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Post 331
It is 4:45 am and I am at my desk reporting the spiritual news as I see it from the front lines of prayer so to speak.
I had my next Post written and was working on converting it to HTML (for Posting from my very old computer) when this strong prompting seemed to preempt it.
I have periodically Posted on the local activities of a pack of spiritual wolves that come through our area from time to time like a band of gorilla fighters in South America or Muslims in Africa, but I have not Posted all of them.
Since my most recent Post I had an intellectual acquaintance that I had been seeing most Saturday evenings for a short time, ask me; “How much reading does it take to get faith?” I gave Mike a short answer, expecting to continue the conversation in depth the next week, but he died unexpectedly of heart failure before our next meeting. It really brings home the urgency, and that we present the Gospel to the lost as simplistically and clearly as possible while there is still time.
Over the past several months the Lord has been faithful to wake me between 3:30 and 4:30 am with the spirit of prayer in such urgency. I find myself joining an ongoing battle, praying against the spirits of darkness and the men whom they use to wreak havoc and terror around the world. Sometimes the spiritual war is so close I can almost smell the death and see the evil tangibly. And then a few days later I read about the aftermath.
What I believe I saw in prayer this morning has been coming to light for a few weeks now. It’s not a pack of wolves anymore but a flood of ravaging beasts like the early stages of a pandemic flu outbreak… with results like locusts.
As we are officially “no longer a Christian Nation,” according to the man ruling in wickedness as President, the walls withholding the spirit of Evil have been breached in the same degree as the Mexican Border. The spirits of evil have been flooding this land, often riding within those invading foreigners, but not always. These spirits are naturally bodiless but they do their work by influencing and ravaging their hosts and victims. They travel unseen like a virus but work like locusts.
The United States of America has long experienced the protections of God nationally, while the world’s nations have not. But that has suddenly changed and Americans are not prepared. This morning I perceived this new condition to be very much like the Death Angel of Egypt found in Exodus 12.
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Passover:
Christians in America have long had the protection of God over their entire land. In their homes, on the job, as they shop or play and go about their lives, for the most part, free to inhabit the land expecting to find Luke 2:14 “peace on earth and good will toward men” wherever they go. But having eliminated the necessary “Glory to God in the highest,” such things can no longer be expected (Romans 1:16-18).
The regular events in the Hebrews’ daily lives already saw a dramatic disruption as Moses was used by God to bring progressive punishments on Egypt (Exodus 5:4-14). But then, in Exodus 11-12, the Hebrews learned of a new thing in Egypt; we read that the Hebrews were not even to step from their homes because of the new danger spreading over the land:
“Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until morning. For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you” Exodus 12:21-23.
Understand; this is not Egypt and neither is this the time that God will deliver Christians from the taskmaster. I am simply using this singular historic event to explain what we are seeing today. By our own doing, the destroyer has been given complete access to roam our land now and do his deadly work. So what are God’s faithful to do?
Until now, they have been seeing the progressive deterioration of their liberties, safety, and rights, as they went about their lives among the heathen in a long familiar way, but that is all quickly changing as even the IRS has shown a startling new governmental attack on those with views differing from the Progressive agenda.
There is a prophetic saying that the wise will make note of:
“Therefore the prudent shall keep silent in that time; for it is an evil time” Amos 5:13.
I am not suggesting that Christians hide behind the wall of their homes. We must not read these OT passages and attempt to apply them directly. They are speaking to us spiritually now. The Passover Lamb has already been slain once for all, so how do we apply the blood today?
Even in that day the very real doorposts and header were symbolic. The doorposts and header today are the structural framework of our lives that separate us from the word. We step out into the word to interact but our private sanctuary is where we live in Christ behind his blood. Our lives are hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). Our homes are spiritual (Colossians 3:1-2).
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affections, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:” Colossians 3:5-6.
So now, how can we expect that Christ’s Passover blood can separate us from the wrath of God against such things in this NT spiritual world, if we bring such punishable things into our spiritual homes? What exactly is the blood for?
In the OT it was practically physical as it spoke of spiritual things, but today it is directly spiritual. The context is related to where you dwell (see Post 189 “Sunburn” http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunburn.html).
If you spiritually dwell on the paganized streets of modern society the blood cannot protect you, because it only works on the door posts and header of your spiritual home with Christ in God. Christ does not dwell on the paganized streets anymore than the Hebrews of the OT were protected if they roamed the streets that night. Neither could they expect to be protected if they sprinkled the posts and header of their local pub and stayed there all night drinking… or watching TV.
The spirits of death and destruction are now lurking in our land as a common condition rather than simply passing through periodically. We cannot continue to do what we once did with impunity. Like the growing packs of wolves in my area; the numbers alone have caused them to expand into areas previously uninteresting to them. The flood gates of evil are opened!
God promises to raise up a standard against the flood… for those that fear the name of the LORD (Isaiah 59:19), but even in such a promised nation, where do you suppose the standard stands? Not on the streets, and not in the homes or lives where punishable idolatries are welcome. You cannot turn your home into a house of ill repute and expect the Passover blood to be applicable. The blood of God is applied on the doorway of the righteous to keep the destroying angel out, so what smell draws him in like sharks to blood in salt water?
See Post 268 “The Waters of Clay” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-water-of-clay.html).
The answer is: Unholiness (I Corinthians 11:27-31).
And may I remind you how the wrath-of-God plague was stayed in Numbers 25? Heads-on-polls seems rather Islamic don’t you think? Remember to interpret this OT spiritually in the NT age before acting in righteousness. But action is required.
See BBC News - child exploitation goes ignored (http://www.bbc.co.uk/new/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089), and then see Post 295 “Beauties And The Beast" (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/05/beauties-and-beast.html), and if you have time, review Post 272 “The Witchcraft Of Uganda” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-witchcraft-of-uganda.html).
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Shedding The Darkside
- (vs. masking it by reflection) -
Post 330
In the previous Post I proposed that the real issue never examined is not how long the closet sinner can hold out hiding “the real me that wants to get out”; but why she is possessed with the affliction at all. Let’s take a moment and consider this question more deeply:
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Foundations of Faith:
Early on, in Disney’s foundational Cinderella princess story (Post 248) that told in parable the message of salvation, we easily saw the comparison in Typology between the enchanted animals as angels, as well as the fairy-godmother as the Holy Spirit. We concluded that in the fairytale-world magic=supernatural, and in that story, magic was wholly received as good because there was no direct supernatural evil protagonist but only evil people in the flesh. Even among the magical creatures that represented angels, the only evil angel represented was Lucifer himself, who was seen only in the non-speaking/non-“higher thinking” flesh with no magical qualities apparent. Therefore, in that paradigm; Magic=supernatural, and supernatural=good. Evil has been de-supernaturalized in comparison to God’s divine “super power” to help us.
As a Christian society, responding to human oppressors while trusting in a supernatural God, we saw the easy representation that God sends angels and even the Holy Spirit as “supernatural help” in ways that manifest only physically as such hard-to-explain timely; supernatural helps, clothes of righteousness, vehicles as methods, coachmen as aids, events outside of our doing, and unexplainable circumstances, that enable us to succeed in bonding with the Prince in spite of the opposition. From this representation of happy innocence in a simplistic but sufficient faith that we already possessed, we reasoned through the other two foundational stories that included magical antagonists, and so, we subconsciously accepted that there is in fact good magic and bad magic as contending supernatural forces, and this became our “Disney fairytale worldview as Christians” if you will.
Clearly the wicked antagonists had a connection to the dark forces, whether ignorantly as an evil-minded stepmother and her daughters subtly influenced by Lucifer the house pet, or as Maleficent the sorceress empowered by calling upon those evil forces intentionally. This direct and accurate parable of our real-world paradigm enabled us to blend spheres with the fairytales quite successfully, using the one to teach our children about the other, and in that innocent world of yesterday, where right and wrong were clearly divided, it worked quite well: “We know it’s the good-guy because he wears white”; i.e. Beautiful=Good, automatically understanding by sound faith, that this meant in Type: Good is Beautiful. The faith that the fairytale Typed, was what we as children were to believe; not the fairytale itself. Obviously~
But when we now look back from today’s greatly complex world and fairytales (including movies and such in that stream), by observing how we got here, we can see some things we should have alertly held closer rather than let them slip as insignificant for the sake of the intriguing story (Jude 1:3,5). The main point being that the scriptures call all magic evil, (i.e. sorcery), and God’s tolerance for it in our lives is Zero:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18, (speaking to the legislation of God’s society and people [Genesis 19:5-6, Malachi 3:5], and not implying forced values on other societies who don’t know God; [see Jeremiah 27:9-10 and Daniel 1:8,17+4:8 for two different examples]).
When we are in ignorance, we are unable to tell healthy flesh from cancer, which is why the body itself accepts cancer cells without question while earnestly battling off other kinds of destructive cells that it does recognize as hazardous. The body is not being slothful; it just doesn’t know any better. Similarly for disease and viruses and such; the body that once was incapable of defending itself from such inflictions died, but with new understanding we can give it what it needs to win the fight by building up a defense against a newly understood enemy force. So now in Type, by our “spiritually technological advancements” of historically painful experiences and the resulting explorations for the causes, we are now better informed and can make the finer distinctions more easily, and have ready answers to battle secretly-debilitating assaults that once destroyed our faith (such as the things they teach your children in school and college).
Therefore, by an informed review of our innocently generic values that seemed to work for us back then but are insufficient now, we see that God makes a clear distinction between magic and his supernatural involvement, while back then it all seemed to be the same “gooey substance” to us. This ignorance allowed us to make the simplistically accurate but complexly unwise overlay in Cinderella that opened the door to the progressively wrong thinking that followed by our “fairytalizing” the very real spiritual faith while letting the reality of that faith slip unattended.
Good and bad magic, even in the fairytale-world, is a case of Yin and Yang. If you will remember, we discovered in Post 193 that the whole circle is a wickedly cancerous religion of beguiling evil that is distinct from the Creator’s biblical worldview of right and wrong, which Elsa cast away when she couldn’t succeed in making the choice, but rather elected to merge them in her life by removing labels and doing whatever she wanted, calling it “freedom” in the form of liberation.
Understanding this concept allows us to make simple, though more-informed, explorations to discover the cause of Elsa being born with her infliction when apparently not everyone was, and then seeing how that Types our own condition. I’m not suggesting that movies and fairytale-worlds are real, but that our women and children, and now even adult men, are actually blending spheres, and thereby allowing the movie/fairytale values to apply in their real world. Thus, we are required to apply God’s real world values to explain the failures in the values of the fairytale-world, to teach our people right from wrong and thereby weed the garden of the kingdom of heaven since we allowed the seeding in our slumber, which, if you will remember, was our focus in the previous post:
“…the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man (Jesus) which sowed good seed in his field (The world): but while men (ministers) slept, his enemy (the Devil) came and sowed tares (G2215: false grain) among the wheat (kingdom children), and went his way” Matthew 13:24-25, (see Matthew 13:38-40 for my inserts).
God, the very real Creator, is the LORD of everything real and imagined. Nothing is outside of his domain of authority. We covered these concepts before, but with new experience comes new understanding and a need to review what we didn’t comprehend previously.
Back in the day of innocence, we opened a door and methodically merged spheres to our advantage by sending Typology values one way as a tool of instructing our young, but now, having abandoned our foundations of faith for entertainment, that open doorway like unfiltered feedback, is sending alternate values of education in the wrong direction. Originally the movies and fairytales were used to explain our faith, but now they are re-creating it; transforming it.
In spite of the fairytale's suggestion, there is simply no way that Elsa and her sister can retain the “fun of the magic” and be the good girl too. And likewise you cannot dabble in the pleasure of the forbidden and be a Christian. The problem is that Disney’s heroin as “fun” has already made you an addict by letting you feel the unspeakable pleasure, that once felt, is a need so great that it cannot be denied. Every addict will tell you that the pleasure is unexplainably powerful. An addict is an addict because he feels that he needs the pleasure more than life itself. Disney is a drug dealer pure and simple.
Ending your addiction is not usually something God can do for you but something you must do for yourself. It’s yours to do or not do, by making a choice. But like a rehab program, and like a governing husband; God can help once that choice is made. The secret to successes is not to focus on the absence of the inordinate pleasure, but on life itself. Focus on the Lord and let life begin again. Over time the hunger for the inordinate pleasure will diminish, and the goal is to eventually find it repugnant: “I hate Disney because of the life-sucking spirit that comes with the fun.”
This may seem all so “fairytaleish” to ones mind because your spheres are so badly blended; therefore I strongly suggest a reading of II Peter chapters 1&2 (and even 3). You will be amazed at how accurately they apply to this setting, and able to realign your thoughts and perspectives to reality by washing with the water of the word.
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The Dark-Moon vs. The “Darkside”:
Using the Hebrews 4:12 surgeon’s scalpel again, we can divide our dark-moon nature that everyone has from birth-- which should be covered up as is nakedness--, from the “darkside” evil that must be replaced deep within ones core. Without making the distinction we end up with the Star Wars witchcraft idea that “The Force is neither good nor bad, depending on how you use it”; i.e. Yin and Yang in one circle of life-Force; i.e. Elsa’s idea that there is no right or wrong, it’s just following your heart honestly that matters.
But we can make a distinction because God makes the distinction. Allow me to explain:
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” Matthew 5:14-16.
Said simplistically in the old, easy to comprehend, “good vs. bad” Christian perspective, this concept sufficiently describes our generic human condition that we call salvation. But, in our now complex age of confusion through alternate versions of perspective via the details, more distinction is necessary for accuracy sake, because the seemingly insignificant “slack hand” of generality is now used nefariously against us. I am making a surgeon’s distinction between the candle light in the house and the public shining light of good works which are intimately connected.
In the New Age concept presented by Star Wars and apparently secretly leaked into Frozen, the darkness must be balanced with good, which is how Anna supposedly fixed Elsa’s uncontrollable storm with her sacrificial love. This is the common idea today that believes you get to heaven because the goodness outweighs the wickedness until it all comes out right in the wash. But while some isolated elements of this idea of “sacrificial love” are correct in their nature, this whole concept is in direct conflict with God’s word:
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one” Romans 3:10.
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy (menstrual) rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind (of iniquity on faded leaves), have taken us away” Isaiah 64:6.
God tells us through his word that there is just no way any amount of “good” we do on our part can make up for the bad, because the bad is not what we do but who we are. Therefore, if we can’t even help ourselves in this balancing attempt, how much less can we help someone else? We know this scriptural principle is true by evaluating our “score” in keeping the Ten Commandments, while considering that only one murder makes you a murderer and not someone who has “done a lot of good too” that makes up for it. Likewise, breaking any one commandment, one time, makes you a breacher of God’s law and worthy of the defined death penalty as a resulting judgment. It just makes sense whether you agree with it or not; it’s The Law.
The moon has virtually no light of itself. As far as light goes it has no intrinsic value but the ability to reflect light.
So the moon, by capitalizing on this lone virtue, feels that it earns its place as a star by worthy reflection, i.e. “doing good.” This is the religious prude, who by earnestly reflecting the “good light” of works, hides the fact that her heart is still as dark and dead as if there were no sun at all. But, when observing her from her public presentation, as long as she maintains a visual alignment with the sun (obedience to the law), she shines brightly in the sky and is counted among the lights of heaven, no one the wiser by the naked eye of simplicity. This is the New Age of world Democracy: The idea that by choosing to do good, all humanity can live in peace. The truth is that this is actually a very true and worthy concept to be applied… but it does nothing for the dark, dead heart of the moon, who, in spite of her reflection efforts, has no life whatsoever. Even an ax-murderer can learn to clean a toilet to everyone’s advantage, yet the Judge is not impressed in regards to the murder trial; it simply does not apply to the case.
So what’s a girl to do?
The one-chapter book of Jude helps us see more clearly, as, (perhaps being the second to the last book for a reason), it reveals the mature darkness near the conclusion of this Age that allows us to “look back” to see where the path divided, much as I have done by looking back to Cinderella now knowing where it allowed us to go on the journey of where we will end up if we continue to follow this course.
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ… These are… wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever” Jude 1:4,13.
By proximity to Earth, the moon is our intimate example of exposing the nature of a wandering star, but in truth, this phrase is primarily speaking of planets as we have already discussed. From our vantage point on earth, planets shine very much like stars, but by charted observation over time, they don’t act like stars.
These wandering stars are in Type, clothed in righteousness but not in salvation; reflecting good works while having a cold, dead, dark core. They are in effect pretenders that create confusion by their star-like shine with erratic nature. The scriptures make a distinction between these two elements of salvation and works, which combine to reveal a true child of God:
“…for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness…” Isaiah 61:10.
Remember, both Satan and his fallen angels can perform works of righteousness which makes them appear as producers of light:
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” II Corinthians 11:14-15.
And so, by adding verse 13 to this, along with our above passage in Jude, we discover that there are three distinct pretenders in the dark realm that shine brightly: Satan, fallen angels, and unregenerate men with deceitful works of righteousness:
“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ” II Corinthians 11:13.
Meaning no offence but declaring facts: These deceitful men are very religious and outwardly honorable and godly. And now we can see a need for the distinction between the public robe of righteousness and the clothes of salvation beneath.
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The Daystar:
What is a planet to do? It has no star-like abilities to shine within its nature, and even if it could somehow be infused with such ability; to burn like a star would be to kill all life besides that of its burning fire, no earth-type life can live on the sun, and in kind; no man can even look at the sun for its brightness. Likewise, no man has seen God for the same reason (John 1:17-18). Apparently the moon is just out of luck; It can’t be self-luminating like the sun lest it kill everything, but with a cold heart it can’t sustain life either. The best it can do is to reflect the suns light and remain hopelessly dead inside.
The same goes for planets; Wandering Stars… except for the unique life-giving planet called earth. It doesn’t self-luminate like the sun, but it’s not dead like the moon; it bears and sustains life with a perfect combination. How does it do that?
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:” II Peter 1:19.
While this sounds poetically cryptic, what is this saying actually?
Applying it to our analogy of the cosmos representing our being clothed in salvation as different from righteousness, the dead moon represents Satan (and his kingdom Islam) as he appears luminated in righteousness of the Law without the heart of salvation from within. In this deeper concept of our walk, it’s the planet Earth that represents mankind in general and the woman in Type, but because we are the earth and so cannot observe our own reflection, we look at the moon as our observable Type that reflects the sun to see how this works. And so, like as God’s people being described sometimes male and sometimes female for discussion sake, we see that the many Types cycle repeatedly but are used interchangeably in explanations of various truths. It is in this deeper understanding that we learn; when we make the distinction regarding true-light vs. false-light, we see that the surface luminance doesn’t tell the whole story. God confirms this distinction by calling both the sun and moon “great lights” (Genesis 1:16) and further by declaring there are even different kinds of star glory (“…for one star differeth from another star in glory” I Corinthians 15:41). This goes quite deep so let’s just leave it at that.
