MATTHEW 3 1-10

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1 - In those days came John the Baptist. He was preaching [the “one crying out”] in the wilderness of Judea [Isaiah 40:3] saying, 2 “Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the LORD, make his highway {in us} straight.’” {The message/word is not hidden, not secret.}

     4 Now John wore a garment of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on locusts and wild honey. 5 Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan were going out to him 6 to be baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins [hamartia - missing the mark, from hamartanō to miss the mark]. {Imperfection which is entropy because God is Life and “is Perfect”. The slow gehenna that cannot be put out, worm that doesn’t quit.}

     7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned YOU to flee from the wrath to come?! 8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance! 9 And don’t presume! Don’t say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones in the river! 10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees! Every tree therefore that doesn’t bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire! {This is, for some reason, thought to be a reference to ‘hell’ - that spiritual propaganda myth - is that where we pile dead trees and limbs? Into an eternal pit of neverending fire? I think it would be a bonfire.. This slow burn/gehenna flaring up.. Nothing to take lightly! Surely the ‘bonfire’ which (fiery) John the Baptist prophesied, occurred in 70 CE..? ..Prophecy is fulfilled in ‘micro’ and macro versions.. In ‘smaller’ scope, to full scope at the consummation of history and of mankind’s empires. It’s bad empires competing.. warring.. but far worse if they unite into one POWER. js. Two things going on - actually three, three gatherings. One, of all authority, two, to armageddon the siren call is division.. can contribute from afar as the chain reaction is global, Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4, over and out.. and number three, to the door in the ten bridesmaid’s parable which goes into “the” millennium” (Mt.25:1-13, Rev.7:9,4). Into serving, called reigning during Jesus’ long second advent, a full scope version of his first so brief one, which the second includes GWT judgment ‘day’. What I mean is, in the parable, the (still) tares are gathered to a bonfire.. the wheat into the barn. Rev.16:14-15-16.} {Another interesting 3 - 1Cor.15:22-28, don’t skim verses 27-28, what does it repeat 5 times? It’s 1Cor.15:22-24,28 with Mt.13:33, key word 3. Three harvests, barley, wheat, and “at the end when he/Christ hands the kingdom to the Father, all subjected”/reconciled.. “Behold! I make aLL new!” Rev.21:5, Great, overflowing grape harvest.}

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