The Dissatisfied Hunger

Post 285

“Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied…” Micah 6:14a
(see also: Leviticus 26:26, Psalm 59:15, Isaiah 9:20).

It is easy to miss the point of this verse; there is not a lack of food, only a lack of satisfaction in eating.
Gluttony is an ugly word so today we just call it “Over Eating.” This is a much more pleasant term because we all know that eating is good for you, so over-eating must be better for you. I know obese people actually proud of how much food they can put away, the reason is because of this mental game by our word usage, much like we do with “Pro-Choice,” which sound so much more user-friendly than Murder. Over Eating is just taking a good thing to extremes and that is far easier to accept than being accused of Gluttony. Call it what you will, but the girth doesn’t lie to the truth… though perspective does! “I’m not fat, I’m large,” and we all know “Bigger is Better.”

VS.

“The meek (6035) shall eat and be satisfied…”
Psalm 22:26a (see also: Deuteronomy 14:29, Joel 2:19,26).

Isn’t it curious that God would claim satisfied eating and meekness are directly connected? What does meekness have to do with food?
With all the weight loss programs out there that actually help you get your self-control in order and the result is a smaller girth, self-control is a form of meekness:

Meek 6035 ‘anav; or (by intermixture with 6041) Aanayv; from 6031; depressed (figuratively), in mind (gentle) or circumstances (needy, especially saintly):-- humble, lowly, meek, poor. Compare 6041.
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But we all know that depression is a leading cause of obesity, so how does that make sense? It’s because we have corrupted the word “depressed” to mean by use what the word does not actually intend. This is where the chain of definitions comes to our aid. The word meek, as used here, is based on 6031:

6031 ‘anah; a primitive root [possibly rather identical with 6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating]; to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows):-- abase self, afflict (-ion, self), answer [by mistake for 6030], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for 6030), speak (by mistake for 6030), submit self, weaken, X in any wise.

6030 ‘anah; a primitive root; properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak, specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce:-- give account, afflict [by mistake for 6031], (cause to, give) answer, bring low [by mistake for 6031], cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.

I don’t wish to rabbit trail this to ends unrelated but we need to note that although 6031 and 6030 are identical words for meek; they are used quite differently, and even the definitions themselves identify misapplication between them! How odd. Perhaps it’s something like our English dual use of “Record”; where one is the act of making the other.
In the word that the scriptures relate to satisfied eating, we see a self-chastisement; self-control, a willful restriction of self in a way that makes oneself intentionally smaller (pun intended); depressed (John 3:30). The head of IBLP has described Meekness by the working definition:

“Meekness: Power under control.” - Bill Gothard

By misapplying the one definition to the other’s application we actually confuse the meaning of what we are doing and why, and so we over-eat when we are depressed rather than suppress our over-inflated desires and thereby eat less. Go figure! In this corrupted use, our “depression” is an inflation rather than a deflation; we have not depressed ourself but glorified self by “singing out self” in the other definition by mistake for the one supposed. Today’s use of the word “depression” wholly misses the actual point, much as pro-choice implies murder as an honorable desire. The spirit of depression is really just a pity-party crying about my unfulfilled desires, therefore depression is really self-glorification... So you give in to your demands and eat whatever you crave, but your cravings are never satisfied once uninhibited “self” becomes king (worshipped).

Meekness and Depression are now functionally polar opposites when the one is supposed to define the other by the result.
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The war:
The difference between an unsatisfied Hunger and a hunger that can be satisfied is not actually about eating; the eating is simply a physical manifestation of which it is. The war is in the Hunger itself.
In a healthy individual they periodically get hungry when their body needs the fuel and so they eat to fill the need, and are thereby satisfied when the needle shows “full.” But in an unhealthy individual they are always Hungry; the need has nothing to do with the Hunger though it is indeed based on that healthy function with a small “h.” This (H)unger is predatorial in nature, and that distinguishes it from (h)unger, much as in the kinds of clay, or kinds of waters, which have all appearances of the same things, but with fundamentally different natures.

