Crushing Devils

The secret to lasting Happiness, Fulfillment and Peace among Human

2011-06-01T16:19:00.000-07:00

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Genesis is the single most important book in the bible, as it relates to the well being of the family and harmony in society. For within the pages of the book of Genesis are outlined the characteristics needed for happiness, fulfillment and lasting peace among human kind.

I know you may be asking yourself, what is he speaking about? You have read Genesis several times and you did not make such discoveries. Your experience does not mean that the information is not there.

We will have to go through the first few chapter of Genesis in order to seek the relevant explanation for what I am speaking of.

But before we do so, it is important for us to acknowledge, the devil do not want Yahweh’s children to experience, lasting happiness, fulfillment and peace among human. It is for this reason, the hater of Yahweh’s children has employed all within his power, to ensure, us human; rebel against Yahweh’s will and design for our life.

For thousand of years the Devil has invested his time, power and resources to ensure man’s heart is turned from his creator, thus ignoring Yahweh’s plans for him and his family and by extension, the destruction of every institution and core-relationship Yahweh instituted and or created.

It is interesting, in the creation story, lies some of the simplest but most profound of truth as it relates to the wellbeing of the family, successful marriage and the stability of society. Although everyone is banging their heads against a brick wall trying to come up with solution to solve these devastating problems that currently plagues our world today, the answers are sitting in the pages of the bible and in the book of genesis. Although it does not take much to achieve these well sought after objectives; we are of the misguided concept, it takes to much of a sacrifice, to apply these simple principles to our daily routine.

Lets take a look at the relationships and institution that Yahweh had created to aid in our happiness and how the devil has cause us human to turn away from such. Now we practice that which is total opposite to that which Yahweh’ had instituted. Below are the institutions and relationships the Devil has corrupt and distort, which holds the key to solving all of our problems.

The Sabbath in Genesis 2: 2-3
The structure of the family Genesis 2:18, 21-23
Mans role on the earth Genesis 2
Intimate relationship between the genders 18, 23
Marriage 18, 23

It will be nice, if you can read the first three chapters of the book of Genisis and try to make the application; however, I will take some time to deal with each of these topic individually.

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The Beginning of Sin

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The Reason for Easter

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The Earth The Universe Where Did It Came From

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Nature, Humanity and Homosexuality

2011-01-16T14:31:00.000-08:00

Homosexuality, is one of the most defile indulgences that is practiced in civil society. It is so for several reasons, which are: it goes contrary to the laws of nature, against human sexuality, against Yahweh’s word/law, and because it is not practice naturally by the animal kingdom: those creatures that are considered to be, less intelligent than us human. However; there are some who are now teaching, the lower members of the animal kingdom to indulge in homosexual acts.

Unlike humans, who are plagued with the adoption of habits that follows families for generation and thus cast a blight or bless families with the habits that constituted a family traditions and cycles. However; it is not so with members of the animal kingdom. The offspring are not affected by the habit of the parents or the customs of the pack, flock, school etc. but they adopt their habits base on their survival needs.

For example a child of a thief, will learn from his parents, the skills and temperament of a thief; he will learn such subliminally and otherwise and therefore, if there isn’t the appropriate, timely and serious intervention that child may become a career or habitual thief. If a domestic dog was taught by its owner, how to steal; that dog will apply that which it was taught, for to do otherwise will impact its treatment by the owner; and by extension, its survival. In other words; it will impact or threatens the dog’s survival so he complies. There is not a chance that pups born to that dog will ever pick up the ability to steal, becomes aggressive, or any other habits because its parent (s) had those traits. However; if condition merits, the dog steals to survive, then it will; never because it learn the traits from its parents.

It is safe to say, we as earthly creatures, with the highest level of intelligence there is, have managed to turn the gift of higher senses, understanding, knowledge, perception and communication into a curse. This is evident, in the way we destroy the society and community in which we live; in the way we make a mess of our marriages and family, the way we nurture our children into becoming such terrible people etc.

Human uses their intelligence to destroy themselves, their society, the other creatures that shares the earth with us as well as earth; by moving away from the things that are natural, violating the laws of nature and ignoring the laws and other instructions of Yahweh: The creator of man and everything that exist, had prescribed for us to live sound, healthy and spiritual lives.

While human with his intelligence defies nature, and rejects the way of the creator; yet members of the animal kingdom through instinct, continue to follow the instruction of their creator and the laws of nature.

Lets take a look at a pack of lions, you will noticed that the roles of the gender are still the same, the manner in which they operate and live are as Yahweh have ordained it. The birds still fly south and the beers still hibernates in the winter; the monkeys still lives in trees and they still socializes and nurture their young as nature requires and Yahweh commanded. There is one thing that is common among animals; wile and domesticated, which is: their manner and purpose of mating has not changes.

There reason for mating is for procreation, the time and manner in which it is done, remains the same. It is important to note; intercourse does not take place outside its season and or at the correct times; for them mating is not about pleasure but to preserve the species. It is also important that I point out, the manner for mating is still the same; the male has intercourse only with the female and the female has intercourse only with the male.

So why have human strayed so far from the laws of nature and the laws of his creator?

Among the religious community it is believed the deterioration the human kind is experiencing, is as a results of sin; while the average person rationalized and concludes the reason can be attributed to things such as greed, the love for power, lust of the flesh, hate etc. whatever the reason you attributes to the demise of the human species to; there is one thing we all can agree on is; the Human Species is in a free fall and it seems there is nothing to reduced the speed at which we are falling; to stop or to break our fall. In other words, we are plunging to our own destruction.

You may ask, where homosexuality came from.

From my knowledge, the first mention of homosexuality is found in the book of Leviticus 18:22; Yahweh informed his people and later in Leviticus 20: 13; he reminded his chosen people the Israelites that it is an abomination for a man to lie with man as he does with a woman. Later in the bible we learn that the city of Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed because the sins of the people of Sodom, which was mainly sins of homosexuality was so wide spread and offended the awesome, righteous, perfect and holy creator God.

I do not know what was the reason for such practice in ancient time, but it is believe that the Greeks and the Romans hold fast to the concept that when a man have sex with another man, he actually took that man's power; therefore, the victim became subject to the aggressor. As a result, it was the objective of men of means and power to have sexual intercourse with as many men as possible; thus maintaining a high standing, on the social, economical, and religious ladder.

It was also believed that little boys and young men will one day grow up to be men of means, prestige and power. Whoever violates that little boy or young man will be elevated above whatever pinnacle that person attained. So the rape and sexual exploitation of little boys and young men were widely practiced.

Like any raped victim or victim of sexual abuse, their abusers or rapist holds a manipulative control over his or her victims; a control that has fear of exposure of the shame that is associated with his or her violation; thus the victims become subliminally, and otherwise subjected to the abuser. It becomes almost impossible for the victims or abuse person to refuse granting a favor or request of his abuser; even a request for sex.

This is why Yahweh prescribes death to anyone who participate in homosexuality, because in doing so they become subject to a control that should only be held by Yahweh. It makes it almost impossible, for the victims to every serve Yahweh in the manner in which he should be served: as Creator God. It must also be known' most victims go on to create sexual victims of there own and such, may mark the beginning, of a vicious cycle. A cycle that can eventually contaminate an entire generation as what happens in Sodom and Gomorrah. So when Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and all that moved in that city by fire, he was just executing the punishment that was the consequence of their homosexuality as was outlined in Yahweh's words in Leviticus.

The Creation of The Woman

2011-01-08T07:27:00.000-08:00

Before you attempt to read this article, you need to answer a few questions; you are not answering these questions for me but for your soul’s salvation. It is important that you answer these questions intelligently and honestly. Below are the questions I suggest you should answer before continuing this article.

• Do you believe Yahweh to be, the creator of the Universe and everything in it?

• Do you believe Yahweh is perfect, Righteous and Just in all of his actions?

• Do you believe that Yahweh has the right to do with his creatures whatever he wishes?

• Do you believe that whatever Yahweh did for us or decides to do with us, to us, for us and through us will be in our best interest?

• Do you believe that Yahweh has the right to justly destroy all of humanity if he so pleases?

• Do you believe and accept the bible to be the expressed word of Yahweh?

• Do you believe that there is nothing recorded in the Holy Bible that Yahweh did not want recorded there?

• According to the story that is recorded in the bible, which addressed the un-sanctified activities of the devil in Heaven; do you think the Devil was out of his place for aspiring to and for taking action to be like his creator?

• Do you think the manner in which Yahweh's dealt with Lucifer (Devil) was Justify?

Now that you have answered the above questions, you can read on.

The Bible has only one authority, which is Elshaddi; the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost. Within this trinity there is an organizational structure, with Yahweh as the supreme of the three, Jesus the son of Yahweh and the Holy Spirit which is the Spirit of Yahweh. Although each member of the God Head has different assignment/responsibilities they are the same in objective: which is to bring unending fulfillment and joy to all of Yahweh’s created beings.

Is Yahweh a chauvinistic God?

Although the plan of salvation is free, each person must; (for themselves) make a decision whether they want salvation or not, then they are required to accept the priceless gift which is without cost. A sign that one has accepted Yahshua’s (Jesus’) gift of salvation is their obedience to his father; Yahweh’s words. We must also come to an understanding that everything Yahweh, his son Jesus, the Holy Spirit and or the Angels ever did and or said, will ever do and or say were/are deliberate and is only a very minute part of a colossal, detail and complicated master plan that has universal implication.

Let us take a walk through the bible, the word of Yahweh and see the significant and the roles of the genders, as was planned by Yahweh. What better place to start than the book of the Beginning Genesis: Let us begin with Genesis 1: which give a synopsis of the whole creation leaving out the lengthy detail of what actually took place. In Genesis 1: 26; Elshaddi said, "Let us make man in our own image and give 'THEN' dominion over all the earth." This statement by itself can give the impression that the man and the woman are equal and therefore had equal responsibility, but this is not so. Hence the reason Yahweh took the time in Chapter 2 of Genesis to go into some details as to what actually took place and in doing do actually define the roles and the importance of the genders in the whole scheme of things.

Let us take a look at this. In Genesis Chapter 2: 15. “And the Lord took the man and put him in the Garden which was located east of Eden, which is by name the Garden of Eden. In the summery of creation on the earth as is stated in Gen. 1:26 Yahweh use the *plural pronoun “THEM” to qualify his overall plan for human kind as it related to Yahweh’s earthly creation. They (human Kind) were to be in charge of Yahweh’s creation. But in Gen.2: Yahweh used the definite pronoun “THE” man in speaking of Adam. Let us take some time to reexamine some interesting facts about the Creation that you are aware of and put them in their right prospective.

Yahweh develops a relationship with “THE MAN.”

Yahweh took the time to give “THE” man or the first man the opportunity to develop a one on one relationship with him. This was to prepare the first man for his God appointed responsibilities. Adam was to be responsible for the Earth and its inhabitants and accountable to Yahweh. In order for the first man: Adam, to be able to execute his sacred obligation as Yahweh would have him; Adam needed to know who his creator was; what the benefits of loyalty to his creator were, what the expectations were, and what were the benefits to be derived from the relationship.

This was accomplished in several ways.

• Although man did not witness the awesome creative wonder of Yahweh, he saw the Great God of the Universe at work. Gen. 2: 8 for after man was created Yahweh planted a garden east of Eden. The woman was not yet created.

• Yahweh took time to relocate the man from where he was created: Eden, to the Garden which Yahweh had planted East of Eden. The woman was not yet created.

• Yahweh told the man what are his limitation within the Garden; which was to eat of every tree of the Garden except for the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil. The woman was not yet created.

• Then came, man’s first assignment, which is recorded in Gen.2 19-22; Yahweh brought every created thing to Adam (the First man) to see what he will call them. One by one Yahweh introduced his creatures into The Garden of Eden, Adam’s new home. Here Adam was blessed with the privilege of naming every living thing that Yahweh created. The Woman was not yet created.

• After Yahweh had formulated a relationship with the first man: Adam, then the woman was created and Adam also had the privilege of naming, even the woman as is outlined in Genesis 2:23; and Adam said this is bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken from man.

There are two things I will like to make note of:

• From the account of what took place the woman was the last of Yahweh’s creation and she was the only being that was not created in Eden but was created in the Garden that was planted east of Eden.

• Every creature including the man bore witness to the creation of the woman.

• Let us move over to Genesis 3: and there is recorded the fall of man. It took but a moments for woman committed spiritual suicide, not satisfied with destroying herself she then teamed up with the devil to destroy the remainder of Yahweh’s earthly creation. She brought corruption and death to every tree every beast of the field but most of all man. Now because of the deceptive action of the woman; every man and creature that entered into this sin cursed earth are doomed to suffer the plague that is associated with sin. With one decision, the woman destroyed the perfect Earth that Elshaddi had spent seven days creating.

• Of all the created being the woman was the youngest, she had the lease experience and therefore she knew Yahweh the lease; yet, she took it on herself, without counsel from Yahweh and or the man to make the biggest decision that could have been made.

From that day, the woman believes she has the rights and dominion over the earth and over man. It is important to note, even after sin, Yahweh did not reverse the roles of the genders. It is unfortunate that after Adam's mistake, Man have not, in their own life, correct the mistake/wrong that Adam made/committed; but rather' choose to remain in his self imposed weakness, by not using his God given wisdom and spirit of discernment: but chooses not to implement intestinal fortitude and God given wisdom in dealing with the woman.

All through biblical and world history woman was responsible for corrupting Strong, wise and Godly men, as a result Yahweh have only entrusted his work to but a few woman. In secular history, Yahweh have entrusted the more profound accomplishments, inventions, mathematics, scientific and other theories, revelation etc. to MAN.

Everything that is secret to Yahweh such as the family, the Marriage, and children seems to be corrupted by the woman. Every day men are persuaded and choose to; eat from the hands of the woman the forbidden fruit; all in an effort to please the woman. Man violate Yahweh laws at the prompting of the woman and in doing so he simply and smilingly hands over his peace of mind, his right and his manhood to the woman; giving her control over his life, his home, his children and his marriage; hence the problems that exist within the family, marriage and with our children today.

It was never Yahweh’s intention for the woman to have dominion but the man and because of this, Yahweh did not prepare the woman for that role but he prepared the man. She was not given the opportunity to be so nurtured and trained for such a huge undertaking; she was not afforded the privilege to developed the relationship with Yahweh that was needed; which would have equipped her to hold and properly manage such dominion: as is outlined in Genesis 2: 19-23. The man however, was afforded that sacred privilege.

Man have got to turn back to Yahweh, be faithful to Yahweh under all circumstances, keeping all of Yahweh's laws; forsaking all foolish counsel of any foolish woman and be willing to deny himself of the pleasures of this world just for a little season. It is only then that his family life on earth, his marriages and his children will be free from the corruption that now engulfs the world.

Christmas A Christian festival or Pagan Carnival?

2010-12-26T14:55:00.000-08:00

Christmas is a festival that is widely celebrated by Christendom; unfortunately, most Christians celebrates this festival out of ignorance. They are ignorant as to what they believe as Christians and what Christmas is all about. It is also a sorry state, when you hear ministers of the Gospel, in their effort to indulged in the things of the world; make comment such as Jesus is the reason for the season. This is so far from the truth. Let me take this time to inform you that Jesus Christ, the Son of Yahweh; has nothing to do with Christmas; his birth, life, death and resurrection has nothing in common with this widely celebrated festival of indulgence. As a matter of fact, the very origin of Christmas is an abomination of Elshaddai.

What is the origin of Christmas?

Before I answer this question, let me give you a little back ground information about country of Roam; the country from whence Christmas has its origin. Roam was a pagan nation and the ruler and citizen of roam, worshipped many false God; which included the elements, nature (trees) as well as the Heaven body (stars, moon, sun etc.); these along with the worship of other idol, Created an environment that give rise to many defile ceremonies and festivals. When Christianity reached the shores of Roam, the Christian religion grew in popularity among his Roman subjects.

What was unfortunate about this is, most of the Roman Christians refused to turn away from their defiled and evil practices. Instead of the Church taking a stand on the word of Yahweh holding fast to the word of God, they chose to marry paganism with Christianity. This union was a totally unholy and a spiritually unhealthy union: the Devil’s delight. For many century and up to today the lies of the Devil is not only being propagated by Roam; but most of Christendom is selling this the darkness magic of idolatry too many unsuspecting believer, which is still affecting millions of Christian.

Now let’s take some time to discuss the beginning and the origin of Christmas.

Pagan Roam had a festival, which was called Saturnalia, This festival was a tribute festival or a sacrificial carnival which was held in honor of the God of Saturn himself. It began on 17th of December and ran to the 25th day of the same month. This festival is believed to began in the year 217 BC. During this period citizen of Roam were exempted from all crimes committed; as part of the festival they indulged and participated in drunkenness, sexual misconducts, violent behavior etc.

Each Roman District was to appoint an innocent citizen and that citizen, were forced to indulged in drinking of alcohol and physical pleasure for one week, beginning on the 17th of December, then on the 25th December which was the last day of the festival; these so called enemies of Roam were all brutally murdered as a sacrifice. These acts brutality were done to destroy the forces of darkness.

The Greek writer Lucian in documenting an eyewitness account of the activities that occurred on this festival speak of drunk revelers dancing through the street naked as the sing songs, many people were raped (I would imagine men and women) in public as they indulged in many sexual acts that would have otherwise been unlawful.

In the 4th Century the church leaders in their effort to convert the masses of Pagan Roam to Christianity told the pagan Romans who were entrenched in this practice (Saturnalia) they will be able to continue to participate in Saturnalia as Christian. Here we have a situation where Believers in Jesus Christ whose core believed were in Yahweh and his government and in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for their sin were given the right away to participate in the violation of the Law of Yahweh; the principles for which Jesus died and in the process violate their own dignity and decency as well as that of their fellow citizen. It is important for us to conclude that no man on earth neither an angel in heaven can give another permission to break Yahweh’s laws.

The American Experience:

The puritans of Massachusetts were the only people of the new world to take any meaningful action against Christmas. When the citizen of Massachusetts discovered the origin of Christmas, it became illegal for any citizen of Massachusetts to celebrate Christmas. The anti-Christmas law was enacted in 1659 was the legal instrument that make it unlawful for Christian to celebrate Christmas in that part of the country and it remained illegal for citizens to do so until 1681 when the law was repealed. For twenty two years the citizen of Massachusetts took a stand against Christmas because of it’s pagan back ground and the other pagan practices that is still associated with it.

The Roman’s Church Effort to Sanitized Saturnalia:

Later in an effort to reform the reluctant pagan and to persuade them from participating in Saturnalia; the leaders of the Roman Church (which was the world’s super power of that era), without biblical proof or other documented facts declared that the 25th December the Birthday of Jesus Christ, with the hope observers of Saturnalia would have chosen their love, respect and obedience to Yahweh and Yahweh’s son Jesus Christ thus causing a curbed in their appetite for the taste of the sinful practice of Saturnalia; but it did not.

Apart from perpetrating a verbal fraud; lying about the birth of Christ, the Leaders in the Roman Church tried many things to change the hearts of its congregants from the pagan practice of Saturnalia without success. It was a long and rough road from Saturnalia to what is celebrated today as Christmas.

In 1466 Roman Catholic Church revisited the most deprived customs of Saturnalia; as a substitute for the acts of indecencies to others and self the Jews became victims of this festival. The Pope Paul 11 Forced Jews to raced naked through the streets but not before they were forced to eat and drink to a point of discomfort; this made their naked run not only difficult but comical. This was done to and for the entertainment of Roman citizens who laugh at the nude discomfort of the Jews while mockingly taunted and threw objects at them. Later in the 18-19 Centuries the Jewish leader became the laughing stock of this festival. The Rabbis were forced to ware clownish outfit and while walking through the town citizen would laugh at and mockingly pelt objects at them.

In 1836 The Jewish community wrote a letter of protest to Pope Gregory the 16th asking him to stop the abuse of the Jews which was common around the season of Saturnalia.

The Christmas tree:

It was believed by the Greco-Roman that the Gods themselves transformed into tree and the first human was descended from a tree. It was also widely believed that the tree was magical, it roots extended into the underworld and thus the tree has access to the predominant place of the God’s of the ancestral spirit. They also believed that the branches which reach up to the heaven accessed another realm of great mystery, the predominant place of the goddesses. Birds were believed to be messengers from the gods and the fact that they nested and rear their young in tree were another sign of the holiness of the tree. The trunk of the tree was considered a bridge between the underworld where the predominant spirit of the ancestors dwell and the heaven where the Goddesses dwell.

The worship of trees had an integral part in pagan Roam’s customs, at times the trees that were to be worship were cut and took into their homes, where they were paint and beautifully decorated. This practice was also married into Christianity and was merged as a part of the Christmas tradition and is still practiced today around Saturnalia or Christmas time.

Gift Giving:

In pre-Christian Roam, the emperor of Roam compelled the most despised of the Roman citizens to bring offering and gift around the Saturnalia time. this was later adopted along with the custom of the yearly practice of the cult who followed Bishop Nickolas give gift to children on the 6th December to commemorate the death of Bishop Nicholas’ who was later granted sainthood by the Roman catholic Church.

The conclusion:

Can you in all honesty after knowing the history of Christmas find pleasure in celebrating such defile and wicked festival? Not if you are a believer in Yahweh and a follower of Jesus Christ. Given to the Roman Catholic Church, for the correct price, they can lend acceptance and sanctity to the atrocities of African slavery and Hitler’s holocaust.

Any minister of the Gospel, who tries to encourage the celebration of Christmas by infuse Christ in to dirty pagan celebration: Christmas and in the process cause the followers of the living God to indulges such celebration is no better than the Roman Catholic pries who sells indulgences such as forgiveness etc. or Jeroboam the King of Israel who lead Israel down the slippery path of idolatry for his own personal gratification and gain. As a result of Jeroboam’s selfish action, Israel became a ruin and its people were taken into captivity became slaves to the heathen nations suffering the curse of Jehovah as was outlined in Duet. 28: 16 onward; a curse which Israel endured for many centuries.

The Plan of Man's Salvation Made Manifested

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Christendom is not a city but a movement that was started by Yahweh through his son Jesus Christ. Although Christendom started about three thousand plus years ago, it has its roots even before the world was created. The all knowing God: Elshaddai knew before he created the universe of the fall of his earthly creation: human; he also knew of the betrayal of his chief angel Lucifer, who was later renamed Satan or the Devil. Although Elshaddai knew that his created being would have betray his love, his thrust and misuse the power he entrusted to them; he took his time and with love he created them; he elevated them to the post they held and blessed them with many powers and responsibilities.

When the first human couple turn their backs on their all loving, all powerful Creator, Yahweh was not caught by surprised and took the time to activate the plan which was designed from the foundation of the world. This was the plan of salvation. Elshaddai did not only designed the plan of salvation which was designed to restore us back to our original stature and purpose; he also prepare a place (part of our physical reward) for us and this place was prepared from the time the foundation of the world was laid. This information can be found in Matthew 25: 34,“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

This is how considerate my father Yahweh is; he not only designed the plan that will facilitate man's salvation he had already design and put in place the physical aspect of man reward even before man was made. Yahweh knew what man had to go through, he knew the pain, the suffering, the unnecessary heart aches and shame we had to face. This knowledge broke the heart of the creator; each time a flower die the heart of Yahweh was broken, whenever one of his dumb creatures die his heart broke, but when the consequence of and for sin cause man to experience sorrow, pain and death caused the loving creator unbearable mental pain; he actually feel what we felt and because he is perfect, holy and righteous the pain was/is intensified to a magnitude that we will never understand.

What Yahweh was required to do for the redemption of mankind was asking too much. A being that was infinitely superior to human kind, had to sacrificed his son; to ensure man's redemption and to spear the inhabitants of earth the awful consequences for sins. In speaking of what Jesus Christ the holy son of Yahweh had to go through Isiah said these word in Isiah 52: 3-5; He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

The above text describes the physical pain and rejection the Son of Yahweh went through in order to secure the salvation of human kind, Jesus had to be demoted to a life form far lower than those who bow before his throne daily in worship to him; and this was done in order to secure man's salvation; however he did this without losing the quality that made him God. he took on the form and lifestyle of the lowest common denominator of creation; and had to dwell in the cesspool that is earth. man will never gain an understanding of the nature of the sacrifice Elshaddai volunteer to make, when he designed the plan of salvation but more so; when that plan was implemented to save man.

Jesus came to earth and suffered the unjust, shameless, agony; that was not fitting for an innocent man, but was administered to a perfect God, at the hands of those whom he came to save. This horrific injustice was perpetrated, while all of heaven and the other un-fallen worlds view the with disbelief how earth inhabitants treated their creator. If given the opportunity, the angel of heaven, would have rescued their creator from the hands of the earth inhabitants; both spirit and human and in the process bring destruction to earth and it inhabitants ending this whole shameful affair.

But unlike Lucifer and his angels and the original inhabitants of the earth, the angels of heaven was obedient to their father's instruction and stood by helplessly, shackled into inactivity by their obedience to their creator; they looking on in disbelief, as the Lord of heaven's Army; the one who care for them, who love them; in whose presence they existed and dwell in eternal bliss; were degraded at the hands of man while he tried to lovingly reconcile man to himself.

The angel of heaven only knew, the action of Yahweh; translate into love, but the could not and still cannot comprehend the magnitude of this love that the living God: Elshaddai, have for such beings, beings that knows not gratitude. If the angels who were made higher than us do not understand the level, the nature; the origin and the intensity of the love Yahweh has dedicated to us humans; it is useless that human try to understand such love. What we as recipient of such incomprehensible love can do, is to express our gratitude to Yahweh, by being wholly obedient to his will and by unconditionally; offering our frail, broken and sin corrupted love to him. This will be a sign of our appreciation, for all he had done for us and for loving us so immensely; that he offered all that he was, all that he had and all that he loved to express is love for us.

1 Timothy 2: 5-6; For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

The Prodigal Son

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In Luke 15:11-24 Jesus speak a parable, about a father who had two sons, this man was a man of substance, he was a man of means, if you pay attention to the story, which is often refer to as the prodigal son or the wasteful spending son. Here the names of the persons were not given; this is so because this story was a story that did not address a particular situation but one that addressed a popular condition of life.

Here we have a situation where the younger of the two sons went boldly to his father and make a request of his father; this request was an uncommon request, the younger son requested that his father share up his belonging and he give to him that which would later come to him. He wanted his share now.

You have to understand that a good parent knows where the heart of their child lay. A diligent parent, an honest parent can tell you what their child will and will not do. This is so because the parents have the experiences dealing with that child and we are/were endowed with the responsibility of shaping their behaviors, and molding their character.

