<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358</id><updated>2012-02-16T20:39:15.271-08:00</updated><category term='Psalms'/><title type='text'>Modern Church</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>179</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-1805432791534063908</id><published>2012-01-03T02:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T02:30:48.929-08:00</updated><title type='text'>7 year period of forgivness like our credit , rental , and bankruptcy records in deuteronomy 15</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:3}"&gt;Here's dueteronomy 15 this is the scripture explaining where the 7 year period on rental records or credit records, bankruptcy ect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‎1 Every seven years you shall pardon debts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 You shall do this in the following manner: the creditor shall pardon any debt of his neighbor or brother, and shall stop exacting it of him because Yahweh's pardon has been proclaimed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 You may demand that a foreigner pay back his debts but you shall pardon the debt of your brother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 However you should have no poor in your midst for Yahweh will give you prosperity in the land that you have conquered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 If you listen to the voice of Yahweh, your God, and obey all that he has commanded you, which I now remind you of, he will bless you as he promised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 You shall lend to many nations but you shall not borrow; you shall drive away many nations and they shall not have dominion over you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 If there is anybody poor among your brothers, who lives in your cities in the land that Yahweh gives you, do not harden your heart or close your hand,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 but be open-handed and lend him all that he needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 Be careful that you do not harbor in your heart these perverse thoughts: "The seventh year, the year of pardon, is near," so you look coldly at your poor brother and lend him nothing. He may cry to Yahweh against you, and you will be guilty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 When you give anything, give it willingly, and Yahweh, your God, will bless you for this in all your work and in all that you undertake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 The poor will not disappear from this land. Therefore I give you this commandment: you must be open-handed to your brother, to the needy and to the poor in your land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 If your fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, sells himself to you as a slave, he shall serve you for six years, and in the seventh, you shall set him free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 When you set him free, do not let him go empty-handed,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 but give him something from your flock, from your store of wheat and wine, something from the good things that Yahweh has blessed you with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 Remember that you too were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh, your God, has given you freedom. Because of this, I give you this commandment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 But if your slave says: "I do not want to leave," because he loves you and your household and knows that he will be well off with you,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 you shall then take an awl and thrust it through his ear into the door of your house, and he will serve you forever. You shall do likewise with your maidservant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 Do not think it hard on you to give him freedom, because for six years you have gained from him twice as much as from a hired servant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 You shall consecrate to Yahweh all the male firstlings that are born of your cattle or sheep. You shall not use the firstling of your cattle for work, nor shear the firstling of your sheep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 You shall eat these every three years in the presence of Yahweh with all your family in the place Yahweh has chosen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 You shall not sacrifice an animal to Yahweh if it has any defect, if it is lame or blind,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 but shall eat it in your house; the clean as well as the unclean may eat of it, as you would eat a gazelle or a deer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 Only take care that you do not eat the blood, you shall pour it out on the ground like water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-1805432791534063908?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/1805432791534063908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2012/01/7-year-period-of-forgivness-like-our.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/1805432791534063908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/1805432791534063908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2012/01/7-year-period-of-forgivness-like-our.html' title='7 year period of forgivness like our credit , rental , and bankruptcy records in deuteronomy 15'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-4420118073519434060</id><published>2012-01-03T02:28:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T02:28:44.088-08:00</updated><title type='text'>God Laws and Statutes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;In today's society we surrender ourselves to the principles of modern war and the fight for justice . In the word of God we are told the laws came about in a much less political or violent manner. God raised a prophet Moses who was simple minded and not an educated man a servant with no high place. It was Gods way to ensure it was understood it was God who made the laws not some intellectual like modernist and modern lawmakers pretend. Mans laws and Gods laws are not the same principle. Its a way for the unrighteous to pretend they are righteous by pretending it is their own judgements and reason that law exists over moral justice. Really it is Moses and it wasn't police or any revolution or world war that Gods laws exist it was God and the Freedom of Gods people has always been just God lest man say it is his own strength. We find Gods laws in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. The laws of God were established by his own power and miracles the manifested by his own hand. He delivered the israelites from the hands of their oppressors and set them free without using any war with an army. whenever they defended their own freedom it was done by using a few soldiers to fight thousands of soldiers so that their enemies would know it was their God they won the battle or war not their own strength or technology. So much different how we fight in modern day with great numbers and just dropping bombs. The illusion is that we owe honor to the lawmakers and their soldiers for our freedom and for the justice of Christ. Paul and the apostles work was to establish freedom for the church and to give Gods laws to the gentiles. The same laws that were established not by warring or intellectual debate but by the hand of The Lord and the words of his prophet. The illusion of freemasonry and the deified office of George Washington is an immature evil. No one has to believe that the world is a maker of righteous laws or an authority over righteous matters. The way of life God instructed and teaches to live really cannot be corrupted. Even the laws of Moses are not as righteous as the Love of Christ. The same power that God used to create the universe he used to establish his laws and the same spirit that gave David strength and skill to defeat his enemies is the spirit of our baptism. Like David it is only Gods power we have any freedom. We cannot be yoked together with the ranks and all the college fraternities and freemasonry we are light and the false teachings of the principles of this world such as; Illuminati,freemasonry,modernists,secular theologians, politicians, and the social order of publican, even all the causes supported by liberals such as feminism and gay rights are not Gods concern. Living like it is masses of soldiers we are free not just the hand of God is evil. we would have no land or freedom if that were so. That would be like God giving the devil and his people land and helping them succeed for killing in a war. We have to believe it is the work of the apostles and saints and the Power of the Lord. Even Cromwell was more of an example of a fight for freedom then the hordes of unholy men and woman who supposedly defend our freedom. Thats not to say that all our nations soldiers are bad but lets face it our jails are full of veterans who just arnt the holy type. Its not right to live as though God had yoked us together with the darkness and gave power to the evil people of society. Whatever honor any institute Lords is only an evil even if that evil is necessary even the church institute is only an evil. How many early american decendants living today are righteous, how many are just, we would not even know , I know my family on both sides were early american established families and had rights that way that it was established from the time of Cromwell they lived in this country. Yet the baby boom generation on both sides were faithless immoral people no matter who their ancestors were, I pray daily for God to deliver me from the shame and evil they cause in my life. My Grandparents had stronger morals and saner ways then my parents. They were stable and easy to honor my parents went along with their generation and deny christ and the Grace of God. Where they to recieve the same honor as those before them who fought in for freedom during times when people didnt live making up cultures and causes foreign to God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In america much of the original community was established during Cromwells time. Moses was the prophet who God used to establish his statutes not the apostles or saints. The Pope and the institute of those times was not who's laws those belonged to in that way that they where the prophet Moses or God. God delivered them into the hand of Cromwell much like the old israelites were delivered into thier enemies hands only Cromwell fought for freedom from the tryanny of those institutes which was intolerable and a great heresy was overthrown in England which was a division of the church that was never established by Gods hand but was just an anti christ oppression thus the English Catholic Church in a nut shell some kind of immature heresy condemned in the bible that is why God allowed Cromwell to kill the King and catholics who followed the king and his court for all I can reason. In modern day the early american puritans decendants still exist but however corrupt the world many have become. I am certain that those puritan people were Gods people and really had faith in the same christ we all follow as catholic I dont believe it is like hippie converts and evangelicals of today or presbeterian and other protestant sects. If it was the puritan would still exist. They were only retaliating against an evil that still exists today because of the same divisions in the church. The land they were given was given by Gods hand but much like God had given the israelites land he takes it away from the faithless. I am certain God knows who those people are and our fight is much like the fight of the israelites only our fathers of the faith are not really so much our ancestors as they are the apostles themselves and not even the clergy in the same way the apostles have that honor. God teaches us to obey his laws and statutes not by using t.v. and the cop shows or court t.v. . He teaches by trials and tribulations in our lifes and tests us just like he tested the people of israel before christ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-4420118073519434060?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/4420118073519434060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2012/01/god-laws-and-statutes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4420118073519434060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4420118073519434060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2012/01/god-laws-and-statutes.html' title='God Laws and Statutes'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-883827492398692537</id><published>2012-01-03T02:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T02:23:33.884-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mysteries of Gods prophecies in Deuteronomy and The United States</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I turned 40 in july on the 10th, I decided this december to start reading the bible all the way through to end the year right and start the next year more appropriately. I just found this passage in the book of Dueteronomy chapter 8 it talks about the 40 years which God helped the israelites defend themselves against other nations and kinds of people who didnt believe in God. because I just turned 40 and it is talking about a 40 year period it stood out to me sometimes God uses the bible to speak to us. Then it said as God helped them for the 40 years he was going to help them to get land that had all the things land and build comfortable houses and fertile livestock. strange how I am 40 and getting ready to take a class in sustainable living at the college and work on a drafting degree and get my realistate broker license before I turn 41. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Dueteronoly ch 8 digital catholic bible. ‎1 Be careful to fulfill all the commandments which I give you today, that you may live and increase, and conquer the land which Yahweh promised on oath to your fathers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Remember how Yahweh, your God, brought you through the desert for forty years. He humbled you, to test you and know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 He made you experience want, he made you experience hunger, but he gave you manna to eat which neither you nor your fathers had known, to show you that man lives not on bread alone, but that all that proceeds from the mouth of God is life for man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Your garment did not even fray, or your foot swell all these forty years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 Understand, then, that Yahweh has taught you in the same way that a father teaches his child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Observe the commandments of Yahweh, your God; follow his ways and revere him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 For Yahweh, your God, will bring you into that good land, a land of streams and rivers, of subterranean waters that gush forth in the valleys and mountains,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 a land of wheat and barley, of grapes and figs, of pomegranates and olives, a land of oil and honey,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 a land where the bread you eat is not rationed and where you will lack nothing, a land with iron in stones and copper mines in the mountains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 You shall eat until you are satisfied, and you shall bless Yahweh for the good land he has given you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 So take care that you do not forget Yahweh, your God, by neglecting the commandments, norms and laws that I give you today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 And when you have eaten and have been satisfied, when you have built comfortable homes and live in them,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 when your livestock have multiplied, when you have silver and gold in abundance, and an increase of good things of every kind,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 then do not let your heart become proud and do not forget Yahweh, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of slavery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 It is he who has led you across this great and terrible desert, full of fiery serpents and scorpions, an arid land where there is no water. But for you he made water gush forth from the hardest rock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 And he fed you in the desert with manna which your fathers did not know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He made you experience want and put you to the test, so that it would be for your good later on, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 lest you say, "With my own strength I have attained all these good things."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 Remember Yahweh, your God, the one who gave you power to become prosperous, as you are today, in fulfillment of the Covenant he promised under oath to your fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 But if you forget Yahweh and follow other gods, if you pay them homage and bow before them, I warn you right now that you will surely perish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 In the same way that Yahweh destroyed the nations that stood in your way, so will he destroy you if you disobey Yahweh, your God. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;kind of cool , I notice it also says "lest you say with my own strength I have attained these things".&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;this is chapter 7 its talking about all the people who didnt believe in God who were great and powerfull nations that God protected the israelites from. they couldnt intermingle with them or even have compassion on them or God would destroy them the way he did their oppressors. even though its only speaking about the israelites in those days . its what God has done and said before to people who believe in God and sure is odd how it specifically states 40 years and I am really just enrolled in a realistate broker license, my father just recently had signed an agreement for an oil company to drill on his mineral rights and I just a few weeks ago spoke to someone about enrolling in a drafting course to learn to draft building designs. and I am arranging to take a course in sustainable living so I can build my dream home on some land. I just turned 40 and I guess God was just testing me to see if I would obey his commandments like the israelites something I guess I just have to believe by faith God is mysterious.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;Its odd to me, this is 7 years after I was discharged from the U.S. army so much has happened in the past few months, even this whole year has been outrageous. now this reading of deuteronomy thing very synchronized. I was born on the 7th month on the 10th day at 12pm half of the day. I was delayed on a 6 month delay to go into the military I graduated on the 7th month in july the same number 7 like the 7 years since I have been out of the military and read this deuteronomy thing which starts in chapter 7 really and its almost I believe it was very close to 7 years 6 months when the comet elanin passed closest to the earth. I was born in 1971 on july 10th at noon if born at that time the star chart number is 6. all these synchronized 7's and 6's is very peculiar. in fact I am 66 inches tall and the letters in my name are all 6 letters first middle,last and suffix. so strange,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;also it is strange how it is even in chapter 7 about the 40 years of testing of the peoples faith, It is 7 years after I was discharged from the army and I turned 40 the 7th year like the 7th chapter talks about the 40 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;ch 7 deuteronomy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;‎1 When Yahweh, your God, has brought you into the land where you are going and which you will conquer; when he drives away before you many peoples - the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites - seven nations that are much more numerous and more powerful than you; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 when he has given them into your hand and you defeat them, you must destroy them all according to the law of anathema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Do not make any covenant with them or have compassion on them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons, or taking their daughters for your sons, because they would seduce your children to abandon me and adore strange gods for which the anger of Yahweh would burn against you, and then he would destroy you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 On the contrary, this is what you must do: destroy their altars and break their sacred pillars into pieces, demolish their poles and burn their idols.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 You are a people consecrated to Yahweh, your God. Yahweh has chosen you from among all the peoples on the face of the earth, that you may be his own people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 Yahweh has bound himself to you and has chosen you, not because you are the most numerous among all the peoples (on the contrary, you are the least).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 Rather, he has chosen you because of his love for you and to fulfill the oath he made to your fathers. Therefore, with a firm hand Yahweh brought you out from slavery in Egypt, from the power of Pharaoh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 So know that Yahweh, your God, is the true and faithful God. He keeps his covenant, and his love reaches to the thousandth generation for those who love him and fulfill his commandments,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 but he punishes in their own persons those who hate him and he repays them without delay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 So keep the commandments, the norms and the laws that today I command you to practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 If you observe these norms, if you keep and practice them, Yahweh will be faithful to his Covenant and will show you the love he promised to your fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 He will love you, bless you and multiply you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He will bless you with many children and abundant harvests: wheat, wine and oil; he will multiply the young of your cattle and of your sheep in the land that he promised your fathers he would give you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 You shall be more favored than all the peoples; there will be no sterile male or female among your people or in your livestock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 Yahweh will remove from you all infirmities, he will not let any of the plagues of Egypt which you have known fall upon you. But he will inflict them upon those who hate you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 So, destroy all the peoples which Yahweh, your God, will put in your power. Do not have pity on them or serve their gods: this would be a trap for you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 Perhaps you will say in your heart: "These nations are more numerous than I am, how then am I going to drive them away?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 Do not be afraid, remember what Yahweh, your God, has done with Pharaoh and with the Egyptians,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 those terrible trials which you saw with your eyes and the marvels and signs, the strong hand and outstretched arm with which Yahweh, your God, has freed you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 He will do the same with all the people whom you fear. Yahweh will even send wasps to destroy those who remain and hide themselves to escape from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 Do not be afraid of them because Yahweh, your God, is in your midst. He is a great and terrible God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 It is he who will drive out these nations little by little before your eyes. If you were to destroy them all at once, the wild beasts would multiply and cause you trouble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 Yahweh, your God, will give these people over to you and he will fill them with fear until they all perish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 Yahweh will give their kings into your hands so that you may strike out their name from under heaven, and nothing will stand before you until you have destroyed them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25 Burn the images of their gods and do not covet the gold or silver that covers them. Do not take it for yourself lest you be trapped by it, because Yahweh hates it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 None of these shall enter your house, for as they are accursed, the curse might return to you. Regard these as abominable because they are indeed "anathema" or accursed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;its also strange how 9/11 was in 2002 .. 9 years after 9/11 comet elanin was conjuct between the sun and earth close to 9/11. I enrolled in flight school and started on 9/26 the exact day the comet was conjunct with sun and earth. My father signed papers to let a mining company drill oil on or around 9/11 this year, this is what it says in chapter 9 of deuteronomy .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;I think like in chapter 9 of deuteronomy definately american where either the new people it was talking about or some of those new people coming to a new land and also since I am 40 and read this my 40th year about the 40 years of testing then the inherited and got wealth and land from God that maybe where it says they didnt inherit because they were a faithfull righteous people because they were rebellious but because it was part of Gods plan so even though my parents are baby boomer greasers and hippies and unrighteous I am going to inherit anyway or something. I dont know thats what it seems like to me no way to know for certain just have to trust God on this one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;ch 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;1 Listen, Israel: you are to cross the Jordan today to take the land of greater and stronger nations than yourself, nations with grand cities whose walls reach up to heaven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;15 I, therefore, went down from the mountain, from the summit which was burning, holding in my hands the two tables of the Covenant. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 They are a great people, they are tall - the Anakites whom you have seen and of whom you heard it said that nothing can overcome them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 But today you will see Yahweh, your God, crossing the Jordan before you. He will destroy them all and he will subject them to you. Then, you will seize the land from them and make them perish, as Yahweh promised you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 When Yahweh, your God, has destroyed them in your presence, do not think: 'Yahweh brought me to this land and gave it to me because of my own goodness.' Yahweh drove those nations out because of their wickedness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 It is not by your merits nor because you are good that you will conquer the land: Yahweh will deprive them of the land because they have done evil, and also to fulfill the promise he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Know, therefore, that Yahweh has given you your inheritance, this excellent land, not because of any merit of yours since you are a rebellious people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 Remember and do not forget that it was because you rebelled that Yahweh became angry with you in the desert, for you have been rebellious towards Yahweh from the day you left Egypt until you arrived here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 Then at Horeb, you provoked his anger and he was ready to destroy you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 When I went up the mountain to receive the slabs of stone, the tables of the Covenant that Yahweh made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without eating or drinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 And Yahweh gave me the two slabs of stone written with his finger, containing all the words that he told you on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, on the day of the Assembly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 And when Yahweh gave me the two slabs of stone, the tables of the Covenant, at the end of the forty days and forty nights,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 he said to me: "Go down from this mountain at once because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt, they have suddenly abandoned the way that I taught them and they have made an idol for themselves."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 And Yahweh also said to me: "I see this people; they are a rebellious people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Let me alone and I will destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven. And out of you, I will make another people more numerous and greater than they."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 And I saw that you had sinned against Yahweh, your God, and that you had made a molten calf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 How suddenly had you turned aside from the way which Yahweh had taught you! Holding the two slabs with both hands, I hurled them down and broke them into pieces in the sight of all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 Then I fell prostrate before Yahweh and, as before, I passed forty days and forty nights without eating or drinking, for the sin which you had committed by doing evil in the sight of Yahweh and arousing his anger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 I was afraid that the wrath and anger of Yahweh against you had reached the point that he wanted to destroy you. And Yahweh listened to me, once more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 Yahweh was also very angry with Aaron and he was ready to destroy him. In the same way, I interceded for Aaron also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 Regarding the sin, that calf which you had made - I threw it in the fire, broke it into pieces and ground it until it was fine as dust. Then I threw the dust into the brook that flows down from the mountain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 At Taberah and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattavah, you provoked the wrath of Yahweh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 And when he wanted you to leave Kadesh-barnea saying,"Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you," you rebelled again. You did not believe Yahweh nor did you want to listen to his voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh ever since I have known you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25 So, I lay prostrate before Yahweh for forty days and forty nights because he said he would destroy you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 I prayed to Yahweh and said to him: "O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, whom you redeemed with your might, whom you brought out of Egypt with the strength of your hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness, or on their sins,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 that it may not be said in the land from which you brought us out: 'Yahweh was not able to bring them to the land which he had promised them. He does not like them, so he brought them out of Egypt to slay them in the desert.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 Do not forget that they are your people and your possession whom you brought out of Egypt with your great power and outstretched arm." &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;actually it was 8 months after 9/11 when I enlisted chapter 8 of deuteronomy, 6 months delay graduated on the 7th month from basic, I am however 7 generation american since revelutionary war, 6 generations oregonian first was oregons first senator who was president of the senate luther Elkins, 12 generations since the mayflower.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;I dont know if this has any thing else to do with this 40 synchronocity but new years eve was dick clark's 40th new years eve celebration's anniversary. His first was the year I was born. wouldnt think much of it accept of all this other number 40 stuff with the bible on christmas eve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;I just figured out before today after church on new years day of my 40th year that like the israelites were tested for 40 years to see if they would obey Gods commandments and statutes then given land and riches by God. when paul gave the laws of God to the gentiles it was 40 years times 40 years when the gentiles came to america 1613 which is basically 40 times 40 seems I am thinking its very likely God tested the Gentiles for 40 times 40 not being of the original holy people but as the israelites Gods people were brought into a new land after 40 times 40 and established Gods statutes here. though like the israelites after rebellion and other evils God makes things happen to sift through the wheat and only take the good ones.God is mysterious&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-883827492398692537?