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NOV 17, 2025:  JUST IN CASE    Just in case anyone is wondering, here is one description of the God I trust.  It is found in Genesis Chapter 15.  There my God cut a full Blood Covenant with Abram and his descendants.

That Covenant was serious enough that Christ as a flaming torch
    stood in for the sleeping Abram to cut that Covenant with the Father.
God took it so serious that He forever after had a new Name,
    “The God of Abraham,” that is used 17 times in the Bible.
God judged Pharaoh for not letting His people go.
God re-cut that Covenant with all of Israel;
    the children of Israel are His people.
It is His children that the corrupt eat like bread, He differentiates.
Through that Covenant, God gains access to the Dominion
    He irrevocably gave to man and would not take back.
    God is not into do-overs, but redeeming.
Through that Covenant, God gained from Abraham the right to
    sacrifice His Son for Abraham and his descendants, “because”
    Abraham sacrificed his son Isaac for God.  Genesis Chapter 22

That Blood Covenant was also the focal point of the cost God was willing to pay to have us as His own:
    The loss of His favorite Archon, who we call Satan
    The loss of 1/3rd of the angels who rebelled and followed Satan
    The pain to the 2/3rd faithful angels in the resulting War
    Taking the ridicule of Satan and his fallen angels:
        you are wrong, you should stick with the spiritual realm,
        you should NOT put spiritual beings in physical bodies,
        you….
    The long wait as He builds the body of Christ around Jesus-Christ.
        “awake not love till it is time” in the Song of Solomon
    Having to destroy and start over about 500 years after
        the sons of god lay with the daughters of men.
    The ultimate pain of His Son on that cross.

God could see over the horizon to many of us STILL rejecting Him, but He cut that Covenant anyways.  That Blood Covenant is nothing less than God putting everything on the line for the start of Israel, and the very root of what would become Christianity.

“BECAUSE you have done this…” sounds beautiful to me.

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NOV 10, 2025:  HUSHED UP    Relationships falter when the hard things are ignored and/or hushed up.  Abuse, rape, sins against others, pains, wounds, and deep hurts done to you by others.  It doesn’t matter to much what it is.  The things you hide, the things you bury, form ground too soft to stand on; they eventually also bury parts of you.  Things not dealt with, slowly fester and poison you from the inside out.  It spreads.  Even to others.  Especially to mates.

So, what are your options?  Become bitter with blame of someone or something?  Cover it with jokes, laughter, and triviality?  How about covering the pain with alcohol, drugs, the high of gambling, or whatever?  Denial, of course everything is fine?  Spending hundreds of hours (this one can at least help a little bit) and thousands of dollars to help some psychologist buy a new boat?  Substitute by putting every ounce of your energy towards some cause that covers pain?  None of those appeal to me AT ALL!

The only option that really works is honestly taking the very worst of it to the Lord to forgive and heal.  Remember, He was there with you when it happened.

Opening a deep wound all the way to the bottom really hurts,
but the Lord will be there to feel it with you, take the worst if it,
then heal you from the inside out.

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NOV 3, 2025:  A DREAM    It seems there is a pattern some people follow.  They have a dream, a vision, an idea of something they could do or be.  They go for it at all costs.  Their drive and enthusiasm may be amazing.  But somehow, I do not pretend to understand how, for some it is in their way and not quite God's way.  The pattern I see is that often God out of love, NOT AT ALL OUT OF VINDICTIVENESS, has their dream hit a wall.  I think God loves them enough to stop what He sees will cause even more pain or damage down the road if He doesn’t step in.

The dream may be a good one, but just not (and here comes a very dirty word) submitted to God so as to have it come to fruition His way.  Or God may have a different, long range better, vision for what He sees them needing...

At 82 years old, here is my definition of real success.  When I or anyone does, learns, or experiences what the Lord sent us here to learn or do.  Here are some very real examples:

Jesus, to learn the cost of obedience;
Ruth, trusting enough to say, “where you go I will go”;
Saul, you are assigned to destroy the Amalekites;
or Esther made Queen "for such a time as this."
 