The meek that finds satisfaction when he eats to fill his body’s hunger is a person who has a condition of self-control established in their life. It’s not a matter of vigilantly overpowering the beast; there simply is no war. But does that mean there is nothing to be fought? Hardly, otherwise there would be no need for self-control. Therefore, self-control is the element of power that ensures there is no war; If you don’t feed the Hunger, then you have a war; but if you don’t feed the appetite of the Hunger, the Hunger will become weak through depression (starvation). The shock is to discover that the appetite of Hunger has nothing to do with food! Therefore this works for far more than just eating.

Politically and militarily this concept has long been understood by the phrase; Si vis pacem, para bellum, a Latin adage translated as; "If you wish for peace, prepare for war" - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum).

A practiced self-control of meekness is far more advantageous than for maintaining a healthy weight. Self-control will keep us from the addictions to; Food, Drugs, Tobacco, Alcohol, Sex, Violence, as well as Porn, Bad Friends, Romance Novels, TV, Video Games, Electronic devices, Shopping, Hording, Compulsive Disorders, Craving More money, More toys, and a general Unpleasant personality of a dissatisfaction with life.
But since WWII Americans have been encouraged to fulfill their every desire; “Just Do It” “Look out for number one” “You’ve come a long way baby!” The end result is an entire generation of dissatisfied self-willed proud individuals that have abandon meekness as something for weak people going nowhere.
And the answer is to fine McDonald's for selling fattening foods?
Try again
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So how does this Post relate to the topic we have been covering?
Standing on this side of the river looking over to the other, in the three days given to prepare sustenance for the battle (Joshua 1:11)-- as I have paralleled for the Christian world today-- what is the one commandment that was repeated over and over?

“Be strong and of good courage,” Joshua 1:6,7,9,18.

Of a certainty, this was not the only command given:

“…that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success” Joshua 1:7b-8.

But this section was book-ended between the command to be strong and of good courage. In fact notice what was commanded at the beginning of this passage that was able to keep them from turning:

“Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:…” Joshua 1:7a.

and again at the end as a confirmation of this source of success:

“Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest” Joshua 1:9.

This explains the reason needed for the strength and courage: so that they could obey the commandments. If you re-read the entire chapter of self-preparation for crossing into the Promised Land, God’s promise of success was fully contingent upon their strength and courage, which enabled obedience. So how is that a promise?! “I will give you the land if you have the moxy (not so negative as chutzpah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah) to take it?”
What is that all about?

Understanding the answer, is aided by the above second definition of meek:

6030 ‘anah; a primitive root; properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak, specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce...

Remember it was fear that kept the first generation from acquiring the Promised Land, and that fear was unbelief (Deuteronomy 1:25-32). What we find is a real problem when we misapply our understanding of meekness in the appropriate use, and then misapply that misapplication to the wrong focus for our strength and courage.
And here is where I had fought long and hard to sort this out:
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“It’s not God that I have long doubted; it’s ME.”
As the servant of God I know He is able to do anything he chooses, but because he chooses to use Me, how can I be sure I am not messing up what he wants me to do? I know ME! and I am the last person that I would count on to do the Almighty’s work correctly! You cannot know the very great struggle I face over each Post; to go over and over meticulously looking for error of doctrine via misinterpretation, on my face before God beseeching him to reveal to me any wrong perspective or presentation and yet knowing that it is mine to search out. If I spend any time at all thinking about the fact that it’s “me” as the guy doing this work, I begin to flounder like Peter in the waves. I have no business writing like this to the world! But I got excited at what I saw and asked Jesus if I could join him in this, and he said; “Come” (Matthew 14:29), so I jumped out of the boat fully aware that solid water under my feet was not due to anything on my part but the location of my feet!
“What do you know about that?! I can’t explain it, but it works!”

The key to success is not to bolster my courage and blunder ahead strong as a fool in thinking “I can do this,” as I walk on water; the secret is to humble myself before God in awe of what I see him do in and through me! My strength and courage is found not in myself but in the Lord who guides me to do the impossible.

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness…” II Corinthians 12:9a.

And so knowing myself and my great weaknesses, and knowing even more importantly that God is well aware of my weaknesses, yet called me, a mere man, to do God’s great work by the simple word; “come,” I can actually glory in the agreement of experience with the apostle Paul when he says:

“…Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong” II Corinthians 12:9b-10.