In II Peter’s above chapter, there is quite a truth regarding prophecy that we will also not cover here, but is connected to the surety of prophecy as a temporary confidence in Type of the Old Testament Law of dead rocks reflecting surface light of righteousness while the prophecies shine light deep down in the cracks of our faith as it were. We understand that the internal fire day-star arising in our hearts was long anticipated by clinging to the prophecies, which gave some internal heat until the Holy Spirit filled our heart with a much more dynamic fire of personal enlightenment. Then the prophecies become confirmation of our experience.
Once Jesus Christ came to infuse his followers with his very nature, by first dying to liberate us from the confining law, he rose again to offer New (Testament) life by the infused power of the Holy Spirit into our quickened hearts. Jesus in effect gave our spirits new mitochondria (*1). We see now, that the day-star of this verse is the action of the Spirit of God himself as he dwells within our temple (the believer’s being):
“For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did…” Hebrews 7:19.
“By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament” Hebrews 7:22.
“These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance...” John 14:25-26.
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” I Corinthians 3:16.
“And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” II Corinthians 6:16.
In our Typology revealed in the cosmos, this Holy Spirit is the molten core of planet earth that necessarily aids the sun in sustaining life. It is very much the identifying glass slipper in Cinderella’s possession that matches the one in the Princes’. It is the marriage of man and wife, Christ and mankind. This day-star molten-core of fire and light is fundamentally really deep (pun intended for impact), so I would like to expand on this concept a little.
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Specific Purposes:
From a scientific point of view it is very interesting that the molten core of the earth is absolutely necessary to life on many simultaneous planes; heat being only one, the refreshing of the crust another, but to me, the stabilizing magnetic field that protects the earth from radiation and such, is without a doubt as mysterious to contemplate as playing with magnets on your kitchen table. You may comprehend a bit of the science behind it, but it’s still just “to unreal” to ever stop marveling at its mysterious invisible power interacting on here-and-now stuff in seemingly unnatural ways. Electrical magnetic fields are in that same category but even more “sci-fi” to the mind in what they can do.
But as hot and as molten as the Earth’s core is to perfect advantage for sustaining life, isn’t it curious that it’s not supposed to erupt from the surface more than a little from time to time? It’s just far too powerful.
Understanding that the Father, which cannot be seen because of his glory (Exodus 33:20-23), is a Spirit (John 4:24), and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth (i.e. according to eternal and temporal rules), and, understanding that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the risen Christ that now dwells within our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:16-17), we begin to comprehend that while the fire of the Holy Spirit, that so perfectly gives sustenance to life in many various ways, is just too powerful to leak out onto the surface more than a little from time to time. The Old Testament face of Moses so brightened by reflection (Exodus 34:29-35), is sure testament that this is a correct interpretation of the New Testament Typology of the glory contained deep within the Christian (Proverbs 4:23, Ephesians 3:14-19). It’s contained under the crust for a very good reason.
And so that you can here glean the powerful connotations, though risking your misunderstanding until it is explained, I’m just going to spill the beans now and tell you that the Fire of the Holy Ghost is feminine in nature, (after all, women got their Genesis 1:27 likeness of God from somewhere). I understand that this is really going to cause you alarm in your faith as you presently understand it, but we will seriously address this in upcoming Posts as we continue to explore the Grand Tapestry of scripture. But for now, let’s just ponder that thought in the back of our minds and move forward with the present topic.
So we see a strange but true suggestion in the Typology; that although we hold the fiery Spirit of God within our earthen vessels to give us powerful life from within, it’s not technically the fire from within that produces the light of our righteousness without, which everyone is supposed to see and glorify our unseen Father in heaven. If we don’t reflect the Lord’s light through our life conduct, though we may have a molten core, nobody sees the light as if it’s hidden under a bushel. The internal fire is the mitochondria power-plant of our heart, but it’s the external light of reflection on our crust that is to help the world not stumble in the darkness. Matthew 5:16 tells us that our candle, like a mini sun that is now an infused part of our makeup, is not our good works but only empowers our good works which everyone then sees. Likewise, the empowerment of our wives gives them fire within, granting them internal life to enable a heartfelt reflection effort that is not forced: This effort is commonly called Love (I Peter 1:22). This is the Ephesians 5 Typology of Christ and the Church concluding in vv.32-33.
The nature of what the world sees in the viewing is not found in what we reflect. It’s found in the fire of motive. All the good works in the world, though beautiful, does not produce in the observer the desire to glorify God the Father if the Holy Spirit fire is not burning furiously within our hearts. Read Ephesians 2:1-6 in the light of this Post and discover new and wonderfully deep, empowering understanding. We will explore v.7 later as it speaks of the Grand Tapestry design.
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Conclusion:
By understanding this dual function of the clothes of salvation and the robe of righteousness, we are able to see where the problem actually lies and why it is so hard to identify when ignorant of the distinction.
Nobody can see the internal fire, but the reflective light is easily seen while it comes and goes in cyclic waves of success and failure as we traverse our human course. When our reflection begins to dim by misalignment, we become alarmed and step up our efforts of good works. This makes the world cheer for our full-moon light and we feel better about ourselves for having done it. But in laboriously maintaining our rigid reflection in outward righteousness, it is easy to remain absent-minded regarding our fire of salvation that burns unseen deep in the core that constantly renews our surface crust (Romans 12:1-2, Job 29:20). That internal fire has an entirely different purpose (Psalm 51:10-13, Isaiah 40:31) yet is critically tied to the surface light for sustaining planetary life. The neglect of the internal fire is the cause of a frozen heart, which Anna’s heart of unconditional love, cannot thaw, but becomes frozen too in the exhausting failed effort (Matthew 24:12). Her frozen heart having been disillusioned, changes tactics, goes to the mystics, and finds another way with another prince.
When the world gets the glorious idea of a collective surface-reflection in righteousness, (even if they don’t recognize where that reflection source is coming from), the result is indeed a universally beneficial cleanliness of “the public facilities.” And who is going to argue against the good of that? Certainly not me, (Deuteronomy 15:11, Psalm 82:3-4, Proverbs 21:13).
This righteousness is Glenn Beck’s greatly commendable, much-needed charity toward the illegal Central American children flooding through our governmentally unprotected borders to our own destruction; It is the Mother Teresa approach demanded by the overwhelming circumstances of God’s growing national displeasure (Haggai 1:5-11, [the “house” is now a metaphor for our spiritual lives today since we are the new temple]).
My argument, (which is God’s argument reflected), is not against the much needed charity work, but that the sparkling clean appearances only mask the continuing hidden darkness within; let’s call it germs and bacteria and disease in our metaphorical public bathroom. The swept-and-shined presentation is a surface illusion that generally functions quite well for the cosmetic emotional benefit of the general population, but the illusion is what keeps them from seeking solutions for the spirit of death that lingers because it wasn't actually cleaned:
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation” Matthew 12:43-45.
God’s Spirit does not reside in governments, but in men; i.e. people. By the failure of her governments, America has observed the effects of losing her internal Light, but her response is to re-beautify the exterior like so much cosmetics on the proverbial pig. In this way, her earnest renewed efforts of righteous reflection are just the hypocrisy of Jude’s wandering stars; her heart toward God is cold as ice. Enter stage left, the Jewish State today as Christianity brings Elsa home retaining her disdain for the Prince of peace but tempered by her sister's unconditional love.
Recently returned Israel is today promoting multi-culturalism to the extreme degree of “any god will do, so long as we have mutual peace.” But the Two-State division of Jerusalem and or the nation is an abomination unto God (Amos 7:17, Matthew 12:25, Daniel 11:39b, Zechariah 14:21, etc.) with great consequences.
Having said that, don’t for a second think that I am anti-Israel because of their confusion. I am not, (see Post 287 “The Three-Part Yin” http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-three-part-yin.html).
I’m just concerned for the Kingdom of Heaven.
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(*1) “Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell. They are organelles that act like a digestive system that takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy for the cell. The process of creating cell energy is known as cellular respiration. Most of the chemical reactions involved in cellular respiration happen in the mitochondria” - (http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_mito.html).
It is curious to note that the Mitochondria is supplied only through the mother’s contribution of the egg.
(*) [8/14/14]: Having been challenged by a reader's comment, I re-checked every reference used and discovered a type-O, made the correction, and added a reference as copied here:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18, (speaking to the legislation of God’s society and people [Genesis 19:5-6, Malachi 3:5], and not implying forced values on other societies who don’t know God; [see Jeremiah 27:9-10 and Daniel 1:8,17+4:8 for two different examples]).
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Post 330
In the previous Post I proposed that the real issue never examined is not how long the closet sinner can hold out hiding “the real me that wants to get out”; but why she is possessed with the affliction at all. Let’s take a moment and consider this question more deeply:
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Foundations of Faith:
Early on, in Disney’s foundational Cinderella princess story (Post 248) that told in parable the message of salvation, we easily saw the comparison in Typology between the enchanted animals as angels, as well as the fairy-godmother as the Holy Spirit. We concluded that in the fairytale-world magic=supernatural, and in that story, magic was wholly received as good because there was no direct supernatural evil protagonist but only evil people in the flesh. Even among the magical creatures that represented angels, the only evil angel represented was Lucifer himself, who was seen only in the non-speaking/non-“higher thinking” flesh with no magical qualities apparent. Therefore, in that paradigm; Magic=supernatural, and supernatural=good. Evil has been de-supernaturalized in comparison to God’s divine “super power” to help us.
As a Christian society, responding to human oppressors while trusting in a supernatural God, we saw the easy representation that God sends angels and even the Holy Spirit as “supernatural help” in ways that manifest only physically as such hard-to-explain timely; supernatural helps, clothes of righteousness, vehicles as methods, coachmen as aids, events outside of our doing, and unexplainable circumstances, that enable us to succeed in bonding with the Prince in spite of the opposition. From this representation of happy innocence in a simplistic but sufficient faith that we already possessed, we reasoned through the other two foundational stories that included magical antagonists, and so, we subconsciously accepted that there is in fact good magic and bad magic as contending supernatural forces, and this became our “Disney fairytale worldview as Christians” if you will.
Clearly the wicked antagonists had a connection to the dark forces, whether ignorantly as an evil-minded stepmother and her daughters subtly influenced by Lucifer the house pet, or as Maleficent the sorceress empowered by calling upon those evil forces intentionally. This direct and accurate parable of our real-world paradigm enabled us to blend spheres with the fairytales quite successfully, using the one to teach our children about the other, and in that innocent world of yesterday, where right and wrong were clearly divided, it worked quite well: “We know it’s the good-guy because he wears white”; i.e. Beautiful=Good, automatically understanding by sound faith, that this meant in Type: Good is Beautiful. The faith that the fairytale Typed, was what we as children were to believe; not the fairytale itself. Obviously~
But when we now look back from today’s greatly complex world and fairytales (including movies and such in that stream), by observing how we got here, we can see some things we should have alertly held closer rather than let them slip as insignificant for the sake of the intriguing story (Jude 1:3,5). The main point being that the scriptures call all magic evil, (i.e. sorcery), and God’s tolerance for it in our lives is Zero:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18, (speaking to the legislation of God’s society and people [Genesis 19:5-6, Malachi 3:5], and not implying forced values on other societies who don’t know God; [see Jeremiah 27:9-10 and Daniel 1:8,17+4:8 for two different examples]).
When we are in ignorance, we are unable to tell healthy flesh from cancer, which is why the body itself accepts cancer cells without question while earnestly battling off other kinds of destructive cells that it does recognize as hazardous. The body is not being slothful; it just doesn’t know any better. Similarly for disease and viruses and such; the body that once was incapable of defending itself from such inflictions died, but with new understanding we can give it what it needs to win the fight by building up a defense against a newly understood enemy force. So now in Type, by our “spiritually technological advancements” of historically painful experiences and the resulting explorations for the causes, we are now better informed and can make the finer distinctions more easily, and have ready answers to battle secretly-debilitating assaults that once destroyed our faith (such as the things they teach your children in school and college).
Therefore, by an informed review of our innocently generic values that seemed to work for us back then but are insufficient now, we see that God makes a clear distinction between magic and his supernatural involvement, while back then it all seemed to be the same “gooey substance” to us. This ignorance allowed us to make the simplistically accurate but complexly unwise overlay in Cinderella that opened the door to the progressively wrong thinking that followed by our “fairytalizing” the very real spiritual faith while letting the reality of that faith slip unattended.
Good and bad magic, even in the fairytale-world, is a case of Yin and Yang. If you will remember, we discovered in Post 193 that the whole circle is a wickedly cancerous religion of beguiling evil that is distinct from the Creator’s biblical worldview of right and wrong, which Elsa cast away when she couldn’t succeed in making the choice, but rather elected to merge them in her life by removing labels and doing whatever she wanted, calling it “freedom” in the form of liberation.
Understanding this concept allows us to make simple, though more-informed, explorations to discover the cause of Elsa being born with her infliction when apparently not everyone was, and then seeing how that Types our own condition. I’m not suggesting that movies and fairytale-worlds are real, but that our women and children, and now even adult men, are actually blending spheres, and thereby allowing the movie/fairytale values to apply in their real world. Thus, we are required to apply God’s real world values to explain the failures in the values of the fairytale-world, to teach our people right from wrong and thereby weed the garden of the kingdom of heaven since we allowed the seeding in our slumber, which, if you will remember, was our focus in the previous post:
“…the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man (Jesus) which sowed good seed in his field (The world): but while men (ministers) slept, his enemy (the Devil) came and sowed tares (G2215: false grain) among the wheat (kingdom children), and went his way” Matthew 13:24-25, (see Matthew 13:38-40 for my inserts).
God, the very real Creator, is the LORD of everything real and imagined. Nothing is outside of his domain of authority. We covered these concepts before, but with new experience comes new understanding and a need to review what we didn’t comprehend previously.
Back in the day of innocence, we opened a door and methodically merged spheres to our advantage by sending Typology values one way as a tool of instructing our young, but now, having abandoned our foundations of faith for entertainment, that open doorway like unfiltered feedback, is sending alternate values of education in the wrong direction. Originally the movies and fairytales were used to explain our faith, but now they are re-creating it; transforming it.
In spite of the fairytale's suggestion, there is simply no way that Elsa and her sister can retain the “fun of the magic” and be the good girl too. And likewise you cannot dabble in the pleasure of the forbidden and be a Christian. The problem is that Disney’s heroin as “fun” has already made you an addict by letting you feel the unspeakable pleasure, that once felt, is a need so great that it cannot be denied. Every addict will tell you that the pleasure is unexplainably powerful. An addict is an addict because he feels that he needs the pleasure more than life itself. Disney is a drug dealer pure and simple.
Ending your addiction is not usually something God can do for you but something you must do for yourself. It’s yours to do or not do, by making a choice. But like a rehab program, and like a governing husband; God can help once that choice is made. The secret to successes is not to focus on the absence of the inordinate pleasure, but on life itself. Focus on the Lord and let life begin again. Over time the hunger for the inordinate pleasure will diminish, and the goal is to eventually find it repugnant: “I hate Disney because of the life-sucking spirit that comes with the fun.”
This may seem all so “fairytaleish” to ones mind because your spheres are so badly blended; therefore I strongly suggest a reading of II Peter chapters 1&2 (and even 3). You will be amazed at how accurately they apply to this setting, and able to realign your thoughts and perspectives to reality by washing with the water of the word.
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The Dark-Moon vs. The “Darkside”:
Using the Hebrews 4:12 surgeon’s scalpel again, we can divide our dark-moon nature that everyone has from birth-- which should be covered up as is nakedness--, from the “darkside” evil that must be replaced deep within ones core. Without making the distinction we end up with the Star Wars witchcraft idea that “The Force is neither good nor bad, depending on how you use it”; i.e. Yin and Yang in one circle of life-Force; i.e. Elsa’s idea that there is no right or wrong, it’s just following your heart honestly that matters.
But we can make a distinction because God makes the distinction. Allow me to explain:
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” Matthew 5:14-16.
Said simplistically in the old, easy to comprehend, “good vs. bad” Christian perspective, this concept sufficiently describes our generic human condition that we call salvation. But, in our now complex age of confusion through alternate versions of perspective via the details, more distinction is necessary for accuracy sake, because the seemingly insignificant “slack hand” of generality is now used nefariously against us. I am making a surgeon’s distinction between the candle light in the house and the public shining light of good works which are intimately connected.
In the New Age concept presented by Star Wars and apparently secretly leaked into Frozen, the darkness must be balanced with good, which is how Anna supposedly fixed Elsa’s uncontrollable storm with her sacrificial love. This is the common idea today that believes you get to heaven because the goodness outweighs the wickedness until it all comes out right in the wash. But while some isolated elements of this idea of “sacrificial love” are correct in their nature, this whole concept is in direct conflict with God’s word:
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one” Romans 3:10.
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy (menstrual) rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind (of iniquity on faded leaves), have taken us away” Isaiah 64:6.
God tells us through his word that there is just no way any amount of “good” we do on our part can make up for the bad, because the bad is not what we do but who we are. Therefore, if we can’t even help ourselves in this balancing attempt, how much less can we help someone else? We know this scriptural principle is true by evaluating our “score” in keeping the Ten Commandments, while considering that only one murder makes you a murderer and not someone who has “done a lot of good too” that makes up for it. Likewise, breaking any one commandment, one time, makes you a breacher of God’s law and worthy of the defined death penalty as a resulting judgment. It just makes sense whether you agree with it or not; it’s The Law.
The moon has virtually no light of itself. As far as light goes it has no intrinsic value but the ability to reflect light.
So the moon, by capitalizing on this lone virtue, feels that it earns its place as a star by worthy reflection, i.e. “doing good.” This is the religious prude, who by earnestly reflecting the “good light” of works, hides the fact that her heart is still as dark and dead as if there were no sun at all. But, when observing her from her public presentation, as long as she maintains a visual alignment with the sun (obedience to the law), she shines brightly in the sky and is counted among the lights of heaven, no one the wiser by the naked eye of simplicity. This is the New Age of world Democracy: The idea that by choosing to do good, all humanity can live in peace. The truth is that this is actually a very true and worthy concept to be applied… but it does nothing for the dark, dead heart of the moon, who, in spite of her reflection efforts, has no life whatsoever. Even an ax-murderer can learn to clean a toilet to everyone’s advantage, yet the Judge is not impressed in regards to the murder trial; it simply does not apply to the case.
So what’s a girl to do?
The one-chapter book of Jude helps us see more clearly, as, (perhaps being the second to the last book for a reason), it reveals the mature darkness near the conclusion of this Age that allows us to “look back” to see where the path divided, much as I have done by looking back to Cinderella now knowing where it allowed us to go on the journey of where we will end up if we continue to follow this course.
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ… These are… wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever” Jude 1:4,13.
By proximity to Earth, the moon is our intimate example of exposing the nature of a wandering star, but in truth, this phrase is primarily speaking of planets as we have already discussed. From our vantage point on earth, planets shine very much like stars, but by charted observation over time, they don’t act like stars.
These wandering stars are in Type, clothed in righteousness but not in salvation; reflecting good works while having a cold, dead, dark core. They are in effect pretenders that create confusion by their star-like shine with erratic nature. The scriptures make a distinction between these two elements of salvation and works, which combine to reveal a true child of God:
“…for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness…” Isaiah 61:10.