The father in this story knew where his sons heart were, he also knew why his son came to him requesting his inheritance; however, even though his father knew, why his son wanted his inheritance, he did not withheld it from him. His father divided his holding and give to the younger son, what he requested. You would have though, if the father is sharing up his wealth; he would have given the older son his share also, but he did not. The question that must be asked is: Why didn’t he give to the older son that which was coming to him? It is because the older son did not desire his inheritance at that time, he understood that his father was building an empire for him and his brother, he also understood his role in the scheme of things: which was to work hand in hand with his father in building the empire, for soon they will inherit the empire; but most of all he appreciated the life his father had prepared and provided for him.

The younger of the two could not see, that which his older brother saw so clearly; hence the reason he prematurely requested his share of his fathers promise to him at the time that he did.

I am sure that the question may have come into your mind; why did the father choose to go against common practice and divide his possession and give it to the younger son his share of the accumulation, even though he knew what his sons intention was?

Yes the father knew what his younger son’s intentions were. We as parents, if we are honest with ourselves when it comes to our children; we will admit that we know what our children are capable of; after all we were/are responsible for molding their minds; we are also responsible for the influences we exposed them to and we are endowed with the responsibility of supervising and caring for our children for most of their life. So we have knowledge of who our children are and what our children intent are, their goals and there objectives; we know what they will do and what they are capable of doing.

We have asked if the father knew what his sons intentions were, why did he give his son his inheritance and allow him to go and indulged in the things of the world? You see the son did not have to leave home to go into the world. The son was dwelling in the world right in the sterility of his father’s home. What do I mean by this? The bible said in Proverbs 23:7 “for as a man think in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.” Here we see that the younger son was in the sterility of his father’s home yet he was in the world.

Very often we try to save our children from themselves, and in doing so, we prevent them from finding their way; from understanding the world around them, we prevent them from understanding themselves and from coming to a true appreciation of what you have provide for them. We do this not because it is the best thing for the child; but because of what people will say, or because we cannot understand the path they choose to take.

There are many people who are in the church, participating in church activities, officiating in an official capacity but they are dwelling in the world. Not that they are going out drinking, parting etc. but deep down in their hearts, they want to do these things that characterized the world. As a result; they day dream of participating in such activities and at night when they go to sleep they also dream of participating in the activities of the world.

We all know the story very well, soon after the younger son received his inheritance, he left home, and spent his whole inheritance on foolish living. Just as his money ran out, there came a famine and the son ended up feeding pigs for a living. His conditions were so bad that he was reduced to eating the food that was prepared for the pigs.

In verse 17 of Luke 15: When he finally came to his senses, this is telling me because his heart was always in the world, and he was not focusing that which was good and true he was not in his right senses.

So when he asked his father for his inheritance he was not in his right senses
When he pack his stuff and leave home he was not in his right senses
When he choose the place where he was going to settle he was not in his right senses
When he indulged in his ungodly living he was not in his right senses
When he had chosen to invest his time efforts and energy to care for pigs he was not in his right senses.

When he finally came to his senses he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, 19 and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”

Here we noticed that although times and adverse circumstances have destroyed the mountain of pride the younger son had; the mountain of pride that give him the courage to demanded his inheritance from his father, the pride that cause him to pack up his things and left home; the mountain of pride that cause him to foolishly spend his money on extravagant living.

Here we see when the younger son’s return home, his father welcoming him with open arms and celebration.

But then the older and faithful son heard about the celebration his father was having in honor of his rebellious brother’s return home and he brought the reality as it stood to his father attention.

The older brother was angry and would not go in.

Many people questioned the attitude of the older son, about the whole state of affair and they ridicule that older brother. Let us look at this part of the story from another prospective.

When we have something that we cherish and we thing we are in danger of losing that thing; we have a right to get angry. Do you remember Jacob and Esau; you see the length at which Jacob and his mother went to get the inheritance of his father, for with the inheritance came a particular blessing. Do you see how angry Esau became, when he learnt that he had lost his inheritance? We have an inheritance that Yahweh had promised to us and personally; if I am of the opinion that anyone is going to take my inheritance from me I will be angry also. What was good is that the older son did not allow his anger to shut him down but he let his feelings be known to the father.

He said father I have stayed at home with you all these years, and you have never even throw me a party in appreciation of my loyalty; however my younger brother came home after wasting his inheritance and you are having a party for him.

The father explained and reassured the older and the loyal son that this celebration does not, will not affect his blessings, the love he had for him; his appreciation for loyal service or his inheritance. We are to be honest with Yahweh, and tell him exactly how we feel about a particular situation; it is not as if he does not already know the emotions we are experiencing and the thoughts we are entertaining. So we are to question him when we do not understand what is happening, for the Most High God has the answer to all of our questioning.

There are six vital lessons that came out in this discourse and they are:

1. Any time we come to a place where we are unable to distinguish between that which is not good for us from that which is not good for us; then we are not in our right senses.

2. Tells the story of God unconditional love and accepting of us sinner.

3. Each of us do not learn in the same manner; the older son learn from observation the prodigal son had to go out there and suffer for him to understand the value of what his father had worked so hard to provide for him.

4. There are many ways that we must take to come to an understanding of who Yahweh is and what he will do for us.

5. It was o.k for the son to question that which he do not understand; especially when he were seeking answers and or clarity. God is not afraid of our honest questions for he has the correct answers; what he hates however is when we presumptuously or conceitedly asking questions.

6. No one is more important than us regardless of our situation.

The Price of Disobedience: Mockery and Ridicule

2010-11-04T04:57:00.000-07:00

Solomon's temple: From Anthopology of the Church

The temple of God: is often refers to a place where people come to worship Yahweh or Jehovah. It is also believe that the spirit of God is present in his temple/church. It is advised that Jehovah’s subjects should conduct themselves in certain decorum whilst in the temple of the living God.

It is also true that when we are in the presence of the Holy and the only true God we ought to show reverence to his presence, his holiness, his power and his beauty because he is worthy of such. He does not demand it but he requests it. When we think of the state of man, when compare to Yahweh. Even at mans best we were still lower than the ordinary angels.

It is important that we understand that reverence cannot be forced, planned, organized or enforced; reverence has to be acquired through a love relationship and an understanding of who Yahweh is. When we have an understanding of who he is, it is only them will our behaviors and actions be transform to that which is fitting for a God of Jehovah’s status.

I have seen people fainted when they were in the presence of Michael Jackson. You see these people have elevated Michael Jackson to the status of a god. What was exceptionally special about Michael Jackson, Yes he could sing and he could dance. There are millions of people who could sing and dance just as good as Michael Jackson. At times Michael Jackson will put on disguise and venture out into the public and no one will even know that he was there; they may have spoken to him, bump into him, shake his hands; even served him and nothing out of the ordinary happened. Nothing happened because he was ordinary. He had no special powers, the words he sang were created, ordained and given to him to sing; the dance steps he preformed were not unique to him, the moon walk was preformed by many before him; included Cab Calloway in 1932, Bill Dailey in 1955 and a hose of other performers; however, when Michael Jackson did it the first time on live TV and it was seen by millions of people he was given the credit for that dance move.

although Michael Jackson was popular he was just an ordinary man just like you and me.

However; when the holy, sinless awesome angels in heaven entered Yahweh’s physical presence, they were instantly teleported into a dimension of never before felt ecstasy that left them in a state of glorious acknowledgement. These angel that is before Yahweh shout day and night without stopping; Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty, the one who always was, who is and who is to come.

it is important to note, that when these angels are in Yahweh presence they have no need for anything but to praise Yahweh for days unending. This is so because in Yahweh's presence there is fullness of Joy, on ending ecstasy.

At the same time twenty and four elders join the worship they emits their throne cast their crown before Yahweh and shout: You are worthy, O lord our God, to receive Glory and honor and power; for you create everything and they exist because you created what you please.

It is important to note that Yahweh’s spirit is every where, it does not leave the streets and go into the churches; Yah’s spirit is already with us and within us

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 said “don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.”

Here we see that the church/temple that Yahweh is interested in was the temple of the body. In 1 Kings 9: Yahweh appear to King Solomon just after he had dedicated the Beautiful temple of God at the dedication Solomon said a powerful pray, So Jehovah said to Salomon, I heard the prayer you offered up to me.

1 Kings 9:3-8 speak of the condition under which he is to going continue to honor and continue to dwell in the temple Israel have built and dedicated to him 3. “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. 4 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, 5 then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ 6 But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 8And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads in amazement. They will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’

Now let us examine what Jehovah said to Solomon. First Yahweh expressed his gratitude that Solomon had built a place for his people to worship and offer sacrifice in. He also declared that he had sanctify, consecrate and attached his name on the edifice; however, Jehovah made it clear that he may reject Israel and this beautiful temple Israel had built to his honor if the king and the people refuse to continually obey his commandment and worship other Gods he will:

Uproot Israel from the land that he have given to them.
Yah will reject the temple that he (God) have make holy to honor his name.
Yah will make Israel the object of mockery and ridicule.
All who pass by will be appalled and shake their head in amazement.
And they will asked why did Yahweh did such a thing to this land and his kingdom?

And the world will know it is because they have abandon Yahweh and worship other God.

History have recorded the uprooting of Israel and the destruction of the temple that Solomon built to Yah’s honor and this was so destroyed because of Solomon backsliding and Israel’s continued backsliding.

Yahweh said that his words will not go fort without accomplishing its objective but it will accomplished every thing I say.

Yahweh outlined the conditions which Israel were to meet in order to have Yahweh’s continued protection and favor, Solomon and Israel also though that Yahweh would have been satisfy with their pass loyalty and the wonderful temple, but He do not. Yahweh expects a consistent and continual loyalty nothing else will do.

It is important to note that there are rewards for being faithful to him, reward that will catapult us into the hemisphere of dignity, and honor.

So if you are obsess with your church or your temple and the life of the members and leaders are not right with Yahweh, then Yahweh will cause those people to be reduced to mockery and ridicule.

Yah will never asked us to do anything that are beyond out ability to perform, but when we are unable to genuinely meet Jehovah’s expectation he have promised to be there to see us through.

David and Goliath the Battle for God

2010-10-15T02:16:00.000-07:00

In the book of 1st Samuel the 17 Chapter, a story is told there that most people knows and enjoy. This is one of those feel good stories that give us the reassurance that good will always triumph over evil; this is the story of David and Goliath. Although the main theme in this story as they all are in every bible story and that is: Good will in the end triumph over bad, righteousness over evil and love over hate. There are some very important and practical lessons of life to be derived from this story.

Today I will try to bring out a few lessons that I found buried, within this feel good true story. Let us take a look at the first part of this story and see what golden nugget are there waiting for us to learn from.

Here we see a situation arose, where the Philistine gathered their army to attack Israel, it is important for me to trouble your memory now, if we can remember well, the Philistines had a long history with Israel, they had many battles against each other. In most of those battles, Israel defeated the pagan Philistine. The philistine also knew when Israel was faithful to Jehovah: the God of the Israel, he fights their battle for them and he did he have never lost a fight.

It is also important to understand that all of the surrounding nations, knew of the God of the Israelites, they also knew that he is powerful beyond measure and he don’t hesitate to use his power on his people’s behalf. They also knew that Jehovah will cause Israel to suffer defeat when they fail to honor him, when they go whoring and or worshiping other Gods. So with this in mind Israel’s neighbors, made an extra effort to maintain piece with Israel especially when Israel lived as God wanted them to. They fear Israel's God will exhort vengeance on them. They also knew under what condition Jehovah will not intervene on Israel’s behalf.

Here we see, without provocation, the philistine gather their army to war against Israel. We know there was bad blood between both nations but the question that must be answered is; why at this time in Israel’s history, the Philistine choose to provoke Israel to war?

It was a risky move on the part of the Philistine, to start a war with Israel but it was a risk they were willing to take. Let me tell you why it was risky. Israel was the ideal under dog, in that, each time they went to war they fought against nations that was bigger, stronger, with more sophisticated weapons of war, yet Israel was always victorious say for a few occasions when Jehovah fail to show up and ensure Israel’s victory; this was because they had backslide and turn away from their deliverer. An example of Yah's working on Israel's behalf was that incident that occurred Israel crossed the Jordon and all of the surrounding nations heard how Israel defeated the well fortified nation if Jericho, causing the mighty walls of that city to fall without hands. As a result all became afraid of Israel and Israel’s God.

Another fact we must come to terms which is: the nations around knew what the God of Israel expected of his chosen people, they also knew that Jehovah warn them not to expect his favor when they turn there backs on him and follow after other Gods.

So the lingering question that is yet to be answered is: why is it that at such a time as this time did the Philistine chose to rage war against Israel? To one who was not verse in the knowledge of Jehovah it was a terrible time for the philistine to start a war against Israel but to the informed it was the perfect opening for the Philistine to do so and win.

You see, the Philistine knew about the affairs of Israel, they knew that Yahweh had rejected the king of Israel, and therefore there were a possibility that Yahweh may cause the defeat and captivity of Israel because of the present condition of Israel.

Another point we must also take note of, the Philistine had mustered or gather their army for battle, and Israel did the same. In other words the Philistine was set out for an all out war, the engagement of army against army. However; midway the philistine saw it fit, to change the terms of engagement or the rules of battle. In stead of an all out war which entailed the violent confrontation of armies, they change the game to a one on one. They knew they had an unbeatable giant, a champion of war; they also knew there was no one in Israel with the skills, the strength, the sophisticated weapon and the knowledge of Goliath of Gath had, who was capable of defeating their champion.

Like the philistines there are people in our lives who share the same space with us, who are sitting in the wings, patiently waiting for things to go wrong in our lives; when such things happens, they show up doing all in their power to make our conditions worst. They will choose to fight in manner that is new to us. They may bring up petty things; put a new spin on them, to make our already difficult times even more severe.

The lessons we ought to learn from the first part of story are:

You have to be aware of the type of people around you; especially in time of trouble. There are people among you, who will take advantage of your unfortunate situation and push you further into the abyss that is intended to suffocate and kill you.
When you think your conditions are private very often your enemies are fully aware of your situations.
Don’t expect those who dislike or hate you to play fair, but expect them to do all that is in their power for orchestrate and secure your destruction.

Because of the fact that we are unable to read the minds of others, it is truly hard to know if the people who cheered for us in the good times, will cheer for us in the bad times. We must be careful, for what we may consider cheers may actually be shouts of scorn and mockery.

Here we see that the pagan Philistines, not only chose to fight against God’s army when they think that Jehovah’s people were at there weakest stage, they change the rules of the fight without warning and they changed the rules and method of engagement to there advantage. From the looks of things, a victory for the Philistine was assured, it is either the philistines were going to win by default or Goliath was going to massacre some poor Israelite.

The Israelis were afraid to confront the Giant; they felt, because Jehovah had publicly renounced King Saul, there was no way they could have won the challenge against the Philistine champion. No one, not even the king was willing to risk his life in a battle; they believed they were doomed to lose. As a result of their belief, Israel was not willing to whole heatedly follow a leader who was doom to lose. As a matter of fact; no one was willing to sacrifice there life to fight a losing battle, for a king who was already rejected by God. We must remember this challenge was a fight to the death. The fight were to continue until one man was dead and the only way, to ensure the death of the loser and to confirm a victory, was the beheading of the loser by the victor.

The odds were highly stocked against Israel in this bottle, When Goliath came out, the Israelite Soldiers took one look at the size of the man they were expected to fight and became very afraid, when they saw his weapons and his full body armor they were sore afraid but when they heard the tidings/stories that were circulated within the Israelites camp about Goliath. The rumors made things worst. they learn of his unbeaten records, in war and in man to man combat against some of the most skilled men of war to have walk the earth; they heard of his fighting skills, the weight of the coat Goliath he wore that was made of mails that weighed one hundred and twenty five pounds; the fact that the tip of his spare weighed twenty five pounds. A combination of all these things reaffirmed the fear the men had and they became even more afraid.

What was unknown to the philistine and most of Israel was; although Yahweh had publicly rejected King Saul as King of all Israel, he did not leave Israel without leadership; for in secret, Jehovah had already caused the anointing of David: Son of Jessie, to be the King of all Israel. Although David was just a child, Israel was not without God appointed, God anointed leadership.

Because of the situation that existed in Israel, Goliath came out and laugh in the face of God’s chosen people. For forty days the Giant did this, He mocked Jehovah people, and as a result of the cowardly behavior that was displayed by the Israelites, the entire Philistine army laughed at the chosen children of God. This taunting was not embarrassing enough to motivate any one to defend the honor of Israel their nation or to defend the honor of Jehovah, there God who had declared Israel his chosen people.

In the camp of Israel there were a boy, that boy was David son Of Jessie. David was shocked at what he saw and heard. He was disturbed at the fear that held the entire army of Jehovah captive, even his brother whom he looked up to, exhibited the sicken cowardly behavior. David became perturbed when he heard the pagan Philistine, defy and mock the Army of the living God. It was right there and then that David decided in his heart that he was going to fight that Giant, defend Yahweh’s honor and save the pride of his nation Israel and there were nothing anyone could have done to detour David from his intended mission.

David was ushered to the king and there the child declared his intention. The King was shocked at the courage of the lad and although he knows that such a battle was not design for children and such a child should not have been allowed to participate in such. King Saul chose to neglect his responsibility and save his behind but in doing so he actually sentenced David to death. The proof that Saul knew this was evident when David expressed his intent to fight Goliath Saul said in verse 33 of 1 Samuel 17: Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”

This statement was totally true David was too young, he had no experience in the art of war and he had no armor or weapon of war yet Goliath his opponent had mastered such art. It was too late to teach David the art of war, how to wield a sword, how to use a shield in his defense, how to throw a spear with deadly accuracy and how to evade the attacks of the skillful Giant.

It is important to note that no self respecting Leader or king will ever endanger the life of a child in the way Saul endangered David life. The arena wherein David was allowed to go and confront such grave danger was no place for a child and Saul knew that. It was the responsibility of the King to take on the challenge if no one in his ranks, was up to meet such a challenge.

The Naivety of the child, his love for Jehovah and his disgusts at the whole series of events he witnessed; gave David an unshakable faith that cause his eyes to be blinded to the size of the Giant; the lad ears were deft to all of the rumors he have heard of Goliath skills, as well as his own inability to adequately participate in such an event.

But David also know that he was anointed by the Host High God and that Giant was not, He knew he had challenged a lion and a bear and killed them in battle but the Giant did not, he was a member of the chosen people of God and Goliath was not, He was destined to be King of over all Israel and Goliath was not. Instead of focusing at the things, skills and experience he did not have, David focused on that which he had. David declared to King Saul: The LORD who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”

As we go on deeper into the experience of David as it relates to him accepting the challenge against Goliath, we will note that David only had his Sheppard’s rod, his Sheppard’s bag, a sling and three Stones.

It is important to note that each day Goliath came out of the Philistine’s camp to issue the challenge he came out equipped to do battle against Israel’s best. He always had his official shield bearer running ahead of him, Goliath was always dressed in full body armor; he always had his sword and his Javelin. Goliath being an experience man of war, did not took nothing for granted, he was fully outfitted bronze helmet and all.

Let us take a realistic look at the reality that confronted David. Here we have a Giant 9 feet tall, wearing full body armor which includes a bronze helmet. The helmet that made up the head protection of the armor covered the entire face, head and the neck of the wearer. The helmet had just enough space for the wearer’s eyes so they can see.

How David was was to accomplish this impossible task, well on his own it was impossible but with Jehovah all thing even the impossible is possible. The story went on to say that David place a stone into his sling and swung it, the Stone hit Goliath on his forehead or should I say, the stone struck Goliath’s helmet in the area of his forehead, then the Giant fell to the ground. David did not have the strength to hit the Giant on his helmet and fell him, it was Jehovah who fell the Giant however because of David’s faith Jehovah allow him to get the credit.

The stone connecting to Goliath’s helmet threw him off balance and caused him to fell to the ground, it is important to note that the stone did not kill the Giant. It is important to note that it was after Goliath fell to the ground that David ran to the fallen Giant, took his sword and kill him then cut off the pagan, Philistine Champion’s head; as is recorded in verse 50.

It is important that we know, that this whole experience and David’s victory served as Yahweh’s way of introducing David to Israel and the entire world, as the Next King of Israel. This experience moved David from a literal unknown to becoming a house hold name in all of Israel as well as in all of the surrounding nations.

Behind The Scenes: The Devil Cast Out & The Fall Of Man.

2010-09-30T06:31:00.000-07:00

There is much information that was left out of Lucifer’s fall from his high and lofty position in heaven, to what he was reduced to; after he led a failed revolt against The Heavenly Throne of Jehovah. What happened when he was cast down to the earth? How did the “Prince of the Morning” fell from heaven and what were the conditions of his stay on the earth? Isaiah 14: 12-15, gives us an indirect glimpse into this saga. “O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. 13For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. e 14I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’ 15Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.”

Although the above bible text gives us a brief on what occurred when Satan was expelled from the heavenly realms, there are still tons of unanswered questions. Most people will say that Yah did not give answer to these questions because it is not for us to know the answer to these questions. However; I believe that the great creator God, who knows all things and has the answer to all questions that man could ever ask; is more than willing and able to supply the necessary answers.

Let us go to the book of Genesis, and there we will particularly examine the fall of man; while we do that, we will also solicit the Holy Spirit to help us in understanding, as well as; to clear up some of the ambiguities that are found there. Genesis chapter 1-2: dealt with the Creation of the heaven and the earth and all that in them is. It also saw the very first instruction that God give to man, which was a warning not to eat of a particular tree in the Garden of Eden. Gen. 2: 16-17 But the LORD God warned man, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— 17except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

Later on in Genesis 3: 1-7 One day the Devil asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

2“Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3“It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”

4“You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5“God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”

6The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. 7At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness.

All Satan did was to plant a seed of doubt in the mind of the woman; he knew that as long as he gets either of God’s priced possession to entertain the slightest doubt there was something he could work with. The devil knew that he can only secure his freedom by convincing the man to freely hand it over to him.

There are not much said about this detrimental event in the bible, that is not to say that the whole story was not known, after centuries of repeating the story it came to a point where all of the details did not made the story anymore interesting and thus only the bear facts remains. There is always a danger to this end, in that, when the curiosity of future generation is aroused then that which they don’t know generates much more interest than that which is known.

There was only one reference of the devil before the fall of man and that was the encounter with the woman. Jehovah being God who has a well methodical plan for man’s salvation, had to have a well thought out plan for the incarceration of the devil and the other heavenly beings that followed the devil’s instructions. The questions that immediately popped into my mind are: where were the others who were evicted from the realms of Heaven with the Devil? Did Yah allowed Satan to have his subjects with him on the earth, thus making him ruler over the fallen ones? If so, how were they to coexist with man in the same environment? Why weren’t there any reference to or about the other fallen angels?

Understanding the Creator, the all knowing and the omnipotent God: Jehovah, he had a well though out plan for the incarceration of the devil and his angels. It is no secret that it is very uncomfortable for evil to dwell in the presence of perfection and righteousness, when Lucifer fell and he took on Devilish qualities and eventually was transformed in to the devil he is to day, it became grossly uncomfortable for him to continually dwell in the environment he wanted to rule. He would have had to change all of the characteristics that made heaven, heaven in order for him to dwell and reign there. In other words the devil would have to turn the splendors of heaven, into the hell he is slowly but successfully transforming the earth into in order for him to dwell there.

Before the fall of man Satan was confined to one tree in the garden; that tree was his dungeon and he dear not set foot off of that tree. The air of earth could not support him in flight even though he had wings, the purity of the earth was capable of inflicting agonizing pain to the defile foot of the devil. Satan did not have the pleasure of interacting with those who followed him in rebellion against God; he did not have the pleasure of setting up his own kingdom with his followers as his subjects. He was confined to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree was so named for the one who dwell there, was once perfect and knew all there is to know about that which was good and perfect but in his present state he is now the embodiment of evil; hence the name of the tree: the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is safe to say that apart from Jehovah who knows all things, there was no other creature that had knowledge of what evil was. For their loving Creator spare them the agony of experiencing such. He made all of his creatures perfect in every way, he placed them to live in a perfect environment, and he only exposed them to positive, loving influences and his perfection and righteousness.

Before Lucifer’s fall that knowledge belongs only to the all knowing God and to no one else.

Satan presence on that tree of the knowledge of good and evil had corrupted the plant and by extension the fruits that bore on that tree. Although there were not vivid sign of the contamination that had infected the tree; the tree was different from all of the trees in the Garden; the perfect eyes of both man and beast could have recognized the difference and in obedience to their Creator all stay away from that tree and its fruits.

when the woman became interested in the tree and it fruits, and she had learn the tree was not as bad as it appeared to be; as bad as they were told it was and that three were benefits to be derived from that which was forbidden, the woman blinded her eyes to the danger of the presumable deadly tree, she refused to see the differences that were once so visible to her, and she purposefully fail to remember the words of her Creator as was told to her by her husband: words that warned all of earth the tree was not Good for food and they must not touch or eat of its fruits; for the day that they do eat of the tree they should surely die.

When the woman partake of the fruit that was declared forbidden by Jehovah God, nothing happened to her or to the earth; immediately, the devil realized that he was in the same condition he was in before the woman eat of the tree. It was then Satan realized that the disobedience of the woman will have a grand effects he thought it would; for The Creator did not give dominion over his creation to the woman but to the man.

Soon after Eve had transgressed the instruction of Jehovah, she regretted touching and eating of the forbidden fruit, immediately she knew that there were going to be serious consequences even though she did not know what death was. This was so for the loving God had spare the legal inhabitants of earth the knowledge and the misery that accompanied death.

Satan knew if he were to break free from the captivity he had found himself in, he had to get the man to disobey God law and the easiest way to accomplish this, was to entice the man to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; which would change man from immortal to mortal. Satan then encouraged the woman to share the fruit with her husband, after all if you eat of it and you did not die, it means that he can also eat of the fruit and he will not die. She also knew that sooner or later she would have to face the Creator God, and she did not want to face Jehovah alone, so she adhere to the counsel of the Devil.

When Adam saw his wife with the fruit in her hands, he became very fearful for he knew, neither man nor beast were to touch that fruit and in the day that anyone eat of it they will die. The woman offered her husband the fruit for food, recognizing his apprehension; she took a bit of the fruit in order to prove to her husband the fruit was good for food. Adam waited for the fruit to take effect; however, when nothing happened to his wife; as a result, his apprehension began to wane; she then took the opportunity to inform her husband of the benefits that were to be derived from participating in the meal.

When Adam realized that his wife had acquired new knowledge that he did not have, she had experienced something he had not and tasted of the fruit that he had never tasted; he became jealous of the woman, and wanted to be on par with her. After all she was the product of his body, it was him God give dominion over all things. Adam did not know the tremendous fear and trepidation his wife was experiencing; however he though he was missing out on an experience his wife was enjoying. Thus in his quest to maintain control he partake of the fruit.

