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Post 307
(Strongly Recommend Reading: Galatians)
Ninety-Degrees:
Do you understand what just happened? Like the Apostles trying to sort out the Messiah’s new mind-bending grace from the long established law of God; we suddenly comprehend the magnitude of the New Testament liberation from the law by a practical ensample we can “sink our teeth into” (*1). God himself has flung open the cage door and the front door too; the bird is truly free, not only to explore the entire permissible parameters of the safe house, but the dangerous great outdoors as well! This is the ninety-degree turn in the highway at Haines Junction (*2) where those solidly cruising on the long familiar and straight highway of well defined law will suddenly find that the road no longer takes them to the intended destination, because living in a cage was never the end goal. At the “Haines Junction Cross” of Christ, Humanity is now liberated from the familiar asphalt between guardrail Rephidim shackles (*3); she is released from her birdcage and free to let her emotional passions take her 4-wheeling wherever her enormous heart wants to go. And frankly, by being released there are suddenly a lot of options to choose from.
But with liberation comes responsibility; Which option is wise? Which one is dangerous? Where do I really want to go? The decisions are now yours… and so are the repercussions. How do you decide now, do you follow your heart against the warnings? (*4), Yes, in effect you do! (Read all of I Peter in this light).
But, Why is that OK now?
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them” Ezekiel 36:26-27.
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit" Galatians 5:25.
"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh" Galatians 5:16.
…“But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit…” I Peter 3:4.
Whenever the scriptures present a significant part played by an unnamed servant, we need to be keenly aware of the high probability that this servant represents the Holy Spirit of God, as is so often the case. So in this light we find a very interesting narration:
“And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few. And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart” I Samuel 14:6-7.
We see then that Jonathan’s heart and the will of the Holy Ghost were in one accord by the confirmation of counsel. But notice that Jonathan was in the driver’s seat, and the Holy Ghost let Jonathan’s heart take the lead and “backed him up” in his efforts to which he sought his aid in a mutual venture. This is an accurate OT representation of how the Holy Spirit of God works in man today (*5).
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The Homing Pigeon:
It is odd that of all the many variations of birds, while many can be trained to return home by learning that they will be safe and fed there (Isaiah 2:3); only the Homing Pigeon is incapable of becoming lost (I John 3:9). Send it to the far corners of the earth in dark cages, and, like the Jew, they will endure all manner of unspeakable hardships to eventually find their way home. But while a Jew’s home is the physical land of Israel, where is the Christian’s home? (Matthew 8:20, Hebrews 11:13-16). Their home is the Jerusalem from above (Galatians 4:26), where their bridegroom lives… in his Father’s house (John 14:1-3). And like a Homing Pigeon, the very function of their purpose is to be hauled away for the very designed intent to return home (I Peter 4:12, II Timothy 3:10-12).
Do you ever wonder if the Homing Pigeon begins to wonder if their LORD is trying to get rid of them? Have they been excommunicated and imprisoned in darkness to be later released in the dangerous wilderness far away because they are no longer wanted? It sure seems like it! And to make matters worse they are burdened with a packaged message of additional hardship in their effort (I Corinthians 1:23), which message seems to have purpose only as it relates to the success of their journey. What’s it all for? What’s the point?
In spite of all the unanswered questions and confusions of a bird’s comprehension of his handler’s purposes, a Homing Pigeon has one heart, one passion, one desire: to return home… even though it is completely free in the great outdoors to do anything it wants; rest on a branch, eat a bug, take a bath in a puddle, hang out in a park; there are no shackles, no strings, no demands, nothing to make it come back and lots to make sure it doesn’t. The Lord releases it into the sky to be utterly free. And the very purpose is because he wants it to come home. This is why we have been born on this earth; to find our way home and thereby deliver our important message that otherwise has no value beyond empty words.
A Christian is a Homing Pigeon only because it has the Holy Spirit compass in its breast; the fire of emotional passion and illogical desire to return home in the face of all distraction, obstacle, and opposition. While the liberated Parrot and Pigeon takes great pleasure in the exciting and busy environment of distraction, and freaks out at the terrifying fear of obstacle and opposition, and so in the unguided emotion of the “now” and “it’s all about ME” immediately forgets about home; these circumstances are appealing and frightening to the Homing Pigeon too, but the unique Homing Pigeon has no such danger of forgetfulness upon leaving home and facing the world.
Maybe it bears the familiar name of “Christian” but without the unique guiding Holy Spirit in its breast it is not a Homing Christian, it’s as simple as that (*6). The heart of a quasi Jew (*7) is not God; it’s either Zion or Jerusalem, and the heart of a quasi Christian is not Christ; it’s world peace (we will discuss this in detail later, but for now see Post 194 “Peace” http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/05/peace.html). The very purpose of New Testament liberation, and, the dispersal of the Old Testament minded Jews-- while we might think it’s freedom from the oppression of God’s regimented laws-- is to separate the Pigeon from the Homing Pigeon by seeing who, when released, will come home through the distractions and hardships seemingly designed intentionally to hinder their success. It has nothing to do with Parrots:
“And cast ye the unprofitable servant (Pigeon) into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth… And before him(; The Son of man) shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep (Homing Pigeon) from the goats (Pigeon): and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left…” Matthew 25:30-34.
Note that there are no “Beasts” (Parrots) in this entire tri-parable progressive description of the kingdom of heaven in Matthew 25. All of these are self-admitted servants of the LORD; the parables are about the end success of their missions. But don’t miss the rabbit-trailing important progression of reach that makes distinctions between the three parables: virgin brides< servants< nations: (v.1 “went forth to meet,” v.14 “called his own servants,” v.32&44 “before him shall be gathered all nations…saying, LORD”).
“Then shall he say also unto them (goats; Pigeon) on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” Matthew 25:41 (*8).
The very purpose of the Old Testament law is to pre-train the Pigeon where home is. Without the law the liberated Homing Pigeon is just a pigeon and no practical difference from a parrot; It wanders around in a harsh climate until it dies, aimless, purposeless, meaningless, hopeless.
The transition between the cage of OT law and the open-door of NT liberty is a nail biting experience for Dad and Mom as their young daughter leaves home for her first year at college; Will she remember where home is? Will she be steadfast in confidently remembering whose daughter she is, or will she take pleasure in flinging off her heritage as a long born unwanted burden?
But perhaps even more scary to them than that is; “Will she be unknowingly beguiled by sweet-talking predators?”
Those decisions and events are now up to her alone… but there is no end in the number of advisers hungry to guide her in exploring her liberation from Dad’s laws.
I think now, with this understanding, we are finally ready to rightly analyze five foolish pigeon... for reasons far larger than making accusations.
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(*1) Something you can “sink your teeth into” is American slang for something personally tangible in an environment of vagueness, something intellectually real that makes practical sense to you, something that wets your appetite to committing your full efforts toward; bite down hard on it with enthusiasm; something that you can actually get nourishment by digesting it, as opposed to a concept that, while pretty, has no useful or practical substance, such as plastic fruit - My own definition.
(*2) Post 129 “All Roads” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/11/all-roads.html).
(*3) Refidim: Post 242 "Developing the Path" (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/04/developing-path.html) The Uncommon Christians Walk p.136-137 (https://www.createspace.com/3832282)
(*4) Post 168 “The Heart” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/02/heart.html).
Post 229 “Slow of Heart” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/01/slow-of-heart.html).
(*5) This is an accurate OT representation of how the Holy Spirit of God works in man today, rather than dominate a man to act in a flamboyant way beyond the control of himself, such as we see in today’s “Charismatic Christian” demonic practices of abominable worship before God (read Strange Fire by John MacArthur for more on this topic. http://www.gty.org/products/books/451178/Strange-Fire-Hardcover).
(*6) Post 227 “On Tongues and the Simonized Christian” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-tongues.html).
(*7) Quasi: [L.] As if; as though, as it were; in a manner; in a certain sense or degree; seeming; seemingly;-- used as an adjective or an adverb, or as a prefix; as, a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi-historical, apparently historical.
(*8) Are they in Hell?
It’s pretty hard to miss the clear statement; “Yes, they are in hell.” So how does this reconcile with Post 247 “Are They In Hell?” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/05/are-they-in-hell.html) which tends to confirm that they are not in Hell. This is the seeming paradox of Law and Grace, Old Testament and New Testament, Jews as God’s people and Christians as God’s people. This is a seeming paradox that does indeed have an answer, but the math is not a simple calculation.
Like explaining quantum mechanics, we’re still working up to the skill to comprehend it. But hold on, we’re getting there. Just remember the answer is in the details. Don’t ever assume that “similar” means “identical.” Three parables; three distinctly different but similar servant types with three distinctly different but similar ends… all within the kingdom of heaven exclusive of what’s not in the kingdom of heaven (Hebrews 3:17).
Exclusive of Parrots-- which are nothing like Homing Pidgins and cannot be mistaken for Homing Pigeons-- all Pigeon are not equal. But that distinction is only proven by the results at the end of the mission:
“…The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn” Matthew 13:28-30.
“When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity” Luke 13:25-27.
“I know you not whence ye are” What an odd phrase. Why word it like that? Why not say; “I know not from whence ye are”? Is this just King James eloquence?
No.
Jesus is not declaring that he doesn’t know them because of where they came from, as in; “I do not know you because our origins are not the same,” Of course they are not the same; Jesus came to give us the life that none of us had. He is rather declaring that he doesn’t know them because of how they ended up where they are now!
Whence: 4159 pothen; from the base of 4213 with enclitic adverb of origin; from which (as interrogative) or what (as relative) place, state, source or cause:-- whence.
4213 posis; from the alternate of 4095; a drinking (the act), i.e. (concretely) a draught:-- drink.
4095 pino; a prolonged form of pio; which (together with another form poo) occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe (literally or figuratively):-- drink.
Enclitic: [Late Latin encliticus, from Greek enkitikos, from enklinein to incline, from en in + klinein to bend.] Grammatical: Leaning or dependent (with reference to accent); - used of a word which, losing its own accent, is attached in pronunciation to a preceding word, as thee in prithee, not in cannot.
“I know you not, as evidenced by the fact that you are out there and not in here after the gate has been closed; I know you not because of where you now stand and how you came to be so,” “I don’t know you because of where you stand as opposed to where you would be standing if I knew you.” “There’s no Homing in your Pigeon.”
This is VITAL to identifying our true relationship with Christ as opposed to the relationship our deceitful heart imagines we have with him.
While God is already "stuck" with the Jews because he married them when they crossed the Jordan and he set them up in their Promised land, not so with Jesus; the wedding won't take place until we make it to the alter in the heavenly wedding chapel (Matthew 22:1-).
But even with all the extra time allotted to complete their mission, some Homing Pigeon don’t make it home in time to count. Their internal spirit was simply not singular enough in their motivation to keep them moving towards home. In the end, they were functionally just Pigeon.
“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” Luke 9:62.
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" Matthew 7:21.
Remember Lot’s wife? She made it out of the city, safe from the destruction of Sodom and on her way to a new life free from the wickedness of Sodom’s society, but she paused longingly in her journey and looked back to the home that was hers with all her Parrot friends now burning. She was so close to successfully completing her mission! But her heart was not the heart of a Homing Pigeon focused on a place she never knew, it couldn’t be. A homing Pigeon must first be bound to the right home before it can long to be there. She never was the Lord’s as evidenced by the fact that although she was at least willing to go along, she didn’t long to be where she was going. It takes more than a passive tolerance of being led if there is no one leading you.
So while it is wonderfully liberating to be liberated, the burden of finding your way home must now come from inside your own desire as planted by the Holy Spirit via a love of and devotion to Christ Jesus
(Ephesians 1:13-14, Matthew 6:22-23,24, Colossians 3:22 [transliterate servants with employees to get the intended meaning, and then remember you are the employee-girlfriend of the Lord in the same concept of Type]).
Be a worthy employee with the genuine enthusiasm of making the success of your fiancé’s business your passion as if it were your business, this is what the Holy Spirit offers you but which Parrots and Pigeons are uninterested in; “Flying home sounds like a lot of work, I think I’ll rest a while in this nice park and-- hey what’s that?...”
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Two Replies
Post 306
I feel it is important to address the two most recently submitted comments because each of them are significant concepts to the purpose of this lengthy work as well as timely to the present discussion, and most assuredly they also represent the thoughts and perspectives of more than a few other readers. It is often difficult for an author to make a stated concept understood without a two-way discussion for clarification; these comments come at a place that really needs such communication. Please accept them and my replies as a part of the “conversation” that makes the point more personally applicable. I have eliminated the comenter’s names from their comments as copied here, to reduce unnecessary embarrassment due to my seemingly harsh criticism in this official format; the last thing I want to do is drive away honest comments by seeming uncaring or rude. I am pleased to interject these comments into the flow of the Blog-thought because they are not intrusions; these really do fit remarkably well in the current context of how and where we are going in this long Blog-adventure to a specific destination not far ahead. Please hang on just a little longer; it should really start to come together in a bit.
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Comment submitted November 18, 2013 on Post 219 “Ten Virgins” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/09/ten-virgins.html):
“I have been searching posts like this and my favorite perspective so far is: (http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/converted-unto-the-lord?lang=eng&query=ten+virgins)”
My reply:
Frankly it seems shamefully dishonest and subversive to advertise another religion’s interpretation of this topic while not even pretending to be interested in the faith of this Blog. This intrusive offering is not simply a varied interpretation among brethren of different denominations trying to reach greater truth, but a wholesale advertisement to take the reader somewhere away from Christianity itself because it seems like a better interpretation.
I want to be fair to the commenter: perhaps he really is just a searcher for the true meaning itself, outside of any religious constraint that seems to restrict interpretation. If this is the case then he isn’t actually an intentional subverter of Christianity but only an ignorant one, like “manslaughter” vs. “murder 2” (*1).
Please understand I am not angry at this man or lashing out at him “for such an attack”; I am only honestly addressing the nature of the facts because the nature of the facts is very important to comprehend toward giving an answer. I certainly don’t at all mind a view different than mine, and as my longstanding catchphrase of the Blog states:
“I don’t claim to know all the truth, But I refuse to believe the lie. This site is dedicated to viewing reality then using reason to come to a conclusion. Regardless if you are here to learn or share or educate me; Welcome my friend.”
So by the declared nature of this Blog, while no harm or ill intent is intended; this is a place for seriously evaluating honest thoughts… both mine and yours, if you offer them. In that light I take the commenter in good faith that he is not trying to subvert the Christian faith by drawing my readers to Mormonism; but actually sees no significant need of “choosing a faith” in the effort to understand God’s meaning that He wrote into scripture. This mindframe is both PROFOUNDLY significant on its own, and EXTREMELY applicable to our current topic. Therefore, before we simply explore the merits of his alternant interpretation-offering on a long-past Post, we must consider the source itself as it applies to our present Posts. The timing of Providence is impeccable!
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The extra-biblical nature of Mormonism is a very real form of Strange Fire:
“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not” Leviticus 10:1.
God is very specific about just what kind of fire and incense (worship) is to be offered to him by his people. In a way it’s a lot like the deep joy of recognition you feel at the smell of your wife’s signature perfume. What? She doesn’t have a signature perfume? That’s really too bad; I guess for you any smell will do, but not so for God; he wants to know the second you come into a room that is crowded with others; he’s that in love with you, and that in tune to you.
The “companion to the bible” works of Mormonism is of such a different nature from the scriptures that they really speak of two different gods (*2), but Mormonism has merged them anyway; just as Islam does with the Old Testament. If you will remember I was also pretty direct with an earlier commenter that tried to similarly marry the Christian interpretation of the scriptures with Islam’s Strange Fire perspective from the Qur-an. This must not be allowed at all costs… even at the cost of peace.
“And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace” Leviticus 10:2-3.
While Islam claims their Allah is the One True Creator, and ignorant Christians seeing the similarities interpret that to mean they mean Jehovah with a different name, so Mormons have a different god too but they use the same name as the Christians: Jesus Christ.
“Little Children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last times. They went out from us, but they were not of us…” I John 2:18-19a.
“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before” Matthew 24:24.
Mormonism hasn’t even gotten to the level of great signs and wonders but many are already deceived. Suddenly we are no longer discussing the interpretation of a biblical parable but the identity of God himself. Until we figure out just which god/God we are serving the interpretation of a parable is completely insignificant and inapplicable. Mormon virgins are not waiting for the same groom as Christians and so not one of the ten virgins can be applied to them; foolish or not.
But here’s the first part of the complex clincher in the age of confusion: The laws of nature and nature’s God work universally like the law of gravity. So if a Mormon (or anyone) applies God’s laws he will receive the favorable promised results. If he knows where he learned that law and calls his god the God of those scriptures, does that actually make his god the One True God? I have already planned to answer that all-important question in the next few Posts. The timing of providence is impeccable!
Here is the second part of the complex clincher: God’s argument against Aaron’s sons was centered on the fact that they were God’s people. It’s not so much Mormonism that God is concerned about applying his laws strangely; it’s Christians following their lead! Therefore my harsh reply is not aimed at the Christless commenter of a disembodied dead faith, but at Christians who might read and accept it as reasonable. This is the Typology of Balaam’s persistent doctrine:
“But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication” Revelation 2:14.
Oddly we are not specifically told specifically what Balaam taught Balac (Balak) that resulted in this backsliding of Israel. But by strong inference and the example of Solomon’s wives (*3) we can conclusively reason that he taught Balak to send their pagan daughters into the Israeli camp and by accepted infiltration they derailed them by “extra-biblical” ideas mixed into their faith like beloved half-breed children from the forbidden union (*4).
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Comment submitted November 19, 2013 on Post 303 “It’s A Woman’s World Now!” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/11/its-womans-world-now.html):
“Seeing that the husband is about to make a poor decision, it is more blessed for the wife to go along than to start a fight. There’s grace in it.”
My Reply:
This simple statement of conclusion is in fact a sign of what has greatly concerned me about posting these “chapters” online for anyone to stumble upon without the necessary foundation of all the previous Posts. But this comment from a regular reader? Obviously I have failed to walk through this complexity clearly enough.
Did I not warn you-- more than once-- not to come to an early conclusion? Have I not spent enormous amounts of time and detail to show that scripture usually implies a complex third undisclosed option that must be sought out in the Spirit of God? And this comment on this Post of all Posts; a Post about God’s gift of liberation to women! How did you focus on such a tiny concept in a much larger point and base a conclusion on that footing? If a woman had written such a comment, or if it were written in the form of a; “I don’t get it” question, I would have a very different reply. But for a man to conclude such a thing, in the God-designed age of grace to women feeling oppressed by men as a Typology of His grace to humanity feeling oppressed by God, is to pull a Peter and return to the long familiar law after having practiced in grace.
The Apostle Paul sharply rebuked the Apostle Peter for just such a hypocritically backward focus:
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas (the merciful and kind) also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified”… Galatians 2:11-16.
In an age where men in general have proven to be leaders of poor choice by a mountain of examples, it would not be wise to be the one to declare that we should be unquestionably followed because of our gender. How much less wise in the pre-knowledge that this choice is probably not a good one either but follow me anyway “because I’m the man”?
…“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found to be sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid” Galatians 2:17.