Remember, both Satan and his fallen angels can perform works of righteousness which makes them appear as producers of light:
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” II Corinthians 11:14-15.
And so, by adding verse 13 to this, along with our above passage in Jude, we discover that there are three distinct pretenders in the dark realm that shine brightly: Satan, fallen angels, and unregenerate men with deceitful works of righteousness:
“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ” II Corinthians 11:13.
Meaning no offence but declaring facts: These deceitful men are very religious and outwardly honorable and godly. And now we can see a need for the distinction between the public robe of righteousness and the clothes of salvation beneath.
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The Daystar:
What is a planet to do? It has no star-like abilities to shine within its nature, and even if it could somehow be infused with such ability; to burn like a star would be to kill all life besides that of its burning fire, no earth-type life can live on the sun, and in kind; no man can even look at the sun for its brightness. Likewise, no man has seen God for the same reason (John 1:17-18). Apparently the moon is just out of luck; It can’t be self-luminating like the sun lest it kill everything, but with a cold heart it can’t sustain life either. The best it can do is to reflect the suns light and remain hopelessly dead inside.
The same goes for planets; Wandering Stars… except for the unique life-giving planet called earth. It doesn’t self-luminate like the sun, but it’s not dead like the moon; it bears and sustains life with a perfect combination. How does it do that?
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:” II Peter 1:19.
While this sounds poetically cryptic, what is this saying actually?
Applying it to our analogy of the cosmos representing our being clothed in salvation as different from righteousness, the dead moon represents Satan (and his kingdom Islam) as he appears luminated in righteousness of the Law without the heart of salvation from within. In this deeper concept of our walk, it’s the planet Earth that represents mankind in general and the woman in Type, but because we are the earth and so cannot observe our own reflection, we look at the moon as our observable Type that reflects the sun to see how this works. And so, like as God’s people being described sometimes male and sometimes female for discussion sake, we see that the many Types cycle repeatedly but are used interchangeably in explanations of various truths. It is in this deeper understanding that we learn; when we make the distinction regarding true-light vs. false-light, we see that the surface luminance doesn’t tell the whole story. God confirms this distinction by calling both the sun and moon “great lights” (Genesis 1:16) and further by declaring there are even different kinds of star glory (“…for one star differeth from another star in glory” I Corinthians 15:41). This goes quite deep so let’s just leave it at that.
In II Peter’s above chapter, there is quite a truth regarding prophecy that we will also not cover here, but is connected to the surety of prophecy as a temporary confidence in Type of the Old Testament Law of dead rocks reflecting surface light of righteousness while the prophecies shine light deep down in the cracks of our faith as it were. We understand that the internal fire day-star arising in our hearts was long anticipated by clinging to the prophecies, which gave some internal heat until the Holy Spirit filled our heart with a much more dynamic fire of personal enlightenment. Then the prophecies become confirmation of our experience.
Once Jesus Christ came to infuse his followers with his very nature, by first dying to liberate us from the confining law, he rose again to offer New (Testament) life by the infused power of the Holy Spirit into our quickened hearts. Jesus in effect gave our spirits new mitochondria (*1). We see now, that the day-star of this verse is the action of the Spirit of God himself as he dwells within our temple (the believer’s being):
“For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did…” Hebrews 7:19.
“By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament” Hebrews 7:22.
“These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance...” John 14:25-26.
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” I Corinthians 3:16.
“And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” II Corinthians 6:16.
In our Typology revealed in the cosmos, this Holy Spirit is the molten core of planet earth that necessarily aids the sun in sustaining life. It is very much the identifying glass slipper in Cinderella’s possession that matches the one in the Princes’. It is the marriage of man and wife, Christ and mankind. This day-star molten-core of fire and light is fundamentally really deep (pun intended for impact), so I would like to expand on this concept a little.
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Specific Purposes:
From a scientific point of view it is very interesting that the molten core of the earth is absolutely necessary to life on many simultaneous planes; heat being only one, the refreshing of the crust another, but to me, the stabilizing magnetic field that protects the earth from radiation and such, is without a doubt as mysterious to contemplate as playing with magnets on your kitchen table. You may comprehend a bit of the science behind it, but it’s still just “to unreal” to ever stop marveling at its mysterious invisible power interacting on here-and-now stuff in seemingly unnatural ways. Electrical magnetic fields are in that same category but even more “sci-fi” to the mind in what they can do.
But as hot and as molten as the Earth’s core is to perfect advantage for sustaining life, isn’t it curious that it’s not supposed to erupt from the surface more than a little from time to time? It’s just far too powerful.
Understanding that the Father, which cannot be seen because of his glory (Exodus 33:20-23), is a Spirit (John 4:24), and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth (i.e. according to eternal and temporal rules), and, understanding that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the risen Christ that now dwells within our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:16-17), we begin to comprehend that while the fire of the Holy Spirit, that so perfectly gives sustenance to life in many various ways, is just too powerful to leak out onto the surface more than a little from time to time. The Old Testament face of Moses so brightened by reflection (Exodus 34:29-35), is sure testament that this is a correct interpretation of the New Testament Typology of the glory contained deep within the Christian (Proverbs 4:23, Ephesians 3:14-19). It’s contained under the crust for a very good reason.
And so that you can here glean the powerful connotations, though risking your misunderstanding until it is explained, I’m just going to spill the beans now and tell you that the Fire of the Holy Ghost is feminine in nature, (after all, women got their Genesis 1:27 likeness of God from somewhere). I understand that this is really going to cause you alarm in your faith as you presently understand it, but we will seriously address this in upcoming Posts as we continue to explore the Grand Tapestry of scripture. But for now, let’s just ponder that thought in the back of our minds and move forward with the present topic.
So we see a strange but true suggestion in the Typology; that although we hold the fiery Spirit of God within our earthen vessels to give us powerful life from within, it’s not technically the fire from within that produces the light of our righteousness without, which everyone is supposed to see and glorify our unseen Father in heaven. If we don’t reflect the Lord’s light through our life conduct, though we may have a molten core, nobody sees the light as if it’s hidden under a bushel. The internal fire is the mitochondria power-plant of our heart, but it’s the external light of reflection on our crust that is to help the world not stumble in the darkness. Matthew 5:16 tells us that our candle, like a mini sun that is now an infused part of our makeup, is not our good works but only empowers our good works which everyone then sees. Likewise, the empowerment of our wives gives them fire within, granting them internal life to enable a heartfelt reflection effort that is not forced: This effort is commonly called Love (I Peter 1:22). This is the Ephesians 5 Typology of Christ and the Church concluding in vv.32-33.
The nature of what the world sees in the viewing is not found in what we reflect. It’s found in the fire of motive. All the good works in the world, though beautiful, does not produce in the observer the desire to glorify God the Father if the Holy Spirit fire is not burning furiously within our hearts. Read Ephesians 2:1-6 in the light of this Post and discover new and wonderfully deep, empowering understanding. We will explore v.7 later as it speaks of the Grand Tapestry design.
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Conclusion:
By understanding this dual function of the clothes of salvation and the robe of righteousness, we are able to see where the problem actually lies and why it is so hard to identify when ignorant of the distinction.
Nobody can see the internal fire, but the reflective light is easily seen while it comes and goes in cyclic waves of success and failure as we traverse our human course. When our reflection begins to dim by misalignment, we become alarmed and step up our efforts of good works. This makes the world cheer for our full-moon light and we feel better about ourselves for having done it. But in laboriously maintaining our rigid reflection in outward righteousness, it is easy to remain absent-minded regarding our fire of salvation that burns unseen deep in the core that constantly renews our surface crust (Romans 12:1-2, Job 29:20). That internal fire has an entirely different purpose (Psalm 51:10-13, Isaiah 40:31) yet is critically tied to the surface light for sustaining planetary life. The neglect of the internal fire is the cause of a frozen heart, which Anna’s heart of unconditional love, cannot thaw, but becomes frozen too in the exhausting failed effort (Matthew 24:12). Her frozen heart having been disillusioned, changes tactics, goes to the mystics, and finds another way with another prince.
When the world gets the glorious idea of a collective surface-reflection in righteousness, (even if they don’t recognize where that reflection source is coming from), the result is indeed a universally beneficial cleanliness of “the public facilities.” And who is going to argue against the good of that? Certainly not me, (Deuteronomy 15:11, Psalm 82:3-4, Proverbs 21:13).
This righteousness is Glenn Beck’s greatly commendable, much-needed charity toward the illegal Central American children flooding through our governmentally unprotected borders to our own destruction; It is the Mother Teresa approach demanded by the overwhelming circumstances of God’s growing national displeasure (Haggai 1:5-11, [the “house” is now a metaphor for our spiritual lives today since we are the new temple]).
My argument, (which is God’s argument reflected), is not against the much needed charity work, but that the sparkling clean appearances only mask the continuing hidden darkness within; let’s call it germs and bacteria and disease in our metaphorical public bathroom. The swept-and-shined presentation is a surface illusion that generally functions quite well for the cosmetic emotional benefit of the general population, but the illusion is what keeps them from seeking solutions for the spirit of death that lingers because it wasn't actually cleaned:
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation” Matthew 12:43-45.
God’s Spirit does not reside in governments, but in men; i.e. people. By the failure of her governments, America has observed the effects of losing her internal Light, but her response is to re-beautify the exterior like so much cosmetics on the proverbial pig. In this way, her earnest renewed efforts of righteous reflection are just the hypocrisy of Jude’s wandering stars; her heart toward God is cold as ice. Enter stage left, the Jewish State today as Christianity brings Elsa home retaining her disdain for the Prince of peace but tempered by her sister's unconditional love.
Recently returned Israel is today promoting multi-culturalism to the extreme degree of “any god will do, so long as we have mutual peace.” But the Two-State division of Jerusalem and or the nation is an abomination unto God (Amos 7:17, Matthew 12:25, Daniel 11:39b, Zechariah 14:21, etc.) with great consequences.
Having said that, don’t for a second think that I am anti-Israel because of their confusion. I am not, (see Post 287 “The Three-Part Yin” http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-three-part-yin.html).
I’m just concerned for the Kingdom of Heaven.
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(*1) “Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell. They are organelles that act like a digestive system that takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy for the cell. The process of creating cell energy is known as cellular respiration. Most of the chemical reactions involved in cellular respiration happen in the mitochondria” - (http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_mito.html).
It is curious to note that the Mitochondria is supplied only through the mother’s contribution of the egg.
(*) [8/14/14]: Having been challenged by a reader's comment, I re-checked every reference used and discovered a type-O, made the correction, and added a reference as copied here:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18, (speaking to the legislation of God’s society and people [Genesis 19:5-6, Malachi 3:5], and not implying forced values on other societies who don’t know God; [see Jeremiah 27:9-10 and Daniel 1:8,17+4:8 for two different examples]).
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Monday, July 21, 2014
“You Don’t Know My Wife!”
- she's Frozen -
Post 329
As we search out the actual purpose for this very dangerous sixth-age of complexity, the phrase; “Husband, empower your wife,” evokes two very emotionally charged reactions: Either the elation of the bra burning, child killing, “liberated” self-centered woman with rights… or fear of the same. “You don’t know my wife!” accurately expresses the knowledge of what would very likely transpire with such an empowerment.
I know a large number of Christian husbands who’s wives are so wild of heart that if the fence is not built high or strong enough, the wild pony will either enthusiastically vault the fence, or shoulder through it with determination, and never be seen again. In fact I know more than a few Christian wives who fear this even of themselves, and I know of too many others who are already well into battling serious psychosis as a “personality disorder,” for related reasons that they don’t understand.
This is not a minor or insignificant issue to be passed over in our efforts to liberate oppressed women, but a very real and common debilitating condition in today’s family of Christ. A large percentage of godly husbands have such urgent needs of micro-managing the requirements of their unruly or fragile wives that they can’t afford to be preoccupied with the Lord’s work of spreading the Gospel to the lost. There is simply no hope of their wives having the ability to self-manage without soon finding themselves in one disaster or another, then crying; “Abandonment!” as a defense, and so these godly men are reduced to a fruitless Christian life of full-time servitude to their wives’ personal needs while they are accused of being a “Control freak!”
The wife with a wild heart and that of the fragile heart are two very different manifestations of the same sin and require two very different management techniques. My two-fold purpose here is not to delve into those bottomless realms of fruitless management; my purpose is to clearly identify the condition for what it is and thereby enable young men to earnestly avoid acquiring such needy wives in the first place; as well as help those women, who will be or already are such wives, to find the cure for their sin and end the condition.
Is it too forward to call it sin? Let me be even more clear; There is no excuse for Christian women to be found in either condition. They are found in such a condition by a faulty perspective of Christianity, and therefore of marriage.
Obviously such a statement is going to be highly offensive to one who currently possesses such a perspective-- even validated by their personal life experience-- and I am going to need your leave of extended grace in order to support the truth of such a statement before it can be received as anything other than the personal opinion of a strange man who does not know you/her personally. My request is that you swallow the personal offence with a generous heart and focus on the hope that I can actually offer a functionally useful new perspective that can enable a cure for the condition. I cannot reach those whose condition has become so much a part of their lives that they wouldn’t leave it if they could because it’s “who they are”; I am speaking to those who don’t want to be “that woman.”
You don’t have to be.
But here’s the thing in this dangerous age; this is a woman’s job to do.
If you will notice, I indicated that a man can either avoid marrying a woman with this condition, or he can choose to be chained to her. He cannot change her. It’s hers to do or not do (loosely applying I Corinthians 7:27-29). All he can do beyond fencing her in for her own good, is offer her alternative concepts and encouraging support in hopes that she will hear the unfamiliar voice of a different perspective and choose to change her troubled paradigm where fences are no longer needed because her heart is now pliable and inclined to another way (Ezekiel 36:26+II Corinthians 3:3). This directly applies to the common question that never goes away no matter how many times it is answered:
“If there really is a Loving God, why does he allow all the suffering in the world?”
Have you assimilated (*1) the answer yet, or forgotten it time and again because it never sinks in past a faulty perspective that waits on God and her husband to fix the things that are hers to do, but does the things that then need to be fixed?
Before we continue forward in providing the new perspective discovered in the later ages of the Grand Tapestry, let’s contemplate the wild or fearful heart, that is not just an unfortunate condition of natural causes but one that is now intentionally inflicted on our women like hiding HIV tainted needles in clean hotel bedsheets:
“…the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way” Matthew 13:24-25.
Let’s explore just such an infliction on the kingdom of heaven, which we men permit by our sleeping (i.e. not instructing in the ways of God).
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Disney’s Frozen:
Of Disney’s foundational three “Princess” fairytales, Cinderella was the most direct and accurate representation of the Gospel message of Christ Jesus as it relates to “the kingdom of heaven.” Having thereby established Disney’s offerings as wholesome and even Christian, good Christian minded families eagerly opened the door of defense to let Disney in as one of the trusted family in a world of normally wicked entertainment in that stream.
I have shown that our trust was beguiled by a soon sly and intentional, gradual perversion through each Princess story that followed, but even though we recognize it now as wicked, it doesn’t sink in as dangerous because it’s already accepted as a part of the family. This concept is not trivial but pivotal; it’s how, without knowing, we acquire new perspectives. I recommend a later refresher of Posts 248-250 regarding the previous Princess stories, because I believe that you will be quite surprised in going back, to find how much your paradigm foundationally changes depending on which version is being accessed at the moment. This is because movies present a compartmentalized world whereby just choosing to watch it, we have accepted the producer’s rules in that universe at the time, and the realism of sight-and-sound allows our heart to buy it as a reality while knowing that it isn’t. This is not a good thing: accepting unbiblical indoctrination as the price for being entertained, weakens our resolve of what matters when confronted with a different worldview, even in true reality. Like Selena Gomez in Post 308e, we continue to take one small step at a time where we already know we shouldn’t be going but the pleasure of the going has already captured us:
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof [i.e. the power of actually being godly]…” II Timothy 3:4-5.
As the latest installment in our trending princess-themed demonic indoctrination that moves our daughters to reach the Genesis 6:2 stage of the Days of Noah, Frozen is apparently taking the church by storm. I had until recently enjoyed avoiding exploring another fairytale, intending to wait until I could focus my efforts on the topic as a collection under its own title, but I am told first-hand that not only are Christian ministers using Frozen’s younger princess as a scriptural example of the Church’s gospel message in action, but our already early-inflicted women and daughters are deeply taken by the very appealing and liberating song of the wayward mature older sister.
Upon exploration, I find this recent fairytale fits our present topic elaborately and timely, and so although it is several Princess installments out of order, I include it here, exposing Disney’s manipulation that “hides the magic but leaves the fun.” A very profound and telling declaration by the mystic trolls.
The older sister, (once a princess but now the young queen without a king), is questionably the main star in this unique “princess” story that is yet further absent of the heretofore progressively diminishing “prince” as the ultimate goal of desire in the original storyline theme and representation of the Christ. Similarly, for the first time in a Disney princess story, it is not the magic of an outside evil protagonist, but the princess’s own magical “storm within” internal conflict; Mein Kampf; Jihad; (it all means the same thing), that deeply resonates with today’s women and draws their heart to her in empathy rather than just compassion. The poor girl was born with her particular infliction and while she never had any notion of using it for evil, circumstances all came together one day to cause her younger sister serious mental harm by it’s innocent use actually ignorant of its true adult power. Fortunately her sister recovered-- with special help from Sumerian/Kabbalah style ancient mystics (*2-extracted) -- but the event revealed to the ruling family that this was a dangerous nature that must be controlled and hidden for everyone’s sake. So through the rest of her childhood this poor firstborn princess had a dark secret nature that was so powerful she had to carefully manage hiding it from everyone 24-7. It consumed her life, and transformed her very nature.
We accepted long ago by previous installments, that, in the fairytale world, magic can be either a good thing or an evil thing, so because of this accepted amoral perspective of magic, and because she was innocently born with this infliction, we cannot blame her as being “wicked” just because she has it: “It’s not her fault.”
And to make sure our fairytale paradigm of sympathetic empathy sides in compassion with her life-long struggle, we see a weaseley obnoxious self-serving old man is the only person in the kingdom that boldly declares her exposed infliction as SORCERY to be rejected from the kingdom that clearly has a common aversion to magic in the complete sense. Apparently (if only silently) repulsed at the discovery, this fairytale kingdom is more biblically literate than most Christian viewers, and sees sorcery equally heinous as murder and such examples of a Godless nature to be eternally condemned on the day of Judgment:
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and SORCERERS, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” Revelation 21:8, all-cap emphasis added.
Surely every Christian child should know such basic things, but being caught up in the allurements of the fairytale-world, our unbelief-suspending fairytale perspective wrongly presupposes there is sometimes both good magic and bad magic, and clearly this girl is not wanting to be bad, so her case is not to be included in such passages intended for “reality only.” (See Genesis 6:5, Deuteronomy 31:21, Proverbs 6:18, II Corinthians 10:5, etc., for correction). Obviously we would not agree with anything that a self-serving weaseley man thinks, therefore our unbilical sympathies for her condition are supported as the right moral view to adopt in this compartmentalized fairytale-world that usually excludes Christian faith, even though no magic is shown as publicly acceptable in this particular kingdom.