It was when Adam eat of the fruit that immediately the change took effect. The Devil immediately felt the change and knew that he was free from his prison, Adam immediately felt and saw his nakedness and like wise the woman. Even the animals felt the emergence of the disharmony that swept across the Garden. The Most High felt the cords of love and adoration which constantly flow from man’s heart to his and from Jehovah's heart back to the heart of mans were instantly replaced by fear.

The unfortunate events that led to the fall of earth first couple was not played out in the dark, but Jehovah and all the host of heaven looked on in utter disbelief and shame as the custodian of the earth, one who was made by Jehovah's own hands and was appointed by Jehovah himself refused to heed his creator’s command and in the process freed the devil; change his allegiance from the God of love to the father of destruction and as Adam handed over the sovereignty of the earth to him who hates their creator Jehovah; the one who was banished there from before the father's throne.

Most people believe that nothing was wrong with the tree and their dying was as a result of their disobedience to Jehovah. If you believe this you share the same believe system with the father of lie: the Devil, who also believed that Jehovah’s laws were arbitrary and not necessary; the laws of God were only a burden on holy creatures. The devil found out the hard way, for when he choose not to honor the words of the Lord his God, he paid the full price and today he is still bearing the consequence of his action.

Separation from God carries a high price. It is nothing that God does but a natural reaction to a conscious action we choose to take. When the devil rejected Jehovah as his God and refuse to bask in his glory, he suffered the natural consequence of his action. It is time that we realized Yahweh knows how he made us, he knows our deficiencies, our weaknesses and the effects such will have on us, if we do not subscribe to that which was put in place to keep such deficiencies and weakness at bay. It is like a person refusing to basked in the sunlight, eventually he or she will becomes pale and sickly. We don't have to be pale and sickly, for we are not without the knowledge as to how to remain healthy; all he have to do is adhere to the instruction of how to stay strong and healthy and all will be well.

We must never forget that there is only one who is self sustaining and that person is Jehovah, the Creator God, The Most High; The All Powerful God all else is sustained by some aspect of his perfection. an example of this is the sun: the sun has no use on its own but it finds importance when it reflect God's glory. let us not forget that the sun has no light of its own but was placed in the heavens as a buffer that protect earth's inhabitants from the direct effects of Jehovah's brilliance.

Lets us take a look at God’s law and see which of the laws we can identify Satan as being in contravention of:

Commandment 1: you must not have any other God but me. Satan was not satisfy with Jehovah’s Deity and chooses to institute another God other than Jehovah: he set himself up as God. That was a direct violation of the first commandment.

Commandment 2: you shall not make or worship other Gods. Satan not only set himself up as a God to be worship, he also enticed all of his heavenly subordinates to accept him as a God and to worship him.

Commandment 5: Honor thy mother and thy father. Satan failed to honor Jehovah God as his father; Jehovah was the one who created, cared for, blessed him with power, provided a perfect environment for him to dwell in etc. Yet he betrayed his creator, sustainor, father and provider.

Commandment 9: “You must not testify falsely against your neighbor. Satan spread falsehood to all of his subordinates about Jehovah, his Government and the way he (Jehovah) ran his government the way he did. Unfortunately Satan shamelessly continue to spread that same falsehood to the fallen race today.

Commandment 10: “You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor. Satan coveted or desired fro himself Jehovah’s Kingdom, His honor, His power, His worship, His perfection and His status as God and Creator of the universe and everything in it.

So you see if you believe like Satan that there were nothing wrong with the tree and there were nothing wrong with eating of it fruits, you are only buying into the devil’s first lie. Jehovah will never cause us to uphold a law or cause us to refrain from something for absolutely no reason at all; neither will he asked us to do anything unless it will be beneficial to us. To do otherwise would be selfish and spiteful and the God who created the Heaven and the earth is neither selfish and or spiteful. He (Yahweh) have proven this when he have committed his only son to die on the cross for fallen, worthless humanity, he have proven that he is not selfish and or spiteful when he refuse to immediately destroy the Devil and his followers, for plotting and participating in a siege on his kingdom, and he have proven that he is not selfish and spiteful when in stead of exacting immediate Justice on the first human couple for refusing to adhere to his instruction which was for their own benefit. In stead of destroying them he allowed his disobedient creature to life in their sinful, fallen condition in the hope of eternal redemption from their sins and restoration to their former state.

It is important to note that the beauty that Lucifer possessed were not taken away from him after he fell. We must understand that the beauty that Lucifer possessed was as a result that Yah made him perfectly, his righteousness maintained that perfection, and dwelling in the presence of his perfect creator only enhance his beauty, the glory of Good cause the precious stones which covered Lucifer to radiate with the glory that only Yahweh possesses.

So the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil possessed characteristics that was alien to man. They were so alien to man because they would not have contributed to man’s happiness but only deprived him of the happiness that he was created to enjoy; should man chose to participate in such would only destroy man’s perfection.

Adonai's (My Lord's) Desire For His Children: You and Me.

2010-09-04T13:18:00.000-07:00

3rd John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.

Many people are of the opinion that Christian are to live dejected lives, and the dejection that Christians are subject to, are signs of how close they are to Yahweh; your troubles are proof of your meekness, your frustration are evidence of your faith in God and your suffering are tangible benefit of Yahweh's loves for you. If you are one who believe such things, let me tell you here and now; you have got it all wrong. All those examples are signs that you have been curse by The Creator. Jehovah will never curse his faithful children; however, this does not means that you will not experience difficult time.

So if you are experiencing the above negatives in your life, then you are to stop, reexamine your life and the relationship you have with the Most High God. It may very well be that you are experiencing such because you have strayed from your maker and your king, you may think you are OK but you may very well have back slid; you may have been neglecting your relationship with the savior and is declining into apostasy.

For it is always God’s will that we prosper and be in good health. We must not forget that Yah don’t cause his prosperity to fall on just anyone. You see whether we are serving Jehovah or not we are awarded certain of his blessing, he blesses us with life, gives us fresh air, good health and hope of better things to ensure that the quality of our life is one that is worth living. The prosperity of Yah is a reward from God and a sign of his extended blessing. Although everyone is entitled to his extended blessing, everyone is not exposed to the extended blessings of God. In order for us to qualify for the outpouring of our father’s extended blessing, we must meet certain conditions.

Let us turn to Deut. 28: 1-2 in an effort to find out what conditions must be met in order to experience and participate in the lord’s blessing and experienced his prosperity, protection, good health etc.

Deut. 28: 1-2 This is what will happen, if thou shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

“If you shall listen diligently to the voice of the lord your God;” you are not just required to listen but you are required to listen diligently. The word diligent means: carefully carrying out a task or duty paying attention especially to detail or exactness.

So diligently listening, is to pay attention to what is being said especially paying particular attention to the details and the exactness of what is being said.

Why is it important that we listen diligently? We must listen diligently because the stakes are high; we cannot take anything for granted because the end results will determine three things which are:

1. It determines whether or not we reflected to the world or show the world that we are indeed children of God, representing him in all that we do.

2. It will determine whether or not we experience hardship and a curse life here on earth or whether we experience God's wonderful blessings on earth.

3. It is also a measuring stick that determine the degree of our love for Jehovah.

We are called upon to listen diligently to the words of Jehovah God.

The second part of the text says: to observe and to do all his commandments. Now that we have listened diligently or we have pay attention to the details and the exactness of God’s words, we are to observe and to do all his commandments not some, or those that are convenient to us but all of his commandment; when we feel foolish doing them, when people calls us name, we must do them and even when we don’t feel like; we must observe and do all of the lord’s commandment.

When you listen carefully to God’s word, paying attention to detail and the exactness of what he has said and you are careful to observe his commandment with the same diligence: paying attention to details and the exactness of his words; then the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth

This is the reward for your diligence in listening and living. You shall be set on high above all nation of the earth. God is going to elevate you where ever you are, you will have better health that the other; God’s servants always experience good health and long life, more earthly riches, see Job, Abraham, Isaac's, David, the three Hebrew boys Daniel etc. greater capacity to understand simple as well as complex things, Salomon, David, Daniel etc. you will be respected even by those who hate and despises you and you will always experience the protection of the lord.

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. In other words, If you shall listen and do what the lord say all of God’s blessing, what are blessings? Blessings, are God’s love and favor; So, in simple language if we listen to and obey Jehovah’s word, his love and favor will chase us and over take us where ever we go. Isn’t that wonderful?

So when other sees you, they will automatically say Psalms 1:1-3 Bless is the man that walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, who refuse to stand in the way of sinners, who cannot be convinced to sit in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and on God’s law he set aside time to meditate on them every day and every night. God will then bless him and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, he bring forth his fruit in and out of season; his leaf shall never wither; and whatsoever he do shall prosper.

Lets us therefore visit Deut. 28:3-14 and examined some of the areas we will experience God’s blessings.

Verse3 blessed shall thou be in the city, and blessed shall thou be in the field.

It matter not where you are, whether you are in the city, the field or in a heathen country Yahweh’s blessing will follow you, over take you, set you apart and make you distinguish.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kin, and the flocks of thy sheep.

God love and favor will be upon the fruits of your body: that mean your children will be blessed, the fruit of the ground and the fruit of the cattle which means your increase or income, and your kin: your family. Our family will experience blessings because of our love and obedience to and for Jehovah. You see Jehovah knows, if those who are close to us; those who fail to demonstrate their love for him, got the punishment for their disobedience to him that they deserves and become ill, got into accidents, fail at what they do, die etc. such will have a devastating negative impact on the life his faithful child, so in order to minimize the suffering to the faithful, he take care of our wicked friends and family even when they do not deserve it. Yah does this as a part of our blessing; thus saving us his faithful children the agony of the demise of those close to us.

5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. When you sit down to eat you food will properly nourish your body.

6 Blessed shall thou be when thou come in, and blessed shall thou be when thou go out.

7 The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

The devil will cause the wicked to hate you for no reason at all and they shall form allegiance against you to do you harm and even to take your life, they will plot and execute their wicked plans against you; however, without your effort, they: your enemies and their plans will fall by the way side, even without your knowledge that there were the devil devise plot to destroy you. Your enemies shall flee like scared pigeon from you; your good and well intended action will frighten them and they will flee from you.

8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to do; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God give thee. 9The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

Because of your action and Jehovah God reaction the entire world will know that you are called by Yahweh’s name and you are his child and he is your God, this relationship that you have establish with Jehovah, will send fear into the hearts of man and even devils.

11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee. 12The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and thou shall lend unto many nations, and thou shall not borrow.

The lord will bless you with lots of healthy children, and he will give you more then enough means to take care of those children, you will have so much that you will be able to lend to others; even those who hate you will have to come to borrow from you and you will always have to lend.

13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shall be above only, and thou shall not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14And thou shall not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Yahweh will make you the most important and they shall always be at the top and never beneath

But all this will only come to a reality when and if we diligently listen to Jehovah’s words and do them with correctness. So don’t forfeit your opportunity to experience being the recipient of earthly riches, the protection of the conquering lion himself, the wisdom that will set you apart from all other, and a family life that will only bring joy to your heart. In order to achieve all of these things and more you must first get to know who Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ are, and after you know who they are; you must decide whether or not they are who you want to have rule over your life or not. If you choose Yahweh then you will be bless as is outlined above.

The Turth Must be Spoken: Strengthen The Bearers

2010-08-18T12:16:00.000-07:00

There is nothing worst within the Christian community, than a person or group who proclaims their belief in or of a particular biblical principle; preach that principle and expects everyone to live that principle except them. A good example of this can be found in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. This religion is one that propagate Sabbath keeping; however, the members themselves don’t keep the Sabbath. It is true that they hold their main worship sessions on the Sabbath Day; but that is as far as it goes. They meet for church and within the walls it is business as usual. All of the church administrative business and other matter that should have been dealt with by Jehovah’s faithful during the week are left to be done on his Holy Sabbath Day.

Instead of giving back to Jehovah a little of the time he has allotted to us here on earth; our greed have also lead us to also covert his time. We take such to participates in all manner of secular activities while we neglect the commitment we made to him. It is not enough that we break the vow we make to Jehovah, by not devoting the time and the skills that are gifts from him, to do his work, but rather we consciously chooses to desecrate his holy day with such secular activities. All this is done for no other reason but to cover up our unfaithfulness to Yah, the organization and or the individual to whom we have made commitment. So we do the assignment on Yah’s Holy Sabbath Day; trying to look good before man, while we disrespect Jehovah, trample on his laws and disregard his feelings: It all boils down to our image and maintaining the same among men.

According to Genesis the Sabbath is a holy day that was set aside by yah so man will always be reminded of who he is, his role as creator, and all of the things he has promised to his children. In it, human are to set aside or come apart from all their worldly activities and focus on the awesome, wonderful, magnificent and glorious power of the Creator, Redeemer and Holy King. Nothing else should be our minds focused on this day. Our mind must acknowledge his presence; out lips must speak of his glory, his love and his power and our hands must demonstrate his love.

Sabbath keeping is one way that we demonstrates our love for and to Jehovah; we obey Yah because we love him and we love him because he first love us and even when we are not worthy of his love he has been faithful to us. He have made promises that he have never neglected to keep, he have shower us with many wonderful gifts, and he has protected us against evil even when Justice says that we should be killed. These are the reasons why I love Jehovah; these are the reasons why I take of his grace daily to demonstrate my love and my obedience for and to him.

So, when I sat in the church and I heard this young preacher asked Yah to forgive her for trampling on his holy day, and continue with a sermon that was laced with correction and corrective measures that we all should follow; I was moved by Yah to approach her and tell her about the dangerous ground she was threading on by preaching such truth. After which I wrote her the following and send it electronically to her, below is the content of what I wrote.

Hello madam Blake,

How are you? I spoke to you on Sabbath after your sermon; a sermon what I termed “a Martin Luther sermon”. I termed the sermon you preached such because like Martin Luther, your sermon on Sabbath saw you publicly pointing out the hypocrisy of the Seventh Day Adventist church; your employer and you publicly confessing your sins.

I must say it was refreshing to hear such truth coming from the pulpit at Kingsboro Temple Seventh Day Adventist Church and I was elated that Yah used you to present such timely message to his people. The sad thing about the problem on which you have shone a light is: it is a problem that is internationally institutionalized within the Seventh Day Adventist community. Such straightforwardness will anger many people and like Herod, instead of changing their ways, they will see you as a trouble maker, one who is bent on exposing their sins and spitefully causing them public and private embarrassment.

Very often when we are confronted with such dilemma we tend to forget how much we admire the stance of Daniel, the three Hebrew boys, Joseph and the other men and women who Jehovah lead and protected when they were confronted with life threatening predicament and as a results, we abandon His Majesty, the same God who saw his people through the rough times. In doing so we tend to fall prostrate before the feet of powerless man and worship him and in the same breath we consciously ignore Jehovah’s instruction but rather obeying the instruction of him who has no power at all. All this is done in an effort to save our jobs, maintain our social status and to ensure we has the almighty dollar to take care of our needs.

I was moved to bring this your attention, a fact that most preachers of truth often take for granted, which is: when you take on the responsibility to preach truth you are exposing yourself to problems either way. You may get into trouble with Jehovah if you fail to live your admonishment when he revealed his truth to you and you in turn reveal them to his people, a truth that you took upon yourself to teach his people. Or you will get into trouble with your fellow men your bosses, your peers and your adversaries when you chose to live what you preach and do just what his majesty Jehovah instructs you to do.

Let me take this opportunity to pray your strength in the lord, so he will give you the strength to keep on directing his children aright.

The Evidence of Faith and the Faith of Roman Officer

2010-08-11T01:43:00.000-07:00

Art from the blog Bible Study James

In the bible, there is the record of a story that was told by Saint Matthew, which is found in the 8 chapter of that book, beginning with verse 5 and it end at verse 13. The story is told of a Roman soldier who was confronted with a problem, for which he was helpless. This was not a regular soldier; he was an officer in the Roman army. This Roman officer recognized that he was powerless to deal with the matter that was before him; he had done all that was in his power, to relieve the pain of his trusted servant who became critically ill, almost to death and was in pain. As a result of the severity of the problem, the soldier soughed out, found and came to Jesus for help.

The Roman officer cast off his shield of pride and traveled outside the norms and practice of his esteemed office and brought his problem to Jesus. After hearing the man’s complaint, Jesus declared, he will go to the Roman officer’s house and personally address the problem his servant was having. However, after Jesus publicly declared his intent; the soldier told Jesus that it was not necessary for him to come to his house, and he gave the reason why it was not necessary.

Matthew 8: 8-9 the officer said, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come into my home. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed. I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over many soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,’ they do it.”

There is much to say about the faith of this Roman officer as was declare by Jesus. Faith is not exercise out of ignorance but in order for one to exercise faith he must have some knowledge of that which he exercises his faith in. the question must be asked what give this heathen such confidence in the abilities and the powers of Jesus? Why did he make reference to the authority he possesses? Why did he declare his worthlessness to the messiah?

This high ranking Roman Soldier declared his worthlessness, made reference to his authority, and declared his confidence in Jesus’ authority too take care of the problem from his current location. Although it may have been the first time, the Roman officer met Jesus face to face, he knew Jesus better then the people who was following him (Jesus).

You may ask; how could this be?

Since you have asked, I would inform you why and how I arrived at the above conclusion.

For you to understand this you will have to understand the art that is employed in national security and peace keeping. Here we have a situation where Israel a sovereign nation was conquered and now found themselves subjects of the political authority of Roam. It was therefore Roam’s mission as conqueror, to keep its reign over its enemies (Israel); and it is the sole intent and objective of any conquering nation, to maintain force political control over any nation, they have so conquered. They will do so; as long as doing so remains profitable to them or as long as to maintaining such hold, give them the required political prestige among the surrounding nations.

When Roam took over the sovereignty of Israel, they (Roam) became responsible for Israel’s national security as well as maintaining the peace within the state. It is important to note that ensuring the national security and maintaining the peace that is required to ensure the efforts and resources invested in conquering such foreign nation is worth the investment. The process of maintain the national security and ensuring that the peace of a nation is or was kept is not a hit and miss art but a science.

The things that are required to ensure that peace is maintained, in the case where an invading power is trying to ensure that peace is kept and in the same breath prevent the people from whom the sovereignty was taken from revolting are many. Below I have listed three such steps and I have relate them in the context of the faith that was displayed by the Roman’s officers in Matt. 8:5-13

It is critical that the invading country have eyes and ears on the ground: by this I mean the invading forces have got to have trusted informers of and among the people, in order to be kept informed of the activities, plots and plans or of any possible threats and plans of revolt within the community.

A good example of this intelligence gathering can be found in the bible 2 Samuel 15: 27-34. Absalom King Davis son, use force and trickery to take political control over Israel and Judah and cause David, his house and his servant, and his army to escape his kingdom, as a result David came up with a plan to ensure he have reliable information as to the activities and plans of his adversary Absalom his son.

2 Samuel 15: 27-34. 27The king also told Zadok the priest, “Look, here is my plan. You and Abiatharh should return quietly to the city with your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. 28 I will stop at the shallows of the Jordan Riveri and wait there for a report from you.” 29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the Ark of God back to the city and stayed there.

30 David walked up the road to the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went. His head was covered and his feet were bare as a sign of mourning. And the people who were with him covered their heads and wept as they climbed the hill. 31 When someone told David that his adviser Ahithophel was now backing Absalom, David prayed, “O Lord, let Ahithophel give Absalom foolish advice!”

32 When David reached the summit of the Mount of Olives where people worshiped God, Hushai the Arkite was waiting there for him. Hushai had torn his clothing and put dirt on his head as a sign of mourning. 33But David told him, “If you go with me, you will only be a burden. 34 Return to Jerusalem and tell Absalom, ‘I will now be your adviser, O king, just as I was your father’s adviser in the past.’ Then you can frustrate and counter Ahithophel’s advice.

They must have an impeccable knowledge of the culture: It is critical that they have a working knowledge about the festival, rites, rituals, and beliefs of the conquered subjects. For example in the case of Israel; the Israelite strongly believes that Jehovah God had promised them a messiah, who was to free them from all oppression. If one were to rise up among the people, who were capable of instilling a sense of national pride in the people and develop the thirst for the freedom that they once had but they are now being denied of; it was critical that the Romans authority know about such. Anyone, thing or believe that the people had that could cause dissension among the people was something the Roman authority needed to know about.

And they had to know the history of the people: it was in the interest of the Roman authority to know of the history of the conquered country, their strengths and weaknesses, their fighting skills and what motivates them.

These were very pertinent information the Roman authority had to get and continually update and as an officer, this soldier were privilege to some very important information as it relates to Israel, the Messiah etc. He knew every thing there were to know about Jesus, Israel and the customs of Israel; it was his Job to know.

It is important to note, that high ranking officers are not encouraged to associate with potential instigators. To do such is seen as, lending credibility to that individual or group and such behaviors were not tolerated.

When the Roman officer went to Jesus and when he actually asked Jesus for a favor, he was going against the custom, culture and protocol of the military. We must bear in mind that a death sentence was pronounced upon Jesus at birth. However, he escaped that unjust sentence. A simple cross check of Jesus’ birth date, would have told the Romans that Jesus may have been the only boy child his age living in Israel and thus his claim of being the messiah was a truthful claim. This is so because he may have been the only child who survived the bloody slaughter that was ordered by Herod. Matt.1: 16-17. The record would have shown that every child who was born in Bethlehem in Judea except for one was killed. Jesus’ age, and his date of birth would have been enough evidence that he was the only child that survived the bloody slaughter; he was in deed the King of the Jews, the promised Messiah the son of Jehovah that Herod order killed some years earlier.

Here we have a military officer who has thousands of people at his command, why would he deputize his military career to seek the help of one who by law and position was his lesser and his servant, a common criminal as was declared King Herod. Apart from the bad reputation that was unfairly awarded to Jesus, this Roman officer knew that Jesus had far more authority than he had, he also knew that he was speaking to God in the flesh hence the reason he humble himself, cast off the pride that is associated with his office and publicly speak of the awesome power of Jesus.

Today we publicly confess Jesus as the lord of our life, we like Israel of old publicly declares our love for Jehovah, yet our life style calls us liers. We speak one thing but our action fail to live up to the declaration of our words. We are not qualify to condemn Isreal of old. Instead of being men and women of words let us become children of action, let us fall in love with Jesus; let us do like the Roman Officer did and learn all that we can about Jehovah and his son Jesus. It is only if we have a working knowledge of who Yahweh is that we can fall in love with him and his son Jesus Christ.

Like the Roman officer we to must find something on which to base our faith. We must study to base our relationship with Jesus on solid ground. we must not continue to make the same mistake Isreal made over and over again, we must know and belief what Israel the nation for whom the promise was fulfilled was struggling to believe. We must not let our action be like their action; they prosecuted Jesus, they prosecuted Jesus’ apostles and they refusal to move away from the sacrificial system, even after the promised sacrificed was offered on the alter: the cross. These action in themselves are clear indication that they still have not believed.

Today, each time we disobey Jehovah's word we publicly declare that we are not different than the Israel of Yesteryear.

Even with the mountain of evidence that declared Jesus is the Son of Jehovah God, and the correlation of Jesus’ life with the Old Testament prophetic writing, were not enough for them to believe that Jesus the Christ was the promise Son of the Creator God. When we obey the words of Yah we demonstrates that we know who Yah is, when we are diligent to the words of Yah we are demonstrating to the world that we love him.

It is important that we study to show ourselves approved so we will be able to withstand the apostasy that the devil will bring before us, to deceive us and cause us to be lead away from Yah and thus make Jesus’ incarnation, life, death and his resurrection to be without value to us.

The Only Commandment That was Given by Jesus

2010-07-08T06:50:00.000-07:00

The bible, which is the word of Jehovah God, the God of the Christian religion, the religion of which I am associate and the God in whom I believe and serve; speak of the father: Jehovah, the son; Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The three of whom, make up the God Head. Although they are separate and distinct, they are one in wisdom, intelligence, power and purpose. Although they have different roles they always work in unity to accomplish the same objectives.

The Triune God was involved in the creation of the universe and all that is in it. They were also involved in the creation of the earth and all of the creatures. This is evident in the records as it is writing in Genesis 1: 26, Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

There are two things implied here:

that the voice that was speaking was the voice of the Father: Jehovah.

I got the impression that he was speaking to the Holy Spirit and his Son Jesus Christ.

For he said LET US. So by this we can conclude that the Earth and all that is in it was created by the Triune God: Jehovah, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

After man sinned against Jehovah, he forfeited the privilege of communicating with his creator face to face; but this did not stop Jehovah from loving us. As a matter of fact; the plan of salvation was already in place to aid man's redemption; however, Jehovah could have no longer commune with the first couple as he use to, less they be consumed by his righteousness, his glory and his perfection. Because of his love for the fallen couple, it was his desire to keep in touch with and continue to instruct them. He could not continue to interact with Adam and Adam’s wife: Eve, without his glory consuming the pair. So Jehovah kept in touch with the human race through the Holy Spirit; whose attributes were hid from the eyes of man but not from the other member of the God Head and the heavenly host.

All through the history, beginning with the fall of humankind, the Holy Spirit was always present on the earth, inspiring men, moving Godly men into action, imparting wisdom, causing miracles to happen etc. this is evident in the following examples. We see in numbers 11:1-20, Jehovah took of the spirit from Moses and put it in the newly appointed elders. After John the Baptist had baptised Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Holy Spirit was seen descending upon Jesus like a dove; at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came onto Jesus' disciples, who were gather in the upper room, HE blessed them with his supernatural power and caused them to perform awesome wonders.

When Moses received the Ten Commandments at Sinai the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by Jehovah. Jesus’ assignment was to become man and suffer for the redemption of the human family, which he so graciously and elegantly did.

From the fore going it will be wise to conclude that each member of the God Head has defined rolls, for the harmonious functioning of the Triune God and his government, which oversees the universe. Unfortunately the only part of Jehovah’s creation that does not benefits from and is not under the control of the harmonious functioning of the Government of the Triune God is Earth and its inhabitants.

With that said let us look at the life of Jesus Christ while he was on earth. Of all the sermons he preached, and all of the confrontation he had, all of the counsel he gave, Jesus was responsible for giving the people he came to save one commandment that Jehovah did not give.

Apart from this one commandment that Jesus give he quote the words of his father as was spoken directly to the people or through the prophets. He was careful not to say anything new with the exception of the one command that is the most ignored command by men.