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/883827492398692537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2012/01/mysteries-of-gods-prophecies-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/883827492398692537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/883827492398692537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2012/01/mysteries-of-gods-prophecies-in.html' title='Mysteries of Gods prophecies in Deuteronomy and The United States'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-2487920247965095991</id><published>2011-12-24T19:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T19:58:15.755-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Lords Statutes and Commandments</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;In today's society we surrender ourselves to the principles of modern war and the fight for justice . In the word of God we are told the laws came about in a much less political or violent manner. God raised a prophet Moses who was simple minded and not an educated man a servant with no high place. It was Gods way to ensure it was understood it was God who made the laws not some intellectual like modernist and modern lawmakers pretend. Mans laws and Gods laws are not the same principle. Its a way for the unrighteous to pretend they are righteous by pretending it is their own judgements and reason that law exists over moral justice. Really it is Moses and it wasn't police or any revolution or world war that Gods laws exist it was God and the Freedom of Gods people has always been just God lest man say it is his own strength. We find Gods laws in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. The laws of God were established by his own power and miracles the manifested by his own hand. He delivered the israelites from the hands of their oppressors and set them free without using any war with an army. whenever they defended their own freedom it was done by using a few soldiers to fight thousands of soldiers so that their enemies would know it was their God they won the battle or war not their own strength or technology. So much different how we fight in modern day with great numbers and just dropping bombs. The illusion is that we owe honor to the lawmakers and their soldiers for our freedom and for the justice of Christ. Paul and the apostles work was to establish freedom for the church and to give Gods laws to the gentiles. The same laws that were established not by warring or intellectual debate but by the hand of The Lord and the words of his prophet. The illusion of freemasonry and the deified office of George Washington is an immature evil. No one has to believe that the world is a maker of righteous laws or an authority over righteous matters. The way of life God instructed and teaches to live really cannot be corrupted. Even the laws of Moses are not as righteous as the Love of Christ. The same power that God used to create the universe he used to establish his laws and the same spirit that gave David strength and skill to defeat his enemies is the spirit of our baptism. Like David it is only Gods power we have any freedom. We cannot be yoked together with the ranks and all the college fraternities and freemasonry we are light and the false teachings of the principles of this world such as; Illuminati,freemasonry,modernists,secular theologians, politicians, and the social order of publican, even all the causes supported by liberals such as feminism and gay rights are not Gods concern. Living like it is masses of soldiers we are free not just the hand of God is evil. we would have no land or freedom if that were so. That would be like God giving the devil and his people land and helping them succeed for killing in a war. We have to believe it is the work of the apostles and saints and the Power of the Lord. Even Cromwell was more of an example of a fight for freedom then the hordes of unholy men and woman who supposedly defend our freedom. As though God had yoke us together with the darkness and gave power to the evil people of society. Whatever honor any institute Lords is only an evil even if that evil is necessary even the church institute is only an evil. How many early american decendants living today are righteous, how many are just, we would not even know , I know my family on both sides were early american established families and had rights that way that it was established from the time of Cromwell they lived in this country. Yet the baby boom generation on both sides were faithless immoral people no matter who their ancestors were, I pray daily for God to deliver me from the shame and evil they cause in my life. My Grandparents had stronger morals and saner ways then my parents. They were stable and easy to honor my parents went along with their generation and deny christ and the Grace of God. Where they to recieve the same honor as those before them who fought in for freedom during times when people didnt live making up cultures and causes foreign to God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In america much of the original community was established during Cromwells time. Moses was the prophet who God used to establish his statutes not the apostles or saints. The Pope and the institute of those times was not who's laws those belonged to in that way that they where the prophet Moses or God. God delivered them into the hand of Cromwell much like the old israelites were delivered into thier enemies hands only Cromwell fought for freedom from the tryanny of those institutes which was intolerable and a great heresy was overthrown in England which was a division of the church that was never established by Gods hand but was just an anti christ oppression thus the English Catholic Church in a nut shell some kind of immature heresy condemned in the bible that is why God allowed Cromwell to kill the King and catholics who followed the king and his court. In modern day the early american puritans decendants still exist but however corrupt the world many have become. I am certain that those puritan people were Gods people and really had faith in the same christ we all follow as catholic I dont believe it is like hippie converts and evangelicals of today or presbeterian and other protestant sects. If it was the puritan would still exist. They were only retaliating against an evil that still exists today because of the same divisions in the church. The land they were given was given by Gods hand but much like God had given the israelites land he takes it away from the faithless. I am certain God knows who those people are and our fight is much like the fight of the israelites only our fathers of the faith are not really so much our ancestors as they are the apostles themselves and not even the clergy in the same way the apostles have that honor. God teaches us to obey his laws and statutes not by using t.v. and the cop shows or court t.v. . He teaches by trials and tribulations in our lifes and tests us just like he tested the people of israel before christ.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-2487920247965095991?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/2487920247965095991/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/12/lords-statutes-and-commandments.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/2487920247965095991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/2487920247965095991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/12/lords-statutes-and-commandments.html' title='The Lords Statutes and Commandments'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-2355635828706828519</id><published>2011-08-04T21:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T21:01:49.452-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Freedom</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div closure_uid_c8fdmi="100"&gt;God's freedom I am certain has never been anyway fully understand by any human. The Jews by faith fought for their freedom as we would read from scriptures. Yet reading about it and believing it are two different things. Why is mankinds freedom important to the Lord? Is the whole worlds freedom important to the Lord or just his church. The body of christ is one entity in the spirit only that Christ is the truth, the life , and the way. We dont all have a common life with those who are not baptised into the same life as christ. What does that mean to us?. I would choose to believe that God is life and that his life had no favorites , no one more important to life than the other yet some chose to believe the truth of the gospel and others never recieved the grace and freedom from the carnal life and all the dark evils that lord themselves over the lost. There is no power in this world that can exalt itself before the Lord without transgressing powers we cannot fathom or contend with. The powers of life that created the life we as humans can only partake in. as an active participant in life Gods image is kind, loving,gentle,meek,humble,generous,ominiscient,gracefull,magestic,and much more. His way is the way of life freedom is the only just and kind way for us to share his truth and love there is no liar in the world who can lie to God. No matter how much people lie to us or tempt us to believe what they believe in. It isnt the worlds freedom that is the noble cause it is Gods way of life his grace and his gifts to us . His just and kind ways and his righteousness that is the noble cause to our freedom. People who pervade the truth and the way of life are in the way of the true cause . It is Gods and not our own except we are his servants and his children. We love because God first loved us. We live because God gave us life. We have freedom because it is his way and his will. He would not enslave his son to a government or his daughter to someone else only called to serve as servant to God . Those not called to serve the Lord who enslave christs church such as the poor in brazil and those third world places who are they to enslave children of life. God is to kind to comprehend it is to contend with life itself to contend with the body of christs freedom. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div closure_uid_c8fdmi="100"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The kingdom of heaven is within those who recieve their baptism in its fullness. We have an account to heaven but the yoke is light and the burden was already bore. all our evils we do in life are purged and the droughs cleansed by the eternal love of christ . so kind is Gods love that have a way to escape our own failures and faults. He taught us to be his free children we cannot do onto those who dont believe that which we wouldnt want done to us. So can any church leader condone slaverly swearing those enslaved are not the body of christ. The Gracious love we known is all in all. We are not free from the works of the world . We are only free because the works of the apostles and the works of the saints and those who by faith chose to serve the Lord and believe in his way of life.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Isnt strange how we have so many persecutors who defend the political freedom and yet when they are discharged they strive against the same country they defend taking away freedom from the citizens of the institute they served. The righteousness of those who Lord a freedom of the world's causes is a carnal fallacy in the hearts of caliced men. Yet Gods Glory is bright and the light pierces through the dark imaginations and works of the masses . He is the beginning and the end its always been Gods way its stupid to contend with Gods freedom and its stupid to exalt some kind of great honor for its existance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-2355635828706828519?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/2355635828706828519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/08/freedom.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/2355635828706828519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/2355635828706828519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/08/freedom.html' title='Freedom'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-5681906860787533927</id><published>2011-03-18T18:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T18:12:13.355-07:00</updated><title type='text'>early american lineage</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;In my family is mostly early pre-revelutionary war established families in america. My mothers side of the family is completely pre revelutionary lineage. Her mothers mother's family the peacocks were original mayflower settlers. The Perfect's my mother's mother's father's family were 1650's settlers, my mothers father's side of the family the Cardwell's were 1690's settlers. My Fathers father side of the family were 1613 settlers possibly later 1630's when they finally settled. The first Elkins was a trader who came over 3 months after the mayflower and never did settle but his son did in the 1630's there is record.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Both sides of my family were not city people. The times didnt change as quickly in the country as it did in the cities. So many families still stuck to their own kind when it came to early american english settlers families. I am related to many families by blood because of the 12 to 13 generations of marriages. Each mother and father came from a didnt family and their mother and fathers came from a different family so on and so forth. I think possibly I am related to over 600 early american families. My DNA and bloodline is from hundreds of early american families. I am the heritage of hundreds of america's early fathers and pioneers. Early americans are pretty much related to each other in some way and are of the same kind the same flesh and blood not closely related but so many generations of marriages have past that we are americans kind by blood and by sweat , and tears. I guess to most who arnt early americans it has no meaning and the times are very dark and slanderish. Many europeans and mexicans have moved to america since the 80's way over 100.000.000. Yet america's still home of the freedom that was inherited by millions who are still a kind that came from the original settlers and their families marriages and hard work.&amp;nbsp; When one says my great grand father built a rail road . 100's of other americans are related to that same great grand father. ect , &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-5681906860787533927?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/5681906860787533927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/03/early-american-lineage.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5681906860787533927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5681906860787533927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/03/early-american-lineage.html' title='early american lineage'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-7318138720708667975</id><published>2011-03-12T08:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T20:31:01.518-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Obiesity / the bible/ and the american clergy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div closure_uid_5p4w0g="95"&gt;I have one question for many American Clergy . Isnt Gluttony a sin to you?. I can`t believe how many priests are overweight what is it that they do not believe Gluttony is a sin. The gospel tells us to present our body as a perfect sacrifice to the Lord. Do all things as unto the Lord. Doesnt that include eating and excersize. It also tells us that if there is so much as food in our stomach on that day God will tell us go away you had youre fill. So watch out people. I think we are all being misled. Do you have to believe people who dont work and wear robes indulging themselves on food they bought with our tythe money. While people starve and slave for a little food in indigent countries and believe in the same God , Are children of the same Father in Heaven, and serve the same master in heaven.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div closure_uid_5p4w0g="97"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I once seen a priest on t.v. visiting from some country like ethiopia or somewhere very indigent poor. He was on display during a basketball game. He stood in the middle of the basketball court during a live broadcast of a game on t.v. . He was so fat he made the basketball players look small. What it seemed like to me was a blashemous man who's heart knew not the same God or would not have over ate and lived a lazy way. God hates lazyness is in the bible. &lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Paul wrote in his gospels that many are guardians of the faith but few are fathers. To imitate he and the other apostles because they are our fathers. Then he went on to explain we are to work with our hands like they had. Even Paul and the apostles worked with their hands. How many american priests work with their hands . Do you know any?.&amp;nbsp; The old bishops of medieval times were artisans and men with skill and power. The bishops are fat men lazy and unproductive seeming. How is being a fat lazy man conforming to christs image. The same christ who did so much while on earth they could write enough books to fill the earth about his works before he was even 40.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Work with youre hands it says. It tells us not to be like those who talk for a living in the gospel. Even actors excersize though for vain reasons . I cannot believe that these men are right before the Lord. Do they really pray to the same God before they eat. Or do they make a god out of their stomach. Have any of you read the scriptures speaking about those who make their stomach their god.&amp;nbsp; We dont need lazy fat clergy we need examples and people who will fight for the same cause we really serve. Would you support some stranger so he could over eat and indulge himself not working . Why support these men. Its strange to me they dont humble themselves to the Lord. I hate to be around them. They know not the importance of self discipline and self control their is no evidence of it. They cant possibly be presenting thier own body subject to christ. How believe they are our fathers. I know we are not supposed to judge but judge not just discern. Its obvious they didnt love God enough to live with discipline and fear of hell. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I am not a large man. I have always been pound for pound stronger then most men. I worked myself to the bone all my life. I didnt play sports I worked. I bowed to God each day humbling myself to our Savior. I made an effort each day to take every step as unto the Lord. Discipline !!!. I consciously made myself work as unto the Lord all day. When I ate I prayed sincerely to God not just as a custom or ritual . I prayed with sincerity and faith in the christ they pretend dont know me unless they know me. The God they pretend is pleased by their lazy fat way of life. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Over eating is the number cause of death today . More people are dying from obeisity than from cancer. Sin is death are the Lords words. So put two and two together.&amp;nbsp; I am 5'6 135 pounds. I could stay stronger than even some of the largest men because of my faith in the Lord keeping me strong and giving me a way to use my body that was right to the Lord. I got a hall of fame for combat strength training . One of the smallest guys in our company I was stood up and told I am an example of what the army wants as a soldier. I didnt want that to happen but the drill sergeant wanted to let the platoon know I was doing the training beyond what his own expectations were. It was boot camp for Gods sakes. I just stayed focused on Christ all day and night. I sang in the choir on sunday and prayed all day.&amp;nbsp; I despise having to sit in a congregation with some fat man leading a ceremony that has to do with the God who taught me to care about my health and to be motivated and strong. To live life working and caring about how I use my body. I dont follow fat people there is no way. I will not believe fat priests are my leaders. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-7318138720708667975?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/7318138720708667975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/03/obiesity-bible-and-american-clergy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7318138720708667975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7318138720708667975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/03/obiesity-bible-and-american-clergy.html' title='Obiesity / the bible/ and the american clergy'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-3206276084188108621</id><published>2011-02-23T00:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T20:37:46.128-07:00</updated><title type='text'>God In Me</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;One of the greatest mysteries to the gospel is the mystery of our new birth. The new life we live as Gods children is summed up in three words, God In Me. In the apocrapha gospel of the savior it tells us the kingdom of heaven is within us. The whole kingdom of heaven is within us. The mystery to our life is within those three words God In Me.&amp;nbsp; There is no good to any man , no good to any woman, no one righteous just God within us. It is only God who is life.&amp;nbsp; I reflect back to the holy spirits guidance in my life and Jesus Christs teachings to me were never from the words of the clergy or the words of others. Always Christ's teachings have been in the spirit . I could read and read the bible and listen to all the scholars it would have no meaning , no value unless the holy spirit taught those teachings to me in person not as a student in a classroom but as a&amp;nbsp;student of life. God is life , God in me is the life in me. To me those words seperate me from the world. Those words keep me from becoming as the world. God in Me. That is my individuality , Because God identifies himself and bears witness of the truth in me and confirms me himself as his child it is only God in me that knows I am his child. No priest or preacher can explain that to anyone. God teaches my soul , my heart and mind, my spirit, He teaches me in the secrecy of&amp;nbsp;the kingdom of heaven. Not as someone on display , not as someone under surveillance or incarcerated, He teaches me in the secrecy and privacy of his Holy Spirit. The spirit of life , The living Truth, I can understand the highest calling to life because the Holy Spirit can teach me in secret to be a man, to be an hier to the throne of christ, to be a servant of the Most High God, God is in me , I dont have to bow down to the markets and beg for acceptance, I dont have to plead my cause to the public like a hypocrite or someone teaching religious precepts for money and power, I can live being taught by the greatest master in the universe . I dont have to speak as someone who knows no truth . I dont have to speak as someone who knows no Love or Kindness, I can speak as christ in me gives grace and truth to my lips, I can know christs teachings for real not just from reading the bible like a Jew reads the jewish doctrine . I can really learn from God himself not as a theologion but as a son to God, We are all one not because of our own flesh or our own spirit. We are one because God is life and we are baptised into that life . not as masters of that life but as servants to Life itself. There is only one master Jesus Christ. It is God alone who calls us and it is he who judges us. We are grafted into the vine by his Grace not the grace of a pope or bishop. We are not called out of darkness because of our birth into a catholic family or protestant heritage. We have no life to live until God gives us life in the spirit. There is no one who has to yield to the ways of any human. No one is like the Lord and we are all only his servants not masters.Because God is in me . I can learn right from God how to work with my hands, How to fight, How to walk, How to talk, In the spirit I can learn the mysteries of Gods greatest teachings giving me a weapon to live a righteous life without fear of anything in this world that exalts itself against God and his freedom. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-3206276084188108621?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/3206276084188108621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/god-in-me.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3206276084188108621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3206276084188108621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/god-in-me.html' title='God In Me'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-6735842161808030152</id><published>2011-02-15T18:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T18:09:06.790-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wisdom to Musicians</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;An interesting passage in the apocrapha gospels about fashion and appearance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is something that doesnt really have to do with music but it does have to do with fashion and the apperance of humans who lived righteous lifes. Its an interesting passage in the apocrapha book of the apocalypse of peter. It explains the high priests who lived righteous lifes have an appearance almost to beautiful to look at . They arnt tall dark and handsome to say the least and yes they are white men . Yet it is pretty spectacular the way they are described. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/apocalypsepeter-roberts.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. And furthermore the Lord said: Let us go into the mountain: Let us pray.. And going with him, we, the twelve disciples, begged that he would show us one of our brethren, the righteous who are gone forth out of the world, in order that we might see of what manner of form they are, and having taken courage, might also encourage the men who hear us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. And as we prayed, suddenly there appeared two men standing before the Lord towards the East, on whom we were not able to look; 7, for there came forth from their countenance a ray as of the sun, and their raiment was shining, such as eye of man never saw; for no mouth is able to express or heart to conceive the glory with which they were endued, and the beauty of their appearance. 8. And as we looked upon them, we were astounded; for their bodies were whiter than any snow and ruddier than any rose; 9, and the red thereof was mingled with the white, and I am utterly unable to express their beauty; 10, for their hair was curly and bright and seemly both on their face and shoulders, as it were a wreath woven of spikenard and divers-coloured flowers, or like a rainbow in the sky, such was their seemliness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Seeing therefore their beauty we became astounded at them, since they appeared suddenly. 12. And I approached the Lord and said: Who are these? 13. He saith to me: These are your brethren the righteous, whose forms ye desired to see. 14. And I said to him: And where are all the righteous ones and what is the aeon in which they are and have this glory? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. And the Lord showed me a very great country outside of this world, exceeding bright with light, and the air there lighted with the rays of the sun, and the earth itself blooming with unfading flowers and full of spices and plants, fair-flowering and incorruptible and bearing blessed fruit. 16. And so great was the perfume that it was borne thence even unto us. 17. And the dwellers in that place were clad in the raiment of shining angels and their raiment was like unto their country; and angels hovered about them there. 18. And the glory of the dwellers there was equal, and with one voice they sang praises alternately to the Lord God, rejoicing in that place. 19. The Lord saith to us: This is the place of your high-priests, the righteous men. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Musicians Honor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all have honor in some degree. We are born with honor. A musicians honor is more serious than modern markets would make it seem. Each institute is developed on a a principle of honor. The institute of each nation uses honor to set a standard , to set an example of what achievements create success for the nation and to build its founding precepts. Mankind can be honored for many different things. The first man on the moon, The inventor of the airplane, The Nobel Peace Prize, starting foundations that aid society in making civil progress. There is alot of honor that has nothing to do with music. The institutes of europe used to honor musicians such as Bach and Mozart with great honor and they were renowned . Yet they were not honored for anything other then their music. The militaries highest honor is the medal of honor which no one gets unless they die saving lifes or doing some heroic act of war. Its not likely that a musician will be honored as someone of authority such as a Pope is over the church. Yet there is honor that the Pope will never have that the musicians who wrote the praise and worship do have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even in modern times the institute has its own honor that it bestows to its musicians in various degrees. Yet those musicians in our modern time may still be dishonored by the markets of society. So there is a different principality to the world of music then in earlier times of societies past. Traditional music is still bringing honor to musicians of earlier times who had recieved honor for their music works by earlier society. Not many rock musicians will be honored in that way. Although; some of the pioneers music may always be cover banded unless made illegal due to the way they anarchist made themselves known using sex,drugs,and every seduction they could make sell in the markets. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are alot of masters of music skill yet only a few become famous. No matter how casual a person dresses who listens to rock and roll or jazz or any other kind of music there is alot of formalities to living. No matter how much a musician changes their name to strange nicknames or stage names there is formalities that cannot not be dissolved. A musicians honor even in the nightclubbing world has formalities hidden by some but always present. A musician cannot in his own power change the fact he is human and that even Kings are only honored by a formal process. Even playing backyard picnic concerts you cannot change their is a formal principality and formalities to just being alive. Those formalities are what make a musician stand apart from the rest of the musicians. So when you choose youre name and make it a legal process registering youre band with a label or copyrighting youre music its a formality setting you apart from the other musicians. The legal process is a formal record of that formality. If a musician understands the formalities that make him or her a host to his or her listeners it is more likely that musician will stand apart from his or her competitors in the markets. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Figuring out why youre listeners honor youre music as you get started and learning to understand what that honors value is will help any musician succeed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also finding out why people dishonor youre music and making the corrections or improvements will also help any musician succeed. Get the facts !! Know why youre honored or not honored!!. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike many other products music is more uncensored for its content then say a box of cereal or a bottle of glue. The standards are not regulated the same. There cannot be poison in cereal that people eat without breaking the law but there can be poisonious content to the minds and hearts of listeners in music. There cannot be dangerous products in glue without a warning symbol and instructions on what to do if the user gets the glue on them. Yet the dangerous content in music that gets into the minds and hearts of their listeners doesnt have the same kind of warning . Some music is rated but still not regulated the way other products are. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where honor plays a big role in the actuall role of musicians and their music in society. The grammies and all the awards in the corporate world of music are a formal honor but in no way represent the individual. Our hearts and minds as listeners teally arnt products or just a market. A musician can be dishonored by the institute in every way but still honored by listeners and succeed at least as much as their listeners or more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honor is lorded by some realms of society and hated by other realms. Some honor is vital to the security and well being of society. When a person strikes someone with malicious intentions that person is dishonored by the person he or she struck as a friend or allie or harmless member of society. Also all those who took offense to the act dishonor that person. If a musicians music strikes a blow against society and has listeners that are entertained by it the formal stature of that musicians success becomes against the raw harmony and social forces that keep society from becoming a savage or barbaric darkness. Though modern music has many dark hosts and they succeed the formalities to life are only dark to those who dont see the light of to it. If you strike someone some how that strike is returned with some act of force. Although a lighter strike like a slap may be shunned or forgiven the harder you strike the harder the consequences can be. The more harm you do the more harm you are considered not because of you disagree with people but because you do harm to people. If you are hurting people in private but gained power from youre fans support there is still that private cruelty you lord and each human is not always as powerfull as the other but they are equal in the measure of rights. For example Ghandi was not as mighty as Hulk Hogan but didnt Ghandi have rights wether he could fight for them or not. He had the same needs as Hulk Hogan but couldnt fight anyone for those things he needs. So when a musician abuses their power or influences their listeners to harm people its against the true honor of being human they cannot make themselves into a god or a higher being then those they harm. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There may be no right or wrong way to succeed financially when it comes to who has money or not but most honor cannot not be bought . The honor money is about in itself is financial honor . A soldier will become a hero in war yet may always be poor or even homeless . So there is more to succeeding then just money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An example of someone who succeeded a different way then most musicians is Lawrence Welk. He was a musician for 30 or more years playing his accordion on live radio broadcasts and at barn dances from the 1920's to the 1950's. He finally got his big break at the Grande Ole Opera House and from that performance got his own show which was on the air for over 30 years more of his career. Though according to Road Side America he hated his parents and left home hating farming hating his parents and never spoke to them again. After many years of enduring and learning the wrong and rights to living he managed to have his own family and became a host to many families in the united states for alot of human years. He didnt become a success overnight or in the prime of his youth yet He had alot longer of a career then alot of overnight successes. Not only did he have a long career he had a good name and still I dont know of anything bad society can say about him. So doing things right is alot more important then success overnight. Its not over till its over and trying to succeed financially past the rest of society is not an easy task. Lawrence had a family and years of living experience before he succeeded . He didnt get divorced and got to enjoy the whole life and all its rewards . Many musicians live so careless and spend so much time trying to become a success overnight they dont experience a whole life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another example of how a musicians honor is not alll just riches. Back in the 60's John Lennon said the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ. At the time Governments were established by the church rulers still attended formal ceremonies every community still had its communities of catholic and christian churches. Little did John realize that his music wasnt even as popular at the time as even the music of traditional works such as Mozart and Beethoven or Bach. Their music was still being taught in the schools and played on the radio every day the beatles music was on the radio yet they were dead centuries ago. Now that the Beatles are dead still musicians learn the works of Bach and Mozart still the institutes honor it. Yet not the beatles and still Bach and Mozart are much greater than todays Madonna and Todays Van Halen , or any Ozzy OsBourne, Metallica ect. Then there is the gross reality that while John Lennon was saying that each sunday around the Globe the music of the saints who wrote the catholic praise and worship was ritualistically still sang. The honor of those musicians still today on every saturday and sunday and sometimes on other days is sang and their music honored more then John Lennons and more than MaDonna's more then Randy Travis more than Elvis more then any of those musicians really more than Mozart or Bachs. Who more than likely had performed the music of the saints at one time or another. In modern times a man John Michael Talbot has an office to anoint catholic musicians . Not manyr musicians can recieve the honor from the church John anoints them with. To get that honor a musician has to be a monk for 4 years , swear a vows&amp;nbsp; , and become a priest or monk. So there is even today a different success and honor than most realize who perform music. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although most musicians will never have the honor a king has or the Pope or President or any great office like it. There is one musician in societies history who did. I am choosing to write about this musician because he is still honored today as a greater musician then any other who lived. King David of the Tribe of Judah had 7 thrones in early Israel before Christ. David was a musician who herded sheep. A king at the time in his land was feeling disrought and vexed in his spirits. The king asked one of his servants who was the best musician in the land and the servant told him David the shepard was the best player of a stringed instrument. David was called upon to play for the king. The king decided he wanted David to serve his courts kind of like someone called upon to serve his country.&lt;br /&gt;David slew a Giant man in battle and was rewarded by being given a title and rank as chief over soldiers, He was so great in battle he defeated more soldiers than the king, the king had david play his liar for him whenever he was vexed with evil spirits. Saul plotted to Kill David out of his jeolousy for David's success in battle. The kings son helped David escape execution. . Because David had faith in God and was a faithfull servant of the Lord the Lord helped David and not the King who had not been as faithfull. David soon was made king by the people and the priests. He ended up with 7 thrones. He had become a success overnight a different way and he wasnt used to the luxeries that come along with it. Even though he had a heart like Gods and that was what he was so well known to his people for and why God helped him . He indulged and had over 20 wives and several concubine. He was caught dancing naked in his tent. He sent a man to the front lines to be killed so that he could sleep with his wife. He did all that and still was told by the Lord he would have a throne forever . He wrote the psalms that are still today the only real way anyone has a real understanding of Gods way and a primary example of worship to the Lord. He was one of the only two people told they would have a throne forever that the bible tells us about. His place is even higher than all the apostles who the Popes follow after who themselves had not taken wives some and had not been known for as many evils but his Great passion to worship God and his Heart knew the Lords ways even though he had sinned so for whatever mysterious reason a musician was given the highest place or one of the highest places ever given to mankind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;purpose of music&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Music is more than just an art of fantasy teen idols. The music industry is one of the leading industries in technology today. You're local music shop makes available the most advanced technology any retail store will have available to the general public. You wont find an any hardware store or even in youre average computer store as much technology available to a consumer. Even radio shack wont have as much technology as guitar center. So if you believe music is just about MaDonna and Menudo or britney spears you have alot to learn. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spent a bit of time trying to self educate about the physics of vibration you have to seriously be a genious to comprehend alot of it. The advancements of music technology are great and modern science makes a big role in modern music. However that is nothing compared to the endless knowledge of the human instrument. Humans are by far a higher form of intelligence than a machine. Music is so important to humans that it is the art of life and living it invokes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three elements to mankinds work. The first is Energy, The second is Environment, the third is law. These three elements are the focus and limits of our work. The sun gives energy to the grass and plants , the plants the animals and humans eat the energy, we also get electricity from the sun and the sun evaporates the water which makes the clouds which rains more water so on and so forth. We build our environment wether city or rural . Even the cars have to do with either energy or environment. Then there is law the standards and guidelines , the justice and preservation of what we do. Music is unlike any of these thus not really work. If mankind where merely machine or animal work would be our only focus. However the energy inside a human is more than just electricity or a combustible engine. We have a soul and a spirit. Our hearts can embrace high inner realms of liberty that music invokes and is host to. All work is only as rewarding as its product. so if you cut wood the reward is wood. Musics reward is the heart and minds power and the very life we live. That is irreplaceable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Nazi's were very anti life. Hitler made a prison out of Mozarts castle. I read a book about a man who escaped from the prison hitler made out of mozarts castle. The man dug under the chapel to escape . The chapel had fewer guards there so no one heard the digging. Its kind of strange though , The chapel had to do with the soul and spirit yet so does music and it was a musicians castle with a chapel both about the freedom of the soul and spirit but Hitler made a prison there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man closely associated with Hitler who was a big part of the anti life teachings which were contrary to the world of music is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900). His teachings involved such an nihilistic view that he taught humans were only like machines or animals. Animals or Machines that could only be whatever they trained to be and the only importance was that training like an animal or machine. I guess he wasnt much of a music fan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A musician can instrument a high energy that motivates and brings such enjoyment to the hearts and minds of his or her listeners that the life inside them is estatic and overjoyed with glee. The listeners very life can be instrumented by listening to the sounds. In work we must labor hard to reap success. Our bodies and minds must work and the only importance to what our minds and bodies do is that work. The military is good example of that. Yet the liberty music is host to is not like any other recreation. Music makes every breath the listener breaths a glorious moment of their life. Standing still a listerner can reach peak levels of excitement and the life inside them experience great freedom. From meditational music to heavy metal there is no end to the inner world of music. The purpose of music is host to all that is a humans heart to experience thus giving it a place all its own. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In modern day the recreational realms are lorded much like ancient greece only in a larger arena. The music of modern pop and rock is definately very recreational.The human heart is real and the power to music loses its power when it is not real life it is host to. If we fantasize or live against ourselves and do not understand our own importance we cannot work well or understand the importance to our work. There has to be a harmony to the musicians music with the true existance of his or her listeners. The purpose of music is a fine art and a high art. Its understanding this art that determines wether someone is great or not great. If it is greatly understood that musician is great if it is not greatly understood that musician is not great . so the more you understand the purpose of music and the power of music the more great of a musician you will be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Music Talent vs Justice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only measure of justice in this world seems to be money. You take the trash out for the neighbor or mow his lawn and want what in return as a just payment?. Money!!. You goto work and spend hours doing nothing for yourself the only justice to it is money!!!. I know in the 38 years of my life I have met alot of people and when people have talent usually they want some kind of justice for having talent in an untalented world. Some people use thier talent to help others and what it accomplishes makes them someone to others which is justice to them. John Michael Talbot a Monk is the official ordinate who ordains catholic musicians and annoints them as priest musician. He has sworn a vow of poverty along with those who he anoints. They have honor from the highest authority in Rome . Even to kings they are honored musicians. Yet they dont do it for money but to worship God and serve the church as musicians. There is a higher justice . To have talent we need wisdom not just skill to succeed. There are many principalities to justice. Basically people with talent have many options. It doesnt take music talent to build a bridge or become an architect. People are millionaires from inheriting wealth. Even from just lying to people and ripping them off. Lets face it there is alot of crime and politicians serve justice to whoever has the most money. In music there is so much rebellion in modern times. There is drug dealers who use night clubs and concerts to market their drugs. They also put up funds to produce events. Every nightclub owner wants justice his way. Every woman who can sleep with a man wants justice her way. Each fan wants justice his or her way. Keith Green the first real christian evangel rock singer didnt charge money for his concerts so everyone could afford to hear him sing. He is a legend today and millions still join his ministry he left behind to his wife and kids. He died at age 28 and only got to perform a few short years yet his generosity and message in his music lives on today. Justice for youre music talent isnt as simple as taking the garbage out. Youre instrumenting life when you entertain others with youre music. The lifes you are entertaining are a motley sort and the justice may even be to dark to measure out.. The justice money represents is to each person a matter of their own dominion over their personal business. The justice of every musician may conflict with the justice of every producer. The money wants justice for the money. Every little thing becomes a larger thing to those who earn money from those little things. Those little things become more to some when you earn more money or earn more recognition and prestige. Understanding success is to also understand justice. You have to understand some measure of justice to have any measure of power to perform and really be someone. the presidents are known for a high office of justice, There is corruption in every realm of society and for one person to have more justice than the other there needs to be justice taken from others. some people want a higher place than others and are willing to take justice away from anyone to gain more justice for themselves so that they have more power and money. Music is an energy product that doesnt come from the trees or from the sun or from the forest. It comes from the musician. What we instrument has a variety of rewards and the measure of that reward is what you need to understand to understand why you are or are not getting anywhere in the music business&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who's who in the music business&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Music is strange . In a world of principle vs rebellion what is the final result. At the highest places in the world like the kings palaces or the vatican what do you have as a result of youre own success in music. Do you serve the powers of the officials or instrument a freedom of youre own that dont belong to other people. How can you be a host in such a huge world with arena's that date back to rome and greece. In the fabric of society still the roman, greek, and jewish fashion of social structure and principality have woven themselves into each nation. As a musician becoming someone is at times dark. To be known in in a world without knowing youre own is tough. Then who do you become?. Are you still you?. Have you become a greek , or roman myth or jewish legend?. Have you become an american dream or a fantasy?. Did you really understand what you were doing?. Do you understand yet?. Do you have a mission or purpose?. Are you new world orders key to the kingdoms of this world?. Have you become as a puppet in some production masters private lair?. Have you yet sold yourself as the merchandise of entertainment and a become an instrument of the dark spirits that seduce and tempt society to indulge in their fantasies. Which ever evil drives you to success , Love of money, beauty of woman , or the drugs and alcohol. Have you a sincere motivation true to life or do you only love money and know no other disclipline other than youre love for pleasures nd luxury money buys. In the fountain of youre youth are you prime example or prime contender against the true fellowship to life. Have you beaten yourself black and blue to prove youre worthy of success or did you seek wisdom and work hard with skill and diligence outsmarting youre competition?. How did you become successfull was it against life or for?. Have you a life or did you sell it?. If you havnt succeeded have you any real understanding how to succeed.?. What have you succeeded at?. Have you ever surpassed others at anything in school or at work or in the community?. Do you really understand what it is to be great and have you ever proven you are greater in any recognizable way?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4:14 PM &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o Like&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o •&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a musicians identity in the world of music&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The powers of this world wield an identity that the architect and founders of this worlds principalities set in place long before the prowless of modern masters. A musician who makes a name for him or herself makes a name in a world that is cast in many crowns and many cultures. The modern face of each society is of a fabric that was woven in the same fashion of ancient society. The Roman, Greek and Jewish cultures have been woven into almost every society. So like an ancient Gladiator of Rome or a Greek mythological god people are imaged in many aura's of dominion that is to Glorify the heritage of the known and illusion the heritage of the unknown. To be a musician you have to ask yourself who are you in this world. Who is the world to you?. The darkest communities may have some ruin you can bring life to. The oldest cultures may be entertained by youre modern musical host. Its up to each musician to discipline themselves to not become the ruin that is already at the bottom of each society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many known musicians who's road to fame was not even one they had control over. They became known for being an image that was more of a fantasy role then a formal host to society. Selling their own identity to the worlds markets to gain wealth over night or making a name for being against the same yoke that holds the only truth to a persons identity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If joe blow musician beats his neighbor and rips off his employer he is always joe blow who did that. All the wonderfull entertaining nights cant change that. I joe blow raped a fan and hid the fact he is always that person. If joe blow lied to his fans or to the media he is always he who did that. Joe blow blatantly harrassed his girlfriend and his family he is still joe blow but his name becomes how to identify the person who did those acts. Life is so universal Joe may overcome those evils by making so many people happy in his performances that those stains on his name are hidden eventually joe becomes a famous musician but he's hidden so much he has to hide from his real identity. There is alot to becoming known in this world . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being wealthy isnt the only success in the world of music. A musician can be known for many things just like any human only at more of an advantage because he or she is a host to so many people. John Michael Talbot is an example of someone who did not use the world to become known as a musician yet he is honored all the way to the highest principalites as a leader of catholic worship. John michael talbot is a monk who's years of catholic folk leadership placed him as the official who anoints priests who want to become honored musicians of the catholic church. Another example is Keith Green he died at the age of 28 but became a legend not for his wealth and power . Keith Became a legend for his love for his music ministry and his generosity to his listeners. He held large concerts for free so everyone could afford to hear his music . He left a ministry behind that his wife still operates and has over a million followers still today. You as a musician have to decide wether you are going to be a greek myth or legend, a roman gladiator or leader of the roman or greek orgy, a advocate of jewish diety or the fellowhsip of arms that is lorded by the secret socities private lairs. Its all within youre own power to decide and whatever isnt within youre own power its the power of life that you can embrace to become known for whatever good you can instrument and to become a host of real liberty. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Holy texts explaining the inner world . spirit and soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TESTAMENT OF REUBEN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The First-Born Son of Jacob and Leah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHAP. I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reuben, the first-born son of Jacob and Leah. The man of experience counsels against fornication and points out the ways in. which men are most apt to fall into error&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE Copy of the Testament of Reuben, even the commands which he gave his sons before he died in the hundred and twenty-fifth year of his life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Two years after the death of Joseph his brother, when Reuben fell ill, his sons and his sons' sons were gathered together to visit him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 And he said to them: My children, behold I am dying, and go the way of my fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 And seeing there Judah, and Gad, and Asher, his brethren, he said to them: Raise me up that I may tell to my brethren and to my children what things I have hidden in my heart, for&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;p. 221&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;behold now at length I am passing away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 And he arose and kissed them, and said unto them: Hear, my brethren, and do ye my children, give ear to Reuben your father, in the commands which I give unto you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 And behold I call to witness against you this day the God of heaven, that ye walk not in the sins of youth and fornication, wherein I was poured out, and defiled the bed of my father Jacob.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 And I tell you that he smote me with a sore plague in my loins for seven months; and had not my father Jamb prayed for me to the Lord, the Lord would have destroyed me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 For I was thirty years old when I wrought the evil thing before the Lord, and for seven months I was sick unto death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 And after this I repented with set purpose of my soul for seven years before the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 And wine and strong drink I drank not, and flesh entered not into my mouth, and I ate no pleasant food; but I mourned over my sin, for it was great, such as had not been in Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 And now hear me, my children, what things I saw concerning the seven spirits of deceit, when I repented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 Seven spirits therefore are appointed against man, and they are the leaders in the works of youth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 And seven other spirits are given to him at his creation, that through them should be done every work of man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 The first is the spirit of life, with which the constitution of man is created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 The second is the sense of sight, with which ariseth desire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 The third is the sense of hearing, with which cometh teaching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 The fourth is the sense of smell, with which tastes are given to draw air and breath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 The fifth is the power of speech, with which cometh knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 The sixth is the sense of taste, with which cometh the eating of meats and drinks; and by it strength is produced, for in food is the foundation. of strength.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 The seventh is the power of procreation and sexual intercourse, with which through love of pleasure sins enter in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 Wherefore it is the last in order of creation, and the first in that of youth, because it is filled with ignorance, and leadeth the youth as a blind man to a pit, and as a beast to a precipice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 Besides all these there is an eighth spirit of sleep, with which is brought about the trance of nature and the of death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 With these spirits are mingled the spirits of error.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 First, the spirit of fornication is seated in the nature and in the senses;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25 The second, the spirit of insatiableness in the belly;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 The third, the spirit of fighting, in the liver and gall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27 The fourth is the spirit of obsequiousness and chicanery, that through officious attention one may be fair in seeming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 The fifth is the spirit of pride, that one may be boastful and arrogant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 The sixth is the spirit of lying, in perdition and jealousy to practise deceits, and concealments from kindred and friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 The seventh is the spirit of injustice, with which are thefts and acts of rapacity, that a man may fulfil the desire of his heart; for injustice worketh together with the other spirits by the taking of gifts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 And with all these the spirit of sleep is joined which is that of error and fantasy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;p. 222&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32 And so perisheth every young man, darkening his mind from the truth, and not understanding the law of God, nor obeying the admonitions of his fathers, as befell me also in my youth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33 And now, my children, love the truth, and it will preserve you: hear ye the words of Reuben your father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this next passage explains a bit about the soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Gospel according to Mary Magdalene&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;chapter 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) When Mary said this, she turned their hearts to the Good, and they began to discuss the words of the Savior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Peter said to Mary, Sister we know that the Savior loved you more than the rest of woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) Tell us the words of the Savior which you remember which you know, but we do not, nor have we heard them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) Mary answered and said, What is hidden from you I will proclaim to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) And she began to speak to them these words: I, she said, I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to Him, Lord I saw you today in a vision. He answered and said to me,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9) Blessed are you that you did not waver at the sight of Me. For where the mind is there is the treasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) I said to Him, Lord, how does he who sees the vision see it, through the soul or through the spirit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11) The Savior answered and said, He does not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the mind that is between the two that is what sees the vision and it is [...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(pages 11 - 14 are missing from the manuscript)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 8:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. . . it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) And desire said, I did not see you descending, but now I see you ascending. Why do you lie since you belong to me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11) The soul answered and said, I saw you. You did not see me nor recognize me. I served you as a garment and you did not know me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12) When it said this, it (the soul) went away rejoicing greatly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13) Again it came to the third power, which is called ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14) The power questioned the soul, saying, Where are you going? In wickedness are you bound. But you are bound; do not judge!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15) And the soul said, Why do you judge me, although I have not judged?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16) I was bound, though I have not bound.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17) I was not recognized. But I have recognized that the All is being dissolved, both the earthly things and the heavenly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18) When the soul had overcome the third power, it went upwards and saw the fourth power, which took seven forms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19) The first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the excitement of death, the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh, the sixth is the foolish wisdom of flesh, the seventh is the wrathful wisdom. These are the seven powers of wrath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20) They asked the soul, Whence do you come slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21) The soul answered and said, What binds me has been slain, and what turns me about has been overcome,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22) and my desire has been ended, and ignorance has died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23) In a aeon I was released from a world, and in a Type from a type, and from the fetter of oblivion which is transient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24) From this time on will I attain to the rest of the time, of the season, of the aeon, in silence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe267.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;`something I wrote a few years ago to help musicians focus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A MUSICIANS BIBLE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introduction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are my words to musicians of the world. My intentions in writing this book are not to start a cult or religion. The holy bible is a book of mystery as much as it is for salvation. I hoped after writing the book Heavy Metal Alchemy. That I could share more of my understanding and help provide counsel and wisdom to other musicians in this world. This is not a book of technology. This is a book of counsel and I hope an understanding of the depths,widths and heights to being a musician in the world. When I was 19 I read Solomon’s wisdom for the first time. Each day I would read a proverb and write out how it applied to my life here in modern day.. This helped me to understand what wisdom was for and its value. I continued to seek understanding of my life and the way of life that is most valuable to my mind, heart, body, and soul. This is my attempt to share some of that wisdom and the words of my own understanding to help all musicians ponder a life worth living. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 1. The Musicians Commission&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a paradox of human nature to belong to a universe where music can instrument life on a course beyond the human understanding. In the Holy Bible the explanation of the very first musician was Gods gift of wisdom to a musician named Jubal. Jubal was told to make the first instruments. At the same time Jubal was given wisdom to make the instruments, a craftsman was given wisdom to make tools; another was given wisdom to make tents, and there was appointed a high priest. Of course being so many years ago to really know how that all happened. You would have had to of been there. Even so I believe it’s true. No one really has to agree and believe it just because I do. It explains the beginning of music on earth. Its importance and purpose it doesn’t really deeply explain. It just gives you some idea that it was as important to the creator as any thing else to life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heavens are resilient in abundance of marvels and mysteries. The outer limits of our premise and domain in this universe go beyond our backyard. We have the ability to see through windows of heaven and reach the highest heavens in our spirit. This knowledge of the highest places makes us able to wield a crown of nature in emotional glories. Music is how we can express and instrument our mind and heart to stir the spirit and delight in the glories of the highest heavens. We have that calling and that ability to embrace that calling. There is life beyond our understanding that completes each cycle of the seasons. The highest commission to our existence is founded in this same calling. Music enables us to explore and delight in the measure of the existence of this calling. Through music life is instrumented in the power of understanding our emotions and the delights of our hearts and minds. We can focus on the freedom of our inner world. This reflects our performance and our attitudes in the external world. The heights of our understanding evolve in the maturing process of our soul. We have to understand the life force within us to embrace the emotional waters of creation that quench the thirst for life. This is in the inner world of the musician. A musician who can embrace the inner world of emotions as well as the material world is a powerful performer.. There are heights to human postures that are founded in the raw principles of creation. The universal knowledge of our inner existence that empowers us to withstand the material nature of being on earth. This fills our life with hopes and dreams of a more abundant and meaningful life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hopes of human beings are a powerful resource for a musician to minister and entertain the listener with. These hopes and dreams are an inner world of inspiration and motivation. If a musician can understand these dreams and visions. He or she can wield the power to entertain their listeners with the inspiration to lift their spirits and hold on to their own dreams. This is a great mark to make in society and well rewarding not just to the wealth of the musician but also in the satisfaction and glory of performing their music. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we are born the hearts and minds of our body’s are new to life. They have experienced nothing on earth. The newness of life is the pure image of infancy. There is no marks or stains to the existence of the infant.. With exception of the parents own intentions of their privacy. The new life of infancy is the pure soul of conception. Conception of the soul is beyond the material image of infancy. There is life that is fresh and new each soul can embrace even after infancy. This life is a musicians responsibility to embrace and host with understanding and motivation to entertain their listeners with. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Celebration of this life of our soul is as important as the celebration of the life of our material image. The call for celebration is deeper and it’s beginning more mysterious and leaves the mind and heart with a desire to know the mysteries of life that fulfill our hopes and dreams. Musicians host the celebrations of humanity’s call to live. The musician’s duty is to instrument the music that celebrates the majesty, marvel, mystery, and beauty of creation. The time of a musician is host to the liberty of humanity and the inspiration for the recognition of the sufferings, the glories, the victories, and the success of our past As well as the inspiration for the future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 2 A Musicians World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each musician has his own mark to adapt to in this world. His own image to make light of. The work of a musician entails the discipline to embrace their instruments and their writing skills. To really be a host to the world of life and its depths, heights, and widths.. A musician must focus on their own way of understanding life as well as the ways of life that he or she must be host to. The ability to understand the world and its needs for inspiration is how the musician can wield power to host the time to entertain. Also the ability to instrument sound that is the understanding of the inspiration to the inner world of humanity. The ability to understand how to make their world host to the world of others. These are the abilities that make a musician’s skill of value to others not just themselves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The musician’s world is host to the world of every kind of work. The musician needs to rely on their own understanding of their call to entertain. Their ability to perform with enough skill and grace is their bread and butter to success. Not only does a musician need to understand how to celebrate life but how to motivate others with enough energy and skill to celebrate also. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wholeness to being a life is required of a musician. There is no faltering in the way life exists. The only faltering is the misunderstanding of life and the ability to embrace it with enough faith to endure. The skills we have as musicians are challenged by the skills of our counter parties in this world. The skills of the machines and their makers pressure us for time. The musicians host to liberty is challenged and the commission to perform music freely is questioned. We have to rely on our own world’s freedom to interest others in the same freedom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each musician’s world is the material structure of their fortune and their friends and family. The hopes and dreams of each musician make the musician’s pursuit for happiness his or her own. Because the musician has a commission or call to host the world. He or she must be a leader of celebration and of the world’s liberty. They must embrace their responsibilities to host the world’s interest and inspiration in the call to freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The music of a musician instruments their listener’s thoughts about the world. Each listener has their own world. The world of the musician can become a host to the listeners and the listeners become their fans and followers. This creates another responsibility to the world for the musician. The world of the musician can become many things good and evil because of this. There are high pressures to perform at peak ability when their fans become large in numbers. The listeners become the source of power and prestige to live in high places of society. This creates a responsibility to set an example and is often the musician’s weakness. The examples of the world are of many kinds.. Musicians set their own stage and host the world according to their own understanding. This is the reason for so much question to the liberty to which each musician has to create their own lifestyle and world. The worlds of each of the industries and the political powers have no similar role in the world. Yet they too are well known and have to set an example. So there is at times a difference in opinion about the kind of example someone who is host to the world should be. It’s for the good of mankind that music exists. Yet like many things to life the corrupt image of living on earth can sometimes hold power to entertain followers. Do to the different cultures and different lifestyles. The opinions to what is a corrupt image differ in interest. The judgments of one world are not the same as the judgments of the other. A musician needs to protect their own vitality of life and pursue what image is their true happiness and their true calling. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 3 The Musician and the Listener&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musicians are musicians in the face of the very existence of life. There is no greater audience than life itself. So the ability to perform music that is good to hear is challenge the musician is not so pressured to achieve. The musician is his or her first and most primary listener. He or she can only understand their performance according to their own ability to listen. The audience of a musician is not the primary source of inspiration to perform. It comes from within each musician. Some musicians may differ in understanding and focus their attention more on the audience then others. A musician able to over power the attention and focus of the audience with the musicians own focus and attention. Can captivate the audience and create an audience who is open to the performance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A musician has no limit other than their own desire and understanding of performance of music. The ability to project and instrument the sounds that entertain listeners and excite or stir their emotions is a powerful skill. In our world many musicians live and have lived. There are a lot of different genres of musicians. The average musician is more concerned with an average performance. They are not so concerned with leaving an audience marveling at their skill and performance. Like a top performer might accomplish. We all have a measure of ability. No one really has to match or exceed someone else’s ability. It’s not a rival to live. Our dreams are not the persons who are more skilled or able. Our hope is not in our skill able to match or surpass theirs. Listeners have many needs. Their needs aren’t only to be amazed by someone else’s skill or talent. How many listeners can amaze someone with their own skill or talent? There is a reason not every one is highly skilled or motivated. That reason is not that we all aren’t as important in life. So the average listener has a need to hear the average musician’s music also. It shares a mutual understanding of achievement and has power to host a celebration or memorable moment with sincerity and a common place in life. It may be easier for an average musician to understand their audience better then the top performer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 4 The Music of the Musician&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The music of each musician is a timeless freedom we have to enjoy the product of creation that only a musician can create. A musician’s music is like a record of their life. The sounds they created in performance are the product of the freedom they created to instrument the depths, heights, and widths to living. Music is an unseen force that is created by the musician’s instruments.. The sounds are praise of life. Music that is played for the quiet enjoyment of life’s simple liberties is a source of inspiration to its listeners.. The simple things to life are only simple in their demand of responsibility and detail. They are not simple in their meaning and importance. Music helps us enjoy even the simplest things. Each step we take is for the wholeness of our life, mind, body and spirit. Each breath we breathe. Standing in one place is our whole being living with a purpose beyond most understanding. Music makes that simple liberty and simple purpose and instruments the very source of its life in us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 5 A musicians worship and praise of the creator&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worship to our creator is the highest calling of the musician. It is not every persons belief that there is a creator. The highest place in the universe is audience to the music of a musician when he or she is performing praise or worship to the creator. The spirit is a life force beyond our material cares and has freedom beyond our physical limitations. Worship to the creator exercises the liberty of the spirit and very life’s highest call. The audience of worship is without the same prejudice as a normal listener. The creator is not a respecter of persons. The creator does not favor one life over the other. This makes the experience a cleansing of the morals and the cares of our heart and mind. Our ability to perform with grace and confidence is uplifted and revitalized by the exercise of the spiritual worship and praise to the creator. The zeal and fire for life is invoked in our praise. No one can replace the importance of their soul with material wealth. They can only deny its importance. We all need to worship and praise the creator of life to really experience the full measure of life the creator created life to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-6735842161808030152?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/6735842161808030152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/wisdom-to-musicians.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/6735842161808030152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/6735842161808030152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/wisdom-to-musicians.html' title='Wisdom to Musicians'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-8059593377881391487</id><published>2011-02-13T21:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T23:14:06.144-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The wizard of ozz and this new vatican in exile parish in Kansas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;In my web surfing I found a site called vatican in exile. A small parish in Kansas has denounced vatican II and appointed their own Pope . They teach the same teachings of the old vatican with abstinence and fasting. I started to think about the wizard of ozz with dorothy there in Kansas. In away the Vatican II is kind of like the emerald city and the pope like the wizard of ozz. Pulling the chord and making thunder sounds to scare people. Then when people make it to the vatican he gives them a rosary and blesses them like the wizard gave the lion,scarecrow,tin man , and dorothy the things he gave. I just cant figure out who toto is. Maybe the wicked witch of the west is Hillary Clinton and the wicked witch of the east is the Queen of England. Being from Africa Obama would make&amp;nbsp;a good flying monkey. I cant judge the vatican in exile but really that is their own business. They just arent submitting to the vatican and still teach people arnt going to heaven unless they are catholic. I cant agree that our baptism is about institute its about freedom and life in the spirit that gives a higher place to an institute which&amp;nbsp;is more conformed then I agree is safe in society. God bless their lifes but rural america with the Mennonite,Amish,Quaker, and other sects I guess they have thier place amongst the rest of the rural society who seems to alienate from the rest of the world. It tells us in the Gospel to remove ourselves from the world. I am working toward a little farm in brazil and some land in hawaii. but living in the ozarks is not my calling.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.vaticaninexile.com/"&gt;http://www.vaticaninexile.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-8059593377881391487?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/8059593377881391487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/wizard-of-ozz-and-this-new-vatican-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/8059593377881391487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/8059593377881391487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/wizard-of-ozz-and-this-new-vatican-in.html' title='The wizard of ozz and this new vatican in exile parish in Kansas'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-4517376157325955887</id><published>2011-02-13T19:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T19:45:41.935-08:00</updated><title type='text'>psalm 37 and the deciet of modern merchants</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;I wanted to share a story about my own struggles with people using deceitfull means to gain wealth. In Psalm 37 David writes for us not to get heated about people who are gaining wealth from decietfull means because the little the poor have in the end outweighs the wealth of the just and land still belongs to the poor. Understanding the psalms is so important as a child of God. There is not many other scriptures truly explaining Gods soveriegn authority and the great way of life that christ called us to. Although the gospels were of a greater wisdom then solomon the psalms of David tell us so vividly of the Father Christ is express image of. the apostles actually met Jesus David having never met Jesus knew him also and knew the father because of it. His knowledge of God was so Great his throne was estalished forever. His psalms herald Gods fight and his great saving grace from the hands of our enemies in vivid detail he explains how God delivers. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When I was learning to be a private investigator I had decided to learn how to catch persecutors and decietfull business people in the act. One of my first jobs was working for a big company that was contracted by the government to guard the state buildings and some of the emabassies. There was so much dark activity occuring each day I was never sure who was behind the conspiracies and security breaches. Then suddenly the paychecks were being fowled up and eventually no one got paid . Private investigators and ex cops involved with the payroll embezzled money and the company went bankrupt. I was so angry and disrought. I had worked so hard to train to be a security investigator. I couldnt trust those working in that field anymore. I had just begun a career and was 2 years into the field . So much hard work and now I couldnt even believe catching dishonest people was an honest way to earn a living. I eventually enlisted in the army to seek a non profit way to work in the field. When I got out I had some business I wanted to do of my own and being an investigator already heated about the deciet . I had to pray everyday for peace and to not be to angry. I went to hollywood and found out so much about the hollywood hustlers and dark behind the scenes conspiracies in the hollywood world. Then I worked on sales and marketing I was shocked out how many scams I was uncovering in my research. I stopped for a while to work on campaign initiatives in LA. The political research companies were ripping off petitioners who were paid to petition. They took 50 percent of the funds. Then congressman were being investigated for dipping into their campaign funds. I had enough. even working on stopping gay marriage and abortion for minors without parents consent were petitions they didnt pay us for most of our signatures. They were petitions funded by the church. I lived in the worst mexican mafia area in LA Huntington Park. I worked on petitions to increase the penalties for gang violence in those areas while living unarmed in a known mexican mafia gang area. One of the worst if not worse for mexican mafia control.&lt;br /&gt;I was steamed but I prayed everyday and the Lord delivered me just like the psalms tell us. It was amazing really that I could from doing these things really know not just read about and want to know what David wrote about in the psalms.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I ofcourse could not know the same measure David knew nor be a King but I could know the same saving Grace a King knew.&amp;nbsp; I worked at the news paper in the sales room at the Oregonian for awhile. We gave away free subscriptions to get new subscribers. months later they had a flood of customer service complaints and no pays. They had the sales room go through the customer service calls for a week. I found out many of the free papers were really being sent bills and doubled billed not just billed for one month . Then there was a discussion about how they had 150,000,000 dollars in no pays that the government will reimburse them for. I suspected it was a scam to scim funds from the government and a way for the newspaper to get money for subscriptions that were decietfully gained. I quietlly quit and was a bit more aware of the kind of scams businesses do for money.&amp;nbsp; I worked at a fair for dish network and the company owner had promised a certain amount of money to bring people back to the booth and if he closed them he would pay me a commission. He didnt pay me for a months work and I tried to sew him but the courts wouldnt help me and I couldnt get a lawyer to take my case pro bono . Not having been paid I couldnt afford a lawyer. I was angry and a truck driver offered me a chance to use his oozie machine gun to go get my money. I declined not wanting to get in trouble. The saleman who ripped me off was living on credit cards and didnt own his own house but called people names who didnt have good credit and couldnt buy dish network. He spoke evil of everyone but people who had money and good credit. He called them lots of choice names at the fair. In the psalms it tells us about his kind. Most salesman gain wealth using deciet from time to time and many businesses use marketing scams but the psalms tell us not to get heated about it..&amp;nbsp; I eventually worked at the carnival and the little I earned got me back to the small town were my family originated. My mothers side of the family were all poor people or people who were neither poor nor rich but self employed with orchards , small farms, small restaurants,construction contractors, ect.&amp;nbsp; I didnt have to be completely ignorant of working for a living like a saleman would be. Also I didnt have to think about being that much of a servant to wealth.&amp;nbsp; I met a hip hopper in hollywood who called himself a hustler everyday. He would yell out I'm a Hustler Baby. You got a Hustler or you wont get the money. He was earning money promoting nightclubs and ended up homeless because he gambled all his money away. He had a con game with people and earned a bit of money from party and events companies atleast a few grand a week.&amp;nbsp; He was earning a good living. At one time he had earned 70,000 in one year and at the end of another year he lost everything he owned from to many dui's and having to goto rehab court ordered. He lost his job , some of his friends, and was only renting a room while he had the money. I was spending time finding things on ebay at auction for a penny and ended up with precious gems, thousands of dollars worth of clothes and now I can get just about anything from wholesale companies I found while buying on ebay. I still hardly earn a dime but I can get anything even houses for 1 dollar plus closing costs. Amazing, there houses only poor people would buy but its more than the hollywood hustler really own who live in apartments and spend their money on drugs and woman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Read these psalms they really minister to me alot I thought others might be as enlightened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Psalm 37 New Jerusalem bible&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Of David] Do not get heated about the wicked or envy those who do wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Quick as the grass they wither, fading like the green of the fields.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Put your trust in Yahweh and do right, make your home in the land and live secure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Make Yahweh your joy and he will give you your heart's desires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 Commit your destiny to Yahweh, be confident in him, and he will act,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 making your uprightness clear as daylight, and the justice of your cause as the noon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 Stay quiet before Yahweh, wait longingly for him, do not get heated over someone who is making a fortune, succeeding by devious means.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 Refrain from anger, leave rage aside, do not get heated -- it can do no good;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 for evil-doers will be annihilated, while those who hope in Yahweh shall have the land for their own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 A little while and the wicked will be no more, however well you search for the place, the wicked will not be there;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 but the poor will have the land for their own, to enjoy untroubled peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 The wicked plots against the upright and gnashes his teeth at him,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 but Yahweh only laughs at his efforts, knowing that his end is in sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Though the wicked draw his sword and bend his bow to slaughter the honest and bring down the poor and the needy,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 his sword will pierce his own heart, and his bow will be shattered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 What little the upright possesses outweighs all the wealth of the wicked;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 for the weapons of the wicked shall be shattered, while Yahweh supports the upright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 The lives of the just are in Yahweh's care, their birthright will endure for ever;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 they will not be put to shame when bad times come, in time of famine they will have plenty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 The wicked, enemies of Yahweh, will be destroyed, they will vanish like the green of the pasture, they will vanish in smoke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 The wicked borrows and will not repay, but the upright is generous in giving;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 those he blesses will have the land for their own, and those he curses be annihilated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 Yahweh guides a strong man's steps and keeps them firm; and takes pleasure in him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 When he trips he is not thrown sprawling, since Yahweh supports him by the hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25 Now I am old, but ever since my youth I never saw an upright person abandoned, or the descendants of the upright forced to beg their bread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 The upright is always compassionate, always lending, so his descendants reap a blessing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27 Turn your back on evil and do good, you will have a home for ever,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 for Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful. Evil-doers will perish eternally, the descendants of the wicked be annihilated,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 but the upright shall have the land for their own, there they shall live for ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 Wisdom comes from the lips of the upright, and his tongue speaks what is right;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 the law of his God is in his heart, his foot will never slip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32 The wicked keeps a close eye on the upright, looking out for a chance to kill him;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33 Yahweh will never abandon him to the clutches of the wicked, nor let him be condemned if he is tried.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;34 Put your hope in Yahweh, keep to his path, he will raise you up to make the land your own; you will look on while the wicked are annihilated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35 I have seen the wicked exultant, towering like a cedar of Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;36 When next I passed he was gone, I searched for him and he was nowhere to be found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;37 Observe the innocent, consider the honest, for the lover of peace will not lack children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;38 But the wicked will all be destroyed together, and their children annihilated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;39 The upright have Yahweh for their Saviour, their refuge in times of trouble;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;40 Yahweh helps them and rescues them, he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they take refuge in him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-4517376157325955887?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/4517376157325955887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/psalm-37-and-deciet-of-modern-merchants.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4517376157325955887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4517376157325955887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/psalm-37-and-deciet-of-modern-merchants.html' title='psalm 37 and the deciet of modern merchants'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-4582461607736298065</id><published>2011-02-11T00:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T16:45:12.841-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The apple eve ate and the magic of Aliester Crowley</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;When I was 19 I was helping a skateboarder italian catholic who was a backslider and delved into the rock and roll world of Heavy Metal. He listened to speed metal day and night. No matter what he was doing he would have his head set on or someone's stereo cranked up listening to his tapes or cd's. I was learning guitar but hadnt been much into heavy metal and listened to rock groups like U2,Depeche Mode,Pink Floyd, and reggae music. I didnt like to hear heavy metal to much . The heaviest I would listen to was van halen or steve vai. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sooner or later I started to try and play guitar as fast as the speed metal I would hear when my friend would play the stereo. I listened to the tapes even slayer. I kind took captive to christ all the thoughts about the lyrics like it says in the gospel and feared no evil so to speak. So my heart wasnt with the musicians or their followers but I was learning to pick guitar pretty well. After awhile I was a little spooked and curious about the sorcery and witchy knowledge the musicians were putting in their music. Some my guess were backsliders such as my catholic friend others were jewish athiest or jewish witches. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I went to the library and found some books on magic. I started to read a huge book called the 12 step magician. It was a book I believe written by the Golden Dawn which was a group established by aliester crowley .&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The book starts out explaining the tree of llife and of knowledge of good and evil. The Jewish Kabbalah is were most of the knowledge derived for this book of magic. The book itself was much like the apple eve and adam ate in the garden.&amp;nbsp; In fact the whole concept of being a magician like merlin or aliester crowley was to be just as Satan told eve she would be like a god discerning good from evil. This is exactly what aliester crowley was teaching was what satan told eve she would learn from eating the apple. So in a blattant attempt aliester crowley really was as the devils servant again tempting the decendants of adam and eve with the knowledge of the apple which was already eaten by eve and adam. Here is the scripture. You would have to find the book called the 12 step magician to know exactly what I am referring to. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; There are many modern versions of the apple of eden. Some seem to be blattant recreations of the apple. &lt;br /&gt;Hollywood is a Jewish created principality which broadcasts to the whole world. The jewish kaballah is a book which was used much in the book I read the 12 step magician. The many writers of Hollywood movies I believe are inspired by these mystical jewish doctrines. I watched a movie about the occults involvement with modern literacy. Mark Twain according to this movie was stated to be a warlock or sorceror involved with the occult and started a movement amongst writers which would explain the modern day television programming and the television show bewitched. The actors are portrayed like the gods the serpent told eve she could become like. Even the religion of hollywood Dianetics is about the knowledge of good and evil and how sin is only an immaturity of the mind and can be cured by dianetics. This is an example of being like a god judging good and evil. Then there is the roman and greeks who made many images of gods to worship and indulged in the carnal pleasures. Hollywood combined the evils of the jewish mysticism with the evils of roman and greek culture to make it real festivity of seductions. Freemasonry with all its levels is another example of the serpents temptations to eve . As they go up levels they are worshiped like gods. I am pretty certain they believe George Washington is diety. isnt what eve was told she could become if she ate from the apple . George was a freemason. The Key of Solomon was a doctrine that I believe much of aliester crowley's magic derived from and modern occult symbols . This doctrine is full of mystiic ceremonies like a sorceror would perform. Also as the serpent said judging good from evil like a god. The media is full of the seduction of the temptation to eat the apple. Its how we give place to the devil like Adam and Eve had. &lt;br /&gt;That is the original corruption of mankind. Hindu's actually believe that they become gods when they get married. This is in their catachism . I read the hindu catachism in the 1990's. It explained how they believe sin is an immaturity and not a trangression or because someone is evil. It tells us something in the gospel which I would give heed to. It tells us do not take sin lightly.&amp;nbsp; The whole worlds order is entertained by the same original corruption of mankind the same temptation the devil tempted eve with. The apple was ate but each human is not born having sinned . the tempations of the serpent are manifest by his servants who serve his kingdoms and the same kingdoms which he tempted christ with disguised as an angel of light.&amp;nbsp; Most of what is on television is a manifestation of the apple of edens knowledge. The devil still seduces humanity with the same temptation that was his original way to have place and power over adam and eve . His servants do his bidding by creating the same temptations so he can have place and power over adam and eves decendants. However we all have victory in christ in such a powerfull way that we can take captive all thoughts to christ and our salvation is sealed . We have authority over the devil and can expose his darkness as christs brothers and hiers to the throne which he rules by/ .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the Buddhist religion is a prime example of the serpents temptation of Eve. In fact Buddha supposedly was under a tree of wisdom sleeping and the apple fell on his head. When he woke he wanted to learn a better way of life and supposedly could like a god understand good and evil within his own understanding and became like a god who people now pray to. The buddhists believe they are their own god. This is exactly what the serpent told eve according to the word of the Lord which was written in the book of Genisis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the Jehavah witeness church with its teachings of christ deriving from a catholic bishop who was excommunicated for teaching heresy . He taught that Jesus was a god like God not the incarnate savior we believe as catholic. They believe they are like gods because Jesus was like a god in fact they do exactly what the bible says people will do who pretend to be Jesus's disciples but are not really and are the anti christs followers.&amp;nbsp; This is a temptation similiar to the serpents words to Eve to eat of the apple. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I think the major decieving temptation of the apple to modern day is the Pschyciatry of Sigmund Frued. Deceptively studying the knowledge of the evils of mankinds mind and teaching how we can within our own understanding be good from council . In my opinion it is so deceptive that most of the nations have assumed its morality according to this knowledge instead of the gospel of christ and the laws of God.&amp;nbsp; We know the gospel to teach there is no man righteous and no man good its only God in us who is good and teaches good. The righteousness of the law itself is considered filthy rags by our Lord Jesus Christ who himself said "it is not I who is good but my father in Heaven'. In fact he so much as spoke that we should not honor him but his father in heaven that he was only doing his father's will doing anything he accomplished on earth. The mind of christ and the modern phsyciatry dont seem to always be in accord with truth of christs salvation and the real teachings of Jesus Christ. I believe it is much corrupted in its cause and serves no nobile sanction from heaven.&lt;br /&gt;Genisis 3&lt;br /&gt;1 Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." '&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this, Accursed be you of all animals wild and tame! On your belly you will go and on dust you will feed as long as you live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 To the woman he said: I shall give you intense pain in childbearing, you will give birth to your children in pain. Your yearning will be for your husband, and he will dominate you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, Accursed be the soil because of you! Painfully will you get your food from it as long as you live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 It will yield you brambles and thistles, as you eat the produce of the land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 By the sweat of your face will you earn your food, until you return to the ground, as you were taken from it. For dust you are and to dust you shall return.