to REPLACE it all, and having failed miserably at that, he is now AGAINST it all coming down—NOW—ALL AT ONCE--ALTOGETHER. He has his church BUSY, promising his perverted puppets “LATER—PLENTY OF TIME. At least 2 or 3 DECADES.” He KNOWS better, but he’s desperate to keep YOU from learning that. He wants to keep you sucking a sugar-tit bag, hugging your spiritually sick church-lifestyle and tucking it all in, nice and comfy, every night with a peck on its check and a measure of its treasure. HOW DO YOU FIGURE that’ll work out for all your family and friends, let alone all of God’s, when The DAY comes like Zechariah reveals in 12-14? When The DAY comes like Noah’s day? Everybody doing lifestyle as usual until the TSUNAMI SWEPT them all away? Off their beds, businesses, and beaches. The DAY like Lot’s day when fire and sulfur rained down? Let that weigh on your heart next time you’re tempted to stroke fur ILO stoking fire. “Wellllllllll------now you know Rome wasn’t built in a day. We have to use wisdom. Folk’s been saying time was short ever since I can remember. Let’s not get all worked up and carried away. People will think we’re fanatics. It could affect our business, not to mention our social lifestyle. ‘Know what I’m sayin’? Don’t worry about it, bless your heart. I know you mean well, BUT CHILL! God understands and he lovvves you. Night night; sleep tight.” And you never saw her again. In the night—that VERY night... 1 DANCE: AUTHOR’S BETTIN’ ON DONKEYS M. #4 LOOK PAPA! NO MORE CHOKEHOLD! I AM NOW FREE TO FINISH YOUR KINGDOM HERE ON EARTH! FORMERLY: “CHOKEHOLD: Churchers Choose Kingdom-Building in lieu of Church Stuff” Personal, Pelham: Why NOT “JOIN the Church?” Introduction: The List I. Church is a Hoax, Born in a Swindle II. What is This Church Thing We Gentiles Invented? III. Church God-Doom-it vs Israel-Be-Domed IV. “Repent for the Church is at Hand”? (Jesus Said That?) V. Will You Please Think About It? VI. Church Is One Bad-Dam Water-Blocker VII. What’s a Dam Anyway? VIII. Why Churchers Missed “The Third Great Awakening” IX. “_ _urch” is a Knockoff ? Hell-Oh Bummer! X. To Get to Heaven You Go Through Israel XI. Upon This Rock I Will Build My Israel-Centered Kingdom 49 XII. Keep Contending Earnestly for THE Faith XIII. THE Truth: Love it or Lose It XIV. Ekklesia Prayer, Faith Decree, Kingdom Pledge & Song XV. Ekklesia Accurately Translated XVI. The Final Solution Conclusion APPENDIX: See also www.IsraelHeartbeat.com, www.amazon.com (& Kindle Reader), YouTube: “panamajackshopeshack”, “oldgrossgoat”, “thomaspelhamgross”, etc. Church is not the building – Even with a steeple But the best news is – Church is NOT the people Personal Word from Pelham: Why NOT “JOIN the Church?” “Free at last, free at last; thank God ALMIGHTY, I’m free at Last.” Dr. M.L. King I was in Memphis TN that night – with a fully integrated group. For a fly-through of my life, visit www.amazon.com, Author’s Biography: Thomas Pelham Gross. I’ll add to that. But why have I spent the last decade writing to express from Scripture Israel’s place in God’s plan, and expose from the Bible that church is really Babylon wearing a mask, a humanistic mask, thus making church a masquerader? I have answered that here and there in 20 books, 40 clips, and numerous articles, but seek to summarize it here. I write down-to-earth, honest and, yes, sometimes in-your-face – to get your attention so you will go to the Bible and search out truth for yourself. Those hungry for truth don’t have to be babied. And the promise is: “Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.” Hopefully, I will also stir hunger in those living like they are spiritually “rich and needing nothing” – not knowing they’re headed for hell on a religiously man-plan train. Dietrich Bonheoffer said, “It does no good to run the aisle in the opposite direction when your train is going the wrong way.” I have been able to hold a steady course on this challenge for ten years, not because of a theologically well-trained intellectual mind, but because I was firmly gripped by the Spirit of Almighty God in a truth explosion. It blew wide open the mind of Messiah in me and I could see Israel’s role in the Bible being played out today on the world scene. The Holy Spirit genuinely, thoroughly and supernaturally convinced me forever that the reason God saved my life from a van wreck on November 16, 1966 was to do the work I have done the past ten years. (The local newspaper in Kenedy, Texas reported me killed in the wreck.) Daddy had come to sit with me in The Santa Rosa Medical Center. The nurses said to him, “We are bilingual but he keeps speaking some language none of us recognize.” Daddy explained that I was praying a heavenly language in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit was making intercession through me and for me because I lay unconscious for days. It was hard for me to fully understand why God would spare me and work with me from 1966 until 2001 to do one particular thing. “The Jews and the Blues” book was published in 2003. By then I had realized that the Spirit had plunged me way in over my head in fresh revelation of truth. No longer did I “have a message.” The message of truth had me. I had become the message. I was living out truth and writing as I lived it. Opposition? We don’t need to talk about that, do we? Read the title again – and imagine the furor. Some fury came directly from the dark side by demonic attack. Often, it came through people – sometimes sincerely concerned about my welfare (and/or sanity!) But when you’re not your own, you remember things like what Paul said, “At my first defense NO MAN stood with me – BUT GOD DID!” And – “David encouraged himself in the Lord when all of his own men were plotting to kill him.” Then one day the full impact hit me. When the Spirit had revealed enough truth for me to clearly see “church” as it really is and for what it really is, who formed it and the strategy behind it, I EXPERIENCED beyond any hint of doubt that God had saved me, delivered me, kept and protected me, fed me truth and provided for me in his great love through trials you’d have trouble believing. He hammered me with the Word of God by the Spirit of God so that TRUTH was and is what I live for. And revealing the FULL truth of the kingdom of heaven includes EXPOSING what lies behind the demonic-spiritual jailhouse men call “CHURCH.” One paper I read in my research was called: “One Word that Changed the World”. And truly it did. That one word “church” used to mistranslate the Greek word “ekklesia” changed the world’s spiritual road sign. Instead of pointing traffic to Jerusalem where the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH is headquartered, it swung the sign around to point to “CHURCH”. Only those who smelled (by the Spirit) something dead in Denmark looked carefully enough to discover that “CHURCH” had been painted over another word – the word “BABYLON”. As for all those years with considerable testing in holding ground with Dr. Martin Luther King in the middle of The Bible Belt in Memphis TN, it was all to forge a vessel that could and would search by the Holy Spirit until truth was revealed and then, by the grace of God, stand on it and tell it just like it is so those hungering and thirsting for the righteousness that comes from truth could grasp it. Here’s a sample. Maybe this is where you get off. I hope not. You would live to regret it. But my hands are clean of your blood. Why NOT “JOIN the CHURCH?” ‘Cause It Ain’t What It Looks Like; It Ain’t What It Acts Like, And It Ain’t What It’s Advetised To Be. And Yet “Church” Is God’s Crowning Romans 8:28 Masterpiece – Exposed, Naked, On Display Heaven and Earth. Spiritually Speaking (From a KINGDOM Perspective and Church Practice)): 1. “church” is a bastard bin. 2. “church” is a beast. 3. “church” is a blood waster. 4. “church” is a bloodsucker. 5. “church” is a bride replacer. 6. “church” is a bridegroom replacer. 7. “church” is a bridler. 8. “church” is a bundler. 9. “church” is a burglar. 10. “church” is a buzzard’s buffet. 11. “church” is a carnivore. 12. “church” is a casket closed. 13. “church” is a chained gang. 14. “church” is a chameleon. 15. “church” is a child-whore. 16. “church” is a chore house. 17. “church” is a christian cave. 18. “church” is a concept. 19. “church” is a constabulary. 20. “church” is a controller. 21. “church” is a copycat’s pair-o-dice. 22. “church” is a covenant killer. 23. “church” is a creativity killer. 24. “church” is a crisis breeder. 25. “church” is a crowded coven. 26. “church” is a deception. 27. “church” is a demon. 28. “church” is a dragon drooling. 29. “church” is a fairy’s fancy. 30. “church” is a fake. 31. “church” is a good news instead-of. 32. “church” is a gospel replacer. 33. “church” is a habit. 34. “church” is a hitchhiker. 35. “church” is a Holy Spirit replacer. 36. “church” is a home for every unclean flying bird dropping unclean gospel. 37. “church” is a home to say-a-prayer, zoom on up there gospel. 38. “church” is a hypocrite hangout. 39. “church” is a Jezebel’s palace. 40. “church” is a killer. 41. “church” is a kingdom come-alongside. 42. “church” is a kingdom instead-of. 43. “church” is a kingdom lookalike. 44. “church” is a kingdom replacer. 45. “church” is a kingdomless corral. 46. “church” is a leech. 47. “church” is a leviathan. 48. “church” is a liar, liar, pants on fire. 49. “church” is a manipulator. 50. “church” is a masquerader. 51. “church” is a Messiah instead-of. 52. “church” is a Messiah replacer. 53. “church” is a misdirection. 54. “church” is a misnomer. 55. “church” is a mistranslation. 56. “church” is a monster mad. 57. “church” is a NIXIT. 58. “church” is a paradigm. 59. “church” is a people pen. 60. “church” is a power. 61. “church” is a pretender pool. 62. “church” is a principality. 63. “church” is a prison. 64. “church” is a prostitution institution. 65. “church” is a rapist repose. 66. “church” is a rebel-rouser. 67. “church” is a religion. 68. “church” is a replacer, anti, instead-of GOD—period. 69. “church” is a robber. 70. “church” is a Satan Center. 71. “church” is a seducer. 72. “church” is a serpent. 73. “church” is a sinner’s sucker bait. 74. “church” is a snake den. 75. “church” is a soul stealer. 76. “church” is a spirit of anti-christ. 77. “church” is a spirit of anti-gospel. 78. “church” is a spirit of anti-Israel. 79. “church” is a spirit of anti-Jew. 80. “church” is a spirit of anti-kingdom. 81. “church” is a spirit of anti-messiah. 82. “church” is a spirit of anti-Semitism. 83. “church” is a spirit of split ‘n’ git. 84. “church” is a spirit. 85. “church” is a splitter. 86. “church” is a sure-thing left-behind. 87. “church” is a talent taker. 88. “church” is a thief. 89. “church” is a thought system. 90. “church” is a time eater. 91. “church” is a vampire graveyard. 92. “church” is a witch’s wonderland. 93. “church” is an adulterer’s avenue. 94. “church” is an imitator’s dream come true. 95. “church” is an imposter. 96. “church” is an innovator’s jungle. 97. “church” is an interceptor. 98. “church” is an interrupter. 99. “church” is an inventor’s nightmare. 100. “church” is an investor’s Black Monday. 101. “church” is an Israel instead-of. 102. “church” is an Israel replacer. 103. “church” is an Israel-absent mirage. 104. “church” is an opposer. 105. “church” is an unholy temple. 106. “church” is compromiser’s corral. 107. “church” is dissolver. 108. “church” is evil’s presence. 109. “church” is fallen and can’t get up. 110. “church” is Israel-absent. 111. “church” is Israel-idle. 112. “church” is Israel-ignorant. 113. “church” is not a FIXIT. 114. “church” is not broken. It’s doing what Satan started it to do. 115. “church” is not Life oriented. 116. “church” is not permanent. 117. “church” is not renewable. 118. “church” is not restorable. 119. “church” is not revivable. (It was never vived to start with. 120. “church” is not the body of Messiah Yeshua. 121. “church” is not the bride of Messiah Yeshua. 122. “church” is not what Messiah Yeshua heads up. 123. “church” is not what/who Messiah Yeshua died for. 124. “church” is not what/who Messiah Yeshua is coming back for. 125. “church” is not who Yeshua takes to Jerusalem when he comes back. 126. “church” is not what/who will pray Yeshua Messiah back. 127. “church” is Presence absence. 128. “church” is prognosticator paradise. 129. “church” is prophetic-prohibitive. 130. “church” is prophet-pouncing. 131. “church” is regulated disorder. 132. “church” is sin waiting at the door. 133. “church” is temporary. 134. “church” is Trick City. 135. “church” is Whorehouse Headquarters. Again, “church” is God’s crowning Romans 8:28 masterpiece now put out on display. ‘Proof positive He is able to make ALL THINGS work together for good TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM and are called according to his kingdom purpose, following him to the death obediently as King of the Jews. ALL that Satan dreamed up when he invented church, all with which he purposed to compete with, overthrow and replace kingdom, all his strategies, tactics, methods, devices and intentions—ALL of that God simply used for a season to give reprieve from physical slaughter for his faithful remnant in the nations and Israel so they wouldn’t be wiped off the face of the map. God “created the waster to destroy.” This season lasted until God had enough faithful and obedient Messianic Jews back in the Land of Israel to form his faithful, re-born nation-Israeli remnant. Now, to this faithful Jewish remnant, God, as he has all along, continues the grafting of believing Gentiles into the Israel olive tree of Life and adopting them into his one new man, Israel-hearted creation from each of the nations. One new kingdom-Man Creature, Jew and Gentile. BUT WHO KNEW? No wonder Yeshua wept over Jerusalem and his guts cried out prayer down over his people standing under his crossbars: “Father, forgive them; they have no understanding of what they do.” He saw them; he heard them; he felt them; he KNEW them: “They are like sheep without a shepherd.” Their shepherds had sold them for money, prestige, power, pleasure, and ‘winewomen-and-song’. He may have died crying, Mack; but he’s coming back balling the jack. Introduction: The List I’m hoping for the highly coveted “Prestigious Church-Championing Award of 2013 from The Traditional Foundation of Ecclesiastical and Sociological Replacement Theological Studies, The Triple Six Humanistic Society, The Educational Endeavors of North American and International Christendom Throughout the Known World”. Of course, it would not be at all proper for me to seek your influence on my behalf. Personally, considering the title, I feel I am a shoo-in for this well deserved honor from my colleagues. Read the paper and see if you think it’s a done deal. You don’t think so? But you didn’t read it yet! Oh, the chapter titles; I see. Oh well, if one is writing what the God of Abraham and Yeshua reveals to him from the Bible, and doing it as the Holy Spirit prompts, who gives a rip stitch about medals from men, right? ‘Not my problem. 1. It’s not nice to steal, even from pagans. The first owner of the word ‘church’ is Satan through unbelieving Emperor Constantine and his Mystery Religion, Babylon. The devil should get to keep his religious ‘church’ word; he should get the judgment for all he does connected with it. 2. Yeshua NEVER originated, propagated, or defended church. He humbled himself all the way through suffering death upon a cross and, most graciously, brought the kingdom of God down out of heaven from his Father to put it close enough for us to touch, enter, and possess. 3. It’s not kosher to trick people who are trusting, trying, crying, and many dying literally for a resurrected-Yeshua lifestyle, praying and working in the grace of God that His KINGDOM come, His will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven. 4. Church is like endless cereal aisles at a seriously Super Wal-Mart Center. 5. Church can’t walk without falling down all over itself and begging for prop-ups and handouts as it chalks out a smudgy line to live by and claws at all who dare cross it. 6. Church is one big ill-formed monster-baby: fat, sloppy, mean, ugly, lazy, rebellious, devious, treacherous and downright nasty, refusing all patient and loving efforts to potty train it. Even God’s “nursery workers”, willing to clean up the dirtiest are rejected and their training refused. 7. SOME-dumbs would actually have me believe that Yeshua did the Mel Gibson Movie thing to end up with THAT for a “bride”. Sensible folk would not expect, let alone try to REQUIRE that I support THAT! Give my life Jesus died to give me in order to propagate that unprogrammed robotic church offspring (described above)? Give me a breah! Christ loved THAT and gave Himself for THAT? And THAT’S all? THAT’S the end of the story? I-I-I don’t think so. 8. If they want to talk ‘bride’, excuse me, but I think they’ll discover that either somebody switched women (in John’s Revelation) or switched name tags on the women—when they thought nobody was looking. You’d think me an arrogant dogmatic if I told you I know who did it—way back ‘fore we were born. 9. It’s not nice to worship an idol. Not even if it sports a shiny, solid 14k front-tag that shouts “Bride of Christ.” I hear another voice, “Not everyone who SAYS... but he who DOES...” 10. My children, grands and greats could not possibly be proud of a papa caught in a stolen vehicle—owned by a Con. “But officer I didn’t know the vehicle carrying me right-along (really wrong-along) was stolen—from THE DEVIL!” Ticket: “For possession of stolen property (i.e., the word ‘church’).” “Tell it to the Judge.” 11. Churchers wear Name brand ‘Pretenders’, supported by offender x defender suspenders. No soul surrenders. They are offending God on one shoulder and defending the devil on the other—calling good evil and evil good. These suspenders are stretch-loaded, holding up baby-monster ‘Pretender’ diapers drooping to a moon-God level from waste-weight, and no waist-belt of Truth to hold up such heavy loaded, stinky-bitch britches. 12. Church can lowdown ‘gitchu kilt’ spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, socially, and on-n-on. If you want to get hurt, go to church! 13. Church leaders are forever hawking, chalking, and clawing—about how church has been God’s keeper of the truth down through the generations. 14. Church/Churchers have NEVER been in God’s plan, IS/ARE NOT NOW in God’s plan, and WILL NEVER be in God’s plan for changing ages by New Jerusalem coming down ON OLD Jerusalem and making a new earth to match a new heaven on the ground. Did I say NEVER was, NEVER is, NEVER shall be? I didn’t? Well, that’s what I meant to say. 15. Church was NEVER in the thoughts and hearts, let alone in the words, of one single writer (all Jewish) of The Holy God-Breathed Scriptures. They heard God. They wrote kingdom. (Never mind King James and his ‘church’, whose messings around are still stinking up God’s grounds.) 16. Church has no ONE, physical home-location on earth where all believers are destined BY THE WORD OF GOD to gather BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD as one. They gather according to their own Swami-swaggered whims, under swamp-fog floaters, independent of true Israel. (Having mistaken Life-killing letter for truth and religious-farted, swampgas aura for glory.) 17. Church has no physical land on this planet that they can take you to and truthfully tell you, “My Papa God gave use of this land to us forever as an everlasting gift of His Supernatural Love.” 18. Behind all the passionate PR spin, church is a home for demons and a habitation for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. All the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries. 19. How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them. 20. Come out of her so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues. Her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Mix her a double portion FROM HER OWN CUP. Give her as much torture and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. 21. In her heart she boasts, “I sit as queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn. I’m sporting my solid gold, ‘Bride of Christ’ name tag I stole. I’m living in her house I stole. I’m eating her food I stole. I’m wearing her clothes I stole. And I WILL be sitting on her throne—soon as I can steal it. I’m HOT, baby. Come see ME! Satan says of the churchers, “These blinded-by-religion, spiritual peasants, stuck in stupid and paralyzed with programs, are terrified at the thought of resisting me in what I am doing in the church. They think I’m God! They think they’re the “bride of Christ!” Is that a HOOT or what?! They are scared silly—and I keep them that way. I send my preachers around warning them not to criticize the bride of Christ or they will fall under the wrath of God. They think I’m God sitting all off up in here! I make them believe scared is sacred. They think it’s the fear of God. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I-I-I-I----have-----got-----it---------MADE! I will win in the end.” Jesus walked into his Father’s House. He was appalled. He surveyed closely the wouldbe worshippers. They were trapped by their leaders in a very lucrative, fully operational conglomerate, styled much like today’s model of Church Holy Enterprises Inc. He slipped out quietly: “Abba...” , he prayed. His weapon came from his Papa—with instructions included. Carefully, he plaited the whip. Never did he touch one of those intent on worshipping his Papa in his Papa’s House in his Papa’s way. He did take care of the Temple enterprisers. ‘Shut down their convenient, temple-packet, seminar deal, and sent the demon-drivers of the corrupt church vehicles looking for a place to park. How many reasons did you say you needed for serious, breakout decision-making? Okay. I need to ask you a few more questions about this ongoing investigation. a. ‘Ever heard of Jim Jones, the Kool-Aid Con? b. What do you know about Terry Jones, the would-be Quran burner? c. Westboro Baptist? You know, the people ‘god’ tells to picket funerals and add to the torment of families grieving over family lost to war. d. Can you remember anything these have in common? Slap a ‘church’ label on whatever beast is rising, and you may easily get away with murders. ‘Church’ is an imposter, posing as the kingdom of God. What about church leaders(?) who arrogantly support Planned Parenthood’s freedom of choice death camps where they make a fortune murdering helpless, innocent babies in the womb? These CHURCH leaders, AS REPRESENTATIVES OF GOD, assure mothers and others it is perfectly ethical, moral, just, and right to kill these babies, just as long as you do it before they can see you—or you can see them. “You must understand these babies are different,” they soothingly coo. “Do feel free to go right ahead and make them a sacrifice to the god of lustful orgasms and humanism. God understands you need to sing to your hormones and satisfy all your selfish, lust-driven, sexual impulses. He’s a God of grace. We’re free, you see; we’re not under the law. Come to my church, you poor baby(killer); those other people don’t understand you like we do. We LOVVVVVE you.” Churchers are full of such. Leaders? WHO could follow THEM? And not expect to answer to the living God about His death sentence on the ‘spilling of innocent blood’? Woman’s freedom of choice? My neighbor summed it up, “Woman does have freedom of choice. Absolutely! She is free to spread her legs or keep her knees together. When she chooses to spread- her legs, she plays the only Ace of Hearts choice-card in her deck.” Such expert religious ‘bleeders’ as the Pee Peehood SEEM to be getting away with aiding and abetting, accessory to First Degree (it is premeditated) Murder. OH how they can pontificate and prognosticate right on the crime scene—AFTER full participation in the murder! Don’t you find it mind-muddled? So caring—right after helping kill a baby. And brag about their ‘stand’ every chance they get in the worldwide media. NO shame! Let alone sorrow and heart-change. Reve-REND, ‘tell you what let’s do. Why don’t we let you choose the person closest to your heart? Make it somebody who has never done me any wrong—somebody I don’t even know. We’ll act like we’re practicing for a play so she won’t be afraid when we put her in a supple, form-fitted body bag. Then, when she can’t see us and we can’t see her, I’ll get my biggest sharp needle, stab it through her left eyeball, suck her brains out into a plastic cup and pitch ‘em over into the dumpster with her bagged body. That’s just fine by you, right? Right Rever-END? I had her out of sight, sacked and helpless. She couldn’t see the needle and didn’t have a clue what was going on. We really could not see the fear and pain in her eyes, nor her squirming agony of death spasms. I killed by your rules, Rev. So, by your standards, I did it just right. Did I not? And you and your god have no beef about that little covert ‘operation’? To you two that is kosher and perfectly acceptable ‘christian’ morality? Then I tell you what, Rever-END, you can keep that god. And just what WAS it now that you would have ME revere about your god and your end? It would sicken you further to know how many of these revs are “wearing the cloth” in church circles. They urge their blinded members to vote for the baby killer of their CHOICE (they love that word “choice”) to run the government of the good ol’ U.S. of A. Churchers, from the pulpit through the pew, and all in the vestibule are BOLD about proclaiming their rights to kill. “We are Americans. We have our rights!” But you and I best not DARE challenge them. And they actually are stupid enough to think they can manipulate us under that judgment hammer of the living God. (I wonder what in our Constantine Christian history could have ever given them that idea.) Call me rebellious, but count me OUT! Definitely. I’ll pass right on past church—and stay out from under that hammer. But wait! Don’t shoot the people! Not even their reverends. Why do you think Messiah looked down from the cross, surveyed the lot, and prayed, “Father forgive them?” You remember what came after that in his prayer? Still, today they are blinded. So shoot with the Holy Spirit the church demon-beast(s) manipulating and controlling the whole, spiritually prostituted horde, the whole crop of leaders and following crowds. These beasts are demons out to destroy leaders and followers alike, and then all others they decide are out of church compliance. The Beast First Sarge HOLLERS into heads: “Stay in line, BOY!” So flesh and blood folks are not the SOURCE of our kingdom challenges. Having shot the demon drivers with the Faith-Fire Power of God, disable the church robot, and burn the system-beast carcass TO LIBERATE the people, leaders and followers. Give them all a shot at going really free and directly into ‘pleasures evermore at Abba's right hand’, not just mouthing and singing a bunch of lifeless words. Said another way, put out a Yeshua Overton Window; THEN, bust out the caged-critter door for all Yeshua Called-outs to get out from under the church swamp-gas-aura canopy—and let Holy Most REGATHER and RE-FORM a kingdom, called-out body of Messiah, an authority-wielding, core group of teachables, operating under the brooding, birthing and guiding of Holy Spirit to bring forth a new heaven and a new earth. Out from under dead religion’s swamp-gas aura-cloud; in under Holy Spirit Glory cloud. Simple. Simple. SIMPLE. “Come OUT of her—into HIM!” Those choosing to remain inside church’s cage may cringe and cower (a brief moment of silence for the departed) in the imagined-safe sanctimoniousness of their ‘circle church’ but they’ll soon busy themselves in church approved, abortion rights programming, or some other worthy, humanistic cause to ease their pain again. On the other hand, they could be instantly elated that you’re not bothering them anymore with all that “cult talk” (some call it) about an Israel-centered, King-of-the-Jews, Life-giving, fetus-loving kingdom, coming down out of heaven and coming forth over all the earth from Jerusalem. Or, we could take our American Prez’s mind-twisting approach which goes something like this: “There’s nothing wrong with church programs. They’re all good for your future. The problem is that we have not done a good job of selling that to you—and I want to make it perfectly clear: that is our fault. That’s where we have failed you, but I promise we’re going to do a better job now of re-explaining our great, exquisitely finessed package (mumbling under-breath--to you low-class, non-Harvardy, country-bumpkin idiots; clinging to your Bibles, unborn babies, and kingdom of God ‘guns’). (Continuing) “I promise you. I will not rest day or night until we fix this message and the delivery thereof, but just remember where we started from and all that whereby this entails involvement, and furthermore that sanctions this, and on top of that and then some, to make it perfectly clear for it to ‘be therefore known to all men hereabouts and thereabouts, this trumps yakety, yakety, yack, yucko, Jumbo Jack. WE ARE ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY—and REVIVAL!” Where did the politicians get such junky jive? SOMEBODY’S been to ‘chuchh’, honey: “Hallelujah, they been down to the river, brother!” The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nothing new under the sun. They got their hawky talk and chalky walk in church, and sharpened their word-claws down in the lower bowels of the church clawpit. You think BHO is one bad, slicked-out, sporty hotshot, hot-mouth spout ‘n spieler? Before his administration came out of the womb, we had our very own ‘church fathers’ who could spit venom from golden throats. One was even dubbed ‘Golden throated.’ Sadly, in his old age Protest-leading, Reformer Martin Luther’s pen and mouth dripped acid and arsenic. Our ‘church’ history overflows with generations of unending, powerless prattlers and rattlers, telling us NO MATTER how demonized the Protestant (protesting) church is, GOD (yes, GOD no less) REQUIRES us to join it and SUBMIT to it—or ELSE. Even today they look way down upon us from their high-up performance stages and rattle off Bible references like a trigger-sucking Uzi to intimidate and manipulate us into ‘the body of Christ.’ “You need to sign up right now. How could you POSSIBLY be ‘saved’ outside the ‘body of Christ’ (meaning church)? So forth and so on and on.” Unless you’ve been levitating in space, reverently orbiting the sun-god since puberty, you have SURELY puzzled in pain under such never-ceasing, pompous parade of spitspieling, harking and barking church spin doctors—with nothing floating off their hot horoscope having EVER appreciably improved permanently our earth’s landscape or her populations. A very confusing, sick, yet demanding scene around the church countryside, worldwide. You and me; we sweat and strain Souls all aching and wracked with pain Tote that load; lift that bale Walk the church line or ya land in ‘er jail I gets weary and sick o’ tryin’ I’m tired o’ church and my soul keeps dyin’ But Old-Man Adam, he keeps on rolling Sewage a-spoutin’, and he’s keepin’ on seepin’ along Shalom! Next Year in Jerusalem! N. #5 DON'T LET ISRAEL-IGNORANT OPPRESSORS KEEP ON: USING GOD'S FINEST LIKE THEY WERE CHEESE ON A MOUSETRAP FORMERLY: “ON MICE & MEN; ISRAEL, JESUS & WHEN: There’s Nothing Wrong with the Cheese” Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming again Jesus is coming; He said to live ready; He said he couldn’t tell us just when Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming again Jesus is coming; Back to Israel; He said he couldn’t tell us just when Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming again He said if you ready; he’ll come by and get you; on his way to Jerusalem WE’RE LOOKING AT A 3-PARTER Part 1—Running Wide: on Israel-Absent, Church Cheese and Mice/Men Traps Part 2—Running Deep: on Through Hell with Israel-Absent, Church Cheese Part 3—Running One: with First Great Awakening’s Jonathan Edwards PART 1—RUNNING WIDE: ON ISRAEL-ABSENT, CHURCH CHEESE AND MICE/MEN TRAPS Jump Right In You’ve come up on a house with rats running, and starving, dirty-diapered babies screaming. What a mess—and what to do? Burn the house down? No. You go out on the “highways and byways” hollering, “Hey ya’ll; we got to get more babies in here so they’ll be safe!!!” Right? [‘Cause the sign out front reads church.] Our kingdom-on-earth bottleneck is not between the lost and found, between the lost and babyhood. The bottleneck is between babyhood and parenthood. We need (1) daddies to shoot rats and change diapers [yes, that’s what I meant. I knew a “Christian dad” once who had 4 kids and had never changed a diaper! He bragged; his wife, not bragging, tiredly confirmed it.] (2) mothers to slip nipples into all that noise so we can (3) nurture starving newborns into a fresh generation of Godly-parenting fathers and mothers. That’s what this book is about. (1) Getting rid of church rats biting on the babies and stealing their grow-up stuff. (2) Lovingly and firmly protecting and commanding them into living out all things Jesus said to do. God will, it is true, eventually be forced to torch some of these rat house “churches” to the ground to rid the whole earth of rats, but that’s his job, not ours. Ours is to love the babies and raise them up to be rat killing, baby making and soldier-forming mamas and papas, women on earth one with New Jerusalem above who is our Mama, and men on earth one with her Husband, who is our heavenly Papa. Consuming Fire (our God) will take care of the rest—when HE gets ready. We use the word church a lot. Dr. Daniel Juster’s thoughts on the word church are helpful. [emphasis is mine] It is important to understand this new “apostolic perspective” in launching the body of believers, which came to be known as the “Church.” The center of history became the kehillah (‘congregation’ in Aramaic or Hebrew) of Yeshua (Jesus). “Upon this rock I will build my [kehillah] congregation; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” Matt. 16:18 KJV). The disciples did not understand the implications of what Yeshua was saying in this verse in Matthew. He was creating a people from all of the world’s nations that would be a manifestation of his Kingdom. The terminology used in the body of believers today is so skewed that we do not see the importance of what Yeshua said. Even the phrase “go to church” or the question, “Where do you go to church?” is an unbiblical way of speaking that blinds us to the meaning of this verse. We do not “go to church.” We are the Church. We go to a meeting for teaching and to be equipped by the leadership of that corporate body. The fact that the wordchurch has its true background in the word kehillah shows us how skewed our terminology is. Replace the word church, which also refers to a building, with congregation. The question, “Where do you go to church,” continues the misunderstanding. The right question is, “What community or congregationare you a part of?” (“That They May Be One,” pp 1-2) [See also: upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it...Matt 16:18 (Young’s Literal Translation)] Therefore, church equals body of believers, community, congregation, assembly. Cheese Cheese-A-Plenty. I was greeter, cashier, and chief communicator. We did sell cheese aplenty— imported into Texas from all over. Goat (very strong), limburger (very stinky), triple-cream strawberry and orange (very fattening), and everything in-between. If it was quality cheese, we sold it. Nothing “processed” though. To Ron, my boss, anything processed (like Velveeta) was not cheese: “Don’t call that cheese in my store,” he once snapped at me. Great selection and nothing wrong with any of it—or it would not have been in the most popular gourmet shop along a 100 mile strip of the Mexican border. Somebody liked each of the thirty-odd cheeses we offered, or Ron would not have restocked it from over the world. What all can you do with cheese? How can you use it? We put triple-cream orange on ginger snap cookies for samplers, and sweet cheese went better’n buttered hot cakes—sold out. No help to our overweight customers, since it was 30-50 percent butterfat, but that was their problem. We tickled their taste buds and took their money—all legal and friendly. Why does that remind me of churches and ministries? So obviously there is nothing inherently (key word) wrong with congregations or churches as such. The open question is, “What are they congregating to do?” What is this community or church all about? To say there is nothing wrong with a congregation or assembly is a far cry from saying there is nothing wrong in it—or nothing wrong with its aspirations. Hitler held fiery inspirational assemblies in order, as he put it, to carry out what Martin Luther started but didn’t have the guts and guns to finish; and that was to rid the earth of the very last Jewish person. (See my book, “Israel’s Holocaust and Resurrection.”) To what end do what we Americans call churches exist? Where would your local church take you spiritually if you were to blindly throw yourself into its heart? What is that group’s excuse for existing, its reason for forming a community? That bears examination. Verse Plucking Leaders (I wuz one!) Unless you’ve been riding around in Rover and looking at moon craters the last few decades, (or you’re like Lisa Bevere who went to her room right after getting saved, stood her Bible on the spine, prayed for God to lead her to the Book of Paul, and turned it loose), you know what the church calls “the great commission.” We gentiles love to quote from Matthew (not Paul) 18: Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 "teaching themto observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. As you may know, we gentiles are also famous for plucking verses or phrases out, with total and unashamed disregard for their contextual meaning, taking them home and making them mean whatever we “get inspired” for them to mean. We’ve got the words right out of the Bible to prove it. Honesty in handling the Word of God is just not our long suit. Now if you were to bring this up amongst the gentile kingpins, indignation could stifle you. If you really wanted to mess with them you could offer up that Jesus never once brought up “soul winning” and neither did any of his apostles that he personally trained, then stand and wait for their eyes to glass over and start shooting fire in utter disbelief. That would be mean. I do not recommend that approach. I’m just saying.... And—if you were to summon up enough boldness to come right out and declare, “There is more to church than ‘soul winning’ and socializing,” you would need to know how Jesus got away when Pharisees were trying to push him off a cliff. Back to plucking fruit off the olive tree and trying to hocus-pocus olives into oranges. One example: lo, I am with you always. “That’s all you need boys. Good sermon right there! No matter what you do, or how you’re living, Jesus is right there with you. That’ll preach!” Excuse me, please. Hello. May I? What about the and that comes before the lo? That ties what follows to what comes just before it—which is? Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. Observe does not mean read over it and forget about it, or stand off at a distance and watch it or admire it. It means “to attend to carefully, take care of”—Strong's Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. You know, like “takin’ care o’ bidness.” In this manner, therefore, pray [a command]: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matt 6:9-10 (NKJV) And as you go, preach [a command on what to preach, how to preach, and what to expect when you preach], saying, 'The kingdom of heaven [not church]is at hand.' Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Matt 10:7-8 (NKJV) Maybe you’ll want to read that over again so you’ll remember it better when we get down to the basics of Christianity later on and what is supposed to be going on at church. I submit, therefore, that the TRUE church is a body of believers, a believing-in-Jesus community, congregation, or assembly with Jesus as the Head Leader using flesh and blood leaders he leads by the Holy Spirit to teach each body member and the community as a whole to observe all things that Jesus first commanded the Jewish apostles right out of the chute as he directs church on-site, using the Bible by the Holy Spirit Teacher he sent—until—“even to the end of the age.” And that, I’m persuaded, is why the “lo, I am with you always” is in there. He is with us always as we’re taking care of Father’s kingdom business in his name until we bring in the Age to Come. Mice I love my wife and she happens to be terrified of mice. ‘Look death in the eye for you and snatch you, in Jesus name, back from the brink, but the presence of a mouse bothers her breathing. We don’t allow mice in our house—at all—or a noise that sounds like mouse-meddling. Mice, like men, like cheese. Do mice have taste buds? Honestly I don’t know. (You could Google it.) I’m assuming they do. Let’s also assume you don’t like them either, but they sneaked into your house. How do you get rid of them? You want them gone—even if they have taste buds of cheese connoisseurs. You donot want to feed them, and you do not want to harbor them. As cruel as it may seem, the same goes for their babies because you know what they’ll grow up to be. But you can’t just tie the cheese on a string, jiggle it around, and call out in a sweet voice, “Here mousy, here mousy, here mousy, mousy, mousy.” Mousy could think you’re calling the cat. (The cat! That’s an option—maybe later.) What’s a simpler, more immediate solution? Buy a mouse trap, right? Then load cheese onto it just right, pull back the trigger to cock it, and ease the trap down where the mouse travels. Forget about it overnight. Check trap, remove mouse (my job at our house). He loved the cheese. He’s dead. Taste buds and all. Examining Church Cheese for Men I have been duly warned, exhorted, lectured, made to feel guilty, and otherwise driven and manipulated along my church-life trail. See if any of these sound familiar to you. “Support your local church.” “Get in a local church. Jesus loves the church.” “Don’t criticize the church. That’s the bride of Christ.” “Don’t judge the man (or woman) of God.” “Judge not that you be not judged.” “Don’t find any fault with the church; that’s the Lord’s body.” “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm.” “It’s all about the church, brother.” ‘Ever heard any of those? Thank God for a few bold, scarred up, pioneer writers who have just lately been able to get their experiences of church abuse printed and in distribution. What are they saying? “The cheese may look and taste good but WATCH OUT for the traps!” If you get scarred enough, you learn to listen by the Spirit, pray with both eyes wide open and enquire diligently. You ask, in response to some of the above “controllers,” “Please explain what you mean by church, anointed andprophet. I know God’s definition, but what’s yours?” We are men, not mice, and, unlike mice, God has given us his Holy Spirit and written Word in which is supplied the wherewith to be on trap-conscious alert. And he requires of us due diligence on the matter. Watch out for their cheese; it could get you dead. And the better the cheese, the deadlier it could be, even though there is nothing wrong with the cheese. It’s not about the cheese. Critical to survival is not only knowing that men-traps are not like mousetraps, but knowing further how men-traps work, and how they are baited. (I’ll explain as we go.) Remember that or you will go the wrong direction with what I’m saying. Here are some of the better cheese samplers offered to men as bait on the church trap. “They’re so friendly over there!” “That church has a lively worship team.” “She just makes my heart bloom!” “That church has a good youth program.” Their pastor is really on fire.” “Their church has a food pantry.” “They believe in world missions.” “Let me tell you, that is a soul-winning church!” “You won’t find a better nursery.” “They have theologically sound teachers and counselors over there.” “They really believe in the great commission.” “They have a strong evangelistic base.” “He’s deep in the Word.” I could go on for a while. My bottom line question is: Where is any or all of that going or going to take them? There is nothing wrong with all that cheese.Where are they baiting me to go? Are these but cheesy offerings strategically placed like the trap setting on a mouse-catching platform? Are you understanding the questions? Where exactly are they planning to go with all they’ve got—programs, activities, and people? Where would they enjoy taking me with all this? Is there a deadly trap somewhere in all of this. I really need to know. Do the congregants themselves even know why they are congregated? It is so very critical right now at this time in history for us to know the difference in what God calls church and what cultures and culture-controlled, power-hungry, selfishly ambitious men call church. From here on till the Age to Come fully possesses so as to control earth, knowing that difference is the life key to our health and well-being! God has given us a simple, fool-proof way to know where he is working his plan today in a group of people so as to fully bring in his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. It’s s simple way of knowing. That’s not to say it is popular with the masses, churched or unchurched. Some say it ain’t so, but it is. Some say it won’t work, but it will. Some say you can’t do it that way, but you can. Some say that’s not the way to tell, but it is. Some say it’s too independent, but it’s not. Some say that’s not all there is to it, but it’s a starting place heading in the right direction. It is God’s safety compass-check. Don’t trust me, you check it. Dealing with “Some Say” A friend for a decade made a special trip to my house to tell me her “man of God” said if I didn’t repent for judging John Hagee, I would die. Well now, how much revelation is required in prophesying my death? Are not all men appointed to die? And I am past 80, and have battled all manner of potential killers for 43 years. How could he miss! There is one little problem though. I do not set in judgment on John Hagee. I forgot to ask if “the man of God” took his religious tone and said, “Yea, thus saith the Lord,” and used good King James English like some of the earlier ones the devil sent. I did ask if he had read my book (“In Defense of MESSIANIC Israel.”) He had not—but he had “heard from God.” Why would God tell him that, since my book (on www.amazon.com) is an expose of the demonic work that is blinding Hagee and using him to blind others and send them toward hell? Does not God love John Hagee and want him (and those following him) saved? If he could be delivered from destructive doctrines of demons, he could fulfill his destiny of fruitfulness for Israel he professes to love; rather than staying mired in the super-stupor of fecklessness and destructiveness toward TRUE Israel. His teachings are sending souls to hell. It’s that simple. He needs to repent. Why would God be mad about saving John Hagee and his followers? If I were to let all of Hagee’s grand holdings, large television audiences, property empires, megachurch, and multi-millionaire status intimate me and keep me from offering help, what kind of scribe would I be for Messianic Israel? Same question about “the man of God” mentioned above. So, ‘Guess that puts me in the company with a Jewish woman whom I am certainly not ashamed to be seen with: “If I die, I die.” But that’s okay. I understand the schemes of the devil. He’s been prophesying my demise since I pulled my family out of a true-church-turned-cultic in the seventies. Thing is: Now I’m even closer to the checkout counter, with Jesus standing just beyond the cashier. After I'm checked out, I look forward to a grin, a big hug and a “Well done!” I can’t be messing around. I’m determined to give it out exactly like he gives it to me—straight and simple for others to consider. If I were to give out a murky message, It's possible I could not have time to clear it up. After you’ve let smoke out of your chimney, it’s hard to get it back. “If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?” Or in this case, if the message does not illuminate the trap, who shall be able to escape it? You best believe, the battle is coming, traps are set, and wise is the one who watches before he puts his foot down next--step by step! Paul warns against corrupting the simplicity of Messiah (Christ). Where is the simplicity of Israel’s Messiah and his kingdom on earth being revealed uncorruptedtoday? (The true Christ is Israel’s Messiah and Messianic Israel is his kingdom centerpiece..) Not in very many gentile congregations. (Try listing the ones you know.) I wrote an article years ago called “Shut That Dog Track Down!” “You can’t call churches Dog Tracks!” “Uch-ohhhhh. Too late.” (www.israelownsthechurch.com.) More and more churches are being given Dog Track status or Rat House ratings by God. He will give to all of them all the grace he can for as long as he can, but love for his own will eventually open up heaven and The CAT will spring; rats will die. God WILL HAVE rodent-free, safe assemblies one day. (He’s been known to call that Goshen.) Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming again Jesus is coming; He said to live ready; He said he couldn’t tell us just when Check Churches & Cheese 3 "And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it... 6 "In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples... Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place--Jerusalem...the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them. 9 "It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zech 12:1-9 (NKJV) For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem...3 Then the LORD will go forth And fight against those nations.... Zech 14:2-4 (NKJV) R-U-1? A Bible believer? There it is. How could one call himself a Bible believer, and not believe that? It reads the same in all translations. (No textual criticism footnotes indicating manuscript discrepancies.) How much interpretation is needed? Did you know that when the New Testament says all Scripture is inspired (God-breathed), it is not talking about the New Testament? Why? The New Testament did not exist! The book of Zechariah is as fully God-Breathed as is The Revelation of Jesus Christ written by John, which includes much of Zechariah’s revelation of The Day of the Lord. That is NOT a deep, dark, hidden mystery that requires you to read it with a highly degreed scholar at your right elbow. It is not Advanced Calculus in the Specialized Field of Aerodynamic Engineering Rocket Science IV. The Bible was written for farmers. shepherds, businessmen, housewives, children, hookers, pimps, robbers, and thieves to get on into the kingdom of God ahead of the best theologians of the day. For crying out loud, just believe it and line up your lifestyle! Who, in his right mind, can read this and not understand that God will have HIS Israel at some stage, somewhere ahead of this deal going down? He will own Israel before he quits, whatever it costs Israel or anybody else in the world. He will defend Israel against all comers. Is that too hard to see in this Word of God? God will control Israel. God will blast all the nations coming against Israel and God will rule the world from Israel. Plain and simple. This should be preached and taught in every church, congregation, assembly, group, or any other name you give it. Understanding of it and commitment toward being ready and getting others ready for this confrontation should be offered in “new member,” orientation classes. Prospective believers should be told this is our platform, from which we shall never step down. Those not ready to commit to this goal should be prayed for and released to go their own way. All our cheese is out in the open. No traps. No hidden agendas. No frills. No manipulations. No Jezebel- fishers allowed in or around this pool of people. Our community rests on this Jesus-Jewish foundation. Cheese on Arsenic Crackers? To bite or not to bite. That is the question. What is the church cheese setting on? Who is serving the cheese programs and activities? Is the nice, tasty cheese fastened in some way to something I can’t see? Some hidden trap? Something that could do me in by holding me out of my God-given destiny? These are questions I need answered. I’ve got too much riding on this—and so have those I helped bring into the world, and others for whom God has made me accountable. If this cheese, if these fun-wonderful and cool-comforting activities, are being used in some kind of plot, then the better the cheese tastes, and the more of it there is, the worse off I am. Are you getting this yet? “After all, we don't want to unwittingly give Satan an opening for yet more mischief—we're not oblivious to his sly ways!” 2 Cor 2:11 (MSG) [“For we are very familiar with his evil schemes.” 2 Cor 2:11 (NLT)] Again, nothing wrong with the cheese, but what’s it on? What/who’s under it? Behind it? Do you believe for a minute that Satan’s moral standards are too high to go undercover and infiltrate a church, and hide in the leadership—or the followship to sabotage the kingdom of God? Oh! You really need to wake up and smell the Starbucks! Let’s uncover some of Satan’s sly schemes. Suckering us into believing that he can label a group as Church, and we have to honor it as God’s church—or else “God’s gonna whup yo’ tail!” Deceiving people into labeling themselves as called men/women of God and tricking us into following them off the cliff—to land painfully and fatally down below on the rugged rocks of replacement theology or ruthless humanology. (replacement theology = no place in God’s plan for ethnic Messianic Israel). Inventing a “plan of salvation” for self-appointed or Satan-sired leaders to use to fill these false churches with unsuspecting folk. Training these leaders to make their followers afraid to leave the group or to manipulate or womanipulate them with a spirit of fear and intimidation to do their bidding. Taking away personal freedom and responsibility to obey the Holy Spirit’s guidance in working for God’s kingdom to come and for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven with Messianic Jews out front. Blinding minds to God’s gospel platform—that the foundational, formational, inspirational, Divine impartational and motivational purpose for HIS true church is to make Israel jealous, bring forth his Holy Remnant in Israel, get all Israel saved, to then save all the nations, and bring in the Age to Come with the resurrection from the dead. (borrowed from Daniel Juster) Cooking Christian Witch-Brew How were these evil schemes concocted? With great persistence and great precision in the growling guts of the Dark Realm. I imagine this kind of progression in the schematics. 1. Eliminate Israel and the Jews. Why? Jesus has promised to come back to Israel when Jews call him back. Forget the nations (a fatal flaw in their scheme as it turned out). They were preoccupied with occupying all their God-given land, and destroying all Jews everywhere. They knew if Jesus came back—and they knew he would if Jews called him back—they knew they would be in terminal trouble. They became blindly obsessed with destroying Israel—to the point of being oblivious to what God was doing outside Israel. “How do we destroy Israel forever?” became their driving rage. 2. Blame Israel in the eyes of all the nations for their Messiah’s death. That way, if God tried to do anything in the nations, they would be prejudiced against Israel and the Jews. 3. Brand Israel in the eyes of all the nations as Christ Killers, and incite the nations to carry out the evil-revenge scheme of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. 4. Brainwash nations (by controlling their leaders) to THINK on their evil-scheme, thoughtpattern tracks to the exclusion of all other thinking. “Control the mind and you control the people.” 5. Nations were brainwashed and persons were brainwashed into believing: “Jesus came to Israel. They rejected him so God rejected Israel forever. The Old Testament is an Israel book. Israel is out of the picture; therefore the Old Testament is out of play—good only as a history book. Replace Israel with the church and replace the Old Testament with the New Testament. We don’t need Israel or the Old Testament.” 6. This replacement mindset became the entrenched, dominant and controlling, thought paradigms of the church and the nations down through the centuries. 7. This evil scheme was suavely and spiritually (but not Holy Spirit-ually) promoted progressively. The linchpin of the scheme clicked in place when Satan puffed up a generation of church theologians into a state of intellectual arrogance wherein they twisted and misapplied the Scriptures—even to the point of deliberately mistranslating key passages to fit their preconceived themes. 8. The Schizo Christ popped out of the Bible like Aaron’s golden calf out of the fire. Satan penetrated pride-puffed minds and hearts with his ultimate capstone “salvation” doctrine: the split-personality jesus. This schizophrenic jesus was born, not in Bethlehem Israel, but in the bowels of Lower Region Darkness. This christ could withdraw a lordship personality so as not to appear demanding and offensive to humans; he would display only a loving, personal-savior personality. His only expectation is that you agree to do him a favor by coming to heaven when you die to keep him company in his loneliness! In other words, he is one part savior and one part lord. The prince demons argued long and fought each other viciously over this. Why? Half of the demons could not be persuaded this could possibly work. Their argument was: “We know humans in their separation from their Maker are stupid, but even using all our supernatural evil schemes and contrivances, we’ll never be able to make them so stupid as to fall for a person split in two.” Satan finally overrode the discussion and declared a trial run for the salvation plan. 9. What a clever cleaver it has turned out to be! A christ chopped right down the middle. They (mis)apply all the Bible words to this false jesus. ‘Keep him split off from Israel, split off from a kingdom-on-earth mentality and vision, split off from the Old Testament, split off from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; split off, not only from the people of Israel who are to call Jesus back, but also from the Land of Israel, that Jesus promised to come back to. Do you see the (dark-light) brilliance of this devious plan? “Angels of light” illuminating a looklike-jesus imposter. So was “born” among men and churches the spirit of split to work schemein-scheme with the demon of confusion. I don’t have to tell you it continues to work like a charm right on up to your reading of this. Demons are having one continuous, confusing split-party celebration after another all over churchdom. They have split Jews from gentiles, kingdom from church, Old Testament from New Testament, and lord from savior. Jews, kingdom, Old Testament, lordship—all in the past and unnecessary. They have been forever superseded by gentiles, church, New Testament and wonderful, personal-savior. Or so “the plan” says. 10. Churches overflow and multiply. “Mega-church” is now the new buzz word, the envy of Church Generals. “Don’t worry about the Jews and all that stuff in the Old Testament. Don’t worry about kingdom on earth and that lordship side of jesus. You’ve got plenty of time to get to know that side of his personality on down the road. Just say this prayer and accept Jesus as your personal savior and you’re heaven-bound, my brother! Saying this prayer is what gets you born again—and did you ever hear of anybody getting unborn? Hahaha! Did you? Did you now? You can live however you want to live but you can’t get unborn. You want to burn in hell forever? No? You want to go to heaven when you die? Then repeat after me.” 11. “Soul-winning” became all the rage to bring in “a harvest of souls.” If you were not a daily soul-winner, were you really saved yourself? If your church was not a soul-winning church? You needed to “get with the program.” Soul-winning pressure was real. Soul-winners hit the streets. “Yes, it would be good to find a church of your choice,” they said, “But you can settle your eternal destiny forever right here, right now—a one shot, say the prayer deal. “Professions of faith” replaced “repent” in the church vocabulary (and “professions” were dutifully counted for bragging rights). 12. Say WHAT!? “Kingdom of God on earth like it is in heaven?” “Where EVER did you come up with such a weird belief? You better watch out for cults nowadays, brother. They’ll deceive the very elect. That’s what the Word of God says. They’re out to get your soul. Are you sure you’ve been born again? I don’t know—the way you’re talking, man.” Uniting the 12 “Tribes” Above It is a serious spiritual crime that can put you away for life. That crime is the dastardly act of giving another human the cause to rest his soul’s eternal destiny on hismental assent to a salvation plan that could easily take him right into The Lake of Fire—and what should be the punishment for the perpetrators of such a lie? If someone gave your family a free pass and ushered them, with great fanfare and celebration, onto a beautifully impressive and massive, spiritual Titanic, what would happen to them right in the middle of a big party? What feelings would you be dealing with toward that person and his great ticket giveaways? “And he was so sincere, so passionate, so confident, so big hearted.” If a person is not properly guided to take care of his own soul business in a transactional experience with the True Head of the True Church by the True Holy Spirit, he is most certainly not going to get into the kingdom of God. He is as sure to suffer the endless torments of hell in the awe-fullest manners imaginable as there is a God who inspired the Bible to tell us that. To do less than assist a person in having this such-described encounter with the resurrected Son of God, the Messiah and King of the Jews is the worst church-sponsored crime being foisted today upon the unsuspecting world population by an evil, supernaturally empowered, behind the scenes, church mafia—workingwithin the true church. (That’s all right. Never mind who gets upset. I'm trying to help them get a clue.) You want to see people born again, entering into, and possessing the kingdom of God? Keep praying and working to get and keep them in the Presence of the Holy Spirit who is the only One licensed by the Holy Most God to meld humanity into Divinity. When you see fruit of a lifeturnaround commitment (called repentance), you know the meld experience took. (I was thrilled to the point of shouting YOU GO AHEAD GOD to my GOD.TV as I watched the Holy Spirit make this very clear through one British, attorney-turned-Bible-scholar, MessianicIsrael-loving Wes Hall in what is being called The Students Awakening at The International House of Prayer Kansas City. YEA GOD! Finally! At Last! More! More! More!) The Transactional Experience of Personal Salvation Jesus did not come to the world to be your personal savior. He is unable to be yours as a personal savior if he wanted such. He simply is not wired for that. Your getting people to mouth words to that effect will not make it so—any more than their believing there’s no devil can stop the devil from sinking their soul to hell. Read me carefully now on through the next few articles, listening to the Holy Spirit, before you hit the indignant, pitch-a-fit switch. Satan is Twister personified. Let’s do some Holy Most untwisting together. Here is the reason Jesus did not come to be your personal savior, your personal valet, and your personal server. He came offering himself to be your Lordinstead of the lord you have (or had). Ultimately, there are only two kingdoms (others are subs) and each of these has a king or lord. The only way you can get out from under the one lord is to give yourself to be under the other lord, and let him take you into that (his) kingdom, the one to whom you are yielding to obey. Jesus suffered pain beyond your ability to understand to get legal papers to serve on lord Satan so that he would have to release you into Jesus’ Lordship or kingdom upon your choice to change kingdoms. Jesus did not come to save you and personally serve you in your life. He came to save you out of your life—and into his Life. That would not make him your personal savior to come serve you in your life and get you all the things and relationships your little heart desires to luxuriate in throughout your life on earth. But that’s the deceitful lie Satan is selling. ‘Lots of buyers as we'll see next time—at astronomically high prices. Schizo Christ This morning I was compelled to look at the schizo christ again, the look-like-but-is-not jesus. “Lord, you want me to go into even more detail on the split personality savior with ‘your personal savior’ terminology? It’s already looking like we’re splitting hairs and making mountains out of mole hills.” “Oh really! ‘Good of you to point that out to me—and so I should care what it looks like?” “Hmmmm. Hmmmmmm some more. Lord, You mean to dismantle this paradigm and all its false concepts right down to the last phrase-bolt and tiniest word-screw, don’t you?” “You got it. ‘Bout time my people got it going MY Way, don’t you think?” “Whatever you say, Lord. I’m listening here in your watchtower with Habakkuk, and ready to write (and asking you dumb questions in the process!).” “Write it then—right after you eat.” “Survey Says” Recent surveys say 95% of “christians” do not have a Biblical world view; yet most can quote from the Bible, “For God so loved the world....” Do you think this 95 (ninety-five; no typo) percent are “born again with a home in heaven?” How many of them are wandering or muddling through the drivel of religious programming, trying with all their hearts to believe that surely, for enduring all this deadmess and boredom, they will be rewarded with heaven some day? So they resign themselves to “hold on here in this little group till the end,” and every once in a while they sing hopefully, “Bye and bye....” Who is directly focused on reaching this vast multitude caught in churchy claptrap, religious robbery and snobbish robe-ery before they drop into hell? Thank GOD for John