Mark 16: 15-16, which read: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Although this commandment does not seems to have any direct impact on ones salvation, it is important to understand that it has and it is the only Commandment that embodies the two characteristics that the ten commandments possess. The first four Commandment which declares and demonstrates our love for Jehovah and the second six Commandments which demonstrates our love for your fellow human. It is critical that we understand, this command bridges the two main characteristics of the Ten Commandments which is love for God and love for man. Although it is only to be observed until Jesus return, it is as serious a commandment as any of the Ten Commandment

It is clear that we cannot be a part of the redeemed if we do not love our brothers and are incapable of demonstrate such love to our brothers; in other words, if we are incapable of loving our brothers as we love ourself and to love the lord Jehovah with all of our heart and our soul. The level of enthusiasm with which we observe this commandment will determine the level of love we have for our brother but more so, how much we love Jesus. Let look at it this way. If you were walking aimlessly along a road, going about your business and you became a victim; you were confronted by a pack of wolves who has discovered; if they stay in the bushes at the edge of the park and await, unsuspecting little children will wonder away from their parent and or guardians, to where they (wolves) are, giving them the opportunity to pranks on the helpless victims (children) and kill them.

You were a victim of this pack of wolves, you were fortunate enough to have been rescued from the ravenous pack, you have the scars to prove it and the pain of your wounds are still fresh in your mind, won’t you feel a sense of obligation to alert as many people as possible of the danger unattended children are exposed to. Would you only alert those whom you know, only your friends or will you tell every one? Will you do it just while you are there or will you ensure that every potential victim is warned?

It is the same thing with salvation and the command that Jesus gave. There is a danger that the human race is exposed to and it is a serious danger that determines eternity. you were rescued from that life threatening danger and you have the scars to prove it. But daily many people are expose to that same danger and are being battered, bitten and clawed by the wolves (Devil and sin) however there is one who can save them if they are being attacted and prevent the attack of the wolves from becoming fatal. You know the valiant very well, you know how and where to locate this valiant because he rescued you from the pack of wolves when you were the victim and you also know that he is capable of rescuing anyone who needs his help.

You have promised the valiant that you will always warn unsuspecting victims of the danger, however; if they fail to heed your warning, you are still going to let them know there is one who is capable of saving them from the vicious wolves if they ever become a victim and needed to be rescued.

A failure to commit to preventing others form the lurking danger is a sign that you care only for yourself; It is selfish and do not represent the values the children who are going to make up Jehovah’s redeemed children ought to possess.

Love for Jehovah: the bible says; if you love me you will keep my commandments; John 14:15. To preach the Gospel is to speak of the good news of the plan of salvation, of the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins, and the might power, love and rewards he has just for us. It is confessing the wonderful works and love of the Triune God towards us. You cannot honestly do this if you do not love Jehovah; if you do not love your fellow man you cannot honestly get the passion to warn them of the inpending danger that awaits them.

It is also impossible for you to love Jehovah God and not love your own kind for God is love. A very important question is asked. Can you say you love God whom you have never seen and you are unable to love your brother whom you can see?

James 2: 17 says In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. Don’t tell me how strong your faith is show me.

Prayer And The Power of Prayer.

2010-07-07T04:48:00.000-07:00

Mark 11: 23-24 states, whosoever shall say to the mountain be thou remove and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which you say; you shall received. Therefore I say, whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe that you have them and you will receive them. Words from the mouth of Jesus to the pen of Mark.

What is prayer? Prayer is the means that was ordained by God, for us, his separated people, to communicate with him. Before the fall of man, there was no need for prayer. For Jehovah God came and commune with man twice a day. Man had the privilege of communicating with his creator face to face. After man betrayed his creator’s trust and sinned; the Creator God, in his mercies, wisdom and love choose to preserve man, by withholding his presence from him; rather, than to have the disobedient pair be destroyed by the glory of his presence.

Although man had betrayed and rejected Jehovah, God did not rejected us, he loved us so much that even though we were not worth to speak to our creator, God in his mercies, institute the sacred means where by man can come to him to say thanks, to give praise, to submit our petition, and to asked for help for and from the many problem and troubles we will encounter.

Many people go on their knees and prayer to Jesus not believing that he is able to do all things, at times we pray not believing that God is waiting to satisfy all of our needs, our concerns and our care. When we pray, we must believe that Jehovah is all powerful and that he is able to do abundantly above all that we can ever hope or pray for. We must believe that he has the unhindered ability or power to answer our prayers, to take care of every request, to meet every need, heal every ailment, to cast out every devil, to protect everyone and we must believe that he is willing and able to provide the help that we need to see us through our darkest days.

We must also know, without faith, it is quite impossible to please God; but most of all, we must we know, understand and believe that Mark 11:23-24 which states, whosoever shall say to the mountain be thou remove and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which you say; you shall received. Therefore I say, whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe that you have them and you will receive them.

These are the words of the Son of Jehovah, who declare that anything you need when you pray and you believe that you have it, it will be done In Jesus’ name. Have you ever imagine instructing a mountain to go into the see and have that mountain; a fixed, immovable object complying with your words and moving at your command or at your will. whosoever shall say to the mountain be thou remove and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which you say; you shall have whatever you say. Prayer cannot move mountain, but prayer can move the hands of God who is capable of moving mountains. For when God ordains a matter what he said; there is no devil, or demon, no principalities or power that can prevent it from coming to pass, when God Speak it is done when he command it stand fast. The Great God of this universe has decided to put himself at our disposal, he promised to work on our behalf.

Jesus is hoping that we love and trust him enough, so that his power can be made manifested in our lives. If you are sick or you have a friend, a love one who is desperately ill and want healing in the body we must rely on the promise of Jehovah as is recorded in the book of James 5: 15, which states: “the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the lord shall rise him up.

And when you are distressed over things you do not have control over remember Phil.4: 6-7, Be careful for nothing, but with everything in prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be known unto Yah. For Jehovah say I have not given you a spirit of fear but a spirit of strength and power and of a sound mind. We cannot be afraid to make our request be known unto the creator God. Even though Jehovah God knows everything he requires that we make our request known onto him.

What are the burdens that are weighing you down? What are the burdens that are causing you to undergo stress? Always remember, it matters not what your burdens are, whatever are your hearts desires, it matters not what is troubling you today or whatever problem you are experiencing, just remember that King Jesus is in control.

Are your problems, the type of problems that are beyond your control, if you are experiencing problems and your problems seems to be bigger than you are; let your request be known unto Jehovah God. You have to make your request, Just tell it to King Jesus; for the messiah is able to take care of all of your requests.

We must follow the example of Jesus, who pray and asked his father for the will and the strength to do everything. Jesus asked his father for the power to do everything. He prayed and in his prayer he asked his father for the power to cast out devils; before he dealt with legion in the grave yard, Jesus prayed and asked his loving father for resurrecting power before he cause Lazarus and the little maid to be resurrected from the dead, he prayer and he asked for providing power; before he broke the barley loafs and fish before that satisfy the hunger of the multitude that number five thousand plus people; he prayed and asked his father for healing power before he healed the leapers, the lame man, the blind and all manner of sickness. Although Jesus is the son of Jehovah any time he needed supernatural intervention he pray and let father Jehovah know exactly what he wanted.

If Jehovah can deliver the three Hebrew boys out of the fiery furnace and Daniel from the lion’s den; then he can deliver us and ours children out of danger, If Jehovah can fight with David and cause him to defeat the unbeatable Goliath, then he can fight your battles and defeat the giants in your lives also, if he can deliver lot and his family out of Sodom and Gomorra, then he can deliver you out of the trials that are meant to destroy you and your family; If he can feed Jeremiah when there was a famine in the land then he can take care of you in this season of recession. God is our deliverer, he is our provider, he is our healer, he is our protector but most of all, he died to save us from sin, hell and destruction.

Today, everyone of us are facing trouble, or difficulties of some kind, Jehovah in his words said he who come onto me I will in no need cast out. So I am asking you today, at this very day that we must take some time to present and make our request know to our loving father who is waiting to bless.

I will like each of us to spend some time in pray. I want you to think clearly about what is troubling you and for you to tell it to Jehovah God. As the word said make known your request to God. So take these few moments to pray; agonize with your father, let us wrestle with God in the same manner that Jacob wrestle with him until he received the desired blessing.

The Devil Fear and Trimble

2010-06-29T16:20:00.000-07:00

Art work form an unknown artist

We have heard and in most cases have read the story of Job, and we have concluded that Jesus humble brought the devil's attention to Job, in order for the devil to test Job’s faith. However; I have concluded that Job’s story, like so many others was much deeper than a test of Job’s faith. I will like to suggest that Jesus the righteous son of Jehovah; was using Job to remind Satan that his time will soon end; through Job, he (Jesus) was showing Satan the master deceiver and the inspirer of all that is evil that he will soon be defeated.

When Satan met Jesus in Heaven as is declared in Job 1:6 and 2:1-3, “Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” We must be reminded that the nature of the meeting was not discussed and the nature and the tone of the discussion that ensued between Jesus and the Devil were not expounded upon either.

However; knowing the history between Jesus and Satan, and understanding the nature of the Devil, it is my opinion that the Devil did not go to report to Jesus, as is often suggested; for to do so would be to accept Jesus Christ lordship over him, even today the devil denies Christ’s lordship over him and the universe. We must also remember the devil is not a peaceful being; he (devil) is pure evil and he uses every opportunity to cause trouble, dissension and chaos. When Satan appeared in heaven he went there to make a statement, he wanted to show the un-fallen world that he (Satan) was still going to ascend to the throne of God as he intended to before he was evicted from heaven.

Satan did not take time off from causing chaos on the earth to submit to the authority of Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ; but Satan went there to try and stir up trouble and to once again plant seeds of doubt in the minds of the un-falling creatures but most of all; he went there to remind Jesus that he will soon be at his disposal, on his turf, playing a game that he (Satan) had mastered.

I could imagine Satan reminding Jesus in the presence of all, of his commitment to save man from their sin, redeem his fallen creation form him (Devil) and to forgive them of their sins. I could imagine the cunningness the Devil use in issuing threats to Jesus. Interestingly, the threats came in the form of a reminder of his plan of salvation. Satan knew and was not afraid to remind Jesus that In order for him to bring his plans to fruition, Jesus had to give up his powers, put off his glory, abundant his father and come on down to earth. I could also imagine the sinister laughter that rang out from the mouth of the cunning one as the voice of the sinister one echoed throughout heaven as he visualize what he was going to do to Jesus. I could imagine hearing the devil, informing Jesus in the presence of his father and all of heaven that all it would take is one selfish act, one ungodly thought, one slip of the tongue and your throne and your government will be mine forever.

We must not be deceive, it is still the devil’s desire to ascent to the throne of Jehovah, even today; he is still trying to find means of securing his gold of becoming Lord of the Universe.

Satan was confident that when Jesus put off his glory and the power that constitute his Godly authority, the Son of Jehovah would be at his (Satan’s) mercies. Satan was sure, that he will be able to take his self declared position, at the helm of heaven, dethroning the Creator, when the God send Messiah (Jesus) fail his God assign mission to redeem human kind. Satan was confident that when Jesus the Christ left the realms of Heaven, put off his power and his glory; stepped into the frail body of man with all of his desire, impulses, passions and weaknesses he was going to have the upper hand. I will have all of my powers, to use as I see fit and you will have the weakness and frailty of man.

For these reasons; ever so often, when Jesus sees the need, he takes the opportunity to put Satan in his place; by giving him a shot of reality, bringing before the devil: the inspirer of evil; evidence of his eminent doom. The question is how does Jesus accomplish this?

There are many such examples of this in the biblealthough not spelt out. Most people see Jehovah and Jesus as men who are to humble to boast. But the God whom I serve is a boaster; he boast because he has a lot to boast about. Moses told the children of Israel and later reminded them who is fighting their battle. Jehovah wanted his faithful children, who are always the physical underdogs when compared to their enemies; to live such confident lives, that they will be perceived by their enemies, who were/are often stronger, had bigger armies, had more sophisticated weapon and training to looked upon YAH’s children as arrogant. Deut. 9:1-5 Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

All through the Bible, we can see Jehovah want his people to live victorious confident lives, nothing less will do. Also Jehovah wanted the Israelites to always remember what he had done for them. He constantly reminded his people what he had done for them; they were to keep the pass over as a perpetual reminder of his delivering, saving and awesome power. So when we worship Jehovah we ought to always acknowledge his power, his glory, his wisdom and all of his other perfect qualities. What is praise? Praise is paying tribute to Jehovah’s wonder, power, love, glory etc.

Jesus burst Satan’s bubble when he brought his attention to Job. Jesus did not humble told Satan about Job he told the Devil you are confident you can take me when I come to earth, let me show you how weak you really are, I am going to put you up against Job, you with all of your power against a man who love me with all of his heart, and I am not going to intervene. I am going to sit here and watch Job defeat you. Jehovah give the Devil unfetter access to Job, he could have done anything to Job except taking his life. Satan work with frightening urgency; his goal, was to get Job to sin, turn his back on Jehovah, which was the same as Job pledging his allegiance to him (Satan). I know you will not be able to break Job and if you cannot break a mere human, do you think you can break me the Mighty Warrior, who has defeated you over and over. I am the perfect righteous son of Jehovah? You cannot be serious Jesus said with a confident smile on his face.

Satan did all that he could to Job; he even convinced Job that his trouble and unnecessary suffering was as a result of, Jehovah not appreciating his (Job) loyalty to him (Jehovah). What was amazing was, although Job have been experiencing ongoing and tremendous suffering, his love for his creator caused him to declared; Though he slay me Yet will I serve him. Job 13:15. The devil lack of success brought an unwanted sense of reality to the mind.

When Elisha and Elijah elevated their love, commitment and loyalty to Jehovah to such a stage where they came to totally rely upon him and trust him with all their heart and soul, which made them untouchable; making the devil powerless over and against them; it was a clear message to Satan, which said, if you cannot break mere sinful human beings, who place their life in Jehovah’s hand, how can you conqueror the all powerful sinless son of Yahweh. When Enoch, elevated his game where his love for Jehovah and his trust in him cause Yah to allow Enoch to forgo death, it was confirmation to Satan that his end is at hand.

When John the Baptist and the millions of people who choose to stand up for Jehovah and to suffer death, rather than to offend their God, it was also another clear warning to the Devil that he was incapable of causing Jesus to sin. I could imagine Jesus boasting on his subjects, holding them up in front of the devil as being stronger than he (the Devil) is, Although he (the devil) has misused his God given powers against Yahweh Creatures, by employing the lowest level of deceit, trickery, lies and all form of dishonesty; he still failed.

Art work from an unknown artist

So finally when Jesus lay down his Godly qualities except his character and came to earth clothed in the body of a vulnerable, fragile, frail, sin prone human infant, It is believed that Satan the fallen Prince of the Morning did not trust the demise of Jesus Christ to any of his subjects. This was too important a mission and there were too much at stake for the Tempter too trusted this to anyone or group other than himself. This assignment was so important; that he, the ultimate evil had to do it himself. Jesus endured every thing Satan threw at him and when the time was right, Jesus gave up the Ghost; it was then he die, fulfilling his mission. Satan did not take Jesus’ life because He (Satan) does not have power over life or death; he cannot give life and he cannot take life. Satan was even unable to defeat Jesus even when he was dead. And then after three days Jesus with out help Jesus recloth himself with life, burst fort from the grave conquering death, grave and hell and securing the victory on man’s behalf.

Are Pastors and Christian Counselors Responsible for the Failure of Christian Marriages?

2010-06-15T15:19:00.000-07:00

It is said that eighty percent of marriages fails and fifty percent of failed marriages ends in divorce. The statistics are there to show that in the last ten years, the divorced rate amongst practicing Christians has rocked out of control. A practice that was once taboo among the Christian community has now become a common and acceptable practice.

When the forgone statement is considered, it is truly unfortunate that the Christian community who believed that Jehovah: the Creator God; was the one who instituted marriage at creation Genesis 2: 20-23 so the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the LORD God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’ Jehovah encouraged marriage in his commandment Exodus 20:14 “You must not commit adultery” and thought Jesus Matthew 5: 27 he showed the seriousness of this sacred institution.

Today Christians are entering and leaving marriages with no regards for the seriousness of the institution and the God who instituted it.

Marriage was instituted by Jehovah for the following reasons:

• For the preservation of the human species.

• For the preservation of the human family the most essential societal unit.

• To ensure man maintains his obedience, love and loyalty to Jehovah God.

• And to ensure that human come and remained close to Jehovah.

From my observation, I must conclude; there are two main reason why Christian marriages ends in divorce and these two "main" reasons, are as follows.

1. Christianity is now a social club that uses the bible ritualistically and no longer considers the actual love and obedience to God as relevant.

2. Christian couples are receiving poor pre and post marital counseling from their pastors, spiritual advisor and or spiritual mentors.

I have so concluded after hearing many Pastors speak but my conviction was sealed when I heard a PhD. Holding Pastor, who repeatedly boasted of his counseling credential, consistently declared his impatience, with couples who utilize his premarital counseling service. Like many pastor, this PhD. holding pastor; think he should be given the privilege of choosing the man for the female of the church and any man who is willing to honor Jehovah by utilizing the wisdom and intelligence Jehovah has blessed him with; to use such to think for himself, not allowing himself to me manipulated by their petty mentality. When such intelligence, strength and wisdom are displayed the male are deemed unfit and are not considered to be husband material. The women are never the one with the fault, because they are very often the agreeable ones (it seems like women in such situation are willing to agree with everyone except for her proposed husband), the ones who pose no real threat to the Pastor's manhood, masculinity and or authority.

Premarital counseling is not arranged for couple seeking the pastor counselor as to whether they should get married or not, but it is a program that is design to lend an mutual prospective in helping the couple identify habits, attitudes, behaviors and or situations that could present potential challenge to the harmonious functioning of the marriage. It is therefore the counselor’s responsibility, to help the couple identify the potential obstacles as well as; to help them find and develop the tools needed to effectively deal with such potential obstacles to their happiness.

However instead of providing the couple with the tools needed to overcome such obstacles, the pastors and Christian counselors try to discourage the union of the couples who love each other and in the process they imposes their personal and petty stereotypes, biases and weaknesses into the life of those who are seeking their guidance for a potentially successful marriage. It seems like these counselors are unaware that it is when a couple have learn to successfully and positively deal with the obvious problems that may pop up in their marriage they are homing the skills, developing the knowledge and equipping themselves with the needed tool that will give the couple the confidence and the know how to deal with and resolve the unforeseen difficulties of the future.

When the pastors are not giving bad counsel and imposing their own weakness and fears upon new couples; they preach sermons in which they seek to cover up their own counseling failure, selling to the congregation a one size fit all message as they instilling in the congregation, the mentality that problems are stronger than love and if a couple dear to venture our side of that which the pastor's limited view think is normal, the marriage is doomed to fail. Yet the people who are following their counsel are ending up before the divorce court.

The behavior and remarks of the PhD. holding Pastor and other unfaithful men and women who pretends daily that they are servant of Jehovah once again reminded me that:

1. Holding a PhD does not mean you are endowed with wisdom and or commonsense.

2. Jehovah will not withhold from his faithful leaders the wisdom that is needed to lead his people aright.

3. If you are a leader of Jehovah’s people and you lack such wisdom it means you are simply not faithful to Yah.

You may ask how I can make such a bold statement, well I will tell you. Before we go any further you must know that wisdom is free but it is not cheap and it does not come without personal sacrifice to flesh. If you don’t remember anything else please remember that the price for wisdom is faithfulness to Jehovah. In the book of proverbs, it speaks of the wisdom that Jehovah gives to his faithful children freely. In Daniel 1: 8-17, we see Jehovah blessed Daniel and his three friends with wisdom because they were faithful to him.

We have also seen in Numbers 11: 17- when Moses needed help; Yah told him to appoint faithful men to assist him. When the men were appointed Jehovah did something peculiar. "Then I will come down and speak with you (Moses) there, and I will take of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it all alone". Numbers. 11:17.

This is simply, when Jehovah God assigns a man to lead his people he equip them to do so with excellence. It is no secret that Jehovah is very liberal with wisdom, especially to anyone who is faithful to him but more so to those he has appointed to lead his people aright. It is important, for Jehovah’s name must be glorified, and at time he does things just for his name’s sake. So if you are not awarded or blessed with the wisdom of Jehovah then you may not be living faithful to him and you may be functioning outside the perimeter of your calling.

Can You Win Even When The Odds Are Stocked Against You?

2010-05-20T04:56:00.000-07:00

Can you win when the odds are heavily stocked against you?

Can you win when the odds are heavily stocked against you? This is the question we must answer today. Before we go any further, let us take some time to define what is meant by the term "the odds are against you." This term is use to describe a situation where a person is confronted with an issue, challenge, or a task where it appears as if the chances of failure is much greater than the chances of success.

When the odds are against you means; you are in the weak side of an uneven competitive matchup Or the chance of something good happening to you is slight to impossible. An example of such is: a basketball team with only three plays has an almost impossible chance of winning a match. In the case of the basketball team with three players the odds are stock against them and it is highly unlikely that they will win that game.

It is like asking a high school basketball star to go up against Kobe Bryant today or Michael Jordon after he had won his 4th NBA championship ring. The odds of that student winning a game of one and one against either of these consummate professionals are totally against that student. In this case the odds are highly stocked against that student.

In their field, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordon are exceptionally skilled athletes, who have homed their skills over many years of playing against the best in their field. These men through hard work, natural talent and the will to be the best at what they do, have cause them to be elevated above all other in their sport.

So I will ask the question again. Can you win when the odds are heavily stocked against you? Fortunately, odds stocked against you only presents a difficulty; it do not present an impossibility. It do not say you cannot win, all that reality means is, your chances of winning is very small. In the case of the high school athlete; one of the ways he may win is, if Michael or Cobe slipped and injured their leg and either athlete are unable to move about the court.

Very often, as Christians, we encounter situations, that put us in the unfortunate position where we are forced to go up against odds, which are intentionally stocked against us and as Christians, at times, we are overwhelmed by such odds. But we must take comfort in the fact that Yah said in his words. I will not allow you more than you can bear. 1 Cor. 10:13, No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

Here we are reassured that Yah: the great Creator God has promise that when we make an effort to stand up for him, he will make a way out of whatever situation we are confronted with. 2 Peter 2:9, “So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue Godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.”

All through the bible and all throughout our lives we have seen and experienced that Jehovah knows how to rescue his children not when the odds are stock against them; but more so when they are up against impossible situations.

We have seen the three Hebrew boys who stood up for Yah choosing rather to be thrown into a burning furnace that was heated ten times hotter than it should have been, than to defile Jehovah’s law. The heat that emanated from that furnace was so hot, that the men who threw the three Hebrew boys into the fiery furnace was roasted by the heat that came from the furnace; however the three Hebrew boys were in the middle of the furnace where it was at its hottest yet the only thing that occurred with them were the ropes that bound them were burned off of Jehovah’s faithful followers. But what was more impressive is the fact that when they were taken out of the fire, not even the smell of smoke was detected upon them.

Can a living creature, after been eaten, digested and spend three days in the belley of its predator then being vomited up by his predator, survive such an ordeal? Let us examining the possibility of such a thing happening.

In the stomach there are many digestive acid and enzymes; that aids in the break down and conversion of food particle into that which the body can use to provide energy, to repair it’s self and encourage growth.

There is a particular stomach acid that is call: Hydrochloric acid; this acid is a very powerful acid; so much so, scientist has replicated this acid to be use in many industries. If this acid comes into contact with the skin, it will burn through the skin creating an ulcer or an open sore. Mile inhalation of Hydrochloric acid can cause choking, inflammation of the nose, throat, and the upper respiratory system; pulmonary edema (abnormal build up of fluid in the air sacs of the lungs) and circulatory failure (inability of the cardiovascular system to supply the cells of the body with enough oxygenated blood). If a person who has been exposed to Hydrochloric acid and are experiencing these symptoms is allowed to go without proven medical treatment, that person will eventually lead to death.

Yet Jonah spend three days and three nights in the stomach of a whale swimming in hydrochloric acid; yet his body was not consumes, he did not die from respiratory failure or pulmonary edema. When Jonah was later puked up on the shore, he was in fine health. He had no sores, no irritations, and no inflamed organs for with God all things are possible.

We also saw the children of Israel standing before the Red Sea, with no means of getting to the other side (a place of safety) in an attempt to escape the furious, well trained and well outfitted arm of Pharaoh; who was in hot pursuit of God's children. Yet when Moses, when he followed Yah’s instruction and touched the the Red Sea with his rod; the water with animated intelligence moved out of the Yah’s children way; Providing a clear path for them to escape the rage of the devil inspired, ill intended army of the Egyptians.

When I was only a teenager, I was knifed by a devil inspired assailant, whose ten inches knife blade was plunged into my stomach. This resulted in serious injuries; were vital internal rgans were badly damaging. In the process the assailant an his knife did much damage within me, some of which were irreparable. Topping off this whole experience is a fact, which baffles me even up to today; for the person who Yahweh assigned to preformed life saving surgery on me; the one who repaeird the injured tissues and organs was not qualify to operate yet I have never had a complication since.

What are the chances of these ever happening? These events are total impossibilities yet when Jehovah got involved every thing that was impossible became possible. The bible says in Matt. 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

No matter what situation we find our self in, even when the odds are stocked against us, we have nothing to fear. For when Yahweh gets involved in our affairs on our behalf; immediately, the odds are stocked in our favor; he makes it totally impossible for us to lose. He also causes all of the impossibilities that confronts us and make them possible. This is the way Yahweh function, he goes up and beyond human’s understanding; just when you thought there were no way out of a predicament; Yah puts in an appearance and make a door where there were no door, he gives you strength where you were failing, comfort where you were hurting and life where you were dying. Yah is all we need to be victorious.

Are You A False Prophet?

2010-05-17T16:15:00.000-07:00

An artist impression of Jehovah: The conquioring Lion of the tribe of Judah

Some months ago I encountered some black conscious religions people in NY City. I listened to their message and being a conscientious black man myself; it was quite refreshing to hear and see brothers publicly proclaiming the word of Yah, as it was meant to be proclaimed to the black population. This religious message is geared to the empowerment of the black community. It is no secret and history has within its walls the truth of the manipulative method in which the word of Jehovah was used to exploit, sex-ploit and enslaves members of this community by those who were to be Jehovah’s servants.

However; after a deeper on site inspection of their message, I discovered something very strange with the message they were presenting. I am deeply in love with Yah and I cannot be apart of, or support any person, or group; religion or otherwise, whose teachings are base on, misguided biblical principle or errors.

The bible said many false prophets shall come in my name; however, if they do not speak according to this gospel, believe them not. Previously to my face to face encounter with this group I was given a webpage for the church (http://thecomforter.info) and later I was led to view some U-tube clip of the leader of this group propagating his message.

From my use of the webpage and from viewing the videos that are posted on U-tube, I had my suspicions about this group. So instead of leaving my assumption to speculation, I was happy when I noticed the brothers were hosting an outreach program at the Atlantic Avenue Subway terminal. I took the opportunity and I approached the members of the group, who were proudly dressed in what can be considered Hebrew Priest ritualistic or ceremonial uniform. I inquisitively asked if they are affiliated to the church that has a leader that is called the Comforter. The comforter goes by the name: Tazadaqyah.