And while God is not a man and cannot be found to be a sinner, this is the age of liberty because of mankind’s emotional perception that he is. God is the one who gave humanity a new liberty in this age of questioning everything because of all the lies. Like a young girl going to college to find answers for herself; It’s too late now for her daddy to demand that she obey his laws, or even to tell her that she should; to do so would be the mad ravings of a tyrannical control-freak and drive her further away than she already is. So, having given her all that he can to prepare her for independence he lets her do her own thing now, and her own conduct by harsh experience will now show her what he could not in hopes of helping her avoid the suffering.
So it is with a wife who is troubled at the track record of her husband’s leadership skills (whether perceived or real). Don’t fight her; this is the age of liberty. Work with her within her own parameters that she will tolerate. Listen to her; she actually has some good ideas. Don’t be her servant but serve her; let her lead in this two-party dance for a while. Not to “teach her a lesson” but to honestly assist her honest education of desired leadership skills. Help her and care for her where you are allowed, it will make you both better people; she will better understand the obligations of your “lead” role in the dance, and you will better appreciate the difficulty of her “following” role in the same dance; after all, God himself became a man as an ensample.
But if she is done with you and your ways because she “can dance better on her own”; don’t help her in her own destruction; let her alone… But keep silent watch; She is still your wife, you made a vow… and if you’re very fortunate you might still be able to nullify some of her very destructive vows.
Is it more blessed for the wife to go along than to start a fight? It’s more blessed that her husband isn’t about to make a poor decision. When the blind follow the blind they both fall in the ditch (Luke 6:39), when you’re the only one blind in the dance she has a right and obligation to resist a mutual disaster; that’s what a Genesis 2:18 “help meet” does!
I wonder if Jephthah might have avoided sacrificing his beloved daughter if he had counseled with his wife before he made his irrevocable vow:
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered” I Peter 3:7.
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(*1) Murder Two:
“Second-degree murder is ordinarily defined as: 1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable “heat of passion”; or 2) a killing caused by dangerous conduct and the offenders obvious lack of concern for human life. Second-degree murder may best be viewed as the middle ground between first-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter.” - (http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/second-degree-murder-overview.html).
Vs.
“Voluntary Manslaughter is commonly defined as an intentional killing in which the offender had no prior intent to kill…” - (http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/voluntary-manslaughter-overview.html).
(*2) The Mormon Jehovah “Elohim” is declared to have a physical body (*2a) (contrary to John 4:24) and actually lives near the planet Kolob, in this universe (*2b), and physically breeds with his God-wife to create virtually every soul ever to live on earth (*2c). It is the encouraged desire of every Mormon man to one day be like him and populate their own creations as Gods (*2d) (contrary to Matthew 22:30). Despite the fact that the Bible never mentions any such deity wife to accomplish this laborious task, that is more sex than even a Muslim with his seventy wives! The obsession with sex is a keystone sign that these are not a faith of God, it violates the very principle of self-control and self-regulation that God designed into the system as the seasonally limited rut of brute beasts. It violates God’s own word:
“The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children” Hosea 13:13.
The scriptures are so skilled at accurately wording things without making them vulgar. Where is the place that children break forth? A man is not to spend a lot of time dwelling on that place. But today, that’s all that is ever on a man’s mind. A religion that encourages such an already problematic mindframe is of the Devil and not of God.
(*2a) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Mormonism)
(*2b) (http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blkolob.htm)
(*2c) “Latter-day Saints infer the existence of a Heavenly Mother through scripture and modern revelation. Because LDS theology rejects the doctrine of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) as a post-Biblical addition to Christian belief, and because they see God as embodied in human form while rejecting creedal Trinitarianism, having a female counterpart to Our Heavenly Father seems logical and almost inevitable. This is especially true given the LDS embrace of the doctrine of theosis, or human deification. Thus, the Heavenly Mother shares parenthood with the Father, and shares His attributes of perfection, holiness, and glory” “man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father [as an] offspring of celestial parentage...all men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity…” - (http://en.fairmormon.org/Mormonism_and_the_nature_of_God/Heavenly_Mother)
(*2d) “Eternal marriage and eternal families are not only part of God's plan, but are the focus of why we are here on this earth and where we will go when we die” - (http://lds.about.com/od/familylifeandmarriage/a/eternal_family.htm).
It seems that women are just unfortunate souls to be subjugated for all eternity by the more fortunate man souls. I wonder if there will be gender reassignment surgery in heaven?~
The list of Mormonic error is extensive. This is not a case of getting a few things wrong in an otherwise sound faith; but rather a perversion at a foundational level. It’s a new version of the same old Catholic abomination of the faith, that began in the era of the last diverse beast.
So tell me again; what part of the Mormon “Ten Virgins” study we are interested in?
(*3) “For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father” I Kings 11:4.
Way back in the first section of Posts I proposed that Nebuchadnezzar represented Israel and his (grand)son Belshazzar represented America. Well, David represented God’s Old Testament people and his son Solomon represented the New Testament people in the same way; All cycles of the same concept repeating until we get it. People; WE are Solomon by Typology, and how he went so go we. We fall by the inclusion of our wives' pagan ways into our Christian faith… in Typology. Can you see it yet? Our (God’s) law is being overcome by her (humanity’s) emotionalism... because we love her more than God.
(*4) Strong evidence:
“And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the reward of divination (payment for services) in their hand; and they came unto Balaam (the diviner), and spake unto him the words of Balak” Numbers 22:7.
“And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab and they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel… And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation (because of a plague).
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel” Numbers 25:1-9.
“Behold, these (Midianite women; v.9) caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD” Numbers 31:16.
Now of course I am not suggesting half-breed children are forbidden by God in the age of grace, they are only a useful Typology as all things are. For a surprising and unexpected change-up I anticipate a future Post titled: “A Woman’s World, Leavened Bread, and Half-Breed Children”.
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I feel it is important to address the two most recently submitted comments because each of them are significant concepts to the purpose of this lengthy work as well as timely to the present discussion, and most assuredly they also represent the thoughts and perspectives of more than a few other readers. It is often difficult for an author to make a stated concept understood without a two-way discussion for clarification; these comments come at a place that really needs such communication. Please accept them and my replies as a part of the “conversation” that makes the point more personally applicable. I have eliminated the comenter’s names from their comments as copied here, to reduce unnecessary embarrassment due to my seemingly harsh criticism in this official format; the last thing I want to do is drive away honest comments by seeming uncaring or rude. I am pleased to interject these comments into the flow of the Blog-thought because they are not intrusions; these really do fit remarkably well in the current context of how and where we are going in this long Blog-adventure to a specific destination not far ahead. Please hang on just a little longer; it should really start to come together in a bit.
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Comment submitted November 18, 2013 on Post 219 “Ten Virgins” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/09/ten-virgins.html):
“I have been searching posts like this and my favorite perspective so far is: (http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/converted-unto-the-lord?lang=eng&query=ten+virgins)”
My reply:
Frankly it seems shamefully dishonest and subversive to advertise another religion’s interpretation of this topic while not even pretending to be interested in the faith of this Blog. This intrusive offering is not simply a varied interpretation among brethren of different denominations trying to reach greater truth, but a wholesale advertisement to take the reader somewhere away from Christianity itself because it seems like a better interpretation.
I want to be fair to the commenter: perhaps he really is just a searcher for the true meaning itself, outside of any religious constraint that seems to restrict interpretation. If this is the case then he isn’t actually an intentional subverter of Christianity but only an ignorant one, like “manslaughter” vs. “murder 2” (*1).
Please understand I am not angry at this man or lashing out at him “for such an attack”; I am only honestly addressing the nature of the facts because the nature of the facts is very important to comprehend toward giving an answer. I certainly don’t at all mind a view different than mine, and as my longstanding catchphrase of the Blog states:
“I don’t claim to know all the truth, But I refuse to believe the lie. This site is dedicated to viewing reality then using reason to come to a conclusion. Regardless if you are here to learn or share or educate me; Welcome my friend.”
So by the declared nature of this Blog, while no harm or ill intent is intended; this is a place for seriously evaluating honest thoughts… both mine and yours, if you offer them. In that light I take the commenter in good faith that he is not trying to subvert the Christian faith by drawing my readers to Mormonism; but actually sees no significant need of “choosing a faith” in the effort to understand God’s meaning that He wrote into scripture. This mindframe is both PROFOUNDLY significant on its own, and EXTREMELY applicable to our current topic. Therefore, before we simply explore the merits of his alternant interpretation-offering on a long-past Post, we must consider the source itself as it applies to our present Posts. The timing of Providence is impeccable!
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The extra-biblical nature of Mormonism is a very real form of Strange Fire:
“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not” Leviticus 10:1.
God is very specific about just what kind of fire and incense (worship) is to be offered to him by his people. In a way it’s a lot like the deep joy of recognition you feel at the smell of your wife’s signature perfume. What? She doesn’t have a signature perfume? That’s really too bad; I guess for you any smell will do, but not so for God; he wants to know the second you come into a room that is crowded with others; he’s that in love with you, and that in tune to you.
The “companion to the bible” works of Mormonism is of such a different nature from the scriptures that they really speak of two different gods (*2), but Mormonism has merged them anyway; just as Islam does with the Old Testament. If you will remember I was also pretty direct with an earlier commenter that tried to similarly marry the Christian interpretation of the scriptures with Islam’s Strange Fire perspective from the Qur-an. This must not be allowed at all costs… even at the cost of peace.
“And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace” Leviticus 10:2-3.
While Islam claims their Allah is the One True Creator, and ignorant Christians seeing the similarities interpret that to mean they mean Jehovah with a different name, so Mormons have a different god too but they use the same name as the Christians: Jesus Christ.
“Little Children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last times. They went out from us, but they were not of us…” I John 2:18-19a.
“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before” Matthew 24:24.
Mormonism hasn’t even gotten to the level of great signs and wonders but many are already deceived. Suddenly we are no longer discussing the interpretation of a biblical parable but the identity of God himself. Until we figure out just which god/God we are serving the interpretation of a parable is completely insignificant and inapplicable. Mormon virgins are not waiting for the same groom as Christians and so not one of the ten virgins can be applied to them; foolish or not.
But here’s the first part of the complex clincher in the age of confusion: The laws of nature and nature’s God work universally like the law of gravity. So if a Mormon (or anyone) applies God’s laws he will receive the favorable promised results. If he knows where he learned that law and calls his god the God of those scriptures, does that actually make his god the One True God? I have already planned to answer that all-important question in the next few Posts. The timing of providence is impeccable!
Here is the second part of the complex clincher: God’s argument against Aaron’s sons was centered on the fact that they were God’s people. It’s not so much Mormonism that God is concerned about applying his laws strangely; it’s Christians following their lead! Therefore my harsh reply is not aimed at the Christless commenter of a disembodied dead faith, but at Christians who might read and accept it as reasonable. This is the Typology of Balaam’s persistent doctrine:
“But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication” Revelation 2:14.
Oddly we are not specifically told specifically what Balaam taught Balac (Balak) that resulted in this backsliding of Israel. But by strong inference and the example of Solomon’s wives (*3) we can conclusively reason that he taught Balak to send their pagan daughters into the Israeli camp and by accepted infiltration they derailed them by “extra-biblical” ideas mixed into their faith like beloved half-breed children from the forbidden union (*4).
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Comment submitted November 19, 2013 on Post 303 “It’s A Woman’s World Now!” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/11/its-womans-world-now.html):
“Seeing that the husband is about to make a poor decision, it is more blessed for the wife to go along than to start a fight. There’s grace in it.”
My Reply:
This simple statement of conclusion is in fact a sign of what has greatly concerned me about posting these “chapters” online for anyone to stumble upon without the necessary foundation of all the previous Posts. But this comment from a regular reader? Obviously I have failed to walk through this complexity clearly enough.
Did I not warn you-- more than once-- not to come to an early conclusion? Have I not spent enormous amounts of time and detail to show that scripture usually implies a complex third undisclosed option that must be sought out in the Spirit of God? And this comment on this Post of all Posts; a Post about God’s gift of liberation to women! How did you focus on such a tiny concept in a much larger point and base a conclusion on that footing? If a woman had written such a comment, or if it were written in the form of a; “I don’t get it” question, I would have a very different reply. But for a man to conclude such a thing, in the God-designed age of grace to women feeling oppressed by men as a Typology of His grace to humanity feeling oppressed by God, is to pull a Peter and return to the long familiar law after having practiced in grace.
The Apostle Paul sharply rebuked the Apostle Peter for just such a hypocritically backward focus:
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas (the merciful and kind) also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified”… Galatians 2:11-16.
In an age where men in general have proven to be leaders of poor choice by a mountain of examples, it would not be wise to be the one to declare that we should be unquestionably followed because of our gender. How much less wise in the pre-knowledge that this choice is probably not a good one either but follow me anyway “because I’m the man”?
…“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found to be sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid” Galatians 2:17.
And while God is not a man and cannot be found to be a sinner, this is the age of liberty because of mankind’s emotional perception that he is. God is the one who gave humanity a new liberty in this age of questioning everything because of all the lies. Like a young girl going to college to find answers for herself; It’s too late now for her daddy to demand that she obey his laws, or even to tell her that she should; to do so would be the mad ravings of a tyrannical control-freak and drive her further away than she already is. So, having given her all that he can to prepare her for independence he lets her do her own thing now, and her own conduct by harsh experience will now show her what he could not in hopes of helping her avoid the suffering.
So it is with a wife who is troubled at the track record of her husband’s leadership skills (whether perceived or real). Don’t fight her; this is the age of liberty. Work with her within her own parameters that she will tolerate. Listen to her; she actually has some good ideas. Don’t be her servant but serve her; let her lead in this two-party dance for a while. Not to “teach her a lesson” but to honestly assist her honest education of desired leadership skills. Help her and care for her where you are allowed, it will make you both better people; she will better understand the obligations of your “lead” role in the dance, and you will better appreciate the difficulty of her “following” role in the same dance; after all, God himself became a man as an ensample.
But if she is done with you and your ways because she “can dance better on her own”; don’t help her in her own destruction; let her alone… But keep silent watch; She is still your wife, you made a vow… and if you’re very fortunate you might still be able to nullify some of her very destructive vows.
Is it more blessed for the wife to go along than to start a fight? It’s more blessed that her husband isn’t about to make a poor decision. When the blind follow the blind they both fall in the ditch (Luke 6:39), when you’re the only one blind in the dance she has a right and obligation to resist a mutual disaster; that’s what a Genesis 2:18 “help meet” does!
I wonder if Jephthah might have avoided sacrificing his beloved daughter if he had counseled with his wife before he made his irrevocable vow:
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered” I Peter 3:7.
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(*1) Murder Two:
“Second-degree murder is ordinarily defined as: 1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable “heat of passion”; or 2) a killing caused by dangerous conduct and the offenders obvious lack of concern for human life. Second-degree murder may best be viewed as the middle ground between first-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter.” - (http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/second-degree-murder-overview.html).
Vs.
“Voluntary Manslaughter is commonly defined as an intentional killing in which the offender had no prior intent to kill…” - (http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/voluntary-manslaughter-overview.html).
(*2) The Mormon Jehovah “Elohim” is declared to have a physical body (*2a) (contrary to John 4:24) and actually lives near the planet Kolob, in this universe (*2b), and physically breeds with his God-wife to create virtually every soul ever to live on earth (*2c). It is the encouraged desire of every Mormon man to one day be like him and populate their own creations as Gods (*2d) (contrary to Matthew 22:30). Despite the fact that the Bible never mentions any such deity wife to accomplish this laborious task, that is more sex than even a Muslim with his seventy wives! The obsession with sex is a keystone sign that these are not a faith of God, it violates the very principle of self-control and self-regulation that God designed into the system as the seasonally limited rut of brute beasts. It violates God’s own word:
“The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children” Hosea 13:13.
The scriptures are so skilled at accurately wording things without making them vulgar. Where is the place that children break forth? A man is not to spend a lot of time dwelling on that place. But today, that’s all that is ever on a man’s mind. A religion that encourages such an already problematic mindframe is of the Devil and not of God.
(*2a) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Mormonism)
(*2b) (http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blkolob.htm)
(*2c) “Latter-day Saints infer the existence of a Heavenly Mother through scripture and modern revelation. Because LDS theology rejects the doctrine of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) as a post-Biblical addition to Christian belief, and because they see God as embodied in human form while rejecting creedal Trinitarianism, having a female counterpart to Our Heavenly Father seems logical and almost inevitable. This is especially true given the LDS embrace of the doctrine of theosis, or human deification. Thus, the Heavenly Mother shares parenthood with the Father, and shares His attributes of perfection, holiness, and glory” “man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father [as an] offspring of celestial parentage...all men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity…” - (http://en.fairmormon.org/Mormonism_and_the_nature_of_God/Heavenly_Mother)
(*2d) “Eternal marriage and eternal families are not only part of God's plan, but are the focus of why we are here on this earth and where we will go when we die” - (http://lds.about.com/od/familylifeandmarriage/a/eternal_family.htm).
It seems that women are just unfortunate souls to be subjugated for all eternity by the more fortunate man souls. I wonder if there will be gender reassignment surgery in heaven?~
The list of Mormonic error is extensive. This is not a case of getting a few things wrong in an otherwise sound faith; but rather a perversion at a foundational level. It’s a new version of the same old Catholic abomination of the faith, that began in the era of the last diverse beast.
So tell me again; what part of the Mormon “Ten Virgins” study we are interested in?
(*3) “For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father” I Kings 11:4.
Way back in the first section of Posts I proposed that Nebuchadnezzar represented Israel and his (grand)son Belshazzar represented America. Well, David represented God’s Old Testament people and his son Solomon represented the New Testament people in the same way; All cycles of the same concept repeating until we get it. People; WE are Solomon by Typology, and how he went so go we. We fall by the inclusion of our wives' pagan ways into our Christian faith… in Typology. Can you see it yet? Our (God’s) law is being overcome by her (humanity’s) emotionalism... because we love her more than God.
(*4) Strong evidence:
“And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the reward of divination (payment for services) in their hand; and they came unto Balaam (the diviner), and spake unto him the words of Balak” Numbers 22:7.
“And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab and they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel… And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation (because of a plague).
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel” Numbers 25:1-9.
“Behold, these (Midianite women; v.9) caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD” Numbers 31:16.
Now of course I am not suggesting half-breed children are forbidden by God in the age of grace, they are only a useful Typology as all things are. For a surprising and unexpected change-up I anticipate a future Post titled: “A Woman’s World, Leavened Bread, and Half-Breed Children”.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
The American Virgins of God
Post 305
I do not believe, even today; in the blossom of woman’s liberation, that she yet knows the power she has over man. A man will kill himself to provide for the welfare and happiness of his wife… and he will be content to loaf on the couch watching the game or fish the day away along a quiet stream letting her do all the work, if that’s what she wants. Though it deeply bothers him, it does not destroy him to act out his stability in a wide variety of applications fitting the conditions. Women are glorified as muli-taskers with many simultaneous tracks, while men are belittled for being single-minded plodders… but what is not considered is that single track is extraordinarily versatile over seemingly impassable terrain. And did you forget that we are actually talking about the Typology that this life represents? God has provided the scriptures to tell us plainly that he is willing to go fishing while you run things if that is what you want. But when things come undone you cry out in accusation; “Why do you let this happen?!”
