Beyond Deleting Cookies

Post 203

I sense this whole study is quickly growing too deep for most readers and am really wrestling with a desire to leave out a lot of this to stay on a more streamlined track, but where we are going in the next few posts will require more support than I think I can provide without leaving people behind in a thickening soup. It is important to constantly remember the point of prophecy is to expose us to the spirit of prophecy, which is the evidence given (testimony *1) of Jesus (Revelation 19:10), the same testimony possessed by the saints (Revelation 12:17), which gives them power to overcome Satan on earth (Revelation 12:11).
What does that mean? It is critical that the saints know the prophecy because through comprehending (spirit of) the prophecy, they know Jesus Christ in all that they see and experience. This is what sustains the saints.
Christians who don’t know the spirit of prophecy will be snared in the confusion and horrors of those days, wondering where God is in all that happens. We see this already a common question today; "if there really is a God, why..."
And so I seem to rabbit trail a lot while reaching the intended goal a bit more slowly, It is intentional as I am exposing the spirit of the prophecy we study.
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It occurs to me that we humans really are represented by a computer.
The computer comes from the repair shop all purged and cleaned of viruses, old programs, corrupted files, and fragmented data. It now runs fast and efficient and trouble free. This is salvation.
But simply by the function of use alone, the problems begin to creep back in. The problems are not necessarily a result of going to “bad” sites, or doing “wrong” things, yet somehow the problems come anyway. Virus protection or not, “things” just somehow get through and bog our computers down. These are the cares of life (Luke 8:14, 21:34).
We put up with it as long as we can, by regularly dumping Cookies and keeping our virus protection program updated, and for the most part this keeps us going in good order. But after a time the signs begin to show that we really need to do some additional maintenance, but what?

Our own lives are no different and it is amazing the parallelism of each of these different but similar problems. Does defragging solve a virus problem or does deleting Cookies fix corrupted files? How do we receive a new file that our current configuration doesn’t recognize? Or how do we keep from receiving files that will damage our system? And how do we know the difference?
We see the evidence of the spiritual representation of these several various issues in Luke 8:5-8 *2, but in this passage we typically tend only to see the representation of non-believers *3 and so miss the application to how it affects believers *4,*5. Each of us believers at different levels of maturity has these various elements in our lives that react to God’s Word of Truth when it is introduced in specific soil of the unprepared portions of our lives, as evidenced by whom the passage is directed to, revealed in verse 18a: “take heed therefore how ye hear…” Jesus was speaking to his followers.
It is these undesirable elements of diminishing that creep into our lives by various use itself that affect how we hear. This parable warns us that hearing is not enough, we must hear PROPERLY; “Take heed therefore HOW ye hear.” This whole parable is really about the Christian’s various problems with hearing the truth in Gods Word; “take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have” Luke 8:18.

Yet many Christians tend to simplify the concept of faith to either “on” or “off” with an occasional superficial “Cookie dump” only when our computers (faith) are so affected it reminds us of our neglect. We don’t even recognize the variety of other problem areas let alone the cures; simple repentance is all we choose to know as “good enough”; “I am saved by grace alone through faith alone, there is nothing else to consider”. I liken simple repentance to deleting Cookies, and I am not mocking the need for that, but this passage warns us if we do not have what we seem to have, whatever we think we have but don’t, will be taken away.
This is made very clear by the example of Jews who thought they had God through the law, but having rejected the end of the law (Romans 10:4) that law which they thought they had was taken away. Now they have no more representational sacrifice because they trod on the blood of the actual sacrifice (Hebrews 10:29 which is really speaking of the same corruption in Christians) so is it not logical that such a Christian would also loose what he actually doesn’t have though he stands firm on what he thinks he has?
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We get Cookies by sites we visit. We don’t ask for them and even try hard to block most of them, but the interaction with the sites of life automatically attaches a Cookie that helps our computer interact better with that site. This is called experience.
There are interactions with sites like our banks, credit cards and utilities that are greatly assisted by the Cookies, call this going to Church, bible study, Christian fellowship etc. but there are other sites visited that the Cookie does nothing but slow down the computers purpose; these are the cares of life and other legitimate but carnal interactions. Then there are the sites that we check out for knowledge and curiosity that we may never go back to but the Cookie attaches all the same, these are the often necessary involvement with mammon and such that should be very carefully regulated (Matthew 6:24+ Luke 16:9,16:11). And finally there is the “oh I shouldn’t have clicked that link” sites that by deceptive advertising or even our ignorant lust draw us to investigate, which have a supper Cookie with some awesome power of invasion, these are the sins of “missing the mark” such as unwise movies and activities and such. All these cookies in our lives are thoughts and concepts that we run across in our daily lives that stay with us, lying in the forgotten background but running in our program all the same. (I do not list blatant “no-no sites” here because they have a whole other category of virus that belongs in a different list with different issues as shown in Hebrews 10:26.)