Proudly the young man answered yes and quickly asked me if I am affiliated with the comforter. It was then a discussion ensued which resulted in the person who conducted the discussion on behalf of the group got very angry with me for asking some very pointing questions then he pronounced the wrath and fire of God upon me.

Tazadaqyah: the self proclaimed Comforter/holy spirit

I was shocked when I confirmed my suspicions. It is strange to know that the members of this group, who spend a lot of time studying the bible, actually believed their leader: Tazadaqyah, a man of flesh and blood to be; the Comforter or Holy Spirit.

This group uses John 14: 26. But the Comforter or the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and “he” will remind you of everything I have said to you. This group said that the comforter has to be a man because the bible used the pronoun “he” in this passage. However; there are many other bible passages that make reference to the Holy Spirit as “it”. In such cases would it be ok for a man to ignore sound bible text and refer to his dog as the Holy Spirit because the bible refer to the Spirit as “it” as is stated in Numbers 11:17. (Check the reference below). These people choose to ignore the rules of simple English and the use of pronouns, which are use to substitution for a noun to maintain rhythm, to break the monotony that is easily develop in writing and to make reading interesting.

There are many bible references made to and of the Spirit of God. In many cases Jehovah’s spirit will come upon and inhabits the men and women who have dedicated their lives to the honor and glory of Jehovah. Men and women who have submitted their life to Jehovah’s will and with his help, guidance and strength have lived holy lives.

The duties and obligation of the Holy Spirit is more intellectual and inspirational than miraculous. His responsibilities are to affect the mind with our permission and submission. He brings back to our memories that which we have learned, commitments made to Jehovah, messages form our God, he inspires us to stand for Yah; when we have to make tough life changing decision for him etc. He also give us the endurance to go through difficult experiences; the boldness to represent Jehovah without fare and the courage to endure suffering even death for the truth.

The questions that must be asked and answer are:

Is the Holy Spirit a man?
Is he a versatile being that is able to inhabit and use anyone or anything for the glory of Jehovah of whom he is apart?
Is Tazadaqyah the Holy Spirit?

I will not only answer these questions but I will use biblical reference to justify my answers. The Holy Spirit is not a man and any man or woman as a matter of fact; who declare him self the Comforter is an imposter, a child of the devil, and therefore he or she is an Antichrist.

The Holy Spirit as the name indicated is a spirit and is not of the realms of earth, although he has current assignment in this realm. Further more; he is in all of his or its being perfect, righteous and never knew sin. Can we honestly say this about this man?

Let us take some time and examined Jehovah’s word, as it is documented in the Holy Bible; here we will see if it is in the lease possible, that this man who were born of a woman, the product of a man’s sperm, who calls himself the comforter, could he indeed be the Holy Spirit?

First let me make it clear, the Comforter is a part of the God Head; therefore, is God and requires the same reverence as Jehovah and his Son: Jesus Christ. If any one claims to be the comforter they are claiming to be a part of the God head; and like Jesus has the authority to declare without fare the father and I are one. It is important to note that if any man makes such a declaration publicly or privately is blaspheming.

What are the qualities of the Holy Spirit?

• The Holy Spirit has the power to supernaturally affect the mind and change life.

• He has the un-humanlike but Godlike qualities that afford him to be everywhere at once.

• And has the power to affect and inhabit many people and things at the same time; as is recorded in Numbers 11: 17.

Numbers 11: speaks of the stresses the Children of Israel give Moses with their murmuring. Moses reached his limit, when God appointed and declared children began to trouble him for the delicacies of Egypt. In their lust for the things of the pagan City, they complained. “The Children of Israel also wept again, and said who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside ‘this’ manna.” Numbers 11: 4-6

The attitude of Yah’s chosen children anger Moses to the point, where Moses told Jehovah that he rather die than to continue to take on the burden of this people. Jehovah being the all knowing God, knew how to appease Moses and thus asked him to select seventy (70) of the leaders of the Children of Israel to take up leadership position. After these new leaders were appointed something special happen, Numbers 11: 17; And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take some of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them also; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

Here we see Jehovah took of his spirit which was upon Moses and distributed it upon the seventy newly appointed leaders. This is proof that a person cannot be the Holy Spirit; however, they can have the Holy Spirit on, in or with them.

All of Jehovah’s prophets have been influenced by the Holy Spirit in some way; however, none of these Godly servants ever declared him or her self to be; the Spirit of God. Not Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Moses; not Abraham, Samuel or David; not John the Baptizer, Paul, Peter, James, and or John; not Noah, Job, The three Hebrew boys, Daniel, Rehab, Esther etc. But they declared only after it was revealed to them and Jehovah instructed them to tell the people that the Spirit of Jehovah is with or on them.

Ezekiel 11:5 the spirit of the lord falls upon me, and he tells me to speak thus said the lord.

Even Jesus: the Holy son of the creator God never declared himself the Holy Spirit but instead he said; “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Luke 4:18-19.

We know this was true when Jesus said it, because John the Baptist and all who gathered at and/or on the banks of the Jordon River, when Jesus Christ was baptized, saw the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus. The only description that was given was: It looked like a dove.

The Spirit of Jehovah often speaks through holy men:

Let us take for example

2 Samuel 23:2, The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.

John1:32-34; I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptize with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

Acts 2: 1-4 “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

Roman 8:24 Likewise the Spirit also help our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself make intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered.

Is Tazadaqyah the Spirit, whom Jehovah took from Moses and placed on the newly appointed leaders of Israel?
Was he the spirit whom Yah cause to descend on Jesus after his baptism?
Is he the Spirit who engulfed the house where the disciples were gathered on the day of Pentecost?
Is Tazadaqyah the Holy Spirit that Interpret our prays and present them before Yah?

I say no; what do you say?

Do Unto Others As You Will Have Them Do Unto You

2010-04-13T13:43:00.000-07:00

Each day we are place in situations, where we are called upon to perform acts of kindness. These acts of kindness, were brought to our attention through solicitation or observation and will/may bring relieve, comfort or make a difference in the life of an individual or a family. We are not expected to save the world and we are not expected to perform such kind deed to people who are better off than ourselves in the areas of their needs; however, we have an obligated to render help or assistance to those who were scourge with the unfortunate circumstance of being less fortunate than ourselves.

Because of the nature of the world wherein we live, many times, we are forced to evaluate the needs and the degree of the needs of those who solicit from us or those who we perceive to be in need. At times we will rather risk allowing a person with genuine needs to go hungry, in order to avoid giving our goods to one who pretend to be in need for profit.

The truth of the matter is, it is hard to distinguish from a person's appearance or from their physical attributes if he/she is a con artist or if he/she is a person with a genuine need, who should be helped. However; out attitude should be one of, I will rather be con by a pretender than to be denied the privilege, of rendering help to a person in need and in the process; relieving the suffering of one who will otherwise be made to go without. We have got to come to the understanding that it is not because of any special qualities that we have; why we are blessed with the position we are currently in. We must also remember, there are professors, doctors, lawyers, teachers, ministers, police officers, laborers etc. who have been taken off of their panicles success by circumstances and they were forced to join the community of the have not and the homeless. It is only by the grace of God, why most of us, are in the fortunate position (not homeless) we current hold, and all it takes is a change of or in circumstances to reverse our current status.

The question is; how would you want to be treated if the pain of hunger attacked you daily and you are place in the demeaning position where to solicit (panhandle) were your only or immediate recourse? Would you want to be scrutinized and judge because you lost your job and you are unable to afford a place to call your home? Would you like to be scorned and mocked because your means of support is no longer available to you and you are required to live off of the mercies of strangers? Would you want to be made to feel belittled if you had a mental break down, became seriously ill or sustained an injury and as a result you are unable to secure or hold steady employment to take care of your daily needs?

Jesus the only begotten of Jehovah knew and taught some things that we cannot seem to grasp: He said "ye have the poor with you always, and when-so-ever ye will ye may do them good". Luke 7: 14. No matter how rich, or powerful a nation is there will always be poor people, and no matter how wealthy an individual may be today the unpredictability of the future can deal him or her some events that can change his entire circumstances. History is littered with kings, nations, and individuals who have had the hands of time rearranged their entire world. They were moved from the castle of wealthy to the shack of poverty.

In 2009, the world saw many wealthy men and women who chose to take their own life rather than to walk the path of the poor. When the USA Stock Market crashed it send ripples internationally; these ripples caused similar crashes within the international financial institutions, thus changing the social and financial status of million of people world wide. In a literal a blink of an eye, life were rearranged and toppled. These series of events had lead many to asked, is being poor such a bad thing that it is better to be dead than to be poor? I do not know what were the circumstances that would have moved individuals to terminate their own life because he/she lost his/her earthly treasures but I do know, being poor is no walk in the park when you have lived an extravagant life.

Jehovah knew with the inception of sin many people will experience poverty in its varying degrees and it is with this in mind that he admonished all people including his faithful children to: “Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.” Deuteronomy 15:9-11.

Jehovah also saw it fit to institute the gleaning system, which was to ensure that in agricultural society the poor people were taken care of. He also warned the people through his prophets, of the consequence that were associated with the way they treat the poor and how they are viewed by and in heaven. Proverbs 14: 31 say He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors (Jehovah) him has mercy on the poor.

In Matthew 25: 44, Jesus speak of some of the tangible criterion he will use to judge the dept of our love for him. Fortunately or unfortunately; the basic criteria will be in the way in which we treat those who were less fortunate than we are/were or how we satisfy those basic needs of the people we come into contact with. He said I was hungry, sick, imprisoned, and naked and you did not attend to my needs. When we ask, lord; when were you sick, hungry, imprisoned or naked and we did not minister to your needs. Then Jesus replied in humble tone, as long as you did it not unto one of the lease of these my children you did it not unto me.

Let us make a strong commitment to our God and to ourselves; a commitment to honor Jehovah’s words and to treat those who are less fortunate than ourselves or and those who are in need with the dignity, love and respect that they deserve. It is important to understanding that the value of an individual is not measure by the persons accumulation of earthly possessions but the mere fact that he or she is a child of the living God. We must also bear in mind that the wind of change can blow at any time and change our circumstances for better or for worst; today for you tomorrow for me. It is said, the foot you intentionally mash today may be attached to the hands you are required to kiss tomorrow.

Does Bad Thing Happens?

2010-03-30T14:21:00.000-07:00

Ever since the inception of sin, this world has devolved from a place wherein dwell the holy God; a place where Jehovah came to commune with man daily, into a place where evil reign freely and the inhabitants are inflicted with all manner of evil. These evil are manifested in the unfortunate things that happens daily and the man made tragedies (murder, injuries, crashes of all kind etc.) that secures the mental and physical suffering that are inflict on many or each of us. These along with the other bad things that happens to us as a direct results of man’s behavior and sin that appear to have happen without the direct involvement of us human. Here we speak of illnesses, death and what is termed as "natural disasters" etc.

We are force to deal with the grief that accompanies the death of love ones, we have seen the suffering of friends, family and acquaintance and we have experienced such suffering for our self. We have feel the pain and suffering that is not known to Jehovah’s Holy Angel and that were not experienced by the mother and father of humanity, that is; until they disobeyed Jehovah's laws and sin entered into the world. We have seen and heard of innocent, helpless babes contracting the worst kind of illnesses; we have also seen and heard of these precious gift from Jehovah (babies) becoming victims of abuses in its most extreme form. This world has reached the stage where, the murder of the baby, in or out of the womb is a common and acceptable practice.

Having considering all the above facts; we are forced to believe that there is a God: Jehovah, whose main attributes is love and he sits at the reign of the universe; who has particular interest in this world: would just sits back and allow all of these atrocities to happen to human kind, who some considers to be Jehovah's favorite creation. Yes Jehovah has the power to stop the innocent helpless babes from being afflicted with such evil, yet he look on with interest and he does nothing.

I have face and gone through many difficult experience in my life, yet I have never had one bad thing happened to me. I have been stabbed, had broken bones, I have had illnesses that caused me to toppled over helpless in pain, I have been betrayed by close friend, conspired against, had hits put on me, escaped death several times, intentionally poisoned, efforts were maid to get me hooked on drugs, etc. yet I have never had a bad thing happened to me.

We can say from experience; no one like to endure hard or difficult times and when such comes our way, we often take or view life’s events and experiences in isolation. However; life’s events and life’s experiences do not come isolated. When confronted with a negative event; my earthly father always took the time to remind us and himself, no matter how bad the event or the experience we had to go through or endure were/are; it could have been worst.

If Jehovah were to give the devil unfettered access to us, we would have been destroyed in the very worst way a long time ago. Our suffering would have been so severe and so excruciating we would have been begging for death to come to us. The bible warned us about the intent of the devil; 2 Peter 5: 8, “be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” Here the bible speaks about the devil and his intent for each person. He wants to devour us. It is the devil who is truly responsible for all of the suffering, the heart aches and the pain that man endure. However; it is Jehovah who allows him to inflict such upon us.

Jehovah allows the devil to so cause us pain and suffering for two basic reasons which are:

So he can bring us back into the safety of his care.

Very often we intentionally and at times we accidentally stray far from the protection of Jehovah, we forsake his love, his protection and his will for our life. When we do such, we are denying Jehovah the rights to take care of us; in other words, we reject his protection, his grace, his mercy and his love. The good thing about this is: even though we reject his love and his leading in our lives; he Jehovah never treats us as we deserve to be treated. He still extends his hand of protection towards us, saving us from the true intent and purpose of the devil. Even though we reject him he only gives the devil limited access to us. 1 Corinthians 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” Even when we have betrayed and abandon our sustainer, he still has our backs, even when with our actions and with our words we tell him in clear language to leave us alone he still ensure that we are not allowed to face the full wrath of the devil.

He wants to ensure that we develop a character that makes us worthy to be called his own.

It is no secret that sin has defined us. Our thoughts action and vocal expression are as such that cannot dwell in the holy places of the Most High. It is Jehovah's plan to restore us to our rightful place and status. However; because of our love for the unholy, sin, the things of sin and our free will it is impossibly for the all knowing God to restore us except for the way that he choose. We need to give Jehovah our independence and rely solely on him. Unfortunately, this submissive character trait is totally alien to human kind. So we have to be retrained using negative-positive re-enforcement. Here is where the Devil and suffering comes in. Like a parent and a child; when that child does something wrong that child is punished, sending a clear message to the child that the particular behavior is not an acceptable behavior and when the child does something good, he or she is rewarded and praise sending the clear message that such behavior are acceptable behaviors. So the negative behaviors are punished and discourage and the positive behaviors are rewarded and encouraged. The same technique is use in the training of animals.

It is the same method Jehovah use to ensure our characters are retransformed into that which is fitting to inherit his kingdom: the Kingdom of Heaven. Here is where the devil comes in; when we go against Jehovah's laws, Jehovah gives the devil limited access to inflict upon us the needed punishment; however, such access is allowed not out of hate or to hurt us but to strengthen us and to lead us back to where Jehovah want us. When we are faithful to Jehovah, he ensures that we are rewarded, in many ways. He blesses us with wisdom, we are protected from evil and we are successful in all that we do. Ps 1: Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. 4Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Many people asked why? When supposedly bad things happen to them, and in their ignorance some people question Jehovah in anger; while again others choose to be detached from their creator/sustainer. They blame him for what went wrong or the bad things that had happened.

I was fortunate, in that; my parents taught me not to ever question Jehovah when supposedly bad things happens to me, knowing that Jehovah is faithful to us wards; not willing that any should perish but all should come to repentance.

When at the tender age of seven (7) years old, my mother; the only Christian I have ever known, the only person who loved me unconditionally, and the person whom I was closest too died; although I did not understand why my world came crashing down and fell into complete ruins; I took my mothers words that her death was for the best as she always said: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 and Ps 84: 1, which says: For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless or upright.

There is story that may help us to understand more fully, the events that go on behind the scene; events we are not privilege to; events that happens in the spiritual realms that has a direct effect us in our world.

The story is told of a Christian farmer who was finding it hard to make ends meet, however he had a strong healthy cow. The cow was the only thing of value the farmer had; it kept the farmer and his wife from going under. The cow gave enough milk to satisfy the farmer domestic need and there were always enough milk to sell to take care of the other needs of the couple.

But one morning when the farmer went out to milk the cow, he noticed the cow was dead, how this could be? The farmer asked in despair, what am I going to do now? He questioned. The farmer wondered why

Jehovah would do such a thing to him; after all he serving Jehovah faithfully and all he asked in return was for the ability to provide for his wife. Now even his humble desire was taken away from him. So in his disappointment and in his hurt he angrily questioned Jehovah as to why he will allow his cow which was his only means of providing for his family to die.

Jehovah understood the feelings of hopelessness and the pain of disappointment the farmer felt; so Jehovah decided to allow the farmer’s guardian angel, to expose him to the events that lead up to the death of his cow. The farmer was told that the angel of death came for his wife, and because His guardian Angel knew how much he love his wife; the Guardian Angel had to give the Angel of death something of value in exchange for the life of the farmer’s wife, it is then the farmer’s guardian Angel give to the Angel of Death the life of the farmer’s cow. When the farmer heard this he was dumbfounded.

So each time we are face with a trial, that seems to much for us to bear, or when our experiences make us want to forsake everything even life; Just remember that Jehovah had promised, he will never allow us more than we can bear, and everything works together for the good of those who love the lord.

Before Jehovah ask you to scale a mountain, he will teach you how to climb, before he let you lose in thin air he will give you wings to fly, if he want you to be a vessel he will teach you how to float, if he want you to sail the ocean he will first give you a boat. If he wants you to liberate others, he will ensure that you are free and if he wants you to walk on water he gives you Buoyancy. Jehovah will never ask us to undergo any task unless he is assured that we are equipped to be successful; if this is true then our failure is of our own doing.

Colossians 2: 16-23 Explained

2010-03-18T11:49:00.000-07:00

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Question: Please explain Col 2: 16-23

Therefore let no man judge you in meat, in drink, in respect of holydays, or new moon, or Sabbath days, 17) These are a shadow of the things that were to come; but the body is of Christ. 18) Let no man beguile you (deceived you or cause you to give up) of your reward in voluntary humility, and worship of Angels (Idol worship), intruding into things which had not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshy mind (Pride), 19) And not holding the head from which all the body by joins and band have nourishment ministered, and knit together increase of God. 20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiment of the world, are ye subject to ordinances.

21) Touch not, taste not, handle not: 22) which all are to perish with the using) after the commandment and doctrine of men. 23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in honors of the satisfying of the flesh.

The Answer:

The first part of this passage was speaking of the ceremonial law; Jehovah instructed his children to faithfully keep these ceremonies, if they were to participate and receive the benefit of the promised redemption, which Jesus came and provided. These festivals were meant to keep Jehovah's children focused upon him, and all of his goodness towards them; for it is Jehovah's desire, to bless and prosper his faithful children for they were to represent Jehovah to the heathen nations among whom they live.

It is important to note, that they were required to observe all of these festivals, every new moon, they were to reflect on Jehovah's goodness towards them; apart from the new moons there were other Sabbaths they (Jehovah's people) were to observe. Which can be found in the books written by Moses, beginning with the book of Exodus? However, there are two major differences with the ceremonial Sabbaths and the Seventh day Sabbath.

1. The Seventh Day Sabbath was instituted as a part of creation, it was blessed and sanctify by Jehovah Gen 2: 3; in other words, Jehovah put a blessing on Sabbath and he set it aside for holy use. You know the saying who/what God bless no man curse. Well he has blessed the Seventh day Sabbath and no one can put a curse on it. Did you consider that mans in his perfect state or should I say man in his sinless state; kept the Sabbath, they were required solely to devote one day in every seven to the worship and adoration of Jehovah; bear in mind that every morning and every evening Jehovah met with the sinless couple Adam and eve. Why did Jehovah requested or command man to keep the Sabbath? for if I don’t praise him the rocks are going to cry out his praise. We must know Jehovah is going to be praise regardless; but what is more important, we were made to praise him. Not for praising him (Jehovah) sake; he is worthy of our praise. Over and over, Jehovah has proven to you and to me by the things that he has done for us that he is worthy of our praise.

2. The ceremonial law which includes the observance of the other Sabbaths, new moons etc. were instituted after man sinned and Jehovah and his Son Jesus Christ had instituted the plan of salvation. These ceremonies were to point to the promise Messiah: Jesus Christ the sinless son of Jehovah, who was to come to earth and die a sacrificial death as the innocent lamb; died at the hands of the guilty Luke 24: 7, For the Son of man must be delivered into the hand of sinful man and be crucified and the third day rise again. When Jesus Christ Give up the ghost whilst on the cross the vale in the temple was rent in twin Matthew 27: 51, thus exposing the most holy place in the temple. This was significant for two reasons:

a. It showed the deity of Jesus Christ as the Son of Jehovah the only true, living and the Creator God

b. It marked the termination of the sacrificial system. For the real offering Jesus Christ; Jehovah’s promised sacrifice came and fulfilled his promise. Jesus' obedience onto death nullified the need to offer sacrifice and the Death of Christ signaled the fulfillment of Jehovah's promise.

Matthew 7: 1-3 Says; Judge not, that ye be not judge 2) for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judge: and with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again. 3) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eyes, but considereth not the beam that is in thy own eye.

Jesus knew, because of sin, man will be prone to be hypocrite, casting judgment on other not knowing the condition of the heart of those they judge, while they themselves (the unqualified judges) are no better off than those who they Judge and in some cases their condition (spiritual and otherwise) are worst.

Many people enjoy holding up their work as a partition, separating themselves from other, Ephesians 2: 8-9 says; “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Hence the reason we are admonished not to Judge.

Salvation is to serious a matter for me to be focused upon you or anything else and you me or anything else. The giving, acceptance and the recieving of salvation is no game, no laughing matter but serious business. For the reward of salvation is something no one in their right minds can afford to miss out on. Hence the reason Philippians 2: 12 said “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” Each of us has only one responsibility and that is to ourselves, which is; to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling that is how serious a matter this is. We should be afraid of losing out on the gift of Jehovah and tremble when we come into his presence.

My beloved, I pray that the love and the Grace of Jehovah our God and His Son Jesus Christ our God; never leaves us but abide with us all today and for eternity.

Jehovah Will Not Do For You, What He Has Equipped You To Do For Yourselves

2010-03-14T10:14:00.000-07:00

Jehovah God is an awesome God; he is majestic in his power, excellent in his love and perfect in his wisdom. As impressive as this statement sounds, it is a total understatement; for Jehovah is perfect in every way. The God of whom I speaks is the omnipotent God, wherein lies the source of everything; he is the one from whom every breath, every material thing, every shadow, everything living, everything dead, everything animate, everything inanimate, every thought, every shed of wisdom is derived. In other words, there is nothing that existed and exists that was not derived from and is being sustain because by Jehovah’s awesome power.

Jehovah is not a foolish God, he is not a haphazard God, Jehovah is a God of purpose, he is a God with a plan and that plan is to reclaim his lost creation. Hence the reason, everything Jehovah does is methodical, calculated and is done with the view of the big picture, which is; the salvation of all man kind. Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ is on a planed mission to ensure that each person get the opportunity to reclaim what is rightfully their.

It is important to note, this is serious business and Jehovah or his son is not taking anything for granted. He did not withhold his son from being subject to the embarrassment, humiliation, the suffering and the death of a common criminal. What was worst was the fact that he (Jesus Christ) met such, embarrassment, humiliation, suffering and death at the hands of those he came to save: me and you. 1 Cor. 7: 23-24- Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. Jehovah will not hold us blameless if we choose to reject his love and his effort to secure our salvation; all who reject his love will suffer the full consequence of their sins.

We must come to understand because of this, Jehovah will not do for us; that which he has equipped us to do for ourselves. When you consider what is at stake and what Jehovah objectives are, he will never do for us what he has equipped us to do for ourselves. Jehovah have blessed us with many things, he blessed us with strength, health, materials, good friends, courage, faith, but the most important of all, Jehovah has blessed us with his wisdom. 1Corintians 1: 25- Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Such wisdom must be use to aid us in a closer relationship to him, for our own and the protection of our family, to avoid pitfalls and any stumbling block the devil and his imps may strategically place in our path but most important that we be equipped to accept his salvation.

So because Jehovah is in the process of equipping us to re-inherit his kingdom and because of the consequence we will be confronted with if we fail; there is no time for sports, games, child’s play or such the like.

When we utilizes the gifts Jehovah have blessed us with and we are still unable to accomplish his will, it is then Jehovah steps in and take control, it is then he add his strength to our weakness and when the omnipotent Jehovah and frail man join force together we forge a perfect unity in securing my salvation. 2 Corinthians 12:9-And he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Should we deny ourselves the opportunity to properly manage and utilize the gift Jehovah has given to us? If we do, we will remain in our state of helplessness. For Jehovah to do for us what we are capable of doing for ourselves will not accomplish what he wants to accomplish in our lives. Such action preformed by Jehovah will not aid to build or strengthen our faith, it will not seek to build or prepare our character, for heaven.

Have you ever take time to think of what would have happen;

If Moses had fail or refused to stretch out his rod over the red sea? The Red Sea would not have parted, the children of Israel would not have passed over to safety and they would have died at the sword of Pharaoh.
What would have happened to the woman with the issue of blood, did not press through the crowd and touch the helm of Jesus’ garment? She would have suffered from her illness until she dies.
What would have happened of Noah did not build the ark? All of the inhabitants or the world would have been wiped out.
What would have happen if the people did not roll away the stone from Lazarus’ tomb as Jesus requested? Lazarus would have never been raised from the dead.
What would have happen if the little boy did not give his three fish and five loafs to Jesus? Men and woman would have fainted from hunger.

What would have happen if the cripple man at the well beautiful did not believe? He would have remained in his state of helplessness until he died.
What would have happen if lot did not use his compassion? He would have been destroyed with the citizen of Sodom and Gomarrha.
What would have happened if Job did not practice patience and endurance in the face of torment? He would have curse God and die as his wife recommended.
What would have happened if the Hebrew boys partook of the Kings meet? Their wisdom would have wane and they would have forfeited the opportunity to represent Jehovah and to be elevated to the lofty position of power they were placed in.
What would have happened if Davis the humble Sheppard, who was still in his youth did not take up the challenge to face, and kill Goliath? David and his people would have taken captive and would have been exploited at the oppressive hands of the philistines, thus causing Jehovah to be shamed by the infidels.

We all have seen what happens when we don’t use that which Jehovah has blessed us with.

