Fixing God

Post 302

“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken” Ecclesiastes 4:12.

It is my earnest desire that you are able to retain the many branches of thought we have touched on that collectively make up the current trending direction that the world is now taking with confidence, which is most easily recognized in the singular as; “A New World Order.” Why we are making these present choices is a complex collection of factors like the many strands of a cable or cord, that once woven is extremely strong and cannot be easily resisted let alone broken.
The concept of this New World Order is not unfamiliar to prophecy minded Christians-- who have been watching it come in earnest over the last 50 years-- but have been told they are paranoid whackos for decrying it, first as a ridiculous fabrication of paranoia and then somehow smoothly transitioned to an obvious solution to world problems. Yet what most of these prophecy minded Christians are missing is the very nature of that cable and why that’s important.
Let me explain:
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It’s A New World, Baby!
Men are simple, single-minded creatures. In the old days this quality was admired as; dependable, faithful, determined, enduring, uncomplicated and easy to understand, focused, and consistent. But today this same trait is derided as; simple minded, boring, slow, childish, old fashioned, incompetent, and uninteresting. Today’s world, with the help of technology, is going in a thousand different directions all at once and even the average person is expected to multi-task countless things on a perpetual basis, let alone the top business executive. And while men and women both scramble to meet this “normal requirement” in today’s society it is unquestionable that the highly complex female gender is far superior to meeting that requirement.
Women are complex, multi-minded creatures. In the old days this quality was diminished as; unstable, confusing, irrational, impossible to understand, erratic, and inconsistent. But today this same trait is applauded as; complex, exciting, sophisticated, super-capable, and mysteriously magnetic.

The above passage in Ecclesiastes is conceptually speaking of a marriage. The preceding verse says;

“Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?” Ecclesiastes 4:11.

And we note that this concept of the advantages of a partnership runs consistently from v.8 concluding with;

“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up” Ecclesiastes 4:10

(Notice the single warning of early woe, see Proverbs 3:29 as an example that relates to the above context of woe as it relates to the first woe of Revelation 9:1-11). So IF this passage is speaking of marriage, where do we get the third-party as suggested in the above first verse? In the “male” simplistic line of reasoning that third party is God, that by twining makes strong the bond of man and woman in hard times.
Now I don’t wish to derail the overall train of thought I am desperately trying to maintain, and so only point out that this simplistic three-party concept of marriage is speaking in Typology of much bigger things than the individual union of two people. Again, Dell Tacket in The Truth Project does a marvelous job of exploring the many-facetted scriptural concept regarding the simple but powerful union of three as a biblical repeating cycle of Typology. But let’s boil it down in this present discussion to: A people, their Government, and God. This balance was near perfectly embodied in the practical nation of the United States of America under a Democratic Republic.

But that concept is no longer interesting today; a three-fold cord is old fashioned and outdated. Today we have cords and cables with dozens of strands; a three-fold cord is weak and inefficient. “Technology has far surpassed God!” Today we envision a global cord of hundreds of unified strands far stronger than God’s recommended three!

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us” Psalm 2:1-3.

A federation of kings and rulers. Well, you got us there, God didn’t see that coming. “He’s such a ‘Man’~”.
I wonder if this new multi-strand cable of humanity, that is so superior to His simple three, has God worried?
The next verse tells us:

“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision (3932)” Psalm 2:4.

Derision 3932 la’ag; a primitive root; to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak [mockingly] unintelligibly:-- have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.