So, when at her coronation she is unable to hide the dark nature of her heart any longer and she accidentally lets it slip out so that the whole kingdom learns “what kind of girl she really is,” they recoil in alarm and she runs from the kingdom in shame, to live isolated and alone “for the sake of everyone.” See how self-sacrificing she is? She really does mean to do the right thing, even as a "leper," handicapped with an affliction she never asked for or wanted. “Woe is me!” is her helpless action as she runs to the cold mountains of lonely suffering for the sake of the kingdom that rejected her, rather than fall to her knees and confess her faults:
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” James 5:16.
And here in the mountains of loneliness, by her chosen option, is where we see her transform before our eyes from a struggling girl to woman committed. And what a woman!
As she trudges alone up a snow-covered mountain she begins mournfully in what soon turns out to be a very powerful, emotional song and routine, and suddenly she isn’t trudging anymore but walking effortlessly in a world that she realizes belongs to her as she experiments with her sorcery, eventually making a great castle of her infliction. She has become The Ice Queen (not to be lost on the common phrase long applied to a self-focused heart):
[Verse]
“The snow glows white on the mountain tonight,
not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the queen.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside,
Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried.
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see,
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know.
Well, now they know.
[Chorus]
Let it go, let it go,
Can’t hold it back anymore.
Let it go, let it go,
Turn away and slam the door.
I don’t care what they’re going to say,
Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway.
[Verse]
It’s funny how some distance
makes everything seems small,
And the fears that once controlled me,
can’t get to me at all.
[Cut from the film, but kept in the version sung in the movie’s credits:
Up here in the cold thin air I finally can breathe,
I know I’ve left a life behind but I’m too relieved to grieve!]
It’s time to see what I can do,
To test the limits and break through.
No right, no wrong, no rules for me,
I’m free.
[Chorus]
Let it go, let it go,
I am one with the wind and sky.
Let it go, let it go,
You’ll never see me cry.
Here I stand and Here I’ll stay,
Let the storm rage on…
[New tempo Verse]
My power flurries through the air into the ground,
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around.
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast;
I’m never going back;
The past is in the past.
[Chorus]
Let it go, let it go,
And I’ll rise like the break of dawn.
Let it go, let it go,
That perfect girl is gone.
Here I stand, in the light of day.
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway!”
- “Let it Go,” Original music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (http://www.rotoscopers.com/2013/10/27/let-it-go-full-movie-lyrics/).
If you are privileged enough not to have heard this song I strongly recommend that you don’t go looking to hear the music of this lyrics, because the intoxicating power of this song is like heroin to women. Focus instead on the words without the music and animation, and see with a clear mind-- unmanipulated by trolls-- this young woman give up her long struggle to be “a good girl,” who abides by God’s laws of “right and wrong,” and finally give in to “the dark side” that has long craved to overtake her. This concept is even more profound when we contemplate the witchcraft catchphrase used in Star Wars: “There is a force that is neither good nor bad, depending on how you use it.” (The stunning direct but secret connection will be made later in the footnotes [see *2a]). She now abandons the paradigm that declares there even is right and wrong at all, and embraces the boundless wickedness of her heart in the passionate vow of finality as she can no longer be shamed by people’s reaction to her values and conduct.
Now because it’s a fairytale, and her struggle is in attempting to hide her fanciful “magic powers,” we buy the innocence suggested and are blinded to the obvious: Like leprosy of old, her frigid heart contagiously inflicts everything she encounters. But if we would but open our eyes, the words in this song and through the story are very telling indeed and openly reveal that the struggle we actually resonate with is far more real than “unrealistic magic powers,” even without the accompanying music and animation that drives the point home.
The sound and animation of this “woman liberating” song is quite reminiscent of the sensual evening-gown/song competition performed by Miss America winners. The dress, the makeup, the strut, the music and the words, what she learns she can do when she lets it out; all combine to scream the power of confident, shameless, unrestrained, super sexuality: “Let the wild pony finally run!”
Barely beyond her sister’s comment: “Woa! Elsa you look… different,” then quickly adding; “It’s a good different,” the topic of unvoiced argument is unquestionably the long pent-up emotional personification that is unbecoming of a decent woman but strongly appeals to the base nature of us all. Read the lyrics again and tell me I’m wrong: The song preaches for your daughter to shed the shame of powerful dark hidden desires and to proudly and independently let them out into the light of public observance as a glory of her femininity.
In spite of the fairytale’s suggestion that this raging-storm-within phase was short-lived before her sister successfully brought her back into the kingdom, her firm declarations tell another story, and likewise our women have been captured and held firmly by the message of this one song just as surely as Elsa herself. In truth, like the vow of this song; once the darkness becomes adopted as a favorable part of “who I am,” there really is no going back… even when you go back.
(With one distinct qualifying exception made at the end of this Post).
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The Raging Storm:
The real issue never examined is not how long she can hold out hiding “the real me that wants to get out”; but why she is possessed with the affliction at all. Women are told by; movies, friends, emotions, and their therapist, that a woman should never be restrained, by herself or others, but they are anyway. The result is very much the Post 249 Cinderella syndrome of self-focused humanity in excessive emotionalism that wants no solution to diminish the self-imposed tortured feelings that conquer her, but wants everyone to try and fail because it heightens the sensation of the “imprisoned captive” of self-pity.
The foundational sin is centering one’s humanity as the focus of attention. It’s the ballroom dancer at the top of the stair screaming “Am I beautiful or what?!” It’s the deification of the base self by imagining it as worth imprisoning for safe keeping so that it can attempt to escape and be free with implied value attributed by the captivity. The desire is not what to do after, but the act of liberation itself, because the act is what glorifies woman over man or man over God, very much like the phrase Allahu-Akbar meaning “Allah is greater”; It’s not really about Allah being God but about Allah being more God than God. It’s Peter Pan’s “second star” that is now seen in the intro to every Disney presentation as a foundational value. But why second?
Without comparison it’s just a star, and that’s not glorious enough for its vanity, so it’s brighter and higher than the first star. It needs the first star as a value of comparison that gives it value. Its value is not in itself but in a comparison of the one who’s value is in itself. The escaped woman rejoices that she has escaped but suddenly finds her value gone. Her value was in being held against her will. It’s like the concept of the young woman who longs for her wedding day but never contemplates being a wife. It’s the full moon that forgets her glorious light is gifted from the sun, yet can’t leave the sun and retain her glory. It causes schizophrenia, psychosis, a raging storm within.
This is a problem of the heart, and the heart is quite unknowable (Jeremiah 17:9), which is why it is almost impossible to describe her conflict, yet know it intimately by experience. But, as we are familiar now with the value of Typology, a feminist woman’s struggle to be liberated from man is the easy-to-understand Type describing the self-deified human heart’s desire to be liberated from God. This is the raging storm as simply as can be stated, while it manifests in various presentations.
Since we are reducing this affliction to its base nature for identification purposes, we can realize that women are not the only ones afflicted. Many men too have overpowering dark natures that a decent society requires them to hide, but the manifestation of their darkness appears somewhat differently than that of women, though it is very much the same at its foundation.
As long as we allow ourselves to imagine that our affliction is both a rare and incurable burdensome nature of humanity that everyone else doesn’t have to struggle with, we expect that it is our social duty to hide it for as long as possible and suffer the private burden quietly alone as if nobody could understand our struggle or how strong we are for successfully hiding it. “If they only knew…” becomes the secret pride of our troubled lives that tries to make us believe we are stronger than anyone knows.
What a relief then when the society finally admits that everyone has a dark side and declares it’s now ok to let it out; “To do less is hypocrisy! Unfurl the rainbow flag! Liberation is finally yours!”
Such declarations are the foundational interpretation of today’s feminine Liberation and Empowerment. This liberation is what we saw in Miley Cyrus as she came of age on the public stage and horrified all the women who have been successful at hiding the fact that they secretly battle similar dark-moon natures, and it resonated gleefully with those women who have already failed and embraced it. The secret is out at last.
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Troubled Faith:
But while the world’s women (and Sodomites) have been ramping up to shamelessly unleash their darkside like a storm on society; Jude-type wandering star Christians (*3), who have tended to lag two steps behind society, now find themselves convinced of what the world until recently believed: There is nothing to be done but train yourself to hide it by great efforts of diligent self-control. Put on the plastic face; “Don’t let them in, don’t let them see; be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, Don’t feel; put on a show, make one wrong move and everyone will know.”
The result of such a perspective is one of three distinct manifestations:
1) A rigid, religious prude; the Ice Princess that “shuts everyone out” lest they learn her true nature.
2) A wild pony that needs a very tall, very strong, very confined fence to keep her secretly-regarded wild-side contained (Job 36:21, Psalm 66:18), or
3) A fragile helpless psychosis so fearfully withdrawn in her self-protection that she needs her nose wiped with soothing words as it drools down her chin and into her listless lap, and done just as she requires lest she lash out in a sudden flash of escaping rage that she quickly apologizes for in shame.
So, although she might kick and scream and publicly resent her husband for “imprisoning” her, in her soul she knows that she desperately needs the external governance, and finds unconfessed security in her husband’s tight rule.
“Unto the woman he said…thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” Genesis 2:16.
Said simply, This was the age of the Old Testament Law, and, perhaps like the apparently happy, dignified, silent, mousy mother in Frozen; for a few thousand years this seemed to work reasonably well for God’s people, as women were content to let their husbands lead them, with Sara as their patron example:
“For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement (4423: alarm)” I Peter 3:5-6.
What fear and shocked alarm is Peter speaking of in this conditional “children of Abraham” admonition to New Testament women, who are freed from the law?
“And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah” Genesis 20:2.
Was there cause or room for Sarah to fear and be amazed at the danger Abraham’s failure put her in? ABSOLUTELY!
So what is Peter getting at here? He is getting at the very crux of this ENTIRE PROBLEM in the Christian world today.
Peter’s admonition is regarding the submissive heart that honors God-given authority of protection and guidance, especially in its blunders of weakness. You know; “…honor and obey…in good and in bad, for better or for worse…” and all that “stuff” in your mother’s vow that makes you nauseous just thinking about.
Without understanding the scripture’s Grand Tapestry, this seems to be a very foolish recommendation yet the only conclusion available from scripture. But if, by the nature of God, we are to believe there is another function designed into the Type, we can grasp that Sarah’s faith of submission was in God as she practiced that faith by obeying her husband per God’s command (James 2:18). We learn in the historical narrative that God’s “guardian angel” angel, miraculously kept the king from harming Sarah when Abraham seemed to fail so utterly (Genesis 20:3-6). Such an experience gave Sarah hands-on proof of faith, that God was indeed trustworthy when we obey his commands even when nothing makes sense. This is the admonition Peter gives New Testament Christian women: trust God through practical application of submission to his commands. God usually worked his provision for Sarah indirectly through Abraham, and Abraham had to "fail" Sarah before she could personally see God’s ultimate provision in her obedience of submission. Now God’s provision is no longer just fanciful theory as her faith is applied in reality by obeying her husband.
Hands-on reality is what separates our faith from fairytale. Until God proved himself through Abraham’s failure, God’s provision through Abraham was just theory to Sarah.
Similarly, a lifelong struggle that fails to overcome but succeeds in not giving in, is a failed faith in practice, that, while avoiding some surface undesirable consequences, creates deeper and more hurtful ones that are well entrenched over time. Hiding the darkside might very well be the right thing to do as children, until we overcome, but the goal of a mature person is to shed the darkside; not learn to manage it (I Corinthians 13:10-11, Romans 6:6-8, II Corinthians 5:17). This concept comes quite clear as we continue to explore the ages of the Grand Tapestry and understand its ultimate purpose at the conclusion. In otherwords we need the bigger perspective of God.
Observance of the Old Testament confining law-- though somewhat oppressive if you want to see it that way-- kept God’s newly liberated people protected until they recognized the Shepherd and his voice. A New Testament spiritually mature people, now further liberated from even the law itself, have no fear of what the law protected them from, because our quickened hearts are bound in love to the Shepherd who protects and sustains us as we heed his voice. This is true liberty: freedom and protection.
NEVER be content to control sin in your life; the goal is to actually eschew it, (H5493: turn off, G1578: shun, G157: “off”). In otherwords; “Off” sin entirely (See: Job 1:8, I Peter 3:10-11). Be freed from sin by the death of a glorified-self focus (Romans 6:6-7).
This is the choice not made by Elsa when her infliction was made public. When a choice was finally required, she chose instead to regard her wickedness and abandon her kingdom (Romans 6:16-19). The alternate answer to the Ice Princess’s “storm within” is found in the following accusatory passage:
“Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god” Malachi 2:11.
Applying the virtue of this verse in the other gender role; the answer is in the love of holiness in place of self-love of the base nature. The holiness of the LORD is what made Cinderella so desirable back when we loved Cinderella. She loved being holy in the midst of her circumstance. But the perspective of the princess has really changed since then, and so has our own interests, which find our desires are now gravitating toward the shameless, sexualized beauty of the ice queen, who has revealed herself to be the daughter of a strange god. The question to both genders becomes; Why have we changed what appeals to us?
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The Age of Liberation:
What then, do we godly men, do with our immature Christian wives, who having failed to trust God in the age of their youth through obedience to their fathers, now struggle with a rebellious heart toward their husbands as God’s next-level representative of Himself. Do we open the gate and let them run wild? Do we drive those out that won’t run for fear of what they will become?
As a legitimate response to demonically unspeakable violent oppression against women today, the democratic world has taken that choice from our hands through legitimizing feminine self-governance into Social Law as the reply. So now, if your wife wants an abortion you have no say in her “feminine health rights.” If your daughter wants to be a lesbian or date a bad boy, you now have no say in her “feminine liberation.” These are just a few examples in a much larger concept: Don’t imagine that instruction in the Christian faith is excluded from the social legislation. Like the Frozen ship going down in the storm; Dad and Mom’s generation of Republican governance is dead, and the young girls must manage themselves in this New Age.
The question now is, What will the pony do? The choice is now fully in her own heart, and we already know what liberated wild ponies are want to do-- even without the “animal rights therapists" declaring that they have a right to run and are better off for it. And frankly, it’s daily becoming harder to disagree.
Am I suggesting that we Christians just go along with the world’s ways because we can’t fight them? If you have been reading my work for any length of time you know I mean no such thing (Psalm 1:1).
So what am I saying?
As long as you keep your wife fenced in and protected by your own rules and power, she cannot experience God’s direct provision. Like Abraham, you need to seem to fail your wife before her faith in God can be truly tested.
As foolishly alarming as such a statement sounds, it provides the truth that Sarah faced, and the admonition given to women by Peter. Is your wife’s faith in you, or in God through you? This is really deep.
As men, it is in our very nature-- our God-given nature-- and need, to be the provider and protector of our wives. The scriptures even confirm this obligatory nature as biblically affirmed:
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it;” Ephesians 5:25+.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” I Timothy 5:8.
So it seems completely counter productive to have to fail your wife to empower her faith in God. How can we confirm that such an idea is biblical? I mean besides Abraham, the father of our faith.
How about Jesus?
When Jesus came to earth for the sake of his betrothed, his disciples asked in anticipation when he would establish the promised kingdom that would finally liberate them from their oppressors (Acts 1:8), and on a similar note, the Devil himself offered Jesus that which would liberate all humanity, including his own beloved (Matthew 4:8-9). But Jesus seemed to fail his fiance in both instances, and instead went to the cross “abandoning” his future bride to be ravaged by the kings of the earth… enabling her, like Sarah, to trust fully in God without fear and amazement, even when nothing made sense.
Moses too, failed to get his people across the long anticipated river to the land promised. And now we begin to see a plan of God emerge through the circumstances. In each case, there is an important undeclared element missing that required the “failure” to produce. Likewise, the best thing a Christian minister can do for another man’s wife who longs for Christian leadership, is to seem to fail her by sending her home, even to a godless husband. Let God prove himself to her by disrupting her emotional perspective of need. This is a huge problem today as many ministers fail to understand these intricacies and so find themselves mired in scandal they never intended but felt obligated to enter for the sake of her Christian well-being. In such cases it’s the minister that lacks faith in God’s provision for her through her husband’s failure. His own natural desires to be honored by women create a hazard only avoidable by obedience to God’s laws.
“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband” I Corinthians 7:2.
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well” Proverbs 5:15.
So if we dare not accuse Jesus of failure, and we cannot accuse Moses or Abraham either, is it probable that you can rightly accuse your husband of failure when things don’t make sense and seem to go horribly wrong? (obviously there are limitations not covered in this general principle: Acts 5:29). Isn’t it more likely that God designed his failure for a reason, O ye of little faith?
Is God not greater than what we observe in our finite knowledge? Can we not by faith obey God’s commands, especially when things seem to go wrong? Can you now see the virtue in your mother’s wedding vows? They were not vows to your father but to God. They were vows of faith, as she promised to obey God's command to honor her husband in faith, knowing that her husband is but flesh.
“And he (God) said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness…” II Corinthians 12:9.
The Empowerment we need desperately to give our wives is faith in God, not in us. We do this by releasing our grip and seeming to fail so that her faith can take wings, no different than a parent does for a mature child: In the exercise of liberating them there is fear and doubts and concerns, and through these we give encouragement, council, and advice. The goal is to enable them capable of standing with God on their own faith, not relying on our faith to do the standing for them (Ephesians 6:13). A parent only has about eighteen years to help their child learn to wear the armor of God and practice in its use before they enter the battle alone. The time allotted to help ones wife prepare is undeclared, but she will stand before God on that day, by her own faith… or lack thereof. A foolish man wants to be his wife’s god between now and then, though God has given him that likeness to do. Much as the sun is as the moon’s god, though both were created to worship the Maker.
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Liberation or Liberation?
While the world promotes the Liberation and Empowerment of women to satisfy their fleshly desires of unacountability, God has another intent for the same event pre-written into this sixth age.
As I have often repeated, the answer of distinction is usually found in the surgeon’s scalpel, skillfully and knowledgably dividing the cancer from the healthy flesh (Hebrews 4:12+II Timothy 2:15) while the common eye can’t tell the difference: “It all looks... gooey.”
Today, as with Islam using the Old Testament and Catholics using the New; the distinction is not so much in the word used, but in the use of the word. Let me explain:
“But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;” I Corinthians 7:29.
What in the word does this mean? I’m not sure I really know to the degree I should, but let’s consider mixing this concept with another prophetic declaration:
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;…forbidding to marry…” I Timothy 4:1,3.
I am seriously suggesting that we are now entering the beginning of that time prophesied, and this women-liberating movement will have very legitimate “Christian” reasons for legislating marriage as unlawful imprisonment of women. Of course intimate relations and cohabitation will persist by mutual pleasure, so what are Christians to do when they can’t marry? Christ forbids fornication (Ephesians 5:3).
If we know that the law will soon require us to open the gates and let all ponies free because of those that are oppressed, then we must proactively prepare for such an unavoidable event rather than fight it. We need to use it to our advantage, because we know it is ordained of God (Romans 13:1).