Over time these hidden little programs have a cumulative diminishing affect on the ability of the computer as a whole. We have to regularly and intentionally delete the Cookies, this is regular repentance of I John 1:9, represented in Jesus washing the feet of daily road grime but not the need for a repeated entire body washing as described in John 13:5-10.
Salvation is the “body washing” of complete reboot from the shop, while deleting Cookies through regularly receiving a spiritual foot washing from living in the world, maintains our faith as current and updated.
But once in a while deleting cookies just doesn’t seem to have much affect anymore. There is a problem, but when we check, the Cookie folder has little in it.
So now what?
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There is a whole other part of our programming that deals with fragmentation.
This is a mental (i.e. hard-drive) issue. This also happens not necessarily by wrongdoing but simply through normal use. Adding a new file, deleting an old one, and revising current ones all have the affect of jumbling up the lot and making confusion of the sense of them which causes weariness. The computer brain gets tired and labors hard to recall the many parts of fragmented data of a program we want to use for a designated purpose, trying to find the most recent updates in the plethora of old ones causes doubts to the legitimacy of what we find etc. After a time you wonder if the computer will every actually get it loaded and if left unresolved will eventually crash the computer (Daniel 7:25 as an example).
Before the crash, but as a result of the slowing function, we should remember to run the defragmentation program.
This operation simply reorganizes the data into proper files “prioritizing” the data bits as it were into groups of function. It doesn’t delete anything and doesn’t add anything, but it sure seems to as things just work a whole lot better!
This is accomplished when we step back to evaluate our life as a whole in an effort to make the data relative; we check our priorities and adjust our system to re-align everything under God’s perspective for life. Only the Spirit can do this defragging.
Christians are not immune to the need for a regular defragging, in fact because of the incredible data for very important programs, we need it more than most.
In the spiritual representation, Data is knowledge and defragging is spending time on our knees before God allowing him to organize the knowledge (data) to extract the prophecy (program) to run the purpose (spirit). The operation is the spirit (purpose) of the program and is what all the knowledge (data) is for.
This is why the wording of the passage; “The testimony (data) of Jesus is the spirit (purpose) of prophecy (program)” Revelation 19:10. Without the active spirit all the data in the world is just so much pointless files all jumbled up in a useless confusion of storage.
I liken this defragging as abiding under the shadow of the Almighty (Psalm 91:1). This is also a regular maintenance issue, not a shop reboot.
Yet we are typically so busy downloading more data in the excited desire to fill up the hard drive capacity, it is easy to forget the whole purpose of the data is to actually run a successful program with an end result. If the program is already not running well, more data will not help it.

In my blog I have been presenting some very heavy concepts, and as we add them to the hard-drive wherever they seem to fit, it makes some data in need of an update and changes “priority” to others as we apply this new information. That is a bit unsettling as the result is a bit of fragmentation that needs some specific reordering of what we already have.