Bevere and a few other most courageous alarm sounders! Bless them, Lord! Others stand aside and look on, pressed own under Satan’s “don’t be a faultfinder now” church canopy—knowing, knowing gutdeep that something is dramatically wrong with this picture. Yet we’re scared into frozen blindness, lest we be asked to go into “the church” on a rescue mission that would be certain to draw the ire and fire of powerful, merciless, church-ruling demagogues. (They think they’re doing God a service.) “Send somebody else in there, Lord; I’m not qualified.” (Moses: “I never could talk real good, Lord.”) Not qualified? ‘Not a public speaker? Do you know the difference between an experience and a head-nod to a teaching or a set thereof? Or, the difference between an experience and repeating words somebody else puts in your mouth? Congratulations! You just qualified—and that was your excuses you just saw taking wing out the window. If not, let God qualify you because a lot of these people are on their way to hell—and there is no doubt but what some of your loved ones are among them. Consider prayerfully what I am writing in these few pages, check it out in your Bible, and let God get you qualified—if you really love God and your neighbor. Keep your notes and these writings and pass them on as the LORD says by the Spirit. Back to Dismantling The only way you can “own” Jesus as your personal savior is to own up to him in order for him to be your Lord, in which case you automatically (unstoppable upon receiving Messiah’s Lordship) go out of your personal life-culture (Satan’s kingdom) into his kingdom Life-culture. You then live as his subject, and therefore you serve him by His Spirit; he does not serve you. No wonder Satan jumped out front to start Kingdom Halls. It was to poison us against God’s kingdom mindset in Yeshua-directed congregations. Throw in a few corrupted “Assemblies of God” and souls are shying away from all things and persons kingdom, church, or Christian assembly related, acting like they’ve seen a serpent. (Hmmm?) Jesus did not come to your house to live in your house to do your bidding. He came to your house to get you out of your house by taking you into his house.Your house has been condemned by the City and stands only until the demolition crew of the Fire Department gets around to it. It will be blown into bits and burned. Jesus knows that. How? He foresaw you being blown up in that house to be burned forever (yet never burned away). Because it belongs to Satan, your house is slated to keep burning forever. You were in it, and, in desperate, Divine love, Jesus wanted you out of it, and invaded Satan’s kingdom to rescue you from your burning building. Within I AM, He ran into your future—right into your condemned house, took your place, got blown up in your place, and burned in your place. Only the grace of his Father brought him back by a greater Fire (Resurrection) so that he did not burn forever; and in so doing, left a way possible (if you choose) for you to get out of your house before she blows to burn forever in The Lake of Fire. Your soul, housing and all, truly does deserve only The Lake of Fire. He took your soon-coming-and-most-painful destruction, which you could not prevent or otherwise escape, because Satan owned you. Your life, your place, your house—all Satan’s. For Jesus to come to you and save you in your house, in your place, in your life, in your condition would mean Jesus would have to serve Satan—that Satan (alongside you) would become Jesus’ Lord. In that case, Jesus would be unable to do anything for you without Satan’s permission. Jesus, therefore, could not help you by being your personal savior. He would not even have the power to save himself by calling legions of angels. Satan would not allow it. To get Jesus to come down or get down to serving Satan is exactly what Satan has been trying to pull off ever since he rebelled his way out of heaven, determined to replace the LORD. For Jesus to become your very own personal savior in your life would, in that sense, violate the justice of God. Jesus cannot become slave to God’s arch enemy. The only way Jesus can save you from the ownership or lordship of Satan is for you to allow Jesus to become your Lord(Owner). Then he has Person-to-person salvation rights on you and can take ownership of you away from Satan and his lordship. If you agree for Jesus to do that, Satan no longer owns you; Jesus does. He owns you; you do not own him as your personal savior—or in any other fashion. He is not your personal server (what most take savior to mean because of the Satan-twisted concept of split), sent to serve and coddle you in all your Satanic surroundings. Jesus does not come to be your personal server and leave you where you live—to let you live like you like to live. He comes to save you personally so that you have the privilege of serving him in his Lordship, his kingdom, his domain, his family. He promises to pay you well for this with His unimaginable, perpetuating richness of Life forever—where there are pleasures evermore! He jumped out way ahead of you to get blown up in your house, to get burned in your place so Satan would have no legal jurisdiction over you, no legal cause with which to hold you when the Spirit comes and offers you the kingdom transfer experience—out of Satan’s into Christ’s. Only because you choose to stay, do you stay with Satan in his culture. You are not legally bound to be there and go to hell with him. Hell was created for him, not you—but if you procrastinate and insist and persist... Jesus has come and broken into the strong man’s house to let you escape. You come out by willingly coming under Jesus’ authority for him to get you out from under the dominion of the strong man—get you out of his domain. Your opportunity is to come out from under Satan’s power by coming under Jesus’ power. Thus you escape the spirit of this age’s culture for our Papa’s heavenly-friendly, family culture. You can be saved today in the nick of time by Jesus’ Lordship power. "No one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house. Mark 3:27 (NKJV) “Come on in and plunder away, Lord!” This is a Lordship issue. I guarantee you, with all of history as my witness, that the Lordship Power of the true Jesus has already proven to be too much for the strong man. “LORD Jesus, rescue me!” BANG—the door flies off the hinges and you walk right out of your house into Abba’s house. He is able to save you personally ONLY by his Lordship. Only Divine Lordship can save you out of evil lordship. To tell people they can have Jesus as their personal savior now, leaving the impression, and in some cases telling and teaching them outright that they can take care of the Lordship issue later, is like saying, “Go ahead and eat this cake now, and as soon as I can get around to it, I’m gonna bake it.” You’d say, “Huh!” Or, “Go ahead and drive this car crosscountry and back; you’ll have plenty of time to put fuel in it when you get back.” Backwards! It takes a theological genius to figure that out? Or a seer? No wonder onlookers stop in amazement, snicker, and point in disbelief at us “doing church.” We are completely caught up in trying to get the horse to push the cart with his head. The horse’s head is sore and he keeps kicking us in the mouth—while we keep trying desperately to get people to help us with our wounded mouths and horses. “If we can all become one body, we can bless the world!” They’re saying, “I-I-I-I don’t think so—not like you’re going at it.” “But what do they know?” So, we keep working with the bleeding horse—and he keeps kicking our teeth out. ‘Been going on for centuries! And we keep begging more people to join us in this “great worldwide mission program for God.” These same onlookers have been coming by here to see this comedy act for generations now. Their children laughed at us. They wonder if we’ll ever catch on, exercise our ownership authority, and hitch the cart behind the horse where it belongs. They’ve figured the odds and making bets: “Fifty to one they’ll never catch on!” Here’s what I bet: The onlookers would have no trouble with judgment must begin at the house of God. ‘Wagging their head: “That bunch needs to dosomething different alright—ain’t no doubt about that! They take dumb to lower levels than stupid could stoop to: “Hey man—yeah, you. How long you been coming by here? ‘You ever seen anything like this?” “Naw man. These folks crazy! Spooky crazy, man. I’m outta here. See ya ‘round! Say, ‘buy you a beer down at The Lost Cause?” Lordship authority enables the saving process. Lordship power precedes and initiates salvation for a person, a church of persons, a nation of persons, or nations of mankind. It’s all about LORDship, not churchship. Daniel Juster (Relative to Savior and Lord) (The following is from Dr. Juster’s book, “That They May Be One: A Brief Review of Church Restoration Movements and Their Connection to the Jewish People,” pages 69-71. This little 97 page jewel clears up the big picture for you in a couple of hours! Underlining is mine.) “...(D)ispensationalism put forth distinctions that are very problematic. Darby defined a doctrine of grace (which is still taught by some today) whereby a person can be saved without submitting to Yeshua’s Lordship, a radically different understanding of salvation by grace. In dispensationalism you can accept Yeshua as Savior but not necessarily receive him as Lord and also repent from sin. They argued that receiving him as Lord is a separate and subsequent decision that is unnecessary for salvation; otherwise, salvation would be by works. “When I was a youngster, I attended Word of Life Camp in Upstate New York under Reverend Jack Wyrtzen’s direction. This was a major discipling influence in my life for which I am forever grateful. I can remember that they would preach salvation Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The philosophy was “What have you got to lose? Say the prayer, and go to heaven.” No life change was required. After Tuesday the teaching changed. The emphasis was that you could continue to sin, not commit your life to the Lord, and still go to heaven, but you would be miserable if you did not commit your life. “How can you not commit your life to walk in the light of the One who was crucified for you?” Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday they tried to get everybody to commit their lives to the Lord. There were campfire dedication meetings. They presented two different experiences: one salvation and one dedication because if you have to accept Yeshua as Lord to be saved, then grace is not grace. “They understood grace as undeserved favor from God. However, they lost sight of a dimension of grace. It is empowerment to believe in God and submit to the rule of the King. Biblical grace carries the power of obedience. You cannot receive grace if you intend to live in sin. The Gospel is the undeserved invitation to come back into the Father’s house under his rule as King (Luke 15). Grace is the empowerment to obey the Word. “In dispensationalism, language about salvation was changed. Early nineteenth-century evangelists spoke about the number of people who made “profession of faith.” In Calvinism, whether they were saved was proven by whether they brought forth fruit, making their calling and election sure. In Arminianism, the profession was proven as true by the holy life of fruitfulness. They never said that a person had been saved in their meeting, but that a person had made a profession of faith. In contrast, dispensationalism said that a person was saved at their meetings. According to this theology, you could be saved, never produce real fruit, and still go to heaven. Their doctrine of grace was such that simply praying the prayer was enough. You might never see the person again; they might never join in fellowship, but if he or she believed and said the “Sinner’s Prayer,” he or she was saved. Not all dispensationalists believe this today. (Dr. Juster’s Footnote: We must become much more aware of the realities of language. When we say that a person was saved at a meeting, do we recognize the implications? Language either reveals reality or conceals reality. It is important...) “Dispensationalism taught that the Spirit’s supernatural gifts were not of this age but only of the period before Scripture was given. Despite this, the other features of dispensationalism swept the Pentecostal Movement in the 1920s, and many Bible schools and Christian colleges also became dispensational. There were other distinctions as well. The Old Testament era was considered a dispensation of Law, which contrasted with New Covenant as a dispensation of grace. Distinctions were made between Israel and the Church, whereby if you were a part of Israel, then you were part of the Covenant of Law, which would be reestablished in the millennial age for Israel. If you were a part of the Church, then you were a part of the Covenant of Grace. (Dr. Juster’s Footnote: My understanding is that both the Mosaic and New Covenants are gracious covenants, but because grace without the Holy Spirit’s fullness, as found under the Mosaic Covenant, was not adequate, God took more of the responsibility to fulfill the covenant through the Holy Spirit and the promise of writing the Law in the hearts of Israel and Judah (Jeremiah 31:31). I am more Reformed in regard to the Law and grace, but I am more dispensational in regard to the role of Israel in the millennial age. Some call this view covenant premillenialism.) In classical dispensationalism, Israel and the Church have to be separated. Originally, in dispensationalism, a Jewish believer could not live a Jewish life because to do so was considered a confusion of the dispensations. At the turn of the century, when Zionism was in its early years, a small movement had begun that was called the Messianic Jewish Movement...” Summarizing Transactional, Transformational Salvation Experience The transactional experiences of personal salvation begin in experiencing the convicting (convincing) work of the Holy Spirit (repentance from dead works to go on to serve the living God). This experience is the walkway leading to the doorway of Born Again Experience. Passing through the born again experience into the Way, Truth, and Life gives you eyes to see the kingdom of God, enter into it and possess it, one continuing Life experience after another. THE FOLLOWING ARE IN THE SERIES: MYSTERY-BRED MANNA O. #1 HOW ABRAHAM WENT FOR BROKE AND CHANGED THE WORLD: ABRAHAM'S NATION-ISRAEL IS THE HOPE OF THE NATIONS FORMERLY “How Abraham Went for Broke and Changed History” Part 1: Isaac, Son of Abraham (Part 2: Jesus, Son of Israel) (Part 3: Joseph, Son of David) (Part 4: Isaac, Son of Promise) God Said Kill Him There… and offer him as a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains. (Gen 22:2 New Century Version) Is there a verse anywhere that is harder for us to accept as coming from a God who claims to be love? What sense does this make?! Does not this challenge us beyond imagination? Does this not fall into the bin with The Holocaust in its offensiveness to our civilized sensibilities? What on this earth can we do with this commandment from God for a man to kill his own son? Do we just have to shake our head, groan and pass over it with a heavy heart and a troubled mind? Dare we face it openly for revelation and understanding from God? Steady as You Go We have understood the experience as a real life portrayal of Jesus being offered up for our sins. But was such a ghastly thing necessary? What was gained by asking a man to take his own son up on a mountain, tie him on an altar, kill him and burn him? Sounds like an absolutely bazaar and pagan ritual! It looks like God is demanding a human sacrifice. You must know going into this that understanding may not come instantly or easily. But God is all about revealing himself and his ways through the Spirit of revelation to those with an obedient heart who keep on asking, seeking, and knocking. Introduction Throughout this four part look at how Abraham changed history, I am bucking thought-lines that decades of religion formed in my mind. I am yielding to the Spirit to disconnect the thought-cars from worn out religious engines and connect my whole brain-train to Israel’s Messiah Jesus. Be prepared, therefore, to hit more than one paragraph where you will: “Say what? What is he talking about?” My suggestion is that you re-read that say what paragraph, and then keep going to the end of Part 4. Most likely I will cover the same thoughts later from a different perspective until it becomes fresh Manna to break you free from stale paradigms into regenerative thinking. My prayer is, when you have finished all four parts, that the places where you said, “say what?” will all be transforming “a-ha!” experiences. Saywhats often go ahead of Ahas to open the door. An aha happens when the Spirit lights up something to you and in you. It is in these aha moments that we are eating hidden Manna. When aha happens, just drop everything, eat the Manna from heaven (Bread of Life Jesus), and let him create new thought trails from your spirit through your brain, heart, soul and body. Eve and Adam We need to go way on back to the beginning in Genesis. God created mankind in his own male and female image, breathed into them his breath of life, and placed them in Eden. There he put a tree of life and a tree of knowledge (of good and evil). Adam and Eve were given complete liberty to eat of the tree of life and commanded not to eat of the tree of knowledge. “Eat of the knowledge tree and that day you die,” said God. The choice was theirs: obey or disobey. They were obeying and living in open family relationship with God when—enter the serpent singing the praises of knowledge: “Eat of this knowledge fruit and you’ll know for yourself what’s really going on. You won’t have to wait for God to give you knowledge of what is right or wrong.” In other words, you’ll be your own boss; you’ll know for yourself. Bottom line: you’ll be God all by yourself. Decision time. Obey God or Serpent Satan? Since God made man in his own image, man had this freedom of choice. Eve and Adam could choose to obey God and trust him for life, knowledge, and abundance—or choose to disobey God and go after knowledge about what looked and seemed good. In that case they wouldtake their chances on dying. Who Did They Choose? You know their choice. They chose knowledge for themselves and knowledge about themselves. That’s the day we all died because we were in them—yet unborn. That’s the day Satan got legal control of mankind in the spirit realm. And since all creation had been given to humankind to subdue and rule, Satan took legal spirit-control of all creation. Man had used his power of choice to trust what Satan was saying. This disconnect choice legally shut God out of his own creation. He had given man a choice and man had chosen. He had chosen to follow Satan’s suggestion. God was legally out. His character of justice does not allow him to make any spiritually illegal moves. God chose, when he created man, not to force man to serve him. He wanted man to serve him out of love. So now he cannot use force to enter creation to be with man—even to intervene on man’s behalf. If he should intervene, this would give Satan grounds to charge God with illegal trespassing and God would be unrighteous. Adam and Eve had taken a chance-choice and Satan had taken over everything outside the garden. God had to close it up. If he had not, mankind (in Adam and Eve) would have eaten of the tree of life—and would have been locked into their separated-from-God condition. The eternalizing power from the tree would have set them in their separated state forever. Since it was God’s presence that was life-giving, and they were out of his presence, Adam and Eve had died. I had died. You had died. All creation died that day—all separated from God’s presence over into Satan’s presence. Man was Satan’s to rule and creation was his to rule over. Rule he did, rule he has. Rule he does—but not forever! What Could God Do? Remember how Satan had taken the form of a (beautiful looking) serpent to get Eve’s attention so he could work with her reasoning and get her to trust him enough to follow his suggestion? Remember: she made a choice, then Adam made a choice and the choice stood. Well, God was limited to doing the same thing. God had to appeal to the image of God in man, although it was now empty of God, in his effort to get man’s attention and get man to choose him as life. He could blow his breath (Spirit) of life back across his image in (fallen) man and give man a chance to choose (the tree of) life again. If man chose life, then God could legally work to free man from Satan’s kingdom to rebuild a relationship and re-establish his own kingdom in earth. Abel, Enoch and Noah Adam’s son Abel picked up on this Breath of life blowing across earth and obeyed God by bringing to God a love gift (sacrifice) that God liked. But before God could work to change people and creation around Abel, his brother Cain, under Satan’s influence, killed him. Creation was still in darkness of disobedience to God. In a later generation, Enoch loved feeling the Breath of heaven blowing over him so he walked with God much like Adam and Eve did in the garden before Satan showed up. But nobody else caught on. When God saw that, he simply took Enoch on home with him one day when they were out walking together. Creation and all within it got so evil that God’s image in man was about to be completely destroyed. So while God had one family he could work with, he made the most of it. He told him to build a big ship for himself and for a seed of all creation because he was going to destroy the earth, as it was then known, and start over. Noah built the ark. He and his wife, his three sons and their wives went into the ark. God also loaded it with a male and female of all the animals and seeds of all the plants. God, not Noah, shut the door. For the first time ever, the heavens poured water down. God split the earth and it blew water out and up everywhere. The flood covered the earth and destroyed all that was not in the ark. Descendents of Noah’s sons, Ham and Japheth, all went wild. Many generations down from Noah, descendents of his other son Shem included Abraham and here we pick up our Abraham and Isaac story. God’s Plan for Man’s Predicament What did God want to do? He wanted to free mankind from the results of man’s own choice. In order to do this, he needed someone who would allow the image of God in them (although fallen) to pick up on the Spirit (Breath) of God blowing about them, yield to it, and obey God long enough for God to regain from Satan the dominion of all earth. Man must provide this much in order to give God legal entrance into his life and the creation around him. Satan was set for any opportunity to accuse God of being illegal, unjust, and unrighteous. Satan could then justify himself and his own condition by having proved that God did not do right by him when God threw him out of heaven. God, with all his power, has chosen to honor man’s choice and Satan is quick to remind God of that at every opportunity: “You said he could choose. He choseme; therefore he is mine. You cannot break your word.” Abraham Abraham responded to God’s presence and God talked to him about Abraham breaking out of his old life and setting out on a new life with God. Abraham wanted to know where they would be going. God said, “I’ll show you when we get there. Trust me. If you will trust me and do as I say, I will bless you, make you a great nation, and make you a blessing to all other nations. ” Abraham trusted, obeyed, headed up and moved out—away from his old life, seeking a new city. A relationship was born that developed into a friendship. God would speak and Abraham would do his best to obey what God asked him to do. He fell very short very many times, but God could intervene on his behalf because Abraham’s heart was to obey. God made up for his weakness although Abraham would suffer the fallout from his bad choices. God Cuts Covenant with Abraham God was operating within Abraham’s choice—never violating it. All Satan could do was stand off and watch. Abraham was showing no signs of changing his mind about obeying God. God had Abraham do some unusual things. In order to seal their agreement and friendship, God cut a covenant with Abraham. He had Abraham cut some animals in half and put half of each animal on one side and the other half of each one on the other side. He also gutted some birds that were left whole. Abraham did everything God asked him to do. Blood had drained into the space between the animals. God and Abraham were to walk together down the trench through this life-blood. In doing this, they would say to each other: “If I don’t keep my part of the agreement, you can take my life’s blood.” Abraham waited willingly. God appeared, but the first thing he did was to knock Abraham out! God walked the trench without Abraham. Here it is with my emphases: And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven (Father God) and a burning torch (Son God) that passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates-- 19 "the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 "the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 "the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites" (Gen 15:17-21 NKJV). Who knows what God imparted (programmed) into Abraham and set into his DNA through this experience? Going on the Mountain Then comes that morning. After these things God tested Abraham's faith. God said to him, "Abraham!" And he answered, "Here I am." 2 Then God said, "Take your only son, Isaac, the son you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Kill him there and offer him as a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about" (Gen 22:1-2 NCV). In the “Christian” western world, we have been taught this was a picture-prophecy of our Father offering up his Son Jesus as a sacrifice for our sin of disobedience. But today, with all that is happening in the Middle East around Israel, is God giving us a deeper revelation that speaks even more powerfully to our generation? In these last days it is crucial that we be taken with this deeper understanding of what was accomplished by this event. One so violent that, seemingly, it violated the very character of God himself as we know him. Involved in this understanding is the concept of “the fullness of time” required for Jesus, the Word, to take on flesh. Fullness of the Time But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ (Gal 4:4-7 NKJV). Do we understand that Jesus was not born into the world until the fullness of time had come? Do we know what “fullness of time” means? At least we know it means Jesus could not come at just any time. A fullness of some kind was involved. What was it? God could work in this Satan-owned realm legally, only at man’s invitation and with man’s bychoice cooperation with God. He could not just force the way in for Jesus to come and die for our disobedience. The way for him to come had to be prepared, step by step down through the generations by man’s choosing God, choosing to trust God and to obey God. The Answer to Death is? If death has occurred, what has to happen for life to come back? When life comes back from the dead, what do we call this happening? Resurrection, right. Creation had died. Mankind had died. What did man and creation need in order to live again? Resurrection. God could not bring resurrection unless and until man trusted God for resurrection. How could God get man to trust him for resurrection when nobody even knew anything about resurrection? Can you see how smug Satan was? See why he did not think he had one single thing to worry about? Satan knew man. He knew if man did not have theknowledge of resurrection and understand in his intellectual mind all about how it worked, man was not going to accept that it existed, let alone believe, trust, and obey God for it to happen. Satan had man locked down soultight. He had it made in the shade, sipping lemonade—from the old knowledge tree that man had chosen to live under with him. Abraham’s Knowledge God: "Abraham!" Abraham: "Here I am." That was Abraham’s knowledge of God—he knew God’s voice. Abraham was not lounging around in the shade of the old knowledge tree. He had been on thehere I am move. Remember: Abraham had no Bible. There was no written law of God for guidance—no written instructions for life and how to live it. No thou shalls or thou shall nots. Abraham had grown up making and worshipping idols. All his knowledge about any god was about idol gods until he heard the Wind (Spirit) calling Abraham and answered with his here I am. Over many years God appeared to Abraham and they talked together as friends. The knowledge Abraham had was not knowledge from the tree. His knowledge of God could be boiled down to four words: he knew God’s voice. They were friends. He knew his friend’s voice from many long sessions together. He knew—no question about it—and he got his knowledge directly from the source, from God in person. On that particular morning, Abraham heard his friend’s voice say: "Take your only son, Isaac, the son you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Kill him there and offer him as a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about." Abraham’s Response So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you." 6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together. 9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son (Gen 22:3-10 NKJV). Abraham Obeyed The Voice That was Abraham’s Bible: “God speaks, I obey.” Simple. Abraham had found a God he could trust. God had found a man he could use. What did God want to use him for? God wanted to use him to get back what had been lost. God wanted man back, wanted his garden back, wanted his whole creation back. He had at last found a man he could use down that direction. God had not deceived Abraham to bring him to this point. He had not manipulated him and he had not forced him. Abraham obeyed by choice—out of love and respect for his powerful GodFriend. Satan had no grounds for accusation. Abraham was cooperating with God of his own free will. But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" So he said, "Here I am." 12 And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of the place, THE-LORD-WILLPROVIDE; as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided." 15 Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, 16 and said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD,because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son-- 17 "blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice." 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba (Gen 22:11-19 NKJV). Divine Dynamics Abraham feared God. He did not withhold his son from God. This was the son God had miraculously provided Abraham, but Abraham moved to obey God’s voice. His choice was obedience to the voice. Let’s look at the dynamics at work here. Abraham had said, “We will return from worshipping.” This meant he was expecting Isaac to return with him even though he was taking him up the mountain to kill him. Did this mean Abraham was expecting God to bring Isaac back to life after he sacrificed him? Apparently so: By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed shall be called," 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense (Heb 11:17-19 NKJV). Abraham had said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” Obviously, Abraham’s unwavering trust gave him the knowledge that God would keep his promise—one way or the other. He just did not know which way. He was trusting God with the how. Do you see the trust factor working here? Abraham still believed God—somehow—was going to keep his promise. He had no knowledge about resurrection so he was not going on knowledge. He was going on trust. He was stretched on out, going on God. Mountain Watershed We are coming to the most critical point—the one that will break us into a deeper understanding of God’s overall plan of redemption. We will see the significance of God asking Abraham to do this and what happened when Abraham did it. It is nothing less than a watershed event in world history. Consider again: God asked Abraham to do something totally unreasonable—something that made no sense to him whatsoever—something that he could in no way carry out from a standpoint of having intellectual knowledge and logical understanding. He was asked to carry this action forth with nothing to justify it except the voice of God. It required that he turn away from the knowledge of what was right or wrong, good or evil, sensible or non-sensible, reasonable or unreasonable, logical or illogical. He had to turn away from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and rely completely (eat) on the tree of life (God). He could not, of and within himself, know what was good or evil, what was right or wrong. Do you see what happened when Abraham did this? Do you see what his action did? It undid Adam’s choice. Abraham’s choice replaced Adam’s choice in earth. It broke Satan’s legal choke-hold on mankind. It reversed the curse! Man, by his own unpressured freewill decision, had used his created-in-the-image-of-God liberty and had freely chosen for himself and his family to eat of the tree of life! Abraham’s choice released God legally back onto the earth scene. Big,BIG deal! God Got Office Space God had given Isaac to Abraham by bringing miracle working life back into the bodies of Abraham and Sarah. God had given him promises to be fulfilled through Isaac. Abraham now had given back to God what God had given him. God had given Abraham land through Isaac. When Abraham gave Isaac back to God, he gave back to God all the promises tied to Isaac— present and future. Since it was through Isaac that God gave Abraham’s descendents possession of land, when Abraham gave Isaac back, the land promised to the seed of Isaac automatically went back to God. God now had office space. He owned legal possession of land in creation. He could set up headquarters and work to rescue man, to redeem all creation, to establish his kingly dominion back in earth, and eventually banish Satan from any contact with creation. Abraham’s trust had not only broken the curse of the knowledge-tree choice and given God legal ground for earthly headquarters; it had also opened the way for resurrection in the earthly creation. When Abraham made this unreasonably bold leap of trust in God—of his own freewill choice, he cut the legs out from under Satan. He forever split the ground under Satan for God eventually to hurl him into the lake of fire. How so? God could now, without Satan having any accusation ground, work freely through his “Isaac” (Jesus) to provide a life’s blood sacrifice for all of mankind’s disobedience. He was also freed up to resurrect Jesus and work through him to resurrect mankind and all creation. This Abraham and Isaac trip up the mountain was so very much more than a picture of Jesus dying to keep us out of hell! God Got Back Eden Dirt Where do you suppose this land was located that God had given Abraham and Isaac? This land they had given back to God? It was Garden of Eden land. God was now free to take his garden back and to work to bring all his family into it to share it with him. The heart of this land is today’s Israel. Does this give you a better understanding of God’s heart for Israel? Can you experience God’s love and appreciation for the Jews who came forth from Abraham, Isaac, and Israel (Jacob)? Abraham’s trusting obedience was the opening step toward the fullness of time for Jesus to come. Many more works of obedience were yet to follow. We’ll look at some of these in Part 2: Jesus, Son of Israel. 