“O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why doest thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore (; because of that condition) the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth” Habakkuk 1:2-4.
Throughout this voluminous series-- and especially in the last few Posts-- of “Isaiah 28:9-10 style” stepped reasoning, we have awakened to a whole new perspective that realizes the fault for this mess is not God’s, but rather falls directly upon our own shoulders… both as collective humanity and as specifically the Christian body of Christ.
But by the similar phrasing of our earlier Jeremiah 31:22 verse; Is God blanketly accusing women of being wicked and identifying men as being righteous?
Not directly really… but it is a concept that does, (it’s complex, but we’re getting to that in time). It is primarily the Typology of Democracy over Republicanism, Emotion over Law, followers over leaders, women over men, humanity over God. It is a perception-correcting concept… Sooo in a way, conceptually; when women choose to rebel against male leadership and protection, then, Yes; they in wickedness have compassed righteous man. Today the resulting conflict is termed “Gender Wars.” Remember? in Post 303 we asked what kinds of wars God promised as a result of an imperfect heart.
“…Herein (; as to your perfect heart) thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars” II Chronicles 16:9b.
This too is conceptual in Typology of something much bigger that we are still getting to. But here is an insight:
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” James 4:1.
“And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet” Mark 13:7.
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So, am I blaming women for the unspeakable crimes against the female gender happening today at epidemic proportions? Is pornography, child molestation and prostitution, sex slavery, slave wives, and general oppression and violence against females; somehow women’s fault? - “How absurd!”
You think? (I Timothy 2:14, Ezekiel 16:35-36<, Revelation 17:2). Don’t stone me yet.
Men have failed. and failed catastrophically. Nobody can deny that in the overall scope of things men and governments in general have become predators of those they are supposed to protect and they now prey on them to the most heinous and unimaginable ways and degrees. The news is daily chock full of stories along this line, such as today’s [Nov. 13] headline (*1) that Canada just broke up its, largest by far, child pornography ring of unimaginable size and reach where hundreds of people in 94 countries were arrested, all connected to this single organization that produced photographic evidence of abuse to unprecedented degrees of wickedness. And this is but one organization among countless others on an epidemic scale of global proportions. Women as a gender, and as a Typology of oppressed people, need relief, they need an option. Women today seem to have no choice now but to rebel; cast out the men and take over the ship. And it seems they not only have God’s blessing and favor to do it, but have his pre-designed aid as well:
“…The LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man” Jeremiah 31:22.
I have shown that this speaks of genders, of nations, and of faith toward God. It’s a VERY big concept of proportions even yet uncomprehended… but wait for it, the comprehension-- the “I suddenly get it” moment-- is coming though it seems to tarry (Isaiah 46:12-13, Habakkuk 2:3).
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So what do women do with their new liberation? This is our topic of the new generation; the virgin children of an established people. The scriptures have much to say on this topic in end-times proportions, but we need some parameters of comprehension, so current reality is happening to show us the mystery that it represents. Let’s take the time to carefully walk through the temporal concept discreetly, before we get to the scriptural meaning they represent:
What is the difference between a “Cougar” (*2) and a “Sex Kitten” (*3)? (Ezekiel 23:2-4).
That is a question that seems to have an easy answer: Innocence. But it’s not very practical to assume a sex kitten is actually innocent or she wouldn’t have such a label. No, the answer seems restricted to nothing more than age: she is young, immature, excited to explore and experience all that the Cougar already knows and is board of without the addition of power. So in this light, though the sex kitten is voracious for immorality, she is in a way, innocent of the results for which she hungers. And so we understand that even a virgin can be a whoring sex kitten before she technically becomes a whore.
A Miss America beauty pageant is titled that, not because all the contestants are actually Miss rather than Ms, but because they all fit within the category of “should be Miss.” Again, it’s an age-of-life thing. It’s a description of a young woman who, by the fact of her youth, is at the height of her beauty and bloom of potential because of her age, but more than that; it’s a description of a young woman who is still available in most every way: intellectually, emotionally, and physically. This is important for the success of the show because it implies, like the display of desirable merchandise on an auction block; she could be yours if the circumstances of fantasy were just right; you could “help her reach her ‘potential’.” This is the natural appeal to man, and because she advertises herself in this public auction-block way, it’s obvious by the hungrily teased man that she is wanting that too (I Thessalonians 4:4-6).
The display of such merchandise under the title of Mrs. America is less successful for all the opposite reasons. Although her beauty is still appealing to view for free; she is already “off the market,” so to examine the goods at that degree of offering is paramount to adultery (Matthew 5:28), furthermore, she is already experienced in life and so has less potential yet remaining to “help her explore.” Examining the goods of something new that you might rightly purchase just seems like a far less dishonorable thing in the eye of the self-conscious voyeur, so the show of the “Miss” is far more socially acceptable than the other. She “wins” for the attention and praise she gets from men, they win because they get to inspect the merchandise without buying, the show wins because it makes them lots of money; EVERYONE WINS!... while the morality of the country crumbles due to the shifting fringe of social abomination.
The difference between a Cougar and a Sex Kitten is who has the title-role of dominate control in the similar events. And while a self-respecting man might take joy in serving his lady, he will not submit to being the servant of his lady. That is the realm of the Cougar.
So it is in symbolism regarding a biblical virgin, which is a city; a specific people-group under a specific “parameter” of conduct. This virginity is a “state of age and experience” thing; it’s a designation that connotes something that “should be” under normal circumstances because of the stage of life, it’s like the difference between a town and a city except it’s speaking on a different plane. Now of course as the reality becomes closer to the Typology without the symbolism we get closer to the ultimate and important meaning. But don’t just skip over the symbolism that makes a point before the final meaning arrives. This is the whole point of a WARNING.
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In America today, and publicly before the entire world, the state of virginity-- both the symbology and the reality-- is a state of youth to be ashamed of and shunned as a state of ignorance, insufficiency, and inexperience; as if a skilled job position was being sought by someone under-qualified. While yesterday’s young women were claiming “the rights to their own bodies” from the control of men (read; legislation), today our young girls seem to be driven to shamelessly market those liberated bodies on the auction block in the effort to find anybody who will cure their ailment of youth. The statement of elderly-sister encouragement to the unusually beautiful youth (often covered half in jest but said far more in envy) is;
“If you got it, flaunt it!”
And like trying to identify the actual difference between a Cougar and a Sex Kitten; the young “got it” by the mere fact that they are young. So they flaunt it as encouraged by the experienced, who should know if it is actually hazardous or not. Obviously by their encouragement; it’s not.
But hedonistic self-flaunting of young women’s bodies is nothing new in the world. It’s only new in the American “norm” as no longer abominable, where not long ago it was already done, but in back rooms of skanky clubs, socially shunned as evil in the mainstream of life. No, today there is something new going on. Something shocking. Today our CHRISTIAN virgins are flaunting their very virginity as a new titillating element of their intoxicating beauty that they are willing to display on the auction block of the world. They are “one-upping” the pagan competition! And in so doing are being labeled by the secular world itself as abominable… yet smilingly acceptable as “personal expression” held as a sacred virtue of female liberation from oppression of men who cry; THAT’S ABOMINABLE!
It does not please me to walk through with you the "five foolish virgin" examples I have selected for my next Post, but you and your kids see far worse than what I will show, everyday on; billboards, Movies, TV adds between news segments and cartoons, and at half-time in the Sunday game-- and it doesn’t bother you enough to even turn away, so don’t go all spiritual on me now and miss the important point of identifying where we really are on the roadmap to destruction. I go this questionable distance into the darkness on my public Blog because one of my most often-hit Posts is found by internet search regarding the question; “Is Selena Gomez a Christian?” American young virgins of God are asking. That means they actually don’t know, and are leaning in her same direction hoping it’s OK.
And nobody, including their parents, is telling them it’s not, in a way that actually makes sense.
You can both use the wakeup call.
* * * * * * *
(*1) BBC News 11-13-13 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24944358).
(*2) Cougar: noun 2. informal. An older woman seeking a sexual relationship with a younger man. - (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cougar?q=cougar).
(*3) Sex Kitten: noun. informal. A young woman who asserts or exploits her sexual attractiveness: she’s played the roles of sex kitten, political radical, and aerobics goddess - (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sex-kitten).
*
I do not believe, even today; in the blossom of woman’s liberation, that she yet knows the power she has over man. A man will kill himself to provide for the welfare and happiness of his wife… and he will be content to loaf on the couch watching the game or fish the day away along a quiet stream letting her do all the work, if that’s what she wants. Though it deeply bothers him, it does not destroy him to act out his stability in a wide variety of applications fitting the conditions. Women are glorified as muli-taskers with many simultaneous tracks, while men are belittled for being single-minded plodders… but what is not considered is that single track is extraordinarily versatile over seemingly impassable terrain. And did you forget that we are actually talking about the Typology that this life represents? God has provided the scriptures to tell us plainly that he is willing to go fishing while you run things if that is what you want. But when things come undone you cry out in accusation; “Why do you let this happen?!”
“O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why doest thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore (; because of that condition) the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth” Habakkuk 1:2-4.
Throughout this voluminous series-- and especially in the last few Posts-- of “Isaiah 28:9-10 style” stepped reasoning, we have awakened to a whole new perspective that realizes the fault for this mess is not God’s, but rather falls directly upon our own shoulders… both as collective humanity and as specifically the Christian body of Christ.
But by the similar phrasing of our earlier Jeremiah 31:22 verse; Is God blanketly accusing women of being wicked and identifying men as being righteous?
Not directly really… but it is a concept that does, (it’s complex, but we’re getting to that in time). It is primarily the Typology of Democracy over Republicanism, Emotion over Law, followers over leaders, women over men, humanity over God. It is a perception-correcting concept… Sooo in a way, conceptually; when women choose to rebel against male leadership and protection, then, Yes; they in wickedness have compassed righteous man. Today the resulting conflict is termed “Gender Wars.” Remember? in Post 303 we asked what kinds of wars God promised as a result of an imperfect heart.
“…Herein (; as to your perfect heart) thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars” II Chronicles 16:9b.
This too is conceptual in Typology of something much bigger that we are still getting to. But here is an insight:
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” James 4:1.
“And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet” Mark 13:7.
* * *
So, am I blaming women for the unspeakable crimes against the female gender happening today at epidemic proportions? Is pornography, child molestation and prostitution, sex slavery, slave wives, and general oppression and violence against females; somehow women’s fault? - “How absurd!”
You think? (I Timothy 2:14, Ezekiel 16:35-36<, Revelation 17:2). Don’t stone me yet.
Men have failed. and failed catastrophically. Nobody can deny that in the overall scope of things men and governments in general have become predators of those they are supposed to protect and they now prey on them to the most heinous and unimaginable ways and degrees. The news is daily chock full of stories along this line, such as today’s [Nov. 13] headline (*1) that Canada just broke up its, largest by far, child pornography ring of unimaginable size and reach where hundreds of people in 94 countries were arrested, all connected to this single organization that produced photographic evidence of abuse to unprecedented degrees of wickedness. And this is but one organization among countless others on an epidemic scale of global proportions. Women as a gender, and as a Typology of oppressed people, need relief, they need an option. Women today seem to have no choice now but to rebel; cast out the men and take over the ship. And it seems they not only have God’s blessing and favor to do it, but have his pre-designed aid as well:
“…The LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man” Jeremiah 31:22.
I have shown that this speaks of genders, of nations, and of faith toward God. It’s a VERY big concept of proportions even yet uncomprehended… but wait for it, the comprehension-- the “I suddenly get it” moment-- is coming though it seems to tarry (Isaiah 46:12-13, Habakkuk 2:3).
* * *
So what do women do with their new liberation? This is our topic of the new generation; the virgin children of an established people. The scriptures have much to say on this topic in end-times proportions, but we need some parameters of comprehension, so current reality is happening to show us the mystery that it represents. Let’s take the time to carefully walk through the temporal concept discreetly, before we get to the scriptural meaning they represent:
What is the difference between a “Cougar” (*2) and a “Sex Kitten” (*3)? (Ezekiel 23:2-4).
That is a question that seems to have an easy answer: Innocence. But it’s not very practical to assume a sex kitten is actually innocent or she wouldn’t have such a label. No, the answer seems restricted to nothing more than age: she is young, immature, excited to explore and experience all that the Cougar already knows and is board of without the addition of power. So in this light, though the sex kitten is voracious for immorality, she is in a way, innocent of the results for which she hungers. And so we understand that even a virgin can be a whoring sex kitten before she technically becomes a whore.
A Miss America beauty pageant is titled that, not because all the contestants are actually Miss rather than Ms, but because they all fit within the category of “should be Miss.” Again, it’s an age-of-life thing. It’s a description of a young woman who, by the fact of her youth, is at the height of her beauty and bloom of potential because of her age, but more than that; it’s a description of a young woman who is still available in most every way: intellectually, emotionally, and physically. This is important for the success of the show because it implies, like the display of desirable merchandise on an auction block; she could be yours if the circumstances of fantasy were just right; you could “help her reach her ‘potential’.” This is the natural appeal to man, and because she advertises herself in this public auction-block way, it’s obvious by the hungrily teased man that she is wanting that too (I Thessalonians 4:4-6).
The display of such merchandise under the title of Mrs. America is less successful for all the opposite reasons. Although her beauty is still appealing to view for free; she is already “off the market,” so to examine the goods at that degree of offering is paramount to adultery (Matthew 5:28), furthermore, she is already experienced in life and so has less potential yet remaining to “help her explore.” Examining the goods of something new that you might rightly purchase just seems like a far less dishonorable thing in the eye of the self-conscious voyeur, so the show of the “Miss” is far more socially acceptable than the other. She “wins” for the attention and praise she gets from men, they win because they get to inspect the merchandise without buying, the show wins because it makes them lots of money; EVERYONE WINS!... while the morality of the country crumbles due to the shifting fringe of social abomination.
The difference between a Cougar and a Sex Kitten is who has the title-role of dominate control in the similar events. And while a self-respecting man might take joy in serving his lady, he will not submit to being the servant of his lady. That is the realm of the Cougar.
So it is in symbolism regarding a biblical virgin, which is a city; a specific people-group under a specific “parameter” of conduct. This virginity is a “state of age and experience” thing; it’s a designation that connotes something that “should be” under normal circumstances because of the stage of life, it’s like the difference between a town and a city except it’s speaking on a different plane. Now of course as the reality becomes closer to the Typology without the symbolism we get closer to the ultimate and important meaning. But don’t just skip over the symbolism that makes a point before the final meaning arrives. This is the whole point of a WARNING.
* * *
In America today, and publicly before the entire world, the state of virginity-- both the symbology and the reality-- is a state of youth to be ashamed of and shunned as a state of ignorance, insufficiency, and inexperience; as if a skilled job position was being sought by someone under-qualified. While yesterday’s young women were claiming “the rights to their own bodies” from the control of men (read; legislation), today our young girls seem to be driven to shamelessly market those liberated bodies on the auction block in the effort to find anybody who will cure their ailment of youth. The statement of elderly-sister encouragement to the unusually beautiful youth (often covered half in jest but said far more in envy) is;
“If you got it, flaunt it!”
And like trying to identify the actual difference between a Cougar and a Sex Kitten; the young “got it” by the mere fact that they are young. So they flaunt it as encouraged by the experienced, who should know if it is actually hazardous or not. Obviously by their encouragement; it’s not.
But hedonistic self-flaunting of young women’s bodies is nothing new in the world. It’s only new in the American “norm” as no longer abominable, where not long ago it was already done, but in back rooms of skanky clubs, socially shunned as evil in the mainstream of life. No, today there is something new going on. Something shocking. Today our CHRISTIAN virgins are flaunting their very virginity as a new titillating element of their intoxicating beauty that they are willing to display on the auction block of the world. They are “one-upping” the pagan competition! And in so doing are being labeled by the secular world itself as abominable… yet smilingly acceptable as “personal expression” held as a sacred virtue of female liberation from oppression of men who cry; THAT’S ABOMINABLE!
It does not please me to walk through with you the "five foolish virgin" examples I have selected for my next Post, but you and your kids see far worse than what I will show, everyday on; billboards, Movies, TV adds between news segments and cartoons, and at half-time in the Sunday game-- and it doesn’t bother you enough to even turn away, so don’t go all spiritual on me now and miss the important point of identifying where we really are on the roadmap to destruction. I go this questionable distance into the darkness on my public Blog because one of my most often-hit Posts is found by internet search regarding the question; “Is Selena Gomez a Christian?” American young virgins of God are asking. That means they actually don’t know, and are leaning in her same direction hoping it’s OK.
And nobody, including their parents, is telling them it’s not, in a way that actually makes sense.
You can both use the wakeup call.
* * * * * * *
(*1) BBC News 11-13-13 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24944358).
(*2) Cougar: noun 2. informal. An older woman seeking a sexual relationship with a younger man. - (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cougar?q=cougar).
(*3) Sex Kitten: noun. informal. A young woman who asserts or exploits her sexual attractiveness: she’s played the roles of sex kitten, political radical, and aerobics goddess - (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sex-kitten).
*
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Pack of Wolves
Post 304
A few days ago I woke up in the early morning in a very real battle with demonic forces. I wrestled earnestly for my soul (*1) and soon gained the victory in the name and blood of the Savior Jesus Christ. It was a rare curious event that causes deep contemplation for days.
A few days later a friend called me and told me that a young man we both know had apparently arrived at his parent’s home and fought with them over his state of drunkenness and then left. He was missing for several days until an organized search discovered his body in a local “gravel pit” having killed himself.
The tragedy is enormous and “senseless.” This was a young man with lots of potential, a nice guy that was well liked. He had a good job, plans on acquiring a descent sled to ride this winter, and no real signs of the catastrophe that suddenly ended his life. I responded to my friend to keep a serious eye on his son and friends as they were close to him, because suicide has a historical trend to come in small batches before it is over. Suicide of the young is almost contagious among villages in Alaska and nearly everyone is utterly helpless to know who’s child might be among them before the wave passes.
As I, along with the community, began trying to make sense of the unexplainable, it occurred to me that this was very close to, if not the very day, in which I myself battled for my soul in my own bedroom. This led to a line of thinking that deserves a more serious investigation that at first seems unwarranted.
* * *
As I have shown several times in earlier works; all things seen in this life are a Typology of things unseen. So what “seen” thing of nature do we understand, that can explain the “unseen” things that bring about such a tragic end to a young man?
Being an Alaskan who enjoys the great outdoors of God’s creation, and specifically enjoys the wolf-trapping season in our tight, conjoined valleys here, I have learned a thing or two about the nature of wolves.
Wolves are predatory by nature, they run in packs terrorizing prey as they go, always searching for their next meal of blood and gore and death. But they are not always around; they run a large circuit and in our area they come through about every two weeks or so. Sometimes only one or two come through and sometimes it’s the whole pack, but rarely anything in between. Sometimes when they come, they pass through and are gone as quickly as a wave strikes the beach, and sometimes like a storm they stick around for several days. A lot of the time it depends on their success of a kill and feelings of safety. Moose in our area take a huge loss to these predators and it is not at all surprising to run across a ravaged carcass as we venture the wilderness on snowmachines, but neither is it common.
Wolves are opportunists. They go for the young, the sick, the isolated and alone, or simply those caught in a bad moment of vulnerability. And if they can’t make an easy and safe kill they quickly move on in their search. They don’t play fair; they play to win. They are killers; that’s what they do.