As a bit of defragging:
Sometimes we need to be reminded that more knowledge is not our salvation. We are not saved by how much we know and we are not lost by how much we don’t know. Our salvation is entirely found in a different file in the grace program, which should be always running as a covering virus protection carefully maintained as current in your life. But the virus software has to have something to protect. Thus the programs.
If this blog is stretching your mind and you feel a bit overwhelmed or uncertain, take a step back and defrag your data, remember the program of highest priority is your faith unto salvation resting on the complete work of Christ alone.
What we are covering now is that which bolsters your faith through comprehension of why things happen in reality here and now as they actually center on Jesus Christ and his eternal plan. Remember that the spirit of prophecy is directly related as it is the testimony of Jesus. Although it is necessary to show you the prophecy by giving you knowledge of prophecy, it is not the knowledge itself that is the testimony of Jesus; you must be absorbing the spirit of prophecy through the vehicle of knowledge. The spirit is the testimony.
The purpose of my blog is not to expound on the fantastical mystery of future events, but to lay concrete under the events in the days of confusion and uncertainty. That concrete is confidence in Jesus Christ. We need to learn now while the learning is still easy, how to rely on the truth of scripture when virtually nothing else makes any sense, or worse seems to make perfect sense in opposition to the scripture. Such an early and easily debunked, yet nonetheless powerful, example is Evolution. These lies against God will only continue to grow in strength and perfection of deception. Knowledge will not protect you from that destroying virus, only the Spirit behind the knowledge can do that.
This is why Daniel, that great man of God, found it necessary to earnestly pray three times a day as a seeming excessive defragging. If you are not likewise seriously defragging at least once a day but see no need, I contend you have not uploaded any new data for far too long. You are running old software.
“Who cares?” You ask, “as long as it works.”

We are about to begin investigating the next level in the confusion of the evil in which we are now in, but don’t even see it yet. This next phase will shake many to the core of their belief because what they thought they knew which is foundational to much of their faith, will be found to be very unstable ground. That is ok as long as you have your priority programs defragged and virus software updated and running, this information will simply expand your comprehension which should validate God’s actions in your still confused mind asking "Why?".
Hang on to your hat for a shattering examination of The Lie as you never even imagined it to be, and then an updated response to how it applies in your faith.
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*1 testimony 3141 marturia; from 3144; evidence given (judicially or generally).

*2 Luke 8:5-8a “A sower (Jesus) went out to sow his seed (Gospel of Truth): and as he sowed, some fell by the way side *2b; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold…”

*3 Luke 8:11-12 “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Those by the way side *3b are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.”
Take a moment of quasi-defragging to identify corrupted files and notice in the combination of parable and explanation that the seed is NOT primarily the believer who is to reproduce his faith in others as is commonly interpreted, nor is it primarily speaking of unbelievers. The seed is the Word of God as it is planted in us the recipient believers through hearing, to grow in us until it produces the sustenance of life for us; i.e. the plant of belief for the fruit of salvation. This whole passage is speaking to, about, and for believers as the Word of God is applied to us. According to this perspective validated by the difference between hear, believe, and saved. All three words are used in this verse to identify the process. The hearers in this mindframe of “way side” will not reach salvation as what they have heard will be taken away by two avenues before it can take affect; trodden down by godless men (Matthew 7:6) and snatched away by the natural Godless events of this world as arranged by Satan himself (Matthew 6:26, Luke 8:5,12).

*3b Way Side:
The first seed fell not on the path of life but in the ditch BY the way side. So where exactly is the wayside so that we can understand where BY the wayside is?
Being two words in this Greek use lets first take a short adventure of investigation and note that the OT uses the conjunction of these two words as “Wayside”. How does the original OT Hebrew use this conjunctive word in two verses with similar applications as our NT verse in question?
“…Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside (3197,1870) watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God…” I Samuel 4:13. Here we see Eli BY the wayside, exactly where our NT verse indicates some seed falls.
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(1st ½) Wayside 3197 yak; by erroneous transcription for 3027; a hand or side. Yakowl. See 3201, yekowneyah. See 3204.
3201 Yakowl; or (fuller) yakowl; a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might).
3204 yekonyah; and yekonyahuw; or (Jeremiah 27:20) yekowneyah; from 3559 and 3050; Jah will establish;
Wow is this getting interesting! Already we see a lot of deep meaning given to this word Wayside, and we have only touched the surface of just half the word used. This half of the word indicates; “by the power of God.”