That’s actually funny, Go ahead; give us your best ignorant impression of Chinese. All that you “say” is funny meaningless gibberish! And so is the heathen’s grand raging against God and his anointed, and God mocks back their own gibberish:

“ ‘All things in the known reality suddenly exploded into existence from nothing and nowhere without cause.’ And that explains away the Creator? Oh That’s good! LOL”

But don’t miss the point that God saw this coming a very long time ago, and wrote it down for us (Isaiah 42:9). If these “far superior” cords of humanity really concerned God, he had plenty of time to correct his error and fix his puny cords. Apparently He knows something that the heathen don’t (Judges 15:14, Psalm 129:4, Proverbs 5:21-22, Isaiah 5:18, Isaiah 33:20).
Later I may discuss the prophetic details in this verse, like: the vanity of their imagination (II Corinthians 10:5), the world’s kings banding together for a Revelation 17:12-14 cause, and the reason why they so diligently want to break God’s bands (4147 a halter; figuratively, restraint), but for now let’s stay on topic and move on. I wish to return to the concept question of Post 297 “Holiness Profaned” and recommend you read it again if it is not fresh in your mind. We are looking to answer the question; “Who is the virgin daughter of Babylon?” and what spousal role does she play in the big-picture of current events? It all ties tightly together in these last days… but there is a lot to tie together!
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Liberation!
Since the dawn of Man he has run the world by God’s specific design and command (Genesis 1:26+2:18), but somewhat outside of that command the male gender, as the designed image of the Father, has failed to properly include the female gender (I Peter 3:7) in the God designed Christ role of combined humanity as the “whole image” of God:

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” Genesis 1:27.

(In Typology this is the Old Testament Law with the New Testament Messiah heart). The result of the male gender’s designed failure to properly represent God the Father’s love in the law before the Messiah came, is that today the world is fully weary of the male gender’s natural inclination to oppression, control, challenges, fighting, conquest, war, killing, domination fixation, and the sexual mauling and total suppression of women in a beat-your-chest “I’m king of the world” kind of way. The world is finally sick of men and their dark nature, and since this nature is representing the image of God the Father in the male gender role they are sick of God too.

This is not a passing fancy; it is a very serious awakening like a woman who one day wakes up from years of submissive oppression to realize that she really wants a divorce.
In all the former struggles in this marriage she has tried to keep it together, she has been the dutifully submissive wife, she has given and given getting nothing but sorrow in return, she has been unappreciated, her skills and talents have been suppressed, she has been misused and abused but she has taken it for the sake of the marriage and family, but no more. She has had enough!
When that developing concept is finally born in her collective mind a new day has dawned, all things become new, all the formerly locked doors are flung open and her options are suddenly many. She is a caged bird set free and her previously unused wings burst with pent up energy to soar to extreme heights and explore everything at once like a whirling dirvish taking in the sights.

A caged bird is easy to keep, but once it escapes it is virtually uncontrollable and nearly impossible to recapture anytime soon.

All this is a very complex perceptional thing, and I have labored long through several books to reveal individually the many strands of this wrong-perceptional cable of vanity and self-focus, because as a new cable tightly woven it cannot now be cut suddenly, and even the suggestion is laughable if not seen as offensive spiritual chauvinism (*1). It’s not the cable that concerns me now; it’s what the cable’s intended purpose is that should be a concern to us all. Like God (Isaiah 61:1-3), and the former “American Way” that first liberated women, I am actually delighted that the bird is finally free, but where will she now sleep? What will she eat? How will she avoid the many dangers that she now faces alone; like cold and rain and parasites and predators?

“That’s not your concern anymore” she replies in defiance as she wings higher into the expanse of the free sky. And she’s right. Her perception of her captivity, whether justified or imagined, is a wall of separation that now protects her from recapture by he who once controlled or cared-for her.
I say perception because her present negative perception of God is the very satanic purpose of all the male generated violence of the world’s history. Gone are the days when she actually loved and adored her husband and Lord (Jeremiah 2:2), because the male rulers of the world have abused that role and she, perhaps rightly, feels deeply wronged by the gender itself. And as she wings higher into the new sky now all around her, the truth of the complex details that created that perception are something she has no time for: she is beyond all that now!

“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation” - Obama.