We saw Sampson when he fail to use the wisdom that Jehovah had blessed him with; he lost his supernatural powers, was taken into the custody by his enemies, had his eyes poked out and he was mocked.
When Eli Jehovah’s priest did not use his God given wisdom to correct his children; he suffered the grief of death when his dishonest sons died at the will of Jehovah.
The children of Israel who was blessed with the honor to be the children of Jehovah, fail to use their blessing; they were taken into captivity over and over again and suffered the indignity of being slaves.

Dut. 22: 22-24 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischief upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

It is important for us to understand; with such at stake and the short time with which we have to accomplish that which must be done, Jehovah cannot, I say again; Jehovah cannot afford to play the kind of foolish and childish game we very often choose to play; his gift is to expensive, the high price we maybe required to play for our sins if we forfeits his gift; its too valuable, the price that Jehovah paid (the life of his son Jesus Christ); too time consuming, almost six thousand years of Jehovah’s time has been invested in man’s salvation. It is because of the seriousness and importance of what is at stake, that Jehovah, the all wise God, is not willing to play with our salvation and neither should we.

On the flip side the consequences of losing out on our salvation will pain Jehovah so much and it will pain us far more than our weak, frail, pathetic human mind can ever comprehend. 2 Peter 2: 4-6 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.

It is because of these simple yet complex facts that Jehovah will not, do for us what ha has equipped us to do for ourselves.

Guard The Doors Of Your Mind

2010-03-04T17:44:00.000-08:00

Some time ago, I came upon an illustration that told a story in its portrayal. The illustration depicted the world as a chest board, the people in the world were pawns and Jesus Christ the redeemer of human and the devil: the destroyer of souls were engaged in a fierce game of chest. Thus the illustration portrayed Jesus and Satan as equal and fierce opponents in a battle for the mortal life and the rights to claim the souls of human kind.

The illustration was trying to portray the fierceness of the battle that is being wage for our mortal life and eventually our souls.

At first, I though this piece of art was cute and creative; but after careful consideration and after I consulted with and listened to the voice of Jehovah, I had a revelation. In this revelation it was explained to me that the concept of the art was not an accurate revelation of the truth as it exist. Then as clear as day, I saw the awful error of the illustration. We have got to be careful with the things we are exposed too; for what may appear to be spiritually good thoughts and uplifting idea that enters our minds may aid in our deception. For at times, the devil plants some seemingly good, innocent but erroneous idea in our heads; ideas that we fail to look at with spiritual eyes and because they appear to portray Jehovah or Jesus in a good light we fail to ask for Jehovah’s understanding of the thoughts that entered our minds unsolicited.

We have got to understand that neither Jehovah nor Jesus wants to be portrayed in a good light, but the creator of the universe and the redeemer of mankind, must at all times, be portrayed in perfect light. For they are perfect in all of their ways. Not one iota of Jehovah’s glory, his power, his goodness his mercy, his perfection, his strength or his kindness must be awarded to any one or any thing.

It is not as the art work suggested, Jehovah and Satan are not on equal ground and they are not in an all out war for our soul. It is important to note that the devil is a defeated foe, Satan was never a match for Jesus, when the Devil had his first confrontation with Jesus, he knew of Jehovah's awesome power; hence the reason he worked in fearful secrecy trying to rally the host of heaven on his side in hope of bettering his chances. However, it is important to note; that Michael did not need the help of the angel to defeat Satan and the angels who join his conspiracy, as is out lined in Revelation 12. Michael is all powerful and every bit of power that exist and that is associated with life is derived from Jehovah. The sun in all its glory has not power or light of its own, they all recieved their glory, from Jehovah and nothing will happen, nothing will function, nothing will exist without the creator's consent. Without the sustainor, every living thing will cease to exist. So you see the devil has never been and will never be on par with Jehovah and or his Son.

That drawing needs to have the following correction made to it; in order, to fully demonstrate the reality as it stood and still stands. The devil's position in the drawing is out of place. He should be places on the chest board, for he (satan) is just another pawn; in the game of life. Satan moves or controls nothing, he is placed exactly where Jehovah needs him, he is only permitted to do just what Jehovah allow him to do as is outlined in the book of Job but most of all, he is only given enough leverage to aid in the perfection of our character. Unfortunately, we very often fail to capitalize on such opportunities.

The Conclusion:

In conclusion, Satan is evil by nature and he will grab at every opportunity to dispense of his evil. It is this character trait that Jehovah manipulates for his own purpose and for the benefit of man kind; hence the reason why he is only a pawn to be used by Jehovah, as Jehovah sees fit, for our benefit and for the perfecting of our characters. His evil has so blinded him that he seeks every opportunity to do evil. Satan in his behavior reveal to the un-fallen worlds, how evil he really is, he also expose his true character, his nature and his true intent when he lead the rebellion against Jehovah and his government. This was fully manifested when he arranged and carried out the failed attempt on the life of Jesus, when he was only a helpless babe; in turn he cause thousand of children to die in the process. Again he revealed his true nature when he planned and carry out the unworthy suffering, humiliation and execution of Jesus the Christ, Jehovah only son. See Luke 24 and the other gospels.

It is because of our rebellion, our failure to do Jehovah's will and our love of self that we always seems to falls victims of the actions of the devil. These actions which Jehovah allows the devil to inflict upon us are designed only to perfect our characters. Jehovah said in 1 Corintians 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” It is important to remember that Jehovah has made available to us, for our help and protection; all of heaven and the entire mighty and majestic powers that heaven possesses. they are there to protect us and to help us overcome the wiles of the devils. Jehovah uses the devils to being us adversities; however, Jehovah and the angels are always present while we are being tried in the fire, to ensure we come fort as pure gold; with character that is perfect and fit of heaven.

O That I May Die

2010-02-17T14:53:00.000-08:00

O, that I may die and fear not death; not afraid to take my final breath,
Too confront death; the oldest mystery to taste of her sweet uncertainty.
I fear not death, why should I be; the sting of death has no hold on me.
Death takes nothing, holds nothing, owns nothing and controls nothing.
Death moves not, feels not, does not, has not, thinks not, claim not
Yet many fall and faint in fear, at death the cry in deep despair.

Our loves for life has frail made our minds and cause us to cling in fear of Lousing;
That which, we must one day give up: the fleeting breath that we calls life.
Yet, in cases of utmost pain, when agony weaved with shambled shame;
We pray for death a welcome friend, to swoop in on a Trojan horse,
To take away our fleeting breath and cause the life we hold so dear,
To abruptly meet, a cherished end.

What is death that men may fear? A predator that roams the mind,
A mystery vague, an odor faint, a bright color fading over time,
A vision clear, yet we cannot see, a precious life that ceased to be.
But only thus a word described the absence of a state hold dear,
The absences of the fleeting breathe; the absence of Life.

Did Jesus Experienced Sexual Temptation?

2010-02-08T15:55:00.000-08:00

In speaking of Jesus, the Bible, the word of Jehovah said: “For we have not a High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet was without sin.”

This text implied, that Jesus our High Priest who was man yet God, who lived and dwell in the habitation of man (human) and among man was subject to all of the emotion and all of the passions that we are exposed to. We all know as man we experienced a diverse range of emotions and passions. It is important to understand, Jesus in his humanity, experienced each of these passions and he did so without sinning.

It should be clear that Jesus was man and he was also God; and even when he was on earth, he possessed his Godly powers. How else could he have done such humanly impossible miracles? However, he was not permitted to use such powers for his own human benefit and he was not allowed to use his Godly powers against the devil, he to had to depend upon his father as we have to do. Hence the reason, all of his miracles was performed in the name of service to humanity. Jesus did all in his power to alleviate human suffering, which raned from; dealing with grief when He raise Lazarus and the little maid from the dead, He alleviated physical agony when he cleanse the leaper, cast out the demons from those who were plagued with and by such, He alleviated hopelessness when healed the men who were incapacitated, after he was let down through the roof, the blind was made to see at his hands; he restore vigor to the faint when he fed the five thousand men plus women and children, he kept his friends out of prison when he cause them to pay their taxes but providing the money in the mouth of a fish and he relieve fear when he ordered the wind and the wave to be still, calming the angry sea.

We know that one of the passions that man is unable to deal with is the passion of hunger. Many people tend to get angry and commit all manner of crimes to quiet their pains of hunger. Jesus proved that food was essential but not all important, Jesus was not one who crave food, for on a regular basis, he will fast (go without food) for periods up to forty days. In one instance, after Jesus came off a forty days fast, The Devil accosted and tempted Him in a period that is man weakest points and was to be Jesus’ also. He offering Jesus a quick opportunity to alleviate the pains of the extreme hunger that he was experiencing. Although Jesus was experiencing sever pain of hunger, he ignored the hunger pain and took the opportunity to put the devil in his place, using the word of Jehovah.

Many people take upon themselves the unnecessary responsibility, to do all in their power to defend Jehovah and Jesus. They take steps to protect the character and words of the creator and redeemer. We must know, that neither Jehovah nor Jesus want or depends on us to defend them, protect their character and or their words; however, what he requires of us are: that we become obedient to his every will; his written and his reveal will.

The big question is; was Jesus tested in the most overwhelming passion that man is subjected to: the sexual passion? I will boldly declare yes, Jesus was tested sexually but as the bible said, yet without sin. Although the bible did not clearly state the instance when Jesus was so tempted, it can be known by intelligent spirit guided deduction.

Let me lay the foundation before I use biblical reference and practical example of the instance when Jesus was tempted sexually. We are aware that professionals has the uncanny ability, to take their profession where ever they go. Let us say for example, a police officer out with his wife; he will detect a suspicious action even if he is not looking for it. A doctor or an EMT will be able to detect a potential medical emergency even when they are not looking for one, a lawyer can see a potential law suit even when he is not looking for one, a mechanic can detect and diagnose the problem a vehicle is having without listening (a choice to purposeful and deliberate attempt to focus attention to a sound) to the engine but by hearing (to be expose to a sound) it. It is important to know that all of the professionals above when they unconsciously detect a possible problem, their subconscious would have already devise a response to that medical, legal, criminal or machanical problem. Hence the reason why one in such a situation response is so effective; this is so because, their subconscious have already devise an appropiate response base on the knowledge, training and experience of the professional. It is a fact that our formal and informal training comes out when we are participating in none professional activities; for such become impulsive or reactionary.

Do you agree with the above theory?

Let us say for example, if you asked a doctor to massage your hands, although you will get a hand massage, it will be done like an examination, for it is what he or she knows. A doctor has hands that are trained to detect abnormalities by touching. In the same way, if you asked a physical therapist to masseuse your hand; he will massage it with the objective of preparing you for strength and repair. Now in the same manner, if your hand is massaged by a prostitute, because of the nature of her job that person will massage your hand sensually with a view to arouse sexual passions in you, because that is what she or he knows. We all know that sensuality stimulates ones sexual desire. In other words it is natural for one to impulsively practice what they know. Do you agree with this idea?

A story is told in the Gospel, of a woman who was reputed to be a prostitute and she wanted to show an act of gratitude to Jesus; for delivered her from a life of the sexual degradation and for teaching he how to live a life of decency and obedience to Jehovah. Although the scriptures did not say how long and how much partners this lady had, we know that she was a woman who earn her living from prostitution. So from her practice she knew how to sexually stimulate a man. Her hands were trained in this technique. I will like to believe, any time she touched a man, it was to ensure, that man derive pleasure from her touch.

In Luke 7:38 it reads: “and she stood behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears and did dry them with the hair of her head and kiss his feet and anoint them with oil.

Let us analyzed this text and examine such practically. The woman was crying this means that she was not in total control of her faculties, for her mental control was weakened or overtaken by an overwhelming sense of gratitude and emotion. Such emotions often throw people off of their game plan. It causes momentary laps in memory, nervousness, and in some cases an inability to compose ones self. In such cases, most people are rendered helpless and are unable to function; however, in a few cases instinct step in and we are able to complete an assignment purely out of instinct, muscle memory or routein.

I will like to suggest that this woman in her state of emotional confusion and blinded by teats acted out of instinct; her training kicked in and her sensual fingers did what they did best. I am in no way suggesting, that it was the intention, of this ex-prostitute to sexually seduce Jesus but rather, in her effort to show her appriciation, she respectfully did what she knew best. Remember to be tempted is not to sin, and because you are tempted do not make you any less a man or woman than you are; or in Jesus’ case it did not make him any less God. Also because your good intention prove to be a temptation to another do not make you a devil.

To be tempted is not sin but to yield to temptation is an infringement on us or anyone who so do. The good thing about Jesus is how he saw us human. You react to people and thing base on how you view them. If you look at women as a sexual object, then you will be motivated to become sensual with them; like wise, if your awaken days and sleeping hours, are spend devising plans and dreaming of how you can sexually exploit that person then any harmless word or action will prove to be a temptation that will cause you to fall if not in the flesh, you may fall in your mind. If any man look upon a woman as to lust at her have have committed adultary in his heart. If you see a person, as your personal bank, then you are always planning how you can get money from that person. The way you perceive an individual determines your action and reaction to that person.

Many preachers today, are incapable of seeing the sheep they are called or volenteer to Sheppard as people who need a savior, as people who need direction, as people who need understanding, as people who need to be cared for, as people who need attention, as people who need support and as people who need love. Many such so call spiritual leaders see their congregation as people who need to be trastise, so the leaders beat up their congregation each week with their sermons, some see their congregation as a group of people who are put under their care, to satisfy their financial needs, so they come up with all manner of plans to solicit monies from their congregation; there are some who see their congregants as sex tools and so they forget about Jehovah’s law and they continually sexually exploit the members.

Jesus saw Mary as one who was in need of a savior and he was able to be that to and for her, He saw Mary as one who needed forgiveness for her sins and He was capable of doing that for her, He knew that Mary needed one to believed in and He was able to be that constant fixture that never changes, that she can believe in and never be disappointed; Jesus knew that Mary need to be save in his Kingdom; fortunately for her that was what he came to earth for. So when Mary’s sensual fingers was massaging Jesus’ feet he did not see her as a sexy woman but he saw her as one who needed his help, the type of help that his father send him to provide to all mankind; the type of help only he could provide. So Jesus’ sexual temptation was not done by design but was done ignorantly but most of all it was done out of a pure love, appreciation and heart felt gratitude for Jesus.

Why Bad Things Happens?

2010-02-03T16:03:00.000-08:00

A story is told of a believer in Jehovah and Jesus Christ and for the purpose of the story's clarity; we will call this man John. John, a servant of Jehovah, went into a barber shop with the intention to use the barber service as was his custom. When he entered the shop, he realized he walk on a heated argument; the occupants of the shop were debating the existence of God. The barber, who was a professed atheist, argued that God do not exist and he presented some valid point to support the argument that there is no God.

Unable to maintain his silence, John interjected and said; “how can you say that God does not exist”? He asked with a level of seriousness in his voice, then he continued “when you consider your body, how it is so wonderfully and intricately made, isn’t that a sign that there is a god?” He asked. “Lets take for example, the complexity of the human brain, its power to think and operate the other components of the body; isn’t that evidence that there is a God? When you consider, the simple yet complex relationship between the body, brain and the mind, we can not do anything but to conclude that there is a God. There must be a God, a far superior and powerful intelligence that design and bring such complex design to reality. Where did all of these complex creatures that inhabits the earth came from? Have you considered the earth, and the beautiful vastness of the heavens, The Bible said that we are wonderfully and fearfully made; I know one thing; and that is, we were no accident as some would have us believe. ”Yes we were all created by God and he ensures that everything functions in the manner in which it was design to function.

Now that John had the attention of all present in the barbershop he continued. “Jehovah the creator of the Universe and every thing that in it is, is a loving God, he loves you and he want to save you.”

It was then the barber interrupted the smooth flow of John’s monolog. “Ok, if there is a loving God who created everything; why does he allow so many people to suffering and die? How do you justify the starvation and millions and the millions of people that die from a lack of food in Africa? If there is a God, why did he allow the recent tsunamis to kill over a hundred thousand people and had those who survive experiences such hardship? If there is a God, why does he allow the people he made and love to undergo so much suffering? You answer these questions; the barber said confidently. Until you can answer these questions; there is no God”.

John was certainly not prepared to answer such pointing and honest question. As a matter of fact, these are question man have been searching for answer to, for centuries, yet there is no conclusive answer that can satisfy man’s desire to know why such things happens.

The barbershop became quiet, and all eyes were focused on John, as they waited for his answer to the question. Unfortunately John did not have an answer to give. And with a tone of defeat he quietly and humbly admitted that he was unable to answer the questions.

When the business for which John went to the barbershop was completed, he left the Barbershop a defeated man; he was unable to be a witness for Jehovah to the Barbers and the other members who were in the shop.

After he left the shop, John saw a homeless man, standing on the sidewalk, outside the barber shop. The homeless man asked John for some money to take care of his needs; as john was retrieving the money from his purse, he noticed the man was un-kept, the hair on his head was long, tangled and discolored from a lack of care; his facial heir was long and had food particles trapped in them. From the looks of the man, John concluded that the homeless man, who stood before him had not used the service of the barber in many years.

John looked at the man and smile; he did not smile mockingly but appreciatively. John handed the man the token he solicited, turn around and boldly walk into the barbershop once more. When he was all the way in the shop and the door was securely closed behind him, he declared loudly; “Barbers do not exist!” the barbers and those who were in the shop looked at John strangely; John repeated himself once more ensuring that his words were heard and fully understood by all.

The atheist barber looked at John puzzled and wondered about his outrageous statement. “What do you mean, Barbers don’t exist?” he asked. John smiled at the reply of the barber, then continued; if Barbers existed why is there so many un-groomed people in the world? John asked confidently. The barber not knowing where John was going with the discussion and still basking in the victory he had over John some minutes ago, smile and decide to confidently answer the question and expose John; showing that there were no relevance or rational to his new line of reasoning.

The barber replied; “I cannot go out there and groom people who don’t want to be groomed; if I did, I may be going against the will of the individual; I will be violating that persons rights. You must understand everyone, has the right to choose. If they want me and my service they will come to me.

The smile on John’s face grew bigger, as he patiently awaited his turn to speak. This time he did not have to think of what to say, he knew exactly what must be said. When the barber was finished John said. It is the same thing with Jehovah the God who created the universe. Jehovah just cannot go out and interfere in people’s life just because he wants to; He cannot overturn people's choices because he is aware they made bad decisions.

Jehovah made us free, intelligent beings, we have the right to make our own decisions good or bad. Jehovah is there with open arms waiting for us to come to him and asked him for help, for guidance, and protection. When we asked he will answer and he will address our request. Jehovah cannot protect us from the wilds of the devil if we don’t want to be protected from such; for him to interfere in our life without our request, would be a violation of our right and it would also mean that we are not free. In the same manner, you cannot violate the rights of the man who want to go un-kept or un-groomed, in the same manner Jehovah cannot protect the life, health, provide protection and sustenance to people who do not want him to provide that service to them; however he is ready, willing and able to provide such service to anyone who so desire when they asked.

You see Jehovah is a righteous God; he can only do what is right. It is the right of man to be free to make decisions even if that decision is to reject Jehovah’s love, his kindness, his grace and his salvation.

Apart from being righteous Jehovah is Just. He cannot give to a person what they do not deserve. If you want the good that Jehovah has to offer, you cannot reject him, his words, his promises, and his love and still expect to benefit from him. Justice says you will get what you deserve however Galatians 6:7 put it nicely: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

The new living bible put it this way: “Don't be misled--you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.”

I have not and will not be able to answer your question for the answer is with Jehovah, but what I have done is to give you a better understanding of who Jehovah is and how he operates.

Haiti: Jehovah's Judgement Or Not

2010-01-30T20:39:00.000-08:00

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Every day, we experience many simple and complex blessings, yet we never sees it fit question the undeserving good things that happen to us. When we experience good fortune at the hands of Jehovah, we take God and his blessings for granted. However, when bad things happen, we demands an answer from Jehovah.

We ask why did the ninety year old, homeless man who was stricken with cancer die. Why did the healthy woman die after a mile complication? Why did the family of three died in a car crash as a result of a drunk driver? Every day, these questions are asked by people filled with grief and this is done to find some rational that may help them through the pain they feel. Yet, there is never a conclusive answer to be had, that will give the seekers, an understanding of why bad things happen.

There are some questions that we human, in our spiritual frailty, will never find answers to or for; and in such cases; “I don’t know,” is the only and most appropriate answer that is and will ever be available. There are certain times when our personal belief and our interpretation of the bible can bring us to a conclusion that will help us to deal with certain bad events.

We as believers in Jehovah and student of his words must try to view everything in the context of the bible. It is unwise and dishonest to twist the bible to justify a situation, even when, to do so we can alleviate someone’s pain and suffering and even in a time when the truth, can add to the mental stress of those who are already suffering. It is not one’s responsibility to provide answers to situation and question there are no answers for but when one is confronted with such a situation it is the responsibility of those who are trained, or who find themselves in the position to offer help to people in need, not to provide answers; but to help the suffering person through the situation the best way they can.

I have seen religious leaders, in their effort to bring comfort to victim of the Haiti tragedy and to dispel a school of thought that is being prorogated by some, which claims, the earth quake that struck Haiti was payment for the evil deeds done by Haitians. Such deeds constitutes the high incident of witchcraft, obeah or voodoo (spiritualism/the use of satanic power in human affairs to hurt others) that is practice in Haiti and the brutality that is inflicted on each other lead to devastating earthquake that recently hit this country. Although such behavior and practice exist in Haiti, It is and was very insensitive of such people to make such remark after the fact, especially if they did not go to that country, in an effort to effect some positive change in the life, attitude and behavior of the Haitian people. It is not for me or anyone to say that such was or was not the case and it is not the responsibility of anyone to use unrelated bible text to prove otherwise. Jehovah has the answer to this and other question we will all like answer to.

I sat in church and I listen in shock as a preacher, use the Job story to dispel the school of thought while ignoring certain common facts that made this story the most inappropriate scenario for the purpose.

Let us examine the story of Job, and compare it with the Haitian Situation to see if this is an appropriate scenario to use.

First point, Job was an individual, he had control over his behavior, whether he submit to Jehovah or not. Haiti is a nation with over a million people. No one can ever account or control the behavior and or belief of so vast a people.

Job was righteous and upright and there were no evidence or record of Job doing evil; however, base on bible principles and common belief Job’s friends assumed he did. In Haiti’s case, there is overwhelming evidence of the brutality the Haitian people commit against each other; as well as, the high incident of Devil inspired deed or Voodoo that is practice in and is an acceptable part of Haiti's culture. In other words the evidence is clear that Job as an individual was perfect in all of his ways and the Haitian community in Haiti is not.

It is dishonest to use the God appointed suffering, of such a valiant servant of Jehovah, to justify the adversities of a group that do not fit into that same spiritual bracket of Jehovah righteous servant Job. There are many righteous people in Haiti, however there are many wicked people that is apart of that community also. It is unwise to use Job Story to cover up or deny known common practice of the people.

There are stories in the bible where Jehovah execute punishment on nations who has turn away from serving him and have indulged in wicked practices. We have seen in Geneses chapter 19: Jehovah execute judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah for the abominable life style of the people. Sodom and its inhabitants were destroyed by fire; however, Lot, his daughters and his wife was saved from the horrible death the other inhabitants suffered. We also see in Genesis chapter 6 and 7: Jehovah destroyed the antediluvian world with a flood, only Noah and his family survived. Gen. 6: 5 provide information why the antediluvian world was destroyed: “Jehovah saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of his thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and it repented the lord that he had make man upon the earth and it grieved him at his heart.”

In the book of Jonah, Jehovah send the prophet Jonah to Nineveh to cry against that city, for their wickedness is come up against me. As he does with each of us who rebel against him, Jehovah pronounced a conditional Judgment upon Nineveh, they were to repent or be destroy. Here we see once again Jehovah pronouncing judgment of destruction on a nation who practiced evil. Fortunately, for the people of Nineveh, they heed the warning of Jehovah and repented.

When we as individuals or as a nation reject Jehovah as our God, we often reject the rights to be protected by him, thus exposing us to the evil treatment of the devil. Here we see the people of Sodom and the Antediluvian world, which turn away from Jehovah and chose to live wickedly had a judgment pronounced upon them and later had that judgment executed upon those cities, which resulted in the total and complete destruction of the city and its inhabitants. However, the righteous among them were saved. There was also Nineveh who had a judgment pronounced upon that city and its people yet that city was saved, because the people repented from their wicked ways.

Let us take a look at world events and the countries that most suffer from natural disasters. Every year we hear thousand dying in mudslides and flooding from typhoon in Asia, In Africa; a country that is blessed with every conceivable natural resource, that has the most fertile of land on the earth, yet million are affected by famine and die from starvation. Here we see these nations in these parts of the world are populated with people and nation who have turned away from Jehovah; here we have nations who have replaced the worship and homage of and to Jehovah with worship and homage to Idols and strange philosophy.

Like many people, who turn away from Jehovah, we forfeit the right to Jehovah’s protection. This is not to say that Africa, Asia and Haiti experience such fate as a result of the shared practice. But if the bible standards are the measuring stick for judgment then it will not be wrong to conclude such.

It is important to note that Jehovah is a all loving and forgiving God, he is not willing that any should perish but all should have everlasting life.

Are you afraid to die? Why?

2010-01-26T04:12:00.000-08:00

Cowards die many times before their deaths, a valiant never taste of death but once, of all the wonders I yet have heard, it seems to be most strange, that men should fear death; a necessary end, will come when it shall come.

It will be true to say death is a mystery and although death has been a part of the human experience since the inception of sin; human has not gain an understanding of what death is, what happened when one dies? The fear of the unknown seems to transfer death; the absence of life, into a terrifying mystery. Many people are afraid of dying; but is such fear justified? What exactly is death? Is there any reason for anyone to be afraid of dying?

I will take the time to answer these questions. The Bible declared in Genesis 1; that God (Jehovah) created the Heavens and the Earth which includes every living creature, and he (God) saw it was good. It is important to note, after creation, everything functioned in unison; there was no flaw in Jehovah’s creation. In other words, the earth and everything in it was perfect.

When man sinned, there were certain consequences that came with defying Jehovah and his laws. Sin affected the whole earthly creation and it manifests it self in the various degrees and type of illnesses we experience, troubles of all kind, growing old, and two type of deaths.

Romans 6:23 says the waged of sin is death, but the gift of Jehovah is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let us examine this text carefully, the ultimate punishment of and for sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. Could it be that the wages of sin is also eternal death? In many places in the bible Jesus: God in the flesh, refer to death as a sleep. In Matt 9:22 Jesus when speaking of the little maid who was dead, he said to the moaners present, the little maid is not dead she is asleep.

Also in referring to Lazarus John 11:11 after he die and was in the tomb for four days; Jesus declared, our friend Lazarus sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him from his sleep. In John 11: 14 Jesus declared that Lazarus was dead and later when Jesus shouted Lazarus come forth, Lazarus who was dead awoke from the sleep of death and came forth. Like wise Matthew 27:51-52 speaks of the saints who arose from the dead when Jesus die; there grave give them up and their life were restored unto them.