If I were a great writer, skilled in the formal training of an author, or a man naturally gifted with great wisdom as one “typically right,” I would appear to have no need to so completely rest in the power of Christ to do this work. But I am no such man, and therefore I need Christ to a degree perhaps “even greater than most” (as if anyone does not need to rely on Christ for all things). Therefore the success I see evidenced in my work, glorifies God even more by my weaknesses marvelously used in his hands! This kind of relationship is far different than demonic “automatic writing”; this allows me, a naturally incompetent, to participate as a surprisingly valuable member of the team in the hands of a magnificent coach, and not just as a puppet on a string.
This is the strength and courage commanded to the children as they were directed in preparation to cross that river in obedience, and conquer a land filled with very real Giants! The strength of God is the obedience they were commanded to take up for that mission, the courage to know that God would not fail himself even through using them, is the courage that they were to put on in obedience to that mission, knowing fully that without God they would utterly fail, much as tiny Israel standing today surrounded by great hostile neighboring nations committed to their destruction. Strength and Courage were not meant to be brought up from somewhere deep inside themselves; but to be placed on God alone working through their actions in a very real way; “My job is to obey in faith while God’s job is to provide the miraculous win” (see Joshua 2:11). The Promise of God is that they COULD NOT FAIL if they did this!

“There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” Joshua 1:5.

And just in case you want to argue that this was God speaking specifically to Joshua and not the people, Paul covers that argument:

“Let your conversation (5158 mode, style) be without covetousness (Hunger); and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me” Hebrews 13:5-6.

In this passage we find the need for a practiced (prepared) meekness, and also the requirement that God will not do for us what is ours to do by his command to obey, but when we do it he promises to make it succeed. The strength and courage needed for this job does not come as a baseless sudden choice, (“I think I will be courageous today”); No, it comes from confidence in God. But confidence of Strength and Courage in God comes by experience of success and not of failure. This was their experience as they obediently followed Moses in the desert, and as their parents with Moses crossed uncrossable water, ate manna where there was no food, drank water where no water was, walked in the light where darkness reigned, and succeeded where they personally failed; these children existed here at this place as proof that their parents experienced those things… even though they were unworthy as they went! Once they finally arrived here as proof that God would indeed accomplish what he started… in spite of them, they were allowed three days to figure out how to apply all this in a very practical preparation before they crossed into battle, still personally uncircumcised yet belonging by choice (faith)!
You don’t get there on your own strength and courage, or on your careful obedience to written rules, or even on your great fortitude and skills; you get there only by faith in God and the savior he provided (Moses/Christ): faith that has hands and feet in your works of obedience to his voice. This is NOT the kind of faith that perpetually experiences failure and God’s wrath for disobedience, God is a REWARDER of those who diligently seek him: (Hebrews 11:6 Post 245 Rewarder http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/ 2012/05/rewarder.html) and this is the kind of clean faith needed for that kind of strength and courage now.

But one small caveat:
Notice that in the above Old Testament command to go and conquer, the New Testament command is to stand and endure. Same strength, same courage, different application (Ephesians 6:13,18), for very important reasons not discussed here (see the whole book of I Peter), it’s a “beginning-vs-ending of-the-world” thing.
Where this post will now divert, seems to completely abandon the topic for a good while, but by the end we will draw it back together to the deep comprehension of the serious distinction between the two different hungers. In the distinction, we find a grave detriment of the Hunger with a capitol H.
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Graceless Kingdom?
[This section makes use of Matthew chapter 22 and chapter 25, both speaking of the same marriage, but don't confuse the applications in the one for the other]:
The preparation before crossing, is vital to success because you cannot fight the giants and your internal demons at the same time, as evidenced by Achan in the battle of Jericho (Joshua 7:1). These self-defeating Hungers of Dirty-Grace addictions must be thoroughly dealt with before we cross, because once on the other side, the grace that overshadowed us in the desert seems to be missing when it comes to Dirty-Grace “mistakes” (Joshua 7:12-13+20-26).
So now it seems that my application of the Jordan as the Type of entering the kingdom of heaven must be wrong;
“Surely, of all places, there must be grace in heaven.”