The feminine empowerment that I speak of-- though being the same word as used by today’s wild women with a different purpose-- is the same liberty that Christ speaks of in the New Testament:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me (Jesus), because he (God) hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach DELIVERANCE to the captives, and recover the sight to the blind, to set at LIBERTY them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” Luke 4:18-19, all-cap emphasis added.
(See also: Isaiah 61:1, Leviticus 25:10, Psalm 119:43-45, Romans 8:21, II Corinthians 3:17, Galatians 5:1,13, etc.).
It is quite clear that God intended this ancient prophecy to be speaking of a very specific point in time; the time that Jesus came to earth to create an entire “paradigm of curing” through the breaking down of imprisoning walls of perspective.
Read it again.
But what many cannot see in the democratically legislated opening of all fences and gates, is that imprisonment in “the other master’s” dogfight-pen is not the same as sojourning in “this master’s” loving sheepfold:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them” John 10:1-6.
Now stay with me. I am sure you glazed over this passage because you are so familiar with it. But realizing in the last sentence that there is far more here than we might perceive, let’s consider this parable in the New Age, when the walls and gates are to be broken down, even against the faithful sheep’s desire.
Does it alarm the good shepherd that the sheepfold of protection might not remain? No. By the time the sheepfold of protection is destroyed the shepherd has prepared to put forth his sheep by familiarizing them with his leading voice (Matthew 28:19+Acts 11:19, 13:50-52). In effect, the shepherd preemptively opened the gate metaphorically before the world’s social legislation required it actually. His sheep are already happily roaming the pasturelands without leash or fence or care, like the Post 190 dog in the field chasing rabbits yet not displeasing his master for doing so, but rather actually delighting him. (Romans 8:1-2 [continue even to v.8]).
It is important to understand that the dog-leash, or pony-stall… or sheepfold, was actually for the purpose of identifying the proper shepherd of good will, as well as keeping the sheep safe until they did (Galatians 3:23-26). Once the sheep got that straight, the sheepfold can be left behind as they willingly follow the shepherd as one option among others (running, or following another shepherd, or going the faith alone). The sheepfold therefore is a Type of the Law and the proper shepherd must come through the gate of that law to become known, and then familiar to his sheep, before leading his sheep out of the law and into liberty (Romans 6:14-18).
Many “sheep-nappers” with exploitation as the goal, will use the confines of the sheepfold to convince the sheep of their authority as shepherd, but come in by another means (Matthew 24:24-25, Mark 13:22-23, II Corinthians 11:13-15, Galatians 2:4-5), this is indeed Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, forced marriage, State religions, etc., as they pervert the sheepfold of the written word and intent, by failing to use the porter’s gate for fear of being discovered as fraud (I Chronicles 9:22-27, Mark 13:34-37).
The substantial issue of exploitation is why the sheepfold will be deemed by legislation of man to be torn down in the effort to liberate the sheep.
What then, when we Christians seem to find ourselves feeling failed of God: wall-less; vulnerable in the open fields as far as the eye can see? There are no gates to identify the right shepherd, no walls of limitation for discovering breach! What is the Christian to do without a sheepfold of protection? It’s the same question as what Christians are to do without the sanctity of marriage, and what Jews are to do without the law. The Age is growing up fast!
The reason that this is not cause for fear and amazement in this sixth age-- though being the age of confusion-- is because the shepherd has already come and been recognized by the porter of the sheepfold and been made familiar over time, and so the limiting sheepfold has no further purpose. By breaking down the walls of restraint, the world is liberated to run wild toward their own destruction, while you follow the shepherd of good will to distances heretofore impossible because of the walls! (Jeremiah 33:3=John 3:8-12).
“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive” Genesis 50:20.
Can you come up with any reason why we might rejoice in our nation’s borders-of-security being unlawfully opened by our own foolish government to the children of other nations resulting in our shot-less conquest?
For one; we don’t have to send missionaries anymore, they’re coming to us!
But their salvation that could reclaim this land by numbers alone, is ours to do. Will we? or shall we hide behind the walls of our homes and mourn the loss of a great Christian nation because “they” didn’t protect us? They failed us!
If you are already so afraid of your American neighbors that you never got to know them even by name, the chance that you will now preach the gospel of salvation to invading foreigners is not high.
But this is only one reason. The scriptures have given us another in the example of the early Christians finding themselves persecuted in their own homeland were motivated to go into other nations and share the Gospel where they would not have otherwise gone (Acts 1:4+Mark 16:15+Acts 1:8+Acts 11:28, etc).
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Be Not Afraid: The Holy Spirit porter in you already knows the voice of the shepherd (Mark 5:35-36).
Why did Peter include afraid with amazement/alarm in the above passage of I Peter 3:5-6?
The answer is because fear is so heinous in fact that the fearful will be cast into the lake of fire with all the other abominable wickedness's listed (Revelation 21:8).
Apparently fear is something we are in fact accountable for as if we have a choice, but isn’t fear a spontaneous response like blinking? A person cannot rightly be accountable for something that is uncontrollable… can he? Likewise, the case of an uncontrollable “darkside” should also be something that cannot rightly be held against us… right? The movie Frozen has not falsely represented the girl’s diligent efforts to control the uncontrollable; “Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried,” so how can she be held accountable as I suggest?
“Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;” Deuteronomy 1:29-30.
The answer is found in the reason not to be afraid: tested Faith in God, not faith in love, or even faith in faith.
Now that might sound a bit simplistic to people with very real issues, but frankly, the reason they have their issues is because they don’t actually believe that Faith in God is the answer… because they have no tested faith that has succeeded and thereby proven correct.
Let’s hear what Jesus had to say regarding faith in a situation worthy of fear... like boating in a hurricane:
“And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm” Matthew 8:27-26.
Like Sarah, Did the disciples have room and cause to be afraid and alarmed? ABSOLUTELY! But Jesus held them accountable for their too-limited faith because by now they should be comprehending the value of their experiences with him as the intensities of the tests increased. It takes experience to gain more faith (Romans 10:16-19+James 2:24), and what creates a need for faith is the perfect setting for fear and alarm. That setting cannot exist when some protection has not seemed to be insufficient. Jesus slept.
Even millions of words later the answer is always the same: Turn your eyes fully upon the Lord and shepherd, the sole sustainer of your life. No one can do it for you; it’s something you have to do yourself. And when you actually do, the gridlock-curse that consumes your life will quickly and miraculously melt away. The storm within will become a great calm, providing experience of tested faith. I know, because it is personal to me and my experience, which confirms the scriptures are true: God is truly faithful, and for me, that’s not a theory.
A wild pony has no useful faith, and neither does a fearful one. The wild and fearful pony despises the stall, and a curse is a curse only because, by attraction and familiarity with the forbidden, you won’t cast it out of your heart for fear that you will become domesticated and learn to like it. Elsa’s life was incurably troubled because she harbored in her heart what God forbids. It’s just that simple (Psalm 66:18).
So, regarding no protective sheepfold for sheep, and no marriage license for Christian couples, the answer is; Who needs them?
A Christian needs no laws to obey the law, and a couple committed before God needs no license to be married. The breaking down of walls does not diminish the sheep's loyalty to the shepherd, it intensifies it by the nature of liberty! This is what Christ came to do.
He enabled us to be Christian in the absence of laws, to show that we want to be Christ-like Christ followers.
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The unexpected game-changer; overturning all that is right by a slight alteration:
Far more than the spiritual whoredom of the older sister, my concern is regarding the younger, who, although charming and refreshingly fearless in a pure and innocent, carefree, quirky way-- made even more appealing by comparison to her troubled sister-- is nonetheless evidently just short of the (Deuteronomy 18:13, II Corinthians 13:11, Philippians 3:15, II Timothy 3:17, Hebrews 13:20-21, Matthew 5:48) “perfect girl” majesty of the first three princesses.
According to the Type established in those stories, the not-at-all-offensive, slight “imperfection” of her character is visually represented in the cute freckled “blemish” as accents of uniqueness in her more earthy physical beauty (II Timothy 2:20-22). Remember, in fairytales, beauty represents her nature: good=beautiful, not originally suggesting that beautiful=good, but that has changed now. Yet, while her older sister is stunningly beautiful, nobody can argue that it’s not, a very different kind of beauty than that of the first three princesses who were indeed fitting of marrying into royalty, while these girls, being born into it, have nothing to gain in the upward sense of hope, called anticipation. No wonder they "don't need a prince"; the world is already theirs!... But not the castle in the sky, also called the kingdom of heaven.
Sights seem to be lowering dangerously while the seer remains content for having attained what they see (Proverbs 29:18).
And so we see our pure and honest, but slightly imperfect, unprepared princess leave her kingdom alone, in search of her wayward sister, instead of allowing her prince to come with her and do what he offered to do; i.e. Be the prince (Matthew 18:11-12).
I honestly don’t believe that Christ is disappointed in the heartfelt effort to rescue a lost loved one, he just wants to be included as the “knight in shinning armor” that he is. And I feel that it is noteworthy to recognize that this prince, (though 13th in line as a classic Disney mar to his person *4-extracted), was always the perfect gentlemen of love in every revealing situation, including a clearly love-struck expression when he got a surprise soaking with no one to see his natural reaction. No real villain acts like that. But true; this all suddenly and dramatically changed after she contracted a frozen heart, the very thing that the opening song warned about as the main plot of the story. Therefore, per the very plot; the young princess indeed failed her sister, her prince, and her kingdom:
“How? What power do you have to stop this winter… to stop me?” her sister asks pleadingly as Anna confronts her issues by suggesting that they can find the answer between just the two of them.
This extremely resonating, fearful question in the animation no longer even attempts to mask the real meaning. How can the wholesome happy but powerless sibling alter the unalterable “curse” in the troubled elder-sister who earnestly declares she is happy and free being all alone with her self-focused Britney-Spears-kind-of sensual infliction (Post 308b), but clearly longs to be helped if only she could?... which, by her years of failure to overcome before giving in, she is convinced is impossible. What makes someone so committed to what they know is destroying them? It’s akin to the Stockholm syndrome as they surrender in despair of hope, and make due with their reality.
The point is, the younger sister goes armed only with the faith that her love alone can cure the incurable. And while this is the entire theme of the Jewish trolls, and of our Christless Christian world today; Christ claims that it is his own love that is the cure, not ours.
While the moon shines bright to give light to the earth, only the sun's light brings life.
It might indeed be humbling to accept the fact that you’re “just the moon” with no special powers of your own, but to embrace the need of the sun's fire in order to shine glorious, eliminates the cursed storm within.
The well-meaning little sister destroyed her own kingdom when she brought the wicked girl and her magic back to the kingdom, and through the tolerance of unconditional love taught the people to love the sensual whore who freezes everything, but now just for fun (Revelation 17:2).
The answer is to come home, but leave your magic in the mountains where it belongs.
That’s not the magicless message you’re going to hear from Disney, the makers and bold promoters of such intoxicating sorcery.
The remainder of this Post has been left out to maintain the topic at hand, and may be included in the fairytale collection of works that more completely reveal the demonic nature of these presentations.
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(*1) Assimilate: [Modern use:] To learn (something) so that it is fully understood and can be used. To cause (a person or group) to become a part of a different society, country, etc. To adopt the ways of another culture: to fully become part of a different society, country, etc. - Merriam-Webster 2014 online dictionary.
(*2) Extracted
(*2a) The Runes and Old Norse in Disney’s Frozen:
March 26, 2014 in Pointless self-indulgence | by Jackson Crawford
“I [Jackson Crawford, who have been teaching Njal’s saga for several years at UCLA] had the cool opportunity to contribute the runes in Disney’s Frozen (on the magic book, & on some graves in the background in one scene), as well as the Old Norse lines the bishop speaks in the coronation scene. Now that the movie is out on DVD, I see a lot more people guessing about what they say. I’m not sure I can reveal that, but for the benefit of the folks who are out there guessing, here are some helpful facts:
-The runes are Younger Futhark.
-The language used in both the spoken coronation lines and the runic writing is Old Norse.
-The bishop uses reconstructed Old Norse pronunciation, not Modern Icelandic pronunciation.
-I’ve seen the bishop’s lines floating around on the internet, but only in the form of the pronunciation notes that I made for the actor (“Sehm hon HELL-drr…”), not with real Old Norse spelling (“Sem hon heldr…”).”
- (http://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com/author/jacksoncrawford/).
I didn’t include this bit of background for you to begin a curious investigation, but to show that there is stunning depth in what is included in an “innocent” Disney production. It seems that the Njal saga of Star Wars-- the very occult leaning movie-- has a substantial hand in Frozen’s own untold backstory that caused this princess to be born with her curse.
Adult people now seem to have an insatiable curiosity about the smallest details in cartoons as if they were important to understanding the mysteries of life, but they can’t seem to find fifteen minutes to give in an exploration of God’s message in scripture. I don’t imagine that will go over real well on the day of accountability. Is their heart already frozen by an affinity to a beautiful sister’s wickedness?
(2b) Extracted
(*3) Wandering Stars: are both a biblical and astronomical description. Planets are seen from earth because of their moon-like reflection of the sun that makes them shine in the night sky among the shining stars that produce their own light, thus in ancient times, planets were called “stars” too. But planets are not fixed in space as are the stars; they travel through the night sky disconnected from the starry backdrop. As both the earth and the planets are speeding in their courses around our star called the Sun, the passing and lapping of their courses cause the planets to appear to go this way, then that way, then this way again, as they traverse the sky as “wandering stars.”
Jude’s point is that like the nature of the dark moon and planets, there is no internal light in these “wandering Christians” missing the fire of the Holy Spirit indwelling them, giving them life from within.
(*4) Extracted.
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Post 329
As we search out the actual purpose for this very dangerous sixth-age of complexity, the phrase; “Husband, empower your wife,” evokes two very emotionally charged reactions: Either the elation of the bra burning, child killing, “liberated” self-centered woman with rights… or fear of the same. “You don’t know my wife!” accurately expresses the knowledge of what would very likely transpire with such an empowerment.
I know a large number of Christian husbands who’s wives are so wild of heart that if the fence is not built high or strong enough, the wild pony will either enthusiastically vault the fence, or shoulder through it with determination, and never be seen again. In fact I know more than a few Christian wives who fear this even of themselves, and I know of too many others who are already well into battling serious psychosis as a “personality disorder,” for related reasons that they don’t understand.
This is not a minor or insignificant issue to be passed over in our efforts to liberate oppressed women, but a very real and common debilitating condition in today’s family of Christ. A large percentage of godly husbands have such urgent needs of micro-managing the requirements of their unruly or fragile wives that they can’t afford to be preoccupied with the Lord’s work of spreading the Gospel to the lost. There is simply no hope of their wives having the ability to self-manage without soon finding themselves in one disaster or another, then crying; “Abandonment!” as a defense, and so these godly men are reduced to a fruitless Christian life of full-time servitude to their wives’ personal needs while they are accused of being a “Control freak!”
The wife with a wild heart and that of the fragile heart are two very different manifestations of the same sin and require two very different management techniques. My two-fold purpose here is not to delve into those bottomless realms of fruitless management; my purpose is to clearly identify the condition for what it is and thereby enable young men to earnestly avoid acquiring such needy wives in the first place; as well as help those women, who will be or already are such wives, to find the cure for their sin and end the condition.
Is it too forward to call it sin? Let me be even more clear; There is no excuse for Christian women to be found in either condition. They are found in such a condition by a faulty perspective of Christianity, and therefore of marriage.
Obviously such a statement is going to be highly offensive to one who currently possesses such a perspective-- even validated by their personal life experience-- and I am going to need your leave of extended grace in order to support the truth of such a statement before it can be received as anything other than the personal opinion of a strange man who does not know you/her personally. My request is that you swallow the personal offence with a generous heart and focus on the hope that I can actually offer a functionally useful new perspective that can enable a cure for the condition. I cannot reach those whose condition has become so much a part of their lives that they wouldn’t leave it if they could because it’s “who they are”; I am speaking to those who don’t want to be “that woman.”
You don’t have to be.
But here’s the thing in this dangerous age; this is a woman’s job to do.
If you will notice, I indicated that a man can either avoid marrying a woman with this condition, or he can choose to be chained to her. He cannot change her. It’s hers to do or not do (loosely applying I Corinthians 7:27-29). All he can do beyond fencing her in for her own good, is offer her alternative concepts and encouraging support in hopes that she will hear the unfamiliar voice of a different perspective and choose to change her troubled paradigm where fences are no longer needed because her heart is now pliable and inclined to another way (Ezekiel 36:26+II Corinthians 3:3). This directly applies to the common question that never goes away no matter how many times it is answered:
“If there really is a Loving God, why does he allow all the suffering in the world?”
Have you assimilated (*1) the answer yet, or forgotten it time and again because it never sinks in past a faulty perspective that waits on God and her husband to fix the things that are hers to do, but does the things that then need to be fixed?
Before we continue forward in providing the new perspective discovered in the later ages of the Grand Tapestry, let’s contemplate the wild or fearful heart, that is not just an unfortunate condition of natural causes but one that is now intentionally inflicted on our women like hiding HIV tainted needles in clean hotel bedsheets:
“…the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way” Matthew 13:24-25.
Let’s explore just such an infliction on the kingdom of heaven, which we men permit by our sleeping (i.e. not instructing in the ways of God).
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Disney’s Frozen:
Of Disney’s foundational three “Princess” fairytales, Cinderella was the most direct and accurate representation of the Gospel message of Christ Jesus as it relates to “the kingdom of heaven.” Having thereby established Disney’s offerings as wholesome and even Christian, good Christian minded families eagerly opened the door of defense to let Disney in as one of the trusted family in a world of normally wicked entertainment in that stream.
I have shown that our trust was beguiled by a soon sly and intentional, gradual perversion through each Princess story that followed, but even though we recognize it now as wicked, it doesn’t sink in as dangerous because it’s already accepted as a part of the family. This concept is not trivial but pivotal; it’s how, without knowing, we acquire new perspectives. I recommend a later refresher of Posts 248-250 regarding the previous Princess stories, because I believe that you will be quite surprised in going back, to find how much your paradigm foundationally changes depending on which version is being accessed at the moment. This is because movies present a compartmentalized world whereby just choosing to watch it, we have accepted the producer’s rules in that universe at the time, and the realism of sight-and-sound allows our heart to buy it as a reality while knowing that it isn’t. This is not a good thing: accepting unbiblical indoctrination as the price for being entertained, weakens our resolve of what matters when confronted with a different worldview, even in true reality. Like Selena Gomez in Post 308e, we continue to take one small step at a time where we already know we shouldn’t be going but the pleasure of the going has already captured us:
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof [i.e. the power of actually being godly]…” II Timothy 3:4-5.
As the latest installment in our trending princess-themed demonic indoctrination that moves our daughters to reach the Genesis 6:2 stage of the Days of Noah, Frozen is apparently taking the church by storm. I had until recently enjoyed avoiding exploring another fairytale, intending to wait until I could focus my efforts on the topic as a collection under its own title, but I am told first-hand that not only are Christian ministers using Frozen’s younger princess as a scriptural example of the Church’s gospel message in action, but our already early-inflicted women and daughters are deeply taken by the very appealing and liberating song of the wayward mature older sister.
