Let the Pain of the Old Time Jews be a Lesson to Us

Dear friend, 
Please, take heed to the lesson that God sets before us about the behavior of the Jews of Israel, in the old days, how they rebelled against Him and His Word, to lust after, worship, and do those things that God forbids. In our own day, we, collectively, have far exceeded the sinful excesses of Sodom, Gomorrah, and all the evils of yesteryear, for, collectively, we have institutionalized and many times legalized the abominations that God hates. Please, repent of your own evils. Seek God's Light and God's salvation, before it is too late for you.

2 Kings 17:7-23
⁷  For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
⁸  And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
⁹  And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
¹⁰  And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
¹¹  And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
¹²  For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
¹³  Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
¹⁴  Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
¹⁵  And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
¹⁶  And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
¹⁷  And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁸  Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
¹⁹  Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
²⁰  And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
²¹  For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
²²  For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
²³  Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. 

Each of us shall choose where we spend eternity, either by accepting God's Christ and repenting or by rejecting Him.

Did "Black Lives Matter"/BLM Only Wash Its Face with Website Changes?

There is much excitement and activity in the world, today, about humans being unjust with other humans, about other people’s past and present sins, and who “matters” more than others. This all must be put in the godly perspective that there is a rise and fall in life, through which each of us must proceed, no matter what our good or bad accomplishments (earthly or godly), or who takes notice of them. We must remember that God struck Moses’ sister Miriam with leprosy when she complained that Moses had married an Ethiopian woman. We must remember that God hates the sin of prejudicial self-interest, no matter what tint or shade of skin with which people are born.

There is only one human race, for we all got off the same Ark, all our present gene pool landed with Noah’s family of eight people. All the rest of the people in the world were destroyed by that great worldwide flood that submerged and drowned everything. So, all the uppity nose-in-the-air nonsense is wrong for any of us to practice. God made us all in His image. It is our personal and collective sin against God that we all should be hating, not hating each other. Instead of arguing with each other, we should be chastening ourselves about why we are resisting obedience to God’s Word, for it is His Word of Life to us. If we really choose to live God’s truth, then we shall love, cherish, and respect one another, seeking to help one another return to God’s ways when we see our brothers, our sisters, our youth, our elders, or our neighbors fall into sin.

I was reading in 2 Kings 11:21 through 2 Kings 12:21 about the rise and fall of a king who started at 7 years old, did a lot to serve the LORD righteously, and was murdered at 47. Though his life was cut off, he lived successfully, as God defines success in Joshua 1:8.

What shall be said about our lives at God’s Judgment, whether we live a short life or a hundred years? Have we even taken the time to read His Word and find out if we are on His side? Have we accepted or rejected His plan of salvation? (which we can read, here, in many languages)… We all shall give account to God for all of our thoughts, feelings, and actions in which we have engaged in this life. God’s perfect judgment shall prevail, so it is important that we look to His Word to see how we measure up, for He says we all fall short of Him and His ways because of our sinful natures and our self-indulgence.

We must all repent, and must turn to His way of salvation. Only from that foundation shall we remove the painful obstruction of sin from our own eyes, so that we can then “judge righteous judgment” as He commands us to do. Only then shall we begin to understand godly biblical knowledge by which to measure and challenge every sin that humanity commits. God only offers us Jesus Christ as God’s way for us to escape from eternal condemnation of all of our sin. Only the sinless blood of Christ paid for it all. By His bodily resurrection from death He proved Himself God over all things, able to perform every one of His written promises in His Word, the Bible.

God commands us to obey the people and rules in governmental authority over us, as long as they don’t violate God’s Word. Yes, there is a LOT of room for all of our human institutions to improve and draw nearer to God and His ways. We must remember that no human government or organization can act in harmony with God or properly serve our fellow man unless its objectives, actions, and judgments are based in God’s truth and Word. However, our citizenry has allowed our government to move away from godly government, even as we have moved away from godly living. We have all been guilty, at some point, of pointing sin-stained fingers at others.