The best Dream is His Vision for you.

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OCT 27, 2025:  UNDER YOUR NOSE    Romans 1:18-22  "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.  So they are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man….”

What is God’s Image?  What did He want to show us about His divine nature?  What did He make since the creation of the world?  What was then available to look at prior to being able to look at Christ?  What is still available to look at?

Read Genesis 2:18-25 as if it is not JUST a story of Adam and Eve, but ALSO an allegory, a parable, containing the very Image of what the Father has the divine intention of doing with us since the Christ was begotten!  Right under our nose!  And found nowhere else in the Bible with that fullness!

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OCT 20, 2025:  AGAIN, IS GOD RIGHT?    As one reads the Bible, they find abortion is murder (oh, and the USA has committed about 63,000,000 of them), you shall pay a life for a life!  They find if a man lies with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination to God!  They find that if a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.  And of course there is more.  Now, is the Father still RIGHT?  Or is Satan’s woke, list of human rights to do your own thing, right?  There really IS NO FENCE to sit on!

Some Christians want to say nothing political, but guess what?  Satan has corrupted the very Platform of one of our political parties, and a critical number of its leaders!  He has made this not about secular politics, but literally a war for the very soul of this country based on the human "right" to ignore what God says is WRONG!  Satan wants us as a country to become so corrupt with exactly what God specifically hates, that God HAS to judge us.  If Christians keep their mouths shut about politics, Satan will win to the extent that destruction WILL come.  And saying only, “Well, God can do anything He wants” is one of the most Satanic, foul, Calvinistic, cop-out, half-lies that I can think of.

In like manner a Pastor preaching only compassion and love (that love must not mean tolerance to sin), may not be exactly wrong, but certainly is out of balance.  The Father wants us to grow up at least a little bit, to participate with Him exactly like Israel did in the book of Judges, to demonstrate we agree with Him, to have some skin in the game!  Not to fight the whole battle (we were not meant to), but certainly NOT to contribute to our judgement with our silence!!!!

Now, who do you serve?
The lie?    Or the living God?
How do you serve?    By quietly hiding in the corner?
Or by doing the little things the Lord specifically tells you?

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OCT 13, 2025:  IS GOD RIGHT?    As one reads the Bible, they find abortion is murder (oh, and the USA has committed about 63,000,000 of them), you shall pay a life for a life!  They find if a man lies with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination to God!  They find that if a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.  And of course there is more.  Now, is the Father RIGHT?  Or is Satan’s woke, human rights to do your own thing, right?  There IS NO FENCE to sit on!  Be compassionate, be loving (that does not mean tolerance to sin), but is God RIGHT or not?  Now is exactly when you must decide.

Some Christians want to say nothing political, but guess what?  Satan has corrupted the very Platform of one of our political parties, and a critical number of its leaders!  He has made this not about secular politics, but literally a war for the very soul of this country based on the human "right" to ignore what God says is WRONG!  Satan wants us as a country to become so corrupt with exactly what God specifically hates, that God HAS to judge us.  If Christians keep their mouths shut about politics, Satan will win to the extent that destruction WILL come.  And saying only, “Well, God can do anything He wants” is one of the most Satanic, foul, Calvinistic, cop-out, half-lies that I can think of.

The Father wants us to grow up at least a little bit, to participate with Him exactly like Israel did in the book of Judges, to demonstrate we agree with Him, to have some skin in the game!  Not to fight the whole battle, but certainly NOT to contribute to our judgement with your silence!!!!

Now, who do you serve?
The lie?    Or the living God?

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OCT 6, 2025:  SUBTLETY    One last subtlety caused by the rejection of all things Jewish by the Greek thinking church fathers in about 200 AD; that rejection makes it MUCH easier to forget why the Bible (especially Genesis) was written!  Hmmm?  Do you remember why?