Upon exploration, I find this recent fairytale fits our present topic elaborately and timely, and so although it is several Princess installments out of order, I include it here, exposing Disney’s manipulation that “hides the magic but leaves the fun.” A very profound and telling declaration by the mystic trolls.
The older sister, (once a princess but now the young queen without a king), is questionably the main star in this unique “princess” story that is yet further absent of the heretofore progressively diminishing “prince” as the ultimate goal of desire in the original storyline theme and representation of the Christ. Similarly, for the first time in a Disney princess story, it is not the magic of an outside evil protagonist, but the princess’s own magical “storm within” internal conflict; Mein Kampf; Jihad; (it all means the same thing), that deeply resonates with today’s women and draws their heart to her in empathy rather than just compassion. The poor girl was born with her particular infliction and while she never had any notion of using it for evil, circumstances all came together one day to cause her younger sister serious mental harm by it’s innocent use actually ignorant of its true adult power. Fortunately her sister recovered-- with special help from Sumerian/Kabbalah style ancient mystics (*2-extracted) -- but the event revealed to the ruling family that this was a dangerous nature that must be controlled and hidden for everyone’s sake. So through the rest of her childhood this poor firstborn princess had a dark secret nature that was so powerful she had to carefully manage hiding it from everyone 24-7. It consumed her life, and transformed her very nature.
We accepted long ago by previous installments, that, in the fairytale world, magic can be either a good thing or an evil thing, so because of this accepted amoral perspective of magic, and because she was innocently born with this infliction, we cannot blame her as being “wicked” just because she has it: “It’s not her fault.”
And to make sure our fairytale paradigm of sympathetic empathy sides in compassion with her life-long struggle, we see a weaseley obnoxious self-serving old man is the only person in the kingdom that boldly declares her exposed infliction as SORCERY to be rejected from the kingdom that clearly has a common aversion to magic in the complete sense. Apparently (if only silently) repulsed at the discovery, this fairytale kingdom is more biblically literate than most Christian viewers, and sees sorcery equally heinous as murder and such examples of a Godless nature to be eternally condemned on the day of Judgment:
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and SORCERERS, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” Revelation 21:8, all-cap emphasis added.
Surely every Christian child should know such basic things, but being caught up in the allurements of the fairytale-world, our unbelief-suspending fairytale perspective wrongly presupposes there is sometimes both good magic and bad magic, and clearly this girl is not wanting to be bad, so her case is not to be included in such passages intended for “reality only.” (See Genesis 6:5, Deuteronomy 31:21, Proverbs 6:18, II Corinthians 10:5, etc., for correction). Obviously we would not agree with anything that a self-serving weaseley man thinks, therefore our unbilical sympathies for her condition are supported as the right moral view to adopt in this compartmentalized fairytale-world that usually excludes Christian faith, even though no magic is shown as publicly acceptable in this particular kingdom.
So, when at her coronation she is unable to hide the dark nature of her heart any longer and she accidentally lets it slip out so that the whole kingdom learns “what kind of girl she really is,” they recoil in alarm and she runs from the kingdom in shame, to live isolated and alone “for the sake of everyone.” See how self-sacrificing she is? She really does mean to do the right thing, even as a "leper," handicapped with an affliction she never asked for or wanted. “Woe is me!” is her helpless action as she runs to the cold mountains of lonely suffering for the sake of the kingdom that rejected her, rather than fall to her knees and confess her faults:
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” James 5:16.
And here in the mountains of loneliness, by her chosen option, is where we see her transform before our eyes from a struggling girl to woman committed. And what a woman!
As she trudges alone up a snow-covered mountain she begins mournfully in what soon turns out to be a very powerful, emotional song and routine, and suddenly she isn’t trudging anymore but walking effortlessly in a world that she realizes belongs to her as she experiments with her sorcery, eventually making a great castle of her infliction. She has become The Ice Queen (not to be lost on the common phrase long applied to a self-focused heart):
[Verse]
“The snow glows white on the mountain tonight,
not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the queen.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside,
Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried.
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see,
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know.
Well, now they know.
[Chorus]
Let it go, let it go,
Can’t hold it back anymore.
Let it go, let it go,
Turn away and slam the door.
I don’t care what they’re going to say,
Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway.
[Verse]
It’s funny how some distance
makes everything seems small,
And the fears that once controlled me,
can’t get to me at all.
[Cut from the film, but kept in the version sung in the movie’s credits:
Up here in the cold thin air I finally can breathe,
I know I’ve left a life behind but I’m too relieved to grieve!]
It’s time to see what I can do,
To test the limits and break through.
No right, no wrong, no rules for me,
I’m free.
[Chorus]
Let it go, let it go,
I am one with the wind and sky.
Let it go, let it go,
You’ll never see me cry.
Here I stand and Here I’ll stay,
Let the storm rage on…
[New tempo Verse]
My power flurries through the air into the ground,
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around.
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast;
I’m never going back;
The past is in the past.
[Chorus]
Let it go, let it go,
And I’ll rise like the break of dawn.
Let it go, let it go,
That perfect girl is gone.
Here I stand, in the light of day.
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway!”
- “Let it Go,” Original music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (http://www.rotoscopers.com/2013/10/27/let-it-go-full-movie-lyrics/).
If you are privileged enough not to have heard this song I strongly recommend that you don’t go looking to hear the music of this lyrics, because the intoxicating power of this song is like heroin to women. Focus instead on the words without the music and animation, and see with a clear mind-- unmanipulated by trolls-- this young woman give up her long struggle to be “a good girl,” who abides by God’s laws of “right and wrong,” and finally give in to “the dark side” that has long craved to overtake her. This concept is even more profound when we contemplate the witchcraft catchphrase used in Star Wars: “There is a force that is neither good nor bad, depending on how you use it.” (The stunning direct but secret connection will be made later in the footnotes [see *2a]). She now abandons the paradigm that declares there even is right and wrong at all, and embraces the boundless wickedness of her heart in the passionate vow of finality as she can no longer be shamed by people’s reaction to her values and conduct.
Now because it’s a fairytale, and her struggle is in attempting to hide her fanciful “magic powers,” we buy the innocence suggested and are blinded to the obvious: Like leprosy of old, her frigid heart contagiously inflicts everything she encounters. But if we would but open our eyes, the words in this song and through the story are very telling indeed and openly reveal that the struggle we actually resonate with is far more real than “unrealistic magic powers,” even without the accompanying music and animation that drives the point home.
The sound and animation of this “woman liberating” song is quite reminiscent of the sensual evening-gown/song competition performed by Miss America winners. The dress, the makeup, the strut, the music and the words, what she learns she can do when she lets it out; all combine to scream the power of confident, shameless, unrestrained, super sexuality: “Let the wild pony finally run!”
Barely beyond her sister’s comment: “Woa! Elsa you look… different,” then quickly adding; “It’s a good different,” the topic of unvoiced argument is unquestionably the long pent-up emotional personification that is unbecoming of a decent woman but strongly appeals to the base nature of us all. Read the lyrics again and tell me I’m wrong: The song preaches for your daughter to shed the shame of powerful dark hidden desires and to proudly and independently let them out into the light of public observance as a glory of her femininity.
In spite of the fairytale’s suggestion that this raging-storm-within phase was short-lived before her sister successfully brought her back into the kingdom, her firm declarations tell another story, and likewise our women have been captured and held firmly by the message of this one song just as surely as Elsa herself. In truth, like the vow of this song; once the darkness becomes adopted as a favorable part of “who I am,” there really is no going back… even when you go back.
(With one distinct qualifying exception made at the end of this Post).
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The Raging Storm:
The real issue never examined is not how long she can hold out hiding “the real me that wants to get out”; but why she is possessed with the affliction at all. Women are told by; movies, friends, emotions, and their therapist, that a woman should never be restrained, by herself or others, but they are anyway. The result is very much the Post 249 Cinderella syndrome of self-focused humanity in excessive emotionalism that wants no solution to diminish the self-imposed tortured feelings that conquer her, but wants everyone to try and fail because it heightens the sensation of the “imprisoned captive” of self-pity.
The foundational sin is centering one’s humanity as the focus of attention. It’s the ballroom dancer at the top of the stair screaming “Am I beautiful or what?!” It’s the deification of the base self by imagining it as worth imprisoning for safe keeping so that it can attempt to escape and be free with implied value attributed by the captivity. The desire is not what to do after, but the act of liberation itself, because the act is what glorifies woman over man or man over God, very much like the phrase Allahu-Akbar meaning “Allah is greater”; It’s not really about Allah being God but about Allah being more God than God. It’s Peter Pan’s “second star” that is now seen in the intro to every Disney presentation as a foundational value. But why second?
Without comparison it’s just a star, and that’s not glorious enough for its vanity, so it’s brighter and higher than the first star. It needs the first star as a value of comparison that gives it value. Its value is not in itself but in a comparison of the one who’s value is in itself. The escaped woman rejoices that she has escaped but suddenly finds her value gone. Her value was in being held against her will. It’s like the concept of the young woman who longs for her wedding day but never contemplates being a wife. It’s the full moon that forgets her glorious light is gifted from the sun, yet can’t leave the sun and retain her glory. It causes schizophrenia, psychosis, a raging storm within.
This is a problem of the heart, and the heart is quite unknowable (Jeremiah 17:9), which is why it is almost impossible to describe her conflict, yet know it intimately by experience. But, as we are familiar now with the value of Typology, a feminist woman’s struggle to be liberated from man is the easy-to-understand Type describing the self-deified human heart’s desire to be liberated from God. This is the raging storm as simply as can be stated, while it manifests in various presentations.
Since we are reducing this affliction to its base nature for identification purposes, we can realize that women are not the only ones afflicted. Many men too have overpowering dark natures that a decent society requires them to hide, but the manifestation of their darkness appears somewhat differently than that of women, though it is very much the same at its foundation.
As long as we allow ourselves to imagine that our affliction is both a rare and incurable burdensome nature of humanity that everyone else doesn’t have to struggle with, we expect that it is our social duty to hide it for as long as possible and suffer the private burden quietly alone as if nobody could understand our struggle or how strong we are for successfully hiding it. “If they only knew…” becomes the secret pride of our troubled lives that tries to make us believe we are stronger than anyone knows.
What a relief then when the society finally admits that everyone has a dark side and declares it’s now ok to let it out; “To do less is hypocrisy! Unfurl the rainbow flag! Liberation is finally yours!”
Such declarations are the foundational interpretation of today’s feminine Liberation and Empowerment. This liberation is what we saw in Miley Cyrus as she came of age on the public stage and horrified all the women who have been successful at hiding the fact that they secretly battle similar dark-moon natures, and it resonated gleefully with those women who have already failed and embraced it. The secret is out at last.
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Troubled Faith:
But while the world’s women (and Sodomites) have been ramping up to shamelessly unleash their darkside like a storm on society; Jude-type wandering star Christians (*3), who have tended to lag two steps behind society, now find themselves convinced of what the world until recently believed: There is nothing to be done but train yourself to hide it by great efforts of diligent self-control. Put on the plastic face; “Don’t let them in, don’t let them see; be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, Don’t feel; put on a show, make one wrong move and everyone will know.”
The result of such a perspective is one of three distinct manifestations:
1) A rigid, religious prude; the Ice Princess that “shuts everyone out” lest they learn her true nature.
2) A wild pony that needs a very tall, very strong, very confined fence to keep her secretly-regarded wild-side contained (Job 36:21, Psalm 66:18), or
3) A fragile helpless psychosis so fearfully withdrawn in her self-protection that she needs her nose wiped with soothing words as it drools down her chin and into her listless lap, and done just as she requires lest she lash out in a sudden flash of escaping rage that she quickly apologizes for in shame.
So, although she might kick and scream and publicly resent her husband for “imprisoning” her, in her soul she knows that she desperately needs the external governance, and finds unconfessed security in her husband’s tight rule.
“Unto the woman he said…thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” Genesis 2:16.
Said simply, This was the age of the Old Testament Law, and, perhaps like the apparently happy, dignified, silent, mousy mother in Frozen; for a few thousand years this seemed to work reasonably well for God’s people, as women were content to let their husbands lead them, with Sara as their patron example:
“For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement (4423: alarm)” I Peter 3:5-6.
What fear and shocked alarm is Peter speaking of in this conditional “children of Abraham” admonition to New Testament women, who are freed from the law?
“And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah” Genesis 20:2.
Was there cause or room for Sarah to fear and be amazed at the danger Abraham’s failure put her in? ABSOLUTELY!
So what is Peter getting at here? He is getting at the very crux of this ENTIRE PROBLEM in the Christian world today.
Peter’s admonition is regarding the submissive heart that honors God-given authority of protection and guidance, especially in its blunders of weakness. You know; “…honor and obey…in good and in bad, for better or for worse…” and all that “stuff” in your mother’s vow that makes you nauseous just thinking about.
Without understanding the scripture’s Grand Tapestry, this seems to be a very foolish recommendation yet the only conclusion available from scripture. But if, by the nature of God, we are to believe there is another function designed into the Type, we can grasp that Sarah’s faith of submission was in God as she practiced that faith by obeying her husband per God’s command (James 2:18). We learn in the historical narrative that God’s “guardian angel” angel, miraculously kept the king from harming Sarah when Abraham seemed to fail so utterly (Genesis 20:3-6). Such an experience gave Sarah hands-on proof of faith, that God was indeed trustworthy when we obey his commands even when nothing makes sense. This is the admonition Peter gives New Testament Christian women: trust God through practical application of submission to his commands. God usually worked his provision for Sarah indirectly through Abraham, and Abraham had to "fail" Sarah before she could personally see God’s ultimate provision in her obedience of submission. Now God’s provision is no longer just fanciful theory as her faith is applied in reality by obeying her husband.
Hands-on reality is what separates our faith from fairytale. Until God proved himself through Abraham’s failure, God’s provision through Abraham was just theory to Sarah.
Similarly, a lifelong struggle that fails to overcome but succeeds in not giving in, is a failed faith in practice, that, while avoiding some surface undesirable consequences, creates deeper and more hurtful ones that are well entrenched over time. Hiding the darkside might very well be the right thing to do as children, until we overcome, but the goal of a mature person is to shed the darkside; not learn to manage it (I Corinthians 13:10-11, Romans 6:6-8, II Corinthians 5:17). This concept comes quite clear as we continue to explore the ages of the Grand Tapestry and understand its ultimate purpose at the conclusion. In otherwords we need the bigger perspective of God.
Observance of the Old Testament confining law-- though somewhat oppressive if you want to see it that way-- kept God’s newly liberated people protected until they recognized the Shepherd and his voice. A New Testament spiritually mature people, now further liberated from even the law itself, have no fear of what the law protected them from, because our quickened hearts are bound in love to the Shepherd who protects and sustains us as we heed his voice. This is true liberty: freedom and protection.
NEVER be content to control sin in your life; the goal is to actually eschew it, (H5493: turn off, G1578: shun, G157: “off”). In otherwords; “Off” sin entirely (See: Job 1:8, I Peter 3:10-11). Be freed from sin by the death of a glorified-self focus (Romans 6:6-7).
This is the choice not made by Elsa when her infliction was made public. When a choice was finally required, she chose instead to regard her wickedness and abandon her kingdom (Romans 6:16-19). The alternate answer to the Ice Princess’s “storm within” is found in the following accusatory passage:
“Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god” Malachi 2:11.
Applying the virtue of this verse in the other gender role; the answer is in the love of holiness in place of self-love of the base nature. The holiness of the LORD is what made Cinderella so desirable back when we loved Cinderella. She loved being holy in the midst of her circumstance. But the perspective of the princess has really changed since then, and so has our own interests, which find our desires are now gravitating toward the shameless, sexualized beauty of the ice queen, who has revealed herself to be the daughter of a strange god. The question to both genders becomes; Why have we changed what appeals to us?
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The Age of Liberation:
What then, do we godly men, do with our immature Christian wives, who having failed to trust God in the age of their youth through obedience to their fathers, now struggle with a rebellious heart toward their husbands as God’s next-level representative of Himself. Do we open the gate and let them run wild? Do we drive those out that won’t run for fear of what they will become?
As a legitimate response to demonically unspeakable violent oppression against women today, the democratic world has taken that choice from our hands through legitimizing feminine self-governance into Social Law as the reply. So now, if your wife wants an abortion you have no say in her “feminine health rights.” If your daughter wants to be a lesbian or date a bad boy, you now have no say in her “feminine liberation.” These are just a few examples in a much larger concept: Don’t imagine that instruction in the Christian faith is excluded from the social legislation. Like the Frozen ship going down in the storm; Dad and Mom’s generation of Republican governance is dead, and the young girls must manage themselves in this New Age.
The question now is, What will the pony do? The choice is now fully in her own heart, and we already know what liberated wild ponies are want to do-- even without the “animal rights therapists" declaring that they have a right to run and are better off for it. And frankly, it’s daily becoming harder to disagree.
Am I suggesting that we Christians just go along with the world’s ways because we can’t fight them? If you have been reading my work for any length of time you know I mean no such thing (Psalm 1:1).
So what am I saying?
As long as you keep your wife fenced in and protected by your own rules and power, she cannot experience God’s direct provision. Like Abraham, you need to seem to fail your wife before her faith in God can be truly tested.
As foolishly alarming as such a statement sounds, it provides the truth that Sarah faced, and the admonition given to women by Peter. Is your wife’s faith in you, or in God through you? This is really deep.
As men, it is in our very nature-- our God-given nature-- and need, to be the provider and protector of our wives. The scriptures even confirm this obligatory nature as biblically affirmed:
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it;” Ephesians 5:25+.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” I Timothy 5:8.
So it seems completely counter productive to have to fail your wife to empower her faith in God. How can we confirm that such an idea is biblical? I mean besides Abraham, the father of our faith.
How about Jesus?
When Jesus came to earth for the sake of his betrothed, his disciples asked in anticipation when he would establish the promised kingdom that would finally liberate them from their oppressors (Acts 1:8), and on a similar note, the Devil himself offered Jesus that which would liberate all humanity, including his own beloved (Matthew 4:8-9). But Jesus seemed to fail his fiance in both instances, and instead went to the cross “abandoning” his future bride to be ravaged by the kings of the earth… enabling her, like Sarah, to trust fully in God without fear and amazement, even when nothing made sense.
Moses too, failed to get his people across the long anticipated river to the land promised. And now we begin to see a plan of God emerge through the circumstances. In each case, there is an important undeclared element missing that required the “failure” to produce. Likewise, the best thing a Christian minister can do for another man’s wife who longs for Christian leadership, is to seem to fail her by sending her home, even to a godless husband. Let God prove himself to her by disrupting her emotional perspective of need. This is a huge problem today as many ministers fail to understand these intricacies and so find themselves mired in scandal they never intended but felt obligated to enter for the sake of her Christian well-being. In such cases it’s the minister that lacks faith in God’s provision for her through her husband’s failure. His own natural desires to be honored by women create a hazard only avoidable by obedience to God’s laws.
“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband” I Corinthians 7:2.
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well” Proverbs 5:15.