There are other stories that are recorded in the Bible where the dead were brought back to life. Did Lazarus, the little maid, the un-precise number of people who arose from the dead when Jesus Christ die; did they suffer the wages of sin? If so why did they die again? Are they exempted from the Judgment? The answer to these questions are no.

So it may be safe to say, the sleep that we call “death” for a lack of a better name is not the wages of sin; however, this sleep is one of the consequences of sin. We must also understand that the consequence of sin and the wages of sin are different; in other words, although death the sleep is one of the consiquence of sin, the wages of sin refer to the eternal death, which is the ultimate consequenses of sin. Let me put it this way.

A man is hired as a laborer on a construction site; as a part of his duties he is called upon to shovel concrete for several hours a day. After a month on the Job the man developed a fit, muscular body or he hurt his back; is the effects of his labor the wages for or of his labor. No it is not; it is one of the consequences of his job but the wages of his Job will be the salary he agreed upon and received at the end of the pay cycle.

The sleep that we call death is not the wages of sin; it is merely one of the many consequences of sin. However the wages of sin is eternal death. The death that is inflicted in the lake of fire after which, those who so choose to die eternally will be no more, never to be resurrected again. This is the same death the devil will experience.

John 8: 51 declared that Verily, Verily, I say unto you, if any man keep my saying he shall never see death. This statement may confuse many for many of the elect had suffered death. Stalwarts like Moses, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Job, John the Baptist, and David a man who Jesus declare was a man after his own heart suffered death. Didn’t they keep the saying of Jehovah, why then did they die. Is this a contradiction? No it is not a contradiction.

Jesus who is the son of Jehovah, who was present in the beginning, who played an integral role in the creation of the universe and who will play an integral role in the final destruction of those who reject him, refers to death as a sleep, for that is what death is: a sleep. However after death is the judgment and after the judgment is the reward be it pardon or execution. We can either be sentence to eternal life of be damn in the lake of fire to an eternal death.

The sleep of death, what is it? Death is just the absence of life, nothing more nothing less. There is nothing to fare in death. However, because of the mystery that surrounds death, we are very apprehensive of facing death. The bible speaks of the sting of death but what is that sting of the first death or the sleep? The sting is the negatives and the fear that is associated with death.

Death is nothing to be afraid of, as a matter of fact, death is not a bad thing; in fact, in many cases Death is a welcome relief from this world’s ills. Let’s see what Jehovah say about death. Ps. 116: 15 Jehovah said precious in the sight of the lord is the death of the saints. When a saint dies, Jehovah sees it as a precious thing; for he knows that individual is seal for his kingdom and there is nothing the devil can do to cause him pain or to cause that person to forsake the God who loves that individual. In Numbers 23:10 Balaam said to the King of Moab: Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his. Here Balaam is expressing pride in dying, but not just any death; Balaam saw the dignity in dying the death of the righteous.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again; even so, to them also which sleep in Jesus will God (Jehovah) bring to him.

Father if it be thy will take this cup from me, nevertheless, not my will but let thy will be done. When Jesus briefly cried out to his father in prayer and asked his father to allow him not to go through with the horrible death of a criminal that he the innocent was required to voluntary go through. It was not that Jesus was afraid to die, as a matter of fact Jesus was not killed, he chose to stop living; he give up the ghost. Jesus had the assurance that his father was able to raise him from the dead. As a matter of fact Jesus himself gave Elisha the power to restore life unto the dead as is recorded in 2 Kings 4: 32-35. Even many years after Elisha’s death his bones still possessed the power to restore life unto the dead see 2 Kings 13: 20-21. Jesus had no fear of death for he knew what death is, after all he made death and death heeds Jesus instruction.

The human in Jesus were aware of the pain that is associated with the type of death he had to undergo. The objective of death by crucifixion was not meant to kill its victims although death was the final outcome, but rather it was designed to cause those who must die in such a manner the greatest of prolong agony. Like everyone who lived at that period where death by crucifixion were a common practice; they knew the pain and the agony that is associated with such death. The human in Jesus was concern about the physical pain of such a death; but more so he knew the pain of enduring the sins of pass, present and future generation was more than any man could bear. Yet he was called upon to bear such and so he did.

So death is just the absence of life and it has all of the characteristics of a deep sleep. Sleep is an event that is welcomed and enjoyed by all? We are not afraid to go to sleep yet we are afraid of death they are both a state of unconsciousness. The only thing we should be afraid of is to die not accepting Jehovah is the creator and sustainer of this world and Jesus as our savior.

The Life Of Jesus Christ By James Tissot

2010-01-03T11:50:00.000-08:00

The Brooklyn Museum has a comprehensive paint collection, that deals with the live of Christ. It encompassed events before Jesus' birth and the events which occurred after his death and his second ascension into heaven. Below is some photos I took of the exhibits that are on display. It is important to note that it was not prohibited to take picture.

The Gossip: Setting Your Character Free

2010-01-02T07:03:00.000-08:00

It is no secret, that bad news travels faster and has a longevity that seems to restore itself. Unlike bad news, good news seems to die as soon as the events from which they are spurn are completed. The sensationalism that is attached to bad news seems to give it a life of its own. Another reason that contribute to the long life of bad news is; the fact that the negative that is associated with the story, whether the content of the story is truth or not, seems to let us feel better about ourselves; while, good news brings out the good in others and thus highlights our own deficiencies.

A story is told in the bible, in Genesis 39: 6-19 which dealt with Joseph and the accusation that was brought against him by his master’s wife; who with one wag of her tongue, not only put Joseph’s character in question but landed him in prison. It mattered not that, the allegations were not true. We all know, that there are some people who specialized in bearing and putting the spin on bad news.

These people never once take the timeout to find out if the tale they are bearing or circulating is true, or how it is going to impact the person of whom the negitive story is about yet for our own self gratification we find pleasure in keeping such thing alive. I will conclude that all gossipers are liars.

Let us think of what Joseph went through, when potipher’s wife had a lie of such magnitude registered against his character. You may not understand how sever such would have impacted on Joseph’s psyche, unless we understand who Joseph was. I know you are saying I know who Joseph was. But do you really know who he was?

Lets closely examine who Joseph was. Joseph was a youth, who was greatly loved by his parent and admired by his family and peers. Unfortunately the admiration Joseph’s brother had for him, was quickly transformed into jealousy. It is important for us to understand that most people like us when we are not a threat to their turf, their ideologies, their intelligence and the attention they are getting. An insecure person often thinks that you are intruding on what they perceived to be their sphere of influence; then their behavior, admiration and their treatment to you, changes.

The love Joseph received from his parents, the admiration that was showered upon him by his peer, Joseph’s understanding of who Jehovah is, Jehovah’s will for his life, and his faithfulness to Jehovah; give the lad an overwhelming level of confidence. Joseph’s high confidence was not in his ability, but his confidence was in Jehovah. The young man knew, that as long as he is faithful to Jehovah; Jehovah will supply his every need. He was aware that he did not have to yield his integrity, to anyone, for he did not depend on anyone but Jehovah for his daily sustenance, and so many of his detractors often interpreted Joseph’s high esteem as arrogance.

Jehovah communicated with Joseph through dreams, and as an acknowledgement of Joseph’s faithfulness; Jehovah show Joseph the bright future that awaits him. Because of Joseph’s naively, he proudly shared with his friends and family the grandiose plans Jehovah has in store for him and as a result, he was mockingly called: the dreamer. Joseph was not only confident he was proud, and this was seen in his demeanor, the way he walked, the tone in his voice, the things that he did, the people he associated with and the place that he went.

Joseph knew that he had his parents approval but most of all he had Jehovah’s approval and this give him a boldness that make other uncomfortable. Joseph did not hesitate to bring to his father’s attention the bad deeds of his brothers. I will like to believe that Joseph did not cowardly squeal on his brothers. I could imagine Joseph letting his brothers know before hand, of his intention to inform their father of their bad behaviors, dishonest actions, and inappropriate conduct etc. I also believed Joseph was the objective voice or the voice of reason when he was with his family, friend or any group he was in. not afraid to call wrong, wrong no matter who was offended and he took the time to acknowledge and celebrate that which was right and those who take the time to do such.

In other words, Joseph was a dignified young man and his dignity was on public display for all to see. No one was too poor, too dirty, too pitiful, too uneducated for him to associate with. I believed he measured the worth of a man base on the quality of his character rather than the abundance of his possession. The way he walked, spells dignity, his conversation was dignified and the way he dealt with people had dignity written all over it.

But today he was accused of raping his boss’ wife; this meant that Joseph betray the trust of the man who trusted him over all of his other servants, even servants who were in his employed for many years before Joseph. His master trusted him with all that he had, that was of value to him; even his wife.

What good is pride and dignity amidst such horrible allegations? The evidence was overwhelming but the crime was certainly out of character. I could imagine, some of the potipher’s servants even though they did not believed that Joseph was capable of doing such rejoiced at his downfall.

Although, the allegations that were brought against Joseph, by potipher’s wife were not true, there was no way Joseph could have proven them to the contrary; for the evidence was overwhelming.

When you find yourself in such situation what do you do. We very often try to explain our self out of our predicaments; however, our words only help to get us even more tangled than we were before.

We all know very well how it must have hurt, when some one, tells a lie on you, or when someone misjudge an innocent action, or spoken words, and use such to cast a negative aspiration on you, which you have no plausible explanation for.

It matters not what your adversities are, or what damage were done to your character, if there is one thing I know is; there is no quick method to repairing your character when someone have willfully or unwillingly cause your character to come into disrepute. A good character which was wrongfully blemished will always be vindicated but it takes time; however it takes time and no special effort from you but you must continue to live your life, ensuring you continue to practice integrity in all that you do.

After the allegation, Joseph was immediately cast into prison, his honesty and Jehovah inspired wisdom were quickly recognized by the jailer who like potipher promoted Joseph allowing him to manage the entire prison.

When the King of Egypt needed help and got word of Joseph’s gift, an investigation was conducted; the conclusive report that outlined the findings about Joseph was so overwhelming that the Joseph was elevated to the high post in the land, accountable only to King Pharaoh. Even those who hated Joseph, who were jealous of Joseph, and those who craved his destruction had to give an honest report about him. I can imagine them saying, Joseph is an honest man but he is arrogant, He is kind but he is snobbish, he is loving but he love to have his own way, he is faithful but he don’t worship our Gods; he appear to be a good man but there is something about him, that I just cannot seems to put my hands on it.

We must always remember that our character will take some hits; however an honest man do not need to do anything to vindicate his character but to continue to live his life base on integrity and in the fear of Jehovah and he in the fullness of time he will be vindicated.

Why Is Jehovah Not Answering My Prayers?

2009-12-14T10:35:00.000-08:00

Are you a single man or woman who have been praying for a faithful spouse and it seems as if Jehovah is not answering your prayers? Are you a married person who want a child yet nothing is working in your favor? Are you an individual who is living from pay check to pay check; one who just cannot seems to get out of debt? Or have your personal burden or desire been a problem for some time now? Have you been praying long and hard for the desires of your heart yet the object of your prayer seems to evade you. Are you on Jehovah’s list of person to ignore?

Have your situation force you to ask, why Jehovah is not answering my prayers? Can you honestly say that you are living according to Jehovah's expectation and you are experiencing a Job situation? Well, I have good news for you, the type of news that the conventional preachers are not honest enough to tell you, the type of news that will guarantee your prayers will be answered ASAP, the type of news that will relief you of your stress and relief you of all your care.

It is important for us to know that among all of the unfathomable qualities that make up Jehovah character, two of these qualities come into play when he (Jehovah) is dealing with man in his sinful condition. These two qualities are: his Justice and his righteousness; in other words, Jehovah is a Just and a righteous God. How is the fact, that Jehovah is a righteous and a Just God preventing me from having my prayer answered and denying me of the desires of my heart?

Let us get to the core of the matter, we will begin by explaining who Jehovah is and how his qualities of righteousness and Justice affect each of us. It is important to know that Jehovah is the creator of every thing that exist and he is the one that is responsible for the function and sustenance of everything that exist.

How does Jehovah's quality of righteousness and Justice affects me?

The Bible said God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sow that to shall he also reap. This is true because of Jehovah’s righteousness and his Justice. Ezekiel speak of the judgement, which will come upon those who fail to walk in Jehovah's will. If Jehovah is willing to punish those who do evil and live in rebellion to his will then Justice demands that he with the same vigor reward those who are faithful to him.

We have been speaking about Justice but what is Justice?

Justice is the impartial treatment of another; in other words, it is giving a person that which he deserved. Because Jehovah is perfect in the dispensation of Justice, he cannot withhold from you, what you deserved. Righteous simple means, doing that which is right; it means nothing more or nothing less. Similarly, because Jesus is a righteous and a just God and because he is perfect in his righteousness and his Justice; there are somethings that he cannot do. Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ cannot withhold from you that which you deserve, be it punishment or reward and in the same manner he cannot give to you that which you do not deserve. It is as simple as that.

Although the forgoing is true; however, there is a conditional exception. The death of Jesus Christ give us the rights to escape the eternal death which each of us deserve. but because of Jesus' death; we can now claim this rights under the condition that we love the lord Jesus and Jehovah with all of our might, heart and soul and we are ready to allow his love to lead us into total obedience to him.

Let me without reservation declare that Jehovah is eagerly waiting to bless us. Psalms 84: 11 clearly states that: "No good thing will he (Jehovah) withhold from those that love him;" however, the reason Jehovah is unable to answer our prayers and the reason we have not received the desire of your heart even though you have been praying without ceasing for that thing, or even though you go to church, or serve the church and have been preaching the gospel, it is because our love and our faithful to and in Jehovah is not seen, heard and felt. Everyone knows that love must be consistently demonstrated and if love cannot be seen, felt and heard it does not exist.

The good thing is, we know when we are not faithful to Jehovah; we may fool others when we play church, pretend to be faithful or shake the pulpit in the name of Jesus in whatever capacity we do such in but our love and faithfulness must be seen, heard and felt. In most cases we were faithful to the church, a religion, a pastor, to our spouse, children, our family, to money, material things etc but not to Jehovah. When Jehovah is unable to answer our prayers and grant us the desire of our hearts it is because we are not faithful to him.

When you are faithful to Jehovah, there is only one answer he provides and that answer is yes. No is never an answer, for righteousness and Justice requires that Jehovah satisfies the desires of our hearts immediately. for Justice delayed is justice denied.

Let us take for example the father of the faithful Abraham, Jehovah called Abraham and instructed him to leave the land of his father when he was 75 years old, at this point Abraham was married but childless. One of Jehovah’s promises to Abraham was that he will be the father of a great nation and this promise meant a lot to Abraham. However the righteousness and the Justice of Jehovah prevented Jehovah from fulfilling his promised to Abraham, until Abraham was truly faithful to him.

Abraham fail to demonstrate his faithfulness to and in Jehovah when he choose to break Jehovah’s law by violating the eighth commandment. In Gen. 12: 12-16 he encouraged his wife Sarah and his younger more impressionable nephew Lot to violate Jehovah’s law. In doing so Abraham forfeited the opportunity to be a witness for Jehovah but rather he misrepresented Jehovah when he lie to the princes of Pharaoh and to Pharaoh the King of Egypt and in the process disowned his wife and his marital status.

Was this a one time situation or was Abraham a habitual liar. I will like to submit to you that Abraham was a habitual liar. It is one thing to lie to an individual but it takes a certain degree of dishonesty to include others in that lie. Another criterion that tells the quality of liar a person is, the level of persuasion with which that lie is delivered/told; the level of truthfulness with which that lie is delivered and the third criterion is the level of the authority we are willing to tie to.

Here we see that Abraham not only lie but he coached his wife and nephew until they were able to deliver that lie with such a level of truthfulness that they deceived the princes of Egypt and the King himself. I do not have to tell you how hard it is to deceive such category of people. These people did not get into the positions by being naive.

Abraham and his wife were such liars that in Gen.18: 12-15 when Jehovah’s messengers declared the fertility of Sarah’s womb she laugh and mumbled to herself, unfortunately for her, her reaction were not as concealed as she wanted it to be. When Jehovah’s messenger confronted Sarah about her behavior, her first response was to lie to them and by doing so she declare the messengers of Jehovah liars.

Then the father of the faithful when he was about eighty five years old he voluntary broke the Six commandment when he adhere to the foolish counsel of his wife and had sexual intercourse with Hagar his Egyptian slave. Does it make sense to violate Jehovah’s will to fulfill his will for your life? To do such is not only comical it is foolish. Was it a situation where Abraham went into Hagar one time and on that one occasion she conceived? Although this is possible it is highly unlikely. So it may be safe for us to conclude that Abraham have been knowingly defy Jehovah’s law and authority by committing adultery over a period of time. Abraham’s sexual indulgence with Hagar was so regular that she was seen and recorded as his wife. Ishmael was the fruit of that unholy union.

It is important for us to understand that Jehovah did not allow the day to day experiences of any of the prophet’s life, to be recorded in the bible; he allowed only the significant events that can be teaching moments for future generations to be recorded in the holy book. This was so even with his only begotten son Jesus Christ the sinless one. So we can conclude that the countless events of Abraham’s indiscretions were omitted for such would not have been of value to our salvation.

Then in Genesis chapter 20 1-4 a few years later Abraham in his old age moved to Ge’rar to sojourned or to lived there. Once again, Abraham made the calculated decision to lie to A-bim‘e-lech the King of Ge’rar and to his entire kingdom. In order for Abraham’s lie to have worked, he not only had to convinced Sarah’s to skillfully participate in the lie, he had to convinced the other members of his house to participate also. Abraham had to request or instruct his hired servants, his slaves, his slave wife Hagar and his illegitimate son Ishmael to lie to A-bim‘e-lech and his people. Here Abraham squandered another perfect opportunity to witness for and of Jehovah and his awesome power to provide and to protect his people.

It took Abraham twenty five years to mature to the point where Jehovah could actually bless him and thus bringing to pass the promise. This significant event was marked by Jehovah declaring to Abraham the fulfillment of the covenant between Jehovah and Abraham and he mark such a worthy event by changing Abraham’s name from Abram to Abraham, which: means the father of many nation.

So it is only when Abram put his total trust in and became consistently faithful to Jehovah that he received his blessing and that which Jehovah had promise to him. It is the same with us; Jehovah can only bless us base on the level of our faithfulness to him. The quality of our life is a testimony of our faithfulness to Jehovah.

1. Are you satisfied with the quality of your life?

2. Are you living a victorious life?

3. How does the people in your community see you, are you the head and not the tail?

4. Have you been receiving Jehovah’s unhindered blessings?

5. Is your cup full and over flowing?

6. Are you the one to provide help to others or are you the one who is looking for help?

You will be able to answer these questions in the affirmative when you are totally faithful to Jehovah.Until then, know that, you have your destiny in your hands and such destiny is linked to your faithfulness to Jehovah.

Baptism In Bermuda SDA Churches

2009-09-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

Above: Discussion of Restoration Ministries SDA Church BDA

Below: Bamtism Service of St. Georges & St. David's SDA Church BDA

Is the Church A Religion, A Place of Worship or Neither?

2009-09-22T16:07:00.000-07:00

Many people after reading the bible, have come across many illustrative passages and have decide to take the said passages literal. Unfortunately these passages were design to simplify a concept so that the simplest of minds reading and or who hear its content will immediately understand the lesson Jehovah intended the hearers and readers to learn.

We saw a practical example of this practice, when Jesus the Christ conducted his ministry on earth. He delivered the messages of his father and he did so in a simplified manner using parables to develop and make his point. In taking this approach he avoided the confusion his hearers may have experienced if he did otherwise; he also avoid the confusion that goes along with the interpretation of spoken or written words. In Jesus’ case, nothing was left for or to interpretation, for he gave the parables and then he offered the interpretation or explanation. He paid special attention in keeping everything simple and in its context. Jesus Christ did not leave nothing to chance, he took every measure to ensure that his presence on earth, his assignment as a man, his preaching, his entire life will not leave any question in the minds of his followers and in the process silence his adversaries.

The Bible has many illustrative writing that ought not to be taken literal; they were given in that manner to ensure that all will understand Jehovah intended messages and learn of his expectation, his promise, his future plans, and his love for us all.

One such concept is the Church. In Revelation the bible make mention of the church in several situation and conditions and in doing so speak of the pure church, which is depicted as a virgin, who is "a bride adorn for her husband:" King Jesus. There is also the impure church, which is depicted as the harlot, one that defiled herself with impure wine and whose husband is the Dragon: the Devil. This piece of illustrative writing was intended to show Jehovah’s people that the Devil in his desire to be Jehovah and to take his place will be imitating everything Jehovah have design for his (Jehovah) glory and the salvation of his children; all in an effort to trick us into disloyalty to Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ.

To form the basis of this discussion I must ask these questions; is there a difference between religion and church? Is the place of worship a church?

These are some other question we must also answer.

Is the synagogue a church?
Is the Muslim mosque a church?
Is the Buddha’s temple a church?
Is the Christian place of worship a church?

My answer to these questions are going to anger many in the Christian community. there is one answer to all of the above question, and it is; no. None of the above examples are churches. Will Jehovah allow selfish, corrupt man to build or care for his church. The church the Creator, creates will be perfect in every way; in its leadership (Jesus the resurrected Savior), its composition (The saints who had been wash in the blood and declare worthy), in its teaching and in its actions (Total unconditional love for the triune God).

The Church has Jesus at its head, and those who make up the church are those who are wash in the blood of Jesus Christ and are a part of the redeemed. Not those who have declared themselves washed in the blood and with their mouths say they are redeemed. In the church there is no pretence, in the church there is no hypocrisy, in the church there is no back biting, hate etc. all of the behaviors that exist in religion. Ephesians 5: 27 States: He give his life for the people so that they will be presented to himself a glorious church, (group) not having spots or wrinkle, or any such thing but it should be Holy and without blemish. Can we in all honesty say that any of the religion that calls themselves Jehovah’s church possesses these qualities? NO. The church will be consist of people who love the lord Jehovah with all of their heart, their mind, and their soul, and they that love their neighbors, (their brothers their sisters) as themselves. Not those who Just say they love Jehovah but those who have proven their love for and of Jehovah by their though, conviction and action and who have so demonstrated their love for their neighbors. We must always remember that love must be tested. These privileged multitude will have the honor of hearing Jehovah declared to them; well done my good and faithful child/children, enter into the joy of my rest.

Let us not be mistaken, I have nothing against religion, for religion is important to man’s salvation. Religion is the tool that equips us for the Church. Religion gives us an understanding of who our creator is; it teaches us what Jehovah expects of us, and what we should expect of him, it also teaches us of the pass and equips us for the future. We must not forget that religion is organized by man, on Jehovah’s behalf base on his (man's) understanding and interpretation of Jehovah’s word.

We must not forget that the free will, which is a gift from Jehovah to man, is the quality that characterizes man, and have been responsible for man’s downfall. This all important quality along with our tendencies to be selfish, greedy, wicked etc. as well as our rebellious tendencies which leads us to desire the things that are not good for us and the things that are not ordained by Jehovah. Too often we ignore Jehovah’s leading and Jehovah’s voice (conscience, Holy Spirit leading and biblical instruction) in our passion to satisfy our defile desires. Even Paul the patriot confessed that the things he want to do I do not.

Religious leaders in their effort to gain followers and accumulate money, adopts a critical attitude, and thus they run around criticizing other religions, whilst declaring themselves the true church. They cast judgment on others because they worship different than they do, neglecting the words of the master in Matthew 7: 1; Judge not that you be not judge for with what Judgment you judge, you shall be judge; while they hold on to text such as: by their fruits you will know them, not taking into consideration that very often a man's action may appear to be bad or wrong but his purpose and his motive for doing such may be in keeping with Jehovah's wishes. Matthew 7:1, went on to advise us to first take the beam out of our eyes before taking the mole out of our brother’s eyes. Yet we sit in Judgment of others not knowing their understanding of Jehovah; we criticized them, not knowing their conviction; we condemn them, not knowing the content of their hearts, we damned them, not knowing their relationship with Jehovah and we show our disapproval of them not knowing the debt of their love for their creator. We do all these things to others forgetting Phil 2: 12 admonishes us to workout our own salvation with fear and trembling. We must allow other person do the same.

We as Christian has only one responsibility to others and that is; to preach Jehovah’s words fearlessly base on our understanding and conviction (it is the Holy Spirit that nurtures our understanding and conviction); and when we meet people who are preaching what we think is contrary to the word of Jehovah, we must in love, and with Holy Spirit guidance, explain to them and anyone present what we believe and why we believe such then we ought to move on, leaving the rest to the Holy Spirit. We tend to show how Un-Christ like we are when we are confronted with people who believe different from us.

Should Jehovah’s Faithful Children Expect to Prosper Whilst on Earth?

2009-08-31T13:53:00.000-07:00

Is prosperity one of the rewards of man’s faithfulness to Jehovah? This is a question that every faithful servant of Jehovah can answer without any problem. However in this old corrupt world where pretense takes precedence many people are looking at the lives of people who are supposable Jehovah’s faithful children who are struggling to survive and are unable to make ends meet. But the question we must ask ourselves is, to whom or to what are they faithful? It is an important fact that most of Jehovah’s professed people are more dedicated to their family, friend, occupation, bosses and even their spouse than they are to the almighty God of the universe: Jehovah, thus they rewards Jehovah's goodness, love and faithfulness towards them/us with ingratitude.

Many people want the rewards of the faithful without the commitment and obedience that ought to accompany such. Our “I want it now” world; have driven us into a life of pretense. Many people rather alter the meaning of Jehovah holy words than to confess their disobedience; they rather call the “I AM” a liar than to admit that they are struggling with certain issues. In our effort to make a good impression our Christian lives becomes a big game of pretence a facade. Those who refused to confesses that they are not totally faithful to Jehovah and are not being blessed as they ought to; are often unfaithful and in their pretense gives new meaning to words such as prosperity. The word prosperity means to increase in wealth, riches, affluence and success. Prosperity in no way means good health you can be healthy but not prosperous. Jehovah know the difference between prosperity and good health. Hence the reason John made it clare when he said in 3rd-John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospereth.

Jesus himself told his children in: Mark 10: 29-30 “and Jesus answered and said, 29: “I say unto you, there is no man that has left house, or brethren, or sisters of father or mother, or wife or children, or land for my sake of the gospel’s.

30: But he shall receive a hundred fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sister and mother, and land with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. In the text above we see Jesus giving his children the prescription for Earthly prosperity.

