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The Words Of Christ
I've been thinking of putting this one together for a while now. It's not really going to be written by me! The introduction (I'm thinking) will read: "Did you see the movie "The Passion Of The Christ"? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ ]This Book is "The Words Of Christ".

This book is, simply, the words of Jesus. The things He said. It's something I've wanted to write especially for a certain person. But, then again, the words of Jesus are for all of us!

Of course you (likely) have this book already! Especially if your Bible or New Testament has the words of Jesus in red ink!
But I'm not going to copy and paste the red sections of the Gospels. I planning on writing them as I read them, and I think it will take me longer than I've thought it would, after all, there's four gospel records and I don't want to leave anything out! Nor be repetitive!

I watched "The Passion Of The Christ". I kept thinking over and over, during the movie, "by His stripes, we are healed", 1 Peter 2:24 (a quote of Isaiah 53:5). 

I Am Like A Broken Record

I remember how after 9/11 we wanted to be aggressive against weapons of mass destruction, including chemical.

This morning, turning on the television, I saw film of that day, nine-eleven. And the first thought I had was that we have forgotten. Not so much the people who perished from the planet that day, but forgot we have enemies very determined against us. We have slipped back into, it can never happen to us.

As I watched this morning people running from the falling debris on that day, I thought of a part of my internet signature on a site where I go to discuss the Bible and the faith. In it I include there will be "a plague of gReat hail" which I believe will be debris. "It is against every high tower"..Isaiah 2:15. .."In the day the towers fall" ..Isaiah 30:25.

I think of God's "Judgment" for the most part, as the natural results and consequences of man's own doings. And will be used as a clear demonstration that this life is the lesson and learning that God is Life itself.. and Perfection, utter Perfection. To wander from God in any teeny, tiny way, is to become imperfect, the opposite of life. This is a major building block of all reality, that God is "all in all". To step away from that, in any way, can only ever result as dusty collapse in a self destructive puff of smoke. The eternal lesson of this life, proven by the collapse of men's empires in what is called 'the last days'.

Unless miracles occur and mankind turn back, sincerely, and in reality, to Yahweh, the Father, God and Creator, and to "goodwill to all" debris will fall upon mankind in his cities. As I watched film footage of people running from debris on nine eleven, I was struck very strongly with the thought, it will happen again. Man will run from a great hail of debris. The verses go on to say "come out of her my people". Out of the cities before that day.

As you know with internet signatures on emails or forums, they can only be so many spaces long. So I worked to fit 'last days' Bible prophecy into the space allowed. And this is what I came up with:

Rev1:3~(He)will shake heaven & earth--it is against every high tower--a plague of gReat hail(debris?)when the towers fall--(so)Come out my people--"10days trib"?follows35"cannot buy/sell" SEE the calendar->Dn12:11,12--blessed r they who revere the Lord, they will never b shaken--He shall judge between nations,they shall beat their swords into plowshares *The Bear Will Graze With The Cow & The Lion Will Eat Straw Like The Ox
~Haggai2:6&Heb12:27&--Is2:15;30:25--Rev18&16:21--2:10;20:4d&13:17--Ps112:1,6--Is2:4*11:7
in that day find safety while political parties+persons bicker? & R caught unaware?
But the world says "we have peace"..

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Graves Like Seeds

The wrath of God is a natural occurrence because He is both Life & Perfection. (I.e. to be imperfect is the opposite of life.) But since He brought it about by endowing thinking ability, He built in the rescue/reconciliation from the beginning. This life is His teaching drama, proving you cannot wander from life and live. To die still in your sins/imperfect is not as joyful a resurrection, but after belief, will catch up. God can-only be perfect. Therefor the 'end' result can only be the best one possible. Can we mortals dream of, or envision, something better than God can?

The ancient Holy Days were built around two harvests, the grain harvest (of which Jesus was the "firstfruit") and the fruit harvest. The grain harvest of course involved the Spring Holy Days. And the fruit harvest, the Fall Holy Days.

Two harvests.. graves like seeds. Two harvests, the first resurrection and the second resurrection. If the millennium is 1000 years, then 'Judgment Day' (surprise, Day of Atonement) will surely be 500 years. The days between the first Fall Feast (Holy Day) being 10 days, and between the second and third Feast days being 5 days.

At the end of that 500 year long day "those not believing will go to the second death".j

The Ancient Holy Days Of Israel Describe Universal Reconciliation

I've been thinking on this (and talking about it) for a long time. I'm so happy, finally the words have come together into some sort of cohesive sense [1 Corinthians 14:7,33]. I hope!

The ancient Holy Days of God (Leviticus 23:1-44) describe UR! Otherwise known as universal Reconciliation and Redemption. [Jonah 2:9]
Each Holy Day represents Jesus (Messiah).
The Spring Holy Days:

[#1] He was and is the Passover (Lamb). [Leviticus 23:5, New King James Version - "On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover."