2 How Abraham Changed History (First read Part 1: Isaac, Son of Abraham) Part 2: Jesus, Son of Israel (Part 3: Joseph, Son of David) (Part 4: Isaac, Son of Promise) Jesus redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to us. (See Gal 3:13-14) This is the family history of Jesus Christ. He came from the family of David, and David came from the family of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob (Israel)…and Mary was the mother of Jesus…called the Christ. (Matt 1 NCV) We Learned in Part 1 Our Free Will is Scary! P. #2 ISRAEL FRUIT BUT DON'T EAT THE PEELINGS: FRUIT OF HEAVENON-EARTH GROWS ON THE ISRAEL OLIVE TREE FORMERLY “SUMMER 2011—DON’T EAT THE PEELINGS!: ***Heaven On Earth COMing Down With Meat & Fruit” SUMMERTIME CONTENT TABLE: “AND HE SENT THEM OUT 2 BY 2” ? TO AUTHOR: MUST ONE BE SO GROSS?! ANSWER: iwrite APPETIZER: SUMMER BRIDGE CREW IN MISSISSIPPI, 1949 THE CASEYS KEEP RIGHT ON WALKING—1OF2 THE CASEYS KEEP RIGHT ON WALKING—2OF2 BODY MYSTERY—1OF2 BODY MYSTERY GIFTS—2OF2 BUSTED (NAIL)—1OF2 BUSTED (CUP)—2OF2 BY THE NUMBERS 1OF2 BY THE NUMBERS 2OF2 KILLING 2 BIRDS WITH—1OF2 KILLING 2 BIRDS WITH—2OF2 KING, ISRAEL, OTHER—1OF2 KING, ISRAEL, OTHER—2OF2 NOT ABOUT ISRAEL—1OF2 NOT ABOUT ISRAEL—2OF2 ONENESS CLOSENESS—1OF2 ONENESS CLOSENESS—2OF2 RIDDLE RIDERS—1OF2 RIDDLE RIDERS—2OF2 SHULAMITE MEETUP—1OF2 SHULAMITE MEETUP—2OF2 SNATCH-UP BODY-SWAP—1OF2 SNATCH-UP BODY-SWAP—2OF2 TAKE MY BONES—1OF2 TAKE MY BONES—2OF2 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS LIKE—1OF2 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS LIKE—2OF2 U2R BORN TO BE LOVED—1OF2 U2R BORN TO BE LOVED—2OF2 WOUNDED IDF RISE—1OF2 WOUNDED IDF RISE—2OF2 CLOSEOUT SAIL—THE GREAT QUILTER ? TO AUTHOR: MUST ONE BE SO GROSS?! “Pelham, Do You HAVE to Write SO Loud—and SHARP?” Ten blind boys playing on the railroad track. Why is one hollering, “Get back; GET BACK?!” The Trains Are Running Again. Engines roaring. Rattling windows in my gut. The hour is half past late. The switch must be thrown. The rails blown. The trainmasters known. They must be nabbed and delivered to rehab. Else grabbed for deportation or destruction. No delay. Time shall no longer be. Never again. Only the trains themselves shall remain. The Jew SHALL Reign! But Lord. Who has believed our report? At my first stand stood no man. Just me, And Yeshua Messiah who always stands by me. The battle is thine; the victory is mine. I shall not fight in this battle. The victory is mine; the glory is thine. I shall not fight in this battle. We’re all one in the family of God. I did not fight in this battle. The fullness of the kingdom on earth has come. I did not fight in this battle. The battle of faith is the only one. Fighting with the faith of the Living Son. I hear a new song, a new melody; keeps on ringing in my soul. Crucified with Christ, alive with him; his glory over me now rolls. Then I looked, and there before me was a white cloud. Sitting on the cloud was someone like a Son of Man with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Another angel came out of the Temple and shouted to the one sitting on the cloud, “Start using your sickle to reap, because the time to reap has come — the earth’s harvest is ripe!” The one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. Another angel came out of the Temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. Then out from the altar went yet another angel, who was in charge of the fire; and he called in a loud voice to the one with the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because they are ripe!” The angel swung his sickle down onto the earth, gathered the earth’s grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s fury. The winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress as high as the horses’ bridles for two hundred miles! Rev 14:14-20 (CJB) The blood is up to the horses’ bits; they’re swimming in a bloody flux. The warriors all are coming out o’ heaven; fighting this battle for us. Innocent blood from all the slain; children of God in all their pain Gave their blood for Jesus to reign; blood since Abel’s was spilled by Cain. We shall not fight in this battle; The Captain leads all heaven to fight; I don’t have to fight in this battle. Except the battle to let Yeshua’s faith—rise out o’ my belly to boldly say Yeshua HaMashiach already has—fought the battles and won the Day. This is the battle heaven has won; faith says it’s already done. I shall not fight in this battle. Blood reached a God-marked level; Blood all spilled by the killer devil. God said no more; you’ve done your do; my warrior babies are come for you. I have spoken and it shall stand. Never-ever, Devil Clever; never NEVER AGAIN! Time no longer, no more delay; my armies are coming all hell to pay Blood for blood, eye for eye; you hit me in the pupil, NOW BURN AND DIE! The blood of YOUR family I now spill; and set it on fire to create hell For satan and all of his evil pack; burning in The Lake, are never coming back. Rejoice o’ heavens and earth now one; fullness of my kingdom on earth has come. Glory shining from sun to sun; we fought the good fight of faith and JESUS WON! All for Papa. ANSWER: iwrite Creative writing. You may have heard of it. Letting Creator Inspire you by the Living Word from the written Word; then writing it down and giving it out so Creator can do HIS Thing of bringing visible out of Invisible. He calls it, “Calling things that do not exist as if they already did—so they can.” The HOECOM iwrite (Heaven On Earth COMing) He calls “Blessed is He Who COMES in the Name of the LORD from Heaven to earth.” The creativity also includes some other-world words, punctuation, and capitalization with all kinds of wordplay and meaning shades. So watch your mind/step. When capitals appear unexpectedly, just remember that’s how Jesus is coming back, and look for Divinity associated with the word. You might guess this to be a different read; you could be right. And, oh. Not everybody likes it, but they have plenty ‘plain’ reading elsewhere so not to worry. Not all creators are ‘famous’—and some of ‘em don’t give a ripstitch. INTRODUCTION: SUMMER BRIDGE CREW IN MISSISSIPPI, 1949 I soon learned that one of the final steps before people were allowed to cross was fastening the wooden 2x10 oak decking to the 12x12 oak cap sill foundation. First, set rows of 8 inch nails with a pole axe. Drivers used a 10-pound sledge to hammer ‘em home. The goal: bury the nailheads in the wood with the second swing. I never IMAGINED 6 decades later I’d be privileged to work in Special Services to bridge the unbearable chasm between ungodly wild genteel gentilinity and God’s IsraeLand of Opportunity so as to reverse the curse and raise the world from the dead in the Mighty Name of Jesus. I mean, who’d-a-thunk it—waist deep in Yockanookany River’s snakes, vines, and trash to clear out the fallen bridge remains? Who’d-a-thunk it—sweat-soaked to his socks building a crossing? Not I. Would you? I didn’t even KNOWINGLY volunteer. I just found myself one day working to git ‘er done. Go figger, Trigger. The divide was deeply dangerous; ruled by hell’s highest super-charged religions. ‘Churchies’ lurching and leering from their sanctuaries, well secured in their jungled-out hideaways in the quicksand marshes. Hell surging and slobbering to surface with all its demons. The split/rift was WAY beyond human fixing. The nations were mob-ruled by heathens with no knowledge of God and no hope to be had. Israel’s side was like a deserted, useless, rundown shack in an overgrown cucumber patch—for generations. Then—first Zionists. They came as incompletes to the old, rocky, dry, barren desert that once fruited the nation—coming to complete The Land, and to be completed themselves, though they knew not how. Then came, joining them, a scattering of already completed fellow Jews out of the nations—the not-yet-completed still knew not how these got completed, nor were they real sure they WERE completed. Showing up among them was a tamed gentile or two here and there to join the crew. Defying nature and knowledge, cows started lowing and leaving their own calves behind to carry The Presence of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob back onto Jacob (Israel) Dirt. An Obed Edom occasionally was glad to fill a space to help The Presence along the journey back to Israel. Jews started hitting completion on The Land—and—across the nations. Gentiles, very few at the time, kept coming and becoming righteous among the righteous-remnant Jews—though most knew not why to do what. It was quite something to see—whenever one could take a building break on the bridge at the 40gallon ice-water Grace Keg. There, he could water up, cool down with a dipper dash or two on the head that tried to outrun some sweat, and look around him a bit. Ahhhhhhhh, sweet satisfaction. Back to work! I could tell when true apostles kept setting rows of nails for SOMEBODY to drive that kingdom bridge traffic, which was backed up out of sight, would soon be motioned to cross—‘soon as the final nails were driven. This time, not in their coffins, but in the kingdom bridge so the planks would not dry out, buck up and get bounced out of place. ‘Looking for Day Soon when they would become planks of gold set in foundations of silver from the Bridged City Above. The Jeweled Bridge to Glory for all the nations—and People-Nation Israel would take her Goddestined ownership. Read ahead. Experience the twenty-leb’n, one-two-slam-‘er-home summer with the steel-driving Man from Galilee, that “Bad-back” King of the Jews, Yeshua Hamashiach, known among gentiles as Jesus Christ, Anointed Seed of Father Abraham and Father Abraham’s God. AND “THE CASEYS” KEPT RIGHT ON WALKING... 1OF2 ...while babies kept on dying—killed in clothes closets, women’s wombs, and suffocating sacks slung out into swamps. “KEPT on”, I say. It’s in the cards, my friend—so sad to say. Count on it and live accordingly. It’s a foregone conclusion—for now. Have you hugged your country lately? And kissed it goodbye on its way to the front lines? Oh, I s’pect it’ll be back—but not so’s you can recognize it. Life-back guarantee. One of my old fave songs says: And they say you don't tug on Superman's cape--You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off an 'ole Lone Ranger--And you don't mess around with Jim (But that’s not how the song ended. Keep reading.) You don’t spit into the wind because it blows back to mess up your face. ‘True for nations too— one and all. But they kept right on harkin’ and spittin’—against the wind. Now their eyes are matted plumb shut with crusted over hark-n-spit-tooey-goo blow-back. They can’t stumble for falling flat. That’s where all the nations are at. Since they can’t see and they won’t learn, they keep losing what little learning that once they had. They flounder around and call good “evil” and evil, they call “good”. They readily desert the innocent and render their gutless verdict of “Not Guilty” to free the murderers and boost their reputations of being broad minded, intellectual tolerants whose cowardly pride won’t let them kill killers to stop killing. Lady Justice is stripped in the street and robbed of her due. It doesn’t always have to be like this in America. She can get her sight back and come in out of her own killing fields. But she will serve her full sentence of eating grass like an ass before she gets her right mind back. It will be after the war—at the latest. (Could have been sooner.) The Kingdom Principle You see, “It’s the principle of the thing.” It applies to all peoples and all persons—to all nations as well as to all individuals. “As you do, so shall you be done to.” Most especially is this true with the “as you do” when it’s toward God. As you do toward God, so shall God do toward you—IN THIS WORLD. As you do toward God IN THIS WORLD, so shall God do toward you—IN THIS WORLD NOW—God in this world and you in this world—NOW. The Principle is built in, locked in. “Where is God? I’m looking around and I don’t see Him—HA HA HA HA HA,” sarcastically mock the idiots of the day from their self-imagined, high-minded, bird-dirty perches. Who do you suppose laughs last?—If you had to guess. After the heavens ceased shaking, a Voice began to talk: “Do you have a braille map now? Maybe you can feel it, or maybe you can remember back when you could see? It was such a SLIM-sliced nation, but big enough for you to see Me. It has a Mountain City of Peace in the middle of it for you to see Me. It’s been put back there for you to look at Me—oh-h-h—I’d say, for more’n half a century now. “Remember that? There in plain view for the whole world to see Me? LONG ‘fore your mama let you out, I was there. I’ve been living on that Land for centuries—sometimes without much company, but I’VE been living there. AND YOU NEVER SAW ME! As Big as I AM? I’ve been there for the world to find Me. And you didn’t see Me. You didn’t see ME? And you thought it was funny? Well, let me laugh with you. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!” His belly laughs had him doubling over, and every time He did, all the heavens shook with Joy, the seas roared out loud laughter, and the mountains trembled with ecstasy. Did He even notice that all His laughter Power was slinging stupid scoffers farther and farther away from Him and His properties—into the vast Nethers? Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples? Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks, The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers: "Let's get free of God! Cast loose from Messiah!" Heaven-throned God breaks out LAUGHING. At first he's amused at their presumption; Then he gets good and angry. FURIOUSLY, he shuts them up: "Don't you know there's a King in Zion? A coronation banquet Is spread for him on the holy summit." 7-9 Let me tell you what God said next. He said, "You're my son, And today is your birthday. What do you want? Name it: Nations as a present? Continents as a prize? You can command them all to dance for you, Or throw them out with tomorrow's trash." 10-12 So, rebel-kings, use your heads; Upstart-judges, learn your lesson: Worship God in adoring embrace, Celebrate in trembling awe. Kiss Messiah! Your very lives are in danger, you know; His anger is about to explode, But if you make a run for God—you won't regret it! (Psalm 2 THE MESSAGE) How great is the Lord! How much we should praise him. He lives upon Mount Zion in Jerusalem. 2 What a glorious sight! See Mount Zion rising north of the city high above the plains for all to see--Mount Zion, joy of all the earth, the residence of the great King. 3 God himself is the defender of Jerusalem. 4 The kings of the earth have arrived together to inspect the city. 5 They marvel at the sight and hurry home again, 6 afraid of what they have seen; they are filled with panic like a woman in travail! 7 For God destroys the mightiest warships with a breath of wind. 8 We have heard of the city's glory--the city of our God, the Commander of the armies of heaven. And now we see it for ourselves! God has established Jerusalem forever. Psalms 48:1-8 (TLB) As you have done to Israel, so it will be done to you. All your evil deeds will fall back on your own heads. 16 Just as you swallowed up my people on my holy mountain, so you and the surrounding nations will swallow the punishment I pour out on you. Yes, you nations will drink and stagger and disappear from history, as though you had never even existed. 17 "But Jerusalem will become a refuge for those who escape; it will be a holy place. And the people of Israel will come back to reclaim their inheritance. Ob 1:15-17 (NLT) The Lord's vengeance will soon fall upon all Gentile nations. As you have done to Israel, so will it be done to you. Your acts will boomerang upon your heads. 16 You drank my cup of punishment upon my holy mountain, and the nations round about will drink it too; yes, they will drink and stagger back and disappear from history, no longer nations anymore. Ob 1:15-16 (TLB) Keep Laughing “You just keep right on laughing at My Justice—and let your “Caseys” keep right on walking, while My babies keep right on dying. Keep right on counting my good work with my Nation Israel to be ‘evil’ and your passing judgment on my work as ‘good’. Keep on deceitfully making every effort to undermine the governmental infrastructure of My nation, and you will keep on hearing a cracking overhead. That would be your own country’s infrastructure breaking up to crumble down around you and bury you in your own do-doings. Your own acts are boomeranging back upon your heads and upon your own nation. I count all your work evil that you do in your country. (“An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked is sin (Prov 21:4 (KJV). “You gathered your jury of peers and gave your verdict: ‘Guilty as Charged by Israel’s Enemies’. Therefore, my boomerang principle is that you lose all sense of justice in your own country and courts on all matters. You ignored my law and arrogantly mooned me openly in your streets with all your rebellious, lawless stupidity. You put it on display; you wanted all the world to see your naked disregard for my ways and the constitution I gave you. “Therefore, your blatant injustice has boomeranged to strike the heart of your own country. You’re going down, baby. You have judged yourselves—all your religious practices notwithstanding. So, IT WAS YOU who started this war, but IT IS I Who shall win this war. Are you so stubbornly blind as to think you can win, with My boomerang principle immovably in place, that you relentlessly intensify your war with Me on all fronts? Can you win a war with the One Who made you? “My Justice Supernaturally multiplies your own ways exponentially and pours them, without mercy, back on your own heads—from the white house to the outhouse. Your own actions against Me provides Me the ammunition I use against you. This is My Justice: an eye for an eye and a nation for a nation. As you have done to Me, America, living in My Own Home on earth, so have I done, and shall continue to do, to you. Continue Laughing “As you continue, so shall I continue. As you turn, so shall I turn. If you do not turn, I have an appointment with you that you SHALL keep—in MY office. It won’t be pretty. Only a scrap— NO crap—of your state shall survive. As you have done to Israel, so it will be done to you. To the degree America and/or Americans turn to follow this Kingdom Principle in today’s world, to that EXACT same degree shall I bring America back. You can forget all your religious whoopla. If America and/or Americans do not turn, kiss America and/or Americans goodbye. You’re going away. “The Jewish people’s New Jerusalem is already rising, like your new Twin Towers, on the Mound of MY Spirit-building Messianics. It is here with them that America and Americans may report to ME for duty so as not to be kept-caught on the wrong side in this war until Zechariah comes—and find yourselves Mad-dog raging in a war against Israel that she HAS BEEN DESTINED TO WIN since earth was a lonesome mud ball in her Maker’s Mind. “And Jerusalem will be filled, safe at last, never again to be cursed and destroyed. And the LORD will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will shrivel in their sockets, and their tongues will decay in their mouths. On that day, they will be terrified, stricken by the LORD with great panic. Zech 14:11-13 (NLT) MESSIAH SERVES THE JEWS—AND YOU? “...the Messiah (Jesus) became a servant of the Jewish people...” Romans 15:8 (Complete Jewish Bible) Don’t Mess Around! "You Don't Mess Around With Jim (SLIM)" (As recorded by Jim Croce), JIM CROCE Uptown got its hustlers--The bowery got its bums Forty Second Street got Big Jim Walker--He a pool shootin' son of a gun Yeah he big and dumb as a man can come--But he's stronger than a country hoss And when the bad folks all get together at night You know they all call Big Jim boss, just because And they say you don't tug on Superman's cape--You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off an 'ole Lone Ranger--And you don't mess around with Jim Well outa South Alabama come a country boy--He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim I am a pool shootin' boy, my name is Willie McCoy--But down home they call me Slim Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of Forty Second Street (Pelham lived 14 blocks south.)--He drive an old drop-top Cadillac And last week he took all my money, and it may sound funny--But I've come to get my money back And everybody say Jack, ooh don't you know That you don't tug on Superman's cape--You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off an 'ole Lone Ranger--And you don't mess around with Jim Well a hush fell over the pool room--And Jimmy come boppin' in off the street And when the cuttin' was done--The only part that wasn't bloody was the soles of the big man's feet, whoa Yeah he were cut in 'bout a hundred places--And he was shot in a couple more And you better believe they sung a different kind of story--When a Big Jim hit the floor, aw Now they say you don't tug on Superman's cape--You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off an 'ole Lone Ranger--And you don't mess around with Slim (c) Copyright 1971, 1972 in U.S.A. and Canada by Blendingwell Music, Inc. and Wingate Music Corp. c/o Publishers' Licensing Corporation, 40 W. 55th Street, New York, New York. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. - HIT PARADER, December 1972. AND “THE CASEYS” KEPT RIGHT ON WALKING... 2OF2 Last time, we left Lady Justice deserted by her defenders, deprived of her dues, robbed of her robes, stripped of her clothes, pimped out to the streets where She was assaulted and lay violated: buck, bruised, and battered—her subjects shocked and her enemies celebrating her humiliation to the leers and jeers of hell-hounds’ howling hordes--lewd demons of the lowest order. And the Woman has a Husband. He is not a happy Camper: "You serpents, you brood of vipers, you did THAT to MY Justice?! I AM right NOW barely holding back My Urge to drop you on the spot and hurl you to hell. ‘You understand that? I have sentenced YOU!” fIre hUb I—and—U? We have a job to do: Build Justice a First Responders’ Hunker-Bunker (FiRe HuB), EARTH contact. ‘Something like a Papa-run, Earth Contact house, safe from judgment storms raging all about. “And Wisdom has built Her House”: Lady Justice: Queen of the FiRe HuB House on Truth Hunker-Bunker Ground Roof: rainbow Foundation: Righteousness and Justice Support Framework: Jerusalem Gold 12x12’s throughout Walls: Praise Doors: Glory Light: Hebrew Nationals Heating: consuming Fire Cooling: heaven’s central Air Ambiance: holiness unto JHWH Currency: love, joy, peace. Personnel and a tiny taste of who and what they ‘brung to the table’ in the Hunker-Bunker: Israeli Ezekiel: Triple, Burning-Wind, Whirling-Wheeled Apparatus in the center, controlling the HuB Israeli Elijah and Simon Peter: Fire out of heaven Israeli Elisha: Doubled-down servitude to The Master Moses: meekness, miracles and Glory of The Tabernacle Messianic Jew John The Revelator: love illuminations out of heaven The Jewish Messianic announcer John Baptizer: The Voice Cry out into the judgment storms Messianic Jew Saul of Tarsus: Suffered-out ease of grace service A gentile widow brings oil A little Jewish boy: 2 fish and 5 slices of bread Jewish disciples of Yeshua: obedient, giving-out hands Gentile Commander Naaman: healing testimony A gentile mother: groveling and grabbing faith A Roman Army Officer: faith like Israel didn’t have Israeli King David: a heart like God’s Tradesmen: fish-mouth money Israeli Jacob’s Well supplies Living Water Israeli Deborah: audacity to war like a woman Israeli Jael: kill-the-killers instinct and sudden action-strikes Israeli Jepthah’s daughter: through the fire to the other side if Papa says Jewish Queen Esther: if I die, so what King David’s Mighty Israeli Men: first-line King loving and serving to the death Israeli Solomon’s Revolutionary Guards: We got your back, Boss, front and all sides Israeli Jeremiah and Isaiah: laying out Papa’s plans for the FiRe HuB Messianic Jew Philip: transportation Israeli Enoch: beam me up, Scotty—and then back down Messianic Jew Stephen: I see Yeshua standing at the Father’s right hand! Job: It ain’t over till Lady Justice sings Israeli Jude and Obadiah: all you ungodly ungodlies going down, baby Israeli Zechariah: no quarter given and no change coming Israeli Sons of Issachar Levites: here’s the deal and now’s the time, boys and girls Israeli Jehu: furious driving, throw the Jezebel bitch down to the dogs on the low-down ground Israeli Samuel: how come I hear all that livestock noise, king? Messianic Jew Timothy: apostolic obedience and youth leading Israeli King-at-8 Josiah: heard what was written in the Book of the Law and tore his clothes in despair. Isaac’s first cousin Rebekah: I’ll draw water for all your camels. Gentile Ruth: your people shall be my people Rebekah’s nieces Rachel and Leah: not their idea to be dual wives; both built the house of Israel Solomon’s Shulamite: good-looking, King-loving goat herder inspires Songs to the King Israeli Samson: where’s that dry jaw bone? Say good buddy, could I lean against your pillars and rest? Messianic bride in heaven: call us back down to Israel, Messiah lovers Israeli Amos: how to get a plumbline word from heaven and plow it out to the last row in the field Noah: how to get the hell outta Dodge—leave it outta ya boat and let God drown it. Abel: worship God, whatever your brother does Idol worshipping gentile turned “Jew” Abraham: go with I AM till you git ‘er done Isaac: it was good for my Hebrew Pappy, it was good for my Hebrew Pappy—and it’s good enough... Scoundrel Jacob renamed “Israel”: if I can’t have the one I want, I’ll take ‘em both, thank you. Israeli Miriam: worshipping and dancing band leading gifts Israeli Miriam: be it done to me like you say the LORD says... mother of Messiah Messianic Apostle Peter: you’re the son of David, Son of the living God—kingdom keys I AM: gather 2 or 3 in a Hunker Bunker, and there... Israeli Daniel and his Hebrew buddies: how to hunker-bunker in a strange land and rise to rule it Israeli Joseph: neither brothers, pits, prisons, betrayers, lusty women liars, or rulers will keep my bones and me from making it to the Hunker Bunkers in the nations to rise and rule them with Messiah. Babylon King Nebuchadnezzar: I’m tired of eating grass. I praise, glorify and honor the King of Heaven, Judge of all; His EVERY act is right and good; He is able to humble the proud and push ‘em into dust. Messianics in The Land: Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the LORD Israeli Habbakuk: I will stand at my watchpost, and I will write down the vision clearly... Obedient Israeli Hosea: Lord, you say marry a whore? Show me which one. Israeli Joel: the Locust Armies swarming Israeli Micah: the outcasts coming on in A Samaritan woman: I got so excited about the HuB I forgot my water pots! Messianic Pastor James: praying till you get callouses like “camel knees” Israeli Mordecai: Gap-standing intercession—in the standing position: who’s Haman? Messianic First Family: we have left all to follow You To name just a few. Quite a Family Crew, yes? BODY MYSTERY 1OF2 The kingdom body of Messiah is a mystery—something hidden up to now, but now revealed. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Our days are numbered. The Hebrew language holds, within the letters of its alphabet, numbers. 1 God 2 Son of God/son of Abraham Messiah Yeshua 3 Father/Mother/Son God 4 Father/Mother/Son/man God 5 Father Family God expressed through human’s five face-shined, five physical body extremities (fingers and toes). Family-man possessed, carrying, shining and imparting Family-God throughout creation. 6 transition; man without God pre-Messiah 7-1. Post-Messiah: God in man in God in Messiah 1+5, 2+4. 7 completeness, perfection 4+3 8 new beginnings 4+4 9 finality 3x3 10 order 2x5 12 divine/apostolic government 5+7, 3x4 14 double portion 7+7 BODY MYSTERY 2OF2--GIFTS, FRUIT, MINISTRIES OF THE SPIRIT 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. The Gifts of the Spirit 8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines. 12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 1 Cor 12:4-14 (NIV) The Fruit of the Spirit Q. #3 “IT’S THE MESSIANICS, STUPID”: PAPA LIKES HER LIKE THAT -- ISRAEL FOR HIS WIFE” FORMERLY: September 2011 “It’s the Messianics, Stupid”: Papa Likes Her Like That Daily-Diary Bread Breakdown: A Slice a Day Keeps the Creepies Away 1 sept 11: Spirit And Truth Flesh Spotters 2 sept 11: Jesus Came Toting a Double Barrel 3 sept 11: Will the Real Jesus Please Come Forth in Israel-Honoring Kingdom Power? 4 sept 11: “Sorkoff and Cheese” Dream—a Birthing, of Sorts 5 sept 11: J.F. Throttle 6 sept 11: Share and Share Alike 7 sept 11: SO Many Sauls, So Few Samuels 8 sept 11: The Server or the Served? 9 sept 11: Self-Life Expiration 10 sept 11: Learned Obedience 11 sept 11: 9 11 Why Tribulation? 12 sept 11: By Your Stripes I Am Healed 13 sept 11: California Dining Menu 14 sept 11: About Doors & Keys—If You Please 15 sept 11: Working Five to Five 16 sept 11: MISSISSIPPI BURN-TURN, PARTS 1and2: God, Where Are You? 17 sept 11: The Dare-God Idiot Nation (Da.G.I.N.) 18 sept 11: Election Time. AGAIN? ! 19 sept 11: Heavenly Minded Earthly Good 20 sept 11: What Would You Do? 21 sept 11: Tomombo Tallahatchie 22 sept 11: How DO You Pray for a President Anyway? Or, Maybe It’s Just Me. 23 sept 11: No Toilets In Heaven 24 sept 11: ANY One Doing Any ONE Thing for ISRAEL? 