I am not suggesting there isn’t. But I am suggesting it isn’t the same kind of grace that we Gentiles think we experience in the Church age here in the desert while we follow Christ seemingly without the laws to adhere to. I find this concept in Jesus’ own description of that kingdom:

“And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,”… Matthew 22:1-2.

Again the details will have to be skipped, but between the call (v.3) and the actual wedding (not included), we discover that the Matthew 25 “Ten Virgins” parable is a message for the prospective Brides preparing and waiting for the wedding to come… but this Matthew 22 passage is a message to the Guests:

…“And (the king) sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come” Matthew 22:3.

The first guests that were invited to this wedding refused to come (Matthew 22:3) even after additional invites (v.4), and so, after they didn’t just say; “No thank you”, but instead mocked the whole idea (v.5), then beat, and murdered the king’s messengers of invitation (v.6), he sent his own armies to destroy them and their city in great vengeance (v.7), not against their insolent indifference, but against their unwarranted violence toward what was supposed to be a day and event of Joy for everyone invited; the marriage of the King's own Son... to the ten betrothed brides of Matthew 25… of which only five actually made it to the wedding hall (Matthew 25:10-12).
And so then the king invited others to furnish the wedding with guests instead of those first invited (Matthew 22:9-10) who had been destroyed, not for not coming, but for their violence of wickedness that had no reason to respond in such a way (Genesis 6:5,13) except unadulterated hatred for the king and his son.

Suddenly it becomes very important to discover who these two groups of guests are, as distinct from the two similar groups of brides! One group made it to the wedding and the other group didn’t.
Now before we go on, it is needful to note the Greek definition of the word guests 345.

guests 345 anakeimai; from 303 and 2749; to recline (as a corpse or at a meal):-- guest, lean, lie, sit (down, at meat), at the table.

God is so humorous! Being a guest at the wedding has as much to do with applied merit as the efforts of a corps. If a corps has nothing to offer the wedding but its presence, so it is with the guest. A guest is a guest only because he was invited. As we will soon see:

“…So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad (4190) and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests (345)” Matthew 22:10.

So far so good…BUT WAIT! “What is this bit about “both bad and good” in the halls of the kingdom of heaven? I though the bad were already destroyed in their wicked city.”
Contrary to the general secret underlying feelings of many saved-by-grace Christians, I propose that this might confirm a truth that we do not get to heaven by any good deeds or proper behaviors:

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” Titus 3:5 (seemingly contrary to Hebrews 12:14, Matthew 5:20, 23:13).

And although we all know this verse by heart and feel we know clearly what it means, having bad wedding guests at Christ’s wedding really gives it new definition! A guest's job is to simply enjoy the proceedings that transpire before him without his involvement beyond his presence…
To be frank, the more I study this concept, the more I don’t think this message to the guest has anything to do with the message to the bride.
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What we have learned is that some of Christ’s own wedding-guests are really quite repulsive people who have not yet been trained in good etiquette but have given homage to our Lord just the same! Do you really suppose that Rahab the Harlot (Joshua 2:1-21) was suddenly a refined lady because she found faith in God, or might she have been quite rough around the edges still, even embarrassing herself with old familiar gutter talk that she finds hard to immediately correct? How much more those who are not brides but only guests?

Bad 4190 poneros; from a derivative of 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neutral (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners:-- bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked (-ness). See also 4191.
Facinorous: [Latin facinus deed, bad deed, from facere to do.] Now Rare. Atrociously wicked.

That sure blows the doors off of getting into heaven “because you were relatively good!” and now we know why the tree of life in the middle of the street and along both sides of the river in the kingdom of heaven has leaves for medicine to heal the nations!... on both this side and that side of the river (Revelation 22:2).
Saved drunkards, child molesters, sodomites, murderers, thieves, etc. are all at first still evil in their mental processes as they learn of the God who Saved them, and they are transformed over time by the conversion of their minds by the scriptures that wash them (Romans 12:1-2)! Give them a break; you were once one too remember? (I Corinthians 6:11). So tell me again dear long-time Christian who looks down on the undesirables for their honest lack of understanding; how do you get into heaven?!

“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…” Acts 16:31.

Isn’t that INCREDIBLE!?... except for the fact that the scripture makes it credible!