It was God giving His baby nation the understanding He wanted them to have about: who they were; how they stood with God; how they got where they were; AND what He wanted Israel to think about the stories and mythology that surrounded them!  If you forget that, you are very likely to misunderstand AND misinterpret stories that were specifically designed to address, or put God’s twist on, the pagan accounts and mythologies that surrounded the baby nation of Israel!  Creation of the earth; creation of man; the flood; long lived Babylonian Kings; the natural phenomenon associated with the Exodus; and more!  I see way too many people arguing about what they think are the details of creation when they have no clue WHY God had it recorded exactly the way He did!

And people seem to choose to forget there are five very different creation accounts in the Bible!!  Each with a different purpose!!!  I can almost hear God say,

My people perish with much less knowledge than I provide

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SEP 29, 2025:  NAILS IN THE COFFIN    As a quick summation: by about 200 AD we have Greek thinking church fathers; located in Rome and elsewhere; and separated from Jesus’ Jewish roots by bad feelings.  To that we now pound two nails in the coffin.  (And what's in the coffin?  A clear understanding of Jesus’ and any Christian’s Jewish roots.)

The first nail is a huge animosity.  It seems those early church fathers then developed a “distaste” for all things Jewish (after all “those Jews” did reject and kill our Savior).  And why is that a major problem?  They thereby cut themselves off from 2000 years of experience, tradition, and oral knowledge of Blood Covenant, living with and under Covenant, tithing, food sacrifices, and the action associate with almost every foot of Israel, which just about any 14 year old could have easily rattled off.  Then they filled the void with Greek religiosity.

And just in case you think this shallow, un-Christ-like rejection by the Greek fathers, wasn’t serious, I would remind you, the resulting Satan fueled hatred was so strongly embedded in the church that Martin Luther in his 1543 “On the Jews and Their Lies” still wrote of killing Rabbis and burning down Jewish schools and synagogues.  People, it was not until March 18, 1965 that the Catholic Church first forgave the Jews as not being wholly involved in killing Christ.  Hatred of Jews is still alive, and strongly encouraged by Satan!

The second nail?  That Greek thought pattern is NOT the basic thought pattern used by God to record the Bible!  (See my June 23 BLOG.)  And it doesn’t seem to matter too much which author God used, or which language it was recorded in at any particular era, the message was specifically tuned to His new nation Israel, and its thinking was: concrete; pictorial; story telling; never giving a concept important to God in one short three verse Pauline lump but always a little in one story and a little more worked out in a whole different story.  You LITERALLY need the WHOLE Bible to get the WHOLE counsel of God!  The present day use of three Pauline verses to “prove” anything winds up proving much much less than the experts lead you to think.

The Coffin lid can’t come off 
if you refuse to admit it is on.

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SEP 22, 2025:  SETTING THE STAGE    The first 500,000 to perhaps close to a million believers that Yahshua was the Messiah were Jewish!  That means that automatically the vast majority understood Jewish concrete thought, the ins and outs of Blood Covenant, and the Law and the Prophets better than the average USA pastor.  The average adult in Jesus’ day almost automatically knew things like why the Pharisees got mad when Jesus said “You must eat of me,” knowledge we today have lost.  So, what happened?

Dozens of things!  Roman persecution of the Jews became “popular”; Jerusalem fell in 70 AD; Masada fell in 73 AD; there were numerous diasporas; and Rome did what it could to tick the Jews off (for example, in about 130 AD the Emperor Hadrian renamed Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, and Israel was renamed Syria Palaestina).

In about 132 AD Rabbi Akiba declared Simon Bar Kokhba to be the Messiah to rally Jews in a last-ditch effort to fight Rome.  Most Jewish believers were more than willing to fight for Israel with their brothers, BUT NOT UNDER THE BANNER OF A FAKE MESSIAH!  The result was bad feelings, words of “traitor,” a split between Jews.

To keep this short, the Romans had conquered the Greeks, but the Greek language and patterns of though conquered the Romans.  That Greek thought pattern is abstract, word definitions, linear, one dimensional, one directional, and twelve rules for logical debate.  The Western World is still mostly Greek thinking thanks to Rome!  Any discussions that do not conform to these Greek criteria were and still are naturally viewed as inferior.  Paul ran into this in Acts 17:32 in Athens where they shut him down because per their thinking, he missed a step or two in logic when referring to the resurrection!