[#2] He is the Unleavened Bread. (The oven was "the grave").

[#3] After three nights and three days, "at even" as the weekly Sabbath day was ending...
        He is the "First Fruits unto God". [1 Corinthians 15:17,18 and 20] "First Fruits" is Thanksgiving for the entire (grain) harvest. [1 Corinthians 15:20,21,22]

Then fifty (pent) days later (was) the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, wholly dependent upon the first three Holy Days earlier in the season. [Leviticus 23:1-22, the Spring Holy Days [#1-4] fulfilled by Jesus, it would seem, as His First Advent.]

There were two harvests in the land. The fruit of the land harvest is in..

The Autumn Holy Days:

[A] On the first day of the seventh month [Leviticus 23:24].. a blowing of Trumpets (also called New Year's).

[B] 10 Days (1000 yrs?) Later, The Day Of Atonement (DOA) - "Any person who is not humbled in this same day, shall be cut off from among his people." [Leviticus 23:29] "I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it.. ..And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls. -- according to their works; and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works; and the death and the hades" (place of the dead, the grave) "were cast to the lake of the fire -- this [is] the second death; and" (then?) "if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire." (Who's, not going to "believe" after having been resurrected, etc?) [Revelation 20:11-15] "Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all." [1 Corinthians 15:28]

[C] 5 Days (500 yrs?) Later, The Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles/Tents) - the joyful observance of the vintage and fruit harvest. "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine." [Deuteronomy 16:13] "And you shall take for yourselves, on the first day, the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days." [Leviticus 23:40]
   "..a statute forever..." [from Leviticus 23:41]
   "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth.. and..`Lo, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them" [Revelation 21:1-3]
   "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles." [Zechariah 14:16]

"..I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My tabernacle or dwelling place also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people." [Ezekiel 37:26c,27]
The Fall Holy Days, A-C, fulfilled by Jesus' long 2nd advent, like His 1st fulfilled the Spring Holy Days(?)

In the middle of writing this, I found myself thinking about Ultimate Reality, God's blueprint, how things will be after all is accomplished. In my mind's eye I saw the family I married into blending with, becoming family, with the one I was born into. (Barely at all have the two met.) Now this may seem obvious, but I don't remember ever realizing it to this degree before. It started when I found myself thinking of my mother in law, who passed away a little over thirty years ago. I thought if my family likes my husband, which they do, they will just love.. my mother in law. Then in my imagination I started to think of some dear aunts.. and sisters in law. Brothers, sisters, cousins.. And so on... all the beautiful branches of families and races, all God's family.. All safe. All beloved of God.

Amos The Farmer Preacher

Amos, a "herdsman" and "gatherer of wild figs" was one of the early prophets. Though of the nation of Judah (and one half tribe of Benjamin) he went north to the (lost) ten tribes of Israel to prophecy "two years before the earthquake".
- First He prophesied against nations around Israel who had terrified and mistreated Israel. The predictions were simple. Yahweh, most high God, would judge them with fire.

It had been two hundred years ago that ten of the tribes of Israel had separated from Jerusalem and the worship there, and had set up "a golden calf" in Bethel to represent their god and way of worship. But they also mixed in with their religion, observances to Yahweh (most high God).

Amos told them God was not fooled. He knew they had jimmied the scales and sold to the poor using a false set of weights and balances. He knew they cheapened their products and raised the rates, and they had become wealthy and proud off the poor. And were robbing them still.

 Amos prophesied and promised the consequences of oppressing and cheating the poor in order to be rich. The ten tribes nation of Israel could expect an earthquake, an eclipse, funerals and a famine.

(I've been asking the Lord, when will I know I, or loved ones after me, should be storing up some water, food and blankets. Could this be it? A prophecy parallel, like Bible prophecy almost always parallels, that is has two fulfillments, one for its time and another for the peak of man's history, story and lesson, commonly called "last days".)

Like just about all the prophets, Amos concluded his message by prophesying a golden age of Israel (with Jerusalem as capital of the Earth) when "the plowman shall overtake the reaper.. the juice of grapes shall drip down the mountains and all the hills shall run with it".

"I will bring about the restoration of my people Israel" said the LORD through Amos' preaching, "they will rebuild and inhabit.. they will plant vineyards and drink the wine, plant gardens and eat the fruit.. and never again will they be plucked from their land".

The Heartbroken Prophet

Poor Hosea. He lived in hard times, a time hard to find a good wife. Prophet for the Most High God of the Bible, during a time when the nation was, let's say very sexually active. Finally God said "Go ahead, get yourself a wife from the nation, she'll symbolize the unfaithfulness of my people".

Now lest we get on our high horse and judge Israel, it's not hard to see Israel is but a micro example of the macro situation.. the world has wandered far from the One who created it as a garden of peace and delight.