(2nd ½) Wayside 1870 derek; from 1869; a road (as trodden); figuratively a course of life or mode of action, often adverbial.
1869 darak; a primitive root; to tread; by implication to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending).
In otherwords; “the specific course of action with intended destination or result.”
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Ok, adding together these two halves of the word “wayside” we now have a significant understanding of the actual deep meaning of this specific word as it is used in this specific event recorded: “The specific course taken as directed by the power of God for an intended end.” Simply put, “The way of the believer.”

But the wayside is NOT where Eli sat.
He sat BY that wayside, and he sat there because he was afraid for the spiritual (what might happen to the ARC). His was a religious confusion of fear for a moral purpose or focus in relation to the possible outcome of opposing events of life; He was wrongly afraid for the ARC.
Interesting.
He had no business as a believer, let alone a priest, to be sitting BY the wayside. He belonged IN the wayside where such fear is not found. But he had not left the wayside behind as if rejected, he just established (sat) in the place BY that way. He was the double minded man that James 1:8 speaks of as “unstable in all his ways”.
This passage is testimony to the danger of hanging out attached to, but not actively in the wayside of the faithful. Was his fear for the ARC perhaps one of the nets spread by the wayside of the next passage we will discuss? Most probably.
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Now we have the second OT use of the word wayside with slightly different meaning, again a combination of words:

“The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside 3027, 4570; they have set gins for me. Selah” Psalm 140:5.
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(1st ½) Wayside 3027 yad; a primitive word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as a noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.

So why would the Eli verse erroneously transcribe this meaning? That is a whole ‘nother rabbit trail (we won’t be taking). But here this “wayside” partly means; “the obvious, unhidden reason for doing”.

2nd ½) Wayside 4570 magal; or fem. Magalah; from the same as 5696; a track (literally or figurative); also a rampart (as circular).

So this part of the word means; “the predictable and regular way.”
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Therefore in this passage of the proud laying a variety of hidden traps, this place we find the net laid is NOT in the obvious and declared means of our regular and predictable course of Faith, but by it.
In otherwords we can expect to be targeted in and through our own Christian nature by 1 of these distinct 4 entrapments; snares, cords, nets and gins, when we step out of the wayside but don’t depart entirely. The nets are laid by our wayside, and they won’t be obvious without extreme attention.... of which if we had, we would not have left the wayside.
This is profound in our effort to survive as Christians. This should remind you of the study instructing us our safety is found as we dwell under the shadow of the Almighty. We can now see that by slothfulness of faith, the shade moves but we remain seated unprotected as Eli and suddenly find ourselves by the shade but not in it. Once he found himself in this place the net had already entangled him and he was "frozen" in fear. Here is where the verse says some seeds of the Word of God fall but is trodden down and snatched by the birds of Satan so that we never receive it though we heard it.

“And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember?” Mark 8:17-18

They had all the data, but it was so fragmented by a lack of spirit that they could not successfully run the program. This is the place where the traps are laid to take away even what we think we have. This was the physical fall and death of Eli as he sat by the wayside representing the spiritual event of having ears but not hearing.
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Now getting back to the Greek interpretation of the words “way side” in our NT verse in question:
Luke 8:5 “A sower (Jesus) went out to sow his seed (Gospel of Truth): and as he sowed, some fell by the way side…”
Since this is not used as a conjunction of words we must look up each word individually;
Way 3598 hodos; apparently a primitive word; a road; by implication a progress (the rout, act or distance); figuratively a mode or means.
Side 3844 para; a primitive preposition; properly near, i.e. (with genitive [case]) from beside (literally or figurative), (with dative [case]) at (or in) the vicinity of (objective or subjective), (with accusative [case]) to the proximity with (local [especially beyond or opposed to] or casual [on account of]).