The BLM movement is no exception. Now, or in the past, the Black Lives Matter movement, as many other groups, have publicly and in their websites stated that they seek to promote unholy relationships and activities that God says are abominations, even to the point of publishing in their websites that they seek to tear down the “nuclear family” as God defines family. Only a few weeks ago, BLM had several manifesto-like website comments, in their About and What We Believe links, including intentions to attack the nuclear family and to foster their promotion of unholy relationships and unholy actions. Their anti-family info (from their website) must have quickly spread across the internet, for it seems to have utterly disappeared.

Instead of continuing to, publicly, admit their formerly published hostile intents, they seem to have scrubbed and shortened the appearance of many areas of their public website, including their About and What We Believe links. Today, I could not relocate the formerly posted hostile comments. Either BLM mistakenly allowed some anti-God anti-family radical/s to gain access to their IT department and post misrepresentations of BLM goals and objectives, OR… BLM is now retreating from their former public attack on the nuclear family and hiding their true intents. IF some radical person/s posted those hostile comments and intents contrary to BLM policy and objectives, there has been no posting or no public apology on their website regarding the former hostile comments that sought the destruction of the nuclear family. Therefore, comparing their past and present website info, BLM appears to be a group that has no respect for God, His ways, or godly family structure.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7

God bless you as you walk with Him according to His Word.

Sin: What Does It Mean? What Is It?

Today, in 2020, most of the world seldom uses the word "sin" or its equivalent, unless referring to things that we do not like someone else doing. Humanity seldom uses that word in reference to ourselves or our own actions. What does that word "sin" mean, that we are so selective about how we use it? What does God mean by it?

The origin of the word "sin", in English, goes way back, rooted in older languages that have influenced our modern American English, and yet, even then, it still referred to one's actions being morally off the mark and not in agreement with God's ways. In Spanish the word "sin" means without, though the Spanish word for sin is "pecado". The Spanish could very well say "sin justicia", "sin la bendición de Dios", or "sin santidad", meaning without righteousness, without the blessing of God, and without holiness, for those are all sinful states of action and being. Every time we go against what God says, whether in thought, word, or deed, we choose to sin against Him, and, in our sin we violate ourselves, for God designed us, made us, and gave us free will, that we should choose to live holy lives and walk with Him, rather than to serve our own fleshly lusts and fantacies.

Whether we say that sin is morally out of synch with God or without God's blessing, the sense and impact of the actions of sin are the same. God says, “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”. God is speaking of His Law, not the willy-nilly laws of humanity that are contrary to the things that God has said.

God warns humanity, as He warned the Jews in Exodus, "...be sure your sin will find you out." He further tells us that, "...the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.", and that all who refuse to repent, the devil, sin, death, and hell itself shall be "...cast into the lake of fire..." at God's Final Judgment. There are few souls in this life, compared to the world's population, who are willing to speak honestly of these things, so I challenge the reader to take this seriously, for it is NOT an argumentative exercise nor a religious rant. God said this stuff and He is eternally serious about it, wanting to see you trust Him and what He has said. He's patient, but He's not going to wait forever for you to choose Him and His ways.

Anyone who wants to know God's remedy for our sin can know it with God's full assurance. Read God's solution in John and Romans. Trust God's one and only Savior, Jesus Christ, for God's plan of salvation is the only eternal plan that God ever made and approved for redeeming all of us who are willing to repent and turn to Him.

Innocent Bloodshed in USA: Are We REALLY Fighting for the Rights of Everyone?

Most citizens of the USA are not well-versed about the biology of a baby's life inside the child's mother, nor with what God's Bible says about when human life begins. The baby is a discrete human being, separated from the mother's body from the moment of conception, though the baby is reliant on the mother for protection and sustenance as it grows in her womb. The baby is not part of the mother's biological system, but has its own. The baby is not the property of the mother, but a uniquely formed human being.

Norma McCorvey (the real Jane Roe) spoke out about her role in the deceptive legal travesty that became the Roe v. Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. Here is McCorvey's reported later legal deposition that admits the illegal deception that opened the door to more than 60 million babies being executed since Roe v. Wade was allowed by SCOTUS.

Proverbs 6:16-19
¹⁶  These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
¹⁷  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
¹⁹  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 

Since God created this world and humanity, He has not approved of premeditated bloodshed of any innocent people, born or unborn. Just like Cain killing his brother Abel, for Cain's own selfish reasons, abortion is humanity violating God's realm. No matter how desperate the human situation, the deliberate killing of unborn babies is against biology and God. Yes, God has tolerated war and the execution of evildoers to stop the spread of sin, but too often, people fail to understand or accept God's definition of truth.