It concerns me greatly that by separating these Posts into several books for the volume, the reader of this section might not have the previous sections and therefore the true knowledge of the individual strands of this new glorified cable, or of those strands of the previous cord now vilified. The perception of those strands, and therefore the functions of the cord and cable, is then left to imagination and the deceitful propaganda that guides it (Genesis 6:5). Is this cord a rope of captivity or a lead-rope (band) of love protection and direction? Perception makes a whole lot of difference in response… and while a horse usually learns it’s a good thing in the teamwork of the relationship, an Ass simply resists by an obstinate perception while braying loudly his signature “He-Haw” argument whenever he feels he’s being led where he doesn’t want to go. “It’s all about ME.”

I have a friend in the nearby city of Juneau who just lost her beloved bird a few weeks ago. This tropical bird is not capable of surviving the winter of Southeast Alaska now arriving in earnest any day. Yes the bird is now liberated but is the bird actually free? It’s not even free to die; that is an uncontrollable fact of its liberated condition in regards to its present environment. Does it know it is doomed? No. Right now it is just having fun exploring its recent liberation from oppression. But was it really oppressed? Not having the ability to know its thoughts the answer to that question is hotly debated among emotional people like PETA. So staying on topic with our limited analogy, don’t forget that humanity is a creation, and the Creator knows our thoughts (Job 21:27, Psalm 94:11). God knows if we were really oppressed under his care, and he also knows that Satan, pretending to be God, (presently under the name Allah) has historically long oppressed humanity in the name of God... for the undisclosed purpose of helping humanity resent God for the oppression. It’s complex in a vague way as a single unbreakable cable, but quite simple by an honest exploration of the many individually weak strands. Like the unquestionable theory of Evolution, the whole thing falls apart when the details are honestly explored. God has never oppressed humanity in a selfish way, and a loving godly husband has never oppressed his wife along the same lines... though an unhappy wife sees marriage as a cage… and it is, when she needs it to be (I Timothy 1:9-10).
But all that male logical complexity is now irrelevant to her; In the collective female emotionalism of today, humanity is about to finally be free from God and the world is soon to be hers!
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But Free To Do What?
Like the Catholic Church in the name of Christ, Islam in the name of God is now shamelessly beating down the door of Freedom throughout the world. “GOD IS A VIOLENT BLOODY OPPRESSOR!” is the unhidden theme. By casting off God and his Typology of male domination, humanity is now liberating herself from such a God so she can care for herself! This concept is the quintessence of The New Age.

Now don’t miss the obvious: Anti-Christ is male. The very concept of Anti-Christ and what he will do is mega male:

“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all” Daniel 11:37.

This is absolutely not permissible in the New Feminine Age. By focusing on the Anti-Christ prophecies all this time, Christians have been missing the actual concept of The New Age and therefore are fully buying into the New Age concept as it stands with them against the spirit of Anti-Christ!
I don’t want to just brush by this idea; it is extremely central to the last-days portion that we have just now entered (the last days comes in several distinct portions).
As America falls the age of the male dominated, “a wife needs a husband/follow Christ” concept is being replaced by the female dominated, “we don’t need a husband/God” concept. Islam is simply the Yin means that Satan is using to motivate humanity to misuse her bride of Christ “goddess role” and boldly proclaim herself to be the ultimate Yang Goddess of liberty, like America’s green statue. This Goddess mentality is the nature of the Whore Babylon of the last days. While the woman on the beast has MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS written on her forehead (Revelation 17:5), it is the “wanna-be Christ” beast who bears the names of blasphemy on all its various authorities (Revelation 13:1,4-6, 17:3, [also Revelation 2:9, Isaiah 37:3 if you can comprehend it, but be careful!]).