So now we have the brides prepared for the wedding on that Great Day that we believers have been longing for like a romantically inclined young girl… but we also have even unsavory wedding guests… that are not just not good guests, but not brides! What are they doing there at all?
The answer will most certainly offend your Christian sensibilities, but they are Typed as the servants acquired in the Promised Land who did not turn to God in love, but were made tributaries of God’s people in exchange for their lives and homes (Judges chapter 1).

tributaries 4522 mac; or mic; from 4549; properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor:-- discomfited, levy, task (-master), tribute (-tary).
4549 macac; a primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief):-- discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, X utterly.

Are you yet finding it a lot harder to simply condemn Islam for this exact thing in the Jizya Tax? (*1) (II Peter 2:11).

If we don’t get to heaven because of being good, do they go to hell for being bad? There is fundamentally something else entirely going on here, and we really need to figure it out!
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NOW let’s continue to the point of the parable:

“And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen” Matthew 22:11-14.

I find it remarkable that the king would be so generous as to give the man every opportunity to explain himself. The man obviously made it into the wedding by favorably responding to the invitation, but without the obligatory “wedding garment,” not as a bride but as a guest. God the king called him friend, he asked his question pleasantly in hope of an acceptable answer and waited for a reply, but there was nothing to be said (Romans 1:20), and so he was cast out by force, where it was very unpleasant (Titus 3:10).
Ignoring for a moment the king’s own blaring question that begs another to be asked regarding the acquisition of such a garment;

“How did he get into the wedding at all, without being a bride?”

We already touched on the answer to this unfamiliar concept, but it seems to stand boldly in the face of what we have always seen as the nature of Christ; That is, the topic of accepted though unwilling servants; i.e. tributaries.
Suddenly the floodgates burst open and my mind runs to question many issues previously determined that I understood, example; the slaves of early America, and Washington’s slaves specifically(*2). The captives of the Hebrews (Deuteronomy 21:10-13), and the conquest of the Canaanites themselves (Deuteronomy 4:34a, 7:2-5), or even God sending his own people into real servitude of Egypt (Deuteronomy 24:17-18) and Babylon, etc.
But being very careful; the word slave/slaves is only found twice in scripture; the one is God himself asking if Israel is a slave with the negative being the correct reply (Jeremiah 2:14), and the other speaks of wicked Mystery Babylon selling slaves to buyers of the world (Revelation 18:13). Therefore it’s important that we distinguish the actual words used in scripture, which stand distinctly different from the word slave. In this way we confirm my earlier understanding that while indeed Washington bought slaves, he treated them more like hired servants with nowhere else to go (bondmen). Israel too had the similar concept confirmed as bondservants which could go free, sometimes chose to stay because they valued their situation (Exodus 21:5-6).

We are indeed crossing into dangerous waters with this topic, especially now that our own Christian nation walks in wicked understanding, and Islam looks for any justification against God and his people. But perhaps that is why we are only now exploring this topic; it may be that Islam’s take on the scriptures can provide a dark light that our perverted spirits could not see the contending light of truth without. Wicked Islam is amazingly applying our own scriptures quite accurately against us, and in so doing we have the opportunity to contemplate God’s pure heart in the matter of tribute vs. the perversion of it, much as the now complex concept of marriage is due to the inclusion of Sodomy, which forces a more serious study.
Are you remembering that we are looking to distinguish hunger from Hunger? one being healthy and beneficial, while the other is consuming and self-destructive. The topic of “servitude to another nation” is distasteful, but as long as you remain righteous it’s something you need not concern yourself with. But when you abuse your liberty, God himself will return you to servanthood so you will have an authority to force his discarded will upon you, and thereby teach you the mindframe to be humbly obedient to the LORD’s commands when you’re not a servant (*3).