So if we dare not accuse Jesus of failure, and we cannot accuse Moses or Abraham either, is it probable that you can rightly accuse your husband of failure when things don’t make sense and seem to go horribly wrong? (obviously there are limitations not covered in this general principle: Acts 5:29). Isn’t it more likely that God designed his failure for a reason, O ye of little faith?
Is God not greater than what we observe in our finite knowledge? Can we not by faith obey God’s commands, especially when things seem to go wrong? Can you now see the virtue in your mother’s wedding vows? They were not vows to your father but to God. They were vows of faith, as she promised to obey God's command to honor her husband in faith, knowing that her husband is but flesh.
“And he (God) said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness…” II Corinthians 12:9.
The Empowerment we need desperately to give our wives is faith in God, not in us. We do this by releasing our grip and seeming to fail so that her faith can take wings, no different than a parent does for a mature child: In the exercise of liberating them there is fear and doubts and concerns, and through these we give encouragement, council, and advice. The goal is to enable them capable of standing with God on their own faith, not relying on our faith to do the standing for them (Ephesians 6:13). A parent only has about eighteen years to help their child learn to wear the armor of God and practice in its use before they enter the battle alone. The time allotted to help ones wife prepare is undeclared, but she will stand before God on that day, by her own faith… or lack thereof. A foolish man wants to be his wife’s god between now and then, though God has given him that likeness to do. Much as the sun is as the moon’s god, though both were created to worship the Maker.
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Liberation or Liberation?
While the world promotes the Liberation and Empowerment of women to satisfy their fleshly desires of unacountability, God has another intent for the same event pre-written into this sixth age.
As I have often repeated, the answer of distinction is usually found in the surgeon’s scalpel, skillfully and knowledgably dividing the cancer from the healthy flesh (Hebrews 4:12+II Timothy 2:15) while the common eye can’t tell the difference: “It all looks... gooey.”
Today, as with Islam using the Old Testament and Catholics using the New; the distinction is not so much in the word used, but in the use of the word. Let me explain:
“But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;” I Corinthians 7:29.
What in the word does this mean? I’m not sure I really know to the degree I should, but let’s consider mixing this concept with another prophetic declaration:
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;…forbidding to marry…” I Timothy 4:1,3.
I am seriously suggesting that we are now entering the beginning of that time prophesied, and this women-liberating movement will have very legitimate “Christian” reasons for legislating marriage as unlawful imprisonment of women. Of course intimate relations and cohabitation will persist by mutual pleasure, so what are Christians to do when they can’t marry? Christ forbids fornication (Ephesians 5:3).
If we know that the law will soon require us to open the gates and let all ponies free because of those that are oppressed, then we must proactively prepare for such an unavoidable event rather than fight it. We need to use it to our advantage, because we know it is ordained of God (Romans 13:1).
The feminine empowerment that I speak of-- though being the same word as used by today’s wild women with a different purpose-- is the same liberty that Christ speaks of in the New Testament:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me (Jesus), because he (God) hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach DELIVERANCE to the captives, and recover the sight to the blind, to set at LIBERTY them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” Luke 4:18-19, all-cap emphasis added.
(See also: Isaiah 61:1, Leviticus 25:10, Psalm 119:43-45, Romans 8:21, II Corinthians 3:17, Galatians 5:1,13, etc.).
It is quite clear that God intended this ancient prophecy to be speaking of a very specific point in time; the time that Jesus came to earth to create an entire “paradigm of curing” through the breaking down of imprisoning walls of perspective.
Read it again.
But what many cannot see in the democratically legislated opening of all fences and gates, is that imprisonment in “the other master’s” dogfight-pen is not the same as sojourning in “this master’s” loving sheepfold:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them” John 10:1-6.
Now stay with me. I am sure you glazed over this passage because you are so familiar with it. But realizing in the last sentence that there is far more here than we might perceive, let’s consider this parable in the New Age, when the walls and gates are to be broken down, even against the faithful sheep’s desire.
Does it alarm the good shepherd that the sheepfold of protection might not remain? No. By the time the sheepfold of protection is destroyed the shepherd has prepared to put forth his sheep by familiarizing them with his leading voice (Matthew 28:19+Acts 11:19, 13:50-52). In effect, the shepherd preemptively opened the gate metaphorically before the world’s social legislation required it actually. His sheep are already happily roaming the pasturelands without leash or fence or care, like the Post 190 dog in the field chasing rabbits yet not displeasing his master for doing so, but rather actually delighting him. (Romans 8:1-2 [continue even to v.8]).
It is important to understand that the dog-leash, or pony-stall… or sheepfold, was actually for the purpose of identifying the proper shepherd of good will, as well as keeping the sheep safe until they did (Galatians 3:23-26). Once the sheep got that straight, the sheepfold can be left behind as they willingly follow the shepherd as one option among others (running, or following another shepherd, or going the faith alone). The sheepfold therefore is a Type of the Law and the proper shepherd must come through the gate of that law to become known, and then familiar to his sheep, before leading his sheep out of the law and into liberty (Romans 6:14-18).
Many “sheep-nappers” with exploitation as the goal, will use the confines of the sheepfold to convince the sheep of their authority as shepherd, but come in by another means (Matthew 24:24-25, Mark 13:22-23, II Corinthians 11:13-15, Galatians 2:4-5), this is indeed Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, forced marriage, State religions, etc., as they pervert the sheepfold of the written word and intent, by failing to use the porter’s gate for fear of being discovered as fraud (I Chronicles 9:22-27, Mark 13:34-37).
The substantial issue of exploitation is why the sheepfold will be deemed by legislation of man to be torn down in the effort to liberate the sheep.
What then, when we Christians seem to find ourselves feeling failed of God: wall-less; vulnerable in the open fields as far as the eye can see? There are no gates to identify the right shepherd, no walls of limitation for discovering breach! What is the Christian to do without a sheepfold of protection? It’s the same question as what Christians are to do without the sanctity of marriage, and what Jews are to do without the law. The Age is growing up fast!
The reason that this is not cause for fear and amazement in this sixth age-- though being the age of confusion-- is because the shepherd has already come and been recognized by the porter of the sheepfold and been made familiar over time, and so the limiting sheepfold has no further purpose. By breaking down the walls of restraint, the world is liberated to run wild toward their own destruction, while you follow the shepherd of good will to distances heretofore impossible because of the walls! (Jeremiah 33:3=John 3:8-12).
“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive” Genesis 50:20.
Can you come up with any reason why we might rejoice in our nation’s borders-of-security being unlawfully opened by our own foolish government to the children of other nations resulting in our shot-less conquest?
For one; we don’t have to send missionaries anymore, they’re coming to us!
But their salvation that could reclaim this land by numbers alone, is ours to do. Will we? or shall we hide behind the walls of our homes and mourn the loss of a great Christian nation because “they” didn’t protect us? They failed us!
If you are already so afraid of your American neighbors that you never got to know them even by name, the chance that you will now preach the gospel of salvation to invading foreigners is not high.
But this is only one reason. The scriptures have given us another in the example of the early Christians finding themselves persecuted in their own homeland were motivated to go into other nations and share the Gospel where they would not have otherwise gone (Acts 1:4+Mark 16:15+Acts 1:8+Acts 11:28, etc).
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Be Not Afraid: The Holy Spirit porter in you already knows the voice of the shepherd (Mark 5:35-36).
Why did Peter include afraid with amazement/alarm in the above passage of I Peter 3:5-6?
The answer is because fear is so heinous in fact that the fearful will be cast into the lake of fire with all the other abominable wickedness's listed (Revelation 21:8).
Apparently fear is something we are in fact accountable for as if we have a choice, but isn’t fear a spontaneous response like blinking? A person cannot rightly be accountable for something that is uncontrollable… can he? Likewise, the case of an uncontrollable “darkside” should also be something that cannot rightly be held against us… right? The movie Frozen has not falsely represented the girl’s diligent efforts to control the uncontrollable; “Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried,” so how can she be held accountable as I suggest?
“Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;” Deuteronomy 1:29-30.
The answer is found in the reason not to be afraid: tested Faith in God, not faith in love, or even faith in faith.
Now that might sound a bit simplistic to people with very real issues, but frankly, the reason they have their issues is because they don’t actually believe that Faith in God is the answer… because they have no tested faith that has succeeded and thereby proven correct.
Let’s hear what Jesus had to say regarding faith in a situation worthy of fear... like boating in a hurricane:
“And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm” Matthew 8:27-26.
Like Sarah, Did the disciples have room and cause to be afraid and alarmed? ABSOLUTELY! But Jesus held them accountable for their too-limited faith because by now they should be comprehending the value of their experiences with him as the intensities of the tests increased. It takes experience to gain more faith (Romans 10:16-19+James 2:24), and what creates a need for faith is the perfect setting for fear and alarm. That setting cannot exist when some protection has not seemed to be insufficient. Jesus slept.
Even millions of words later the answer is always the same: Turn your eyes fully upon the Lord and shepherd, the sole sustainer of your life. No one can do it for you; it’s something you have to do yourself. And when you actually do, the gridlock-curse that consumes your life will quickly and miraculously melt away. The storm within will become a great calm, providing experience of tested faith. I know, because it is personal to me and my experience, which confirms the scriptures are true: God is truly faithful, and for me, that’s not a theory.
A wild pony has no useful faith, and neither does a fearful one. The wild and fearful pony despises the stall, and a curse is a curse only because, by attraction and familiarity with the forbidden, you won’t cast it out of your heart for fear that you will become domesticated and learn to like it. Elsa’s life was incurably troubled because she harbored in her heart what God forbids. It’s just that simple (Psalm 66:18).
So, regarding no protective sheepfold for sheep, and no marriage license for Christian couples, the answer is; Who needs them?
A Christian needs no laws to obey the law, and a couple committed before God needs no license to be married. The breaking down of walls does not diminish the sheep's loyalty to the shepherd, it intensifies it by the nature of liberty! This is what Christ came to do.
He enabled us to be Christian in the absence of laws, to show that we want to be Christ-like Christ followers.
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The unexpected game-changer; overturning all that is right by a slight alteration:
Far more than the spiritual whoredom of the older sister, my concern is regarding the younger, who, although charming and refreshingly fearless in a pure and innocent, carefree, quirky way-- made even more appealing by comparison to her troubled sister-- is nonetheless evidently just short of the (Deuteronomy 18:13, II Corinthians 13:11, Philippians 3:15, II Timothy 3:17, Hebrews 13:20-21, Matthew 5:48) “perfect girl” majesty of the first three princesses.
According to the Type established in those stories, the not-at-all-offensive, slight “imperfection” of her character is visually represented in the cute freckled “blemish” as accents of uniqueness in her more earthy physical beauty (II Timothy 2:20-22). Remember, in fairytales, beauty represents her nature: good=beautiful, not originally suggesting that beautiful=good, but that has changed now. Yet, while her older sister is stunningly beautiful, nobody can argue that it’s not, a very different kind of beauty than that of the first three princesses who were indeed fitting of marrying into royalty, while these girls, being born into it, have nothing to gain in the upward sense of hope, called anticipation. No wonder they "don't need a prince"; the world is already theirs!... But not the castle in the sky, also called the kingdom of heaven.
Sights seem to be lowering dangerously while the seer remains content for having attained what they see (Proverbs 29:18).
And so we see our pure and honest, but slightly imperfect, unprepared princess leave her kingdom alone, in search of her wayward sister, instead of allowing her prince to come with her and do what he offered to do; i.e. Be the prince (Matthew 18:11-12).
I honestly don’t believe that Christ is disappointed in the heartfelt effort to rescue a lost loved one, he just wants to be included as the “knight in shinning armor” that he is. And I feel that it is noteworthy to recognize that this prince, (though 13th in line as a classic Disney mar to his person *4-extracted), was always the perfect gentlemen of love in every revealing situation, including a clearly love-struck expression when he got a surprise soaking with no one to see his natural reaction. No real villain acts like that. But true; this all suddenly and dramatically changed after she contracted a frozen heart, the very thing that the opening song warned about as the main plot of the story. Therefore, per the very plot; the young princess indeed failed her sister, her prince, and her kingdom:
“How? What power do you have to stop this winter… to stop me?” her sister asks pleadingly as Anna confronts her issues by suggesting that they can find the answer between just the two of them.
This extremely resonating, fearful question in the animation no longer even attempts to mask the real meaning. How can the wholesome happy but powerless sibling alter the unalterable “curse” in the troubled elder-sister who earnestly declares she is happy and free being all alone with her self-focused Britney-Spears-kind-of sensual infliction (Post 308b), but clearly longs to be helped if only she could?... which, by her years of failure to overcome before giving in, she is convinced is impossible. What makes someone so committed to what they know is destroying them? It’s akin to the Stockholm syndrome as they surrender in despair of hope, and make due with their reality.
The point is, the younger sister goes armed only with the faith that her love alone can cure the incurable. And while this is the entire theme of the Jewish trolls, and of our Christless Christian world today; Christ claims that it is his own love that is the cure, not ours.
While the moon shines bright to give light to the earth, only the sun's light brings life.
It might indeed be humbling to accept the fact that you’re “just the moon” with no special powers of your own, but to embrace the need of the sun's fire in order to shine glorious, eliminates the cursed storm within.
The well-meaning little sister destroyed her own kingdom when she brought the wicked girl and her magic back to the kingdom, and through the tolerance of unconditional love taught the people to love the sensual whore who freezes everything, but now just for fun (Revelation 17:2).
The answer is to come home, but leave your magic in the mountains where it belongs.
That’s not the magicless message you’re going to hear from Disney, the makers and bold promoters of such intoxicating sorcery.
The remainder of this Post has been left out to maintain the topic at hand, and may be included in the fairytale collection of works that more completely reveal the demonic nature of these presentations.
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(*1) Assimilate: [Modern use:] To learn (something) so that it is fully understood and can be used. To cause (a person or group) to become a part of a different society, country, etc. To adopt the ways of another culture: to fully become part of a different society, country, etc. - Merriam-Webster 2014 online dictionary.
(*2) Extracted
(*2a) The Runes and Old Norse in Disney’s Frozen:
March 26, 2014 in Pointless self-indulgence | by Jackson Crawford
“I [Jackson Crawford, who have been teaching Njal’s saga for several years at UCLA] had the cool opportunity to contribute the runes in Disney’s Frozen (on the magic book, & on some graves in the background in one scene), as well as the Old Norse lines the bishop speaks in the coronation scene. Now that the movie is out on DVD, I see a lot more people guessing about what they say. I’m not sure I can reveal that, but for the benefit of the folks who are out there guessing, here are some helpful facts:
-The runes are Younger Futhark.
-The language used in both the spoken coronation lines and the runic writing is Old Norse.
-The bishop uses reconstructed Old Norse pronunciation, not Modern Icelandic pronunciation.
-I’ve seen the bishop’s lines floating around on the internet, but only in the form of the pronunciation notes that I made for the actor (“Sehm hon HELL-drr…”), not with real Old Norse spelling (“Sem hon heldr…”).”
- (http://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com/author/jacksoncrawford/).
I didn’t include this bit of background for you to begin a curious investigation, but to show that there is stunning depth in what is included in an “innocent” Disney production. It seems that the Njal saga of Star Wars-- the very occult leaning movie-- has a substantial hand in Frozen’s own untold backstory that caused this princess to be born with her curse.
Adult people now seem to have an insatiable curiosity about the smallest details in cartoons as if they were important to understanding the mysteries of life, but they can’t seem to find fifteen minutes to give in an exploration of God’s message in scripture. I don’t imagine that will go over real well on the day of accountability. Is their heart already frozen by an affinity to a beautiful sister’s wickedness?
(2b) Extracted
(*3) Wandering Stars: are both a biblical and astronomical description. Planets are seen from earth because of their moon-like reflection of the sun that makes them shine in the night sky among the shining stars that produce their own light, thus in ancient times, planets were called “stars” too. But planets are not fixed in space as are the stars; they travel through the night sky disconnected from the starry backdrop. As both the earth and the planets are speeding in their courses around our star called the Sun, the passing and lapping of their courses cause the planets to appear to go this way, then that way, then this way again, as they traverse the sky as “wandering stars.”
Jude’s point is that like the nature of the dark moon and planets, there is no internal light in these “wandering Christians” missing the fire of the Holy Spirit indwelling them, giving them life from within.
(*4) Extracted.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Two Steps Back, One Forward
- The Hobby Lobby Victory -
Post 328
While this is not the next Post in my linear progression of thought, it is a current-events issue as I warm back up to my work in progress after the delay of editing for the book. Consider this a post-publication “Part 2” update attachment to Post 321 "The Misleading Deception" (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-misleading-deception.html).
The recent victory in the Burnwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Supreme Court case (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/sebelius-v-hobby-lobby-stores-inc/) is yet another slight-of-hand example of the misleading-deception magic-trick while Christians erupt with exuberant celebrations in the face of bitter complaints by the “women’s rights” groups who feel cheated.
To throw cold water on this Christian victory at this point is to be labeled a naysayer unable to see the good in anything, but to neglect the truth in the events is to succumb to the deception that makes the magic show successful in its purpose.
So let’s explore a little of the details and expose the misleading of the deception:
* * *
The Misleading:
In the recent victory Hobby Lobby, a Christian company, won their argument on religious grounds as the Supreme Court upheld-- not their First Amendment Rights but the Religious Freedom Restoration Act-- not to provide abortion inducing contraceptives in their mandated Obamacare program.
“Women’s rights” groups and the supporting public have hit the roof, stunned that the Supreme Court would permit such a thing. How dare an employer be allowed to deny a woman employee the right to women’s health products! (*1).
“What is this nation coming to?” is a phrase I have seen as a caption regarding the compliant. It seems that the “conservative Christian rights” have finally been given an unexpected great victory in our nation, and many, many Christians see this as a positive sign of better things to come. America will recover!
But arguments are springing up all over the social internet: the left and the right both jousting the facts of the case while rarely having the facts in their possession. The ignorant emotional argument is simplified between contraceptives or no contraceptives, and the left is demanding their rights to “women’s health” products while the right is trying to educate the left in the knowledge that the function of contraceptives is technically abortion and abortion is murder of the unborn. Then the left responds with more scientific knowledge that most contraceptives keep the egg from being fertilized so no abortion takes place and therefore Hobby Lobby has no real religious case and the usually Leftist leaning Supreme Court had their head in the sand on this one for this very unexpected support of the Right, apparently because it is a male dominated bench.
The unyielding battle further separates our nation into declared sides of a war that is still brewing to the boiling point.
The Cup-Drop:
Hopefully the truth of the facts will soon become known to both sides of the argument, and with the facts understood, each can agree that this was in fact a good ruling amicable to most everyone… exclusive of course to the woman who really does want her employer to pay for abortion pills, that she can purchase over-the-counter herself at any pharmacy for less than the price of lunch.
As most irreconcilable arguments today, the actual facts of the case revolve around the specifics. In our age of advanced technology we must distinguish between contraceptives that prohibit fertilization, from Birth Control that prohibit a fertilized egg from reaching viability. Thus; not “Fertilization Control” but “Birth Control.” Hobby Lobby won the right to refuse providing Birth Control, which apparently turns out to be 4 of the 20 contraceptive options currently available. Per the Obamacare mandate, even after the victory, Hobby Lobby still provides the 16 contraceptives that don’t kill a fertilized egg and are therefore not scientifically abortion, and so not a clear and direct violation of the Christian faith on those grounds.