In The Uncommon Christian Walk I suggested that as Christians renewing our scoliosed path, we were not trying to fix God in this work. But The New Age is now trying to do exactly that!
The bitter woman in her emotional mind has no room to evaluate her own faults and failures, the entire failure of the family is all HIS fault; (“If he really is the God of love, why is there so much suffering in the world?”), her perception of the way things went is proof enough for her and anything he says now is to be disdained and rejected for the sole reason that it comes from his mouth (Amos 5:10, Isaiah 30:10-11). Nor has she time or willingness to make an honest “third party” evaluation of the specific facts at this late date; “Evolution is true and anyone who speaks otherwise is either a fool or wicked” (*2). And because logic cannot negotiate with emotion, men are powerless to discuss reason with her in her agitated state (…Amos 5:13), the very fact that she is female makes her right. “The bird-cage, by its very existence, is oppression.” Like the Egyptians only last year; Liberation with a capital “L” is the goal, and what comes after is irrelevant to the emotional mindframe.

Did I want to see the Egyptians liberated? Yes I did, with all my heart. But as the dates of my relative Posts have shown (*3), I knew they would not get what they thought they were getting even though I didn’t know the details. What comes after, it turns out, is very relevant. A bitter woman cannot find lasting happiness; it’s a law of nature (Isaiah 48:21-22, 57:20-21), even though bitterness is very often justified. The reason is because bitterness always chooses a narrow self-focused perception of the facts, and no fact is immune from treacherous corruption by a self-focused application. Without a false narrow perception based only on limited personal experience the true facts can easily be seen; Even a sex-slave prostitute wants to be rescued by an honorable man… a completely different mindframe from the bitter “man hater.”

The problem is that the bird’s perception is the only one that really matters to her. She is the one in the cage. If she feels oppressed then her oppression needs to be solved: All factors seeking that liberation are good and honorable and all factors trying to talk her out of her perception are deceitful and wicked. How do you argue with that? Once perception becomes unquestionable “fact,” the entire world of response changes nature. Today’s world has concluded conclusively that God, in the male Typology; “I must be dominate” mentality, is wicked. Don’t bother trying to talk her out of it now (*4).
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Is This Really About Women?
Speaking now to a generation of bitter emotional women, as well as a nation of bitter emotional men, I fully expect to get the “he hates women” reaction to my careful Typology explanations of reality. It’s the natural braying of discontent in feeling offended at the indignity of being led at all. But in the effort to re-warm your heart some, it is ultimately only a Typology. Let me show you:

“In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking…” Isaiah 19:16.

I am not going to discuss here what day this is speaking of, or the cause of the shaking, but only that God describes the emotion of their fear as being the nature of women. This includes ALL Egypt regardless of gender. This goes hand in hand with:

“Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings” Proverbs 31:3.

God is speaking regarding the natures he gave the different genders. In simple words he is saying; “Don’t let your governments become emotionally driven.” In short: We are “a government of laws and not of men” (*5).
When men begin to think emotionally like women, or give up their designed role of masculine leadership, a society looses the protection of its solidity and stability. While emotion (such as compassion and tolerance) has its wonderful place in society, emotionalism and law do not mix. This is not suggesting women can’t be politicians, but that emotionalism should not lead the country… regardless of gender. Margaret Thatcher, though fully woman, could hardly be called emotionally driven in politics, while Mr. Obama can most surely be.

“The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken” Jeremiah 51:30.

While President Reagan acted like a man and led the country and the world to confront the bullies of the world, and President Bush did similar to a far less degree, President Clinton and Mr. Obama both fulfilled this verse to the detail. Today, all across America, the people have simply given up in despair because of an emotionally driven government that is totally out of the control of law. The people have become functionally hopeless because only the power of law can rightly control the lawless. When the lawless hold the law we have a Romans 1:18 style tyranny. At this point it’s either tolerate what is, or begin a civil war. The once bold and daring confident young men of this nation’s recent past, who would have never allowed this lawless condition of our government to continue more than a moment, have given birth to actionless busybodies spreading the latest gossip they get from Fox News as if gossip solves anything. Being emotionally driven and rationally ignorant, they wouldn’t have a clue what to do if they actually hiked up their skirts to try. Instead they act like unstable women in a panic and burn down their own nation in the irrational violent frustration of blame! Her laws are broken.

“Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her (own) hands” Proverbs 14:1.
“The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh” Ecclesiastes 4:5.

It’s all genderally the same thing in this light.

“Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come” Isaiah 32:9 (see Ezekiel 16:38, 23:45).

Though indeed directly speaking to women in ways I hope to later discuss, these passages are not ultimately speaking to women but to a people who are emotionally driven in logical ignorance. Instead of “manning up” and taking the responsibility upon their own shoulders to fix the problem in obedience to God, these “helpless minded” people in quaking fear of hardship look to “husband” God to fix their problems while they do needle-point in the garden having tea with giggling friends without a care in the world. Am I suggesting there is anything wrong with tea or needle-point? Of course not! God is simply saying; “Get off your duff and figure this out; This is your responsibility not mine!” (*6). God gave you salvation by marrying you, now, as the homemaker with his authority, it’s your job to maintain a happy home... or let it fall apart from neglect and suffer the results. Sometimes you just need to pull on the rubber gloves and clean the bathroom.

Isaiah 32:11-13 suggests, with several other passages such as Isaiah 62:4-5, Matthew 21:33+, a slightly different angle of the same thing; that the land itself is the bride and humanity in this case is the husband of the land. The land is only fruitful if the husbandman assumes his rightful duty and does his plowing and planting of seed. When men putter around the house like women and won’t fulfill their manly duty, the neighbor will:

“Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies (to be raped): the fire shall devour thy bars (1280; a bolt [Beams locking the gates])” Nahum 3:13.

But remember, we just read earlier that the emotionally driven people are the ones who started the fire in the first place! Like plucking down her own house. So the LORD asks:

“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass (5437) a man” Jeremiah 31:22.

Compass 5437 cabab; a primitive root; to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows):-- bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).

Put simplistically; A man cannot turn or think without a woman having already claimed that ground. i.e. It’s a woman’s world now!

And now we are getting to the climax of current events: when the Typology gets closer to matching reality without extra-biblical symbolism of interpretation, then we know we are very close to the actual fulfillment of the ultimate prophecy that has been Typed:
When God said he was going to send the Messiah, his Son, a child, of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14+9:6), who would have imagined it would turn out to be actually His Son, a child, of a virgin?
How many ways this passage of prophecy was rightly or wrongly used metaphorically, practically, and Typed through the years is unknown, but eventually the prophecy matched reality without any symbolism because no symbolism was included in the prophecy. Jesus Christ the Son of God was born of a virgin (Matthew 1:18+).

So in Typology this verse tells us that democratic emotionalism will trump republican reason every time, without even a contest. Not because it’s smarter, or better, or wiser, but because it’s democratic. And like global Wikipedia; democracy is the new truth-- even knowing openly that it’s not always right; “It’s a part of the human adventure, and being actually right isn’t the goal anymore” [*7]

Speaking directly; this verse tells us that women are the new masters. Why and how are simply irrelevant to the facts of the condition at this point. The bird has flown the coup and left you home to cry alone. Deal with it. America has Fallen.
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So Where Does That Leave Us Now?
It is my proposed hypothesis that it leaves us in the next portion of the end times… that few Christians even knew was prophesied, let alone prepared to deal with. It looks like this:

“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths” Isaiah 3:12.

Today we see women ruling the home by the desire of men to just “keep momma happy,” and today’s women feel their second duty is to “do everything,” and their first duty is to their children, whom they protect from dad’s “manly” discipline. The result is a nation filled with unruly children protected by insane laws that allow them to oppress the people without restraint. Today in America children are not accountable for anything they do, including murder!, and men are utterly helpless to open their mouth if they ever want to see their independent wives again. Any child who moves his lips is to be, by emotion, dramatically praised as brilliant (to encourage his self-esteem)-- whatever stupid thing he comes up with, and women are always right by the fact that they feel right. In this way our sons are guaranteed to grow up thinking emotionally like women.
Emotionalism is the new Right, and logic is a historically proven “male” failure. “Move aside dude and let the women have a turn at running the world!” Gone are the days of iron clad laws, facts, reason, and truths (Isaiah 59:13-15), we are now in the age of deep feelings as truth, foundationless truths as good ideas, unviable ideas as plausible with imagination, and limitless imaginations as reality.
But, somehow it works… as long as nobody tips the boat of illusion on the calm seas of reality.