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-4582461607736298065?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/4582461607736298065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/apple-eve-ate-and-magic-of-aliester.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4582461607736298065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4582461607736298065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/02/apple-eve-ate-and-magic-of-aliester.html' title='The apple eve ate and the magic of Aliester Crowley'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-4693403951952362770</id><published>2011-01-24T19:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T19:51:40.048-08:00</updated><title type='text'>phillipians 2.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;1 So if in Christ there is anything that will move you, any incentive in love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any warmth or sympathy -- I appeal to you,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 make my joy complete by being of a single mind, one in love, one in heart and one in mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Nothing is to be done out of jealousy or vanity; instead, out of humility of mind everyone should give preference to others,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 everyone pursuing not selfish interests but those of others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 and that every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 So, my dear friends, you have always been obedient; your obedience must not be limited to times when I am present. Now that I am absent it must be more in evidence, so work out your salvation in fear and trembling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 It is God who, for his own generous purpose, gives you the intention and the powers to act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Let your behaviour be free of murmuring and complaining&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 so that you remain faultless and pure, unspoilt children of God surrounded by a deceitful and underhand brood, shining out among them like bright stars in the world,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 proffering to it the Word of life. Then I shall have reason to be proud on the Day of Christ, for it will not be for nothing that I have run the race and toiled so hard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 Indeed, even if my blood has to be poured as a libation over your sacrifice and the offering of your faith, then I shall be glad and join in your rejoicing-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 and in the same way, you must be glad and join in my rejoicing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 I hope, in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you soon, so that my mind may be set at rest when I hear how you are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 There is nobody else that I can send who is like him and cares as sincerely for your well-being;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 they all want to work for themselves, not for Jesus Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 But you know what sort of person he has proved himself, working with me for the sake of the gospel like a son with his father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 That is the man, then, that I am hoping to send to you immediately I can make out what is going to happen to me;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 but I am confident in the Lord that I shall come myself, too, before long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25 Nevertheless I thought it essential to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and companion-in-arms since he came as your representative to look after my needs;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 because he was missing you all and was worrying because you had heard that he was ill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27 Indeed he was seriously ill and nearly died; but God took pity on him -- and not only on him but also on me, to spare me one grief on top of another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 So I am sending him back as promptly as I can so that you will have the joy of seeing him again, and that will be some comfort to me in my distress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 Welcome him in the Lord, then, with all joy; hold people like him in honour,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 because it was for Christ's work that he came so near to dying, risking his life to do the duty to me which you could not do yourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-4693403951952362770?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/4693403951952362770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/01/phillipians-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4693403951952362770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4693403951952362770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/01/phillipians-2.html' title='phillipians 2.'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-3206371272891941300</id><published>2011-01-24T15:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T15:19:12.465-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Creations In Christ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;2 Corinthians chapter 5 vs 17 Tells us we are new creations in christ.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; As a trained investigator I had to open my mind to the carnal nature of people I never paid attention to before I decided to learn the discipline of an investigator. It was painfull and shocking some of the dark ways of people I never paid attention to or wanted to know about before I disciplined myself to observe behavior. As a catholic I became very aware of the difference between me and the world . I believed in christ my whole life from a child to adult. So the carnality of living was usually something I just gross out about or not pay much mind to. I wasnt confirmed catholic until I was 22 years old.&amp;nbsp; In the army I was drilled like a machine in the military and joined up with the some of the best and many of the worst of society to do violent work. When I was discharged I went to Hollywood wierdest carnal place in the world for all I can reason. I had spells when I would almost black out like a machine with no senses thinking about being a kill trained robot or something. It was then when I realized how much life God gave me . This is when I realized I was a new creation in christ. Because the Holy Spirit would fill me back up with life and I would be racing with joy moments after a spell. It was scary I actually would fear I couldnt feel like a normal human again. Then I would realize no one around me had the same life in them they were like animals with no knowledge of christ. People were just flesh fulfilling all their fleshly desires without the kingdom of heaven in them. When I returned to visit my family. I felt alienated my family was as carnal as they could be and the new creation I had become many of family members had not become. I started to realize absolutely that God had made me into a new creation and the life I would of been because of my carnal birth was not really a life that would have been easy to bare. I thank God he called me so young in my life. Here is the scripture that tells us of our transformation and life free from sin and the unholy animal like nature without christs grace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 corinthians chapter 5 vs 13 to 21&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 If we have been unreasonable, it was for God; if reasonable, for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 From now onwards, then, we will not consider anyone by human standards: even if we were once familiar with Christ according to human standards, we do not know him in that way any longer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 So for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 It is all God's work; he reconciled us to himself through Christ and he gave us the ministry of reconciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 I mean, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not holding anyone's faults against them, but entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were urging you through us, and in the name of Christ we appeal to you to be reconciled to God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 For our sake he made the sinless one a victim for sin, so that in him we might become the uprightness of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-3206371272891941300?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/3206371272891941300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-creations-in-christ.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3206371272891941300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3206371272891941300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-creations-in-christ.html' title='New Creations In Christ'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-1991977490367027622</id><published>2010-07-27T17:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-27T17:39:54.504-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Isaiah and the conversion of the nations vs modern evangelism and cults</title><content type='html'>In Isaiah 45 vs 14 - 19 the bible tells us the prophecy isaiah that explains how the nations will convert. In vs 18 and 19 he explains that&amp;nbsp;the Lord did not form creation in chaos and the Lord did not speak in secret or in some dark corner of the underworld. What I understand this to be is that the evangels, mormons , and jehovah's witnesses going around in the hoods and in the streets like some chaotic rival for sinners to join up and convert is contradictive to these scriptures. Also the Freemasonry with their dark secrets and all these secret societies making it to hard to live here. It says in this passage that God created earth to be lived on he didnt form it in chaos.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; What I get from it is this chaos of so many cults and protestant divisions makes it to hard to live here but God didnt convert the nations the way they try to make it seem it wouldnt be God if his scriptures say what they do in Isaiah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Isaiah 45 vs 18 - 20&lt;br /&gt;18 For thus says Yahweh, the Creator of the heavens -- he is God, who shaped the earth and made it, who set it firm; he did not create it to be chaos, he formed it to be lived in: I am Yahweh, and there is no other. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 I have not spoken in secret, in some dark corner of the underworld. I did not say, 'Offspring of Jacob, search for me in chaos!' I am Yahweh: I proclaim saving justice, I say what is true. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 Assemble, come, all of you gather round, survivors of the nations. They have no knowledge, those who parade their wooden idols and pray to a god that cannot save.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-1991977490367027622?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/1991977490367027622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/07/isaiah-and-conversion-of-nations-vs.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/1991977490367027622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/1991977490367027622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/07/isaiah-and-conversion-of-nations-vs.html' title='Isaiah and the conversion of the nations vs modern evangelism and cults'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-7200641170705343335</id><published>2010-06-07T15:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T15:58:59.909-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Esau and the American Indian</title><content type='html'>In the The old testament of the Holy Bible there is a passage which tells us that Esau the brother of Jacob had red skin. The passage tells us that Esau was also hunter of wild game such as the american indian have red skin and were and are hunter of wild of game. In those days most people lived in tents who were jewish . To me this would explain the way of life the indians lived. Although science and scholars would explain it as a human nature of adapting to their environment yet what if they just kept living as their Father Esau and really are his decendants. It seems strange how it speaks of a man with red skin and many all of israel came from Jacob so why not all the american indians from Esau. Israel had 12 tribes who were from the sons of Jacob. Why not the indians and their tribes from Esau or atleast one of Esau's decendants who was red. Although scientist believe the indians came from Asia. Couldnt it be possible in those early times before the earth was very populated that Esau's decendants moved through Asia a different kind then the people who are China today.&amp;nbsp; Being hunters it seems they could of stuck by their own guns and migrated from the&amp;nbsp;Edom across Asia hunting game and wandering in the wilderness until they reached America where they found a land unihabited and ideal for a hunting people. Although not all his decendants could of migrated to america it does tell us in the bible about the Edomites and there is knowledge of Esau's decendants in the middle east. I just believe it is possible some of his decendants who were red like him migrated across Asia.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The story is kind of strange . I have heard often the expression "I got Jewed" in business. Some one may speak of being swindled or having to pay to high of a price and refer to it as being "Jewed".&amp;nbsp; As prejudiced as a may seem. All the back in the bible in the times of Abraham and Isaac it speaks of how Esau was swindled by Jacob much like the expression "Jewed" is often used as a term for. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Esau sold his birth rite to his brother Jacob for a morsel of bread. Then his brother Jacob stole the blessing of his father which was going to be given to Esau. This left Esau with nothing for inheritance and rendered him a hunter angry wanting revenge on his brother. Jacob however was blessed and became father to the nation Israel. Remember this was all in the times of Genesis before there was many people on earth such as today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indians sure seem as esau is described except for his decendants the Edomites are more as the middle eastern people are to israel . Who's to say that there wasnt red skinned Esau's who migrated to the west before the continents divided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been researching a little and there are many conspiracy theories about the Edomites. Some believe the modern israel is actually not israelites but israeli who are in actuallity Edomites. So where does that leave the American Indians . I hope in Gods hands and that they are just the church now the many who believe and have converted. So as new creations christ our Grace is to not be yoked with Edomites or Israelites unless they to have converted to christ. The end times theorists may not all be crazy or mad but God help those who are and willing to profit trying to make divine matters their own. I in no way intend for my blogs to be any more then to help understand whats in the bible and what relation does&amp;nbsp;it have to modern reality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 25 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 27&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 27&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;34And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;36And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;37And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;38And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;39And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;42And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;44And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;45Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-WYrQ9fIQM&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-7200641170705343335?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/7200641170705343335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/06/esau-and-american-indian.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7200641170705343335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7200641170705343335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/06/esau-and-american-indian.html' title='Esau and the American Indian'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-5606616600569397534</id><published>2010-04-10T21:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T04:49:30.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Did Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche repent before his death</title><content type='html'>I wanted share my belief about Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900). I have been reading just a little about his last days and from what I read it was pretty evident to me that he actually repented towards his death. Because he was so closely associated with Hitler and his philosophy was part of the philosphy of the nazi regime he was considered mad and placed in asylum. Yet he was repenting from what I read and I think it was his attempt to absolve himself.&amp;nbsp; Here is something he wrote in his last days I found on wikipedia read it closely it seems messianic to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;the paragraphs below are copied from wikipedia&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; On January 3, 1889, Nietzsche suffered a mental collapse. Two policemen approached him after he caused a public disturbance in the streets of Turin. What actually happened remains unknown, but an often-repeated tale states that Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse at the other end of the Piazza Carlo Alberto, ran to the horse, threw his arms up around its neck to protect the horse, and then collapsed to the ground.[22]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the following few days, Nietzsche sent short writings—known as the Wahnbriefe ("Madness Letters")—to a number of friends (including Cosima Wagner and Jacob Burckhardt). To his former colleague Burckhardt, Nietzsche wrote: "I have had Caiaphas put in fetters. Also, last year I was crucified by the German doctors in a very drawn-out manner. Wilhelm, Bismarck, and all anti-Semites abolished."[23] Additionally, he commanded the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot, and summoned the European powers to take military action against Germany.[24]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(these are my own comments about this event......"It seems Frederick Nietzsche tried to warn the world with his letters before Hitler had ever started his mass murders of jews . He may of heard of Hitlers plans way before the first world war . His own intentions to create a philosophy that suited is own dark ego was becoming a nightmare and not an intellectual accomplishment. Hitler took hiim more serious then he had intented. Making his philosophy he wrote for his own indulgence turn into an empirical nightmare . &lt;br /&gt;The demons that taught him secretly that knowledge handed him over to an eviler power . I believe he really was just a theologian scoffing religious morals and Hitler was someone alot greedier and more power hungry than he knew men to be and had not in his own power or pocket book a way to stop him from making his philosophies manifest and a historic nightmare.&amp;nbsp; The devil used Frederick for an instrument of his own wiles . &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; However had&amp;nbsp; the rest of europe read his letters and taken them serious inspite of their short sentences which is expected of a man weak and dying the world would of been safer. Its a shame he didnt confess christ in his letters it would of been an amazing occurance. It seems that the world war 1 would of been prevented and world war 2 prevented in the process if his friends honored his words. I guess the&amp;nbsp;fellowship of those involved with hitler and in my opinion all of the institutes philosophy is dark in its origin. The the absolute truth to Hitlers plans may not be in spirit so evident because that is another realm or a darkness that involves unknown powers. Yet it is plain to understand that it was just greed , the love of money and power that hitler was after. He merely hired geniouses to work on the success of his greedy administrqtion. He used fredericks philosophy to apprehend the intelligence of the darkness and confuse those who trusted in thier nations leadership. The darkness fell into its own hands. Yet without a doubt he sanely warned the world to stop hitler before he got started and no one did instead he was placed in an asylum .( Its strange because even this 9.11 could of been prevented had people believed the warnings and taken action....our leaders and thier staff and the soldiers and thier commanders are not really as upright and understanding as God would really anoint someone to be..... None of us are living Gods life to his expectations or have divine power in our own skills but a world war and a major conflict against terrorism could have been prevented if people in high offices would of really had wisdom or cared for our security. Like frederick being placed in an asylum I read some of the witnesses of the 9/11 warnings before it happened were threatened by f.b.i when it was being investigated and feared for thier lifes not to talk about it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I really will never trust or honor the people who control the higher offices of government as they would want us to. God secures us in the divine power of his own will. If we really believe in his wisdom and his divine truth we wouldnt be so easily decieved about our security . Alot of decisions that authorities make are trials I believe that they themselves dont always avail in. So their failure to understand or apprehend the truth is costly. You might say it evens seems common that a world leader is absolutely worthless when it comes to any righteous act or timely service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 6, 1889 Burckhardt showed the letter he had received from Nietzsche to Overbeck. The following day Overbeck received a similarly revealing letter, and decided that Nietzsche's friends had to bring him back to Basel. Overbeck traveled to Turin and brought Nietzsche to a psychiatric clinic in Basel. By that time Nietzsche appeared fully in the grip of a serious mental illness, and his mother Franziska decided to transfer him to a clinic in Jena under the direction of Otto Binswanger. From November 1889 to February 1890 the art historian Julius Langbehn attempted to cure Nietzsche, claiming that the methods of the medical doctors were ineffective in treating Nietzsche's condition. Langbehn assumed progressively greater control of Nietzsche until his secrecy discredited him. In March 1890 Franziska removed Nietzsche from the clinic, and in May 1890 brought him to her home in Naumburg. During this process Overbeck and Gast contemplated what to do with Nietzsche's unpublished works. In January 1889 they proceeded with the planned release of Twilight of the Idols, by that time already printed and bound. In February they ordered a fifty copy private edition of Nietzsche contra Wagner, but the publisher C. G. Naumann secretly printed one hundred. Overbeck and Gast decided to withhold publishing The Antichrist and Ecce Homo because of their more radical content. Nietzsche's reception and recognition enjoyed their first surge.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-5606616600569397534?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/5606616600569397534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/04/did-friedrich-wilhelm-nietzsche-repent.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5606616600569397534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5606616600569397534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/04/did-friedrich-wilhelm-nietzsche-repent.html' title='Did Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche repent before his death'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-3739198337730781680</id><published>2010-03-20T17:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T02:40:34.894-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The divine image of christ and the victory of the cross</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Jesus is not an old man by our own standard his body would not have aged as ours. He did not have to be under the same punishment of sin and death. His flesh did not have to know death the same way. He is not decomposing which is the cause of our old man appearance and physical weakness. His white hair he had as a young man as a child and it isnt from old man aging. The beauty of an old mans head is his grey hair it says in the word not white hair.. He was born not from the seed of man but concieved by the Holy Spirit. He did not have to age . Would you live as an old man if you were God the son and didnt have to . &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Christ was very much a champion. What he accomplished for the kingdom of&amp;nbsp;Heaven put to death all the works of the flesh.&amp;nbsp;He became king of kings and lord of lords. Yet he also became high priest forever. The Living God Creator of all life came to earth born of the virgin mary and his name was Jesus Christ.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; There were many arena's and all the kings&amp;nbsp;had champions in their militaries. What Christ did was&amp;nbsp;became the&amp;nbsp;champion&amp;nbsp;over all creation.&amp;nbsp;His accomplishment of living a sinless life and making atonement for all those&amp;nbsp;believe. He dissolved the powers of the old kingdom.&amp;nbsp;He was the&amp;nbsp;express image of God his physical body had been&amp;nbsp;concieved by the divine powers of the Holy Spirit. What he is and was an is to come is the only&amp;nbsp;human body that has eternal&amp;nbsp;life. His flesh&amp;nbsp;became the champion of all flesh.&amp;nbsp;He perfect in image and his way became&amp;nbsp;high priest forever but by doing this all flesh had to Bow to him and&amp;nbsp;renounce to him their own&amp;nbsp;life and image to&amp;nbsp;inherit eternal life and get a new&amp;nbsp;perfect body&amp;nbsp;that doesnt die. He is eternally begotton. He lives not as an old man of this world but as a&amp;nbsp; young man who defeated the champions of this world. Greater is he in us than he who is&amp;nbsp;in the world.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; No matter what the world believe or disbelieve&amp;nbsp;about thier body&amp;nbsp;christ defeated them. Their flesh is a trangression as long as it lives its own way and its own life. The life of Jesus Christ is soveriegn all things were created through him. We&amp;nbsp;need to have&amp;nbsp;christ&amp;nbsp;absolve our sins and intercede to the father for our forgiveness that&amp;nbsp;way&amp;nbsp;we are not under any condemnation for own flesh .&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Essentially what christ did is compete with ever body&amp;nbsp;that ever lived and ever will live.&amp;nbsp;Just like the athletes train and compete for glory only he&amp;nbsp;won not only humans but all creation.&amp;nbsp;So by winning&amp;nbsp;such a great way&amp;nbsp;every human&amp;nbsp;no matter how fit , no matter how tall, no matter how strong, no matter how wise, no matter how wealthy&amp;nbsp;lost thier life. If anyone should choose to live their own life and not christs&amp;nbsp;they have to die in their&amp;nbsp;own image and then eternally be punished. He set a standard . So when we&amp;nbsp;do our&amp;nbsp;work or anything . We&amp;nbsp;are honoring losers when we set our standards by using the&amp;nbsp;athletes of this world or the&amp;nbsp;rich and famous ..&amp;nbsp;We have to honor the Heavenly Father by recieving the son. So that we honor the right things about each other. We need to recognize that the kingdom of heaven is in us and christ is the standard in that kingdom. So its within us&amp;nbsp;how well to do&amp;nbsp;things , the way to walk, the way to write, eat, sleep,drink, pray,&amp;nbsp;play, all things we do its christ in&amp;nbsp;us who sets the standard and&amp;nbsp;enables us to grab hold of a higher way and not to be losers to the world but to have victory over it and all the works of the flesh.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-3739198337730781680?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/3739198337730781680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/divine-image-of-christ-and-victory-of.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3739198337730781680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3739198337730781680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/divine-image-of-christ-and-victory-of.html' title='The divine image of christ and the victory of the cross'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-143200132595844405</id><published>2010-03-20T16:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T18:28:37.250-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Morality of Divine Communion vs Psychology and the Moral sciences true cause</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I think psychology has a major influence on peoples opinions about sin making it a mental health issue and not a divine communion matter. People in return herald the science principalities. Much of which is Jewish theologeons moral advocacy about sin vs the Holy Fathers of the church. Einstien a jew was considered a messenger of God by his peers. I think jews tend to follow scientists more than the rabbi. Freud and athiest jew even yet honored by his jewish peers. These two people started an era of jewish influence in all our moral teachings in unjewish society. Thus almost antichrist as judaism is anti catholic .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C.G. Jung wrote in his writings that protestants who convert to Catholicism are less sane or usually have mental health problems. It is one of attempts to discredit converts. He worked closely with freud and was working on his on rendition of the science of mental health yet In reality It was really to prove that they could prove no character problem has to do with the devil and just being unholy. What if it was to believe they can in their own understanding or power cure the sinfull nature of people by using scientific methods . freud being athiest I think C.G. Jung had alternative ideas and motivs to his work. Jews adopted their own rendition of the psychology of sinners and the cures dreamed up was torturous and in modern times pharmakeaic . The blaspheme of it was blaspheming the mind of christ and the holy spirits intervention when sins are confessed and the heart restored. If we went along really with modern times we would be subject to science as though we were machines or animals who train and have no other value other than what scientists believe. The sins of catholics are more serious because they cant repent twice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we cant believe that psychology is more powerfull than the mysteries of the gospel and the sacred heart of Jesus to heal and cleanse. taking sin to lightly and making it only a mental health issue is wrong. didn't satan tempt christ and didnt a woman tempt adam. So in the same fashion it is tempting to believe that confession is only for children or that sin is harmless and just forgiven without any notion or remorse to come to the Lord asking forgiveness and seeking&amp;nbsp;his mercy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sirach tells us that doctors are respected even&amp;nbsp; by the highest authorities.&amp;nbsp; The gospel tells us that the anti christ will decieve even the elect among us. So isnt it likely that an anti christ could of created psychology not the anti christ but some kind of anti christ before the real Spawn of Satan has his day. Frued wasnt a doctor but C.G. Jung was&amp;nbsp;a surgeon and one of freuds students the two became friends and worked together on getting psychology going. It was devised by two men both really anti catholic although cg jung spoke a few things good about priests. Like saying priests were actually closer to earth than others despite peoples opinion that they teach about mystical things and arnt close to the eath. Yet his psychology was really as freuds to decieve and make sin and the nature of man about science and not about divine communion.&amp;nbsp; The knowledge they came up with is not as sound as the principles of the church yet many swear by the psychology and moral science that it is a knowledge disproving the principle of divine doctrine is sound and of the highest calling.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So much heresy has been devised since the Birth of Christ.&amp;nbsp; Our institute in the United States as well as around the world is training people to be heretic. Philosophy and Modernist political science has infaltrated the inner chambers of the institutes principalities. The followers of the institute deny their faceless heresy has any gross demeaning purpose to the righteousness and holiness of knowledge , and wisdom. No one can really serve christ and serve the same principles the modernist institute has devised. The altered ego of the humanitarian has become a hippie and proud parent of the all the worlds evils devised into a social order that makes a community out of hypocrisy and heresy.&amp;nbsp; Modernist community I believe is a product of the works of phsycology and heresies like L. ron Hubbards dianetics. The blaspheme of Gods holiness and true image is made into a science by the psychology. The purpose of psychology was in its origin to conform and transform people into the images of this world be it national ,corporate ,or private powers. The image of christ is a mystery of Love not a science. The wholeness of the spiritual mind cannot be manifested by corporate discipline or achieved by academic scholarship. It is a divine birth and healing process that cannot be ministered in laboratories or by understanding the carnal mind. The carnal mind is no mystery the spiritual mind of christ is the divine mystery and to tamper with his healing is itself a sin and blaspheme.&amp;nbsp; The scriptures tell us the punishment for sin is death. Yet even adam was forgiven for his sin and his sin was the original sin that fathered all flesh in its sinfull nature.&amp;nbsp; Adam and Eve were forgiven but by being forgiven they to were crucified with christ and therefore the works of their flesh put to death. This is a mystery of how christ is the second adam. The captives were set free and all the souls of those chosen were delivered. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Dianetics and Psychology have illusioned the hearts of the whole world. The catholic church does not disagree with the importance of mental health.&amp;nbsp;Because of the papal's authority over peace and the instutes of every nation employing psychology in all avenues of its administration there is alot of danger involved with tearing down the principle it teaches. The world psychologist work day after day to teach people to take sin lightly and consider no evil any more than a mental health problem. Satan is the father of all lies. The dianetics institute teaches psychology is bad and the catholic church. The take sin even more lightly. To them it merely an immaturity. Thus you have many immoral entertainers who support its cause. There is value to sanity and reason is important but the carnal minds power is from its own imaginations and its own wrath and precepts. The power of God is higher in its origin and so is the wisdom of christ and baptism of our faith.&amp;nbsp; The minds of Gods people are anointed and illumined to know the truth and mysteries of the life in the spirit. We dont have to submit to the carnal works of dianetic followers or the institutes psychology. There is no knowledge that can stand against God. For this reason we should never take sin lightly only because the dianetics people or world psychologists say so. The authority of our faith is not the same as the worlds. They use authority to have power over the world. The authority of christ is to edify and uplift Gods people. God rules with and Iron rod but his wrath is not the same as the power of the worlds wrath. What Dr. Freud and the jewish community created was to them a high knowledge. Yet the mysteries of faith taught to every member of the body of christ grabs hold of things higher to understand then any scientist or governing power can grap hold of .&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-143200132595844405?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/143200132595844405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/morality-of-divine-communion-vs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/143200132595844405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/143200132595844405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/morality-of-divine-communion-vs.html' title='Morality of Divine Communion vs Psychology and the Moral sciences true cause'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-5367075247574574256</id><published>2010-03-20T15:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T15:32:21.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>authority of freedom and the mysteries of our faith</title><content type='html'>The authority of freedom and true mystery of the furtherance of the gospel &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scriptures tell us that when Paul had appointed elders over the church some had become kings and many people had aquired everything they wanted just because of the work of the apostles and the gospels furtherance. It was the Papacy who anointed Kings in early anglo history. Even the barbaric king Aella the Pope had decreed that all will sing alleluia in his land. It is said that the Elkins family is one of his decendants lineage after aellakins or kin of aella. That is atleast what a researcher found for my family when they had their geneology researched. He was a Saxxon king and Early Brittian was not happy with his reign because he was not a brit. The papacy had a role in all authority over the church of england and its kings. The authority over the church of england and its kings is due to the early work of the apostles and those who became kings from the gospels furtherance. King Henry the VIII was an arrogant king who had 6 wives two of which he had beheaded. His own need for an hier he considered more important than even the grace and communion of our Lord. His own family heritage he believed to be more noble than christs reign. This was the start of the corruption of the anglican church. King James another adulteror king was a further corruption. His corruption and lust caused him to create his own version of the holy bible. By the time Cromwell had lead his crusades for the puritans the once Holy anointed authority of England had become an offensive reign of pompous arrogant families who considered their own reign more important than Christs. Even King Aella the Saxxon King had not done evil in the Lords sight compared to these adulterous kings who seperated the church of England from the Papacy. The King Aella was considered a tyrant by the brits .King arthur who was considered a hero by the brits had used a sorceror named Merlin to help win his battles. Sorcery is evil in the sight of God . The fight of Cromwell was a victory for some families and a loss for others. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The authority of the church and the work of the apostles that established authority was about christs authority from who all things were created including the puritans. The church of england had a corrupt fellowship and was not the true authority of the church. Because of this I believe the Lord did not help the Monarchy of England defend itself against Cromwell . It tells us in the word of God a brother offended is harded to yield than a fortified city. Cromwell overthrew the monarchy and the authority of the throne of England was Lorded by Cromwell. The Americans had established colonies by this time and the american response to Cromwell was one of extreme prejudice compared to the puritans of England. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first English Americans were the soldiers of the forts. The families of the officers and soldiers also had interest in coming to america. I know that Henry Elkins was the owner of the white dove the first ship to request to come to america 3 months before the Mayflower requested to come to America. Elkins said to be a decendant of Aella the Saxxon king considered a barbaric tyrant by the brits who had corrupted the church authority and divided the church away from the papacy. This was before Cromwell had come to power but only a short period. The puritans had been persecuted and the first request was actually a puritan minister and his congregation who asking Henry Elkins and his trading company to take them to America. Henry was the brother of one of the captains of the English forts in America. In those days feudalism was the rule of law. The laws of feudalism were restrictive to who can own property and how much they can own. Also who can do business and how much they can do. By rule of tradition only nobles and people with some kind of recognition of the monarchs court could establish some kind of business or community . Those with establishing authority were the knights and families of officers. The brother or cousin of Henry Elkins came over on one of the ships with the mayflower. Henry became a trader using his ship to trade with Indians he was granted charter shortly after the mayflower even though he put in the first request. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The early puritans were not fellowshiping with the catholics. Yet the catholic church of England was a corrupt authority and it was not the Lord but the monarchy its authority was about. That was try and change what the apostles had started . It was the apostles work and authority that established kings. What the monarchs of England tried to do was to try and place christs throne at the feet of their own not honoring the work of his saints or the church. The corrupt communion of the English church was tyrannical in the eyes of the puritans. When the early colonies of america were established it was not just the movement of puritan but it was one of the last societies on earth being established. That is a very important factor in the furtherance of the gospel being taken to the ends of the earth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that because Rome was already a free society before even christs birth that very reason is why God chose to establish in Rome. In Pauls writings much of his work was regarding freedom because he was a free citizen of Rome and servant of the Most High God. Its his teachings that tell us we are heirs to christ and citizens of his kingdom. I believe God planned for america to be a free society as a furtherance of his grace. By using the Puritans the early authority that established america as a free society was not Roman. The society of Rome was not its establisher or how it was free it was just Gods grace and his own Power. Although there was corruption in the early offices of America such as freemasonry and its secrets. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the freemasons of America were not from families with any heritage greater than most of the officers and their families who were not freemasons. The early settlers and their families were by no means all freemason and thier families work was thier heritage . The country was in its raw state and the society established was in fashion of all free societies that had been established but only as knowledge not those societies and their actual heritage. The heritage was absolutely from the raw. The raw of earth and the raw of the established governing powers upholding their families inheritance and defending thier rights of freedom. The rights of the church was established before Rome it was established in the beginning with God because the rights of the church were the rights established by Jesus Christ which were taught by the apostle Paul. Our freedom goes beyond the boundaries of other societies in America because it was not established by those societies which were established by Rome. The Lord makes all things work for his good and his glory and he had a plan to use the failure of the catholic church of England and turn it into a good thing for his good. Yet this doesnt change that the church of Rome is still the papacy and traditional authority of the Holy Church it changes the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the heritage of the families and their citizenship in society. The Papacy cant be an authority that reigns tyranny or Lords authority the same as the Monarchs would or Presidents. America was established not of the societies established before christ such as: the middle east, Egypt, Rome, Greece, China , Ethiopia and those kind of places. Although most of Europe was conquered by Rome and later re-established after christ by the Papacy. Even Europes established heritage was nullified by the american revelution. The families that established america were free in a way that freed them from all societies . Rich or Poor they were free citizens such as even the highest authorities as in a legal definition. What was Gods will and his divine plan for this new society?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know America is no Holy Land but it is one of quite a bit of difference in its role in society. It is the last of the free societies and one of origin not as common and not as orthodox in its origin. The Order was from the raw liberty of untamed forests and unexplored plains. The mountains and rivers displayed a vast array of the inheritance that was to be the rights of the free citizens . Although because of the actual carnal nature of mankind the freedom of its new citizens wasnt divine by blood but yet no more undivine than the citizens of rome before christ or during. The opinions of the rest of the world could not change the reality and absolute truth of the fact the rest of the world was not who established america. It was not the inheritance of any other nation or its families. When the nation had opened its doors it became possibly in likeness to those societies and the many families who plot and pilage such as the mafias of Italy home of Rome and the Secret Societies of the World. However there is no truth in deception and that is the way those kinds of families have power and freedom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever the gospels furtherance is here on earth in America the truth is a cause people belittle.Still in Brittian there is monarchs and still they believe in a higher citizenship than the church. Yet it was in accordance to scripture that we all have equal citizenship because of the citizenship to heaven. I am not perfect and myself cannot accept the citizenship of families not from the early american society. I cannot reason it is the same yet if all were catholic and right before the church it would not be so hard to honor. Why is because that citizenship to heaven is only about the church. The american freedom was by inheritance undeniably the heritage of those early americans and their decendants. Whatever dark lies may be held against those families is just arrogance and the same that america's original cause was to be freed from . The early americans fought for freedom from the families of those who came here after they warred. In modern times the foundation of freedom is still the raw here in america. Wether they change the government around or not . It was from the raw that we here were established as free citizens. In heaven before all things were created was our Lord who established our freedom himself as the church. The government was merely an established authority that upholds what was established already in the raw state and in the spirit of the living God. In reality those whos claim to freedom is the world wars and their service to the freedom of the American society is only a furtherance to the freedom of the the early established families. They are from the societies the world war brought destruction to.Those opposed to Americans freedom and the role of American society became and aid to the reconstruction of the older societies. This made america the aiding factor to freedom not Rome or France or any of the other older societies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America had reversed the power of the older societies by aiding in their reconstruction. The Marshall plan was the plan that accomplished this along with all the work after. America's role became fashioned in some way like old Rome but it was not in its origin anyway similar. The gospels truth is still the only noble cause and its ignoble that many americans fight for their own cause. If their freedom is not the freedom Jesus Christ gave us as children of the Lord it is no better than the freedom of the immoral early Romans even condemned in the bible. So like Rome early American had slaves and like Rome early american had a senate and congress. Though it was like Rome this way it was not like Rome that it was established not by Rome but by puritan and maybe secular to some cause. In the spirit it was the corruption of the state that they had no true communion. America had remained free because it is Jesus Christs gospel that the church is free. The church of Rome was always the church of Rome but The throne of christ is really in heaven not in Rome. To understand Romes authority we need to unerstand it is in the spirit we war. The authority to our freedom is not the same as the worlds authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Church fathers are in times of populations greater than romes early existance. Romes stature in comparison to the rest of the world is small. The modern times do not need to reconstruct Rome for freedom but need to expose the truth to the furtherance of the gospel and holy communion of the Lord. We have to shine a light in the darkness of the hidden plots and defend the truth not lies that make italy ,rome,greece,or any other societies culture the cause of our fight. There are many skeptics who for some dark reason or arrogance believe that america's freedom was a rebellion yet it was to fight for freedom against England who at the time had rebelled against the church of Rome. Roman citizens themselves having freedom not from the Lord Jesus Christ but from violent tyranny that oppressed Gods saints before christ was even born. There was no divine society in Rome . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mocks and scoffs of american socities freedom by italians, chinese, or any europeans, or middle eastern cultures is really mocked by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. His divine mystery to freedom and the gospels furtherance is beyond our own power and his divine will is unobtainable by any society. The plots of societies against the church and its freedom is against christ and in the way of the gospels furtherance. We suffer that there is anyone unfree who is the church. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to be mindfull that the freedom of this world is not the cause of our Lord except that all might believe and come unto him. The worlds heritage is of no value to our freedom or salvation . We are one in the Lord our fight is against the Wiles of Satan and all his children of darkness who exalt themselves against our Lord and his holy church. To further his gospel we have to learn his mysteries and expose the truth of his reign. The Lord has equipped his anointed to endure , to fight the good fight, and to spread his gospel to all ends of the earth. American dominion is in truth not the same as the other societies of this world. The darkness of ancient Romes free society is not so unlike the secular societies freedom. We are free from all men even the darkness of our nations worse corruption .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 corinthians 4 1So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. 2Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another. 7For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have become kings—and that without us! How I wish that you really had become kings so that we might be kings with you! 9For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men. 10We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you, as my dear children. 15Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. 19But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. 20For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 21What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in love and with a gentle spirit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romans 81There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. myst&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-5367075247574574256?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/5367075247574574256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/authority-of-freedom-and-mysteries-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5367075247574574256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5367075247574574256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/authority-of-freedom-and-mysteries-of.html' title='authority of freedom and the mysteries of our faith'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-2785211791115256185</id><published>2010-03-20T15:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T15:27:04.014-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mind Garage First Christian Rock Band</title><content type='html'>FIRST LIVE CHRISTIAN ROCK WORSHIP SERVICE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN THE WORLD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trinity Episcopal Church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morgantown, WV. 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In 1st Corinthians 4 Paul writes that men are not the fathers of the church . He states that thousands are guardians but only a few are our fathers. There is many protestant who choose to believe that no one is a father of the church. They don't really even honor the apostles. I know this from listening to several speak in assembly of God church's and as offensive as evangels are many have spoke out against the catholic faith to me in my everyday affairs. I spent a year in a christian growth program called Teen Challenge . Mind you the Teen Challenge program itself is extremely valuable to the well being of many who seek recovery from secular evils. However they do use the Assembly of God for pastoral services. Not only do they not believe in the church fathers they do not believe the apostles have anything to do with our faith. They do not honor them as the Fathers of the church. Though they speak a faith in Jesus they do not really honor the eternal church they have no communion with the apostles or with the saints of our Lord. So many protestants are very immature and the preachers are so easy to discern as someone just preaching Gods word for money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The word of the Lord tells us that we are to honor the Lords monuments the monuments of our church fathers. This scripture is not regarding the nation. The american memory of the nations fathers is not who the apostles were writing to us about when saying there are few fathers and thousands of guardians. although it is very similar. The fathers of america were many freemasons and not fathers of the holy church. Think of the difference this way how unholy can an elected official be and still be president or any kind of official. Our work as the church is much greater than our father Adams work was. It is the Lord Jesus Christ we serve. I am sure the Glory of Adam in the garden of eden was a marvel beyond our earthly grasp but putting that image to death we conform to the image of christ a Glory so amazing in the spirit we can only anticipate perfection in our eternal affairs. The spirit is much greater than even the flesh of Adam. Our life in the spirit is who the apostles fathered and the fathers of the church are fathers not of the work of adam or any nation after Adam but the work of Christ. All things were created through christ Jesus. No nation established could unestablish the church or christ as its foundation. Most of modern nations were established after the Roman Church. However there are a few nations such as China and middle eastern countries who were already established. We war against these principalities even today. The principalites of the nations established before the church was established has worked to create the illusion that Christ is not established along with all the fathers of the church. The protestants work along with these principalites not understanding what they do. Hollywood is a jewish principality which creates a big illusion only to seduce the minds of people to aid in what others are really working on. As the bible tells us the world slaves for corruption. America along with most of the allied countries were established on the same shoulders of what christ established. The many elders of the protestant church especially evangels are just people who dishonor the real fathers of the church thus trying to prove thier own honor is the Lords and set out to establish what has already been established to lead people away from the rock . They havnt the virtue or the power the Lord has anointed to the true fathers. This is dangerous and very immature. What they do is aid the principalities of those opposed to christ such as the middle eastern cultures, the jews, and the communist. Even though they may say they oppose these principalities they dishonor the foundation which has already established honor and virtue of its faith. In their own self righteous arrogance they glamorize the fellowship of Jesus Christ at the wealthier ends of their organizations and on the poorer end they demoralize and make an image of false image of a christ that has no honor except in their imaginations of him. This is confusion and chaotic filth. The True church is not a loss cause or an imagination or hallucination. I hope that only the true fathers of our Lords church will have power of authority on earth as it is in heaven. Amen. Though in modern day I notice that many of the priests do not measure up to the apostles. I am sure not in any day did the Lord intend for anyone to be as Great. The greatest is the least and the least is the greatest is the Lords words about our life in the spirit. I certain this regards the fathers of the church. I cannot deny that it is christ who teaches me what freedom I have and even gave me the confidence to write this blog. I know there is much more to gain then just knowledge from faith in Christ. All knowledge will pass away. Though my true intentions for writing this blog was to share some reason about the difference Church Fathers from the fathers of this age, nations, and world . If you look in the passage below it explains that the church had even become kings. That even though they had all they want the apostles suffered being poor , homeless, and working hard with their hands. Yet it was they the rest of the church had honor. The many protestants would exhort their wealth is even Gods reward to them yet their reward that way is here . I myself believe their rewards are here and wont really be in heaven. I have to work and whatever wealth I may have need of comes from the work and wisdom of my own work. I can only hope that even the least of my finances and property I aquire here I dont value or consider what to honor about my faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st Corinthians 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. 2Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another. 7For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have become kings—and that without us! How I wish that you really had become kings so that we might be kings with you! 9For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men. 10We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you, as my dear children. 15Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. 19But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. 20For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 21What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in love and with a gentle spirit?8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Titus 1 : 5-9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-3085842758379959531?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/3085842758379959531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/fathers-of-church.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3085842758379959531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3085842758379959531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/03/fathers-of-church.html' title='Fathers of the church'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-932417508473523573</id><published>2010-02-03T14:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T12:36:29.763-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Those who believe yet continue to sin</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In the gospels it tells us that there was some people in the times of the apostles that believed in Jesus yet still lived immoral and unholy. It also tells us that even the demons believe and tremble at christs name. Can you think of how many corrupt preachers like Jimmy Baker who might preach about the fear of &lt;br /&gt;God. I am sure if the demons tremble that a corrupt preacher might know about having to fear God to. Isnt it possible that some preachers do preach about the fear of God because they like the demons have to fear him. Isnt it possible they are really not christs disciples as the pretend. Its been my experience growing up and attending church as an adult that many people who are proffessed catholic or christian live as immoral as the world and use their baptism or birth into a christian family as sort of a sheeps clothing. Like a wolf in sheeps clothing. Backsliders and not just backsliders but people pretending they are holy if anyone else is holy because they to attend or have a christian family. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I recall the catholics and christian in my childhood neighborhood. Each christian or catholic family had teens on drugs and fornicating in their home. The parents denying thier children are that unholy or shifting the blame completely to families not attending church. The parents seemed as nasty as their kids. I do recall innocent people but really the community church thing was just some hypocrisy that no matter the intentions just wasn't the holy church. It tells us in the gospels that we are not to let anyone in our home who discern doesn't have the teachings of Jesus Christ in them. Not just theology or bible study teachings but really having the word of God in their heart and the teachings of the Holy Spirit. The gospels also tell us that for someone to continue in sin after confessing the Lord Jesus Christ is like being guilty of his murder. That we are not to consort with , sit with , or even eat with christians or catholics who are fornicators,adulterers,liars,murderers,thiefs,robbers,fault finders,idolaters,and homosexuals. It tells us in Pauls writings that there people who were attending church and were baptised who were living worse then the gentils doing evils that even the gentiles condemned. Sounds a little like the incest and polygomy of the mormon. Even like the molestations of modern day. Don't even the gentiles condemn drugs and crime. There are many people who obey the law and do not use drugs because it is known they are dangerous and it is rebellion to use them. My parents were both unholy liars and did not honor the teachings of christ. Neither had any formal baptism or even attended church as I was growing up. Yet neither was using drugs or committing crime. They were and are still today persecution&amp;nbsp;to me and an adversity against my faith in Jesus Christ. Their ways were very worldy and carnal and still havnt confessed christ in any worthy manner. Yet still today they have not committed crime the way some catholic raised children have and christian. I met 3 pentecostal preachers sons. Each one had joined up with biker gangs and did as many drugs as they could. Two were very disrought and poor the other had managed to earn wealth from truck driving. They all had been in jail and all had been addicted to drugs. A pentecostal radio show evangel attended a church local. I met his sons in a youth group. His two sons were involved with a gang and used drugs. The same assembly of God had several families who kids were on drugs and rebelling. I would not belong to a pentecostal organization ever. I only hope that I never have children or a family of my own that ends up as the many christian and catholic families have.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So as the Lord forgives us we are to forgive others but until these people are ready to confess and truly live the life of Jesus Christ they are worse then those who don't believe.&lt;br /&gt;These people are who make life the hardest for us. They are who slip in our homes because they have been baptised and attend church with their families. These people are who live in the community making it thier home and lying about the communion of the Lord and the holiness of his fellowship. They are who know that we commune with God and believe in his righteousness but betray us and live against us in the community knowing christs teachings yet still living as his advesary. There is no fellowship we can have with them so they work on jobs like spies and like shamers of his grace yet still wanting to recieve the same honor from us and expecting the same salvation we have. It's beyond my own words to describe. I could write a poem maybe to express my own views but nothing to really explain how seriously evil it really is. To think of what image we have fallen from as Grace and the true mark the Lord had set for Adam that we all fell short of. The life in the spirit we live is powerfull.To deny the calling as though there is no righteousness which is so great we cannot contend with is contending with the powers of heaven. I have no belief in the righteousness of man. What righteousness I know is in the Spirit of the living God. All day the Lord is the righteousness in me. Not my own flesh but the Holy Spirit who dwells within me. I am a living vessel of the life of christ not a machine or a political being which can be led to the left or to the right by mans laws and community. The justice I honor is the salvaation of Jesus Christ and the eternal rewards of heaven. I don't honor money or the political systems of this world. I know that God is going to rend to each what is due and that all will reap what they sow. For anyone to believe different is political to me and not the gospel.&amp;nbsp; We must be true to our salvation and honor the Lord's instructions.I cannot write or speak as an authority as the Pope may but I can write and speak as a child of God and a free citizen of heaven. I&amp;nbsp; believe in the reality of the spirit. In this world we have no home that is eternal but in heaven our home is prepared and will be eternally a reward for living righteous lifes to the end. Living as friends to this world and honoring the worlds home and its principles and precepts is jeapordizing our eternal rewards and home in heaven. So letting someone in our home that is not taught by the Holy Spirit is really letting in the world and all arrogance and evils that jeopardize our rewards in heaven. What a home is to God since we are his vessels not the rulers of this world is different then it is to the rulers of this world. We are not slaves of sin and sin has no rule over us. Yet those who do not believe or believe and still sin they are as the children of wrath and haters of God. Would you let someone in youre home God would not let in his knowing God is in you and it&amp;nbsp;would offend him. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Even wealthy Mormons like Mitt Romney with all their wealth are still someone God would not let in his home.&amp;nbsp;Our faith is built upon a rock not a stumbling block. We have the right to not belong to the world even if the world consists of our own family members and flesh and blood. They are still children of the world and thier father is Satan. Does Satan have a right to fellowship with us. The keys to heaven belong to heaven not to this world and all the rulers of it are subject to the powers of heaven in the same spirit that sealed our salvation.&amp;nbsp; We war against the very same principalities which those who dont have christ teachings in them are followers to such as the Mormon church and&amp;nbsp;even Local corporate powers or corrupt neighbors and&amp;nbsp;the rulers of each town. Sam Adams of Portland , Oregon had many supporters would you let them in youre home even if they say they are christs. They are who support the gay mayor and support such an unholy community doing this. Though evil seems common&amp;nbsp;here it isnt in heaven. There is no evil in heaven.&amp;nbsp;We cannot be friends with its fellowship.