Jesus the Son of the living God, have tell us as long as we are faithful to him and his Gospel we will be given the privilege to accumulate earthly riches, not just get things, we will get them 100 times what he had or forsake for his sake. In other words there must not be anything standing between the giver of everything and us. To often we allow the gift to become a partition; separating us from the giver. We fail to understand that he who gave good gift, can at any time take away that gift (be it mother, father, spouse, finances, property etc.)

The kind of loyalty Jehovah loves and take pleasure in rewarding the loyalty that moves us to put him before everything and everyone. He declared in Matthew 6: 33

Seek ye first the kingdom of Jehovah and all his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you.

Let us take a good look at a few prominent men who consciously chosen to seek and put Jehovah first in and over all things and every human, as a results Jehovah blessed and prospered them. They are Job, Abraham, Joseph, etc. all of these men increase in riches/wealth, affluence and success. If your prosperity is from Jehovah then you will increase in all of the above not just riches, for there is no prosperity without affluent or success. If your prosperity is from Jehovah you will increase in wealth, affluence and success.

How is it with Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ? What happens when we are faithful to Jehovah, when we love and obey his words; not because we have to, feel we should or out of feelings of guilt; but because we want to? The best type of obedience comes from a heart of love.

King David said that he was young but now he is old; yet he have never seen the righteous forsaken not Jehovah’s seed begging bread. Jehovah said that his people should be the head and not the tail. How can you truly represent Jehovah if you are waddling in poverty?

We are to reflect Jehovah’s love in the way we treat others, we should reflect:

Jehovah forgiveness when we forgive those who do us wrong, say bad things about us, who cause our relationships to break up and who were unfaithful to us.

we must reflect Jehovah Compassion when we are touch by the need and pain of others but more so when we are moved to relief such pain and satisfy the needs.

We must show that Jehovah is faithful to his words by being faithful to our words.
We must be able to show that our father is the owner of the entire universe and the cattle on a thousand hills belong to him. By being able to satisfy the physical need of those who are suffering around us.

How can I serve such a great God, who is extremely rich in that, he owns the entire universe and all that is in it, he is so loving, that he offered himself to die in my place, one who is so forgiving that he forgive the wicked things I did/do to him and against him. He forgives me each time I willfully participate in his crucifixion anew. Will such merciful, loving and faithful father allow his obedient, faithful children to exist in poverty?

I answering this question I say NO!

Matthew 7:10- What man there is of you whom if his son asks you for bread will give him a stone.

10: or if he ask for a fish will give him a serpent.

11: if ye then being evil know how to give good gift unto your children how much more shall your heavenly father which is in heaven give good things to those who asked him?

We must remember 2-Peter 3: 9 “Jehovah is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

Jehovah’s primary goal is for us all to repent for our sins and if we are faithful he will ensure that we all are rewarded for our faithfulness; here on earth and as well as when he return. The scripture said: For Jehovah is not slack concerning his promises, he doesn’t take his words lightly, he dose what so ever he say he will do. Did you notice that all of Jehovah and Jesus’ promises has a condition attached to them? Jehovah was the inventor and the first to use the reinforcement therapy. Here we see the concept of positive reinforcement coming in to play as outlined in his promises and covenants.

All through Jehovah’s word he show us that unconditional obedience to him has its rewards the primary of which is the privilege to live and reign with him in the earth made new, however he also promise to protect us and to prosper us. Let us take a look at what I consider and call the comprehensive Psalms which is Psalms 1: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners not sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2. But his delight is in the law if the lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of many water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither and what so ever he doeth shall prosper.”

Here we see one of the rewards for obedience to Jehovah is: earthly prosperity. Here we can see the parallels in the points and they all point to being blessed with wealth.

David who Jesus call a man after his own heart, in counseling his son Salomon; he did not fail to remind him of the words Jehovah give to Moses 2-Kings “and keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself.

There are many reasons why we should be faithful to Jehovah the least of which is personal prosperity. But we must be willing to love Jehovah first because he loved us even before he created us, he loved us even when we rebelled from him and came to die in Calvary’s cross to redeemed us from the hand of the devil, and he provides for use each day.

The Christian Church: A Refuge Or A Place Of Ridicule

2009-08-06T15:34:00.001-07:00

During Slavery we have seen the black man or the black male slaves taking control of his family in an effort to gain their freedom; and for their fearless and courageous actions they suffered much. The black male (slave) suffered beatings, amputation of body parts, castrations or the removal of their male genitals, executions, daily whippings, their wives and children were raped in their presence, they were separated from their families and they were (buggered) rapes by their white masters and his other white workers. All these atrocities and other disgusting inhumane actions were inflicted on the black male by his white owners in an effort break or emasculate him: rendering him weak and powerless.

This era was a dangerous era for the black family, more so for the black male and because of the danger that was present during this difficult era the black woman look to the black man for leadership, strength, support, protection, wisdom etc. In this era the black male held a prominent place in his home, for it was the black man who poses a threat to his oppressor; the white oppressor had no fear of the Negro woman, for she was of no real threat to him and his evil system, however the very though of the Negro male send shivers of fear down their spine.

In the post emancipation era, there was a reemergence of the strong black male. The strong black man took the forefront in leading his family, and this once again strike terror into the hearts of his white oppressors who were also the land holders, the chief employers, policy and law makers as well as the law enforcers. Once again it was their plan to emasculate the black male, however due to the changes that was made in the laws to accommodate emancipation and the awakening of many white consciences; the old tactics that were used during slavery could not be used without possible legal consequences, so they embarked on a big elaborate plan which was to emasculate the black man while empowering the black female. There was and is nothing more humiliating then to take away the leadership of the family from the male and put such role in the hands of the weaker vessel the females. This is the sure way to break any men who are by nature a provider and protector. If you do the same thing to the woman as was done to the male; If the male took over the woman’s role of chief nurturer of the family, strip her of her nurturing role while maintaining his provider protector role, then she too will acquire a sense of uselessness in the environs of the home and family.

You have got to understand that although there is an exception to every rule, generally each or anytime you take away any one of the core roles from any man (black, white, or Indian etc.), he automatically fails in the other role: he began to feel less than a man. If a man is unable to protect his family from external forces, this condition puts a dent in the armor, it weakens the very thing that makes him a man, anytime a man is unable to provide for his family, such conditions cause an erosion of his masculinity.

I guess the big question that must be knocking at the door of your minds is; what techniques were employed to emasculate the black male? They took away his ability to provide for his family. They would fire the black man and use the law; their power and every means available to them to destroy every independent means or opportunity for the black man to earn a living. They took away his land, prevent him from trading, and impose any restriction on any lawful means he to earn a living. After they have destabilized the family, destroying the esteem of the head of the home by taking away his ability to provide for and protect his family; they, in the same breath empowered the black women thus adding to her role that of provider also, making her the chief and in most cases the only provider for the home. She was provided with very meager wages, the Negro females were employed to perform the same duties their husbands performed however their wages were far lower than that which was paid to the husband or the other black male.

They (the white masters) use the opportunity to poison the mind of the wife by referring to their husband as lazy and good for nothing, thus planting the seeds of resentment in the hearts of the wives toward their husbands. The ego within us human love to glory in the flatery when we are fed words that elevate us above another, whether such elevation is true and just or not. When our egos are fed we buy into the lies of our enemies and bring destruction to ourselves and our kind.

The unfortunate thing is how easily the women buy into such propaganda about her male counterpart who provide for her and his family from the beginning of time, who never fail to put himself in harms way to ensure that she was safe, who loved her unconditionally and encouraged her consistently ensuring that she is/was excellent in her role as nurturer to her children dedicated wife. You see the black women were no threat to the white powerful landowners, so he removed the threat (the black man).

Our sisters fail to heed to or they forgot the counsel of Proverbs 12:4 which states; “A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness to his bones.

Such disrespect manifested it self in so many ways and was responsible for destroying the very things that she love and cherishes her families. But she (the black woman) became so drunk with her new role her newly acquired power that she allow wisdom to evade her. Now such is evident today in the delinquencies of our children, the high murder rate that exist among Negro youths, the alarming rate at which Negro young woman search out the abortionist knife to remedy the problem of unplanned pregnancies, the rise in members of the black community adopting the homosexual life style, the high number of Negro which are infected and die from HIV/AIDS, the lack of desire and interest to gain education proficiencies that is present in black males today, the overflow of the penitentiary with black males, the manifestation of drugs and violent gangs in our homes, schools, neighborhood, the promiscuities that is present among our young girls etc. all this the results of upsetting the chemistry or the natural order of the family and the home.

The Black Church:
Let us take a good look at the black churches, as it relates to the ratio of men to women that holds membership in these institutions and are playing an active role in the spreading of the Gospel of Jehovah and Jesus Christ. Yes you have observed correctly; the male membership is almost none existent. But why is this so?

I will like you to join me as I take a disgusted walk down the corridors of my recent memory; feel free to examine my findings if you feel so incline. I have been attending black churches ever since I was a child, and I am yet to hear a sermon or meet a preacher who is or was dedicated to empowering the black man, or buoying up the esteem of the congregation. Instead of empowering the black male (who ironically is Jehovah appointed priest and head of his home) the preachers systamatically and psychologically beat down his congregation especially the black male from the podium where they (the congregations) are forbidden to reply or challenge him (the preacher). This is done while empowering the women, creating a psychological and a manifested division between the gender and within the homes and the marriages.

When the man decrease in esteem and confidence, the women grows in similar fashion to that of the post emancipation period. The men are emasculated by his Shepard and the woman buy into the preacher ridicule of their fathers husbands, brother and friends: the men. The preacher’s opinions of the black man manifest itself into negative actions, inferences and attitude from the wives of the now belittled man. Her negative expressed and opinions of her man takes on a growing recklessness and such negativity are expressed first in his absence, then to his children and then as a direct attack on his manhood. It is unfortunate that such pointed attacks are done in the presence of the children.

In some cases the Christian woman fail to submit her self unto her husband which was Christ admonished her. Now the black man is bombarded with ridicule when he is at work, he has to compete with his peers for their attention, the sanctity of the church were transform into a place of ridicule and the tranquility of the home is now converted into a bottle field where violent attacks are launched on his manhood, he is belittled in the presence of his children and constancly insults by the one who should be closest to him. The destruction of the man was successful thanks to the insensitivity of the preachers. now the black man is left with no sanctuary: a place of peace and love.

The Christian church should be a place of refuge, a place where members can go to recoperate have after facing backbiting, prosecution, and other hardship at the hands of the wicked heathen whose aim is only to belittle us. There we should find encouragement, be motivated and uplifted, so we can be better husbands fathers employees and people. Unfortunately the church have become a place where the members (but more so the men) are beaten into submission; while the same pastors preach sermons to empower the females. Once again the male gender is emasculated, but this time, by those who were put in place to build and strengthen them. This is an act that is totally contary to Jehovah's will.

This is the primery reason why the black men of today are so weak; this is the primary reason why they fail to live up to their obligations as husband, father, providers and church officials. The black church have to begin empowering their congregation especially the black man.

Why is it that upwards to five thousand men followed Jesus Christ at any one time, yet the church, as the body of Christ, cannot attract a handful of men per congregation?

We have to understand that unlike the church, Christ satisfy the needs of the people who followed him, when they were hurting he reassured them, when they were troubled he brought them calm, when they were afflicted he comforted them, when they were heart broken he heal them, when they were broken he restore them, when they were distressed he brought peace and when they were ill he healed them. Jesus took the time to attend to the need of the people in the so many ways.

He said arise to the little maiden and she awaken from her sleep of death and her family and friends were happy again.
He responded to the voices that said “Son of David have mercy on me” and right there and then the blind was made to see.
The man sick with the palsy was told to take up his bed and walk.
Thing of the joy the family of the leper experienced when their skin was healed.
When they multitude were hungry Jesus ensure that they were fed.

The people felt safe to bring their troubles to Jesus Christ, for they knew instead of a hard ears Jesus had tender ears: he was willing to listen to their troubles, they knew that he had a heart of love, for he harbored no bad thought against anyone not even the rich young ruler who rejected Jesus’ offer to become a disciple and follow him or the wicked church leaders who plotted and later killed him. They knew that he had lips of compassion for he speak tenderly and he speak to the need of the people, they knew that he has hands empathy for he gave, he healed, and he showed love to all he came into contact with.

Even when Jesus rebuked the hypocrite he did so out of a heart of love and to inform his followers what to look out for if they ought not to be deceived and lose their souls. Jesus concerned himself with bringing comfort to the comfortless, help to the helpless, healing to the sick, love to the unloved, understanding to the missunderstood and salvation to every sinners. This should be the mission of the church, to teach the thou shall not base on the thus said the lord: the bible.

Can We Live Sinless Lives?

2009-07-21T16:33:00.000-07:00

When Jehovah made man, he made him in his image and his likeness, at the beginning of creation man was perfect in all of his ways. In other words Adam and Eve were perfect human. They were creatures that were created by a perfect God: Jehovah. They were created to Jehovah's precise plan, the last thread of their hear was where it was suppose to be; it was precise to the debt it was embedded into the skin as well as the length it extended above the scalp.

Adam and Eve were not only perfect in their appearance they were perfect in their purpose. But the celestial harmony was broken, with the entrance of sin. When man chooses to give up his perfection in beauty and purpose; he lost every thing:

They lost their perfection in statue and in purpose.
They lost the right to communicate with Jehovah directly on a daily basis.
They lost the privilege to dwell in the magnificence of Eden.

They lost the direct love they consistently experience with Jehovah
They lost the privilege of being in his presence
They also lost the privilege to be preserved in their perfect state forever among other things.

Man will no longer be considered sinless. For with the exception of one man: Jesus Christ the righteous, all else have sinned at some point and time of their life. But Jehovah in all of his mercies, grace, and love has made it so that; although we can never be declared sinless, we can all live sinless lives with the help and power of Jehovah and by the grace of Jesus Christ: the sinless son of Jehovah.

What does this mean?

It means that we can not say that we have never sin; however we can reach to a point in our spiritual life where we live sinless lives or live our lives without sinning. At this stage of our spiritual development we will discover that the sinful things that brought pleasure to us are despised and the activation of such pleasure sensors are triggered by holy stimulus such as our obedience to Jehovah, doing his will etc.

Unfortunately there are many followers of Jehovah and believers in Jesus Christ who do not believe that such spiritual state is attainable. They see everyone’s development through their own broken, rebellious and un-submissive life, their selfish desires and their unwillingness to let go of the pleasures of this world and to submit to Jehovah original intention for his human creation have hindered their spiritual development.

We are not without examples of people who have forsake all and submit to Jehovah power and the love and grace of Jesus Christ and have arrived to a point where they live sinless lives. Many Christian who are living defeated lives will want you to believe that the people who have surrendered to Jehovah life changing power and have been living sinless lives are special people. There is nothing that is far from the truth and this is one of the biggest lies that Satan has ever told. This is his way of having us call Jehovah and his son Jesus a liar and to ensure that we continue to live defeated lives.

Let us take a look at some men who have tapped into Jehovah life changing power and over came sin and lived sinless lives.

Most Christian, pastors, and other religious leaders will want us to believe that Job, Enoch and Elijah, were special people. There were nothing that was special about these men; they were ordinary men who relied totally on Jehovah for everything (great and small).

Job, Elijah, Enoch and the other patriots did not do anything that is impossible for us to do, neither were they given any special powers that is not available to us. It is by our chosing that we have not overcome sin and live sinless lives. We have exposed to us, the same power that took these ordinary men and inspired them to live extraordinary lives.

Jesus declared, be ye perfect even as your father is perfect. Jesus will never call us to accomplish a task that he knows is impossible; If Jesus said that we should be perfect then we can be. Job was an example that Jehovah nor his son Jesus is not requesting member of his human creation to do anything that is impossible. In Job 33:9, it is written, “I am clean, without transgression, I am innocent: neither is there any iniquity in me.”

Job did not have any problem in telling his friends of his spiritual status, it is important to note that this was not done boastfully but in the vindication of his character. If you are living a sinless or righteous life you will know that you are. You will know by your actions, the type of though you entertain, and foremost your relationship with Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ.

If Job can attain such spiritual high we can also. We should always remember that anything is worth having is worth going after and anything that is worth going after is worth all of our energies, dedication and focus.

Do you think the promise of living in eternal bliss in a perfect and serene place that was made by Jehovah to the human family and secured by Jesus Christ is worth having?

If your answer to the above question is yes; what are you willing to do to ensure that you are the bless beneficiary of such?

Rebellion to Tyrant is Obedience to God

2009-07-13T21:03:00.000-07:00

“Rebellion to tyrant is obedience to God.” This quotation is very true. This serious and profound statement was coined by Benjamin Franklyn in 1776, and was to be the motto on the seal of the United States of America the greatest democracy that exists today. However this quote was later used by Thomas Jefferson on his personal seal.

“Rebellion to tyrant is obedient to God” can the truth in this statement be proven. Let us look to the bible, to see if this statement can be proven.

In the book of Genesis, the tyrannical King of Egypt: Pharaoh, enslaved the Israelites and subjected them to much inhumane treatment. It was as a result of Moses obedience to Jehovah and his love for his people that caused Moses to lead a rebellion against Pharaoh in the name of his God: Jehovah and thus he secured the freedom of his people.

In the four gospels of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John we saw John the Baptist rebelled against the hypocritical religious leaders and the immoral political leaders of his day; he also exposed their vile practices. This was done to their great disapproval; as a result, John was beheaded for his bold and courageous actions.

In Daniel 3: The tyrannical Babylonian King: Neb-u-chad-nez-zar ordered the world to worship him; his likeness was superimposed in the golden statue, the three Hebrew boys servants of Jehovah rebel against the king by not complying with his orders; as a result the boys were thrown into a super heated fiery furnace.

In Daniel 6: when King Darius forbid the worship of Jehovah and ordered that all recognition and worship be awarded only unto him. Here we saw Daniel rebelling against the king and his instruction. Daniel continued to file his petition with Jehovah his God and as a result of Daniel’s action, he was thrown into the lion’s den.
Religious leader who hides behind the cliché, God’s will, will be done are nothing more than cowards. Jehovah bestowed the responsibility on us to ensure that his will is done on earth and when such is beyond human ability he assured us he will step in and take care of business.

Now let us take a look at some example that most conscionable human were in supports of; examples which occurred in the distant and recent pass:

The mothers and fathers of emancipation who rebelled against the wicked and the then legal system of slavery and secured the freedom of the black slaves. Their rebellion resulted in the lost of millions of life over hundreds of years

....Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: The Father of the United States of Anerica Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King led a rebellion against the tyrannical system of segregation in America; a system which taught: black people are inferior and they were not human and members of the black race were treated as such. Dr. King’s actions were the catalyst that secured the rights of African American to live in America free and to be treated as a people who are equal. Martin Luther King paid the ultimate price for his people: death.
Mahatma Gandhi: was one who recognized the tyranny of the colonial government that occupied his country; and his heart could not bore the exploitation of his people. Thus Gandhi the Indian “spiritual leader” rebelled and inspired his people to rebel against the colonial tyrant. Gandhi’s action was the vehicle that propelled India to secure her independence. Mahatma Gandhi also suffered the ultimate price for his people: death.

.............................. Nelson Mandella: the South African Liberator

Nelson Mandela: the South African liberator who rebelled against the tyrannical system of apartheid and secured freedom for his people and ensured that his country became an unconditional self-governing nation, free of the prejudices that cause the exploitation and un-necessary death of millions of innocent black people. Nelson Mandela’s actions caused him to lost 27 youthful years of his life sitting in a prison cell for a cause he believed in; and a cause he knew was right.

One thing I know for sure and that is; if anyone asked these men if the suffering they undertook for their cause was worth it. They will answer with pride and let you know they will do it again if they are needed.

If from the examples provided above, we agree that rebellion to tyrant is indeed obedience to God, then obedience to tyrant is rebellion to God. It is time that people who have tyrant in their lives, such as a bosses, a political leader etc. to get up and rebel against any such tyrant that bully them. When we rebel we must expect retaliation from the tyrant in the same way John the Baptist, Daniel, the three Hebrew boys, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela suffered; hence we must be prepare to suffer at the hand of a tyrant. But when all is said and done, we will experience a quality of life that will be better, richer and more rewarding; so much so, that we will ask ourselves why didn’t I rebelled sooner.

We must always remember that “a tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny and it is useless for the innocent to try to reason to get justice when the oppressor intend to be unjust.”

All these men knew exactly what Jehovah expected of them and what was his desire for his people. They also knew that Jehovah has no hands or voice but there (our) hands and voices. What is Jehovah’s will for his people? The American Declaration of Independence out lined the answer to this question perfectly. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” If there is a person or group who act against the principles out lined in the quote in any way may be a tyrant.

If you or another are treated by anyone or a group as if you or the other is not created equal to them.

If you or another are deprived of your rights to live.

If you or another had your liberty to express themselves freely etc. taken away.

Or who make living condition social and otherwise so unhealthy that it is almost impossible to enjoy even the pursuit of and attainment of happiness.

Let us take a look at another part of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government.” In other words any time a government is corrupt, and or is unable to provide the rights as outlined above, in such cases, it is the rights of the people to alter or abolish that government and institute new government. This is very powerful counsel coming from the fathers of democracy.

Unfortunately many Caribbean leaders after they have been duly elected to lead the counties of their birth, normally adopt a tyrannical character, becoming enemies of the people, and voluntarily indulge in their own selfish gratification while the people suffer.

I will end with these two un-dissected quotation: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."
The United States of America Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. . . whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Abortion A Moral Issue

2009-07-12T11:25:00.000-07:00

The Christian community is faced with many moral predicaments, which the bible did not address directly: predicaments that the unchristian world is fighting hard to sanitize. One such topic is the issue of abortion. What is abortion? Abortion is the premeditated or the conscious planning and the execution of that plan to terminate a pregnancy; and as we know a pregnancy is a process where a female egg is fertilized by the male sperm cell in the womb of a female to create a human life.

In speaking of the unborn human child Jehovah declared in Jeremiah 1:5; before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. This statement tells me, that Jehovah; the awesome creator of the universe and all that is in it, knows every child even before conception, he has ordained a plan for that unborn child and it matters not, at what stage of development the unborn is; be it, the Zygote, Embryo, Fetus etc. Jehovah has a plan for that child.

In the recent pass fornication, adultery, homosexuality, divorce, abortion and even bringing disrepute to the family name were scorned and frond at by all; while respect for all life, ones community, the elderly, etc. were held in high esteem. Unfortunately today members of the community even some members of the Christian community wears the above negatives (fornication, adultery, homosexuality, etc.) as a badge of honor while we are forced to feel ashamed to celebrate the above positives (respect for the elderly etc.).

The bible has detailed the consequences for the accidental termination of a pregnancy, so it is a sign that the accidental termination of an unborn life is serious business. If Jehovah prescribed or instituted a system of punishment for the accidental termination of a pregnancy how much more serious is the willful termination of a pregnancy. The fact that the bible did not address the topic of abortion directly; only means that Jehovah’s people will have to tap into the abundance of wisdom that Jehovah has given to us in dealing with this and other issues that were not directly addressed in the bible.

The None-Christian community is convinced that abortion is morally wrong, and for many years the legislature have ensure that the necessary laws were enacted to protect the unborn life that flourishes in the womb. Unfortunately today the fight for the right to perform indiscriminate abortions without any lawful consequences; is in full motion and such liberty has a fancy name or term, which is: “The Right to Choose.” This means that the pregnant female has a right to choose whether they should carry a pregnancy to full term and give birth or whether to terminate that pregnancy at any stage.

In order to gain acceptance for abortion, many people try to confused the issue and develop argument such as: when or at what stage does life began? But when does life truly begin. Let us take a close look at this very controversial question.

The abortionist, the right to choose organizations and their followers argues that their inability to recognize certain organs and other human characteristics in the zygote etc. is clear indication that such beings (the life that occupies the womb) are not human. It is important to note that just because the technology is unable to distinguish or recognize particular essential human features and or characteristics in the unborn child automatically mean that these features and characteristics are not there or they do not exist. We all know how primitive modern sciences and technologies are.

We have seen how primitive modern sciences and the technologies are. This is exhibited in the thousand of retraction of findings and theories that were declared to be truthful and factual. The new discoveries that brought to naught the many scientific beliefs that have been propagated as facts for many years. But more so the high level of ignorance that still exist in the field of science such as anatomy and physiology.

The female egg (s) is a living part of the mature female; however when that egg dies the body systematically expels it during menstruation. It is important to understand that female eggs or ovaries do not have the potential intelligent that is required to mature into an adult human. There is also the sperm cell which is the reproductive factor of the male. The Sperm cell is capable of living and functioning independently of its life source although not for long. Like the ovaries, the sperm cell independently do not possess the potential intelligence to mature into an adult human; however the merging or the coming together of the two cells; the sex cell of the male and the sex cell of the female has the potential intelligence that can and have been facilitating the maturity of the cellular union into a mature human. As a matter of fact such cellular being like the zygotes are human (possesses the forty six (46) chromosomes or the two pairs of twenty three (23) chromosomes that represents human life); however they have only attained the first stage of the process, in a long journey that will see the zygote eventually develop into a mature human.

The unborn must develop and mature in the same way an infant has the potential intelligence to be an adolescent but have to develop biologically and mentally in order to reach that stage. Bearing this concept in mind, we must therefore conclude that life began at conception. The fusion of the two cells, each carrying twenty three chromosomes has the potential intelligence or all that is needed to be a human. So at conception we have a human child. The different names (zygote, fetus Blastocyst etc.) that is attributed to the unborn child is just to aid us in understanding the stages of development the unborn child have attain at a given period before birth.

So there should not be any confusion or unanswered question as to when life begins, it is clear that life begins at conception. It is not important whether science and its accompanying technologies are incapable of recognizing the characteristics, that in their small mind, will make the unborn a human.

There are exceptional cases where in my opinion, abortion may be deemed as justify; however, in general I deem such procedure to be morally wrong. But morality no longer holds any real influence in today’s community. I can lend sanction to such case where the life of the mother is at serious risk if she continue the pregnancy or attempt to give birth (whether surgical or natural) to the child.

It is unfortunate, but in my opinion, a pregnancy which occurs as a result of rape is not one that justifies having an abortion. From the honest and sincere confession of the people who have had abortions, the mental pain of such procedure leaves emotional scars that never heals and the trauma that is associated with abortion are the type of trauma that affect the one who consent to such for the rest of their life. It is also important to know that having an abortion in no way, reduces the devastating and traumatizing effect of being raped. Although to carry a child that one unwillingly share with a man, who viciously violate the body of the victim may be hard, it will not impact as much as if a new trauma is added to an already traumatized life in the same way the consequences of having an abortion does.

I will terminate this discourse by making the following clear: I am not a woman, I have never been pregnant, I have never been raped and I have never have an abortion, I therefore wrote this article from the prospective of an empathetic adult male and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I pray that this article may give someone the convicting strength to better understand life and abortion.