It's been said of prophet Hosea, "his sentences fall like the throbs of a broken heart." His wife had run off with another man, likely one who could pamper her with luxury. Hosea's heart was broken. This, God said, was the exact same thing Israel (and mankind) had done to him. Like sheep gone astray, Israel then, and the world now, has wandered far away from Him and life's simple garden of peace and delight. We could truthfully say God's heart mourns.

Mourning the unfaithfulness of his wife, Hosea, wrote that he "bought her back". Before we judge them too harshly, let's note it was a day when religion (other than Israel's) involved sex rites in the shade of lush groves. "The spirit of harlotry leads them astray" Hosea recorded, "and Most High God is a stranger to them".

This marriage was an example of God's marriage to mankind, and Israel, appointed to prophecy, to record the words of Scripture, and to be the place a little bit prepared for the rescuer, Messiah, whom it is prophesied will return and restore paradise and eternal life, after the course of mankind and world history has run its course. You see, God too, has "bought back" His unfaithful wife.

Before God sent Hosea to prophecy, He had sent Elijah, Elisha and Amos. Meanwhile, He also had sent Jonah to preach to Nineveh the capital of Assyria. You see Assyria was a great nation whose main theme and occupation was conquest, and they had their eye on Israel.

Back when Israel was faithful to God, His radiant Spirit (His Presence with them) was a shield round about them. But this could no longer be said. Mighty Nineveh, and all Assyria amended their ways at the preaching of Jonah, long enough to delay their aggressive conquest of Israel, what God called "fiery judgment".

In the day when mighty Assyria was getting ready to pounce on Israel, Israel, according to the Bible, had, for some time, fallen prey to practices of the popular religion of the day, which had progressed into human sacrifice, especially of infants and children. Sex rites brought about what was likely many unwanted babes, and it doesn't seem too big a leap to assume one had to do with the other, a natural progression if you will.

What Almighty God worth his salt wouldn't cease to protect a people who had adopted such horrific practice!

Bible prophet Hosea never did say how he and his (once) unfaithful wife got on. Did they end their days in peace and grow old together? Assyria did come, make war with and terrify Israel, and carried the people away with them back to Assyria, to be the slaves they had become. But a few poor folk of the land had been left behind. I like to think Hosea and his wife, Gomer, found peace and happiness in the end.

And as for Israel? (The northern ten tribes of Israel that is.. the ones some think of as "the lost ten tribes of Israel, but that's another story.)

God also said through His prophets that Messiah would regather and restore Israel. They would turn to Him and the nations would stream to Jerusalem to learn. And Jerusalem/Israel will become the beautiful and verdant capital of a New Earth within a New Heavens, where the "lion will eat straw like the ox, and the bear will be seen grazing with the cow" (paraphrased just a little).

Checkmate

I have this very big history book, which I had my eye on for some time, but the cost was sixty dollars. Needless to say, this is just too much to pay in order to own a book. But! Much to my delight I saw it was on special sale for thirty dollars!

It's a very big book and has mostly sat on a bookshelf for sometime now. I took it out intending to begin reading it, or at least scanning through, regularly, a couple of months ago, but only finally am doing so now. So yesterday I found myself scanning the index at the end of the book and realized, if I was to just read my way through that first of all, I'd learn quite a bit just doing that, as they list many occurrences and events with their page number after each name in the index. So you really do get a lot of information after each index entry.

I noticed, as I was reading through a lot of names starting with A, down through some centuries, what weird lives some of them lived! Which of course I've heard of before, but not so much at once. Like so and so, son of a king, accused his brothers of something, then defended them against the father, then killed his brothers, then plotted to kill his father, got discovered in some espionage in order to carry it out, and was executed. I mean really? This is how you're going to spend your life? When you could have leisure and enjoyment of days without having to toil like most of the population of mankind. It was his father who had him executed of course.

And there were lots and lots of this type of thing! Married his sister.. murdered his sister.. grand father.. what ever.. slew 40,000 people of a town.. this type of thing, over and over.


I started to notice it all had one thing in common. And that is they all had one branch of government. There was one power in the land.