When a moose dies from wolf attack, it’s not because it was a “bad moose” deserving of death any more than the other; it was just in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong condition. Wolves kill and eat moose. It’s just the way it is in nature.
“But WHY is nature like that?”
It’s because this temporal life is an understandable Typology of the spiritual life we don’t understand. It’s intimate connection to the spiritual is designed into nature to help us comprehend what is far more important but difficult to grasp.
* * *
God made only so many angels. And a certain percentage of them fell with Satan and became devils and unclean spirits. They simply cannot be everywhere at once and neither do they simply roam unexplainably at random. Everything has an explanation if we simply study its nature.
I propose that wolves are one Typology of devils’ spirits. We can learn the details of their predatory nature, why they habit certain regions and not others, how often they can be expected to pass through, what encourages them to stay, how they travel, what variety of prey they target, about how many they usually take at a time, which they prefer above others, and especially; what are their natural weaknesses to exploit both defensively and offensively (See Post 272 The Witchcraft of Uganda http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-witchcraft-of-uganda.html).
We can be ignorantly helpless moose hoping beyond hope not to be the next victim, or we can be informed defenders/hunters; the choice is usually ours.
* * *
I don’t know the specific circumstances or events regarding the last days of our local unfortunate young man. I don’t need to. What we need to learn personally and earnestly is what makes us more likely prey than the next guy.
• Isolation and loneliness is a number one contributor.
• Being spiritually weak or sick is another.
• Placing oneself in a spiritually vulnerable condition is yet another (*2).
These three areas alone are almost the entirety of vulnerability that makes us prey to demonic forces.
I can fill this Post with scripture verses of validation but by now you should be versed enough to make the connections for yourself. You’re either a defender/hunter or a prey, and I can’t be everywhere at once either.
* * * * * * *
(*1) Battle for the soul:
This term does not suggest suicidal thoughts or even doubts of faith (wolves also attack to protect their threatened territory); it only suggests that for whatever reason the demons maul you like a lion to a meal and you must cry out to God for immediate rescue. Unless you have experienced such an event it is impossible to understand how very real it is, and the explanation of why it happens when it does has eluded me and most Christians for a very long time. It seems to be so utterly random… But it’s not.
(*2) This is the factor that allowed my own mauling that night, details are not important but suffice it to say; there is an explanation for everything. In my “scientific” study of the “biologically hazardous” material for the next Posts, I used extreme caution and long trained experience to handle such dangerous material only within God’s bio-hazard containment level 1 of the law, and still deeper within Jesus Christ’s bio-hazard containment level 2 of grace through his cleansing blood, and even yet still, within the Spirit’s 3rd-level bio-hazard personnel suit of holiness. But even with all that protection the contamination fills the environment of study and so works diligently to break into those levels of protection at the slightest weak point. This was the assault I faced and won, not by my own skill or righteousness but by the tools of God I was allowed to use. It is a Typology of truth that even with all that protection, after the study is made and the hazardous environment exited; the scientist still goes through a rigorous cleansing shower in water (of the word) with the special soap (of prayer) to ensure safe and healthy entry back into the populace.
We should handle all communicable wickedness with the same extreme caution for the same reasons. This is a level of work far more dangerous than “working on the septic system” (*2b) which; wise caution, a good shower with soap, and a current healthy immune system, will usually suffice as acceptable safety measures in a clearly defined and recognizably filthy world that needs repair. Chemical biology is a whole new game.
My struggle now is how to translate the important information of study so that you can actually grasp it without becoming infected yourself; because most readers, though interested and curious, are outside of at least level 1 containment protection, use a very tired and tattered level 2, and additionally; their level 3 bio-hazard suit of holiness is often left hanging on the coat-rack at church, and training in proper use of all three is lackadaisical at best and more probably non-existent.
Have I posted a strong enough DANGER sign in front of the next section of Posts?
(*2b) See Post 282 The Sunday Rest the Pork Roast Dinner and the Christmastree (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-sunday-rest-pork-roast-dinner-and.html) Preparing The Way Of The Lord pages 526-527.
A few days ago I woke up in the early morning in a very real battle with demonic forces. I wrestled earnestly for my soul (*1) and soon gained the victory in the name and blood of the Savior Jesus Christ. It was a rare curious event that causes deep contemplation for days.
A few days later a friend called me and told me that a young man we both know had apparently arrived at his parent’s home and fought with them over his state of drunkenness and then left. He was missing for several days until an organized search discovered his body in a local “gravel pit” having killed himself.
The tragedy is enormous and “senseless.” This was a young man with lots of potential, a nice guy that was well liked. He had a good job, plans on acquiring a descent sled to ride this winter, and no real signs of the catastrophe that suddenly ended his life. I responded to my friend to keep a serious eye on his son and friends as they were close to him, because suicide has a historical trend to come in small batches before it is over. Suicide of the young is almost contagious among villages in Alaska and nearly everyone is utterly helpless to know who’s child might be among them before the wave passes.
As I, along with the community, began trying to make sense of the unexplainable, it occurred to me that this was very close to, if not the very day, in which I myself battled for my soul in my own bedroom. This led to a line of thinking that deserves a more serious investigation that at first seems unwarranted.
* * *
As I have shown several times in earlier works; all things seen in this life are a Typology of things unseen. So what “seen” thing of nature do we understand, that can explain the “unseen” things that bring about such a tragic end to a young man?
Being an Alaskan who enjoys the great outdoors of God’s creation, and specifically enjoys the wolf-trapping season in our tight, conjoined valleys here, I have learned a thing or two about the nature of wolves.
Wolves are predatory by nature, they run in packs terrorizing prey as they go, always searching for their next meal of blood and gore and death. But they are not always around; they run a large circuit and in our area they come through about every two weeks or so. Sometimes only one or two come through and sometimes it’s the whole pack, but rarely anything in between. Sometimes when they come, they pass through and are gone as quickly as a wave strikes the beach, and sometimes like a storm they stick around for several days. A lot of the time it depends on their success of a kill and feelings of safety. Moose in our area take a huge loss to these predators and it is not at all surprising to run across a ravaged carcass as we venture the wilderness on snowmachines, but neither is it common.
Wolves are opportunists. They go for the young, the sick, the isolated and alone, or simply those caught in a bad moment of vulnerability. And if they can’t make an easy and safe kill they quickly move on in their search. They don’t play fair; they play to win. They are killers; that’s what they do.
When a moose dies from wolf attack, it’s not because it was a “bad moose” deserving of death any more than the other; it was just in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong condition. Wolves kill and eat moose. It’s just the way it is in nature.
“But WHY is nature like that?”
It’s because this temporal life is an understandable Typology of the spiritual life we don’t understand. It’s intimate connection to the spiritual is designed into nature to help us comprehend what is far more important but difficult to grasp.
* * *
God made only so many angels. And a certain percentage of them fell with Satan and became devils and unclean spirits. They simply cannot be everywhere at once and neither do they simply roam unexplainably at random. Everything has an explanation if we simply study its nature.
I propose that wolves are one Typology of devils’ spirits. We can learn the details of their predatory nature, why they habit certain regions and not others, how often they can be expected to pass through, what encourages them to stay, how they travel, what variety of prey they target, about how many they usually take at a time, which they prefer above others, and especially; what are their natural weaknesses to exploit both defensively and offensively (See Post 272 The Witchcraft of Uganda http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-witchcraft-of-uganda.html).
We can be ignorantly helpless moose hoping beyond hope not to be the next victim, or we can be informed defenders/hunters; the choice is usually ours.
* * *
I don’t know the specific circumstances or events regarding the last days of our local unfortunate young man. I don’t need to. What we need to learn personally and earnestly is what makes us more likely prey than the next guy.
• Isolation and loneliness is a number one contributor.
• Being spiritually weak or sick is another.
• Placing oneself in a spiritually vulnerable condition is yet another (*2).
These three areas alone are almost the entirety of vulnerability that makes us prey to demonic forces.
I can fill this Post with scripture verses of validation but by now you should be versed enough to make the connections for yourself. You’re either a defender/hunter or a prey, and I can’t be everywhere at once either.
* * * * * * *
(*1) Battle for the soul:
This term does not suggest suicidal thoughts or even doubts of faith (wolves also attack to protect their threatened territory); it only suggests that for whatever reason the demons maul you like a lion to a meal and you must cry out to God for immediate rescue. Unless you have experienced such an event it is impossible to understand how very real it is, and the explanation of why it happens when it does has eluded me and most Christians for a very long time. It seems to be so utterly random… But it’s not.
(*2) This is the factor that allowed my own mauling that night, details are not important but suffice it to say; there is an explanation for everything. In my “scientific” study of the “biologically hazardous” material for the next Posts, I used extreme caution and long trained experience to handle such dangerous material only within God’s bio-hazard containment level 1 of the law, and still deeper within Jesus Christ’s bio-hazard containment level 2 of grace through his cleansing blood, and even yet still, within the Spirit’s 3rd-level bio-hazard personnel suit of holiness. But even with all that protection the contamination fills the environment of study and so works diligently to break into those levels of protection at the slightest weak point. This was the assault I faced and won, not by my own skill or righteousness but by the tools of God I was allowed to use. It is a Typology of truth that even with all that protection, after the study is made and the hazardous environment exited; the scientist still goes through a rigorous cleansing shower in water (of the word) with the special soap (of prayer) to ensure safe and healthy entry back into the populace.
We should handle all communicable wickedness with the same extreme caution for the same reasons. This is a level of work far more dangerous than “working on the septic system” (*2b) which; wise caution, a good shower with soap, and a current healthy immune system, will usually suffice as acceptable safety measures in a clearly defined and recognizably filthy world that needs repair. Chemical biology is a whole new game.
My struggle now is how to translate the important information of study so that you can actually grasp it without becoming infected yourself; because most readers, though interested and curious, are outside of at least level 1 containment protection, use a very tired and tattered level 2, and additionally; their level 3 bio-hazard suit of holiness is often left hanging on the coat-rack at church, and training in proper use of all three is lackadaisical at best and more probably non-existent.
Have I posted a strong enough DANGER sign in front of the next section of Posts?
(*2b) See Post 282 The Sunday Rest the Pork Roast Dinner and the Christmastree (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-sunday-rest-pork-roast-dinner-and.html) Preparing The Way Of The Lord pages 526-527.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
It’s A Woman’s World Now!
(Jeremiah 31:22)
Post 303
So is God afraid that women will figure out how to rule the world against his designed plan for men in reflection of God the Father? Is He concerned that humanity will figure out how to live without his protective oversight, and discover they can do it even better? Let’s explore what God the Father “might already know” and have to say about such a significantly world changing age:
“…for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man” Jeremiah 31:22b.
In the above second half of this study verse, the LORD seems to take the credit for not only the new circumstances in which these women are not repenting from their wicked ways (mentioned below in the first half), but the results too.
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?...” Jeremiah 31:22a.
But in analyzing the wording more accurately, the lower case connecting; “for” (because) is not referencing the LORD taking possession of the cause of her lack of repentance, as if he designed the circumstances for that purpose, but that the daughters are using the God-designed new conditions of liberation as a “because” reason for not returning. The LORD is asking:
“How long will you abuse my new Grace to women?” - Read it again:
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man” Jeremiah 31:22.
Suddenly we see the Typology; the period of grace granted to the Church at the coming of Christ who by doing so, took away the guilt of our sins against God’s law by faith, and justifies us before the Father without the law through faith (Isaiah 53:5-6, Romans 4:23-25). We have been liberated!
But this new liberating grace from God's law is wrongly used to excuse running even wilder as Christians because there is now no correcting chastisement from the LORD as there was before (Jeremiah 2:35 [Oh how I want to explain v.36, but we must continue]).
So we see that God is the one, in his designed plan and timing, who has granted unhappy women, feeling oppressed by him (Jeremiah 6:10), a chance to rule the world in her liberation, like a girl at college (paid for by daddy), without a Father “constantly lording over her to cramp her style” (*1). Among other things (like I Kings 12:1-19 as the historically undesirable example of the option), it’s His way of showing his daughters and humanity that he is not an oppressor. Any chastisement or oppression she (the daughter of God) gets after being liberated by the maturity of Christ’s Age, is brought on by her own bad choices at “school”:
“I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall” Hosea 4:14.
“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see (by experience) that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts” Jeremiah 2:19.
So go to it ladies; Rule the world.
* * *
BUT. There are a few things that you should know before you dive in with God’s blessing:
With the new liberty comes new responsibility... and with responsibility comes accountability. It just goes with the territory. It’s a law of nature:
“But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her” Numbers 30:9.
It might seem to the emotionally defensive, liberated woman, that this passage is placing sexist, harsh, and unjustified punishment on “single-again” women, who, for a variety of reasons-- both her fault and not-- have found themselves finally free from “the oppression of men.” But although you might get this impression by the “divorced woman” as having been “too difficult to live with” and so “deserving what she gets” from a man’s point of view; no such impression can be taken with the widow, who even a man recognizes, had nothing to do with how she ended up on her own. This is a passage that speaks on the universal law of accountability of self-authority, male or female:
“If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth” Numbers 30:2.
Beyond declaring the great burden of accountability on women now in independent leadership roles the same as on men in those roles, these verses have no other rightfully useable meaning or significance outside the surrounding passage; where we see that unlike the irrevocable bond of a man’s word (that neither he nor she is protected from); the woman once had at least a husband or father as a “check-and-balance” protection from any of her own foolish or rash vows:
If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; and her father hear her vow…” Numbers 30:3-4a (husbands likewise as fathers in vv.6-7a).
And the passage goes on in great specific detail describing all the various conditions in which a woman has this extra protection of a male authority who can disavow her vow, whether she is virgin or married, as long as she is under a divinely protective authority. (See also a very important Leviticus 22:12-13 caveat that holds great significance of hope for a specific kind of woman in repentance after failure-- the impetus of our study verse: Return--, but it is not listed here because of the “Independent Self-Authority Spirit” context of the liberated women in this passage included with the male responsibility role; Numbers 30:9 stuffed in between :1&16).
The failed protections of an unwise authority (of simple indifference or henpecked) are also important to note as; such “in house” liberation is not protection (Numbers 30:4b,7b) anymore than being on her own. But that is neither here nor there when it comes to our topic of independent single-again women now in their own authority.
What needs to be understood for the sake of wise female leadership such as; Deborah (Judges 4:4-9) and Hilkiah (II Chronicles 34:22-28) and Anna (Luke 2:36-38), is the extra layer of divine protection that, unlike these examples, independent women give up to assume the self-governing role, and why they didn’t seem to receive it when it should have been theirs.
That last bit becomes quite complex when a woman under Divine authority becomes independent-minded and her husband or father wants to protect her from her own vows she stubbornly wishes to keep (I Samuel 15:23a). Suddenly he is seen as an oppressor if he doesn’t hold his peace, and she is as if she were widowed or divorced while maintaining the illusion of remaining under authority and the protection of God. The illusion publicly places both God and her male authority in the Numbers 30:13-14 category, though their peace is against their will. Now what are they to do in light of Numbers 30:15? By silent approval, to keep her happy, her vow becomes his burden.
The independent woman under authority has become the oppressor by accusing him of oppression! She holds the law hostage by using herself as the item of negotiation to get what she wants. The more attractive she can make herself to the law the greater her power over the law. The very nature of the law is to govern that which needs governing, so she becomes more attractively lawless and the law yearns to guide and protect her all the more… to a point!
“To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out (on everyone)…For I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD” Jeremiah 6:10-12.
* * *
Was the “actual” old way really that bad?
In the old “oppressive system under men” designed by God; Men and women-- whether single or married-- could both make vows whenever it pleased them; they both had that universal liberty of equality. But under the divine additional protection/authority of husband or father, a woman had an additional safeguard if she would accept it; he could, if he saw necessary, on the day he hears of it, relieve her soul of her burdensome vow:
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth (of it); not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her” Numbers 30:5 (likewise husbands in vv.8,12 with the distinctions of “none affect” and “void”).
Why? Is this male suppression in action? Hardly:
First: because it is the divine power of grace in the name of Christ-- granted by God unto stable male authority-- to remove self-imposed oppressive bondage for those divinely-created emotional creatures under their care.
Second: it’s because women are prone to emotionalism by design. And making a seriously consequential vow in an emotionally charged state is extremely hazardous! God designed and knows all these details about the genders and so grants the logical and stable male authority in her life (representing God the Father) to extend grace when she needs it and is submissive enough to receive it against her strong emotions (human perceptions). He has no such extension for himself and must use extra caution and soundness of mind when making a vow, because what he/He vows, he/He must do.
“When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee (if you don’t). But if thou shalt forbear (transliterated: choose not) to vow (in the first place), it shall be no sin in thee” Deuteronomy 23:21-22. (also v.23, Psalm 50:14, 76:11, 116:14,18, Proverbs 7:14, Jonah 2:9, etc.).
“When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better it is that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?” Ecclesiastes 5:4-6.
(Sorry guys, you have no husband or father authority to make void your vow. The consequence is the failure of your industry because the concept of payment relates to income. God is just balancing your books).
“LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? (168; covering, dwelling)… He that sweareth (even) to his own hurt, and(/but) changeth not” Psalm 15:1,4b.
A man may make a foolish or rash vow, or even a vow in ignorance of all the facts. But a vow is a vow and he is obligated to keep it once he makes it (Judges 11:30-31< 34-35), it just goes with the territory of authority. So, if a woman is on her own outside the protection of Devine authority; if she is her own authority-- emotionally driven or not-- when she makes a vow it is likewise binding. The same goes for an emotionally driven man. This is VERY dangerous ground:
“And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the Children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering” Judges 11:30-31.
This seems to be such a horrifically rash blunder-- like Moses striking the rock-- that it deserves an entire study of its own (Jephthah’s Prophetic Vow *2) to explore all that God intends by including this in scripture, but for our present point let’s just comprehend here that Jephthah was thinking perhaps of his beloved dog, or maybe about the many various pets in his home in general, or even a particular obnoxious pet of his daughter’s that “always” springs out the door first whenever it is opened. Whatever he was imagining as a certainty, a human being was clearly not what he had in mind when he made his emotional vow in the state of anxiety. But he had no “husband/Father” figure of Divine authority to protect him from his own vow when it didn’t turn out the way he imagined:
“And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! Thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that troubleth me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back” Judges 11:34-35.
Why would a woman voluntarily give up such a protection, when even Jephthah’s daughter didn’t?
“And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon” Judges 11:36.
Are you telling me that your “Man made” troubles are greater than hers? There is a principle here that even at its worst application is preferable over stubbornness or rebellion (I Samuel 15:23+ Job 2:9-10). Let me offer a single possibility among countless others: What if Jephthah’s daughter was going to die of horribly painful cancer beginning in two months anyway? What good would bitter rebellion in self-preservation have done her then but to grant her a bad name and terrible suffering before her inevitable death? Even though Jephthah’s vow was clearly rash, If you knew all the facts as God knows them you would agree that God was not wrong in designing her to come out of the house first. But you don’t… and that’s the point.
But enough of that complexity for now, we need to stay on target.