&amp;nbsp;Many people try and create an illusion that they were christian and still are even though they have been living as liberal advocates to the world. The church can't be an advocate to this world. There are many powers of this world&amp;nbsp;that are only about markets and each community subjects its criminals and its&amp;nbsp;poor to similar powers that are&amp;nbsp;to conform the&amp;nbsp;community to the corporate image of&amp;nbsp;liberal hosts. There is only One God and his image has nothing to do with this world or his time. The powers&amp;nbsp;that be are beyond the powers of this world. Even the sun is not subject to this world this world is subject to the sun. So in its entirety the kingdom of heaven is on its own time and all we do cannot be in fellowship&amp;nbsp;with the worlds institute of fellowship.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I have met several catholic and christians who have dated non catholic and christian people. All to often I will hear from a non catholic or christian male that his wife is catholic or christian. Yet it tells us these woman were not to even let these men in thier homes let alone sleep with them.. I am sure in some way God does not forsake them but why would the Lord make them one with the world.&amp;nbsp; When I was baptised there was a man converting because it was his mother in Law's death wish. He was a satanist he said and used to bring goats heads to satanic mass for sacrifice to satan. He was married to a catholic lady. Can you see how that is wrong. Even though he finally converted in his middle ages. That dont always happen and it was evil each day .&amp;nbsp; We cant fellowship with catholic woman or men who live with and sleep with satanists or any christian who believes that because its lawfull to fellowship with the world its ok. The world fornicates and does all the immoral acts condemned by the gospel. These catholic or christian who date and marry the world are more than likely the fornicators and drunks the bible tells us not to even sit with or eat with or consort with. It says its not regarding the world because we cant leave the world but its regarding people who believe and yet still do these things. I will list some scriptures. I know we have to love the world but lust and love are two different things. I admit I have contemplated socially indulging with worldly females yet that was Solomon's fall and even warned about by the 12 Patriarchs in their testaments.&amp;nbsp; I need God every second in these times to keep my heart and mind safe from the evils around me having power to discourage my faith or to stop me from working as Gods child not a robot or slave to this worlds money and perversions. Even my own family is against me as the world is against christ. So I do what I do in the Lord as an individual when I do it even though we are all one in the spirit no christian or catholic has ever really been there for me each day as a christian or catholic family would function. At times because of the way the corporate community is and the many divisions of church and the many imaturities of these times I have been left with little or no options but to live in rental rooms of people I know not and who usually arnt christian or catholic or live as liberal advocates of the same oppressors who persecute the church. Its hard to endure but christ alone was my fellowship in those houses . I believe much of the hardships in my life is do to people who believe but continue to sin. They know what we believe and persecute us a different way then the world does. Not thinking it serious christs crucifixion and really guilty of his murder like judas or the Jews who even seen his miracles but killed him for their own love of money and their own love of their own ways. I have not myself been sinless but I am not a drunkard,homosexual, liar, fornicator,adulterer,robber,thief,idolater,fault finder. Although for a time I stumbled over the detective training I did because it involved lying to the liar to catch them and prove their cons. Also it is very common for people in law enforcement and the legal community to be very immoral within the limits of the law only considering mans laws to be what Gods righteousness is about.&amp;nbsp; This took me a few years to put everything out my way. I had to decide not to pursue the normal career of a corporate security investigator and instead work towards establishing a non profit detective service that doesnt involve secular investigators or legal community. Which I still today only are in the planning process pursuing other means to support myself. It is serious we are not the world to God. He is in those of us who believe and wouldnt hand us over to sinfull people who believe and still sin blattantly or in disregard of his crucifixion. We cannot repent twice and the original atonement for our sin was at time of recieving the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Gods Love is long suffering , mercifull and kind.&amp;nbsp; We have a right to be left alone those who conintue to sin arnt our authorities no matter what job they do . Even if they are Governors only christ is authority and christ is who they sin against . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romans 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 John 5:14-21&lt;br /&gt;14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself,[a] and the wicked one does not touch him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. &lt;br /&gt;21But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 corinthians 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;1It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13But them that are without God judgeth. 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How often do the evangels and protestant organizations announce on national television they are giving money to the needy. They hold telethons and celebrate in front of everyone. This is warned about in Mathew . What am I to think about these people. I was in Portland , Oregon awhile back .. There are many church groups that walk around in the parks in front of everyone handing out goodies to homeless criminals and drug addicts. Sure on or two out of 1000 might be innocent victims but for the most part they are people who were shut out for two many crimes. People who burned every bridge and are repeat offenders no one will rent to. Many were even shut out of programs for being to mentally disturbed from narcotic use. Yet the christian groups year around support them and parade around in t-shirts with ministry names on them setting up booths . Usually it is broadcasted on the news during the holidays. I was told by a young man who was a grant writer for a street ministry that the owner was earning 250,000 a year or more from the publics support and grants. Yet the ministry itself charged its clients 4 dollars a day and all the food was donated by other sources. So there was no need for money and the owner of the ministry was earning 250,000 a year salary. I dont know if that was just hear say or the truth but the young man was his grant writer I was talking to. So is that Jesus they are serving or money. Kind of like an antichrist disguised as the church. Portlands main mission has a huge car lot. People donate BMW's , Corvette's, Cadillacs and other top brand name cars. The mission is supported by donations daily and volunteers unpaid. The money goes right to the evangel men running it. Its so hypocritical. The Lord wants us to be loving and kind but really people shouldn't believe this is the Lords work. The Lord wants us to assist his body the real innocent before God. Those who are truly baptised and have the Lord in him. I mean if Jesus was in someone and we dont help them that is like leaving Jesus out in the cold . Yet if the devil is in someone or evil spirits we shouldnt welcome them to a feast. It does tell us to even feed our enemies in the bible because doing so is like heaving coals of fire on their head . Not because they are so loving and kind and the Lord wants us to share our food with them. Also because God doesnt want life to be the way the damned make it . Fighting against world hunger is so much exploited . Why would Jesus ask his advesaries children for money or ask them for food to help feed the needy. Alot of people are in need because of the devil in them. The real body of christ that is in&amp;nbsp;need is in need because of what the devils children do. Its To group&amp;nbsp;the Lords children with the worlds needy is like yoking believers with unbelievers . Its also like handing jesus over to the sinners and making him&amp;nbsp;eat with the&amp;nbsp;devils&amp;nbsp;children. These people dont thank Jesus they drink and use drugs and go do crime&amp;nbsp;unjuring others.&amp;nbsp;Its like&amp;nbsp;feeding youre persecutors not feeding you're brothers in the Lord. Marching around for everyone to see and saying public prayers like protestant protests and catholic marches seem to be as this scripture warns against. What does it accomplish?. Read the scripture I dont think theres as much being done by supposed religious leaders as meets the eye. If so it would be done in secret. If each church had a few motor homes and trailers for people who are confirmed members who might end up with out a place to stay it probably would suffice for the real brothers and sisters of Jesus. Even a little 15 footer for or pop up tent for a visiter that ended up without a place. There are only so many confirmed people homeless or in need. The catholic church doesnt help people unless they are clergy or latin cultured people. That sucks big time. They also would expect you to eat with tramps in the soup kitchen. They do that to Jesus doing that. Priests freak me out most of the time. Not always but I cant believe how they are is really wise or in any measure as brotherly as Jesus wants us to be. I meet every so often someone here or there who is just not thinking the way others do and is more considerate and simple in their ways. These people usually make little matters out of what priests try and make huge matters out of. Very light and simple not as though its this miraculous task to accomplish simple things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matthew 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giving to the Needy &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prayer &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9"This, then, is how you should pray: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;" 'Our Father in heaven, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hallowed be your name, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10your kingdom come, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your will be done &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on earth as it is in heaven. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11Give us today our daily bread. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12Forgive us our debts, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as we also have forgiven our debtors. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13And lead us not into temptation, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but deliver us from the evil one.[a]' 14For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fasting &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 17But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treasures in Heaven &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do Not Worry &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-7599247636581439647?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/7599247636581439647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/mathew-chapter-6-and-modern-hypocrites.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7599247636581439647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7599247636581439647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/mathew-chapter-6-and-modern-hypocrites.html' title='Mathew chapter 6 and modern hypocrites'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-7285400974542457403</id><published>2010-01-25T03:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T19:49:39.591-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Lord in us/ 22 meditations about the Lord in us. /</title><content type='html'>I wanted to share more thoughts about the Lord being in us. &lt;br /&gt;If you have time think of meditations that coinside with the examples I listed. There is probably an endless amount of meditations to the Lord being in us even in simple teachings as this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. If Jesus christ is in someone would he want to be a slave to anyone who isnt baptised in the spirit of his father. If the master was baptised would Jesus want to be slave to himself. So is Jesus who teaches slavery to a house of this world even the houses of the priests. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Would Jesus want to be paid less than meets his needs if he were in someone and had to suffer because that person isnt being paid enough for thier work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Would Jesus want someone he's in do something another persons way when he is teaching the persons he's in how to do them the way he needs it done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Would Jesus be unharmed if he were in someone and the person he's in was attacked or robbed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Could a person take a hit off a marijuana joint, or crack pipe with Jesus inside and not cause Jesus to suffer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. If Jesus is in someone and a psychologist wants to examine them for thier mind not thinking as the world. Wouldnt that be like a doctor trying to treat another doctors patient. Isnt Jesus a greater physician and if he was in that person treating him would he want the other doctor to administer drugs as a cure that would alter the mind and heart while he is in the patient. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. If Jesus was in someone would he want them to be molested while he's in them or to fornicate with someone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 If Jesus was in someone would he want them to do something gay while he's in their body. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. If Jesus was in someone would he want the person to lose in a war. or to fight a war against someone else hes in. wouldnt that be like Jesus fighting himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10.. If Jesus was in someone would he want anyone to know that persons business or to invade their privacy wouldnt that be like invading Jesus's privacy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. If the Lord is in some man would he marry that same man to a woman full of worldly spirits and the devil. If the Lord was in a woman would he want to be in her while she dresses like a whore or seduces a man. Would he be uneffected by her fornicating with a man she's not married to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. If the Lord was in a man would he want that man to have a woman authority over him.. Was Jesus a woman Is he a woman. wouldnt he want her to be obedient to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. Would Jesus rival against Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14/ Would Jesus compete with Jesus in sports .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. Would Jesus leave himself in need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. Would Jesus try and sell himself something he didnt need or for more than its worth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 Would Jesus lie about himself to himself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 would Jesus sue himself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 would Jesus not help himself if needed help with anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20. would Jesus slander himself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21. If Jesus is in someone would he obey a different master then himself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22. Would Jesus want someone he's in to glory in their flesh if he was in it and suffering that they are not perfect and keep sinning and he still has to teach them his ways until their perfect because he is and is in them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is many more maybe even no end to it. so I hope you get the point and can think about this more now&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-7285400974542457403?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/7285400974542457403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/lord-in-us.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7285400974542457403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7285400974542457403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/lord-in-us.html' title='The Lord in us/ 22 meditations about the Lord in us. /'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-1448184574526171455</id><published>2010-01-25T03:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T03:06:13.951-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Lord is our mirror -Solomons ode 13 / also The Lord is in us.</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I wanted to share a little story about the Lord being our mirror and the reflection of his holiness. I trained in a christian growth program at the age 19. It was an all mens program run by pentecostal. The program was in a rural small town and lasted for 1 year. I had to waive my rights of free speech for the program. The Men in the Program were not allowed to speak about anything other then the program and the bible. They couldnt share stories about their past life to prevent glory stories about partying or street culture. They also couldnt talk to anyone outside of the program accept close family members. It was similar to a monastery but no one was learning to be an authority over the church. Instead it was intense training about being a brother of christ and I think alot humbler than a priesthood would seem to be compared to it. The emphasis not being on some distant God who only teaches through priests. Instead the emphasis was on Jesus Christ our Brother who loves us and has many things to teach us as a friend and loving brother. He teaches us he is an authority like a brother teaching a brother not like a cop or drill seargant. Also not like a cardinal proffessor at some Seminary or a Pope. No priest has the attribute or faculty to be christ in enough measure to teach us who we are to the Father or to Jesus. Only the Holy Spirit can teach us that. We are Gods children and he teaches us individually what he wants us to learn. Even though we are one in the spirit. Didnt David write the Lord trained his hands to war fight. Doesnt the Lord have many teachings for us. Think of the Prophets before Jesus's Birth. Were they priests. Didnt some even not being a priest goto the priests and to Gods people and tell them God was going to punish them for not being faithfull and just pretending to be. Gods word was spoke through several prophets who were not priests. Did the apostle Paul really speak as a priest or did he speak more as a brother. Did his duties really seem to be the same as a priest or bishops are by tradition. Only a bishop or priest trained by the Lord in the spirit could do as Paul they couldnt really learn it from seminary. He had to interact to much with unbelievers and a normal bishop wouldnt be recieved such as he was without actual training from Jesus to be as humble and to have attributes great enough to accomplish such as Paul. Most priests are kind of nerdy, boring, or so focused on the authority of the church they have not a humble enough heart or personality with attributes that are appealing to humanity in the way that brings honor to God. They are not as wise as seminary may make it seem from their proffesional classroom training. The Holy Spirits training is about life in the spirit not life in the priest. Also not about the life of the priest its about the life God gives everyone who believes not just the priesthood. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Here's the story now that I kind of got you focused on what I was learning. I would wake up each day and look at myself in the mirror to get ready for the day. I was so deeply focused on the Lord when I looked at myself in the mirror I would see Jesus looking back at me in my own eyes. I could see his face in my face. I could feel his hands in my hands and his feet in my feet. When I walked I didnt think about my own strength in my legs I thought about the Lords strength his legs in my legs. When I spoke I would hear his voice in my own voice. When thought of my hair hos hair was what I thought of. The Lord was in me and teaching me he was in me. When I smiled it was like Jesus smiling in me. He was becoming my best friend and teaching me He was who I could trust. Not like some priest but like my real brother living in me. Teaching me to be like him so I could live a peacefull happy life. Not teaching me about latin or about greek. He was training me like a brother training his brother to serve his Father so I could live in his house as his brother not to live in the vatican but to live somewhere not made by human hands greater than the vatican. So the vatican wasnt on my mind. When I looked at some of the other students in the program I could see Jesus in their eyes and in their face and discern that Jesus was teaching them also to be a brother to he. Even as some of them spoke I would hear Jesus in their voice such as he was in mine. It is something not of this world and you dont experience anything like it attending mass. Not any protestant or pentecostal church is anything like it either. I have attended several churchs of various denominations and nothing was like this. I was actually learning that Jesus is in me and not just a priest but my best friend and the only person I could trully trust and the only reason I could trust anyone else also that he was beyond what cool is and beyond what mighty is. He is the master in a friendly way and cares about even the little things like stubbing our toes. How well we comb our hair. When we bump our leg on a chair he cares. The way we walk he cares. The way we eat he cares about. The way we speak he cares about. The way we fight and the way we work. He is in us. So reflect his Holiness his way by believing he is in you all the way a brother and all the way there to teach you and guide. The holy spirit really is Jesus you just may not understand it is really he in you. HIs legs , His arms, His eyes, His hands are all in youre legs,eyes,face,hands,feet ect. He will teach to be his brother and sister. Also I might ad that the Lord has more advesary then the military has of any nation. Greater advesary. So his teachings are like a brother teaching a brother or sister&amp;nbsp;to war against the advesary . The training of Jesus Christ is more secretive then the CIA or NSA. Who we are to God is not even possible for the Priests to understand enough. How important we are to Jesus is more important than any priest will ever know or care. Think of it this way if you were actually in someone as Jesus is in his people. Would you want someone to be hurt or to do something wrong or a different way than you do it. Would you want someone to know youre secrets you told someone you were inside of. Jesus is close to us that way that when our hands are weak his hands are in ours and suffers with us. When we lack faith he is in us and suffers us that he has faith and is in us. When we cant quite&amp;nbsp; understand some earthly thing he does and suffers us that he is in us. Not as a demon but as our creator, as our brother and as our teacher, as our guide, as the source of all our attribute and the master of our heart. If youre heart was in someones would you grieve when they grieve and rejoice when they rejoice. So believe Jesus wants only the best for you . Wouldnt you if you were in someone.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-1448184574526171455?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/1448184574526171455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/lord-is-our-mirror-solomons-ode-13-also.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/1448184574526171455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/1448184574526171455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/lord-is-our-mirror-solomons-ode-13-also.html' title='The Lord is our mirror -Solomons ode 13 / also The Lord is in us.'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-3820796787896785145</id><published>2010-01-22T20:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T20:27:28.723-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A few words about modern consumerism</title><content type='html'>A few words about modern america and consumerism &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In modern day since the 1980's over 100million people have moved to this country . There is such a large increase in population of people who's families where not formally established as pioneers or traditional american heritage. These families set off a culture frenzy on a large scale. They had no traditional values of american identity or loyalty. The development of american culture and its many years of pioneering and development was being trampled. It really would of been a very good thing had the wealthy merchants and money loving people not wanting to work for their money didnt get in the way. The new mass market of new comers brought on consumerism as a source of riches for the few and rip offs and misery for the many. The increased populations of the cities of immigrants should of increased jobs for the small town american pioneer heritage. In most smaller cities should of been manufacurers reaping profits from the new increase in demand for hardware supplies and other commodities. Yet instead it was easier for the retail merchants to buy chinese products and enslave people in other countries for little or no wage. So they began to rip off america and send it to the pit. The blatant denials of the nations real needs and security to hide the truth about american people who werent the new population but the original heritage. they did all they could to turn the nation against itself. To sell it to other countries and lead people into a cultural consumerism that weakened all ends of mans work. The agriculture still is a primary and ultimate need of the people . Yet every city should of been a new market for new hardware products of this country not china. Today if a quick development of new hardware products and manufacturers was established within the next few years we would see a shocking turn around in our country. Not only is it simple because of modern autocad computer programs but it was simple years ago. the process is very easy for those who have resources and instead they blattantly after education joined the forces of the merchants and rip off artists not wanting to work for a living&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-3820796787896785145?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/3820796787896785145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/few-words-about-modern-consumerism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3820796787896785145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3820796787896785145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/few-words-about-modern-consumerism.html' title='A few words about modern consumerism'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-7718100812754253313</id><published>2010-01-22T20:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T20:26:09.036-08:00</updated><title type='text'>america and contradictions to modern consumerism</title><content type='html'>The nations work and modern contradictions &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my attempt to share a little common sense and critical reasoning about living,working,and being a citizen of this country. America was one of the last societies of this world to be established. There was just raw land occupied only by indian people who lived uncivilised in accordance to the knowledge of the rest of the world. There was no society in comparison to the roman,greek,jewish,asian,european,and middle eastern standards. The face of america was nothing but vast fruited plains and large unharvested timbers. with mountains and rivers full of minerals and metals. The new world was discovered and each person settling in america had to understand the raw needs of thier own body and thier families. The work of man and the knowledge and wisdom american had to understand from the raw about living in their untamed country. They couldnt goto burger king and apply for a job. or do online marketing, door to door sales, or telemarketing. The original pioneers needed water,food,and shelter. The understanding about thier liberty came from the bible and thier own reasoning about thier pioneer work. The grace of life was in its raw state as a nation. The ten commandment though shall not steal was in effect. Even to God whatever each person owned was their own property. The land was theirs to God. Though Indians would argue it was all thiers. The fact is they had not established any authority that resembled christs. They did not honor the roman church or even have any communion according to the doctrine of the gospel which was given to us by the apostles. So laying aside the indians nation. The nation of america being built was owned by the peoples of that nation to God for any other nation to try and take it away it would be a transgression or tresspass right to defend. The rights of the peoples inheritely was the gospels truth about our freedom and life in the spirit as heirs to christ and his throne. No contradictions could exist in the governing rights written to the rights of our citizenship to heaven. The raw of rights and rem were in effect. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They drilled wells for water and tilled the land. The water ways of nature became water ways for the living springs of wealth and prosperity. The shape of a nation was taking form. Each mans work was essential to the survival of the nation. At such a young age the strength of the nation depended upon the work of its hands. there was no inventions. The banks were still just paper. There was no machines to help them. The Life people lived was woven into the fabrics of history. The liberty they fought for had not been hidden under the dark clouds of consumerism such as today. They didnt have mortgage debts and credit cards the same as today. They didnt have to worry about china importing their products. They just were given land from the government to build a house on out of timber they harvested themselves and tilled the land for produce. The cities were developing and their was a new understanding underway. Some men could understand their own work so well they invented inventions that aided other mens work and womans work. They designed a nation from a free society with an easy to understand freedom that had to do with the nation they built from thier own hands. The modernist and consumerism took that away from us today. The population increase since the 80's took the foundations of the real nation and created a dark cloud of oppression over the sunny skies of freedom. Our independance as a nation was the real independance of the work and identity of our pioneer fore fathers. Each generation of american inherited that identity and independance from the fore fathers. With exception of those who new not their fathers or their mothers. Yet it was not a make believe liberty each individuals. So therefor not a make believe liberty the whole nations. Which gave freedom to even the most unfortunate. Freedom to make a name for themselves and to build upon the same foundations as the pioneers. The development of the nation was as life is real an absolute reality. Of course their was false concepts and principles and as the world goes the fabrics woven were of the similar patterns of Roman,Greek,Jews,and the european fabrics just sown with a bit different material and with different thread. So for the monarchs to try and own america was becoming like trying to take a garment that belonged to another away from that rightfull owner. Like trying to take the shirt off someones back. It was no longer just forests and plains. It was the work of many peoples hands who fought for their own freedom. A fabric woven in a similar pattern as other societies but not with the same materials or thread and not by the same seamstress our lady liberty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For them to try and take dominion it was as a stranger taking office in the building someone else built for themselves. When each generation had inherited that building from their forefathers then it became as someone trying to place themself in an office that was owned by the ospring of the original builders. Like stealing an inheritance. Not only in the higher offices is it like stealing rent, its also like a stranger collecting rent from the building owned by the original builders ospring. That is what it is like today. Strangers from different lands have placed people in offices that were built for and by the forefathers of many american. Like stealing rent away from the building owner. they cheat us of our taxes and use it for their own private secret societies. There was never complete loyalty in america. the first founders of our nation were freemasons. The freemasons themselves were not the majority of people who actually built america with their own hands and killed to defend it with their own hands. The modern new americans have been like a stranger for many years now. The dilemma is this same thing. When their majority vote is placing people in office it is like a stranger making an office in someones building they inherited from their forefather. In some measure it is almost like stealing someones residence away and trying to make them strangers in their own house. The modern wars ofcourse are in defense of our country but how does it make a new country when the original one is the one the people who inherited it own. Consumerism is to place people indebted to make believe Lords of money. They marketed a nations rights. They couldnt really possibly have owned everyones rights. So by using property titles and decietfull mortgages they made an attempt to take the rights away for their profit. Now the real needs of each person are lied about. The actual work people need to do is not much different then the forefathers of this country. They need to make ways for them to have shelter ,water , and food and defend their freedom. The newcomers could of submitted and surrendered to the real fight for freedom and instead joined up and followed along with the strangers of other lands and other houses that lute america's true resources of life and liberty and happiness&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-7718100812754253313?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/7718100812754253313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/america-and-contradictions-to-modern.