25 sept 11: Holy of Holies—Out On the Dairy Farm 26 sept 11: Teaching Baby Turtles to Swim—1of2 27 sept 11: Teaching Baby Turtles to Swim—2of2 28 sept 11: HIROSHIMA 29 sept 11: Woe Is Me 30 sept 11: Papa Likes Her Like That The Redeemer will come to Zion in Israel. "As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant with Israel: My Spirit who is upon you, Israel, and My words which I have put in your mouth, Israel, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore." Arise, shine, Israel; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. Look, darkness shall cover the earth, deep darkness shall cover the people; But the LORD will arise over you, Israel, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, Israel, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, And your daughters shall be nursed at your side. Then you shall see and become radiant, And your heart shall swell with joy; Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you. The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, Israel, and their kings shall minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, But in My favor I have had mercy on you. Therefore, Israel, your gates shall be open continually; They shall not be shut day or night, That men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, And their kings in procession. THE NATION and KINGDOM WHICH WILL NOT SERVE YOU, ISRAEL, SHALL PERISH, and THOSE NATIONS SHALL BE UTTERLY RUINED. (See Isaiah 59 and 60) 1 sept 11: Spirit And Truth Flesh Spotters The only way to worship my Papa is in Spirit and TRUTH. The Spirit of illumination pierces and rips the veil/covering/skin/shroud of flesh. Flesh is dead. Its only need is to be disposed of. Works done in this flesh are all maggoty—or, speaking lasting-wise, wood knots, moldy hay and stubborn stubble. Fire possesses enough Burn to sear right down through flesh to TRUTH bone. No TRUTH there? Burn never stops. If the flesh is TRUTH filled? Nothing is destroyed—but it’s ALL purified like gold and silver in the furnace. It’s all fired to Glory intensity, regenerated right down and through the foundation skeleton bone of the Glorified Jew living inside. That flesh is turned into a Person of Fire in a body of Fire, a house/temple/kingdom/family of Fire. All FIRE, burning with TRUTH by the Holy Most FIRE. Rev 19:17-21 (CJB): Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds that fly about in mid-heaven, “Come, gather together for the great feast God is giving, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of important men, the flesh of horses and their riders and the flesh of all kinds of people, free and slave, small and great!” I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to do battle with the rider of the horse and his army. But the beast was taken captive, and with it the false prophet who, in its presence, had done the miracles which he had used to deceive those who had received the mark of the beast and those who had worshipped his image. The beast and the false prophet were both thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. The rest were killed with the sword that goes out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. Rev 19:17-21 (CJB) Birds eat flesh? Where carcass is, eagles/vultures are. Eagles eat live flesh—buzzards eat dead. Fire eats clean into itself all truth/live flesh. Fire eats clean away dead flesh. Spirit of revelation and wisdom exposes flesh to Fire and the birds. The servant of the Mother New Jerusalem/friend of the bridegroom voices/writes out the exposed flesh in words called truth and Fire uses these words. Mother soaks with water or gasoline and Father Fires to burn sacrifice, water, rocks, dirt and all. Only precious rocks are left. So, all servant does is give voice. Birds and Fire and angels (cherubim and seraphim), cloud of witnesses, family—they all do the rest. Words cannot compromise what Spirit exposes or truth is lost and all heaven has nothing to work with to eat, Fire burn or convict burn, confront, convert and deliver/destroy.. No magnetism between heaven and earth. Lovers of are warriors standing in the last days and blazing on over into and with the consuming Fire coming captain of the Lord’s heavenly armies. These warriors sit in their Goshen shacks in the Spirit and call down the strikes on all flesh. Prophesy to the wind. Cast your bread on the waters. Sow morning, noon, and evening. Freely give out to whoever opens up before you. that one could be a key warrior. Could be somebody you don’t even like. Feed the hungry. Do it now. Don’t say my master tarries a long time. Don’t say four months from now. You can voice it today, the day of salvation. Papa is after the whole old vine in the harvest of the age. The vine entangles the whole world in one way or another. All crushed into new wine age and order. Winepress is in Jerusalem on the ground. All flesh is grass for the burning. Grapes are for stomping, sacrifices for Papa. Take a Noah 8 through Fire on Fire. Catch little foxes, and burn fields with their tails on fire. Speak it and it’s done. Must speak pure truth or it’s no go. Angels know only one voice, truth’s voice. Truth and voice are one. Truth and fire are one. Truth and Spirit are one. How much of all this is done before The Coming? How much at The Coming? How much after The Coming and throughout the changeover? 2 sept 11: Jesus Came Toting a Double Barrel Deliverance. Individual and across-nation corporate deliverance, both personal. He came as the Seed spent by Papa enclouded in the Holy Spirit Mother Womb of the Morning. Conviction comes on, the Womb covers, Life begins. Christ is Patterned Word-Way the kingdom of heaven works. We change our mind under that conviction cloud of the Spirit, get born anew from the Beginning above that is brought to hover brood cover in a most personal way to ultimately birth a many membered corporate body out onto earth from heaven, pouring all heaven out onto and throughout the mis-cultured masses, transforming, renewing, and regenerating back into Eden status and breaking the Eden barrier on into New Jerusalem, ever expanding with fresh creativity. Israel is the pupil of the eye for this—contrasting the dead religious activity attempt/method which is like putting a camel through a needle’s eye, trying to do it form-set without the Life elasticity of the Holy Spirit. How can a woman ‘open up’ widely enough and timely enough for a double digit baby? The woman’s womb and associated birthing equipment is inherently Life-designed for seed receiving, bearing and delivering new life. Same with the Womb of the Morning. Yeshua did not come with a stepped out salvation creed tied to his toe. No record is found that Miriam said to Joseph, “What does the note say, Joseph? Be sure and hang on to that. I want it for my baby scrap book. Our soul’s salvation could depend on us following that creed to the letter, every jot and tittle.” Humans get too focused on the wrong vagina (and womb), not spending their attention, time and energy on yielding to God to be made a seed HE can spend through the KINGDOM opening into the Womb of the Morning Holy Spirit to bring forth many sons and daughters with whom to change the age. Just like they’re tricked into looking for a note tied on Jesus to get which rules to follow to heaven. Or, like they focus on the wrong baptism and get stuck on arguing over the water and ignore, often NEVER getting to the kingdom baptism into the kingdom body and receiving a kingdom love language so they can lovingly relate to THE KING. God gives us word pictures so we can get the picture of the unseen kingdom IN ORDER TO STEP OVER INTO THE PICTURE and give flesh, blood, breath, and bone to it. QUITE often, due, NOT to Papa’s reluctance to help us but due flesh, Satan and the world’s interference and resistance, we find we have no choice but to ask, ask, and keep on asking; seek, seek, and keep on seeking, knock, knock, and keep on knocking—AND THEN we look and, lo and look-a-here, the picture is LIVING all around me. Yea for God! Jesus came Life, full of Word, sent from Father, cloud-covered with Mama, the whole Heaven Life Family in what? A 7 Pound, 8 Ouncer resting easy enough in a feed trough on what was supposed to have been some hungry donkey’s meal. And still he shook shepherds in their fields, and magnetized magi ‘a million’ miles away. One little fella gurgling and cooing, “Game on!” (Yet NOT He, but Papa and Heaven.) “One down”, Papa said, “And more on the Way.” Us. ‘Talking ‘bout us. If we could ever get it through to the mind of Christ inside the Anointing in us that Jesus is/was always talking KINGDOM come out of heaven. If we would EVER quit trying to squeeze Him and all he said/says through the church needle’s eye, just maybe we could lose some centscenteredness and come buy some kingdom-building, call-Jesus-back sense. If only we would... Is Life like a box of chocolates? Maybe. A little. But kingdom sweets and heaven stuffing won’t go down in church’s Santa Claws stockings—not without blowing out the toes and filling the room with kingdom AUTHORITY AND TAKE OVER. Kingdom is like that—so designed. It contains but cannot itself be corporately contained by another, only bowed to, accepted and entered into. Get born anew from the Beginning Above, see and enter into the kingdom of heaven and run like hell’s after you ever deeper into Papa’s Heart Land. As Papa submerges us in himself through Messiah Yeshua, the Anointed One saturates us, comes alive in us, runs our marked out race before us, in us, and with us. Mysteries anyone? May the Lord bless you on your kingdom journey, no thieves or robbers stealing your destiny. I can imagine big ol’ Gabe with a mallet as big as the Sea of Galilee on a handle as long as The Jordan lifted over a gong the size of Jerusalem, ready to sound your arrival, destiny fulfilled, crown of Life ready to go down before PapaSon and all Heaven’s Population: WELCOME HOME! WELL DONE!!!!!!!! 3 sept 11: Will the Real Jesus Please Come Forth in Israel-honoring Kingdom Power? 1 Jesus out of Israel; 1 Jesus out of Church Spiritual Sap only flows out of Israel. Church-Jesus kingdomlessness is bloodless— a phantom mirage Israel-Jesus churchless is spotless—cleansed by the Blood of Israel’s sacrificed lamb Yeshua HaMashiach. Israel Jesus is Abraham rooted with Bloodline Sap flowing transgenerational, cross-cultural, restorational, regenerational, inter-relational, international, and judgment-intentional, kingdomrational. “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.” (Jesus in John 4:22 NASB) 4 sept 11 “Sorkoff and Cheese” Dream—a Birthing, of Sorts (dream of July 2, early AM, 2011) I had an awareness of people, things, and scenarios passing from one side of a curtain (or wall) to appear on the side where I was. Either this was happening very slowly, or I was seeing it very slowly. It was going on in a manner and at a pace of its own. Not I, nor anyone where I was moving around could do anything except watch and/or cooperate with the action. There was a joyful expectation and happiness in trying to keep up with so much GOOD STUFF coming into view and reality around us. We had no control but could cooperate and participate as indicated or asked to do. No fear, no dread or anxiety, but some instructions were given as the happenings took place, one after another. I was just getting sketches or tidbits from here to there. These included: Camels. Early in the dream. (no cows, sheep, goats, chickens, horses, etc. Camels only!) The words “Sorkoff and cheese”, I heard in the camel frame. A man preparing and/or cooking steaks. (camel steaks? Or, maybe that’s where all the beef went?) As I went where he was, looked in and saw him with shelves or racks of meat, a voice with me said, “He’s got only 5 more seconds.” (or what, I wondered? The voice didn’t explain.) A man laying claim to a territory on a higher plane. I could see him, and heard him say, “I’ll take this; it’s a place of rest,” and then he added as he looked it over and turned to me, “This is a good place for seniors.” Plants that looked like flowers but were being pulled up as food. I saw people holding them up with the roots in a dirt ball. More vaguely, something about an elderly person who could not or would not come or was not ready to come this time. Also vague was something like a flower that I saw with separate petals spread out from a brown center. I watched as the petals were peeled off like they were tape, leaving the brown, buttonlooking center. (I couldn’t tell how many petals. 6?) Then there was the woman in purple garments—not a dress; not West-wear. This is the only time I spoke in the half-awake, half-asleep dream. She was wearing purplish (but not solid purple), loose-fitting, very light-weight (but not transparent), silky-like material. I looked at her and saw a small patch of skin showing on the upper part of her right thigh near her abdomen. It was not sensuous, but seemed inappropriate. I said softly, “You can’t wear that. You need-- (I hesitated, reaching for the right words) a fresher look (whatever that means). She said, “I can wear this in different ways.” She sat down with her back to a wall and did not change but simply rearranged her clothing, which was something like layers of scarves that she “freshened up.” Then she stood up and was elegantly appropriate from her chin down in flowing, flowery purple. She was ultimate feminine beauty personified without a trace of impurity or a hint of an impure impartation. MEANING? The Setup First, one or two nights before this, I had dreamed I was in a big, darkened warehouse-like building. Someone had been with me going in but the person was now out of range and doing something else. I did not have my crutches but was trying to stand and walk in the darkness. Loneliness and helplessness swallowed me. I waked up with this feeling of agonizing aloneness and utter helplessness. Absolute bottom. Nowhere to go physically, emotionally and spiritually. Second, I had just written Paul Blake an email of encouragement for his Kingdom Living Congregation that he is in process of leading into fellowship with Tikkun Ministries, directed by Dr. Daniel Juster. Third, I had, the day before the dream, written offering encouragement to the pro-life youth movement led by 20 year old Lila Rose (www.LiveAction.com) that is bravely exposing the greedy, baby-killing, government-backed, abortion industry hierarchy in America. I understand that the rabid, physical abortion movement is demon-driven to kill a generation of babies in an all-out effort to abort the kingdom of God in the Womb of the Morning, and in this manner keep it from coming out of heaven to “freshen up” or regenerate earth all through and over with heaven. Comments Okay. The dream/visitation included camels (coming out in the first of the experience with sarkoff and cheese), flowers/veggies, meat, cheese, men, women (one old and not coming, and one eager to be properly dressed, for whoever she was expecting, in her purple “scarves”. Throughout the dream, there was a sense of urgency to cooperate, but no panic, no threat, no fear, no guilt, no pressure. ‘More of a “Wow! What’s next?!” atmosphere of expectant excitement. Not a shred of fear about what might come into view next because EVERYTHING COMING WAS GOOD, and all watchers “Under the Influence” of the happy ambiance. The whole thing hit me like a birthing scene. ‘Like I automatically knew that’s what I was witnessing—something being birthed out or coming forth. The words, “She is ex-pressing herself” came to mind. “EX-pressing?” “Yes, she is pressing-OUT herself—pressing OUT what is in her and part of her that she has been carrying which is now ready to come OUT into a new “world about”—still her possession, but now a VISIBLE possession pressed through and OUT in plain view. As far as this experience covers, I sensed critical mass had passed already—that now “the just would be just still”, and “the unjust would be unjust still.” He that is just, let him be revealed as just. Same for the unjust who is “revealed” as unjust by being hidden—in being absent from among the just who are being visibly outed into the New Dimension. The woman in purple listened to her messenger (Esther listening to the King’s eunuch?), stopped what she thought was alright, sat down and made sure none of her vulnerable “flesh” spots were showing, but rather that she was covered with flowing Royalty from her chin to the ground. She could be like the Shulamite in Song of Solomon who didn’t get it quite right at first, but who kept working at it and rearranging what she had and what she was about until She and her Lover were one in the Garden of Love. It’s worth noting that the woman laboring in delivery (Revelation 12?) serves notice all around, “Look out! Ready or not, here He comes!” All men can do at that stage is watch the action and see what the Woman gives them—see what comes into sight. They have had a part, and will have a yet bigger part, but right now? It’s all Woman. Oh, Sorkoff and cheese? I have not a single clue! (I did take note it was not Smirnoff, so it can’t be vodka and cheese, but it does have a Russian ring.) 5 sept 11: J.F. Throttle Whose puzzle you piecing? Or, whose puzzle you “prissin’” on? Peacing or p_____? Grace birthed me, rocked me in Her cradle of Love, and nursed me on Truth from Her Grace teats all the Way to Life overflowing from glory to glory along a trail of traumatic troubles, failures and mis-steps, always putting each footstep on a sure rock right under the surface in a shelter against the raging storms around me and doing a Romans 8:28 turn about, using the storms to purify, perfect and position me for greater glory requiring greater grace—one mistaken mis-step after two, mistake after mis-step all the way to Home Sweet Jerusalem where Yeshua rules as King and where I’m a Papa-pleasing little ‘un forever. So the story I’ll tell when it’s all said and done is that only by sucking Truth out of Grace teats every step of the way while rocking in the cradle of Papa Love did I make my journey home to Jerusalem in Israel. Truth lived out through me as revealed by the Holy Most God who implanted Living Truth in a searching soul, burning His Way in, and my way out—regenerating my life with His Life, part by part. Truth is the Way to Life. God’s Truth. God’s Way. God’s Life. All mine. Grace, grace, grace... All the Way, Jesus Full (J.F.) Throttle “My grace is enough for you, for my power is brought to perfection in weakness.” Therefore, I am very happy to boast about my weaknesses, in order that the Messiah’s power will rest upon me. 10 Yes, I am well pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties endured on behalf of the Messiah; for it is when I am weak that I am strong. 2 Cor 12:9-10 (CJB) Yes, I gave it all up in order to know him, that is, to know the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings as I am being conformed to his death, 11 so that somehow I might arrive at being resurrected from the dead. 12 It is not that I have already obtained it or already reached the goal — no, I keep pursuing it in the hope of taking hold of that for which the Messiah Yeshua took hold of me. 13 Brothers, I, for my part, do not think of myself as having yet gotten hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what is behind me and straining forward toward what lies ahead, 14 I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward calling in the Messiah Yeshua. 15 Therefore, as many of us as are mature, let us keep paying attention to this... Phil 3:10-15 (CJB) Truth. He cannot be successfully agenda-rized to be appropriated for any person’s personal, predetermined, preferred purposes. He comes A.S.A.P., Agenda Specific Already Programmed—intrinsically, inherently, indisputably, indissolubly. He is already preprogrammed and set on a course unchanging, a direction unwavering, a terrible destiny un-deterable, a mission unmistakable, a target un-missable. Truth in the Bible is like blood-marked scraps of clothing through a jungle, marking the Way out to the Life of the Person of the Blood-soaked, torn garment. We pick up the pieces, get Life from them along the Way until we startle up short, face to Face with the Wearer of the clothes like ours—Blood now turned to Glory. The Bloody scraps we picked up on the jungle trail became a Glory garment for us as we stood in the Glory of His Presence Whose blood all drained out marking our Way to Him. There, as Blood became righteousness, Truth became Life everlasting, and Justice stepped up on His Throne. From crying in the streets where none heard, now: Justice allows no arrogance. Justice brooks no bargains. Justice bends to nobody. Justice finds no favorites. Justice falls to no foes. Justice bosoms no buddies. Justice cuts no corners. Justice caters to no comers. Justice sets down on Truth to reign along with Righteousness throughout His creation. R. #4 ISRAEL COUSINS WIN IN THE END: SWEET BABY REVENGE FORMERLY: IN THE END THE ISRAEL COUSINS WIN: SWEET BABY REVENGE (AND: Volume 4: Mystery-Bred Manna FORMERLY: OCTOBER 2011 Israel Cousins Win in the End: Sweet Baby Revenge; But it’s not About Israel) Contents: A Slice a Day Keeps the ‘Creepies’ Away 1. Hattie and “The Help”: A Tribute 2. Church is Complicated 3. Cutting Church Clutter From ‘Rapture’ 4. Can’t Get Off Truth 5. Kingdom Spirituals 6. Outlining And Defining 7. Meanwhile, Back On The Old Ekklesia 8. The Parody Cynical 9. The Cynical Subscriber Special Edition 10. Life Love Liberty And Pursuit 11. Wind-Riding Water-Walking Zelestrons 12. Haggai’s Latter House Today 13. Rolling! Rolling! Rolling! Keep on Rolling! 14. Moe, Curly, Queenie, and iwrite 15. JoJoh and Emma Gray—They Went Away 16. In The End The Cousins Win 17. Why The Cousins 18. Prayer for DeDe 19. Who Belongs to All Those Ducks? 20. Sweet Baby’s Revenge 21. Seven Words 22. Trinity Divinity a Thousand Years to Infinity 23. Take Your Time Walking Outside “Time” 24. Our God is a Consuming Passion 25. Camelgoat Unicorns 26. Diamonds and Demons in the Big You See 27. Impersonating an Officer 28. Cleavage, Cleverage and Cleveredge 29. Tall Order 30. On My Way to Heaven 1. Hattie and “The Help”: A Tribute As I write this, “THE HELP” movie is making a mint. As a Mississippi native, I’m glad. I had LOTSA friends among ‘the help’ growing up. Hattie was one of ‘em. She and mama may have been as close as any two women could be—separated as they were by a SERIOUSLY threatening culture. I often wonder how other white kids dealt with growing up under segregation in the South. (And ‘under’ is the right word.) I could never figure it out, and who even tried to explain it to a child! “You just know” or “That’s just how it is”. I could go down in the bottom and eat with Sonny Boy in his grandpa’s house, made of rough 1x8s with no screens and with newspapers inside over the half-inch cracks in the walls. We could sop good Blue Ribbon molasses with Grandpa’s cornbread –while fighting off the flies and talking like good pre-teen buddies do. He was younger and would complain as he slapped at them, “These flies sho is BA-AD-DD!” But when he came up the hill and I wanted him to eat with me, nothing doing! No problem. I just took the food out and we ate in the barn. ‘Couldn’t figure it out for the life of me. And as you grew up, the sad thing was, you quit trying; you just accepted it—like all the generations before you. But all the Black folk who knew my parents were always eager to come work for them during the busy cotton chopping, cotton picking, and hay baling times. I discovered something. One of them said, “I would just about work for yo’ Daddy for nothing to get to eat at Miss Irene’s table. And she liked cooking for them as much as for our revival preachers and the halftime pastor (every other Sunday—sometimes it was quarter-time). We had a long dining table that my Grandpa Gross had made. The top consisted of two of the widest, finished pine planks I have seen to this day. ‘Easily seated 12. Family (and Whites) would eat first, and then The Help would fill it and fill up. Talk about some eatin’ going on! ALWAYS food left over. On these frequent occasions during crop season, Mama would always hire Hattie to come up from down the hill and help. Even when Mama fixed for the preachers or any large crowd, Hattie was always there. She lived with her only son and worked a few acres of cotton, cooked some for several other families, did cleaning, and anything she could do honestly and morally to take care of herself and her son, John, who was blind. I smile when I think back on how, without fail, diners would brag on the dumplings and how, WITHOUT FAIL, Mama’s quick answer was always the same: “Now Hattie made the dumplings!” As good a cook as Mama was in her own right, she was not ABOUT to rob Hattie of her due credit. No jealousy. NEVER did I hear a raised voice or a cross word between the two—all while growing up, and visiting back. Hattie stayed on for years after she was unable to do field work, helping Mama in the house on special occasions. When a government program built Hattie a better little house in town, Daddy tore the old house down. I made it a point to visit Hattie on my trips back home. Then one trip when I stopped at a neighbors to see about her: “Mr. Pelham, Miss Hattie’s done gone.” “Miss Irene” or “Miss ‘Rene”, My Mama. Daddy usually called her “Miss ‘Rena.” Black sharecroppers liked to work for daddy. He wouldn’t think of cheating them out of a dime, and they knew it. They respected him for that, and if “the help” moved off Daddy’s place (usually to a little place of their own), there were always applicants wanting to move in and fill the vacancy. He always helped ‘his help’ through hard times, sometimes having to borrow the money to do it. Part of Daddy’s smarts, I realized later, was in always feeding day-labor help as much of Mama’s cooking as they could eat at noon, in addition to paying them what others were paying. Now Mama didn’t preach, teach, or do any of that. She would pray ‘standard’ prayers. She could read and lead our ‘Daily Bible Reading’ lessons. She did all the writing in the marriage—which mostly involved writing checks and signing daddy’s name (with the bank’s blessing). She was a good hunter too (“We ate; therefore we hunted”). While the men all used shotguns on the frequent squirrel hunts she, too often to hear daddy tell it, picked off the squirrel from the highest tree with her single shot 22 before the shotgunners had a chance. She had a big heart and... She could cook! And did she ever! Cooked, cooked and kept on cooking—GOOD stuff. My older son, Tim, who himself likes to cook, enjoyed her cooking so much that he would follow her around the kitchen, “How much of that did you put in?” Usually she said, “Oh, about...” It had to be something a neighbor had just created for her to go by a recipe. Once while visiting my son after she died, I lamented at all the lost, original good recipes she took with her to the grave. “Not to worry,” he said, “I’ve got most of them.” ALL of his favorite dishes because she always cooked them when he visited. She loved cooking, serving—and—giving it away. Mama did not have an easy time. I was born in the year oft talked about in this economic downturn. 1929—and I gave her a hard time showing up on the farm. Growing up, I could count on her shielding me from Daddy’s worst times. One of my earliest memories is of hiding under the heavy covers in our little box house, trying to breathe—scared my drunk daddy would hear me, but he was too busy with Mama. Usually he was just back from a week-long binge-absence. Mama seldom knew where he was—or if she did, she never told me. He never drank on his school-bus driving, or during crop time—unless it rained and fieldwork had to stop a few days. Then, Mama never knew if he left home when to expect him back. She lived with that anxiety. He either came back cold sober or dog drunk—never in-between. I don’t need to tell you how a wife, out of desperation, can lean too heavily on her only son, right? Nobody else to share the shame. I would stay out of his range and watch her cook his favorite dish of eggs, no matter what time he came in—a plate full of over-easys with biscuits. Always afraid, I watched from a distance as she struggled him down on a chair and put the plate in front of him. Once he frantically crammed food into his mouth, and then, suddenly, without warning, he slumped forward, his face plopping into egg yellows. I was too young and scrawny to be of any help. She kept shaking him, as she cleaned his face, until she roused him enough to get his arm around her shoulder and somehow get him on the bed. Daddy worked off-season on the county road crew, sometimes driving a dump truck. Once, he drove us into town to see “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” I always liked riding in the noisy thing, but was too young to drive. Daddy went to the restroom at intermission—and didn’t come back. He and a buddy had met up, we learned after the wreck. They had sped off in his car to “The County Line” (ours was a dry county). Mama couldn’t drive the truck over the gravel road home; so that left me. The headlights did not work right so it took us an hour to make the five miles. Usually I slept by myself in a double bed, but later that night Mama waked me up. She lay crying on the other side of the bed. I guess she couldn’t stand being alone that night. I didn’t know how to help her, but she finally went to sleep—before I did. What do you do? I don’t know how long it was after that but I did a terrible thing. When I was 11, I had kneeled down by a little cot next to the fireplace where I had to sleep when it was cold so I could build a fire in the fireplace to warm up the room. (The house never got warm.) Me and Jesus started our journey and we’re still traveling buddies seventy-odd years later. I ‘joined the church’ and was baptized in a spring-fed pool that had been dug out in the woods downhill from New Providence Baptist Church. I was praying for Daddy, as was Mama and others, but nothing seemed to be happening. I was old enough to begin understanding what Mama was going through, and some of my fear was turning to a low-boiling anger. I was moving toward protecting Mama some, and Daddy thought that very much none of my business. That’s when I did bad. Not that I turned to God for help—but that I started praying: “Okay Lord, save him or kill him.” I KNOW now that’s not the right way to pray but trust me, nobody was teaching you “how to pray good” back then when your Daddy was the family drunk. At least, not where I lived. I prayed that way till he got saved. No doubt about it. NO MORE DRUNKEN BINGES. Life truly got better for him—and for Mama and me. He could not stand to be around alcohol-period. Later, the same thing with smoking. Then he got SO intolerant of smokers that it was funny! So God came through and we never had to go to fist city—or worse. When Mama died, Whites, Blacks, and Choctaws came to pay respect. Why Choctaws? I’m not sure who told it. I had no idea. There is a Choctaw Reservation just north of Carthage, but not all Indians chose to live on it. Some lived in the woods back of us somewhere. Wagon trails for roads. Mama would buy berries from them every year. The thing in the movies about Indians moving without making a sound? Believe it! ‘Scare your liver out your throat. You turn around and—HELLO! There they were, smiling and holding out their berry baskets or buckets. No English. Anyway, after she died, we found out Mama had been cooking and taking food to them over those wagon roads through the woods. I don’t know how she did it with her big Chrysler. ‘Probably why she never told Daddy. No wonder she got first pick of the berries! And, like Daddy, she always paid them well (by prevailing standards—which were GODAWFUL!) The Wreck That’s the Chrysler Mama was driving when she was killed in a very freaky wreck. Nobody figured out what happened. Maybe a stroke and her right leg stiffened against the accelerator. The powerful engine peeled rubber on the road, spun ruts through the gravel-shoulders, and sent the car over tall bush tops and head-on into an immovable oak. The speedometer was stuck on 80. That stretch of The Natchez Trace is country. Help was long in coming. Mama told the medics she was okay and made them first take Daddy and Aunt Dorothy. Mama barely made it to the hospital before crossing on over. MULTIPLE fractures and massive internal injuries. Daddy lived for months in the hospital but never went home—gave up, quit eating; didn’t want to go home without Mama. Aunt Dorothy never recovered. Discipline is unavoidably, inherently pregnant and pained to be delivered of flesh-denial’s demand. Seat belts lay unused. Going Back A Bit While I was studying agriculture in college, Daddy agreed to make a change and diversify the farm operation; it then provided them a livelihood. But they fought against speaking in tongues—to the point of trying to have me committed to the state asylum. Then they spoke in tongues. They fought against my leadership in a culturally integrated movement in the sixties— only to come on into it later with me. But when my wife left me, took our three children out of state and divorced me, they fought against my getting custody of the children—and went on to disinherit me and will everything they could to my ex-wife. They then fought against my marriage and family with a non-White wife—and never accepted them. And they fought against seat belts: “Well, we all have to die from something,” were Mama’s words for “leave me alone.” All pleading, reasoning, and scolding fell on deaf ears. Like I said, “Discipline is unavoidably, inherently pregnant and pained to be delivered of flesh-denial’s demand.” Flesh hates discipline and change. You are hereby reminded. Funny thing about blind resistance. One never knows when, THIS time, he may not have time and chance to get another one. The loose seat belts lay a grim reminder: The Reaper had called— and gone; this time, not empty handed. Moral: Wear your saving belt—physical and spiritual. 