* * *
Here is the point to consider:
Nobody said a man would always get it right; he is human. But so are women! And when emotionally charged women are in power like men, they neither have protection from their own emotionally driven vows, nor the additional power of protecting those emotionally driven ladies under them. If you think men have failed their jobs and you have paid the heavy price; consider that women-- by design-- can only provide, in every way, less protection not more. Not only can’t they protect you from your emotionalism; but you aren’t even protected from theirs, because they have rejected that available additional protection in the emotional desire to be equal with unprotected-- but emotionally stable-- men! The solution is not to cast out the man and take over, but in lovingly submissive humility to help the man become a better/more Christ-like protector by being a better/more church-like protectoree.
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” Ephesians 5:24-25.
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church” Ephesians 5:31-32.
Combine the above verse with I Timothy 3:16 and we discover the great mystery of godliness in mankind vs. the Revelation 17:5 mystery of the great whore. The mystery in both examples is in the union of specific male and female entities with respectively very different results!
A man’s soul is moved beyond words by a woman who offers herself as a protectoree… But what that man’s soul is moved to DO depends on who his God/god is. Choose your man/authority carefully!
“The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him…” II Chronicles 16:9a.
Vs.
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” I Peter 5:8.
NOBODY but a fool imagines that a woman who offers herself to a lion will be treated with tender care. But women do it all the time! and now today, mothers give their prepubescent daughters videos like Beauty and the Beast as if they are intentionally driving their daughter to the lion, in their own Mercedes, after dropping daddy off at the bar to sit silently alone on a stool and drown his burden of sorrows at the destruction of his daughter’s soul.
But That’s Not All: Use the same care of choice when rejecting your man as you should in choosing him.
After you choose the right lord, the next obligation is to have a perfect heart toward him. God will not fail to perform his vow if you will perform yours. But he has also made an alternate vow tailored to the self-centered wife:
“…Herein (; as to your perfect heart) thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars” II Chronicles 16:9b.
What kind of wars are we talking about?
Let’s finally explore some very specific examples in the next few Posts regarding; “The American Virgin Daughters of God.”
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(*1) College:
The Typology of College is amazingly accurate to this use, and full of valuable comparisons. As Christ and Satan came to earth at nearly the same time (Revelation 12:10&12) Liberty at this specifically vulnerable time of a young woman’s life (New Testament humanity) and the demonic kingdom of the Beast, that began with Rome-- where by emotion she earnestly wants to attend with her friends for the purpose of finding both fun and success-- combine to be the perfect setting for her destruction. Daddy (God the Father of the Old Testament) is left behind while in her New Testament liberty she ventures out on her own in the confidence of finally being of age.
The act of young independence is not a crime or sin; it is in fact a designed stage of maturity, as scripture (Isaiah 28:9-10) and the Typology of life shows. Going to college is not technically a crime or sin either, though it really is not a good recommendation in general, because of the great hazards of soul and body every student will face in that Daniel’s den of lions.
But the state of the young woman’s mind and foundation of self-control, taught by her father in her adolescence under his law, are the factors that will determine her success or failure in the new environment of every beautiful and stimulating temptation sold as liberty from oppression.
In such an environment morality is not even graded, It has nothing to do with this place or the new importance of filling her mind with interesting intellectual information that is. Here, Morality is something juvenile of the past that now needs to be shed in her evolution of becoming a woman while she turns her mind and heart to things she’s told “her Daddy knows nothing about.”
(*2) Jephthah’s Prophetic Vow: Not yet Posted.
[November 19,2013: For my reply to the first posted comment below, please see Post 306 "Two Replies" (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/11/two-replies.html).]
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Post 303
So is God afraid that women will figure out how to rule the world against his designed plan for men in reflection of God the Father? Is He concerned that humanity will figure out how to live without his protective oversight, and discover they can do it even better? Let’s explore what God the Father “might already know” and have to say about such a significantly world changing age:
“…for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man” Jeremiah 31:22b.
In the above second half of this study verse, the LORD seems to take the credit for not only the new circumstances in which these women are not repenting from their wicked ways (mentioned below in the first half), but the results too.
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?...” Jeremiah 31:22a.
But in analyzing the wording more accurately, the lower case connecting; “for” (because) is not referencing the LORD taking possession of the cause of her lack of repentance, as if he designed the circumstances for that purpose, but that the daughters are using the God-designed new conditions of liberation as a “because” reason for not returning. The LORD is asking:
“How long will you abuse my new Grace to women?” - Read it again:
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man” Jeremiah 31:22.
Suddenly we see the Typology; the period of grace granted to the Church at the coming of Christ who by doing so, took away the guilt of our sins against God’s law by faith, and justifies us before the Father without the law through faith (Isaiah 53:5-6, Romans 4:23-25). We have been liberated!
But this new liberating grace from God's law is wrongly used to excuse running even wilder as Christians because there is now no correcting chastisement from the LORD as there was before (Jeremiah 2:35 [Oh how I want to explain v.36, but we must continue]).
So we see that God is the one, in his designed plan and timing, who has granted unhappy women, feeling oppressed by him (Jeremiah 6:10), a chance to rule the world in her liberation, like a girl at college (paid for by daddy), without a Father “constantly lording over her to cramp her style” (*1). Among other things (like I Kings 12:1-19 as the historically undesirable example of the option), it’s His way of showing his daughters and humanity that he is not an oppressor. Any chastisement or oppression she (the daughter of God) gets after being liberated by the maturity of Christ’s Age, is brought on by her own bad choices at “school”:
“I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall” Hosea 4:14.
“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see (by experience) that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts” Jeremiah 2:19.
So go to it ladies; Rule the world.
* * *
BUT. There are a few things that you should know before you dive in with God’s blessing:
With the new liberty comes new responsibility... and with responsibility comes accountability. It just goes with the territory. It’s a law of nature:
“But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her” Numbers 30:9.
It might seem to the emotionally defensive, liberated woman, that this passage is placing sexist, harsh, and unjustified punishment on “single-again” women, who, for a variety of reasons-- both her fault and not-- have found themselves finally free from “the oppression of men.” But although you might get this impression by the “divorced woman” as having been “too difficult to live with” and so “deserving what she gets” from a man’s point of view; no such impression can be taken with the widow, who even a man recognizes, had nothing to do with how she ended up on her own. This is a passage that speaks on the universal law of accountability of self-authority, male or female:
“If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth” Numbers 30:2.
Beyond declaring the great burden of accountability on women now in independent leadership roles the same as on men in those roles, these verses have no other rightfully useable meaning or significance outside the surrounding passage; where we see that unlike the irrevocable bond of a man’s word (that neither he nor she is protected from); the woman once had at least a husband or father as a “check-and-balance” protection from any of her own foolish or rash vows:
If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; and her father hear her vow…” Numbers 30:3-4a (husbands likewise as fathers in vv.6-7a).
And the passage goes on in great specific detail describing all the various conditions in which a woman has this extra protection of a male authority who can disavow her vow, whether she is virgin or married, as long as she is under a divinely protective authority. (See also a very important Leviticus 22:12-13 caveat that holds great significance of hope for a specific kind of woman in repentance after failure-- the impetus of our study verse: Return--, but it is not listed here because of the “Independent Self-Authority Spirit” context of the liberated women in this passage included with the male responsibility role; Numbers 30:9 stuffed in between :1&16).
The failed protections of an unwise authority (of simple indifference or henpecked) are also important to note as; such “in house” liberation is not protection (Numbers 30:4b,7b) anymore than being on her own. But that is neither here nor there when it comes to our topic of independent single-again women now in their own authority.
What needs to be understood for the sake of wise female leadership such as; Deborah (Judges 4:4-9) and Hilkiah (II Chronicles 34:22-28) and Anna (Luke 2:36-38), is the extra layer of divine protection that, unlike these examples, independent women give up to assume the self-governing role, and why they didn’t seem to receive it when it should have been theirs.
That last bit becomes quite complex when a woman under Divine authority becomes independent-minded and her husband or father wants to protect her from her own vows she stubbornly wishes to keep (I Samuel 15:23a). Suddenly he is seen as an oppressor if he doesn’t hold his peace, and she is as if she were widowed or divorced while maintaining the illusion of remaining under authority and the protection of God. The illusion publicly places both God and her male authority in the Numbers 30:13-14 category, though their peace is against their will. Now what are they to do in light of Numbers 30:15? By silent approval, to keep her happy, her vow becomes his burden.
The independent woman under authority has become the oppressor by accusing him of oppression! She holds the law hostage by using herself as the item of negotiation to get what she wants. The more attractive she can make herself to the law the greater her power over the law. The very nature of the law is to govern that which needs governing, so she becomes more attractively lawless and the law yearns to guide and protect her all the more… to a point!
“To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out (on everyone)…For I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD” Jeremiah 6:10-12.
* * *
Was the “actual” old way really that bad?
In the old “oppressive system under men” designed by God; Men and women-- whether single or married-- could both make vows whenever it pleased them; they both had that universal liberty of equality. But under the divine additional protection/authority of husband or father, a woman had an additional safeguard if she would accept it; he could, if he saw necessary, on the day he hears of it, relieve her soul of her burdensome vow:
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth (of it); not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her” Numbers 30:5 (likewise husbands in vv.8,12 with the distinctions of “none affect” and “void”).
Why? Is this male suppression in action? Hardly:
First: because it is the divine power of grace in the name of Christ-- granted by God unto stable male authority-- to remove self-imposed oppressive bondage for those divinely-created emotional creatures under their care.
Second: it’s because women are prone to emotionalism by design. And making a seriously consequential vow in an emotionally charged state is extremely hazardous! God designed and knows all these details about the genders and so grants the logical and stable male authority in her life (representing God the Father) to extend grace when she needs it and is submissive enough to receive it against her strong emotions (human perceptions). He has no such extension for himself and must use extra caution and soundness of mind when making a vow, because what he/He vows, he/He must do.
“When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee (if you don’t). But if thou shalt forbear (transliterated: choose not) to vow (in the first place), it shall be no sin in thee” Deuteronomy 23:21-22. (also v.23, Psalm 50:14, 76:11, 116:14,18, Proverbs 7:14, Jonah 2:9, etc.).
“When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better it is that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?” Ecclesiastes 5:4-6.
(Sorry guys, you have no husband or father authority to make void your vow. The consequence is the failure of your industry because the concept of payment relates to income. God is just balancing your books).
“LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? (168; covering, dwelling)… He that sweareth (even) to his own hurt, and(/but) changeth not” Psalm 15:1,4b.
A man may make a foolish or rash vow, or even a vow in ignorance of all the facts. But a vow is a vow and he is obligated to keep it once he makes it (Judges 11:30-31< 34-35), it just goes with the territory of authority. So, if a woman is on her own outside the protection of Devine authority; if she is her own authority-- emotionally driven or not-- when she makes a vow it is likewise binding. The same goes for an emotionally driven man. This is VERY dangerous ground:
“And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the Children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering” Judges 11:30-31.
This seems to be such a horrifically rash blunder-- like Moses striking the rock-- that it deserves an entire study of its own (Jephthah’s Prophetic Vow *2) to explore all that God intends by including this in scripture, but for our present point let’s just comprehend here that Jephthah was thinking perhaps of his beloved dog, or maybe about the many various pets in his home in general, or even a particular obnoxious pet of his daughter’s that “always” springs out the door first whenever it is opened. Whatever he was imagining as a certainty, a human being was clearly not what he had in mind when he made his emotional vow in the state of anxiety. But he had no “husband/Father” figure of Divine authority to protect him from his own vow when it didn’t turn out the way he imagined:
“And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! Thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that troubleth me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back” Judges 11:34-35.
Why would a woman voluntarily give up such a protection, when even Jephthah’s daughter didn’t?
“And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon” Judges 11:36.
Are you telling me that your “Man made” troubles are greater than hers? There is a principle here that even at its worst application is preferable over stubbornness or rebellion (I Samuel 15:23+ Job 2:9-10). Let me offer a single possibility among countless others: What if Jephthah’s daughter was going to die of horribly painful cancer beginning in two months anyway? What good would bitter rebellion in self-preservation have done her then but to grant her a bad name and terrible suffering before her inevitable death? Even though Jephthah’s vow was clearly rash, If you knew all the facts as God knows them you would agree that God was not wrong in designing her to come out of the house first. But you don’t… and that’s the point.
But enough of that complexity for now, we need to stay on target.
* * *
Here is the point to consider:
Nobody said a man would always get it right; he is human. But so are women! And when emotionally charged women are in power like men, they neither have protection from their own emotionally driven vows, nor the additional power of protecting those emotionally driven ladies under them. If you think men have failed their jobs and you have paid the heavy price; consider that women-- by design-- can only provide, in every way, less protection not more. Not only can’t they protect you from your emotionalism; but you aren’t even protected from theirs, because they have rejected that available additional protection in the emotional desire to be equal with unprotected-- but emotionally stable-- men! The solution is not to cast out the man and take over, but in lovingly submissive humility to help the man become a better/more Christ-like protector by being a better/more church-like protectoree.
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” Ephesians 5:24-25.
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church” Ephesians 5:31-32.
Combine the above verse with I Timothy 3:16 and we discover the great mystery of godliness in mankind vs. the Revelation 17:5 mystery of the great whore. The mystery in both examples is in the union of specific male and female entities with respectively very different results!
A man’s soul is moved beyond words by a woman who offers herself as a protectoree… But what that man’s soul is moved to DO depends on who his God/god is. Choose your man/authority carefully!
“The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him…” II Chronicles 16:9a.
Vs.
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” I Peter 5:8.
NOBODY but a fool imagines that a woman who offers herself to a lion will be treated with tender care. But women do it all the time! and now today, mothers give their prepubescent daughters videos like Beauty and the Beast as if they are intentionally driving their daughter to the lion, in their own Mercedes, after dropping daddy off at the bar to sit silently alone on a stool and drown his burden of sorrows at the destruction of his daughter’s soul.
But That’s Not All: Use the same care of choice when rejecting your man as you should in choosing him.
After you choose the right lord, the next obligation is to have a perfect heart toward him. God will not fail to perform his vow if you will perform yours. But he has also made an alternate vow tailored to the self-centered wife:
“…Herein (; as to your perfect heart) thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars” II Chronicles 16:9b.
What kind of wars are we talking about?
Let’s finally explore some very specific examples in the next few Posts regarding; “The American Virgin Daughters of God.”
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(*1) College:
The Typology of College is amazingly accurate to this use, and full of valuable comparisons. As Christ and Satan came to earth at nearly the same time (Revelation 12:10&12) Liberty at this specifically vulnerable time of a young woman’s life (New Testament humanity) and the demonic kingdom of the Beast, that began with Rome-- where by emotion she earnestly wants to attend with her friends for the purpose of finding both fun and success-- combine to be the perfect setting for her destruction. Daddy (God the Father of the Old Testament) is left behind while in her New Testament liberty she ventures out on her own in the confidence of finally being of age.
The act of young independence is not a crime or sin; it is in fact a designed stage of maturity, as scripture (Isaiah 28:9-10) and the Typology of life shows. Going to college is not technically a crime or sin either, though it really is not a good recommendation in general, because of the great hazards of soul and body every student will face in that Daniel’s den of lions.
But the state of the young woman’s mind and foundation of self-control, taught by her father in her adolescence under his law, are the factors that will determine her success or failure in the new environment of every beautiful and stimulating temptation sold as liberty from oppression.
In such an environment morality is not even graded, It has nothing to do with this place or the new importance of filling her mind with interesting intellectual information that is. Here, Morality is something juvenile of the past that now needs to be shed in her evolution of becoming a woman while she turns her mind and heart to things she’s told “her Daddy knows nothing about.”
(*2) Jephthah’s Prophetic Vow: Not yet Posted.
[November 19,2013: For my reply to the first posted comment below, please see Post 306 "Two Replies" (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/11/two-replies.html).]
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Sunday, November 3, 2013
Fixing God
Post 302
“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken” Ecclesiastes 4:12.
It is my earnest desire that you are able to retain the many branches of thought we have touched on that collectively make up the current trending direction that the world is now taking with confidence, which is most easily recognized in the singular as; “A New World Order.” Why we are making these present choices is a complex collection of factors like the many strands of a cable or cord, that once woven is extremely strong and cannot be easily resisted let alone broken.
The concept of this New World Order is not unfamiliar to prophecy minded Christians-- who have been watching it come in earnest over the last 50 years-- but have been told they are paranoid whackos for decrying it, first as a ridiculous fabrication of paranoia and then somehow smoothly transitioned to an obvious solution to world problems. Yet what most of these prophecy minded Christians are missing is the very nature of that cable and why that’s important.
Let me explain:
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It’s A New World, Baby!
Men are simple, single-minded creatures. In the old days this quality was admired as; dependable, faithful, determined, enduring, uncomplicated and easy to understand, focused, and consistent. But today this same trait is derided as; simple minded, boring, slow, childish, old fashioned, incompetent, and uninteresting. Today’s world, with the help of technology, is going in a thousand different directions all at once and even the average person is expected to multi-task countless things on a perpetual basis, let alone the top business executive. And while men and women both scramble to meet this “normal requirement” in today’s society it is unquestionable that the highly complex female gender is far superior to meeting that requirement.
Women are complex, multi-minded creatures. In the old days this quality was diminished as; unstable, confusing, irrational, impossible to understand, erratic, and inconsistent. But today this same trait is applauded as; complex, exciting, sophisticated, super-capable, and mysteriously magnetic.
The above passage in Ecclesiastes is conceptually speaking of a marriage. The preceding verse says;
“Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?” Ecclesiastes 4:11.
And we note that this concept of the advantages of a partnership runs consistently from v.8 concluding with;
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up” Ecclesiastes 4:10
(Notice the single warning of early woe, see Proverbs 3:29 as an example that relates to the above context of woe as it relates to the first woe of Revelation 9:1-11). So IF this passage is speaking of marriage, where do we get the third-party as suggested in the above first verse? In the “male” simplistic line of reasoning that third party is God, that by twining makes strong the bond of man and woman in hard times.
Now I don’t wish to derail the overall train of thought I am desperately trying to maintain, and so only point out that this simplistic three-party concept of marriage is speaking in Typology of much bigger things than the individual union of two people. Again, Dell Tacket in The Truth Project does a marvelous job of exploring the many-facetted scriptural concept regarding the simple but powerful union of three as a biblical repeating cycle of Typology. But let’s boil it down in this present discussion to: A people, their Government, and God. This balance was near perfectly embodied in the practical nation of the United States of America under a Democratic Republic.
But that concept is no longer interesting today; a three-fold cord is old fashioned and outdated. Today we have cords and cables with dozens of strands; a three-fold cord is weak and inefficient. “Technology has far surpassed God!” Today we envision a global cord of hundreds of unified strands far stronger than God’s recommended three!
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us” Psalm 2:1-3.
A federation of kings and rulers. Well, you got us there, God didn’t see that coming. “He’s such a ‘Man’~”.
I wonder if this new multi-strand cable of humanity, that is so superior to His simple three, has God worried?
The next verse tells us:
“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision (3932)” Psalm 2:4.
Derision 3932 la’ag; a primitive root; to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak [mockingly] unintelligibly:-- have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.