“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women kneed their dough,…” Jeremiah 7:18a.

Here we see the family unit remaining reasonably the same in physical appearance and clearly working together to a common goal-- which seems quite honorable and unusually functional. Women really are the better leaders!
But wait. What’s this as the verse continues with the woman run family goals?

“…to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger” Jeremiah 7:18b.

Ok, so we haven’t yet arrived at the time in history when the family honors the queen of heaven, “heck, we don’t even know who that is yet.” But understanding the Typology, we recognize that the new deity that we worship is now female in gender as the mindframe and spirit of women rule the world. It’s sort-of a reverse of the male God for the male ruled world, and the very intentional illusion itself makes the male God an illusion too, much as shamelessly violent Islam dethrones Jehovah as violent.

OH! But the door has only just been cracked open on results you can’t possibly imagine!...
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(*1) “Chauvinism, in its original and primary meaning, is an exaggerated, patriotism and a belligerent belief in national superiority and glory. Its eponym is a French soldier Nicolas Chauvin, who was badly wounded in the Napoleonic wars. He received a pension for his injuries but it was not enough to live on. After Napoleon abdicated, Chauvin was a fanatical Bonapartist despite the unpopularity of this view in Bourbon Restoration France. His single-minded blind devotion to his cause, despite neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvinism).

Chauvinism: from Nicolas Chavin of Rochefort, a soldier of the First Republic and Empire, whose demonstrative patriotism and attachment to Napoleon came to be ridiculed by his comrades, Vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1948.

(*2) " ‘It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).’ I first wrote that in a book review in the New York Times in 1989… Examine the statement carefully and it turns out to be moderate, almost self-evidently true.” - Richard Dawkins, May 14, 2006, The Richard Dawkins Foundation For Reason and Science (http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/114).

(*3) Egypt:
Post 158 Egypt (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/01/egypt.html).
Post 162 Wait (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/02/wait.html).
Post 163 Egypt Today (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypt-today.html).

(*4) Evaluating God:
I wish to simply move forward with our intended subject, but the overwhelming argument today that changes the world must be answered as often as it is honestly asked (I Peter 3:15-16);

“Didn’t God oppress the ancient Hebrews? Doesn’t the Old Testament itself reveal this?” Isn’t God’s Law an oppressor?

Although the Richard Dawkins bird will utterly reject the short answer, the short answer is “NO.”
Like my friend who recently lost her bird; keeping the bird in a cage is not what she wants to do. It is her heart that the bird be free to fly anywhere it wants to fly, but keeping it safe and healthy is a necessity even above its liberty. So she originally kept it in a cage where it was fed, and safe from dogs and cats, rain and cold, and ceiling fans.
But the bird did not escape into the wild because she forgot to lock the cage door. As the bird learned to trust her, and feel that her house was its safe domain, and after putting the dog and cat out and turning off the fan, she opened the cage door and it was free to come and go as it liked through the house once the environment was safe. If you want to call the house simply a bigger cage then you are missing the point of her efforts. And you are also missing God’s Old Testament account of His history with the Jews.

Jesus the Christ was not the saving PETA Grace that rescued humanity from a Legalistic tyrant God; he was a stage in God’s designed liberation of humanity that God intended all along (Isaiah 42:16).
But each new stage of liberation presents one less door of protection from the wilderness. The bird must be prepared for each new responsibility that comes with more liberation: "Food is found in the cage. I can sleep there safely," etc. Eventually the metaphorical desire to liberate the bird would include an intentional open window through which the faithful and “informed” bird could come and go, once it learned where home and safety is found. The front door, the bedroom door, and then the cage door being the third-layer “Chemical suit” of protection. But before the bird grasped that final concept a front door was opened and the bird bolted for the great big New World Order. Finally she was free from her oppressor, as the wild crows informed her.