2. Church is Complicated Church is more complicated than True-Jesus (there IS a fake one) followers working with Him for the Kingdom of Heaven to fully come on earth and the will of Jacob’s (3/1) God to be done on earth as in heaven, making one new creation. Church is a profoundly personable, professionally successful pimped opration with the personality of a pariah, postulating prophetically—an imposing imposter, impersonating God. Good! He is good—no—he is the BEST at what he does. And he is nothing if not scary passionate in this pursuit. How good is he? ‘A MASTER magician, unexcelled in his practice of consistent and lasting deception. You’d be shocked to get the Insider’s glimpse. ‘Sure you want to go there? He can sell emptiness and make himself famous and rich doing it. Emptiness! It’s an established fact of history. So much so he has earned the title “god of this world.” How’s that for a top spot? For selling emptiness! His whole bag of tricks is one phantom mirage after a thousand others— total empty deception. NO substance. He sets up an empty hologram in a culture, makes siren sounds around it and draws in the crowds to watch his slick, sleight-of-hand show. People applaud. Good entertainment. Makes them forget every thing and body else while they watch him perform. You say, “Prove it?” No; you’d be offended if I did. So I’ll just give you biological anatomy—oops—ANALOGY. One God uses throughout the Bible. Let’s use one from our Western culture. Didn’t you ever wonder how in this world it came to be that a majority of men have the same mental picture of the woman they’d most likely want to make out with? It’s well established in the culture. Her hips a certain size and shape, moving with a particular motion. Her breasts a certain size and form, especially situated on her body. Legs fitting a certain pre-conceived image that lets her walk with a certain sensual gait. (Where did “cat” walk come from anyway?) We won’t go as far as the old prophets did to talk about her traffic-stopping, eyelevel leg-spread leading to adultery/idolatry. No substance. Only imaginations. And women find themselves shoved toward squeezing themselves into this mold. If they fail, they think maybe God’s not fair because he didn’t make them to be born to fit this FORM. You see, it’s all about form, image, outline. NOT about substance. What does all this emptiness produce? One thing: DISTRACTION! Church is a (fill in the blank—but NOT ‘Holy’) spirit. It is a busy, busy spirity operation getting you to focus on, therefore worship (fill in the blank—but NOT Jewish Messiah Yeshua) with the results being (fill in the blank—but NOT kingdom of God come fully on earth, will of God be done fully on earth just like heaven). That’s too complex? ‘ TOLDJA it was complicated; and I’m busy telling you it is uselessly unnecessary. I could be clearer but you don’t want me to offend you into saying bad words and pitching a fit by just telling you church is demonized. I didn’t think you did. You’ve been worshipping her form too long. “...THEY RETAIN THE OUTER FORM of religion but deny its power. Stay away from these people! For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various IMPULSES, who are always learning but never able to come to full knowledge of the TRUTH...THESE PEOPLE OPPOSE THE TRUTH. They are people with corrupted minds, whose trust cannot pass the test. However, they won’t get very far; because EVERYONE WILL SEE HOW STUPID THEY ARE.... But you, you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose PERSEVERANCE.” 2 Tim 3:5-10 (CJB) in life, trust, steadfastness, love and Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves [servers or worshippers] to obey, you are that one's slaves [worshippers] whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? Romans 6:16 (NKJV) So where is your worship focus? On an outer form of religion that denies its power—or on the Substance-filled, Life-giving, Jewish Messiah? It makes a WORLD of difference. Different world. Forms don’t cross the line to the world-coming in GOD’S new age; Substance does. One can be ‘dead’ sure he is not worshipping the impersonating, manipulating deceiver—and be DEAD wrong. Excitement is not Substance. Fun is not Substance. Emotion ALONE is not Substance. If the pimp gets your focus, he’s got your worship. He’s gonna put you out on the corner—and when you lose your ‘luster’, he’s gonna trash you. What you focus on is what you worship—be it form or Substance. Form CAN HAVE Substance, however. Substance can come in any for-mat, form-at, format. You just have to discern by the Holy Most where HE’S AT—go there, worship, obey, serve, and follow. “...THE GOD OF THIS WORLD has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For WE DO NOT PREACH OURSELVES but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has SHONE IN OUR HEARTS to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the SURPASSING GREATNESS OF THE POWER will be OF GOD and not from ourselves;” 2 Cor 4:4-7 (NASB) 3. Cutting Church Clutter From ‘Rapture’ Bottom line at the top: The caught-ups are the castoffs and camp-outers. Father of faith Abraham camped out all his life-long days—never settled in the ‘city’. ‘RAPTURE’. The word translated ‘rapture’ means to be caught up or seized. Where did it come from? Somebody, no doubt with great fanfare, dragged it from the same Constantine Commentary Vocabulary that gave us the infamous word ‘CHURCH’. Church came by way of the Sun Worshipper Division while ‘rapture’ originated in The Constabulary’s Latin Truth-Hider Bin. The Constab is a confusing, multi-faced mis-informer and people-parter. Church is full of dopey dealers and crappy shooters. Kingdom tends toward Gatherings (ILO churches) of Truth traders and camp-outers. Will Jesus catch-away the whole Institute of Church Constabulary? Absolutely! Right after her manipulating mob leaders win their snowball fight in hell with their Chief Manipulator. Will Jesus take a few out of churches of all stripes? Absolutely—and very. Assuming there are kingdom-open souls trapped in there. The same can be said for brothels, prisons, streets, clubs, fields factories and whatevers. S. #5 ONLY A TRUTH LOVER CAN SURVIVE: GLOBAL TSUNAMIS NOW RAGING INTO A SUPERNATURAL SWIRLING CONVERGING VORTEX AROUND JERUSALEM Volume 5: Mystery-Bred Manna FORMERLY: November 2011: Only A Truth Lover Can Survive Today’s Tsunamis Swirling into a Converging Vortex of Doom Around Jerusalem CONTENTS: A Slice a Day Keeps the Creepies Away 1. Help Me OUT!? 2. Could THIS Be Right? 3. Get-Back Love 4. When MAT PIG is King 5. Mormonism, Christianism, and Constitutionalism 6. No Worship Without SERVING 7. Squirrel Away 8. The Million Dollar-Wide Leader 9. More Dollar-Wide, Dime-Deep Leadership 10. I Had a Dream—October 19, 2011 11. Not for the Faint Hearted? 12. No Time to Study Israel’s Place? 13. On a Wonderful October 27 2011 Visit 14. Does Israel Own The Kingdom? 15. Israel Does Own The Kingdom! 16. Like The Tree Owns The Limbs 17. Spotlight on God as Israel’s Husband 18. Recapping and Turning Up Bone-Zone Fire 19. GOOD NEWS! The King is Coming to Jerusalem 20. Israel 007 21. HEART 22. Somebody Please Help God Out 23. Why Am I Here? 24. Swirling Converging Vortex 25. HomoSpirituals 26. THIS. 27. Be Encouraged! 28. Yeshuanic LoVerses 29. Voo Love Buckleup 30. Only a Truth Lover Can Survive ONE TO FLY ON: The High Way Wind-Traveler 1. HELP ME OUT!? It’s About Israel. I’m Struck—Stuck—and—and—HELP! I confess to you openly that I have been gripped—and can not help myself. Seized by a most critical urgency for Jesus People in the nations to empower Messianic Jews in Israel, I am in great need for someone to help me. You could be that one person. The one. Would you consider helping a challenged old man out of this dire predicament that has mysteriously and completely engulfed him? (See Rom 12:1-2) Altogether 73; 52 Years In Ministry ‘Time to step back—right? But then--THIS! “En-gulped”. Swallowed up. No warning whatsoever. It could have been a heart attack. In a way it was. Father hit me right in the heart about how his heart was still in Jerusalem—there in Israel—in the violence reported in the news. Nobody in my Gentile ancestry prepared me for that. I knew Jesus had wept over Jerusalem way back when, but I was given the impression that God was done with Israel as a nation, and that he had moved on to greater things and plans. Have you ever heard that? Well, I’d be mighty proud if you had not, but chances of it are slim to zero—and Slim’s gone to lunch. Picture me—standing in the middle of Shalom Emporium on the Kansas side of K.C., a tag-along with Fiancé DeDe to find Jewish earrings for our wedding. Messianic Rabbi Jerry Feldman spiked me still with prophetic scriptures that had been my major in a major-brand seminary. NO way to GET away; Bible words lit a fire in my gut—deep—and hot! God was Illuminating these scriptures as being fulfilled in Israel and the Middle East today. WHOA! THAT, I had NOT come shopping for. Impressed? Oh yeah—and imprinted; just plain pressed! I had to go home and “lie down with it.” The Word of God kept falling in place in my understanding—like jigsaw pieces dropping in my end-time puzzle-destiny. This revelation was coming from the Bible that I had studied in three languages all these years. At the same time this was going on: “Lord, I’m SO honored and humbled that you’re sharing your heart with me, but what can I do now—at this late date? You do know how old I am, right? And, since you ‘sent me back from heaven’ after that van wreck in ‘66, I’m sure you know I’m still propping up on these crutches, right? With all kinds of internal challenges from the paralysis hit?” So, reader-mine, you see my predicament, do you not? I’m loaded with a mandate I did not knowingly ask for in word; not knowing one killing thing about it so how could I ask? “Howsome-ever! I got loaded with a charge—and little earth-side lift to discharge the duty thereof. That was ‘02; this is ’12. I’m little better off than a decade ago—and seemingly, visibly little further advanced. Soon I’ll get up one morning and somebody’s sure to say, “How old are you today?” Not much time left. I write—but how many have read? I will keep writing, God’s grace empowering, but who will read—and DO—SOMETHING differently? ANYTHING differently, free of the rattling shackles of traditional, religious paradigms that, somehow, I got burned off and thought-on away from? Thank you, on behalf of Jesus, for your reading—and while reading, remember: we can be part of God’s breaking-in kingdom of justice, truth, righteousness, joy, peace, and love forever! This I Learned (But Not In Seminary) God will establish this kingdom on earth right through Israel. The heavenly realm that Jesus brought to earth will be fully functional in earth, and headquarters will be Jerusalem. This was the good news (gospel) Jesus preached—the true gospel—a government established on earth, ruled over from Jerusalem by Jesus, the righteous Judge—as he seeks and saves the whole lost creation—not just individuals. He’s coming at us to come forth in us and rule through us. Glory! Salvation Is Ongoing It’s conditional on continuing obedience. ‘Didn’t learn that in seminary either. Please stay with me; let the Holy Spirit reveal this to you. Salvation is a progressive process. You can’t drop out in the middle of the pro-cess, cease to pro-gress, and count on being happy at the finish line. I wore out so many sermons on being born again—without seeing that you get born again in order to see and in order to enter the kingdom of God. The emphasis is on getting into the kingdom of God. Once in the kingdom of God, three things can happen: (1) you can obediently press on through to full salvation and full reward; (2) you can drop out and lose out; (3) God can throw you out. (He IS God—and even He can’t change that and get out from under His Justice Character; ‘best we search out and get Mercy—and Mercy has a human name.) Your entering a race says nothing about you at the finish line. Think it through. If you entered the race a while back, lost interest in it, and let it go on without you, then what? Where are you with the race? You have no interest in the Owner of the Track, what He is doing, and how he runs His Track? How do you expect to end up—as far as His race goes? But hey! You can, right now, you can shake awake, hustle up, check back in, see what’s going on, and whether He may still give you some running room. It’s not too late. You’re still breathing—aren’t you? Just turn mind back around, get interested in what God’s interested in and you may discover He’s got a really good track record—of letting runners back in and back on track. How ‘bout helping me out? Together we can run on strong! In every generation, salvation is knotted with obeying God. Yes! Believe it or not—salvation means not only believing God but obeying him. Believing and obeying—absolutely linked. Obeying him about what? About whatever it is he wants you to do in connection with what he is doing in your generation. Obedience can come in different forms from one generation to the next. Follow closely and see what the Spirit says about what form obedience takes in this generation. If you had lived in a generation when there was no nation of Israel all in one place on the ground, God would not have expected you to obey him about Israel. (Understand: Israel has always been a nation in God’s eyes, even when they were scattered throughout other nations and lost their living-on-the-Land privileges .) If you had lived in a generation before the 1940’s, obedience could have been in the form of yielding to be born again and entering into the kingdom of God by trusting him and living a holy life in what he was doing. He would then receive you into the New Jerusalem in heaven. That would have been before God got some Jews back on the Land in Israel and regained access to old Jerusalem. God would have been teaching you many things about his kingdom and leading you toward New Jerusalem in heaven all the time (whether you knew it or not). You would have obeyed and at death Jesus would have taken you into New Jerusalem to wait until it was time for New Jerusalem to set down over old Jerusalem in Israel. At that time you would have ended up in Israel with him. If you were obeying God, you wouldn’t have cared where God set up earthly headquarters. You would have rejoiced: “Hallelujah! Amen Lord. Anywhere you want me, that’s where I want to be. Just let me be with you.” Right? You would not have cared whether his kingdom was headquartered in Israel or New Jersey. You would have been willing for him to take you either place. If you had been living in New Jersey, he could have taken you from New Jersey to New Jerusalem and then down over Jerusalem in Israel. The truly obedient enjoy Jesus being Lord and leading on. No problem! Your Generation But that was not your generation. This is your generation, and what God is working on in your generation is to get Jews gathered back into Israel in His Land—receiving him as their Messiah and saying, “Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord” so he can come back. He is opening hearts of Jews through the preaching of the true kingdom gospel by a small remnant of believers. These Jewish believers (called Messianics because they receive Yeshua [Jesus] as their Messiah) are moving to take the nation back so the nation can call Jesus back. (Matt 23:37-39) They will do this until Yeshua returns in his resurrected Jewish body he got from his Jewish mother to fight for Jews against the nations and set up his throne there. He will bring down New Jerusalem out of heaven, take over the nations and rule his creation. You can see (if what I’m saying is so) that God would expect believers in this generation to be interested in cooperating with him to get Israel into her kingdom destiny. God’s expected obedience now is for us to live a holy life (one set apart for God’s use only) so he can work through us to resurrect and restore his nation Jewish-body Israel, same as his person Jewish-body Yeshua. What about Spirit-working revival in the nations? Wonderful! If he “speaks” you in that direction, obey! God can use ekklesia groups in the nations to demonstrate and impart Himself so as to reclaim Israel. In the present condition of these groups overall, they can’t do much for God or anybody else, let alone fight off major demon principalities and powers over Israel so Jewish believers can hold the nation for Yeshua to come. Just don’t lose sight of Israel. Evangelize nations? Absolutely! God can then have and train fresh warriors who are not wrapped and tangled in stupid religious programs that keep them Israel-ignorant and blinded to kingdom. All eyes on the apple of God’s eye: Israel. For sure, it is God who is raising up Toward Jerusalem Council 2, Back to Jerusalem, The Road to Jerusalem, The International Coalition of Christians and Messianic Jews, Lance Learning Centers, The Oak Initiative, MorningStar Ministries, and like movements across the nations to swing us into full grafted-in living with Israel. Here’s the Biggy What about these masses of people in this generation who (1) don’t know about God’s working with Israel and/or (2) don’t care. I’m troubled—deeply. I think God is. Here’s why. (Emphasis in all scriptures is mine.) (1) Don’t Know “But when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the Ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen nearly upset it. And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence; and he died there by the Ark of God. David became angry because of the LORD'S outburst against Uzzah…” (2 Sam 6:6-8 NASB). Uzzah—obedient to his leader, full of good intentions, glad to do what he could to get the Ark of God’s Presence moved from one place to another. Where does he end up? Dead! “He died there by the Ark of God.” Obedient, good intentions, vigilant—and dead! And his leader got mad at God! Was God the problem? God had a command-plan for moving the Ark of his Presence from one place to another. It seriously mattered how God’s people obeyed. David had not followed God’s plan which was for men to carry the Ark—not for oxen to pull it on a cart. Apparently Uzzah was ignorant of how the Ark was to be moved. He was obediently following his leader’s orders—which were not God’s. Who was his leader? King David, the man after God’s own heart! Uzzah’s leader had not taught him from God’s Plan. What about David’s response? It was the response many preachers make in this generation about the Presence of God moving to rest and work in Israel. David got mad at God for killing Uzzah. Preachers get mad about the way God wants his Presence to move back into Israel. We know one thing. Uzzah’s ignorance DID NOT save him. Neither did having a high profile, big-name leader. Based on this, I’m afraid pleading ignorance about Israel won’t help our neighbors. Following an Israel-ignorant, though famous and highly regarded leader can easy-get you killed by God. It was God who struck down Uzzah—and David could not do one thing about it; it was out of his hands—although he was king! That’s serious stuff. When God has a plan, we desperately need to find it—and follow it with a vengeance! (2) Don’t Care: Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will be honored' " (Lev 10:1-3 NASB). God had a certain fire these brothers were to put in their firepans and use in a certain way. Unlike Uzzah, Nadab and Abihu had been properly taught about their responsibilities and how to obey God in carrying them out. They just dishonored God with sloppy disobedience—“Oh well, fire is fire.” No! It mattered where they got their fire and how they obeyed with that fire after they got it. They found that out—way too late. Like Uzzah, they found out dead. It matters how we obey. Nadabs and Abihus are offering up strange fire all over the world today. “Ministry” fires are burning but find one burning according to God’s Israel-at-the-center-of-the-kingdom plan. What will be their end? In this generation, what about these ‘great” ministries who don’t care at all about Israel as a nation because they’ve been taught like I was taught? Lord! Help us! (What comes to mind is, “But Lord, have we not healed the sick and cast out demons in your name?” “Get AWAY from Me; I don’t KNOW you! Take him away!” Are We Gathering With Jesus? "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters. Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy (insult) against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come” (Matt 12:30-34 NASB). Help me out. Follow my thinking: “He who does not gather with me, scatters.” Could we be gathering, but not gathering with Jesus into his kingdom for his purposes? Maybe gathering into a religious organization, but not gathering with Jesus into his kingdom for his purposes? Maybe gathering into our group for our purposes? How can we not think about this—and deal with it? Aren’t these ‘leaders’ in trouble with God? ‘Looks like it to me. What’s your take? If God is working with Israel in the Land by the Holy Spirit to build his kingdom and you dishonor this working in your heart, or by your actions, or in the stand you take or don’t take, what then? How have you treated the Holy Spirit? Have you blasphemed (insulted, dishonored, treated as unholy) the Holy Spirit? If so, what does that mean? Israel matters—big time! God’s mind and heart is on Israel in this generation. Let’s put and keep our minds and hearts with the working-in-Israel Christ (Messiah). (Elsewhere, there are demons working in doctrines that are false christ, anti-Christ and instead-of Christ. Anti-Israel = AntiChrist demons.) Such a Small Gate—and So Few "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matt 7:13-14 NASB). Israel is a small nation—about the size of New Jersey. Not only do you get saved by receiving Israel’s Messiah, Jesus Christ, but you enter into the kingdom of God through Israel’s Messiah— resurrected and one with his Father who has chosen Israel as his home. “For David said, ‘The LORD God of Israel has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever’ (1 Chron 23:25 (NASB). How long? Not Everyone "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does (author: not says or believes) the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I NEVER KNEW YOU; DEPART FROM ME, you who practice lawlessness!' (Matt 7:21-23 NKJV) Now what can you do with that? The person must have had the power of God in order to prophesy, cast out demons, and do many wonders. Yet Jesus said, “Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.” How could he be practicing outside God’s law if he was using the power of God? He could have been working with real Fire in a strange way—using God’s power to build a life for himself—or—if he was a preacher—build a ministry, saying to himself and the world what a great work he would do some day for God, once he got a big platform built for himself to stand on. Was he using the power of the gospel but not following the kingdom-on-earth-out-of-Jerusalem plan Jesus laid out? Was he gathering, but not gathering with Messiah into his kingdom? That could kill a Nadab, Abihu, or Uzzah. God’s Way is really, really narrow. Can we live with that? How else can we live? That’s the only Way. It seriously matters that we obey and how we obey. Remember Uzzah, Nadab and Abihu. We must move past Israel-ignorant leaders who have no intention of honoring God’s Spirit working with Jews in the world or Messianics in Israel. We must obey God to build his kingdom-on-earth-in-Jerusalem by the Spirit. Israel matters because this is the generation when God is set to bring his Ark Presence to His chosen Nation Israel. Remember: we enter the kingdom of God by “doing the will of Yeshua’s Father.” The will of our Father is to establish his kingdom in Israel. How Far Down the Road is the Following? For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle… Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east… Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him! And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one. All the land will be changed…but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site…People will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security. Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.... Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts…And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them....; it will be the plague with which the LORD smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. Zech 14:1-19 (NASB) I counted 4 “who do not go ups” to the Feast of Booths in Jerusalem. EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE NATIONS IS DEAD! That looks to me like, one way or the other, “IT WILL BE” that we will ALL go up to Israel, the little nation every nation today is working so hard AGAINST— most openly, others back-stabbing hypocritically. God Fights for Jerusalem; Who Do You Fight For? "In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them. "And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem” (Zech 12:8-9 NASB). Do you get this? Your nation (unless you’re living in Israel) will at some point join all other nations in fighting Israel. Think about this. Can we afford to trust our national politicians to speak for us in where we stand about Israel in this generation? Do you feel safe in doing that? I mean, the Bible TELLS us they’ll all end up eventually lying, lying down, skulking away, sliding down or outright fighting against Israel—with GOD HIMSELF stepping down and in to fight FOR Israel. Do you see where all the pressure to be and vote politically correct comes from? Some stinker is after our very soul—and it’s NOT God! Again, what will happen? We have to get this. “Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.” Notice: it is the Lord who pulls the nations into the fight; then he, himself, goes and fights for Israel against all the nations he gathered. Where do you stand on Israel? Whose side are you on? Your nation’s side? Democratic? Republican? Or firmly on God’s Israel side? It really matters. Then, it will determine who’s in and who’s out with God! No mister-in-between. No voting “present” then. God has a plan for this generation and we best be finding it and lining up in it with him —“Your will be done, Lord; your kingdom come on earth—through Jesus—in me—in the whole ekklesia—into Israel—over the earth—like it is in heaven.” Judgment Begins At God’s House For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” (1 Pet 4:17-18 NIV) If it is hard for the born again Jews, and also for the born again Gentiles who are Spirit-filled, speaking in tongues, prophesying, healing the sick, casting out demons, doing miracles, and building great ministries to be delivered, what about the balance? The gate is small—the way narrow—right through Yeshua—in Father—in Israel—by the Spirit. Hallelujah! God is coming on strong with His kingdom—and we can be included! If we want God more interested in our life, our ultimate destination, our eternal rewards, then we will say, “Yes Lord! We’re living for what you’re working on! Our heart beats with yours in Israel.” Jews all over the world have said for centuries, “Next year in Jerusalem.” We say, “Let Jerusalem come to our mind” (Jer 51:50). “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you” (Psa 122:6). Praise Abba! 2. Could This Be Right? “The Fact That Yeshua Will Not Return Until… Israel Receives National Salvation…” WAIT! Hold it Right There! The fact? That could not be right! T. #6 ISRAEL THE WOMAN OF THE YEAR: SOME CALL 2011 "THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN" Volume 6: Mystery-Bred Manna FORMERLY: 2011 THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN?: Father God Mothers Creation through Yeshua-Messiah’s Israel AUTHORS NOTE: Several respected prophets have seen 2011 as The Year of the Woman. I updated “The Jews and the Blues” which I published in 2002 to refocus on the “Woman Revelation”. Now I am including it in the “Mystery-Bred Manna” Series. CONTENTS: A Slice a Day Keeps the Creepies Away Foreword: Daniel Gray’s In-lined Ducks and Crazy Christians Introduction: CRAZY Love’s Celestial-Terrestrial Espousal & Cohabitation Part One Jewish Jewels and Diamonds Chapter 1 Haman, Israel Hating Jewel Thief Chapter 2 Queen Israel Chapter 3 Israel’s Good News Chapter 4 Gentiles, Your Brother’s Crying Chapter 5 Wedding-band Land Chapter 6 God: Where ARE You Gentiles? Chapter 7 Jewish Bridegroom Chapter 8 Israel Slighters Sink Chapter 9 Any Way But to Israel Chapter 10 Storm Dead Ahead: Turn to Israel! Chapter 11 You Missed the Boat to the Wedding Chapter 12 Where Will the Bridegroom Stand? Chapter 13 No Israel? No Miracles! Part Two Woman Coming Up! Chapter 14 Out of the Male-box to Include Female Chapter 15 This Is Woman Chapter 16 Change Coming to Feature The Woman Chapter 17 Not-English Contractions Chapter 18 God as Wife (“Houston, We Have a Problem!”) Chapter 19 Israel as God’s Wife Chapter 20 Israel as God’s Bridal Suite Chapter 21 “My-Delight-Is-In-Her” Chapter 22 Let Love on Through! Part Three Father Mothers Creation Through Israel Chapter 23 New Wineskin Stretcher Includes Israel Chapter 24 Israel Nation Regeneration Chapter 25 World War Raging Around Two Women Chapter 26 The Wild-Child Tree Goes Native-Israel Chapter 27 I Heard the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Chapter 28 Let Jerusalem Come Into Your Mind Chapter 29 I Need to Bring Them to Jerusalem Transitioning: The Woman Whose ‘Time’ Has Come Glossary of Terms: What They Mean to Me Foreword: Daniel Gray’s Lined Ducks And Crazy Christians Funny how it works. You think you have all your ducks in a row—all the answers, all your religious "preferences" stacked up and sorted neatly—like spices in a rack. That is what most Christians want, you know—resolution, closure on the matter. "God said it, I believe it, that settles it" is a nice statement of faith, but, unfortunately, most of us have settled a few matters nicely and then stopped listening. True faith, however, rarely leaves us settled, but tends to keep us on a journey as it did Abraham, the friend of God and the father of faith-walkers. These faith-walkers are forever looking outward on the horizon, up at the stars, or forward to the promise, but rarely are they settled in to comfort. I'm afraid many of us resemble Lot, who moved into town with his family, much more than we do Abraham. Then there’s Enoch and Elijah. If they are anything, they are pictures of what it can be like for us on this highway through flesh’ desert. So it is with Israel and modern Gentile Christianity: we have it all figured out and neatly arranged—or at least put out of sight where we don’t have to think about it. No big deal to us that we're holding fast to the very ideas that eventually led to The Holocaust, as long as we don't have to fool with it. We might be one who is a "replacement" type, or one who is fascinated by Jewish stuff, or one who believes Jesus is a blond-haired, blue eyed Jew from a lost tribe (a contradiction in terms), but our life doesn’t have time for Israel right now. Too bad. Without it, without her, we cannot complete the picture and become the glorious kingdom on earth. Wanna picture? Let's say we're baking a cake. We need ingredients. We survey our kitchen and find everything we need except eggs. We can't make our cake—we can try, but no one will want to eat whatever we come up with. Our priority then must be to get eggs, to get our missing ingredient. Then, we can bake our cake. Much like the good shepherd who leaves the found to go after that which is lost, we, as Christians, need to leave our nicely arranged religion rack and go out and find the thing we’re missing—the missing eggs. Be sure to get a full dozen—and then get to baking, realizing of course that the end product isn’t an omelet, but a new creation wherein the eggs and all the other ingredients will blend together till separation becomes impossible. Pelham Gross, "Papa" as he’s known to many of us unorthodox table-turners, will take you on a journey full of twists and turns like nothing you’ve ever read. It’ll be much like a roller coaster and you’ll have to hang on at times. But if you can just “get the picture,” perhaps you'll have a paradigm shift of your own and join us, the crazy Christians, who are headed home to the promised land of the kingdom of God ON EARTH. And if we stay on the highway and stay in motion, we may not get the feeling of having a place to lay our head right now in the old world dimension, but we can look forward to home in Jerusalem. So hang on and let Papa drive for a while. It may be a wild ride; things may topple and fall and the neatness of your life may be disrupted. Some things may go out the window, but if we keep heading down the highway straight-a-Way, we’ll see home clearer and clearer. Sweet Home Jerusalem. Daniel Gray, http://danielgray.ning.com/ INTRODUCTION: CRAZY-LOVE’S CELESTIAL-TERRESTRIAL ESPOUSAL & COHABITATION I know it’s far out, but just s’pose Celestial was to, for some CRAZY-Love reason, want to marry Terrestrial. ‘You ever thought about it? ( I know; I have some of the craziest mornings!) Who’d be the Preacher? Gabriel Ecclesiasticus, Announcer Pronouncer in Residence? Who’d ride Shotgun on B.G. Celestial’s Coach coming down to the wedding? There would be opposition, you know. There’s a bad stretch o’ heaven ‘tween there and here. Terri’s owner lays claim to a huge spread he calls Second Heaven (He named it after leaving the First under cloudy circumstances.) He lives there in Pimp City—says he come by Terrestrial fair and square and all that spacious spread is rightfully his, along with Terri. Something about a package deal. He’d be hot under the collar at the idea of losing it all to some CRAZY Lover Who he says has got no idea what He’s doing. So the Stage Chariot would require a right gutsy Shotgun Rider with some ‘sho