That’s actually funny, Go ahead; give us your best ignorant impression of Chinese. All that you “say” is funny meaningless gibberish! And so is the heathen’s grand raging against God and his anointed, and God mocks back their own gibberish:
“ ‘All things in the known reality suddenly exploded into existence from nothing and nowhere without cause.’ And that explains away the Creator? Oh That’s good! LOL”
But don’t miss the point that God saw this coming a very long time ago, and wrote it down for us (Isaiah 42:9). If these “far superior” cords of humanity really concerned God, he had plenty of time to correct his error and fix his puny cords. Apparently He knows something that the heathen don’t (Judges 15:14, Psalm 129:4, Proverbs 5:21-22, Isaiah 5:18, Isaiah 33:20).
Later I may discuss the prophetic details in this verse, like: the vanity of their imagination (II Corinthians 10:5), the world’s kings banding together for a Revelation 17:12-14 cause, and the reason why they so diligently want to break God’s bands (4147 a halter; figuratively, restraint), but for now let’s stay on topic and move on. I wish to return to the concept question of Post 297 “Holiness Profaned” and recommend you read it again if it is not fresh in your mind. We are looking to answer the question; “Who is the virgin daughter of Babylon?” and what spousal role does she play in the big-picture of current events? It all ties tightly together in these last days… but there is a lot to tie together!
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Liberation!
Since the dawn of Man he has run the world by God’s specific design and command (Genesis 1:26+2:18), but somewhat outside of that command the male gender, as the designed image of the Father, has failed to properly include the female gender (I Peter 3:7) in the God designed Christ role of combined humanity as the “whole image” of God:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” Genesis 1:27.
(In Typology this is the Old Testament Law with the New Testament Messiah heart). The result of the male gender’s designed failure to properly represent God the Father’s love in the law before the Messiah came, is that today the world is fully weary of the male gender’s natural inclination to oppression, control, challenges, fighting, conquest, war, killing, domination fixation, and the sexual mauling and total suppression of women in a beat-your-chest “I’m king of the world” kind of way. The world is finally sick of men and their dark nature, and since this nature is representing the image of God the Father in the male gender role they are sick of God too.
This is not a passing fancy; it is a very serious awakening like a woman who one day wakes up from years of submissive oppression to realize that she really wants a divorce.
In all the former struggles in this marriage she has tried to keep it together, she has been the dutifully submissive wife, she has given and given getting nothing but sorrow in return, she has been unappreciated, her skills and talents have been suppressed, she has been misused and abused but she has taken it for the sake of the marriage and family, but no more. She has had enough!
When that developing concept is finally born in her collective mind a new day has dawned, all things become new, all the formerly locked doors are flung open and her options are suddenly many. She is a caged bird set free and her previously unused wings burst with pent up energy to soar to extreme heights and explore everything at once like a whirling dirvish taking in the sights.
A caged bird is easy to keep, but once it escapes it is virtually uncontrollable and nearly impossible to recapture anytime soon.
All this is a very complex perceptional thing, and I have labored long through several books to reveal individually the many strands of this wrong-perceptional cable of vanity and self-focus, because as a new cable tightly woven it cannot now be cut suddenly, and even the suggestion is laughable if not seen as offensive spiritual chauvinism (*1). It’s not the cable that concerns me now; it’s what the cable’s intended purpose is that should be a concern to us all. Like God (Isaiah 61:1-3), and the former “American Way” that first liberated women, I am actually delighted that the bird is finally free, but where will she now sleep? What will she eat? How will she avoid the many dangers that she now faces alone; like cold and rain and parasites and predators?
“That’s not your concern anymore” she replies in defiance as she wings higher into the expanse of the free sky. And she’s right. Her perception of her captivity, whether justified or imagined, is a wall of separation that now protects her from recapture by he who once controlled or cared-for her.
I say perception because her present negative perception of God is the very satanic purpose of all the male generated violence of the world’s history. Gone are the days when she actually loved and adored her husband and Lord (Jeremiah 2:2), because the male rulers of the world have abused that role and she, perhaps rightly, feels deeply wronged by the gender itself. And as she wings higher into the new sky now all around her, the truth of the complex details that created that perception are something she has no time for: she is beyond all that now!
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation” - Obama.
It concerns me greatly that by separating these Posts into several books for the volume, the reader of this section might not have the previous sections and therefore the true knowledge of the individual strands of this new glorified cable, or of those strands of the previous cord now vilified. The perception of those strands, and therefore the functions of the cord and cable, is then left to imagination and the deceitful propaganda that guides it (Genesis 6:5). Is this cord a rope of captivity or a lead-rope (band) of love protection and direction? Perception makes a whole lot of difference in response… and while a horse usually learns it’s a good thing in the teamwork of the relationship, an Ass simply resists by an obstinate perception while braying loudly his signature “He-Haw” argument whenever he feels he’s being led where he doesn’t want to go. “It’s all about ME.”
I have a friend in the nearby city of Juneau who just lost her beloved bird a few weeks ago. This tropical bird is not capable of surviving the winter of Southeast Alaska now arriving in earnest any day. Yes the bird is now liberated but is the bird actually free? It’s not even free to die; that is an uncontrollable fact of its liberated condition in regards to its present environment. Does it know it is doomed? No. Right now it is just having fun exploring its recent liberation from oppression. But was it really oppressed? Not having the ability to know its thoughts the answer to that question is hotly debated among emotional people like PETA. So staying on topic with our limited analogy, don’t forget that humanity is a creation, and the Creator knows our thoughts (Job 21:27, Psalm 94:11). God knows if we were really oppressed under his care, and he also knows that Satan, pretending to be God, (presently under the name Allah) has historically long oppressed humanity in the name of God... for the undisclosed purpose of helping humanity resent God for the oppression. It’s complex in a vague way as a single unbreakable cable, but quite simple by an honest exploration of the many individually weak strands. Like the unquestionable theory of Evolution, the whole thing falls apart when the details are honestly explored. God has never oppressed humanity in a selfish way, and a loving godly husband has never oppressed his wife along the same lines... though an unhappy wife sees marriage as a cage… and it is, when she needs it to be (I Timothy 1:9-10).
But all that male logical complexity is now irrelevant to her; In the collective female emotionalism of today, humanity is about to finally be free from God and the world is soon to be hers!
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But Free To Do What?
Like the Catholic Church in the name of Christ, Islam in the name of God is now shamelessly beating down the door of Freedom throughout the world. “GOD IS A VIOLENT BLOODY OPPRESSOR!” is the unhidden theme. By casting off God and his Typology of male domination, humanity is now liberating herself from such a God so she can care for herself! This concept is the quintessence of The New Age.
Now don’t miss the obvious: Anti-Christ is male. The very concept of Anti-Christ and what he will do is mega male:
“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all” Daniel 11:37.
This is absolutely not permissible in the New Feminine Age. By focusing on the Anti-Christ prophecies all this time, Christians have been missing the actual concept of The New Age and therefore are fully buying into the New Age concept as it stands with them against the spirit of Anti-Christ!
I don’t want to just brush by this idea; it is extremely central to the last-days portion that we have just now entered (the last days comes in several distinct portions).
As America falls the age of the male dominated, “a wife needs a husband/follow Christ” concept is being replaced by the female dominated, “we don’t need a husband/God” concept. Islam is simply the Yin means that Satan is using to motivate humanity to misuse her bride of Christ “goddess role” and boldly proclaim herself to be the ultimate Yang Goddess of liberty, like America’s green statue. This Goddess mentality is the nature of the Whore Babylon of the last days. While the woman on the beast has MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS written on her forehead (Revelation 17:5), it is the “wanna-be Christ” beast who bears the names of blasphemy on all its various authorities (Revelation 13:1,4-6, 17:3, [also Revelation 2:9, Isaiah 37:3 if you can comprehend it, but be careful!]).
In The Uncommon Christian Walk I suggested that as Christians renewing our scoliosed path, we were not trying to fix God in this work. But The New Age is now trying to do exactly that!
The bitter woman in her emotional mind has no room to evaluate her own faults and failures, the entire failure of the family is all HIS fault; (“If he really is the God of love, why is there so much suffering in the world?”), her perception of the way things went is proof enough for her and anything he says now is to be disdained and rejected for the sole reason that it comes from his mouth (Amos 5:10, Isaiah 30:10-11). Nor has she time or willingness to make an honest “third party” evaluation of the specific facts at this late date; “Evolution is true and anyone who speaks otherwise is either a fool or wicked” (*2). And because logic cannot negotiate with emotion, men are powerless to discuss reason with her in her agitated state (…Amos 5:13), the very fact that she is female makes her right. “The bird-cage, by its very existence, is oppression.” Like the Egyptians only last year; Liberation with a capital “L” is the goal, and what comes after is irrelevant to the emotional mindframe.
Did I want to see the Egyptians liberated? Yes I did, with all my heart. But as the dates of my relative Posts have shown (*3), I knew they would not get what they thought they were getting even though I didn’t know the details. What comes after, it turns out, is very relevant. A bitter woman cannot find lasting happiness; it’s a law of nature (Isaiah 48:21-22, 57:20-21), even though bitterness is very often justified. The reason is because bitterness always chooses a narrow self-focused perception of the facts, and no fact is immune from treacherous corruption by a self-focused application. Without a false narrow perception based only on limited personal experience the true facts can easily be seen; Even a sex-slave prostitute wants to be rescued by an honorable man… a completely different mindframe from the bitter “man hater.”
The problem is that the bird’s perception is the only one that really matters to her. She is the one in the cage. If she feels oppressed then her oppression needs to be solved: All factors seeking that liberation are good and honorable and all factors trying to talk her out of her perception are deceitful and wicked. How do you argue with that? Once perception becomes unquestionable “fact,” the entire world of response changes nature. Today’s world has concluded conclusively that God, in the male Typology; “I must be dominate” mentality, is wicked. Don’t bother trying to talk her out of it now (*4).
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Is This Really About Women?
Speaking now to a generation of bitter emotional women, as well as a nation of bitter emotional men, I fully expect to get the “he hates women” reaction to my careful Typology explanations of reality. It’s the natural braying of discontent in feeling offended at the indignity of being led at all. But in the effort to re-warm your heart some, it is ultimately only a Typology. Let me show you:
“In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking…” Isaiah 19:16.
I am not going to discuss here what day this is speaking of, or the cause of the shaking, but only that God describes the emotion of their fear as being the nature of women. This includes ALL Egypt regardless of gender. This goes hand in hand with:
“Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings” Proverbs 31:3.
God is speaking regarding the natures he gave the different genders. In simple words he is saying; “Don’t let your governments become emotionally driven.” In short: We are “a government of laws and not of men” (*5).
When men begin to think emotionally like women, or give up their designed role of masculine leadership, a society looses the protection of its solidity and stability. While emotion (such as compassion and tolerance) has its wonderful place in society, emotionalism and law do not mix. This is not suggesting women can’t be politicians, but that emotionalism should not lead the country… regardless of gender. Margaret Thatcher, though fully woman, could hardly be called emotionally driven in politics, while Mr. Obama can most surely be.
“The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken” Jeremiah 51:30.
While President Reagan acted like a man and led the country and the world to confront the bullies of the world, and President Bush did similar to a far less degree, President Clinton and Mr. Obama both fulfilled this verse to the detail. Today, all across America, the people have simply given up in despair because of an emotionally driven government that is totally out of the control of law. The people have become functionally hopeless because only the power of law can rightly control the lawless. When the lawless hold the law we have a Romans 1:18 style tyranny. At this point it’s either tolerate what is, or begin a civil war. The once bold and daring confident young men of this nation’s recent past, who would have never allowed this lawless condition of our government to continue more than a moment, have given birth to actionless busybodies spreading the latest gossip they get from Fox News as if gossip solves anything. Being emotionally driven and rationally ignorant, they wouldn’t have a clue what to do if they actually hiked up their skirts to try. Instead they act like unstable women in a panic and burn down their own nation in the irrational violent frustration of blame! Her laws are broken.
“Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her (own) hands” Proverbs 14:1.
“The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh” Ecclesiastes 4:5.
It’s all genderally the same thing in this light.
“Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come” Isaiah 32:9 (see Ezekiel 16:38, 23:45).
Though indeed directly speaking to women in ways I hope to later discuss, these passages are not ultimately speaking to women but to a people who are emotionally driven in logical ignorance. Instead of “manning up” and taking the responsibility upon their own shoulders to fix the problem in obedience to God, these “helpless minded” people in quaking fear of hardship look to “husband” God to fix their problems while they do needle-point in the garden having tea with giggling friends without a care in the world. Am I suggesting there is anything wrong with tea or needle-point? Of course not! God is simply saying; “Get off your duff and figure this out; This is your responsibility not mine!” (*6). God gave you salvation by marrying you, now, as the homemaker with his authority, it’s your job to maintain a happy home... or let it fall apart from neglect and suffer the results. Sometimes you just need to pull on the rubber gloves and clean the bathroom.
Isaiah 32:11-13 suggests, with several other passages such as Isaiah 62:4-5, Matthew 21:33+, a slightly different angle of the same thing; that the land itself is the bride and humanity in this case is the husband of the land. The land is only fruitful if the husbandman assumes his rightful duty and does his plowing and planting of seed. When men putter around the house like women and won’t fulfill their manly duty, the neighbor will:
“Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies (to be raped): the fire shall devour thy bars (1280; a bolt [Beams locking the gates])” Nahum 3:13.
But remember, we just read earlier that the emotionally driven people are the ones who started the fire in the first place! Like plucking down her own house. So the LORD asks:
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass (5437) a man” Jeremiah 31:22.
Compass 5437 cabab; a primitive root; to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows):-- bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Put simplistically; A man cannot turn or think without a woman having already claimed that ground. i.e. It’s a woman’s world now!
And now we are getting to the climax of current events: when the Typology gets closer to matching reality without extra-biblical symbolism of interpretation, then we know we are very close to the actual fulfillment of the ultimate prophecy that has been Typed:
When God said he was going to send the Messiah, his Son, a child, of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14+9:6), who would have imagined it would turn out to be actually His Son, a child, of a virgin?
How many ways this passage of prophecy was rightly or wrongly used metaphorically, practically, and Typed through the years is unknown, but eventually the prophecy matched reality without any symbolism because no symbolism was included in the prophecy. Jesus Christ the Son of God was born of a virgin (Matthew 1:18+).
So in Typology this verse tells us that democratic emotionalism will trump republican reason every time, without even a contest. Not because it’s smarter, or better, or wiser, but because it’s democratic. And like global Wikipedia; democracy is the new truth-- even knowing openly that it’s not always right; “It’s a part of the human adventure, and being actually right isn’t the goal anymore” [*7]
Speaking directly; this verse tells us that women are the new masters. Why and how are simply irrelevant to the facts of the condition at this point. The bird has flown the coup and left you home to cry alone. Deal with it. America has Fallen.
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So Where Does That Leave Us Now?
It is my proposed hypothesis that it leaves us in the next portion of the end times… that few Christians even knew was prophesied, let alone prepared to deal with. It looks like this:
“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths” Isaiah 3:12.
Today we see women ruling the home by the desire of men to just “keep momma happy,” and today’s women feel their second duty is to “do everything,” and their first duty is to their children, whom they protect from dad’s “manly” discipline. The result is a nation filled with unruly children protected by insane laws that allow them to oppress the people without restraint. Today in America children are not accountable for anything they do, including murder!, and men are utterly helpless to open their mouth if they ever want to see their independent wives again. Any child who moves his lips is to be, by emotion, dramatically praised as brilliant (to encourage his self-esteem)-- whatever stupid thing he comes up with, and women are always right by the fact that they feel right. In this way our sons are guaranteed to grow up thinking emotionally like women.
Emotionalism is the new Right, and logic is a historically proven “male” failure. “Move aside dude and let the women have a turn at running the world!” Gone are the days of iron clad laws, facts, reason, and truths (Isaiah 59:13-15), we are now in the age of deep feelings as truth, foundationless truths as good ideas, unviable ideas as plausible with imagination, and limitless imaginations as reality.
But, somehow it works… as long as nobody tips the boat of illusion on the calm seas of reality.
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women kneed their dough,…” Jeremiah 7:18a.
Here we see the family unit remaining reasonably the same in physical appearance and clearly working together to a common goal-- which seems quite honorable and unusually functional. Women really are the better leaders!
But wait. What’s this as the verse continues with the woman run family goals?
“…to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger” Jeremiah 7:18b.
Ok, so we haven’t yet arrived at the time in history when the family honors the queen of heaven, “heck, we don’t even know who that is yet.” But understanding the Typology, we recognize that the new deity that we worship is now female in gender as the mindframe and spirit of women rule the world. It’s sort-of a reverse of the male God for the male ruled world, and the very intentional illusion itself makes the male God an illusion too, much as shamelessly violent Islam dethrones Jehovah as violent.
OH! But the door has only just been cracked open on results you can’t possibly imagine!...
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(*1) “Chauvinism, in its original and primary meaning, is an exaggerated, patriotism and a belligerent belief in national superiority and glory. Its eponym is a French soldier Nicolas Chauvin, who was badly wounded in the Napoleonic wars. He received a pension for his injuries but it was not enough to live on. After Napoleon abdicated, Chauvin was a fanatical Bonapartist despite the unpopularity of this view in Bourbon Restoration France. His single-minded blind devotion to his cause, despite neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvinism).
Chauvinism: from Nicolas Chavin of Rochefort, a soldier of the First Republic and Empire, whose demonstrative patriotism and attachment to Napoleon came to be ridiculed by his comrades, Vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1948.
(*2) " ‘It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).’ I first wrote that in a book review in the New York Times in 1989… Examine the statement carefully and it turns out to be moderate, almost self-evidently true.” - Richard Dawkins, May 14, 2006, The Richard Dawkins Foundation For Reason and Science (http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/114).
(*3) Egypt:
Post 158 Egypt (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/01/egypt.html).
Post 162 Wait (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/02/wait.html).
Post 163 Egypt Today (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypt-today.html).
(*4) Evaluating God:
I wish to simply move forward with our intended subject, but the overwhelming argument today that changes the world must be answered as often as it is honestly asked (I Peter 3:15-16);
“Didn’t God oppress the ancient Hebrews? Doesn’t the Old Testament itself reveal this?” Isn’t God’s Law an oppressor?
Although the Richard Dawkins bird will utterly reject the short answer, the short answer is “NO.”
Like my friend who recently lost her bird; keeping the bird in a cage is not what she wants to do. It is her heart that the bird be free to fly anywhere it wants to fly, but keeping it safe and healthy is a necessity even above its liberty. So she originally kept it in a cage where it was fed, and safe from dogs and cats, rain and cold, and ceiling fans.
But the bird did not escape into the wild because she forgot to lock the cage door. As the bird learned to trust her, and feel that her house was its safe domain, and after putting the dog and cat out and turning off the fan, she opened the cage door and it was free to come and go as it liked through the house once the environment was safe. If you want to call the house simply a bigger cage then you are missing the point of her efforts. And you are also missing God’s Old Testament account of His history with the Jews.
Jesus the Christ was not the saving PETA Grace that rescued humanity from a Legalistic tyrant God; he was a stage in God’s designed liberation of humanity that God intended all along (Isaiah 42:16).