God is very concerned that people stop the slaughter of innocents, but He leaves the choice up to us, to see if we are going to continue to indulge our sins instead of doing things His way. We're all going to answer to Him for this ongoing nationwide infanticide.

In the USA, in 2020, there is little active interest or support for unborn children and their right to life. The great majority of our people are (with great focus on self-preservation) mainly living in fear or protesting virus related policies, plus all sorts of "politically correct" issues. Outside of the few who want to protect the rights of unborn babies, US citizens continue to fall into one of four major camps about the murder of our unborn children: they either ignore, don't care, may support, or even advocate the killing of unborn US children, while, in the pretense of righteousness and goodness, they have all their favorite "PC" topics and groups that they believe in or support. What a hypocritical way to live, to say one wants truth, equality, and righteousness, but yet refuse to be willing to publicly admit and call murder murder? Many people publicly exercise their energy, shouts, and anger, voicing their feelings about abuses toward people of certain skin colors or social backgrounds, among the living. However, when will those same argumentative people choose to direct their ferocity into a selfless fight against the murder of innocent unborn children?

The USA needs to repent! Here is God's way to make eternal peace with this and every contentious issue.

God Defines and Condemns All Sexually Deviant Behavior

As with God's damning of all sin, God is, likewise, wholly displeased with the practice of anything that He calls sexually deviant behavior. He is also NOT pleased with any persons or groups who promote any so-called "political correctness" by which they make excuses for anything that God calls sin. Every soul who practices or makes excuses for sin shall answer to God. Be assured that He accepts no excuse for the sin we choose in life, as He says below.

Romans 1:16-32 (King James Bible)
¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 

¹⁷  For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
¹⁸  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;    
¹⁹  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
²⁰  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
²¹  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
²²  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
²³  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
²⁴  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
²⁵  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
²⁶  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
²⁷  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
²⁸  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
²⁹  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
³⁰  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
³²  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 

God damns every sin. Yet, in His great merciful love of humanity, God has provided the one clear way, His only way of salvation from all of our sins. The choice is ours to make, whether we choose to repent of our sin and its eternal damnation where none can comfort or help us, or not; or whether we choose God's salvation and freedom. Please choose God's Way for it is the only way to agreement with God and to the only peace and eternal life that He offers to humanity. Reading John and Romans in His Bible can help you understand what God expects of you and why He is so interested in you. He once winked at the sinful bumbling of humanity, but now commands all humanity to repent, as He says in Acts 17: 30.

Return to God Almighty and His Only Savior

Throughout the Bible (God's written word) He continually tells humanity to turn from our sinful ways and return back to Him. He gave us the example of Israel and the Jews, that we might learn from their errors throughout history. He gave us His commands to point out our sinful ways and to prove to us that we cannot save ourselves, especially if we reject His Word, His ways, and His Savior.

Here's a specific example of God's warnings to Israel and to all humanity, that we might heed it and choose His salvation and His only way to eternal freedom.

1 Kings 9:6-9
⁶  But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
⁷  Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
⁸  And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
⁹  And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

Please choose God's only path of salvation for He alone loves you so much that He has made the only way to escape from the  eternal condemnation that you deserve for your sin (as we all deserve). His Savior came to set us all free from the burden and damnation of sin.

All Leaders and Rulers Need This

Do you want to be a real leader, in truth? Are you already in a position of leadership? 

Joshua 1:8
⁸  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 

2 Samuel 23:1-3
¹ Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 

²  The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
³  The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 

John 3:1-21
¹  There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 

²  The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
³  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
⁴  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
⁵  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
⁶  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
⁷  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
⁸  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
⁹  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
¹⁰  Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
¹¹  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
¹²  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
¹³  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
¹⁴  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
¹⁵  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¹⁶  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
¹⁷  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
¹⁸  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
¹⁹  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
²⁰  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
²¹  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.    

All who want to be leaders that please God Almighty must surrender their lives to Him, which can only be done in and through His Messiah, His Christ, Jesus.