Contrary to the ignorant hysteria of emotional opinions on both sides; Hobby Lobby is not denying their women employees access to women’s “health products” but in fact pays for them per Obamacare mandates, and blind-faith Christians learn that science has made a very important distinction that they need to wake up to. Both the left and the right can find mutual peace in the ground of informed knowledge. See? Peace between opposing religious sides can be had!
The Empty Cup:
While the audience applauds the great results of mutual peace we have to ask why the extremely leftist and unconstitutionally-rewriting-congressional-law Supreme Court would suddenly and uncharacteristically rule in the favor of Christians. Until the cup is revealed empty we are convinced that we see the truth in the cup-drop deception of the contending arguments. But after the truth is explored and publicly accepted on both sides, what have we got? We have an empty cup.
The secondary slight-of-hand trick and far greater issue at play is the fact that in the recent victory of our appeal we have fully established the jurisdiction of ObamaCare, which we started off fighting as fully unconstitutional-- for one, it is not compatible with an ARTICLE 4, Section 4, Republican form of Government, for another, it was forced on us by congressionally approved executive order against our votes. Remember putting down HillaryCare decisively? Remember slamming down ObamaCare? (See Post 155 “Healthcare” http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/01/healthcare.html).
But now, without even knowing it, by contesting finepoints in the unlawful Act, we gave all the ground except abortion. Like the 1913 16th Amendment Income Tax (*2) and Roosevelt’s Social Security program (*3), the Socialist style Obamacare is now likewise established in America while Christians are pleased to have won their anti-abortion case… until it comes up again, as we know it will, in a land where law is now emotionally based on shifting ground. But when it does come up again we will no longer be battling for our rights in “the land of the free,” but for privileges granted or denied in a Socialist State.
The Supreme Court gave Christians their specific contest… to shut them up while Socialism in the United States wins the day uncontested. To continue fighting Obamacare after this victory would make Christians seem uncharitable and unwilling to work out a “peace agreement” (*4) with the opposition… who stole their human Liberty endued by their Creator as an inalienable right, and made it unlawful to Live without paying the “health lords” a tax for the privilege.
For a review of how this happens Fabian style, please see Post 299 “America’s Abomination” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/08/americas-abomination.html).
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(*1) “What is missing from the Hobby Lobby decision altogether—beyond the economic disparity and public health arguments I mention above—is the very notion of the woman herself as moral circuit breaker, as an agent of her own ethical choices and preferences, whose decision to obtain an IUD, or a condom, or a morning-after pill is a fully autonomous moral choice that supplants the spiritual choices of her employer.” - Dahlia Lithwick for Doublex, accessed July 9, 2014, bold emphasis added (http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/07/after_hobby_lobby_mucullen_and_harris_v_quinn_the_men_of_the_supreme_court.html).
(*2) Income Tax: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” - The 16th Amendment, an addition to the Bill of Rights, “adopted” February 3, 1913.
This questionably-ratified Amendment overturning landmark decisions in cases such as the 1895 Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., diminished the Constitutional rights retained by the people, but was nonetheless added to the original “Bill of Rights” and is in full contradiction to both the letter and principle laid out in part by Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution as follows:
ARTICLE 1, Section 2, Clause 3:
“Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...”
ARTICLE 1, Section 9, Clause 4:
“No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.”
It is quite a rabbit-trail we will not cover here, but the 1895 Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust Co. was a case won in the Supreme Court regarding property tax unlawfully attempted before the 16th Amendment overturned the Court’s Constitutional findings. Meaning that the Government at the time had every intention of taxing the people regardless of the foundational Law, and the 16th Amendment had every intention of changing the original intent so that they could finally do it.
Maybe until now there was ground in the argument that the growing government needed the additional funds to operate, but the blatant foolishness and open corruption has become so great that funding: slackers, bankrupt private companies, abortions, terrorists, illegal aliens, and enemy nations, etc., are all reasons to repeal the 16th Amendment and return the Government to its original minimal purposes that would function just fine absent all the “Government Programs” now destroying America by spending us to death.
It seems the framers understood all this and wrote specific laws to keep it from happening. We don’t even need to write new laws to fix it; simply repeal the 16th Amendment and then live accordingly. What do we do with all the needy? The Church suddenly has a new and valuable role again-- discerning those in need vs. those who should be instructed to provide for themselves (Galatians 2:10, James 1:27 vs. II Thessalonians 3:10-12).
(*3) Social Security: “The Social Security Act was drafted under FDR’s first term, passed Congress as part of the New Deal, and was signed by FDR on August 14, 1935” - (http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/new-roosevelt/what-social-security-act).
“This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health.
We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.
This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions. It will act as a protection to future Administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. The law will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation. It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness… If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time.” - Roosevelt at signing, Aug. 14, 1935, (http://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html#signing line item #7).
I have no problem with a rich and successful community choosing to implement such a benevolent program for its people out of their abundance. But isn’t it interesting that only a single generation received the great benefits of the government’s mandated Social Security system as promised, before the program began to fail dramatically. Today, the second generation and the ones who paid the bills for the benefits given to others, has paid into the program all their lives but will receive little to none of the benefits promised. The Social Security program is functionally bankrupt, and it didn’t succeed in protecting the future, lessening the force of depressions, or protect the present Administration from the necessity of going deeply in debt to furnish relief to the needy, it didn’t flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and inflation as promised. In fact, Roosevelt’s empty promises come up fully short only a single generation later. One generation simply received the distributed wealth of the following generation who could ill afford it. Roosevelt is dead and it seemed to work well for his generation, so what does he care about the impoverishment he left behind?
(*4) Glenn Beck’s sponsored compromised-solution example:
Government approved healthcare for Christians - (https://medi-share.org/ms/lp/medical-bill-sharing_11-1.aspx).
Perhaps not a bad idea… if it’s a choice you can and want to make from your abundance, rather than being forced as a surf by a tyrant feudal lord.
Feudal: adj. of or pertaining to a feud or state of hostility.
Feudal: adj. 1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of, feuds, fiefs, or fees. 2. Of or pertaining to the feudal system; as, feudal law.
Feud, feod: noun. A fee, or feudal benefice; a fief.
Fief: noun. Law. A feudal estate; a fee.
Feudal system: The system of polity which prevailed in Europe in the Middle Ages, based upon the relation of lord to vassal, with the holdings of land in feud. The principal incidents [i.e. fees: tax for the land’s use] of the feudal system were homage, service of the tenants, wardship, marriage, reliefs, aids, escheat, and forfeiture - all the above definitions from Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1948 Fifth Edition.
The Pilgrims did not reform England; they fled it. To let our liberty slip from our hands while we can still correct it is to soon find ourselves in a place that can no longer be fixed. Where will we flee then?
Already today:
• You buy your land and home but nonetheless pay feudal “rent” to the government who can evict you for non-payment of the principle incident, which at this time is restricted to money only. They call it Property Tax.
• You work hard for your money but gift nearly 30% to the government for the privilege of working. They call it Income Tax.
• You use of the remainder to buy food and sustenance, which you pay the government a fee for the privilege of buying. They call it Sales Tax.
• And now you pay the Health Lords a regular fee just to live, whether you’re working or not. They call it Health Care Tax.
Most of these ideas were utterly repugnant to the Constitution of this once great Nation of free men. If now is not the time, then when will it be time to fix the problem? especially since there is nowhere left to flee.
The problem is not a faulty Government; it is a visionless, Christless people governed:
"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country. I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be: if God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; if the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness, will reign without mitigation or end." - Daniel Webster 1823.
Christian America was once the sanctuary that the oppressed world fled to for liberty… Liberty: in America it was a governmentally recognized and protected inalienable right, endowed to all men by their Creator. But what is America today if not a machine of vassals-with-guns?
While having the power and the right to resist, they nonetheless comply; willingly padding the pockets of the very rich governing club at growing expense and discomfort to themselves. This contented slavish mentality is a result of abandoning the Lord of Liberty!
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, but became vain in their (virtual reality) imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” Romans 1:21-22.
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Post 328
While this is not the next Post in my linear progression of thought, it is a current-events issue as I warm back up to my work in progress after the delay of editing for the book. Consider this a post-publication “Part 2” update attachment to Post 321 "The Misleading Deception" (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-misleading-deception.html).
The recent victory in the Burnwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Supreme Court case (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/sebelius-v-hobby-lobby-stores-inc/) is yet another slight-of-hand example of the misleading-deception magic-trick while Christians erupt with exuberant celebrations in the face of bitter complaints by the “women’s rights” groups who feel cheated.
To throw cold water on this Christian victory at this point is to be labeled a naysayer unable to see the good in anything, but to neglect the truth in the events is to succumb to the deception that makes the magic show successful in its purpose.
So let’s explore a little of the details and expose the misleading of the deception:
* * *
The Misleading:
In the recent victory Hobby Lobby, a Christian company, won their argument on religious grounds as the Supreme Court upheld-- not their First Amendment Rights but the Religious Freedom Restoration Act-- not to provide abortion inducing contraceptives in their mandated Obamacare program.
“Women’s rights” groups and the supporting public have hit the roof, stunned that the Supreme Court would permit such a thing. How dare an employer be allowed to deny a woman employee the right to women’s health products! (*1).
“What is this nation coming to?” is a phrase I have seen as a caption regarding the compliant. It seems that the “conservative Christian rights” have finally been given an unexpected great victory in our nation, and many, many Christians see this as a positive sign of better things to come. America will recover!
But arguments are springing up all over the social internet: the left and the right both jousting the facts of the case while rarely having the facts in their possession. The ignorant emotional argument is simplified between contraceptives or no contraceptives, and the left is demanding their rights to “women’s health” products while the right is trying to educate the left in the knowledge that the function of contraceptives is technically abortion and abortion is murder of the unborn. Then the left responds with more scientific knowledge that most contraceptives keep the egg from being fertilized so no abortion takes place and therefore Hobby Lobby has no real religious case and the usually Leftist leaning Supreme Court had their head in the sand on this one for this very unexpected support of the Right, apparently because it is a male dominated bench.
The unyielding battle further separates our nation into declared sides of a war that is still brewing to the boiling point.
The Cup-Drop:
Hopefully the truth of the facts will soon become known to both sides of the argument, and with the facts understood, each can agree that this was in fact a good ruling amicable to most everyone… exclusive of course to the woman who really does want her employer to pay for abortion pills, that she can purchase over-the-counter herself at any pharmacy for less than the price of lunch.
As most irreconcilable arguments today, the actual facts of the case revolve around the specifics. In our age of advanced technology we must distinguish between contraceptives that prohibit fertilization, from Birth Control that prohibit a fertilized egg from reaching viability. Thus; not “Fertilization Control” but “Birth Control.” Hobby Lobby won the right to refuse providing Birth Control, which apparently turns out to be 4 of the 20 contraceptive options currently available. Per the Obamacare mandate, even after the victory, Hobby Lobby still provides the 16 contraceptives that don’t kill a fertilized egg and are therefore not scientifically abortion, and so not a clear and direct violation of the Christian faith on those grounds.
Contrary to the ignorant hysteria of emotional opinions on both sides; Hobby Lobby is not denying their women employees access to women’s “health products” but in fact pays for them per Obamacare mandates, and blind-faith Christians learn that science has made a very important distinction that they need to wake up to. Both the left and the right can find mutual peace in the ground of informed knowledge. See? Peace between opposing religious sides can be had!
The Empty Cup:
While the audience applauds the great results of mutual peace we have to ask why the extremely leftist and unconstitutionally-rewriting-congressional-law Supreme Court would suddenly and uncharacteristically rule in the favor of Christians. Until the cup is revealed empty we are convinced that we see the truth in the cup-drop deception of the contending arguments. But after the truth is explored and publicly accepted on both sides, what have we got? We have an empty cup.
The secondary slight-of-hand trick and far greater issue at play is the fact that in the recent victory of our appeal we have fully established the jurisdiction of ObamaCare, which we started off fighting as fully unconstitutional-- for one, it is not compatible with an ARTICLE 4, Section 4, Republican form of Government, for another, it was forced on us by congressionally approved executive order against our votes. Remember putting down HillaryCare decisively? Remember slamming down ObamaCare? (See Post 155 “Healthcare” http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/01/healthcare.html).
But now, without even knowing it, by contesting finepoints in the unlawful Act, we gave all the ground except abortion. Like the 1913 16th Amendment Income Tax (*2) and Roosevelt’s Social Security program (*3), the Socialist style Obamacare is now likewise established in America while Christians are pleased to have won their anti-abortion case… until it comes up again, as we know it will, in a land where law is now emotionally based on shifting ground. But when it does come up again we will no longer be battling for our rights in “the land of the free,” but for privileges granted or denied in a Socialist State.
The Supreme Court gave Christians their specific contest… to shut them up while Socialism in the United States wins the day uncontested. To continue fighting Obamacare after this victory would make Christians seem uncharitable and unwilling to work out a “peace agreement” (*4) with the opposition… who stole their human Liberty endued by their Creator as an inalienable right, and made it unlawful to Live without paying the “health lords” a tax for the privilege.
For a review of how this happens Fabian style, please see Post 299 “America’s Abomination” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/08/americas-abomination.html).
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(*1) “What is missing from the Hobby Lobby decision altogether—beyond the economic disparity and public health arguments I mention above—is the very notion of the woman herself as moral circuit breaker, as an agent of her own ethical choices and preferences, whose decision to obtain an IUD, or a condom, or a morning-after pill is a fully autonomous moral choice that supplants the spiritual choices of her employer.” - Dahlia Lithwick for Doublex, accessed July 9, 2014, bold emphasis added (http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/07/after_hobby_lobby_mucullen_and_harris_v_quinn_the_men_of_the_supreme_court.html).
(*2) Income Tax: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” - The 16th Amendment, an addition to the Bill of Rights, “adopted” February 3, 1913.
This questionably-ratified Amendment overturning landmark decisions in cases such as the 1895 Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., diminished the Constitutional rights retained by the people, but was nonetheless added to the original “Bill of Rights” and is in full contradiction to both the letter and principle laid out in part by Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution as follows:
ARTICLE 1, Section 2, Clause 3:
“Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...”
ARTICLE 1, Section 9, Clause 4:
“No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.”
It is quite a rabbit-trail we will not cover here, but the 1895 Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust Co. was a case won in the Supreme Court regarding property tax unlawfully attempted before the 16th Amendment overturned the Court’s Constitutional findings. Meaning that the Government at the time had every intention of taxing the people regardless of the foundational Law, and the 16th Amendment had every intention of changing the original intent so that they could finally do it.
Maybe until now there was ground in the argument that the growing government needed the additional funds to operate, but the blatant foolishness and open corruption has become so great that funding: slackers, bankrupt private companies, abortions, terrorists, illegal aliens, and enemy nations, etc., are all reasons to repeal the 16th Amendment and return the Government to its original minimal purposes that would function just fine absent all the “Government Programs” now destroying America by spending us to death.
It seems the framers understood all this and wrote specific laws to keep it from happening. We don’t even need to write new laws to fix it; simply repeal the 16th Amendment and then live accordingly. What do we do with all the needy? The Church suddenly has a new and valuable role again-- discerning those in need vs. those who should be instructed to provide for themselves (Galatians 2:10, James 1:27 vs. II Thessalonians 3:10-12).
(*3) Social Security: “The Social Security Act was drafted under FDR’s first term, passed Congress as part of the New Deal, and was signed by FDR on August 14, 1935” - (http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/new-roosevelt/what-social-security-act).
“This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health.
We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.
This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions. It will act as a protection to future Administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. The law will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation. It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness… If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time.” - Roosevelt at signing, Aug. 14, 1935, (http://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html#signing line item #7).
I have no problem with a rich and successful community choosing to implement such a benevolent program for its people out of their abundance. But isn’t it interesting that only a single generation received the great benefits of the government’s mandated Social Security system as promised, before the program began to fail dramatically. Today, the second generation and the ones who paid the bills for the benefits given to others, has paid into the program all their lives but will receive little to none of the benefits promised. The Social Security program is functionally bankrupt, and it didn’t succeed in protecting the future, lessening the force of depressions, or protect the present Administration from the necessity of going deeply in debt to furnish relief to the needy, it didn’t flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and inflation as promised. In fact, Roosevelt’s empty promises come up fully short only a single generation later. One generation simply received the distributed wealth of the following generation who could ill afford it. Roosevelt is dead and it seemed to work well for his generation, so what does he care about the impoverishment he left behind?
(*4) Glenn Beck’s sponsored compromised-solution example:
Government approved healthcare for Christians - (https://medi-share.org/ms/lp/medical-bill-sharing_11-1.aspx).
Perhaps not a bad idea… if it’s a choice you can and want to make from your abundance, rather than being forced as a surf by a tyrant feudal lord.
Feudal: adj. of or pertaining to a feud or state of hostility.
Feudal: adj. 1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of, feuds, fiefs, or fees. 2. Of or pertaining to the feudal system; as, feudal law.
Feud, feod: noun. A fee, or feudal benefice; a fief.
Fief: noun. Law. A feudal estate; a fee.
Feudal system: The system of polity which prevailed in Europe in the Middle Ages, based upon the relation of lord to vassal, with the holdings of land in feud. The principal incidents [i.e. fees: tax for the land’s use] of the feudal system were homage, service of the tenants, wardship, marriage, reliefs, aids, escheat, and forfeiture - all the above definitions from Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1948 Fifth Edition.
The Pilgrims did not reform England; they fled it. To let our liberty slip from our hands while we can still correct it is to soon find ourselves in a place that can no longer be fixed. Where will we flee then?
Already today:
• You buy your land and home but nonetheless pay feudal “rent” to the government who can evict you for non-payment of the principle incident, which at this time is restricted to money only. They call it Property Tax.
• You work hard for your money but gift nearly 30% to the government for the privilege of working. They call it Income Tax.
• You use of the remainder to buy food and sustenance, which you pay the government a fee for the privilege of buying. They call it Sales Tax.
• And now you pay the Health Lords a regular fee just to live, whether you’re working or not. They call it Health Care Tax.
Most of these ideas were utterly repugnant to the Constitution of this once great Nation of free men. If now is not the time, then when will it be time to fix the problem? especially since there is nowhere left to flee.
The problem is not a faulty Government; it is a visionless, Christless people governed:
"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country. I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be: if God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; if the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness, will reign without mitigation or end." - Daniel Webster 1823.
Christian America was once the sanctuary that the oppressed world fled to for liberty… Liberty: in America it was a governmentally recognized and protected inalienable right, endowed to all men by their Creator. But what is America today if not a machine of vassals-with-guns?
While having the power and the right to resist, they nonetheless comply; willingly padding the pockets of the very rich governing club at growing expense and discomfort to themselves. This contented slavish mentality is a result of abandoning the Lord of Liberty!
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, but became vain in their (virtual reality) imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” Romans 1:21-22.
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