But each new stage of liberation presents one less door of protection from the wilderness. The bird must be prepared for each new responsibility that comes with more liberation: "Food is found in the cage. I can sleep there safely," etc. Eventually the metaphorical desire to liberate the bird would include an intentional open window through which the faithful and “informed” bird could come and go, once it learned where home and safety is found. The front door, the bedroom door, and then the cage door being the third-layer “Chemical suit” of protection. But before the bird grasped that final concept a front door was opened and the bird bolted for the great big New World Order. Finally she was free from her oppressor, as the wild crows informed her.
Those of us who are faithfully ruminating on God’s law as commanded (Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:2) can see the eventual plan of the Kingdom of Heaven where our liberty will be complete. The gates will never be closed (Revelation 21:25), but the dogs will be kept out (Revelation 22:15), we will be free to come and go as we desire and our coming and going will delight the LORD because we do.
Think of it like this:
The Great and Mighty God, the Creator of the Universe, has given us the permission to, not just come, but come boldly, into his throne-room any ol’ time we feel the need to do so (Hebrews 4:16). What an amazing honor not granted to the Christless masses! But one day of the week he goes even further; He EXPECTS us to come! He has re-arranged his weekly schedule and made it a priority to spend the day with us! IF we don’t show up it is an actual disappointment to Him. We are that loved!
But a self-focused heart begins to see this privileged special day with The Creator, as an obligation from an oppressor. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! But once our perception sees it as such, what can the LORD do to change that but tell us;
“Don’t worry about it, you don’t have to come.”
The Law was never intended to be an oppression (Psalm 119:142-143, Isaiah 51:7-8). But having picked up an unwanted wild child as his bride (Isaiah 54:6, Ezekiel 16:1-6) the LORD established some early guidelines to help us comprehend the nature, character, honor, and greatness of the LORD by whom we are loved and whom we loved in return for rescuing us. What happened to that?
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?” Jeremiah 3:4 (Isaiah 54:6).
Forgetting our wonderful past with Him, we became self-focused and willful, and so every helpful correction was then seen as more oppression.
“And I (God) said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me (3:1). But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also” Jeremiah 3:7-8.
“…I (God) am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols:…” Ezekiel 6:9.
Yah, That jealous husband attitude of God is so oppressively unfair!~
“In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction; your own sword hath devoured your prophets (of helpful correction)…” Jeremiah 2:30.
So God advanced the tactics in his ever-progressing road of liberation, that, like the hands of time, continue forward whether we are ready or not:
“For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee” Isaiah 54:7-9 (continue through 10).
“For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off” Isaiah 48:9.
God was done chastising them for their errors; from their perspective it simply didn’t work with them anyway, because they didn’t understand God’s perspective and purpose:
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction” Isaiah 48:10
(see v.11 for an important justification we will discuss later).
But as teenagers having stubbornly rejected Dad’s “harsh treatment” at home, there was another factor now to help them get it figured out:
“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts” Jeremiah 2:19.
“Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart” Jeremiah 4:18.
I struggle to resist taking this onto an entirely different trail (Jeremiah 4:10), but to maintain the train of thought; this change in program is as after “the third day” we discussed recently. The past sorrows were corrective chastisements from God for ignorantly wrong conduct, but now present sorrows are simply the results of our own error. The difference is found in our maturity; just as a child once spanked at home but uncorrected, now faces lumps in life simply as natural results of his willful misconduct. With greater liberation comes more direct accountability.
So now let’s get back on topic.
(*5) “A government of laws, and not of men.”
John Adams (1735-1826), American lawyer, politician and 2nd President of the United States, in his 7th “Novanglus” letter, published in the Boston Gazette 1774.
A Nation of Laws, Not Men:
“… It looks like a virus is spreading among public officials creating delusions that any one of them may unilaterally decide a law is unconstitutional and decline to follow the law or defend it in court. Setting aside for a moment the same sex marriage context of these actions—we could be talking about environmental laws or gun control or taxes—is it really the case that a single federal, state, or county official is free to make a judgment about the constitutionality of a law and decline to execute, enforce, or defend it? Are we no longer what founder (and second president) John Adams called “a nation of laws and not of men”?” - Posted Sept. 2, 2013 Defining Ideas A Hoover Institution Journal David Davenport (http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/155081) accessed Nov. 3, 2013.
The whole article is well worth reading to grasp the importance of this concept.
(*6) North Korea:
I cannot find a single scriptural prophecy that explains why North Korea is the number 1 most dangerous place in the world for a Christian to live. It has been for quite some time according to Open Doors.org (http://www.opendoors.org/)-(http://www.worldwatchlist.us/world-watch-list-countries/). So IF there is no “bigger picture” reason for the suffering, like there is in Muslim controlled countries, then we have all reason to expect we can simply pray God’s aid in removing the single man, who as a grandson demands to be worshipped as god, and thereby diminish their suffering (Exodus 20:4-5). Exactly how the events might play out is up for exploration (Acts 12:21-23), but WE HAVE ACCESS TO ALL POWER through Christ! (Matthew 28:18+ John 17:2+ II Peter 1:3= John 16:23-24). Therefore, being that there is no prophetic reason for the darkness to continue there, the reason why North Korea is in the demonic state that it is because Christians are not using our power as the representatives of Christ and his kingdom on earth the way we are supposed to. North Korea is just waiting for us to seriously appeal to God on their behalf! It is a great uncomplicated test area to develop a useful faith. Will you at least ask God if he agrees?
[*7] Update: November 12, 2013
This morning it is reported on BBC News that; “Good Morning America’s Amy Robarch found she had breast cancer while filming a report for the show.” “The 40-year-old correspondent discovered she had breast cancer after reluctantly agreeing to have a screening filmed for the ABC show. She said GMA anchor Robin Roberts had persuaded her that if the story saved one life, it would be worth it. ‘It never occurred to me that life would be mine,’ said Robach.” - BBC News 11/12/13(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24900299).
Make no mistake: my argument is not here decrying breast cancer screening. But being emotionally separate from this story as a man; Something doesn’t smell right (read; Abominable). And here is my point:
• This above average beautiful and public leading woman is the perfect age that the breast-screening program declares is a landmark for needing regular screening to catch this cancer.
• She is encouraged by the show’s people to make a story of it “for the sake of the people,” it’s just fortunate for the show’s ratings that this event should bring in a large number of viewers.
• Then after a very successful and surprisingly “not very painful” screening that encourages millions of women to do the same, this woman’s now public-screening reveals that ‘Yes; she has breast cancer, but the screening saved her life’.
• She is very happy. The show is very happy. The screening program is very happy. The cutting doctors are very happy, and the reconstruction doctors are very happy. The implant manufacturers are very happy. And the millions of viewers are very happy. This is a grand-slam victory; EVERYONE IS VERY HAPPY!
Everyone but me. I have a man’s skeptical sneaking notion that one day it will be revealed that she didn’t actually have cancer, 'it was all an unfortunate error in the analysis process'.
But who really cares? If everyone is happy by the emotionally charged outcome of relief and happiness, does it really matter about the truth? So what if she really didn’t have cancer, it turned out to be very beneficial for the entire screening of America’s women… and if one life can be saved by it, it’s worth it!
Am I suggesting that this is a grand conspiracy to get this woman to lop off her breasts?
“Thou shalt… pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD” Ezekiel 23:34, (see also Ezekiel 23:3,8 for a version of even earlier-screening learned from the abusers/(money mongers).
Yes and No; I don’t think this is actually a knowledgeable conspiracy, and not against her specifically but all women in general. If my hunch is correct, she was just used as a tool to that end. How do I figure? What makes me skeptical of this event? The scripture tells us:
“For the love of money is the root of all evil…” I Timothy 6:10a.
So as a man of God, thinking with my stable reason, I have to ask: “Who profits from this particular result?” The answer is that beyond the benefit to the TV program, billions of dollars are made in the breast cancer industry, and this result will bring in millions more. So here is where we need to use great caution before we just believe them. Here is my logical next response to address the possibility of a fabrication for profit: Get a second, unbiased opinion.
That’s it. That’s all I suggest. Maybe she really does have cancer, but the circumstances smell fishy.
But what do I know; I’m just a man, trying to offer a woman protection from a vow made driven by emotionalism.
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“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken” Ecclesiastes 4:12.
It is my earnest desire that you are able to retain the many branches of thought we have touched on that collectively make up the current trending direction that the world is now taking with confidence, which is most easily recognized in the singular as; “A New World Order.” Why we are making these present choices is a complex collection of factors like the many strands of a cable or cord, that once woven is extremely strong and cannot be easily resisted let alone broken.
The concept of this New World Order is not unfamiliar to prophecy minded Christians-- who have been watching it come in earnest over the last 50 years-- but have been told they are paranoid whackos for decrying it, first as a ridiculous fabrication of paranoia and then somehow smoothly transitioned to an obvious solution to world problems. Yet what most of these prophecy minded Christians are missing is the very nature of that cable and why that’s important.
Let me explain:
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It’s A New World, Baby!
Men are simple, single-minded creatures. In the old days this quality was admired as; dependable, faithful, determined, enduring, uncomplicated and easy to understand, focused, and consistent. But today this same trait is derided as; simple minded, boring, slow, childish, old fashioned, incompetent, and uninteresting. Today’s world, with the help of technology, is going in a thousand different directions all at once and even the average person is expected to multi-task countless things on a perpetual basis, let alone the top business executive. And while men and women both scramble to meet this “normal requirement” in today’s society it is unquestionable that the highly complex female gender is far superior to meeting that requirement.
Women are complex, multi-minded creatures. In the old days this quality was diminished as; unstable, confusing, irrational, impossible to understand, erratic, and inconsistent. But today this same trait is applauded as; complex, exciting, sophisticated, super-capable, and mysteriously magnetic.
The above passage in Ecclesiastes is conceptually speaking of a marriage. The preceding verse says;
“Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?” Ecclesiastes 4:11.
And we note that this concept of the advantages of a partnership runs consistently from v.8 concluding with;
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up” Ecclesiastes 4:10
(Notice the single warning of early woe, see Proverbs 3:29 as an example that relates to the above context of woe as it relates to the first woe of Revelation 9:1-11). So IF this passage is speaking of marriage, where do we get the third-party as suggested in the above first verse? In the “male” simplistic line of reasoning that third party is God, that by twining makes strong the bond of man and woman in hard times.
Now I don’t wish to derail the overall train of thought I am desperately trying to maintain, and so only point out that this simplistic three-party concept of marriage is speaking in Typology of much bigger things than the individual union of two people. Again, Dell Tacket in The Truth Project does a marvelous job of exploring the many-facetted scriptural concept regarding the simple but powerful union of three as a biblical repeating cycle of Typology. But let’s boil it down in this present discussion to: A people, their Government, and God. This balance was near perfectly embodied in the practical nation of the United States of America under a Democratic Republic.
But that concept is no longer interesting today; a three-fold cord is old fashioned and outdated. Today we have cords and cables with dozens of strands; a three-fold cord is weak and inefficient. “Technology has far surpassed God!” Today we envision a global cord of hundreds of unified strands far stronger than God’s recommended three!
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us” Psalm 2:1-3.
A federation of kings and rulers. Well, you got us there, God didn’t see that coming. “He’s such a ‘Man’~”.
I wonder if this new multi-strand cable of humanity, that is so superior to His simple three, has God worried?
The next verse tells us:
“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision (3932)” Psalm 2:4.
Derision 3932 la’ag; a primitive root; to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak [mockingly] unintelligibly:-- have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.
That’s actually funny, Go ahead; give us your best ignorant impression of Chinese. All that you “say” is funny meaningless gibberish! And so is the heathen’s grand raging against God and his anointed, and God mocks back their own gibberish:
“ ‘All things in the known reality suddenly exploded into existence from nothing and nowhere without cause.’ And that explains away the Creator? Oh That’s good! LOL”
But don’t miss the point that God saw this coming a very long time ago, and wrote it down for us (Isaiah 42:9). If these “far superior” cords of humanity really concerned God, he had plenty of time to correct his error and fix his puny cords. Apparently He knows something that the heathen don’t (Judges 15:14, Psalm 129:4, Proverbs 5:21-22, Isaiah 5:18, Isaiah 33:20).
Later I may discuss the prophetic details in this verse, like: the vanity of their imagination (II Corinthians 10:5), the world’s kings banding together for a Revelation 17:12-14 cause, and the reason why they so diligently want to break God’s bands (4147 a halter; figuratively, restraint), but for now let’s stay on topic and move on. I wish to return to the concept question of Post 297 “Holiness Profaned” and recommend you read it again if it is not fresh in your mind. We are looking to answer the question; “Who is the virgin daughter of Babylon?” and what spousal role does she play in the big-picture of current events? It all ties tightly together in these last days… but there is a lot to tie together!
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Liberation!
Since the dawn of Man he has run the world by God’s specific design and command (Genesis 1:26+2:18), but somewhat outside of that command the male gender, as the designed image of the Father, has failed to properly include the female gender (I Peter 3:7) in the God designed Christ role of combined humanity as the “whole image” of God:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” Genesis 1:27.
(In Typology this is the Old Testament Law with the New Testament Messiah heart). The result of the male gender’s designed failure to properly represent God the Father’s love in the law before the Messiah came, is that today the world is fully weary of the male gender’s natural inclination to oppression, control, challenges, fighting, conquest, war, killing, domination fixation, and the sexual mauling and total suppression of women in a beat-your-chest “I’m king of the world” kind of way. The world is finally sick of men and their dark nature, and since this nature is representing the image of God the Father in the male gender role they are sick of God too.
This is not a passing fancy; it is a very serious awakening like a woman who one day wakes up from years of submissive oppression to realize that she really wants a divorce.
In all the former struggles in this marriage she has tried to keep it together, she has been the dutifully submissive wife, she has given and given getting nothing but sorrow in return, she has been unappreciated, her skills and talents have been suppressed, she has been misused and abused but she has taken it for the sake of the marriage and family, but no more. She has had enough!
When that developing concept is finally born in her collective mind a new day has dawned, all things become new, all the formerly locked doors are flung open and her options are suddenly many. She is a caged bird set free and her previously unused wings burst with pent up energy to soar to extreme heights and explore everything at once like a whirling dirvish taking in the sights.
A caged bird is easy to keep, but once it escapes it is virtually uncontrollable and nearly impossible to recapture anytime soon.
All this is a very complex perceptional thing, and I have labored long through several books to reveal individually the many strands of this wrong-perceptional cable of vanity and self-focus, because as a new cable tightly woven it cannot now be cut suddenly, and even the suggestion is laughable if not seen as offensive spiritual chauvinism (*1). It’s not the cable that concerns me now; it’s what the cable’s intended purpose is that should be a concern to us all. Like God (Isaiah 61:1-3), and the former “American Way” that first liberated women, I am actually delighted that the bird is finally free, but where will she now sleep? What will she eat? How will she avoid the many dangers that she now faces alone; like cold and rain and parasites and predators?
“That’s not your concern anymore” she replies in defiance as she wings higher into the expanse of the free sky. And she’s right. Her perception of her captivity, whether justified or imagined, is a wall of separation that now protects her from recapture by he who once controlled or cared-for her.
I say perception because her present negative perception of God is the very satanic purpose of all the male generated violence of the world’s history. Gone are the days when she actually loved and adored her husband and Lord (Jeremiah 2:2), because the male rulers of the world have abused that role and she, perhaps rightly, feels deeply wronged by the gender itself. And as she wings higher into the new sky now all around her, the truth of the complex details that created that perception are something she has no time for: she is beyond all that now!
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation” - Obama.
It concerns me greatly that by separating these Posts into several books for the volume, the reader of this section might not have the previous sections and therefore the true knowledge of the individual strands of this new glorified cable, or of those strands of the previous cord now vilified. The perception of those strands, and therefore the functions of the cord and cable, is then left to imagination and the deceitful propaganda that guides it (Genesis 6:5). Is this cord a rope of captivity or a lead-rope (band) of love protection and direction? Perception makes a whole lot of difference in response… and while a horse usually learns it’s a good thing in the teamwork of the relationship, an Ass simply resists by an obstinate perception while braying loudly his signature “He-Haw” argument whenever he feels he’s being led where he doesn’t want to go. “It’s all about ME.”
I have a friend in the nearby city of Juneau who just lost her beloved bird a few weeks ago. This tropical bird is not capable of surviving the winter of Southeast Alaska now arriving in earnest any day. Yes the bird is now liberated but is the bird actually free? It’s not even free to die; that is an uncontrollable fact of its liberated condition in regards to its present environment. Does it know it is doomed? No. Right now it is just having fun exploring its recent liberation from oppression. But was it really oppressed? Not having the ability to know its thoughts the answer to that question is hotly debated among emotional people like PETA. So staying on topic with our limited analogy, don’t forget that humanity is a creation, and the Creator knows our thoughts (Job 21:27, Psalm 94:11). God knows if we were really oppressed under his care, and he also knows that Satan, pretending to be God, (presently under the name Allah) has historically long oppressed humanity in the name of God... for the undisclosed purpose of helping humanity resent God for the oppression. It’s complex in a vague way as a single unbreakable cable, but quite simple by an honest exploration of the many individually weak strands. Like the unquestionable theory of Evolution, the whole thing falls apart when the details are honestly explored. God has never oppressed humanity in a selfish way, and a loving godly husband has never oppressed his wife along the same lines... though an unhappy wife sees marriage as a cage… and it is, when she needs it to be (I Timothy 1:9-10).
But all that male logical complexity is now irrelevant to her; In the collective female emotionalism of today, humanity is about to finally be free from God and the world is soon to be hers!
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But Free To Do What?
Like the Catholic Church in the name of Christ, Islam in the name of God is now shamelessly beating down the door of Freedom throughout the world. “GOD IS A VIOLENT BLOODY OPPRESSOR!” is the unhidden theme. By casting off God and his Typology of male domination, humanity is now liberating herself from such a God so she can care for herself! This concept is the quintessence of The New Age.
Now don’t miss the obvious: Anti-Christ is male. The very concept of Anti-Christ and what he will do is mega male:
“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all” Daniel 11:37.
This is absolutely not permissible in the New Feminine Age. By focusing on the Anti-Christ prophecies all this time, Christians have been missing the actual concept of The New Age and therefore are fully buying into the New Age concept as it stands with them against the spirit of Anti-Christ!
I don’t want to just brush by this idea; it is extremely central to the last-days portion that we have just now entered (the last days comes in several distinct portions).
As America falls the age of the male dominated, “a wife needs a husband/follow Christ” concept is being replaced by the female dominated, “we don’t need a husband/God” concept. Islam is simply the Yin means that Satan is using to motivate humanity to misuse her bride of Christ “goddess role” and boldly proclaim herself to be the ultimate Yang Goddess of liberty, like America’s green statue. This Goddess mentality is the nature of the Whore Babylon of the last days. While the woman on the beast has MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS written on her forehead (Revelation 17:5), it is the “wanna-be Christ” beast who bears the names of blasphemy on all its various authorities (Revelation 13:1,4-6, 17:3, [also Revelation 2:9, Isaiah 37:3 if you can comprehend it, but be careful!]).
In The Uncommon Christian Walk I suggested that as Christians renewing our scoliosed path, we were not trying to fix God in this work. But The New Age is now trying to do exactly that!