Interesting Words Of Harry S Truman

QUOTE FROM -  http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/harrystruman :
Harry S. Truman
- During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."
- As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed.
- In June 1945 Truman witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations, hopefully established to preserve peace. (A world body which was, then wasn't when its 'head'/organizer/u.s. president Wilson didn't, after all, sign on, and then it was again.)
REV 13:13=1945 "fire down to the earth" upon Hiroshima & Nagasaki
REV 13:14 "because of which persuades man to make an image to the beast which was, wasn't, then was again" an image (panel? which will be given breath/authority when its head/u.s. presidency, finally 'heads')
REV 6:12-17 = 6th seal begun, BUT described as a blend of what it is when it begins AND what it is at the 'end' (this obscures the vision many days) "sun darkened"/blocked that day from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "and moon red"/reflecting fire, and "the stars" appearing to "fall from the sky" more so at 'end' (when the earth shakes) than beginning/opening in 1945, when 6th seal was broken, allowing the scroll to be unrolled/opened further.
- Is Christendom, that part "alive" waiting for a Pope with a wand? and 1945 is unmentioned in Bible prophecy? really??
- We are exactly at REV 7:1, while the 6th Seal/fiery wind is paused/held back, while a "multitude from all nations", then "144,000 of the twelve tribes of Israel" are "sealed on their forehead" (complete discernment and clarity?) to go with the "seal upon the heart" of (current) believers.
- After this pause, the 7th seal is opened (limited thermal-nuclear/atomic warfare occurs?) and the "7 angels line up with 7 trumpets, preparing to blow".
- Isaiah 2:11 - "the Lord alone will be exalted in that day".

A Dream And A Prophecy

Prophet Daniel (Daniel, chapters one and two) "in his youth" was carried off to Babylon with many others of Judah, by King Nebuchadnezzar. His intelligence was spotted and he and at least three others were put into training to be "wise men" high up in the kingdom.

After Daniel was there a year, King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream which troubled him, but he couldn't quite remember what it was, so he called his wise men and demanded they tell him not only the interpretation but the dream itself.

"Well" they said, "no one has ever asked such a thing, and no one could do such a thing. Tell us your dream O King and we will interpret."

The King wasn't having any of that, nor any excuses, and ordered the deaths of all the wise men. Daniel got wind of it and said "Wait! give me a day and I will ask my God to show me the dream and its interpretation". Then he and the three spent some time in prayer.

During the night God showed Daniel the dream and its interpretation and the King rescinded the order to have the wise men of the kingdom slain.

The dream, Daniel said, was of a tall statue who's head was gold - "this is you king" (Babylon) he told the king. The shoulders and arms (a following kingdom, Medo-Persia) were silver, the torso was bronze (Greece) then the two thighs were iron (Rome, with, as it turned out, its two divisions of east and west, etc. and which morphed into western Greek/Roman based civilization). And then finally the feet of ten toes, part iron, and part clay (or more exact translation, tile; part western, part not western). These ten toes remind us of the Book of Revelation's "ten kings" which rule one final hour with the final beast, and image or panel of it, who, by the way, has iron teeth(columns?) and bronze(Greek/secularism?) claws, which scatter what the iron doesn't.

This statue was a statue of what is called "the rule of the gentiles" (the nations/men's kingdoms).
At the end of the dream, Daniel said, a stone is thrown against the feet/ten toes (last day's divisions under the final world "beast" aka world body) smashing them and the whole statue falls and is no more than dust in the wind which is all carried away. Then the stone becomes a mountain (Biblical mountains symbolize kingdoms) and it fills the earth.

And yes, all live happily ever after. "The lion will" (once again) "eat straw like the ox, the bear will graze with the cow" Isaiah 11:7. "Nations will stream to Jerusalem to learn of the Lord" Isaiah 2:2-4.

"And the last enemy vanquished shall be death" 1 Corinthians 15:26. "Behold the tabernacle of God will be with mankind and He will dwell among them.. He will wipe away every tear and there shall be no more death, nor mourning, nor pain, for He who sits on the throne says `Behold, I make all things new" Revelation 21:3-5.

Colossians 1:20 -

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

²⁰ "and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens."

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

²⁰ "And God was pleased for him to make peace by sacrificing his blood on the cross, so that all beings in heaven and on earth would be brought back to God."

Fuzzy Memories Of Eve?

Adam called Eve "the mother of all". The very oldest artifacts found by archeologists are rough hand held size carvings of a rather heavy woman. Found in all lands, some have been found as simply torsos, perhaps what a small babe would see if held under their mother's garment. Or perhaps the head and limbs of these fell off easily during the centuries before they were unearthed. These ancient hand held 'gods' could cause one to wonder if perhaps Eve didn't become a big lady during the course of her long life.

The mother of us all,
the oldest of all,
hard,
splendid as rock.
Whatever there is that is of the land
it is she
who nourishes it...
             ... A Homeric hymn (approx 750-800 B.C.?)

When Adam called Eve, "the mother of all" perhaps unknowingly he helped to create one of the first man made 'gods' for the Mother Goddess is a tale and religion which has been found in all lands, and which later became a major deity of Babylon, Semiramus, which eventually spread to other lands as the India Indus goddess, Isis in Egypt, Kwan-Yin in China, Aphrodite in Greece, and the Venus of Rome.

See more ancient artifact images here:
http://www.lunaea.com/goddess/creativity/ancient.html
http://www.arden.com/theartifact/aprehist1/
With some later images:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_goddess