NUFF’ Firepower. Michael? Maybe? And his minion millions? Then you’d have to get a Nascar kind o’ chariot driver. I’d nominate a fella named Jehu—if I was to have a say. Man! This whole idea would be out-there BAY-ZAR, wouldn’t it! Too many knots in the line. But B.G. Celestial has already got the rings! He’s NUTS! He bought a whole passel o’ diamonds called ‘Jewish Jewels’, and wants their Land for His wedding Band. Beat THAT if you can! And that’s RIGHT UNDER Pimper’s Big-Pig City! You want to take a guess where B.G. plans to honeymoon? David’s Citadel! Oy vey! Booked the whole Hotel for a 1000 years—can you BELIEVE that! Honeymoon Suite on the Top Floor with a Helipad just off the balcony. ‘You think he checked with all the neighbors about this? Maybe got a vote on it? Probably. Otherwise, he wouldn’t DARE! Especially since street talk has it that He plans to raise His family here and build a Dynasty that he expects to dynamite and blow the end out o’ the old age and blow right on through to who KNOWS where. I’ve heard of a party being so big they put the big pot in the littl’ un. Looks like just what’s cooking here. ‘Seems Big God Bride Groom Celestial’s got on his Hot Heavenly Mind set on it. ‘You gonna mess with Him? Me, I just wanna make it to the party. I hear He’s bought out The House of Wine in the South Country just for the wedding feast. ‘Guess it wouldn’t be proper to wish Him ‘Good Luck!’ with all this preparation and carryings on—considering... But ‘sounds to me like somebody could get hurt ‘fore it’s all over and settled down. I’ve run into this Pimp Pig and he can cut you bleeding bad. But considering who it is He’s marrying, where would you go to hide? Think about THAT a minute. ‘Looks like I’d be pretty much stuck with having to get down off the fence—one side t’other. I s’pect the fences will all go down in a wrangle-dangle tangle this size. Whadda you think? I mean, ‘looks like Big C’s not much for backing down, once He’s got sumpin Spinnin’. He’s REALLY into this woman! CRAZY—I’m telling ya. NOT reasonable a’tall. You talkin’ ‘bout packing. Big Mike’s gonna have that Grand Stage Chariot nuked from the wheels up. Every spoke will be firing through the rims with wheels spraying FIREPOWER in every direction to bust on through Pimp’s Second City and on down to David’s Citadel. LOOK OUT LOTTIE—‘cause Sadie just barred the door and Jehu’s on the Way! In-n-n-n-ny-y-y-way. Just some 26sept11 thoughts off the top o’ the mornin’. Somebody could write a love story of the ages on that. Say what? Song of who? Solomon? Revelation 12? Is that about the 12 tribes having sumpin to do with The Land? What’s all that got to do with the price o’ pig chittlins in Jawja or Turkey Nukes to I Ran? Meanwhile back on the farm: In the foreword, Dan was baking a cake and needed eggs—a full dozen, all 12 tribes, full nation of Israel—to bake the global Gentile-believer “cake” into a glorious kingdom. Once it’s baked, where do we take it? What do we do with it? Give it to God? Good idea—but where? Do we just walk outside, hold it up in the air, and wait for God to grab it on the way by? Where do we meet God to give it to him? Where’s the wedding and upcoming party? One place—and one place only—in the nation of Israel. Abba will receive it only in her capitol city of Jerusalem. God’s plan, in the final stages, is not for Gentiles to receive Jews into “the church.” Rather, in these final stages, God’s plan requires Gentiles to become part of God’s heart for Israel. From that nation, God harvests all the nations, sets up his everlasting kingdom in earth, and rules his creation. So the person today who won’t holler, “Whoa!” at this generation’s status quo will never get you where you want to go. Traditions of Father Abraham, Isaac, Israel, and others are one thing, but present day traditions are QUITE another story. You’re about to be challenged to rethink: Israel’s Destiny as a Nation—God’s wife in earth. Kingdom of God—Do Jews need to get in church? Or Gentile believers into Israel? Replacement Theology—Conceived in confusion, born in Babylon. God and Gender—Is God really100 percent male as preachers say he is? “Good ol’ Boys” Church Club—Too many women molested at the church “male-box.” Women—Expressing God’s female side. Rapture—Kingdom rupture! Church Empires, Mega Churches—And WHERE’S kingdom in it all? Kingdom mysteries—Fullness of Gentiles, two olive trees, women in The Revelation. Women and Israel today are still largely being relegated to backseat status. What I’m aiming to show here is (1) Israel’s usefulness, (2) God’s femaleness, and (3) how these two are kingdom interrelated—kingdom intertwined, and inextricably kingdom interwoven into God’s fabric. Did I hit where I aimed with the book? Stick with me all the way through, and then you make the call. (1) Israel’s usefulness: No way—absolutely no way is God done using Israel as a nation. I’m not talking about Israel as a spiritual entity of spooky dimensions. I mean a nation in the sense that America is a nation. That “the church replaced Israel” (Replacement Theology) is ridiculous in full light of the Scriptures. Church is not a nation. God has not and will not drop Israel as a nation and make a substitute nation out of church—never says he will. He chose Israel, he judged Israel, he loves Israel, he divorced Israel, he STILL loves Israel, he’s taking her back and he’s sticking with her—forever. (2) God’s femaleness: Men can carry God’s authority with love—we’d better—but the “Good Ole Boys Club called ‘church’ has to come down. ‘Mister Holy One, tear down that wall!’ God is no longer hiding the truth of God’s “female side.” He’s revealing this feminine side now from the Scriptures to bust Good Ole Boys’ locks and throw away their church keys so women can hurry up into their God-given destinies. He wants them freed up to do their destinies—with Godobeying husbands or without ‘em. Having a husband can be a wonderful part of God’s big-picture plan, but it’s not required for a woman to become totally absorbed into the “female side” of God, and in this oneness through Jesus, receive full satisfaction of reward. Yes, a husband can be wonderful. But who do I have to tell that a husband can be sent out of and full of hell? He can hold a woman’s soul in the bottom of a hole—all in the name of God—throwing a fit, holding a Bible and hollering, “Submit!” (3) The Interrelationship: You’ll find this challenging, but the understanding is rewarding. It’s really simple—once you’ve read the whole book by the Spirit, but I’m telling you up-front, it con-fronts old paradigms. Part of that “paradigm shift” we’ve been hearing about. The “Israel encounter” I experienced was the last piece of this puzzle to fall into place in my understanding. It rose up to be the centerpiece and plumb-bob in the big-God-picture before me and in me. So, as “Pa” used to say (and I think Big Papa is saying it now), “Take your time with this—and hurry up every chance you get—I need it done yesterday!” Be Spirit led, Spirit fed, and Spirit overrun. Living in the overflow. That’s it! I see an interwoven working of God’s inner-self workings—Alpha-Omega workings. Alpha is the beginning; Omega the ending, but Omega can roll right back into Alpha in that realm apart from time. God is both—and all in between. He can finish what he began; he can begin where he just finished—Omega looping right back into Alpha and coming all over again. God’s eternal; he’s BIG. When Yeshua (Jesus) took his blood into Father God’s Holy Heart, a glorification took place and a mature, completely obedient-to-God specimen of humanity was love-absorbed into the Godhead. God “married” humanity in a first-forerunner way to form a Divine Creature that never before existed. As heaven adjusted to this additional Godhead fullness, the “new heavens” that Isaiah, Peter, and John saw was created. (Isa 65:17, 66:22, 2 Pet 3:13, Rev 21:1) God began immediately to make this powerful, new God-Creature known to humanity by appearing on earth—one such appearance being to John on the Isle of Patmos (Rev 1:10-20). From those appearances, God began a fresh working to create the new earth to match the new heavens. This is a work in progress today as people call on the Name of the Lord, and this GodCreature—Yeshua, Abba, Spirit—merges into their lives—God-Spirit into human-spirit. (See Extra 1.) While you’re being challenged, I trust you’re being refreshed. I’m really aiming at your enemy. If it feels like I’m hitting you, check to see if I’m not hitting our common enemy that’s been hiding in your head. He could be hiding from you like he was from me. I’m shooting at old jailhouse thought systems that love to control our lives. If you’re not breathing a little freer when you finish the book, forgive me for failing. Whoever you are, wherever you’re reading this—I’m FOR you; I really am. Let’s get geared up together TO EXPLORE TRUTH, let heaven’s love harness us to glorify Jesus Christ, and give our Daddy back his Israeli wife in his dream-garden. My wife tells this true-life experience. Her family had a little A-framed cabin in the woods where they ‘got away’. On a family outing, DeDe was standing beside the raised deck. Son Mark, about 3, pointed to something on the deck. DeDe’s dad, who was target shooting, turned and looked where Mark was pointing. “Don’t move!” he yelled, and pointed the rifle in DeDe’s direction. She froze in obedience. “Kapow!” Her dad walked over, stuck out his gun barrel, and from the deck post DeDe was standing by, he flipped the poisonous, now headless, Copperhead snake. When people we love are in danger, we must be prepared to act, and willing to risk scaring (or offending) them in order to protect them from danger. PART ONE: JEWISH JEWELS AND DIAMONDS CHAPTER 1: HAMAN, ISRAEL HATING JEWEL THIEF Haman Was Going After Israel It was after someone identified to me the centuries-old violence against the Jews as being fueled by the “spirit of Haman” that I understood a dream I had in late 2001. A dream so vividly painful and sickening I told no one—for weeks. It wouldn’t go away so finally I told a friend. She asked if I had written it down. Heck no! TOO shocking—and too real. It got to me. ‘Like God said, “If it takes a horrendous dream to get the boy’s attention, OH WELL!” First, a little review on Haman and what he was about (See Esther 3): “Day after day they spoke to him (Mordecai) but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew. . . . Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews. . . . Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and little children—on a single day. . . . The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city...was bewildered.” Now, here’s my dream that I couldn’t get out of my mind. The spirit of Haman was surrounded by subjects desperately trying over and over to please him by doing different things and bringing different things to him. They were frantic and terrified. They were bowing and scampering in and out of the shadows. Haman was loud and getting livid—obviously about to blow. He was shouting angry demands I could not understand. The demons kept desperately trying to please. Haman refused everything violently until terror and violence boiled over. Suddenly, Haman lost control, went to the floor in a fit of rage, and began to scream like a two year old brat gripped in a temper tantrum. He was flailing, kicking, rolling, and writing about like a snake. My attention was riveted on him. What would happen next? His wild, piercing shriek knocked his underlings back in the dark, and this time his words struck me: “No! No! No! I want more JEWS! Bring me MORE Jews! MORE JEWS! COOK ME SOME MORE JEWS!” I woke up—sick! But God had my attention—on Jews. My life would never be the same. That was the beginning of a long journey. The dream set me up for the life changing experience a few weeks later at Shalom Emporium with Messianic Rabbi Jerry Feldman. God used Jerry to break me out of replacement theology that had poisoned my understanding. It had been used to block my mind from receiving true revelation about the destiny of the nation of Israel in God’s plan—and Messianic Jews in particular. Paul said about his gospel, “It was by a revelation that this secret plan was made known to me. I have already written about it briefly, and if you read what I have written, you will grasp how I understand this secret plan concerning the Messiah.” Ephesians 3:3-4 (CJB). Just so, by a dream and a revelation, I have gained an understanding of what’s going on with Jews in general, the nation of Israel in particular, and, as I said—and will keep saying—ESPECIALLY Messianics, already completed Jews. Now when I pray for the peace of Jerusalem, my heart is already there. Arrested In Shalom Emporium It was a setup, nice day, no rain, no wind—and no warning. DeDe, my fiancée, wanted Jewish earrings to wear at the wedding. Jewish earrings—Jewish Emporium. Sounded like a match to me, so we set out for Shalom Emporium. Mrs. Feldman helped DeDe with the earring search while I shopped about, looking at Jewish related items. The owner appeared and introduced himself as the sales-lady’s husband, Jerry Feldman. What started out as a routine, safe, fun adventure—an earring run with “Shugah”—was about to take a stern turn. I learned something about Jews that day. They can be “sneaky-wisedangerous.” Indwelled by their resurrected Jew-Messiah, they can be downright deadly to your old theology. This husband-wife team waited on us with such servant hearts about these earrings—I never saw it coming. Our interest moved from earrings to other items. We were being served Jesus with fresh, highly tantalizing, challenging zeal. Jerry shared the heartbeat behind the Jewish cultural life in Yeshua, his Messiah, skillfully weaving it into today’s current events in the Middle East with the wisdom of God from Scripture. Each item of our interest in the Emporium was an opening for Jerry to share more. What a big heart! He wanted us to understand true meanings for today’s use of these Jewish items, not just see them as external trinkets related to Jews. By now, it was obvious that his was the heartbeat of Yeshua, pumping new life to us from the Hebrew foundation of the scriptures. As my questions revealed a hunger for a better understanding of Jewish roots, Jerry opened up earnestly to share freely the wealth from his long years of study and experience. Truth burned out of him to bring God’s ruling power to bear in earth in this generation. God had trapped me. When Jerry’s wife left for lunch, Jerry put the phone on auto-pilot and kept pouring out truth. He seated us comfortably in chairs and taught us like we were a congregation of thousands. How honoring! Truth was hitting like a hammer into old patterns of false theology; my insides trembled and burned with fresh fire from heaven. This continued for over an hour. Yep, I was arrested—lost track o’ time. A Damascus Road experience? Close. Close to it—very close. My religious seminary training did not teach me replacement theology labeled as such. (That is that “The church replaced Israel in God’s plan.”) I didn’t know it by that name; still, I had been affected by it and infected with it—and God was after it. As Jerry mentioned scripture after scripture, applying it to present-day Israel, truth shined bright enough to stun me speechless. It was not Jerry; it was Jesus. I had been set up, and I was being lit up. (I learned Jerry had gotten up from his sick bed in the back to come serve me. That added to my appreciation.) Shame on me! How could I have spent four years in Seminary, majoring in Hebrew and Greek, without seeing this? How could I have been a serious student of the Bible for half a century and missed understanding the place of Israel as a nation in God’s kingdom plan? What an embarrassment! I had hammered away, preaching and writing about the kingdom of God being for today, in the earth—not way off in the future in some pie-in-the-sky by and by. People got mad at me for that, but God held me to it. How is it I was blinded into “spiritualizing away” the key of earthly Israel as a nation in the plan of God? I had spent more time in the prophets than any other part of the Bible—drawn there. Now, almost in a flash, their burden for Israel was so clear and so a part of me. Why, all this time, had it been so very unclear? So very NOT CLEAR AT ALL? And so NOT IMPORTANT! I thought, “If I’ve been messed up, where’s everybody else on this thing? Anyone else blinded? A few? Many? Most? None? I’m the only one?” I wondered. The last big piece of the end-time puzzle had dropped into my understanding. We really are endtime STUCK! Like it or not. My life is now forever entwined with Israel, with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the Messiah of Israel, King of the Jews, the Holy One of Israel, God over all the earth, the David on the earthly throne in Israel, the last Adam, and the Savior of all the nations. I’m “doing time” for Israel because Israel is in God’s heart now BIGGER THAN EVER. Furthermore, I take it personally now every time violence hurts, maims or kills in Israel. It ought not be so! “Who cares about little ol’ Israel?” the scoffers deride. Who cares? Indeed—that is the question today. Do you? CHAPTER 2: QUEEN ISRAEL Jerusalem—an Unfaithful Wife (Ezekiel 16) 1 Then another message came to me from the LORD: 2 "Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her loathsome sins. 3 Give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite! 4 When you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was left uncut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and dressed in warm clothing. 5 No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were dumped in a field and left to die, unwanted. 6 "But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, `Live!' 7 And I helped you to thrive like a plant in the field. You grew up and BECAME A BEAUTIFUL JEWEL. Your breasts became full, and your hair grew, though you were still naked. 8 And when I passed by and saw you again, you were old enough to be married. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine. 9 "Then I bathed you and washed off your blood, and I rubbed fragrant oils into your skin. 10 I gave you expensive clothing of linen and silk, beautifully embroidered, and sandals made of fine leather. 11 I gave you lovely jewelry, bracelets, and beautiful necklaces, 12 a ring for your nose and earrings for your ears, and a lovely crown for your head. 13 And so you were made beautiful with gold and silver. Your clothes were made of fine linen and were beautifully embroidered. You ate the finest foods—fine flour, honey, and olive oil— and became more beautiful than ever. YOU LOOKED LIKE A QUEEN, AND SO YOU WERE! 14 Your fame soon spread throughout the world on account of your beauty, because the splendor I bestowed on you perfected your beauty, says the Sovereign LORD. 15 "But you thought you could get along without me… U. YOU DON’T HAVE TO ‘DO CHURCH’ TO PLEASE GOD: HOW DARE YOU HYPOCRITES PREACH EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN AND NOT GIVE A RIP ABOUT MY GETTING MY SON RULING AS MY KING OVER MY NATION ISRAEL FROM MY THRONE IN MY CITY JERUSALEM ON MY DIRT ON MY MOUNT ZION? (A collection of 23 relevant articles, interwoven and inner-connected.) Introduction: The Burning Question 1 Kingdoms Clashing to Catch Your ‘Soul’ 2 Kicked to the Curb – Again 3 That Pesky Old Testament! Will We Never Get Past It? 4 B4U Read Your Bible, Read This 5 Israeli Woman 6 Not-Yet-Believing Jews 7 Coming Straight At You NOW 8 ONE Thing Nobody Told You About Yeshua 9 3 STRIKES and You’re… 10 You Don’t ‘FEEL Saved’? 11 Ever Go Scary Stuffin’? 12 How ‘Bout a Bite of Fine Lining? 13 Treadmilling? A Short Little Open-Book Wisdom Test 14 It’s All About Covenant-Keeping Kingdom Strategy 15 Whole-Hog Harnessed – Grab Ya Britches ‘Fore They Wad 16 A Memorial Day Prayer 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Clara Fire Therefore How Dare You Hypocrites Preach Everything Under the Sun… Let’s Have an Old-Timey ‘Church’ Tithing ‘Convention’ You Hear the Sound Yeshua: “Whoever is Not Against Us…” Want to Share This With Jewish Friends (or Enemies)? NOTE: Yeshua is Hebrew for Jesus and they are used here interchangeably. Introduction: The Burning Question HOW CAN YOU HYPOCRITAL, Snake-slick, Kingdom-Ignoring, Kingdom-Blocking Church Scholars, Church Preachers, Church Leaders and Your Broods Escape Burning Judgment from the Righteous and Justice-Loving, Living God of Abraham, Isaac, Israel, and Israel’s Messiah Yeshua!? HE LOVES JUSTICE! WOE TO YOU who preach about EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN – EXCEPT God’s destiny for God’s biological and spiritual family ISRAEL. If you don’t WAKE UP and “smell the TRUTH” about God’s Israel nation, how do you EXPECT to escape the burning judgment fires of the living God of Abraham, Isaac, Israel AND YESHUA? That sissy, sweet jesus so meek and mild IS NOT THE TRUE JESUS. He’s a MANINVENTED PHANTOM, a FANTASY offered IN AND BY ‘CHURCH’ to REPLACE ISRAEL AND HER MESSIAH YESHUA. Oh, that’s alright; call me any name you choose. ONE DAY! ONE DAY! Why don’t you DO SOMETHING HONEST for a change, RESEARCH MY WRITINGS AND PROVE ME WRONG! We’ll both rejoice. I’d rather it not be TRUTH – but…!! You COULD REPENT! CHANGE your mind and RE-FOCUS your life-emphasis. If you don’t, these words are waiting for your ears and very soul. Who said them? “GET AWAY FROM ME, you HYPOCRITES; I NEVER KNEW YOU.” You took my grace gifts and used them on a NON-ISRAEL FOUNDATION which I never laid – A SAND FOUNDATION. On THAT SAND, you worked so hard to BUILD YOUR OWN LIFESTYLE, CHURCH, MINISTRY, REPUTATION, AND NAME FOR YOURSELF. That’s why I NEVER knew you. You NEVER ONE TIME showed up for work and clocked in on time on MY building site for me to USE YOU PUTTING MY SON IN MY PLACE FOR HIM IN ISRAEL so he could ‘seek and save that which was lost’ by destroying the works of the devil’ – so he could ‘SAVE ALL ISRAEL’, and PROCEED to use her to gather gentile remnants out of the nations around his remnant in Israel and CHANGE THE AGE from old Adam’s ‘church’ to MY KINGDOM belonging FIRST to MY Israel and THEN to MY extended family of Jew and Gentile’s one ‘new man’. But what happened to YOUR SAND-RESTING CHURCH KINGDOM? “And the storms came, the winds blew, the flood rose”. Now YOU TELL ME what happened to the HOUSE NOT BUILT ON THE ROCK FOUNDATION OF TRUE ISRAEL’S MESSIAH. You better learn to QUIT switching and swapping, dipping and flipping, shopping and flopping, yacking and jacking, REPLACING and EXPLAINING AWAY God’s purpose for HIS REBORN ISRAEL PEOPLE. By the way, do you ever preach on hell? I think not. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who DO what my Father in heaven wants. 22 On that Day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord! Didn’t we PROPHESY in your name? Didn’t we EXPEL DEMONS in your name? Didn’t we PERFORM MANY MIRACLES in your name?’ 23 Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I NEVER knew you! GET AWAY FROM ME, you workers of lawlessness!’[a] 21 “So, everyone who hears these words of mine and ACTS ON THEM will be like a sensible man who BUILT HIS HOUSE ON BEDROCK. 25 The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the winds blew and beat against that house, but it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not ACT on them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the wind blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed — and ITS COLLAPSE WAS HORRENDOUS!” (Matt 7) 24 Do you KNOW when all your church NAKEDNESS will do you in BEFORE THE EYES OF HEAVEN AND THE WHOLE WORLD? You WILL BE THERE on way or the other, from one location or the other, from among the living or from among the dead. THEN, there will be ONLY a ‘FOR’ side and an ‘AGAINST’ side. Read it all in Zechariah 14. A few verses: Look, a day is coming for Adonai… 2 “For I will gather all the nations against Yerushalayim for war… 3 Then Adonai will go out and fight against those nations, fighting as on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies to the east of Yerushalayim… Then Adonai my God will come to you [Yerushalayim or Jerusalem] with all the holy ones…. 9 Then Adonai will be king over the whole world. On that day Adonai will be the only one, and his name will be the only name…. Yerushalayim will be raised up and inhabited where she is… will be broken, and Yerushalayim will live in safety. 11 People will live there, the curse [Question: What happens to all the churchers who REFUSED to give GOD’S Israel the time o’ day, let alone the blessing God commanded, and the honor she is due? Keep reading.] 12 Adonai will strike all the peoples who made war against Yerushalayim with a plague in which their flesh rots away while they are standing on their feet, their eyes rot away in their sockets, and their tongues rot away in their mouths. 13 When that day comes, there will be among them great panic, sent by Adonai, so that everyone lays hands on his neighbor, who in turn attacks him…. and the wealth of all the nations will be assembled — gold, silver and clothing in great abundance. 15 A plague like this plague will also affect the horses, mules, camels, donkeys and all the other animals in those camps. Go on and build your great churches on the sand. Preach your ‘real good sermons’ so your churchers can spend Yeshua’s suffering and death by learning to enjoy THEIR OWN ‘SELF’ lives and call it ‘Christian’. Go ahead building on the sand foundation that your ‘great church fathers laid for you to build YOUR Israel-ABSENT groups on. Celebrate your spiritual adultery, masturbation and incest. Celebrate your church that your church scholars convinced you REPLACED Israel. ‘Push the envelope’ right on through bigoted and stupid absurdity into your place in THE NATIONS FIGHTING AGAINST GOD’S ISRAEL on THAT DAY. You REALLY don’t HONESTLY CARE about God’s Israel (Yeshua-Messianics) NOW. What makes you think you won’t be FIGHTING AGAINST GOD on THAT DAY? WHEN do you see yourself CHANGING YOUR THEOLOGICAL POSITION and HEART ATTITUDE toward Yeshua-Messianic-Israel? Any time EXCEPT today, RIGHT? Watch out that it’s not YOU whom JESUS BLOWTORCHES with “GET AWAY FROM ME! I NEVER knew you! HOW CAN YOU ESCAPE MY FULL FURY IN THE FIRES OF HELL?! “Oh, sweet Jesus, meek and mild, wouldn’t do ME like that.” You go right on then, BUT MY WARNING WILL TESTIFY AGAINST YOU. You had your chance, and you pissed away your opportunity – for WHAT? For WHOM? Was it worth it? Is it worth it? At least you’ll know you followed your ‘great church fathers’ ACCEPTED, ‘CONVENTIONAL’ CHURCH CREED AND DOCTRINES. Followed them WHERE though? That is the question. But you just go right ahead, gourd head. 01. Kingdoms Clashing to Catch Your ‘Soul’ Church kingdom VS Israel’s Kingdom. Church has a head-overlord. Kingdom has a King-Lord Ruler. You can be in one of these without being in the other. Fact of the matter, you’re almost certain to be in one OR the other – NOT IN BOTH. Reason being, church and kingdom are, BY DESIGN, mutually exclusive at the close of business, at the end of the age. You can be a lifetime churcher (church-doer) and NEVER EVEN SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. Church is, by deliberate intention and devilish invention, resting on a non-Israel, sandy, manmade foundation of a ONE WORD MISTRANSLATION. ONE WORD! And it’s been HELL TO PAY ever since! You say, “Well, I’ve been in church all my life and nobody taught me against kingdom; they LED ME TO BELIEVE that church and kingdom was the same thing. What can I say? THEY LIED TO YOU. That’s what I can say with ABSOLUTE UNEQUIVICAL CERTAINTY AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS REVEALED BY HOLY SPIRIT. Why did your leaders lie to you? Because THEY WERE LIED TO – and the generation before them, all the way back to Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 C.E. They bought into it BUT TODAY YOU DON’T HAVE TO – AND YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO. “The times of such ignorance God winked at, but NOW REQUIRES ALL MANKIND TO REPENT (change their mind and lifestyle) (Acts 17:30-31) The Greek word ‘ekklesia’ is from two Greek words combined. One means ‘to call’; the other means ‘out’. The plural noun is literally ‘the called out ones’. This means a group gathered, usually for a particular purpose. The context makes it crystal clear that these ‘called out ones’ make up a group called together to receive the ‘keys of the kingdom of heaven’. Jesus is talking about his kingdom gathering. The English word ‘church’ has NO LINGUISTIC CONNECTION with the Greek ‘ekklesia.’ The MISTRANSLATION is deliberate in order to give to the Roman religious system (which developed into the Roman Catholic Church) some kind of biblical foundation. Otherwise, they DID NOT HAVE A VERSE TO STAND ON! The first translators REFUSED TO RAPE the Word of God with the heathen-sourced ‘church’ but the system beheaded one and dogged another to his grave. Finally, fearing for his life, a translator obeyed the order of the corrupt civil and religious system and translated ‘ekklesia’ as ‘church]. Once this first occurrence WAS MISTRANSLATED, ALL OTHER OCCURRENCES ASSOCIATED with Yeshua’s kingdom of heaven were LIKEWISE MISTRANSLATED SO AS TO SET UP AN ENTIRE FALSE FOUNDATION FOR A FAKE KINGDOM, one that APPEARS and CLAIMS to be the kingdom of heaven, but in fact is set to oppose and eradicate it. “But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the wind blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed — and ITS COLLAPSE WAS HORRENDOUS!” 28 When Yeshua had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at the way he taught, 29 for he was not instructing them like their Torah-teachers but as one who had authority himself.” (Matt 7:26-29 CJB) (NOTE: The revelation in this book is developed and delivered in detail in 12 years of careful and prayerful research with no agenda except to receive from the Bible by the revelation of the Holy Spirit the Truth for us today. There are 20 books on Amazon Kindle under ‘Thomas Pelham Gross’ and almost all of the material is at www.israelheartbeat.com for free study and copying.) That ONE WORD MISTRANSLATION is in Matthew 16:17-19 (NKJV) HELLISH MISTRANSLATION: Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed[d] in heaven.” CORRECT TRANSLATION: Matthew 16:17-19 “Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan,” Yeshua said to him, “how blessed you are! For no human being revealed this to you, no, it was my Father in heaven. 18 I also tell you this: you are Kefa,” [which means ‘Rock,’] “and on this rock I WILL BUILD MY COMMUNITY, and the gates of Sh’ol will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.” (Complete Jewish Bible) Several other words carry the meaning of ‘the called out ones’: (kingdom) congregation, (kingdom) flock, (kingdom) remnant, (kingdom), (kingdom) group, (kingdom) bunch, (kingdom) crowd, etc. Whatever the term, you can bet ‘kingdom’ belongs with it because Yeshua CAME FORTH PREACHING, “Repent for the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is at hand, AND HE NEVER WAVERED FROM IT – NEVER introduced a ‘replacement’ or a ‘supplement’ or an ‘alternate’ named ‘church’ or anything else. You can NOT USE ‘(kingdom) church’ because church has a whole unholy, anti-kingdom stance, demeanor, spirit, focus, and direction. Evil at the heart. Church’s foundation teaching includes what is usually called ‘replacement theology’ ALTHOUGH IT ALSO SNAKISHLY HIDES UNDER OTHER SCHOLARLY-SOUNDING CLODS. SLICK SATAN is too crafty (‘more crafty than all creatures according to Genesis) to have his pimps push replacing KINGDOM, so he says, “God is through with Israel as a nation and church has replaced the nation.” But HE’S NOT REALLY AFTER ISRAEL; HE IS AFTER GOD’S KINGDOM ON EARTH that threatens his present position as ‘god of this world.’ He knows the Bible WAY BETTER than most believers; so he KNOWS that WITHOUT THE NATION ISRAEL, THERE IS NO KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH. He KNOWS that, and THAT’S WHY HIS PREACHERS DO NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO GOD ABOUT ISRAEL’S DESTINY. The father of lies has his church preachers keep people dazzled with entertaining, powerless music and song, emotionally exciting preaching, and busy about ‘morally good’ ‘soul-winning’ programs and a devil’s deli of whooptee-do activities and events. “Christians” (born again or not) ‘loooooooooooove’ events! That is, UNLESS the program is interrupted by the REALLY MESSY WORK of lepers being cleansed, the sick being healed, the dead being raised, and devils getting cast out. When a hungry-hearted truth-seeker ‘makes a decision for Christ” (born again or not), they are shoved toward or into a group of others who have ‘made some decision, supposedly for Christ’ – all kingdom-ignorant, therefore kingdom-ignoring. NONE are discipled to maturity. What is the result? Picture a nursery of 0-3 year olds. They are expected, BY 3 YEAR OLDS WHO CAME BEFORE THEM to NOW ‘go out and win souls’ THEMSELVES, and bring them back into the nursery. THIS, MY FRIEND, IS CHURCH. Don’t EVER call such OBVIOUS STUPIDITY the kingdom of heaven that Jesus gave his life in unimaginable suffering to ESTABLISH ALL OVER THIS EARTH. STOP! Consider. PONDER – please. Is the God of all creation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Israel, King David and King Yeshua so weak and fumblesome that he has to resort to depending on people staying stupid enough to BUY INTO THE DELIBERATE LIE OF A MISTRANSLATION for the foundation of a POWERFUL, WORLD-CHANGING, AGECHANGING KINGDOM? Satan is ESPECIALLY desperate to keep his title as ‘god of this world’ since he was UNABLE TO HOLD YESHUA IN HELL. He is TERRIFIED you are going to leave his foundation of humanistic sand and take your STAND ON THE SOLID ROCK, LIVING-WORD KING OF THE JEWS and FULFULL YOUR DESTINY IN HIS KINGDOM. THAT would put the padlock on Satan’s pad. So it is kingdom VS Kingdom. It is church VS Israel. And yes, you face a decision – AGAIN! (LOL) Decisions, decisions. Always with us. Keeps life exciting and VERY SCARY. Church is Satan’s Chief Operations Base. Israel is Headquarters for The Holy One of Israel, the King of the Jews. That’s why, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, Israel is UNDER THE GUN 24/7 – themselves, their children, extended families, all they are, all they know, and all they have – being FIERCELY attacked by ALL nations (except maybe Canada, whose leader recently stood in the Knesset and VOWED TO STAND WITH ISRAEL NO MATTER WHAT. He may be holding back judgment hitting us all yesterday. OUR POTUS LIES LIKE A RUG EVERY TIME he opens his big Islam-defending mouth). Friends, we are COMING DOWN TO THE WIRE. I’m sharing my own WAKEUP Scripture: Zechariah 12-14. ONE THING and one thing ONLY puts you among the Armageddon survivors on ‘THAT DAY.’ Read it for yourself. I don’t want you thinking I’m ‘chunking at church from the left field wall’. YOU read it in YOUR Bible for YOUR own self and all of YOURS. Ask Holy Spirit as you read to give you understanding. THEN WAIT, LISTEN to hear the still small voice. (In my case it was not that small! Maybe because my head was a little on the hard side?) WHATEVER you do, do NOT ask your ISRAEL-IGNORING preacher! See who is on the winning side. With EVERYTHING on the line, what is the ONE THING that will assure that you AND YOURS are among the ‘winners’ WITH GOD? If you say you don’t have to worry about it; that you’ll be ‘raptured’ by then, WHAT KIND OF A PERSON ARE YOU ANYWAY? You don’t care about your children, grands, offspring, extended family, friends, the poor and hungry-hearted crying out for help and refuge? Such a person would definitely NEED TO GET JOHN 3 HELP AND SAY TO YESHUA, “LORD, WHATEVER IT TAKES, I’VE GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN!” But that’s NOT you, right? Then, see if you’ll be thinking then that YOU’VE INVESTED TOO MUCH IN GOD’S ISRAEL, the YESHUA MESSIANICS. See if you’ve given them: Too much love Too much shalom Too much money Too much time Too much prayer Too much food Too much housing Too much property Too much repenting Too much weeping Too much kindness Too much prophecy Too much giftings Too much miracle-ing Too much protection Too much provision Too much goodness Too much faith Too much service Too much empowerment Too much encouragement Too much prison visitation Too much… ? Do you feel like, ON THAT DAY, you’ll be crying out, “Forgive me, Lord, FOR DOING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL FAMILY ISRAEL? The family upon and around whom you build your kingdom? The family that I as a gentile obeyer of their Messiah Yeshua am adopted into? The family of the earthly olive tree that I as a gentile believer am grafted into to be a fellow partaker and a fellow-sharer of all your kingdom presence?” The King will say to them, ‘Yes! I tell you that whenever you did these things for one of the least important of these (Messianic Jewish) brothers of mine, YOU DID THEM FOR ME!’ (Matt 25:40 CJB) V. IF YOU ARE JEWISH, THIS GENTILE THANKS YOU: NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM? This Is Awful Late Getting To You, But Thank You. You have done us all a world of good just by being Jewish– all while the rest of us were doing you a world of hurt! I am so sorry. Who in the world do we gentiles think we are? gods?! Shame, shame, shame on us! An old man spent 12 years in research on the G_d-given place nation Israel holds in the heartplan of the G_d of Abraham. It brought him down into life-changing repentance. He did not learn this from minds of men. Maybe you already know what you are about to read – but my experience is that most do not. Every human deserves to know what you are about to read. Everyone deserves a clean, clear look at this mystery once hidden, now revealed. Repeated looks become increasingly joyful. Welcome to a joyful beginning. The old codger hopes that after you read and hear his heart saying “Thank you”, you would feel alright welcoming him “next year in Jerusalem”. Please bear with him when his words don’t come together just right. Remember, he’s never been Jewish a day in his life – and he’s keenly aware of that. He Did Not Do It Church. Christianity. You don’t blame the G_d of Abraham for church masses and Christian messes – anywhere in history, do you? (Hint: since His covenant with Abraham, G_d has always carried Israel and the Jewish people in His heart to love them and in His head to bless them by all means possible, always respecting their free will to choose obedience or disobedience to Him. Upfront: it is none of my business what you say, do, believe or practice regarding the G_d, nation and customs of Israel and her promised Messiah. This Messiah was promised to Israel in the old and new covenants of Jewish Scriptures, Genesis through Revelation, as revealed and written through Israel’s prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Isaiah and many others, as well as Israel’s emissary to the gentiles, Paul, and many others writing the new covenant Scriptures. (For passages, see Addendum at the end of the book.) I give you that. If you take that to be from an honest-hearted, Israel-loving truth-seeker, then keep reading. Twelve years of honest intensive research has yielded this explosion of revelation: Jewish Yeshua of Bethlehem and Nazareth has not had one single solitary thing, deed or thought to do with church or Christianity. Can you imagine how that hit a gentile truth-seeker? “Say what? What is this!?” I did not set out to knock out church. That’s just how it turned out. The more I studied the old Jewish covenant and the new Jewish covenant, written in the Bible by Jews for Jews and given to nation Israel, the more the church entity kept getting in the way. I’m researching Israel and church just keeps on popping up, butting in where it doesn’t fit, and ‘spitting in the well’ of truth, blocking my thought-stream, turning me aside, or muddying the research waters. The Monster-Master Dream I should pause here to tell you why I started this search. The dream was more like a nightmare. Some monster-being was raging and pacing back and forth in the darkness. He kept yelling and barking orders to what was obviously his underlings. They were bowing and scraping, frantically running into each other, terrified at not being able to please their monster-master. Then the monster went into a seizure-like fit (think 2 year old in a full-blown temper tantrum). He fell out in the floor, flopping from side to side and screaming, “No! No! No! I want more Jews. Cook me more Jews! Cook me more Jews!” I waked up horrified and sick in my soul. When I finally was able to share the experience with someone who knew more Jewish history than I, they told me the monster was a demon, ‘the spirit of Haman’. Haman plotted to ‘wipe Jews off the map’ (Sound familiar?). He was the first in a long line of politicians and government leaders, running right on down through history into today, who aimed ‘to do the world a favor’ by slaughtering all and everything Jewish. That invasive experience of violent hatred launched me, 13 years ago, on this road with no offramp in sight. Truth leading to true justice is highly exhilarating! Addictive! Church Interference Persisting “There has to be more here than meets the mind with all these confusing church-related interruptions,” I thought, “Some body or thing really does not want me to see plainly where Israel is in G_d’s heart and where she fits into His plan today. What force might that be?” I wondered. “Aha!” Came the moment. Could it be? It was. It is! It is “it”, that one and Satan-same demonHaman, driving church, manipulating all the church-puppet strings to control, control, and control so as to wipe Israel off the map – or at least wipe nation Israel out of the minds of people and rob Israel of her G_d -given destiny. Exasperated, I finally blurted out before G_d: “This thing is in my way!” I thought I heard G_d say, “Mine too!” When G_d didn’t strike me down over the outburst against church blockages, I was encouraged to go on. Now I was even more diligent to seek the Holy Spirit thought by thought, verse by verse, day by day, year by year – to – here right now! Always handling the word of G_d prayerfully, honestly, in context, earnestly, passionately, thankfully. Fearfully, I inched my way along for truth alone. Chips fell where chips will. By year 10, the Holy Spirit had soundly convinced me that the G_d of Abraham’s Jewish people had not one single desire for, or use for church! There came a twin shocker: neither did the one who calls himself the son of the Jewish King David have one single desire for, or use for church. And there is nothing churchy about being King David’s son. The G_d-Breathed Text is Not English Some are shocked to be told English is not G_d’s first language. I have used the Hebrew and Greek text behind various English translations in word studies. And right there is where lightning-truth struck dead-church dead center. Bam! I felt the jolt of the bolt in the pit of my gut. Unforgettable. Unimaginable but experienced anyway. Church lost all of its advertised luster-power over me that day – along with its long-time hold on my mind, heart, and thinking. The fear of judgment about disagreeing with church doctrine was replaced with a deep how-dare-you abhorrence toward those and that which had kept me in a spiritual and mental prisoner-box. (See my book “I Was A Church Addict” and others on www.Israelheartbeat.com.) The very idea! When most of these doctrines were based on mistranslations, lies, deception, dishonesty, and manipulation, and were spouted by deceived and blinded unspiritual leaders! English translations, I discovered, are deliberately and blatantly anti-Israel, bias-corrupted! They are MISTRANSLATED in a way so as to support what is called Israel replacement theology. That is to say that church has replaced nation Israel and G_d has no place in His heart and plan for her. No place? Just His earthly wife! Oh yes, church stole that too – for a little minute – but only in the minds of the tricked, the tricking and the tricksters. W. DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT WITH THE SHULAMMITE: MESSIAH YESHUA HAS FREED US FOR FREEDOM! “A great Sign appeared in Heaven: a Woman dressed all in sunlight, standing on the moon, and crowned with Twelve Stars.” (Revelation 12:1-2 THE MESSAGE) “Come back, come back, O Shulammite; Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!” “Why should you gaze at the Shulammite, As at the [one] dance of the two companies [heaven/earth]? (Song of Solomon 6:13 (NASB) OR Later You May Want to Pick-a-Flipside Title & Subtitle like: Badass KLAZ Fires Dirty Harry Bite-Butt, Sight-Light Bullets for God’s Israel to Come Free… …and Bust Babylon-Church Frame-of-Mind Darkness for Not-Yet-Believing Jews To Get A Clean, No-Connection-With-Church-Whatsoever Look At Yeshua So They Can See Crystal Clear Who Yeshua Is Not, Who He Never Was And Never Shall Be. Then They Can Make Up Their Own Mind Whether Or Not Yeshua Is Israel’s Promised Messiah, Ready To Bust Out In Israel To Save All Israel, Along With A Few Gentiles From Every Nation, and Rule Globally from Jerusalem. No? Try this: Badass KLAZ And Dirty Harry Hook Up To “Seal-Team-Six” Dark-Side, Demon-Sick, DeepSix, Church And Her Christian Cathedrals’ Covert Caverns Of Cloudy, Christless Confusion In Order To Light Up The Land(E)scape For The Fullness Of The Yeshua-Messiah’s IsraelCentered Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth As One Never-Been-Before Last-Adam-Populated Creation. Removing The Obstacles Blocking Jewish People From Finding And Following The Road to Zion On Into Jerusalem Where Their Messiah Stands With Outstretched Arms And TearDrenched Face To Welcome All Of Them Home. If, upon reading, you like one of these better, I’m with you. Problem is: both are too long to fit the title/subtitle rules of the writer-road. **KLAZ is a stand-in, stand-up ‘guy’ for Israel’s Jewish Collector Plumbline Messiah Yeshua. KLAZ brings to the table such landscape lighters as: Israel’s Jehu. He drove furiously like a maniac to get Controller-Jezebel under his chariot wheels to let the street dogs enjoy her prostituting flesh to the bare bone – while he sat and enjoyed his lunch. Israel’s Gideon, wheat farmer by day; he burned the false god Baal’s altar. Israel’s Elijah. He called fire from heaven and burned 50 soldiers and their captain into the atmosphere. Then he did the same to their replacements. Total 102. Israel’s Jeremiah. God’s fire burned in his bones until it leaped out of his mouth to light up Dark Israel was under. Israel’s King David. ‘Ground his enemies as fine as the dust under his chariot wheels; ‘Rode hard to take revenge on everyone who ‘pissed against the wall’. (His son, Solomon, wrote the Song of Solomon about the Shulammite.) Israel’s Yeshua, son of King David, Son of God humanized. He branded as ‘hypocrites, snakes and sons-of-snakes’ the most famous preachers, leaders, teachers and theologians at the time, all holding the people captive in their religion. Plus a whole other host of toasters and roasters, all Israelis (or Israelites). All these are in the ‘Israel Nation Family of God’ and riding with Badass KLAZ in the heavenly realm – as revealed to their servant scribe. “God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” Note: Bible translations used: CJB = Complete Jewish Bible. KJV = King James Version. NKJV = New King James Version. NLT = New Living Translation. NRSV = New Revised Standard Version. MSG = THE MESSAGE. AMP = Amplified. OJB = Orthodox Jewish Bible Thanks Page! Thank you, Riverdell Care Center Staff and Residents. You made it possible for me to write this on the computer in the corner of the living room. Thank you, Ken and Deb Kemper, Charlie Dawg Press Owners. Who but you?! Without your warrior-willing hearts, minds, strength, sacrifice, wisdom, gifts and abilities, including total financing, I feel certain this most controversial work by Author Nobody would never have seen the published page. Thank you, More-Than-Friends. You have visited me through my thickets and sins. God is good! You (and some of your family?), have carried water for me across the desert sands of time for some years: Wife DeDe, Tim, Shane, Victorie, Tom, Sandie, Jane, Joyce, Ken and Deb, Dave and Diane, James and Shirley, Dan and Ann, Tim and Darla; Mike, Regina and Jessica; Allen and Lana, Arnold and Shannon, Tim and Kim, Mike and Brenda, Peter and Val, Randy and Sherry, Randy and Casey, Ron and Marynelle, Shelley, Shelley, Jo, Leslie, Jerome and Leilani, Sharon, Dan and Patty, Nanci, Asher and Betty, Eitan and Connie, Avner and Rachel, David and Michaela, David and Emma, Peter and Rita, Tom and Kate, Jason and Mindy. I left off last names to protect them from unnecessary enemy blowback through friends and relatives (mostly churchers) just for having something to do with me. It’s understandable after the impossible “You Don’t Have To ‘Do Church’ To Please God.” Except for stretching beyond imaginations, I could call these co-laborers an ekklesia. I can see us all together in a realm where we’re duly ‘deputized’ and sent out as a posse to round up enemies of Israel and bring them in, dead or alive, before the Judge, who happens to be the King of Israel. (A little personal note; today is March 5, 2015. Happy Birthday DVG!) Dirty Harry Bite-Butt Bullets of Light for Badass KLAZ 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. Introduction: “Killed” November 16, 1966 Dance, My Dear, Dance! “Mad As Hell” “He’s Gone Off the Reservation”! Church Does Not Exist (Please Don’t Cry) Truth On Overload Badass-Fire on Back-Hole, Kill-Kingdom, Church Preachers “Yo’ Mama’s a Ho’” “He Writes Bad Stuff About the Bride” 10. Diagnosis of the Day (of the LORD) 11. Badass Jehu Rides 12. We HAVE TO Get the Jew/Gentile Thing Right. 13. Church Defined as Un-deified – and Defied 14. You CAN Be Saved Without Going through Israel 15. To the Modern Jew 16. Challenge-Ridden Flat 17. Seated in Heavenly Places 18. Hell is Horrendous 19. The Comeshorters 20. Jeremiah Has HAD It 21. Israel Only Forever 22. THE Most Kingdom-Critical People Group on the Planet 23. Remove Spiritual Obstacles Blocking Israel from her Destiny 24. Wrecker-balling Truth Drops the Hammer Down 25. Ignorance to the Nth Degree 26. “You Are My Hammer.” 27. Got an Answer for an Old Codger Question? 28. The Naked Emperor in THE Big Lie 29. AcThinK TanK 30. Please Excuse Church 31. Badass KLAZ Defines Church – What Church Really Is 32. Courting Away With One Limb Left 33. Obama’s Proof-is-in-the-Pudding Christianity 34. Crossless Christianity 35. MANY Leading MANY Astray 36. Church is the Crusty Crud Covering the Crux 37. All of Us Will Go There – No Exceptions 38. Go On Through the Gates Bonus 1: A Fare-You-Well Song Bonus 2: The “I AM” Shulammite-Realm Dance Introduction: “Killed” November 16, 1966 Chances are zero that this book will support your past religious/church decisions or comfort you in your present lifestyle. Here’s the deal: You are not prepared for what’s looming and coming – without delay. We are standing chin-deep in time, living an eyelash from gone, one eye-squint from a forever lock-in and lock-down – so close to that Day we can’t see it. That Day cannot be prevented; its rollout cannot be stopped. No amount of prayer, fasting, selfdenial or sacrifice will do it. We have been swept past critical mass, and there is no call-back. On top of this, blinded church ‘leaders’ are doing everything to hinder and nothing to help. Blind lead the blind – from their behind. In your present condition, you think you’ll survive this agechanging cataclysm? If I thought you could weather this once-in-a-world storm, I’d rest cool and easy; I’m not. With this in mind: if I upset the mindset, leave your apple cart wheels turning in the breeze with your little religious apples scattered all over the road, don’t wait for me to ask forgiveness. I read something: “If you see danger coming and do not warn the people, they will perish but their blood I will require at your hands.” Israel’s prophet Ezekiel heard from God. I heard from the Jew Ezekiel. I love Jews! You can learn about That Day, “The Day of the Lord”, by doing a search with your Bible program. The spiritual sons of Issachar could read these signs of the times and know what Israel ought to do by watching Fox News. Who’s reading them and telling Israel (and the nations) what we ought to do? Catastrophe crowds us to the wall. It is on ugly multi-faced disaster that defies description, let alone understanding. It ends in a convergence of countless tsunamis roaring around Jerusalem. What goes on? Read Zechariah 12-14 if you believe the Word of God that “All Scripture is GodBreathed” and no church or entity can un-breathe it, or blow it away. IT’S STILL COMING: quick-rot with dead men walking; eyes rotting and running out of their sockets; rotten tongues running down chins with all flesh sliding off its bones – a shocking preview of the eternal lake of fire for all unbelieving Israel-ignoring hypocrites. Each tsunami is intense already, with its crashing waves building just out of sight – mounting for one simultaneous, calamitous crash. Tsunamis building today include: economy bottoming out; wild destructive weather patterns; financial meltdowns, pendulum-swinging stock market, and bank failures; morals out of hell; power-crazy national leaders will to sacrifice their own in their dedication to ruling the world; social sickness; cultural unrest and clashes; civil and political turmoil; legal confusion; lawyering-up fever to get ‘my rights’; and at the helm of the hell is Satan Snake coiled and striking from – you guessed it – church! Yes, in the Name and Power of the Lord we could have prevented it, but we twiddled away the time and pissed away the privilege. Internationally, all of this went on fast forward November 6, 2012. That’s when America doubled down and re-elected her first-ever, pathological-lying stealth-jihadist, Israel hater, and avid bloodthirsty abortionist. She put the Black Haman in her White House. The blinded politicos and pundit experts just can’t figure out why the lies keep flying and the prez keeps rolling along because “He says – he says he’s a Christian.” Stop somebody on the street and they’d tell you “Actions speak louder than words.” But the ‘spurts’ can’t seem to accept the commonality of it. Could it be a church culture has shaped a climate where words are “where it’s at” and actions are to be ignored if you keep talking a good game? I don’t have to tell you God is not a happy camper – and he’s the camper Keeper! If Papa’s not happy, I’m not happy. Your present leaders are priests of distraction, auctioning you off, or offering you up on the altars of their own devising desires. You don’t have a clue what’s going on or about to come at you. We have flat run out of time for all foolishness. That’s why I don’t give a ripped stitch if I offend your leaders into rogue rage. And if you’re one who puts wind under their wings, somebody ought to love you enough to ‘hitchu in the mouf’ with the wake-up Truth from God. What Do We Do? “Do not do that…worship God.” (Rev 22:9) Grab onto restored and regenerated Israel’s Shulammite and dance in the moonlight. Dance your way through it all with the Yeshua-Messianics calling the dance. Rejoice and worship God until you dance away your distractions and all dissing from the devil and his demonic dumbass demonstrators. Do it until the Day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts, and you gonna be alright! BUT – You can’t dance with two at once. You can’t dance with The Shulammite and keep dirtydancing with church. You have to turn her loose first. Enter Badass KLAZ and Dirty Harry to do whatever it takes to getting you dancing with the right partner. Yes, we have the prophetic Word made very certain. You will do well to pay attention to it as to a light shining in a dark, murky place, until the Day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts. (2 Peter 1:19 CJB) Question For You Why would my Papa resuscitate/resurrect me after I was published ‘killed’ in the Kenedy, Texas newspaper? Why would he then hold me in His Refiner’s Fire for 48 years to burn the hell out of me? Was it just so I could write what, like and how everybody else writes? I don’t think so. As to ‘Why me?’ I’m told that after the Revival Center’s mission wreck (which ‘killed’ me), the doctors at Santa Rosa Medical Center expected that every gasp I made would be the last. My spine was crushed at the waistline; my ribs were fractured and punched into my right lung, and it belched blood out into my body cavity, shutting off my breath. So they told the reporter I wouldn’t make it, and left me in the hallway for several hours to work on the others’ broken bones, etc. They finished, and I was still in the hallway, gasping several times a minute. (I figure they thought, “Let’s put him on the operating table, let him die there, and we can go eat breakfast.”) Anyway, I made it another 3 hours through the operation. When I gained consciousness, below the waist all I could move was one toe. I’m thinking that about that time, God, who is I AM and so has no trouble living in our ‘future’, was looking at the situation in our 21st century. He had some tough love stuff he really wanted to get to his family to protect and provide for us. (I write here as a badass.) I see him staring at the bottom of an empty writers’ barrel, after having offered this breaking revelation to all the gentiles at his disposal. He must have had a ‘Three-Way’ “Let Us Make” conversation, shook his head, looked at me again, gave a long sigh, and said, ‘Oh well; what the heck? What have we got to lose? Let’s give him a shot. Let’s see if he will cross religious traffic; take the heat; ignore the crowds, cultural pressure, family and friends’ rejection; spiritual leaders’ shunning, and all Satan sends. “We’ll give him a chance to shut away in order to write what I say, how I say, when I say, where I say, and address it to whom I say – and then keep giving it back up to me for me to use it, and him, like I please.” That’s how I got to “You Don’t Have to ‘Do Church’ to Please God.” If you had the spiritual guts to finish reading it, you’ll will find this more of the same – plus! It’ll satisfy your spirit, embolden your soul, and give you a heads up on what you see coming at us in today’s news. At 86 (04/09/15) and after publishing, one way or another, 30 books over 13 years, I was hoping for a sabbatical, but it’s not gonna happen. Holy Most needs warning missive-missiles He can multiply and send out by angels so his family knows where the safe houses are. Somebody has to write it right ahead of time. I’m ready to repent and rise daily until I run out o’ day and then rise to what I hope to be a relationship enabling him to use me more – what with my getting a glorified body like Messiah’s. My old 20th century apostle mentor told me after the wreck, when I offered to resign from leadership because of my limitations, “There ain’t no discharge in this war.” He didn’t mention furloughs or sabbaticals. Now, if I could find somebody to hand off this keyboard ‘baton’ to, I think Papa might listen. Otherwise, I’d be apt to hear, “Oh please, do we have to go through this again?” He keeps tricking me by dangling kingdom keys against a background of little kids being crucified, beheaded, burned, raped, and starved – along with all the other evil actions spreading and increasing at what appears to be an exponential rate. Does it look that way to you? How much earth-side action do you think we’ll see, once we’re received fully into the bodychanging realm? Yeshua said that where he was, we would be also, and he certainly is here on earth (“Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Messiah lives in me.) If I let him live in me full time here now, will he let me live in him full time then and here, and keep working with more power? I think about that! I like the idea. Anyway, you be blessed in your read-along with me. I’m trusting you’ll be that one in a 1,000 who will read and run with, not from. If so, ‘I’ll seeya some mo’ – cause my quitter broke ‘long time ago! SHALOM every word of the Way, Pelham Dance, My Dear, Dance! Only you can tell and experience your “Aha!” moments; so when Badass KLAZ shoots a Dirty Harry bullet(in) and beacon-lights a dark chunk of your soul, letting truth in to floodlight your being, take a few and dance with the Shulammite. For this freedom to dance in worship, Messiah made us free. He is the Lighted Way to Truth and Life, and he gets payback for his suffering and death when he sees and experiences us dancing before our Papa, with Satan shut outside and made to watch us worship the God of the Israel – the very God he tries so hard to replace in the world and in our lives. Yeshua dances in us and with us as we dance with Papa/Yeshua’s wife/bride of restored Israel, a few gentiles from every nation adopted, engrafted, and included. Dance Song of Solomon 6 (MSG) The Woman: 2-3 Never mind. My lover is already on his way to his garden, to browse among the flowers, touching the colors and forms. I am my lover’s and my lover is mine. He caresses the sweet-smelling flowers. The Man: 4-7 Dear, dear friend and lover, you’re as beautiful as Tirzah, city of delights, Lovely as Jerusalem, city of dreams, the ravishing visions of my ecstasy. Your beauty is too much for me—I’m in over my head. I’m not used to this! I can’t take it in. Your hair flows and shimmers like a flock of goats in the distance streaming down a hillside in the sunshine. Your smile is generous and full—expressive and strong and clean. Your veiled cheeks are soft and radiant. There’s no one like her on earth, never has been, never will be. She’s a woman beyond compare. My dove is perfection, Pure and innocent as the day she was born, and cradled in joy by her mother. 8-9 Everyone who came by to see her exclaimed and admired her— All the fathers and mothers, the neighbors and friends, blessed and praised her: 10 “Has anyone ever seen anything like this—dawn-fresh, moon-lovely, sun-radiant, ravishing as the night sky with its galaxies of stars?” 11-12 One day I went strolling through the orchard, looking for signs of spring, looking for buds about to burst into flower, anticipating readiness, ripeness. Before I knew it my heart was raptured, carried away by lofty thoughts! Dance, dance, dear Shulammite, Angel-Princess! Dance, and we’ll feast our eyes on your grace! Everyone wants to see the Shulammite dance her victory dances of love and peace. 13 Song of Solomon 7 shows us how Papa sees his Israeli woman/wife he dances with in his Sunlight before he takes her to the bedroom to recharge her soft moonlight. Underneath all his fury that flares when love is threatened; He is, after all you know, a Lover! His burning wrath and annihilating judgment is directed only to those who refuse, reject, ignore, or diss his great Love wherever it lives. He loves totally; flipside, he abhors totally. You’re either totally included or totally excluded. In or out – totally. 7 1-9 Shapely and graceful your sandaled feet, and queenly your movement—Your limbs are lithe and elegant, the work of a master artist. Your body is a chalice, wine-filled. Your skin is silken and tawny like a field of wheat touched by the breeze. Your breasts are like fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck is carved ivory, curved and slender. Your eyes are wells of light, deep with mystery. Quintessentially feminine! Your profile turns all heads, commanding attention. The feelings I get when I see the high mountain ranges—stirrings of desire, longings for the heights—remind me of you, and I’m spoiled for anyone else! Your beauty, within and without, is absolute, dear lover, close companion. You are tall and supple, like the palm tree, and your full breasts are like sweet clusters of dates. I say, “I’m going to climb that palm tree! I’m going to caress its fruit!” Oh yes! Your breasts will be clusters of sweet fruit to me, your breath clean and cool like fresh mint, your tongue and lips like the best wine. The Woman: 9-12 Yes, and yours are, too—my love’s kisses flow from his lips to mine. I am my lover’s. I’m all he wants. I’m all the world to him! Come, dear lover—let’s tramp through the countryside. Let’s sleep at some wayside inn, then rise early and listen to bird-song. Let’s look for wildflowers in bloom, blackberry bushes blossoming white, Fruit trees festooned with cascading flowers. And there I’ll give myself to you, my love to your love! 13 Love-apples drench us with fragrance, fertility surrounds, suffuses us, Fruits fresh and preserved that I’ve kept and saved just for you, my love. (MSG) Truth Light: 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14) Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8:12) Freedom: What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, stand firm, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery. Danger: It took all of two seconds. “Don’t Move!” my wife’s daddy yelled at her. They were at their little A-framed cabin in the woods. DeDe was standing by the raised deck. Her dad was target shooting with his back to the deck. When he heard DeDe and grandson Mark, he turned around and saw three-year old Mark pointing toward the deck. He shouted, “Don’t Move!” DeDe froze. “Kapow!” Her dad came running and she turned to see him remove the now-headless copperhead snake from the deck post only inches away. It looked like he was aiming to shoot her. When people you love are in danger, you will run the risk of scaring them (or offending them) to get them out of danger. Dirty Harry Then along came Clint – in a dream. It’s been a decade ago. I dreamed I was at a Dirty Harry gun show. Harry stopped shooting and lowered his .357 Magnum long enough to mouth a few choice words: “Have you heard the saying that there’s a little good in the worst of us, and a little bad in the best of us? I’ve got good news. I’m here today to introduce a miracle bullet to you. It’s pre-programmed to kill the bad in us, and leave the good in us alive as it passes through us.” So when it looks or feels like you’re getting shot, why not trust and let the badass bullet pass through and kill the doom-danged darkness? “Go Truth go! Bring FREEDOM! Let there be Light in the Name of Yeshua HaMashiach, King of the Jews. I love Light; I love Truth; I love Life; I love Your Way, and I love correction in my direction.” “If I can help som-m-m-me body as I pass along, then my living has not been in vain.”