The bitter woman in her emotional mind has no room to evaluate her own faults and failures, the entire failure of the family is all HIS fault; (“If he really is the God of love, why is there so much suffering in the world?”), her perception of the way things went is proof enough for her and anything he says now is to be disdained and rejected for the sole reason that it comes from his mouth (Amos 5:10, Isaiah 30:10-11). Nor has she time or willingness to make an honest “third party” evaluation of the specific facts at this late date; “Evolution is true and anyone who speaks otherwise is either a fool or wicked” (*2). And because logic cannot negotiate with emotion, men are powerless to discuss reason with her in her agitated state (…Amos 5:13), the very fact that she is female makes her right. “The bird-cage, by its very existence, is oppression.” Like the Egyptians only last year; Liberation with a capital “L” is the goal, and what comes after is irrelevant to the emotional mindframe.
Did I want to see the Egyptians liberated? Yes I did, with all my heart. But as the dates of my relative Posts have shown (*3), I knew they would not get what they thought they were getting even though I didn’t know the details. What comes after, it turns out, is very relevant. A bitter woman cannot find lasting happiness; it’s a law of nature (Isaiah 48:21-22, 57:20-21), even though bitterness is very often justified. The reason is because bitterness always chooses a narrow self-focused perception of the facts, and no fact is immune from treacherous corruption by a self-focused application. Without a false narrow perception based only on limited personal experience the true facts can easily be seen; Even a sex-slave prostitute wants to be rescued by an honorable man… a completely different mindframe from the bitter “man hater.”
The problem is that the bird’s perception is the only one that really matters to her. She is the one in the cage. If she feels oppressed then her oppression needs to be solved: All factors seeking that liberation are good and honorable and all factors trying to talk her out of her perception are deceitful and wicked. How do you argue with that? Once perception becomes unquestionable “fact,” the entire world of response changes nature. Today’s world has concluded conclusively that God, in the male Typology; “I must be dominate” mentality, is wicked. Don’t bother trying to talk her out of it now (*4).
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Is This Really About Women?
Speaking now to a generation of bitter emotional women, as well as a nation of bitter emotional men, I fully expect to get the “he hates women” reaction to my careful Typology explanations of reality. It’s the natural braying of discontent in feeling offended at the indignity of being led at all. But in the effort to re-warm your heart some, it is ultimately only a Typology. Let me show you:
“In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking…” Isaiah 19:16.
I am not going to discuss here what day this is speaking of, or the cause of the shaking, but only that God describes the emotion of their fear as being the nature of women. This includes ALL Egypt regardless of gender. This goes hand in hand with:
“Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings” Proverbs 31:3.
God is speaking regarding the natures he gave the different genders. In simple words he is saying; “Don’t let your governments become emotionally driven.” In short: We are “a government of laws and not of men” (*5).
When men begin to think emotionally like women, or give up their designed role of masculine leadership, a society looses the protection of its solidity and stability. While emotion (such as compassion and tolerance) has its wonderful place in society, emotionalism and law do not mix. This is not suggesting women can’t be politicians, but that emotionalism should not lead the country… regardless of gender. Margaret Thatcher, though fully woman, could hardly be called emotionally driven in politics, while Mr. Obama can most surely be.
“The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken” Jeremiah 51:30.
While President Reagan acted like a man and led the country and the world to confront the bullies of the world, and President Bush did similar to a far less degree, President Clinton and Mr. Obama both fulfilled this verse to the detail. Today, all across America, the people have simply given up in despair because of an emotionally driven government that is totally out of the control of law. The people have become functionally hopeless because only the power of law can rightly control the lawless. When the lawless hold the law we have a Romans 1:18 style tyranny. At this point it’s either tolerate what is, or begin a civil war. The once bold and daring confident young men of this nation’s recent past, who would have never allowed this lawless condition of our government to continue more than a moment, have given birth to actionless busybodies spreading the latest gossip they get from Fox News as if gossip solves anything. Being emotionally driven and rationally ignorant, they wouldn’t have a clue what to do if they actually hiked up their skirts to try. Instead they act like unstable women in a panic and burn down their own nation in the irrational violent frustration of blame! Her laws are broken.
“Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her (own) hands” Proverbs 14:1.
“The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh” Ecclesiastes 4:5.
It’s all genderally the same thing in this light.
“Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come” Isaiah 32:9 (see Ezekiel 16:38, 23:45).
Though indeed directly speaking to women in ways I hope to later discuss, these passages are not ultimately speaking to women but to a people who are emotionally driven in logical ignorance. Instead of “manning up” and taking the responsibility upon their own shoulders to fix the problem in obedience to God, these “helpless minded” people in quaking fear of hardship look to “husband” God to fix their problems while they do needle-point in the garden having tea with giggling friends without a care in the world. Am I suggesting there is anything wrong with tea or needle-point? Of course not! God is simply saying; “Get off your duff and figure this out; This is your responsibility not mine!” (*6). God gave you salvation by marrying you, now, as the homemaker with his authority, it’s your job to maintain a happy home... or let it fall apart from neglect and suffer the results. Sometimes you just need to pull on the rubber gloves and clean the bathroom.
Isaiah 32:11-13 suggests, with several other passages such as Isaiah 62:4-5, Matthew 21:33+, a slightly different angle of the same thing; that the land itself is the bride and humanity in this case is the husband of the land. The land is only fruitful if the husbandman assumes his rightful duty and does his plowing and planting of seed. When men putter around the house like women and won’t fulfill their manly duty, the neighbor will:
“Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies (to be raped): the fire shall devour thy bars (1280; a bolt [Beams locking the gates])” Nahum 3:13.
But remember, we just read earlier that the emotionally driven people are the ones who started the fire in the first place! Like plucking down her own house. So the LORD asks:
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass (5437) a man” Jeremiah 31:22.
Compass 5437 cabab; a primitive root; to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows):-- bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Put simplistically; A man cannot turn or think without a woman having already claimed that ground. i.e. It’s a woman’s world now!
And now we are getting to the climax of current events: when the Typology gets closer to matching reality without extra-biblical symbolism of interpretation, then we know we are very close to the actual fulfillment of the ultimate prophecy that has been Typed:
When God said he was going to send the Messiah, his Son, a child, of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14+9:6), who would have imagined it would turn out to be actually His Son, a child, of a virgin?
How many ways this passage of prophecy was rightly or wrongly used metaphorically, practically, and Typed through the years is unknown, but eventually the prophecy matched reality without any symbolism because no symbolism was included in the prophecy. Jesus Christ the Son of God was born of a virgin (Matthew 1:18+).
So in Typology this verse tells us that democratic emotionalism will trump republican reason every time, without even a contest. Not because it’s smarter, or better, or wiser, but because it’s democratic. And like global Wikipedia; democracy is the new truth-- even knowing openly that it’s not always right; “It’s a part of the human adventure, and being actually right isn’t the goal anymore” [*7]
Speaking directly; this verse tells us that women are the new masters. Why and how are simply irrelevant to the facts of the condition at this point. The bird has flown the coup and left you home to cry alone. Deal with it. America has Fallen.
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So Where Does That Leave Us Now?
It is my proposed hypothesis that it leaves us in the next portion of the end times… that few Christians even knew was prophesied, let alone prepared to deal with. It looks like this:
“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths” Isaiah 3:12.
Today we see women ruling the home by the desire of men to just “keep momma happy,” and today’s women feel their second duty is to “do everything,” and their first duty is to their children, whom they protect from dad’s “manly” discipline. The result is a nation filled with unruly children protected by insane laws that allow them to oppress the people without restraint. Today in America children are not accountable for anything they do, including murder!, and men are utterly helpless to open their mouth if they ever want to see their independent wives again. Any child who moves his lips is to be, by emotion, dramatically praised as brilliant (to encourage his self-esteem)-- whatever stupid thing he comes up with, and women are always right by the fact that they feel right. In this way our sons are guaranteed to grow up thinking emotionally like women.
Emotionalism is the new Right, and logic is a historically proven “male” failure. “Move aside dude and let the women have a turn at running the world!” Gone are the days of iron clad laws, facts, reason, and truths (Isaiah 59:13-15), we are now in the age of deep feelings as truth, foundationless truths as good ideas, unviable ideas as plausible with imagination, and limitless imaginations as reality.
But, somehow it works… as long as nobody tips the boat of illusion on the calm seas of reality.
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women kneed their dough,…” Jeremiah 7:18a.
Here we see the family unit remaining reasonably the same in physical appearance and clearly working together to a common goal-- which seems quite honorable and unusually functional. Women really are the better leaders!
But wait. What’s this as the verse continues with the woman run family goals?
“…to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger” Jeremiah 7:18b.
Ok, so we haven’t yet arrived at the time in history when the family honors the queen of heaven, “heck, we don’t even know who that is yet.” But understanding the Typology, we recognize that the new deity that we worship is now female in gender as the mindframe and spirit of women rule the world. It’s sort-of a reverse of the male God for the male ruled world, and the very intentional illusion itself makes the male God an illusion too, much as shamelessly violent Islam dethrones Jehovah as violent.
OH! But the door has only just been cracked open on results you can’t possibly imagine!...
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(*1) “Chauvinism, in its original and primary meaning, is an exaggerated, patriotism and a belligerent belief in national superiority and glory. Its eponym is a French soldier Nicolas Chauvin, who was badly wounded in the Napoleonic wars. He received a pension for his injuries but it was not enough to live on. After Napoleon abdicated, Chauvin was a fanatical Bonapartist despite the unpopularity of this view in Bourbon Restoration France. His single-minded blind devotion to his cause, despite neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvinism).
Chauvinism: from Nicolas Chavin of Rochefort, a soldier of the First Republic and Empire, whose demonstrative patriotism and attachment to Napoleon came to be ridiculed by his comrades, Vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1948.
(*2) " ‘It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).’ I first wrote that in a book review in the New York Times in 1989… Examine the statement carefully and it turns out to be moderate, almost self-evidently true.” - Richard Dawkins, May 14, 2006, The Richard Dawkins Foundation For Reason and Science (http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/114).
(*3) Egypt:
Post 158 Egypt (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/01/egypt.html).
Post 162 Wait (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/02/wait.html).
Post 163 Egypt Today (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypt-today.html).
(*4) Evaluating God:
I wish to simply move forward with our intended subject, but the overwhelming argument today that changes the world must be answered as often as it is honestly asked (I Peter 3:15-16);
“Didn’t God oppress the ancient Hebrews? Doesn’t the Old Testament itself reveal this?” Isn’t God’s Law an oppressor?
Although the Richard Dawkins bird will utterly reject the short answer, the short answer is “NO.”
Like my friend who recently lost her bird; keeping the bird in a cage is not what she wants to do. It is her heart that the bird be free to fly anywhere it wants to fly, but keeping it safe and healthy is a necessity even above its liberty. So she originally kept it in a cage where it was fed, and safe from dogs and cats, rain and cold, and ceiling fans.
But the bird did not escape into the wild because she forgot to lock the cage door. As the bird learned to trust her, and feel that her house was its safe domain, and after putting the dog and cat out and turning off the fan, she opened the cage door and it was free to come and go as it liked through the house once the environment was safe. If you want to call the house simply a bigger cage then you are missing the point of her efforts. And you are also missing God’s Old Testament account of His history with the Jews.
Jesus the Christ was not the saving PETA Grace that rescued humanity from a Legalistic tyrant God; he was a stage in God’s designed liberation of humanity that God intended all along (Isaiah 42:16).
But each new stage of liberation presents one less door of protection from the wilderness. The bird must be prepared for each new responsibility that comes with more liberation: "Food is found in the cage. I can sleep there safely," etc. Eventually the metaphorical desire to liberate the bird would include an intentional open window through which the faithful and “informed” bird could come and go, once it learned where home and safety is found. The front door, the bedroom door, and then the cage door being the third-layer “Chemical suit” of protection. But before the bird grasped that final concept a front door was opened and the bird bolted for the great big New World Order. Finally she was free from her oppressor, as the wild crows informed her.
Those of us who are faithfully ruminating on God’s law as commanded (Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:2) can see the eventual plan of the Kingdom of Heaven where our liberty will be complete. The gates will never be closed (Revelation 21:25), but the dogs will be kept out (Revelation 22:15), we will be free to come and go as we desire and our coming and going will delight the LORD because we do.
Think of it like this:
The Great and Mighty God, the Creator of the Universe, has given us the permission to, not just come, but come boldly, into his throne-room any ol’ time we feel the need to do so (Hebrews 4:16). What an amazing honor not granted to the Christless masses! But one day of the week he goes even further; He EXPECTS us to come! He has re-arranged his weekly schedule and made it a priority to spend the day with us! IF we don’t show up it is an actual disappointment to Him. We are that loved!
But a self-focused heart begins to see this privileged special day with The Creator, as an obligation from an oppressor. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! But once our perception sees it as such, what can the LORD do to change that but tell us;
“Don’t worry about it, you don’t have to come.”
The Law was never intended to be an oppression (Psalm 119:142-143, Isaiah 51:7-8). But having picked up an unwanted wild child as his bride (Isaiah 54:6, Ezekiel 16:1-6) the LORD established some early guidelines to help us comprehend the nature, character, honor, and greatness of the LORD by whom we are loved and whom we loved in return for rescuing us. What happened to that?
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?” Jeremiah 3:4 (Isaiah 54:6).
Forgetting our wonderful past with Him, we became self-focused and willful, and so every helpful correction was then seen as more oppression.
“And I (God) said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me (3:1). But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also” Jeremiah 3:7-8.
“…I (God) am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols:…” Ezekiel 6:9.
Yah, That jealous husband attitude of God is so oppressively unfair!~
“In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction; your own sword hath devoured your prophets (of helpful correction)…” Jeremiah 2:30.
So God advanced the tactics in his ever-progressing road of liberation, that, like the hands of time, continue forward whether we are ready or not:
“For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee” Isaiah 54:7-9 (continue through 10).
“For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off” Isaiah 48:9.
God was done chastising them for their errors; from their perspective it simply didn’t work with them anyway, because they didn’t understand God’s perspective and purpose:
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction” Isaiah 48:10
(see v.11 for an important justification we will discuss later).
But as teenagers having stubbornly rejected Dad’s “harsh treatment” at home, there was another factor now to help them get it figured out:
“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts” Jeremiah 2:19.
“Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart” Jeremiah 4:18.
I struggle to resist taking this onto an entirely different trail (Jeremiah 4:10), but to maintain the train of thought; this change in program is as after “the third day” we discussed recently. The past sorrows were corrective chastisements from God for ignorantly wrong conduct, but now present sorrows are simply the results of our own error. The difference is found in our maturity; just as a child once spanked at home but uncorrected, now faces lumps in life simply as natural results of his willful misconduct. With greater liberation comes more direct accountability.
So now let’s get back on topic.
(*5) “A government of laws, and not of men.”
John Adams (1735-1826), American lawyer, politician and 2nd President of the United States, in his 7th “Novanglus” letter, published in the Boston Gazette 1774.
A Nation of Laws, Not Men:
“… It looks like a virus is spreading among public officials creating delusions that any one of them may unilaterally decide a law is unconstitutional and decline to follow the law or defend it in court. Setting aside for a moment the same sex marriage context of these actions—we could be talking about environmental laws or gun control or taxes—is it really the case that a single federal, state, or county official is free to make a judgment about the constitutionality of a law and decline to execute, enforce, or defend it? Are we no longer what founder (and second president) John Adams called “a nation of laws and not of men”?” - Posted Sept. 2, 2013 Defining Ideas A Hoover Institution Journal David Davenport (http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/155081) accessed Nov. 3, 2013.
The whole article is well worth reading to grasp the importance of this concept.
(*6) North Korea:
I cannot find a single scriptural prophecy that explains why North Korea is the number 1 most dangerous place in the world for a Christian to live. It has been for quite some time according to Open Doors.org (http://www.opendoors.org/)-(http://www.worldwatchlist.us/world-watch-list-countries/). So IF there is no “bigger picture” reason for the suffering, like there is in Muslim controlled countries, then we have all reason to expect we can simply pray God’s aid in removing the single man, who as a grandson demands to be worshipped as god, and thereby diminish their suffering (Exodus 20:4-5). Exactly how the events might play out is up for exploration (Acts 12:21-23), but WE HAVE ACCESS TO ALL POWER through Christ! (Matthew 28:18+ John 17:2+ II Peter 1:3= John 16:23-24). Therefore, being that there is no prophetic reason for the darkness to continue there, the reason why North Korea is in the demonic state that it is because Christians are not using our power as the representatives of Christ and his kingdom on earth the way we are supposed to. North Korea is just waiting for us to seriously appeal to God on their behalf! It is a great uncomplicated test area to develop a useful faith. Will you at least ask God if he agrees?
[*7] Update: November 12, 2013
This morning it is reported on BBC News that; “Good Morning America’s Amy Robarch found she had breast cancer while filming a report for the show.” “The 40-year-old correspondent discovered she had breast cancer after reluctantly agreeing to have a screening filmed for the ABC show. She said GMA anchor Robin Roberts had persuaded her that if the story saved one life, it would be worth it. ‘It never occurred to me that life would be mine,’ said Robach.” - BBC News 11/12/13(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24900299).
Make no mistake: my argument is not here decrying breast cancer screening. But being emotionally separate from this story as a man; Something doesn’t smell right (read; Abominable). And here is my point:
• This above average beautiful and public leading woman is the perfect age that the breast-screening program declares is a landmark for needing regular screening to catch this cancer.
• She is encouraged by the show’s people to make a story of it “for the sake of the people,” it’s just fortunate for the show’s ratings that this event should bring in a large number of viewers.
• Then after a very successful and surprisingly “not very painful” screening that encourages millions of women to do the same, this woman’s now public-screening reveals that ‘Yes; she has breast cancer, but the screening saved her life’.
• She is very happy. The show is very happy. The screening program is very happy. The cutting doctors are very happy, and the reconstruction doctors are very happy. The implant manufacturers are very happy. And the millions of viewers are very happy. This is a grand-slam victory; EVERYONE IS VERY HAPPY!
Everyone but me. I have a man’s skeptical sneaking notion that one day it will be revealed that she didn’t actually have cancer, 'it was all an unfortunate error in the analysis process'.
But who really cares? If everyone is happy by the emotionally charged outcome of relief and happiness, does it really matter about the truth? So what if she really didn’t have cancer, it turned out to be very beneficial for the entire screening of America’s women… and if one life can be saved by it, it’s worth it!
Am I suggesting that this is a grand conspiracy to get this woman to lop off her breasts?
“Thou shalt… pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD” Ezekiel 23:34, (see also Ezekiel 23:3,8 for a version of even earlier-screening learned from the abusers/(money mongers).
Yes and No; I don’t think this is actually a knowledgeable conspiracy, and not against her specifically but all women in general. If my hunch is correct, she was just used as a tool to that end. How do I figure? What makes me skeptical of this event? The scripture tells us:
“For the love of money is the root of all evil…” I Timothy 6:10a.
So as a man of God, thinking with my stable reason, I have to ask: “Who profits from this particular result?” The answer is that beyond the benefit to the TV program, billions of dollars are made in the breast cancer industry, and this result will bring in millions more. So here is where we need to use great caution before we just believe them. Here is my logical next response to address the possibility of a fabrication for profit: Get a second, unbiased opinion.
That’s it. That’s all I suggest. Maybe she really does have cancer, but the circumstances smell fishy.
But what do I know; I’m just a man, trying to offer a woman protection from a vow made driven by emotionalism.
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