Nails in the coffin, next week.

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SEP 15, 2025:  PAUL'S ADD ON    Okay, Paul the used car salesman has sold someone into the “Sinner, Repent, Accept, Jesus, Forgiveness” with power windows and air conditioning.  And he did it without even mentioning Blood Covenant or Covenant terms.  That person had been given the truth, and they were in about the same position as people today in churches that don’t go much beyond salvation!

So, what did Paul do to add maturity to those saved baby believers?  He made sure they were discipled!  He added more Jesus flavored teaching to the sales pitch he had tuned for Gentiles!  You think I’m kidding?

Antioch:    a whole year they met with the church and taught
Lystra & Derbe:    appointed elders for them in every church
Philippi:    turmoil, but saw the brothers left behind to teach
Athens, Greece:    he spent three months
Corinth:    stayed a year and six months
Ephasus:    stayed three years
Thessalonica:    but Silas and Timothy remained there
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Add to this, his letters which were shared and passed around.  There was a definite message shift to how to live together and what living in a relationship with Christ was all about, but ALL without using the words “Blood Covenant” once, except to quote Jesus at the Passover meal in 1 Corinthians 11:25.  (The book of Hebrews, probably not by Paul, does have covenant references, but it is to a Jewish Christian audience, under persecution, wavering in their faith, about the pattern and doings of God’s priests, the progression towards a new covenant in Jesus, and that Christ can be trusted as you go through nasty stuff.)

Where does ALL this leave today’s Christian?  Saved.  Perhaps being groomed to become another used car salesman.  With what Jesus taught plus most of Paul’s backup material right in our hands.  But with a scary percentage of pastors specifically trained to substitute Greek logic for concrete Jewish flavored roots.

SO NEAR,  YET SO FAR.

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SEP 8, 2025:  WORKS    Paul's gospel is different than what Jesus taught simply because it is to a multitude of different cultures who have NOT had the benefit of living under a Blood Covenant with God for 2000 years!  They were even more into "works religions" than some of the Jews who had slipped into that thinking.  They were indoctrinated by their gods and their priests to work, bribe, placate, cajole, plead, earn, and bargain, with a multitude of prideful, capricious, petty, bickering, even warring gods.  So, Paul has to talk these people into their need to trust, flow, yield, and accept Christ's provision without works.  For their benefit works and a few other things had to initially be carefully understated!

Today this anti-works message has become so ingrained in Christianity that the majority of people have forgotten why it was necessary.  They tend to forget that Salvation really is based on Blood Covenant, and they forget that ALL of God’s Covenants contain “terms” and “but if” clauses!!!  In their forgetfulness (of how “doing to become” is a necessary part of the Covenant that is at the root of their relationship with Christ), some Christians have even come to dislike the book of James — because it sounds like works!  That says that over the centuries WE HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG!

James, brother of Jesus, was the first leader
of the church in Jerusalem.  Listen to him.
Read his book!

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SEP 1, 2025:  PAUL’S GOSPEL    Okay, basic Bible message to God’s Covenant people: Fear and Do.  Jesus’ basic Rabbi School message to the Disciples who would then spread it to the rest of God’s Covenant people: Your “Fear and Do” Father God accepts you, loves you, is filling His promises to you, and I’m here to prove it.  Paul’s message to a Gentile, non-covenant, idol worshiping people: well, that is a whole other story.