Those of us who are faithfully ruminating on God’s law as commanded (Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:2) can see the eventual plan of the Kingdom of Heaven where our liberty will be complete. The gates will never be closed (Revelation 21:25), but the dogs will be kept out (Revelation 22:15), we will be free to come and go as we desire and our coming and going will delight the LORD because we do.

Think of it like this:
The Great and Mighty God, the Creator of the Universe, has given us the permission to, not just come, but come boldly, into his throne-room any ol’ time we feel the need to do so (Hebrews 4:16). What an amazing honor not granted to the Christless masses! But one day of the week he goes even further; He EXPECTS us to come! He has re-arranged his weekly schedule and made it a priority to spend the day with us! IF we don’t show up it is an actual disappointment to Him. We are that loved!
But a self-focused heart begins to see this privileged special day with The Creator, as an obligation from an oppressor. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! But once our perception sees it as such, what can the LORD do to change that but tell us;

“Don’t worry about it, you don’t have to come.”

The Law was never intended to be an oppression (Psalm 119:142-143, Isaiah 51:7-8). But having picked up an unwanted wild child as his bride (Isaiah 54:6, Ezekiel 16:1-6) the LORD established some early guidelines to help us comprehend the nature, character, honor, and greatness of the LORD by whom we are loved and whom we loved in return for rescuing us. What happened to that?

“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?” Jeremiah 3:4 (Isaiah 54:6).

Forgetting our wonderful past with Him, we became self-focused and willful, and so every helpful correction was then seen as more oppression.

“And I (God) said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me (3:1). But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also” Jeremiah 3:7-8.

“…I (God) am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols:…” Ezekiel 6:9.

Yah, That jealous husband attitude of God is so oppressively unfair!~

“In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction; your own sword hath devoured your prophets (of helpful correction)…” Jeremiah 2:30.

So God advanced the tactics in his ever-progressing road of liberation, that, like the hands of time, continue forward whether we are ready or not:

“For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee” Isaiah 54:7-9 (continue through 10).

“For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off” Isaiah 48:9.

God was done chastising them for their errors; from their perspective it simply didn’t work with them anyway, because they didn’t understand God’s perspective and purpose:

“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction” Isaiah 48:10
(see v.11 for an important justification we will discuss later).

But as teenagers having stubbornly rejected Dad’s “harsh treatment” at home, there was another factor now to help them get it figured out:

“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts” Jeremiah 2:19.

“Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart” Jeremiah 4:18.

I struggle to resist taking this onto an entirely different trail (Jeremiah 4:10), but to maintain the train of thought; this change in program is as after “the third day” we discussed recently. The past sorrows were corrective chastisements from God for ignorantly wrong conduct, but now present sorrows are simply the results of our own error. The difference is found in our maturity; just as a child once spanked at home but uncorrected, now faces lumps in life simply as natural results of his willful misconduct. With greater liberation comes more direct accountability.
So now let’s get back on topic.

(*5) “A government of laws, and not of men.”
John Adams (1735-1826), American lawyer, politician and 2nd President of the United States, in his 7th “Novanglus” letter, published in the Boston Gazette 1774.

A Nation of Laws, Not Men:
“… It looks like a virus is spreading among public officials creating delusions that any one of them may unilaterally decide a law is unconstitutional and decline to follow the law or defend it in court. Setting aside for a moment the same sex marriage context of these actions—we could be talking about environmental laws or gun control or taxes—is it really the case that a single federal, state, or county official is free to make a judgment about the constitutionality of a law and decline to execute, enforce, or defend it? Are we no longer what founder (and second president) John Adams called “a nation of laws and not of men”?” - Posted Sept. 2, 2013 Defining Ideas A Hoover Institution Journal David Davenport (http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/155081) accessed Nov. 3, 2013.
The whole article is well worth reading to grasp the importance of this concept.