Case: […to fall, happen.] …Grammatically: One of the inflectional forms of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that indicate its sense relation to the other words, as that of subject, object, attribute, etc.; also, this sense relation often indicated by word order.

In this NT use we see this wayside is the place beside the way. The way being the correct way that man should go, the side being a diversion of that way.
Very similar meaning with a slightly different configuration of words between Hebrew and Greek.
Now with the added comprehension of the OT wayside as the obvious and declared path we walk as Christians, we understand this passage to mean in scattering his Word of truth, Jesus let some fall even in that place attached by proximity to, but not in the way of Christians.
“Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved” Luke 8:12.
So we see that this is the very same place as the OT location identified.
OT “By the wayside” is the NT “way side.”
This passage is speaking of the hearts determined path. “What does the heart love?” as opposed to “what it says it loves”.

*4 The next seed of truth fell not on hard soil but on un-penetrable rock.
Luke 8:13 “They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away."
Unlike the wayside seed only heard but not received, these of stone, receive but don’t stick.
In this case it is not Godless associates or the devil himself that takes away the seed before it can germinate nor is this those with untilled hardpan soil. These are solid rocks! Yet here we are told even a rock can receive the word of God, and the word of God actually grows in them for short time. Are these then not believers? They must be to some degree. But since there is simply no soil in which the Truth of God can grow, they cannot root and the moment the normal temptations of life come to challenge their faith, they fall away. These very simple believers never grew their faith enough to even know the savior because there was simply no place in their stony heart for faith to grow. So who was closer to God, those near the way but not quite in it, or the utter stone with virtually no soil in which to grow the seed of faith? This passage tells us the Rocks are closer but not close enough. This does not speak well of the pew warmer that is attached but not actually in the active faith!
The point I am making is to realize we are not safe from personally applying these parables just because we are “believers”. Even these stony hearted people believe until tested. Do you perhaps fall into this potential danger from un-rooted faith in a stony heart, or might you be a data collector that doesn’t even know how to defragment your hard drive but don’t know there is a problem because you never actually try to run a program since the dang thing always crashes when you simply try to play solitaire? in otherwords are you by the wayside?

*5 Luke 8:14 “And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.”
By this time in the parable we can now understand he is speaking to and about believers in an ever increasing degree of acceptance of the word of God as the seed.
The seed fell, these heard, and then “go forth”. But the seed of truth is strangled by what is not seed of truth. Since this is after all a parable of farming, we can easily understand the mentioned cares and riches and pleasures of this life are weeds that grow up with the good seed of truth. Therefore the weeds must be deception (Hebrews 3:13). So what went wrong?
The wording “go forth” is the scriptural meaning “to minister”. As it is used in this verse we get the impression that because these people’s soil is full of cares and riches and pleasures of this life, they are unprepared to properly receive the seed, so when it falls by hearing they immediately run with it into ministry, it is a mindframe. This mindframe simply does not allow the seed to quietly and patiently grow strong before the weeds of their fast paced unprepared soil choke it out. The verse does not say the plant from the seed dies, it is implied that it even produces fruit of a sort, just never produces mature fruit. These are the struggling Christians of America today that have faith but can never seem to get it to work right. This is not a "modern" problem as we see that Jesus commanded his disciples to “tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). Now you may think “ok, no problem”, but this was right AFTER Jesus “opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures” only 3 verses previously. What a trial it must have been to sit and dwell on all they were shown while waiting for who knew what. They were waiting for the spirit of prophecy which is the testimony of Jesus. The heart which is actively growing weeds is not the heart that can sit around while the word of God germinates and grows. This is why Jesus said “take heed therefore HOW ye hear…”
But remember, these weeds are not external as in the daily grime of travel in life in need of footwashing, these are weeds growing right along the good seed and therefore these weeds are where the good seed is.
Where does the Word of God dwell within us? It is seeded in our heart (Psalm 119:11), and it is our heart where we also grow the weeds of love for the “things” in life. The stuff of life is not the problem, it is our allowing them to grow in our heart that is.
“Keep (weed) thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23
And now we are back to confirming the previous posts regarding the heart; beginning with post 165 “Beyond Salvation” and running several posts following up how to control it. The heart must be controlled because this is where the Word of God is seeded, it is where the issues of life spring forth meaning it has the power to prioritize the attention given to things as evidenced in the next verse:

*6 Luke 8:15 “But that (which fell) on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
Where are the weeds in this heart? Do these people not live in reality too? Don’t they have cares? Are they committed to poverty as some form or righteousness? Do they abstain from all pleasure in this life? No, they simply have their files unfragmented and the cookies of mammon are purged from the heart as weeds from a garden.
The trick to avoiding weeds in your heart that will choke the word of God, is to guard your heart from growing unacceptably attached to these things (I John 2:15). Those things growing OUTSIDE your heart yet still in your life are fine. It is when they creep into your heart that they create a danger to what is supposed to be growing there; the Word of God:
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” I Timothy 6:10
The “ability to possess things” (money) in their lives is not the problem. But the ability (money) has crept into their heart; the seat of where they love. And now the love of “can do” IS the weed that chokes the Word of God, and as the passage tells us, unless these weeds are pulled, they will dangerously affect the faith so that it never produces mature fruit. As Luke 8:15 and Psalm 27:14 tells us; patience in attending to God is what these people lack due to their love of “can do” which creates the weeds.
Since the fruit is the whole purpose of the plant; i.e. nutrition for life, we can understand the purpose of the word of God is what feeds us after it matures. These temporal attachments fill our lives with so much attention, and activities, and demands, that the Word of God simply has no place anymore. We don’t pull it up with intent; it just gets choked out by the weeds.

And now we are back to the OT application:
As we Christians conduct our lives with the well known determination of our way, we continue in the strength and power of God. but over time we become less careful to stay on the wayside and without paying attention we end up sitting on a bench on the side of the way, “just to take a break”. It is here that by the ignorance and lack of alertness (that got us here in the first place), we will surly find ourselves caught in the net laid by him who would destroy our faith by choking the Word of God in our hearts.
As a wolf trapper this has very great meaning to me in the example of my mission. Ignorant, un-alert wolves are very easy to catch. The Old Salts are a real challenge because they maintain an uncanny intuition.
In all honesty how diligent are you in your faith as you walk parallel to the way, but not fully in the way, among the variety of traps laid by the master trapper?
Is it God’s fault if you get caught and your faith is wrecked? Do not be deceived God only keeps those who do not allow His word to become choked by weeds unpulled; “Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck;” I Timothy 1:19.
“Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able” Luke 13:24. The words of Jesus himself.

“For thus saith the LORD… Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart… lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.” Jeremiah 4:3-4

This OT passage now has significant new meaning as it also directs us not to sow among thorns. Now we know exactly what is meant by this, and we are provided further information concerning our hearts soil. These weeds that are sure to choke the word of God from your heart grow there because your hearts soil is untilled and become fallow. Weeds grow real well in fallow ground while good seed struggles to survive. There is nothing wrong with the soil but a lack of maintenance. The weeds in your life are not the problem, they are only a sign of the problem. The problem is you are a lazy farmer and have not tilled your soil. And as any farmer will tell you, this is not a one-time event. Nature itself turns the ground fallow. It is the farmer’s job to till it up before planting a new crop. But in today’s mentality of socialism, we would rather complain about things then labor to make them better. We have become slaves in both mind and spirit and now simply wait for the event in body. This verse tells us unless we change our minds of perspective and act, the event in body is guaranteed to come.

This post is not a side issue to our investigation of the 4th diverse beast of Daniel 7 as we view it rising in Revelation 17:8. We are learning to identify the nature of that very beast as it endeavors to capture us in the here and now in the short space between the 2nd and 3rd trumpets in Revelation 8.

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.” Luke 21:34
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