God sent his own people into Egypt to instill in their very culture the humble obedience of a servant, then he brought them out by the Hand of Moses, and like it or not they followed him as servants are want to do.
Arrogant and destructively free Americans now likewise need a master to manage their lack of self-control, so God is sending us Islam who will do just that. Whether Islam honors God or not is perhaps irrelevant to God regarding the training of America, in fact the lesson will be more readily learned if they are forced to obey non-godly commands rather than commands they know they should follow but don’t. But this is not a “three-year” lesson to endure as an inconvenience; it took Israel 400 years.
While this very foundational destabilizing concept rattles around in your head, let’s continue moving forward in the original train of thought regarding the Dissatisfied Hunger:
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Ancient Israel had a period when they conquered and took captives, (specifically only those nations that God commanded). How they treated those tributaries remains an unanswered question today beyond what we read in the scriptures... which is actually quite a bit more than you would first think (Joshua 19:29-31, etc.= II Samuel 5:10-12, I Kings 5:1, 7:14, II Chronicles 2:3-18, etc.). Hardly slaves!
But, we have to imagine that somewhere along the way, as Israel grew more wicked, their honor and value system must have slipped with it. It’s not unreasonable to assume that they forgot what it was like to be slaves in Egypt and so began to treat their tributaries harshly (I Kings 12:18 amongst the whole relative chapter). America seems to taking this same course with our recent POWs. The fact that Islam does far worse while crying; “Foul!” is irrelevant; God is concerned about the wrong conduct of his own people.

Israel Today, after two thousand years of again having no homeland and dwelling among the nations of others, these homeless people were returned to their land by the hand of God himself (Jeremiah 30:3, Isaiah 48, Psalm 44:3). And, having been so recently abused in the Holocaust these people know how to be gentle to the less fortunate and homeless. What other nation wins a war of defense-- called aggressive by their enemies-- and then immediately returns the conquered land to the adversary for the hope of peace? What other nation actually breaks the law by sending charity to the suffering of the enemy nation while still in a declared war with them, effectively committing treason against themselves in favor of helping the destitution of others? Israel has learned the servant’s heart and now in freedom she displays a glorious heart of love and compassion from the position of self-governance as she falls all over herself apologizing profusely to those who were displaced in her return home, she bends over backwards to find some resolution other than suicide for simply existing (*4).
Today there are many Arabs and Palestinians employed inside Israel itself, welcomed in peaceful neighborliness and mutual benefit, while those same peoples constantly fire rockets into the country trying to destroy homes and families. One nation hungers for peace, the “other” Hungers for bloodshed.
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It is not hard to overlay the marriage of the king’s son onto Israel’s home coming, and in Joy the invitation goes out to all the surrounding nations; “Come participate in our Joy!”
But the response is not a cold; “No thank you”; but instead breached homes and murdered families are the reply. This reply has no justification to the conditions… other than unadulterated hatred for the King and his bride, just as they often make perfectly clear:

“My message to the loathed Jews is that there is no god but Allah, we will chase you everywhere! We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood better than the blood of Jews. We will not leave you alone Until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and our children’s thirst with your blood.” - Hamas broadcast February 2006 (*5).

Here is God’s direct and modern reply to this modern broadcast:

“Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will posses it; whereas the LORD was there: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir (The PLO if you will), and all Idumea (The people of “Palestine” today), even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD” Ezekiel 35:5-15.

By long patience God is unquestionably justifying Christ’s own bodycount when he finally comes as Gaston to kill the Beast and his servants.
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(*1) Jizya Tax:
“Poll tax that early Islamic rulers demanded from their non-Muslim subjects. This tax applied especially to followers of Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism, who were tolerated in the practice of their religion because they were “peoples of the book.” Originally intended to be used for charitable purposes, the revenues from the jizya were paid into the private treasuries of rulers, and the Ottoman sultans used the proceeds to pay military expenses. Many converted to Islam in order to escape the tax.” - (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jizya) [Given in the best light possible!].

(*2) Washington’s Slaves Post 077 (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/07/washingtons-slaves.html):
Being a devoted man of God who has shown himself able to rightly apply the word of God into our government’s laws, and, like it or not, slavery was already a reality in the Americas, I cannot possibly imagine other than George Washington earnestly searched the scriptures to learn all that is says regarding the topic of slavery, so that he might conduct himself inoffensively before nature’s God, to whom he acknowledged he would give an account. Having no need for such knowledge today, I am sure Mr. Washington learned far more than I on this subject, and I am confident that I would not disapprove of his actions even though I loathe slavery. Mr. Washington was doing his best to apply God’s laws in a corrupt situation in which the slave needed help from abusers. Buying slaves gave him the power to help them.