Paul’s audience was very diverse and taught by gods and priests to work, bride, placate, cajole, beg, plead, and pay for favors from petty, bickering, warring, capricious, prideful gods.  Oy vay!   Plus, they did NOT have 2000 years of living as a Covenant people under their belt!!!  So, Paul HAD TO modify his message and very carefully de-emphasize “works.”  (PLEASE remember why he had to do it when you hear someone today preaching against ANY and ALL works.  They are half wrong to start with.)  Paul’s resulting initial message to Gentiles, taken from a list of 23 scriptures, should sound very familiar:

- You are Sinners
- Repent, agree with God
- Accept Jesus suffered and died for you
- He was without sin, so qualified
- Jesus rose from dead, as proof
- Jesus rose from dead, as first fruit
- Jesus made King and Lord
- Born again in Him
- Be Baptized
- Receive Gift of the Holy Spirit
- Will be an eternal judgement

This has a whole different “feel” to it than what Jesus specifically taught.  It is almost as if Paul is a spectacular used car salesman, selling Jesus as a Bride Groom who loves you so much that He died to pay off your debt in order to have you as a bride.  Such a deal!  It comes with AC!  Power windows!  And it carries an eternal warranty!  He led people into a trusting, covenant, relationship with Christ without using the word “covenant” and really soft pedaled the “do” or “but if” terms of the Covenant.

This "gospel” unfortunately makes over emphasizing, or rejecting, different parts of the list above by different groups, cultures, or denominations way too easy.  But Paul had several ways to correct that (which we don't seem to use properly today).  We will talk about that addendum to his car salesman pitch soon, but for now —

— Paul did not teach the Jesus Rabbi School message.

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AUG 25, 2025:  JESUS' GOSPEL    If the base line message of the Bible is “Fear (good kind) and Do” then I can start looking at the specifics of what Jesus taught to see, like Peter clearly saw, if it matches.  Does his good news, his “proclamation of liberty” match what the Father wants?  A search of the four Gospels yields an amazing 70 or so “do” or “do not” type verses!  I can post the list if anyone wants.  Typical is Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.”  And it is implanted, as again seems typical, in a section that relates the doing or not doing to: the Father’s awareness; the Father’s concern; and the Father’s provision.

Here is one picked at random from the 70, Luke 14:13 “When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind.”  It is tied to being repaid at the resurrection of the just, with the implication that the Father is aware, and the Father will repay.

Here is another one picked at random, Mark 1:17 “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”  Not much there, and before Jesus Rabbi College started, but random pick it is.  It does lead shortly to, “I know who you are—the Holy One of God" which absolutely points to the Father and the coming fulfillment of His promises.

Please read the Gospels through for yourselves, but here is how I summarize Jesus message to those in the Abrahamic Covenant.  Trust in the Father's Covenant provision and acceptance, and live per the terms of that Covenant.  He loves you.  He wants you.  And I’m here to prove it.  It is NOT about works, but relationship.

Yup, that matches what the Father wants.

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AUG 18, 2025:  FEAR AND DO    Let me take a look at the following four verses that tell us what God desires of us.  There seems to be a similarity in their simplicity.  1. Deuteronomy 10:12 gives Israel the simple command to “fear and walk.”  2. Ecclesiastes 12:13 gives us all the summation, "fear God and keep,” as the whole duty of man.  To keep, or to walk, are both referring to the terms of God’s Covenant with Israel.  They are a doing to become, a doing of relationship.

The third verse is Acts 10:34,35 where Peter inadvertently substantiates that his understanding of Jesus's teaching IS consistent with that basic Bible message, except now applied beyond just the Jews.  Peter says, "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him."  There is that same fear and do pair again, from Peter who heard Jesus first hand for three years!

The fourth one, Revelation 14:6,7 still defines the eternal message as that same, "Fear God and give Him glory."  In all cases the "fear" is a respect, an awe, a looking up to; and glorify is initially defined in the Bible as agreeing with God, or showing that He is RIGHT! which is best demonstrated by “doing.”  The whole of the Bible indicates that the law and commandments are NOT just legalisms, and certainly NOT works you do to earn Brownie-points, BUT doing, walking, and living per the spirit behind the terms of Israel's covenant with the “God of Abraham” (that is THE Covenant name He took and still proudly wears. It is that important to Him!).  Doesn't sound exactly Pauline, does it?  But there it is, from beginning to end . . .

You ignore "fear and do" at the risk of totally
misunderstanding God and Christianity!

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