(*6) North Korea:
I cannot find a single scriptural prophecy that explains why North Korea is the number 1 most dangerous place in the world for a Christian to live. It has been for quite some time according to Open Doors.org (http://www.opendoors.org/)-(http://www.worldwatchlist.us/world-watch-list-countries/). So IF there is no “bigger picture” reason for the suffering, like there is in Muslim controlled countries, then we have all reason to expect we can simply pray God’s aid in removing the single man, who as a grandson demands to be worshipped as god, and thereby diminish their suffering (Exodus 20:4-5). Exactly how the events might play out is up for exploration (Acts 12:21-23), but WE HAVE ACCESS TO ALL POWER through Christ! (Matthew 28:18+ John 17:2+ II Peter 1:3= John 16:23-24). Therefore, being that there is no prophetic reason for the darkness to continue there, the reason why North Korea is in the demonic state that it is because Christians are not using our power as the representatives of Christ and his kingdom on earth the way we are supposed to. North Korea is just waiting for us to seriously appeal to God on their behalf! It is a great uncomplicated test area to develop a useful faith. Will you at least ask God if he agrees?

[*7] Update: November 12, 2013
This morning it is reported on BBC News that; “Good Morning America’s Amy Robarch found she had breast cancer while filming a report for the show.” “The 40-year-old correspondent discovered she had breast cancer after reluctantly agreeing to have a screening filmed for the ABC show. She said GMA anchor Robin Roberts had persuaded her that if the story saved one life, it would be worth it. ‘It never occurred to me that life would be mine,’ said Robach.” - BBC News 11/12/13(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24900299).

Make no mistake: my argument is not here decrying breast cancer screening. But being emotionally separate from this story as a man; Something doesn’t smell right (read; Abominable). And here is my point:
• This above average beautiful and public leading woman is the perfect age that the breast-screening program declares is a landmark for needing regular screening to catch this cancer.
• She is encouraged by the show’s people to make a story of it “for the sake of the people,” it’s just fortunate for the show’s ratings that this event should bring in a large number of viewers.
• Then after a very successful and surprisingly “not very painful” screening that encourages millions of women to do the same, this woman’s now public-screening reveals that ‘Yes; she has breast cancer, but the screening saved her life’.
• She is very happy. The show is very happy. The screening program is very happy. The cutting doctors are very happy, and the reconstruction doctors are very happy. The implant manufacturers are very happy. And the millions of viewers are very happy. This is a grand-slam victory; EVERYONE IS VERY HAPPY!

Everyone but me. I have a man’s skeptical sneaking notion that one day it will be revealed that she didn’t actually have cancer, 'it was all an unfortunate error in the analysis process'.
But who really cares? If everyone is happy by the emotionally charged outcome of relief and happiness, does it really matter about the truth? So what if she really didn’t have cancer, it turned out to be very beneficial for the entire screening of America’s women… and if one life can be saved by it, it’s worth it!
Am I suggesting that this is a grand conspiracy to get this woman to lop off her breasts?

“Thou shalt… pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD” Ezekiel 23:34, (see also Ezekiel 23:3,8 for a version of even earlier-screening learned from the abusers/(money mongers).

Yes and No; I don’t think this is actually a knowledgeable conspiracy, and not against her specifically but all women in general. If my hunch is correct, she was just used as a tool to that end. How do I figure? What makes me skeptical of this event? The scripture tells us:

“For the love of money is the root of all evil…” I Timothy 6:10a.

So as a man of God, thinking with my stable reason, I have to ask: “Who profits from this particular result?” The answer is that beyond the benefit to the TV program, billions of dollars are made in the breast cancer industry, and this result will bring in millions more. So here is where we need to use great caution before we just believe them. Here is my logical next response to address the possibility of a fabrication for profit: Get a second, unbiased opinion.
That’s it. That’s all I suggest. Maybe she really does have cancer, but the circumstances smell fishy.
But what do I know; I’m just a man, trying to offer a woman protection from a vow made driven by emotionalism.
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