(*3) Forced "help" to do right:
Early America and its people were decidedly Christian; it was a Christian nation (*3b). But this does not mean that everyone was in agreement; through history there have always been wicked people amongst the good. But by the fact that the laws and culture in this nation were Christian, even unsavory people were drug along-- even against their will of preference-- to obey the commands of God by “forced obedience” to God’s commands upon which the American laws were based. In this way these “servants” of God conformed to the will of God and were “saved” as guests but not brides, simply by living amongst God’s people. Only those committed to wickedness broke the laws and were punished; like the wedding guest who was found at the wedding but without the proper clothes. Where was the grace then... in the kingdom of all places? This guest is best comprehended by the telling of Achan, who did not conquer his Hunger before crossing the Jordan (Joshua 7:1) and thereby was found in the Promised Land without a wedding garment.
Why is this concept so hard to accept? You already know that God’s archangel Lucifer was cast out of heaven for his iniquity (Ezekiel 28:15), isn’t it about time you took another serious look at your present comprehension of God’s plan, and stop clinging to “three verses” that support your entire view of maintenance-free eternal safety to the shame of Christ? That illusion might have worked to your favor on the other side of the Jordan but it won’t work here in the battle for the kingdom where pretense for courage and actual courage are functionally revealed as very different!

“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier” II Timothy 2:4.

(*3b) A Christian Nation::
“No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people… This is a Christian nation.” - U.S. Supreme Court 1892.
(See Religion In Government Posts 050-053 http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/01/part-1-of-4-religion-in-government.html).

(*4) Examples too numerous to include all here:
• A History of Israel, 20 2000, p. 453. - Khartoum Resolutions, September 1967 -(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_Resolution).
• The Avalon Project: -(http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/khartoum.asp). A complex creation/fabrication of documents true and false (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp), with the purpose to the singular aim of Islamic world dominance.
• “Israel 101” p.20 -(www.elshaddaiministries.us/…/israel101distilled_april14-2008.pdf) (a .pdf), Israel as the aggressor, Right!~

(*5) One of a myriad such:
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, “Hamas Video: We will drink the blood of the Jews,” Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin, February 14, 2006.
Actual video still found here:(http://www.oocities.org/realtrueactuality/PalestinianSavages.html).

(*5b) Another Sample - Israel 101 Footnotes (https://www.standwithus.com/footnotes.asp), Page 23: The Oslo Accords, The Road Map, The Gaza Disengagement: 1993-2006 notation 2.:
"We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.... Peres and Beilin have already promised us half of Jerusalem. The Golan Heights have already been given away, subject to just a few details….All the rich Jews who will get compensation will travel to America....We of the PLO will now concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps. Within five years we will have six to seven million Arabs living in the West Bank and in Jerusalem. All Palestinian Arabs will be welcomed by us. If the Jews can import all kinds of Ethiopians, Russians, Uzbeks and Ukranians as Jews, we can import all kinds of Arabs to us...You understand that we plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian State. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews; they are and remain Jews. We now need all the help we can get from you in our battle for a united Palestine under total Arab-Muslim domination!" - Yasser Arafat, in the speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel," the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden January 30, 1996.
From “Israel 101” p.22 a must-read pdf -(www.elshaddaiministries.us/…/israel101distilled_april14-2008.pdf).

(*6) I almost forgot!
In wrestling with the discovery of my early interpretational sloppiness of combining the Brides and the Guests into a single group of “The Saved,” II Peter suggests that my previous interpretation was not actually wrong, just not specific enough; the Brides and the Guests are indeed The Saved, but much as Rome is indeed the Beast kingdom of Revelation 17; there are more details of distinction to be discovered. I believe the distinction is found in Jesus' parable of the workers that were hired at different times through the day (Matthew 20:9-10), the last are perhaps the guests, whose only work is to show up with a grateful heart and receive equal pay (Salvation), but obviously not the same relationship as a day long employee… or a bride.
The concept is found true to form as the Gentile believers are warned not to fall short, since we are not even the natural branches! (Romans 11:21).
Of all people, those later-comers with very little obligation to the affairs, should at least show up in the right clothes!
...and a blood-lust to bump off the other unsavory guests is not the best way to be dressed for a wedding.
Loose the Hunger.
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