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7718100812754253313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/7718100812754253313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/america-and-contradictions-to-modern.html' title='america and contradictions to modern consumerism'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-925673660416393942</id><published>2010-01-21T19:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-21T20:04:54.578-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The apocolypse of peter/ apocrapha text/ fragments regarding aborted babies</title><content type='html'>In the Apocalypse of Peter it tells us in the&amp;nbsp;Fragments&amp;nbsp;\that there is a special place for babies who die at birth. It tells us also here that there is a special punishment for those men who acted like woman. I would wonder also woman who act as men. From the fragments we get that aborted babies possibly are referred to here. It doesnt state abortion but a baby born dead premature in its birth is what an aborted baby is. This tells us these children have souls. It is the murder of a life to abort a baby. There is even a special place for these babies born from adultery. I would like to believe that also these even born from rapes and other unholy sins and offenses would also be justly rewarded some place in life eternal since they did not even have a chance to live and serve God while living on earth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE APOCALYPSE OF PETER &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 . . . . many of them will be false prophets, and will teach divers ways and doctrines of perdition: but these will become sons of perdition. 3. And then God will come unto my faithful ones who hunger and thirst and are afflicted and purify their souls in this life; and he will judge the sons of lawlessness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. And furthermore the Lord said: Let us go into the mountain: Let us pray.. And going with him, we, the twelve disciples, begged that he would show us one of our brethren, the righteous who are gone forth out of the world, in order that we might see of what manner of form they are, and having taken courage, might also encourage the men who hear us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. And as we prayed, suddenly there appeared two men standing before the Lord towards the East, on whom we were not able to look; 7, for there came forth from their countenance a ray as of the sun, and their raiment was shining, such as eye of man never saw; for no mouth is able to express or heart to conceive the glory with which they were endued, and the beauty of their appearance. 8. And as we looked upon them, we were astounded; for their bodies were whiter than any snow and ruddier than any rose; 9, and the red thereof was mingled with the white, and I am utterly unable to express their beauty; 10, for their hair was curly and bright and seemly both on their face and shoulders, as it were a wreath woven of spikenard and divers-coloured flowers, or like a rainbow in the sky, such was their seemliness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Seeing therefore their beauty we became astounded at them, since they appeared suddenly. 12. And I approached the Lord and said: Who are these? 13. He saith to me: These are your brethren the righteous, whose forms ye desired to see. 14. And I said to him: And where are all the righteous ones and what is the aeon in which they are and have this glory? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. And the Lord showed me a very great country outside of this world, exceeding bright with light, and the air there lighted with the rays of the sun, and the earth itself blooming with unfading flowers and full of spices and plants, fair-flowering and incorruptible and bearing blessed fruit. 16. And so great was the perfume that it was borne thence even unto us. 17. And the dwellers in that place were clad in the raiment of shining angels and their raiment was like unto their country; and angels hovered about them there. 18. And the glory of the dwellers there was equal, and with one voice they sang praises alternately to the Lord God, rejoicing in that place. 19. The Lord saith to us: This is the place of your high-priests, the righteous men. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20. And over against that place I saw another, squalid, and it was the place of punishment; and those who were punished there and the punishing angels had their raiment dark like the air of the place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21. And there were certain there hanging by the tongue: and these were the blasphemers of the way of righteousness; and under them lay fire, burning and punishing them. 22. And there was a great lake, full of flaming mire, in which were certain men that pervert righteousness, and tormenting angels afflicted them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23. And there were also others, women, hanged by their hair over that mire that bubbled up: and these were they who adorned themselves for adultery; and the men who mingled with them in the defilement of adultery, were hanging by the feet and their heads in that mire. And I said: I did not believe that I should come into this place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24. And I saw the murderers and those who conspired with them, cast into a certain strait place, full of evil snakes, and smitten by those beasts, and thus turning to and fro in that punishment; and worms, as it were clouds of darkness, afflicted them. And the souls of the murdered stood and looked upon the punishment of those murderers and said: O God, thy judgment is just. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25. And near that place I saw another strait place into which the gore and the filth of those who were being punished ran down and became there as it were a lake: and there sat women having the gore up to their necks, and over against them sat many children who were born to them out of due time, crying; and there came forth from them sparks of fire and smote the women in the eyes: and these were the accursed who conceived and caused abortion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26. And other men and women were burning up to the middle and were cast into a dark place and were beaten by evil spirits, and their inwards were eaten by restless worms: and these were they who persecuted the righteous and delivered them up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27. And near those there were again women and men gnawing their own lips, and being punished and receiving a red-hot iron in their eyes: and these were they who blasphemed and slandered the way of righteousness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28. And over against these again other men and women gnawing their tongues and having flaming fire in their mouths: and these were the false witnesses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29. And in a certain other place there were pebbles sharper than swords or any spit, red-hot, and women and men in tattered and filthy raiment rolled about on them in punishment: and these were the rich who trusted in their riches and had no pity for orphans and widows, and despised the commandment of God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30. And in another great lake, full of pitch and blood and mire bubbling up, there stood men and women up to their knees: and these were the usurers and those who take interest on interest. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31. And other men and women were being hurled down from a great cliff and reached the bottom, and again were driven by those who were set over them to climb up upon the cliff, and thence were hurled down again, and had no rest from this punishment: and these were they who defiled their bodies acting as women; and the women who were with them were those who lay with one another as a man with a woman. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32. And alongside of that cliff there was a place full of much fire, and there stood men who with their own hands had made for themselves carven images instead of God. And alongside of these were other men and women, having rods and striking each other and never ceasing from such punishment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33. And others again near them, women and men, burning and turning themselves and roasting: and these were they that leaving the way of God &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FRAGMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE OF PETER. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS, Eclog. 48. For instance, Peter in the Apocalypse says that the children who are born out of due time shall be of the better part: and that these are delivered over to a care-taking angel that they may attain a share of knowledge and gain the better abode [after suffering what they would have suffered if they had been in the body: but the others shall merely obtain salvation as injured beings to whom mercy is shown, and remain without punishment, receiving this as a reward].* &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. CLEM. ALEX. Eclog. 49. But the milk of the women running down from their breasts and congealing shall engender small flesh eating beasts: and these run up upon them and devour them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. MACARIUS MAGNES, Apocritica iv., 6 cf. 16. The earth, it (sc. the Apoc. of Peter) says, "shall present all men before God at the day of judgment, being itself also to be judged, with the heaven also which encompasses it." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. CLEM. ALEX. Eclog. 41. The scripture says that infants that have been exposed are delivered to a care-taking angel, by whom they are educated and so grow up, and they will be, it says, as the faithful of a hundred years old are here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. METHODIUS, Conviv. ii., 6. Whence also we have received in divinely-inspired scriptures that untimely births are delivered to care-taking angels, even if they are the offspring of adultery.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-925673660416393942?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/925673660416393942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/925673660416393942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/925673660416393942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html' title='The apocolypse of peter/ apocrapha text/ fragments regarding aborted babies'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-5353575159558078450</id><published>2010-01-08T13:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T14:07:52.123-08:00</updated><title type='text'>'A few words on Peter and the Papacy</title><content type='html'>I was not raised a catholic. As a child I attended church with neighbor kids each sunday. My first catholic communion was at age 8 or 9 I am not even certain the exact age. My neighbor who was a catholic invited me to church. He told me how to put my finger in the holy water and make a sign of the cross as we walked in to the cathedral. He explained the service to me as we recited the apostles creed I remember being just a fraction of a second off repeating what others say around me. When communion time came he told me to just walk up to the priest and stick my tongue out and say Amen when he stuck the eucharist in my mouth. I was in the spirit the whole service . It wasnt the first time I had been in the spirit that I recall but it was the first time I had ever experienced the Lord in the manner which he gave me confidence and assurance that day that I was his child and known by him. It was all so quick and mysterious the moment I put my finger in the holy water at the door and made the cross sign I was embraced by God and in the spirit the rest of the service. I felt this overwhelming cleansing sensation in my heart and mind and a tremendous emotional cleansing and strengthened. My worries just vanished and I couldnt even really fathom how I could even understand the service. I had always attended nazerene services or church of God sunday schools. Yet never had God seemed so close and it was the first time I really understood it was the Lord who strengthens me and cleanses my heart. I contined on in my life discontinuing to fellowship with protestant or attend sunday schools. I kept a st jude pendant and made the cross sign in silent prayer for several years but never&amp;nbsp;even worded prayer . I was mindfull of the Lord and new I was to serve him but didnt have a catholic family and did not want to be protestant. At age 22 I finally converted.&amp;nbsp; I was told by the priest that he believed I already believe in Jesus and that I only needed to be confirmed catholic. So I only had to attend a few catachism classes . I read the catachism book after i was confirmed. I read it twice through. I actually was carrying it around as I travelled it got so burdensome because it was a heavy book to carry. I put it in the hotel room drawer and switched it with the gideons bible they had. The gideons was a lot lighter. I then replaced that with a catholic bible. I never had thought much of the Pope or papacy. I wasnt taught much more than the worship songs and the basic teachings of the church about tything and other simple teachings about being a member of a parish. When I left the parish It was almost like desolation in the cities. The once warm small town communion in a beautifull parish become a cold and desolate city with strange people in a huge cathedral full of people I did not know and lived in a large evil urban society.&amp;nbsp; The Lord began to teach me how great he are so I was not discouraged just not as settled and comfortable. I still had no real teachings about the papacy. My understanding about the church came straight from the bible and from whatever God taught me in the spirit. Each day the protestant church was less and less to me. I felt home free in that regards. I could not imagine wanting to be a protestant. Yet I missed the small community communion not having to think of the Pope or this Great empire of cathedrals. A few years ago I saw a hawaiin gardens for sale near hollywood california. It was selling for 800,000 dollars. I was fascinated by this garden being for sale. I thought wow I could actually buy a hawaiin garden. People dream alot in hollywood but I felt like this garden was just about within my reach . Almost like reaching out my hand to grab it but it was just a fingertip away. I got this idea to start a worship garden. Hollywood being such a tourist area I was certain it would be a full time ministry I could do to serve the Lord. I planned and planned. I racked my brains on fund raising and investors. I ran into this small details. I hadnt been ordained and didnt know any of the local clergy. Thats when I started to question the authority of the Papacy. Not its authority over doctrine but over what we could as ministry and having to be taught in a seminary or wait for an approval of someone not God. I planned and planned. I read the bible all the way through the next year and my thoughts were changing. I could no longer think of only a worship Garden my thoughts were consumed with the whole gospel and I began to hate the city. I realised I could no longer be a hustler in the city or an undercover detective bumbling around in the evils of society. I needed to live more carefull and so I started looking at land for sale in Oregon to set up an organic farm. I recently applied for admissions to get a degree in flight technology. My grandfather owned a small airport and one small airplane . He was a flight instructor. He had medical problems and couldnt fly anymore by the time I was born. I lived on an airforce base for 2 1/2 years and started to look into flying. It was expensive so I was discouraged. Recently it dawned on me&amp;nbsp;I could get grants and loans and get a degree . Living on a sustainable homestead and flying for living became the perfect solution to culture. Yet the ministry I had planned was seeming less to me. I decided to study more about the papacy and spent many hours thinking about it. I reasoned this that I would share. Rome in those times was a free society. The book of macabees tells us a bit about the wars of Rome and Greece against Gods people before christ.&amp;nbsp; Paul and Peter were Roman citizens but born jews. In order for the gospel to be spread the apostle Paul needed to be free that is why God chose him along with the fact that he was fullfilling the prophecy of Benjamin. The church needed to be headed in Rome because of political reasons . Peter being a Roman citizen could freely organize the church and maintain a free citizenship. Peter had actually denied christ three times and was rebuked by Paul for living like a jew. He wasnt the Rock christ is. However The authority of the church is different then the world. It is to edify and uplift not Lord dominion and dictate. So to build up Peter's confidence and uplift the Lord made him a rock to build upon. Our strength is our weakness's. Peter's weakness was his loyalty and his confidence in his conversion. Rome such a harlot it is condemned in the bible. So to establish authority in Rome and head operations there where the harlot lived was like dropping a bomb on the harlotry of Rome. The highest office of the Holy Church was built right in the same place as the highest office of whoredoms. The spiritual battle had begun. Yet as the church was evangelizing Rome was enslaving&amp;nbsp;nations and establishing its evil authority. The Lord new what was to come. One after another because of his holy church&amp;nbsp;the Roman&amp;nbsp;Empire was defeated by the nations it had conquered. New free societies were established of which the church had complete dominion. Unlike Rome&amp;nbsp;where the whoredoms still rocked the world. The papacy began to be different to society. Where once no societies existed there were great nations of free societies. Finally a world war rocked the world. The final outcome was still greater freedom and actuall alliance against&amp;nbsp;The once great Rome and any other oppressor. The Papacy become the only authority left. Its unholy neighbor was dethroned and the Roman principality&amp;nbsp;was changed. Still in secret corridors the evils of the roman cultures had&amp;nbsp;grafted its design in many cultures and the whoredoms of rome thrive today as their original&amp;nbsp;fashioner had designed.&amp;nbsp;Today The church of Rome seems&amp;nbsp;like a great empirical threat to freedom where at one time it was the assurance of it. The many free societies some very great in power make it seem not as thesable that there was such a holy office&amp;nbsp;that resided over us all. Yet with out a doubt it was the Lords will to serve as a strength to our faith not a weakness. How much weaker would it have been to establish the office in a third world country. There wasnt much of a europe back then and I am sure the vikings would&amp;nbsp;of had a hay day.&amp;nbsp;I do have other thoughts about it I will not share at this time because they are my own secrets. But definately it is a security to us however in modern&amp;nbsp;times there needs to be an assurance that the protestant evils and the plots of the wealthy and rivaling nations will not hinder the furtherance of the gospel or&amp;nbsp;give place to the anti christ and&amp;nbsp;his followers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-5353575159558078450?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/5353575159558078450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/few-words-on-peter-and-papacy.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5353575159558078450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5353575159558078450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/few-words-on-peter-and-papacy.html' title='&apos;A few words on Peter and the Papacy'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-5683852107054840261</id><published>2010-01-07T17:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T17:15:15.401-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Jewish evangelism</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;All&amp;nbsp;around&amp;nbsp; the world&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; is&amp;nbsp; Jewish&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; followers&amp;nbsp; who&amp;nbsp; were&amp;nbsp; never&amp;nbsp; decendants of the tribes of israel.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When Christ died and rose again he dissolved the old covenant the Jews had with our God. Their denial of christ while he was here on earth and after he ascended brought Gods wrath and indignation upon them. They didnt understand what they were really doing was disobeying God by disobeying his son and even to the point of murdering him on the cross. When Rome decided to destroy israel God did not help Israel as he had in the past. You can read in Macabees the several on going battles and wars Israel had with Rome and Greece. The many persecutions the Jews suffered. Now the hebrew Roman Paul and Peter were free citizens of Rome and they were building the church which was not Jewish to the Romans. The Romans set many Jews into exile and yet many Romans were converting to christ. The gospels truth was being spread across the civilized world and even savages living in the wilderness were becoming Gods children.&amp;nbsp; The Jews were doing everything they could to disprove Jesus Christ was the messiah. They were devising doctrines and starting new cult religions disguised as christs faith.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They even did as much as evangelize thier own jewish faith to decieve the many elect or masses. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; This Jewish evangelism seems to me to be to lead people away from christianity making it seem like the christians are only jews who believe in a messiah that hasnt come yet. The christian faith we believe in welcomes all and the Jews were not as well recieved by the world they were now scattered abroad and had to adapt to. They resorted to welcoming others to their faith and even evangelizing to some degree to please the masses and prove they are teaching no less of covenant with our Lord. The many years has never really given Jewish religion an innocent cause just a greater disguise to the world.&amp;nbsp; In modern times the Jews along with many cults started by Jews and groups such as freemasons and other secular advesary have devised every means to lead people away from the Gospels truth and the true salvation of the covenant with our Lord.&amp;nbsp; To make it appear like the church is just as jews believed in the same times as christ. Many jews exist today and yet so few are really the decendants of the tribes of Israel. There was no covenant the remaining tribes of israel had after christ dissolved the old and brought new life to all those who would believe&amp;nbsp; he is the truth, the life , and the way. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The deception&amp;nbsp;of the secular jews of today is this. The Lord Jesus Christ came to fulfill the prophecies of jewish prophets. Each one of the 12 patriarchs and their decendants were Gods people . They were the Holy children of God. The power of God protected them and preserved them . When christ came those Patriarchs were divine leaders of Gods kingdom. They received a Blessing that God reserved for only his faithfull servants. We can receive the same blessing by recieving those prophets as much as we do the gospels truth. Not making us jews like modern jews but Gods Holy children such as the family of God is in the spirit. We are baptised into the same faith as elijah and Abraham not as his decendants but as a greater Blessing then being the carnal decendants of flesh even flesh that had been of the blood of Abraham . We are born of the blood of christ . The same spirit that concieved Jesus in mary's womb has given us a birth&amp;nbsp;atoned by christ himself. Not AAron not Melchizedek, not the Levites but the Son of God. Jews converting people and teaching them it is possible to know God and not believe in Jesus teach their is another birth other than christ that a man can be Known by God. It's not even the catholic priests or Pope that a man can know God. Its Jesus Christ. However there is mysteries to his faith that include the Pope and priests. As for instance the keys to the kingdom of heaven and confession. Definately because of Jesus Christs covenant we have a greater mediator than a priest of this world and it is that Jesus mediates that the church fathers do bless us with confessional services. There are many mysteries to Christs faith. The gospels are only a few words to explain what is most important to understand. The kingdom of heaven is more than just a spate of human words can describe or educate about. Life in the spirit is very Great to live. The moment of our life here barely will reflect the many moments of eternity and many blessings bestowed upon us for having faith in Jesus Christ our Lord. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The many blessings of Gods kingdom though are not for the jews who do not believe in Jesus. Even though the jewish religion is studying doctrine about our God. They have no way for those words to be taught them by the Holy Spirit that it would really be written in their hearts. Their many prayers have no high priest to intercede for them. Their many ceremonies have no high priest to anoint and bless. They have not the kingdom of heaven in them. That is yet another deception. By teaching thier jewish religion to gentiles they teach there is a way for a person to be a citizen of Gods kingdom without having confessed thier faith in Jesus Christ. So much of modern times reflects the falsehoods of&amp;nbsp; these heretic and hypocrite who are really civilian to heaven and not heavens saints or soldiers. We as the church are not civilian to the Kingdom of heaven we are all one in the spiritual wars. We all have an anointing from God to be his free children. We are his servants the jews are not nor is the world. Such as a soldier is not civilian to its governement we are not civilian to God. Yet no government is Gods kingdom nor any nation. So the army, navy , airforce , marines, coastguard these are not organizations that give grace to become Gods servant. Only faith in Jesus Christ can bring reward of the keys of Gods kingdom. God will tell many to go away saying "Go away I never knew you". Yet they claimed to be serving the Lord and to do things in his name. One of the ways these kinds of people are decieved is that there is a way to serve God other than having faith in Jesus Christ.&amp;nbsp; Not one charity , not one government job, not anything man does serves the Lord unless that person did it by faith in Jesus Christ. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Much like a kingdom of medieval and even some modern kingdoms there are servants to the king or kings. The kings servants are his court and the rest of the people are civilians. The blood line of the kings and their courts are nobile blood lines that inherit the kingdom. The civilians do not inherit it and are only civilians outside of the castles that have dominion over the rest of the kingdom. The jews were under a covenant were they were Gods people by inherited blood lines. The blood of those chosen who had faith in God and sins of their blood atoned. The atonement of thier bloodlines was not an eternal atonement and their&amp;nbsp;inherited covenant past away. The blood of christ made atonement eternally and the body and blood of christ is how we inherited the kingdom of heaven. Much like a kings decendants born of his blood inherit his kingdom. The blood of christ is how we become Gods children. He intercedes to the father and his atonement for sins cleanses us from the unrighteous bloodline. However there is no cure all for the sins of the flesh. Our children do not inherit christs kingdom because we have faith. They also must have faith and be born of christ blood himself not ours. So we to can recieve crowns of life for enduring and living righteous lifes. There is not one king on earth who's blood can atone the sins of his people or his children. Not one king who's kingdom is the kingdom of heaven or who has authority to grant pardons for sin the same as christ did for us. The king Bishops of medieval times would of had some kind of interceding power to forgive confessors yet only because of the Blood of christ not the blood of the king Bishop. A catholic is not born a catholic just because his or her parents are catholic. We are all concieved in sin no one is better that way. So its not the flesh of a catholic that they are citizens to heaven its only thier spirit. The life of thier blood is not eternal the life of thier spirit is. So their bloodlines will not be eternally begotton unless they to are born of the body and blood of christ. There is no nobile blood to the Lord who created all life accept his blood. There is no bloodline not even David's bloodline will inherit Gods kingdom accept that they are born of the body and blood of JESUS CHRIST. No kings cause no rulers cause, no rich mans cause is righteous or nobile accept christs cause. Not one is better because of their blood then anyone who confesses christ. All things were created through christ his dominion is allmighty and powerfull. The transgressions of even the nobilist of bloodlines are like filthy rags to the pure blood of christ. Not even the levites bloodlines can atone sin not even the highest of the kingdoms of jews can be citizens to heaven accept that they confess the Lord Jesus Christ . Yet that makes them no better than any human because the gospel of the Lord is his truth that the redemption of all mankind is not about a kingdom here on earth such as jews would establish or even any established by catholic or christian. It is&amp;nbsp;about niethers bloodlines it is about those who&amp;nbsp;the blood of christ has given eternal life to and atoned forever. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-5683852107054840261?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/5683852107054840261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/jewish-evangelism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5683852107054840261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/5683852107054840261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/jewish-evangelism.html' title='Jewish evangelism'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-6363784311299237280</id><published>2010-01-06T12:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T12:46:33.675-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Turn the other cheek</title><content type='html'>I wanted to share a few words about the scirpture that tells us to turn the other cheek. I know most people&amp;nbsp; wether they believe in Jesus or not have heard this scripture.&amp;nbsp; Often when regarding our own defense against someones attack or persecution we refer to this scripture. Even regarding national security some people will bring up this scripture.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Here is my understanding of this scripture. The act of striking someone on the cheek is more of an insulting blow than a damaging one. It damages the ego more than the body. So turning the other cheek does not endanger you're life or subject you necessarily to bodily injury you cannot endure. However an actual blow to the face could render serious injury. Jesus is not disregarding our security with this scripture nor telling us to not fight our persecutors when they render serious threats of bodily injury. Just to not use violence to stop an insulting blow. Now of days a good self defense class can teach someone to see a strike on the cheek coming before it happens and teach a way to slap the hand away before it strikes or step aside or backwards to avoid it. So those skills are handy. We are instructed by this scripture to be tolerant and very forgiving not to be quick to quarrel and use violence just to defend our pride or dignity. However any&amp;nbsp; real blow or threat it doesnt tell us to not defend ourselves against. Because of Jesus the mighty were to humble themselves to the weak. The rich to the poor. The wise to fools. Not every one has might. Might isnt much of an equal measure in each human. The Lord has a great Love for everyone and his Power is beyond what a fist can form. How tolerant we are of insults and blows against our pride and dignity reflects his Great cause and shows our trust in his Power to deliver us from any evil. The Lords ways are mysterious. However when it comes to defending our lives and loved ones or our nation the Lord is mighty and will train us himself to war and to fight as his people. Like David's Psalms tell us of God training him to war and fight.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-6363784311299237280?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/6363784311299237280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/turn-other-cheek.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/6363784311299237280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/6363784311299237280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/turn-other-cheek.html' title='Turn the other cheek'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-3086118757938391038</id><published>2010-01-05T03:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T03:30:17.975-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Love of money / beauty of woman</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In the testament of the 12 patriarchs it is written in the testament of Judah that the Love of money and the beauty of woman were the two evils Judah predicted would destroy his race. They are the two greatest evils according to Judah. King David was born of the tribe of Judah. I am not going to mark out the historical events of the bible confirming this prophecy but it is the words of a prophet who's decendants were the Great Kings of the Lord not excluding Jesus Christ himself. Was it the love of money and the beauty of woman that the jews really crucified Jesus?. His temple was destroyed such as judah prophesied his race would be destroyed however Jesus came to fulfill his prophecy along with all of the prophets prophecies. We know that it was the beauty of woman that even the angels fell and were jealous. We know this from the book of Enoch.&amp;nbsp;King Solomon of the tribe of Judah fell&amp;nbsp;because of the beauty of woman seducing his heart away from the Lord. He was of Judah's race.&amp;nbsp; Jesus came to set us all free from these evils. The love of money&amp;nbsp;and the beauty of woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In fact not just Judah's race but all races of humanity suffer the destruction the Love of money and beauty of woman can cause. Germany's love of money and power caused them to follow Hitler. The &amp;nbsp;Love of money is what most of modern culture is about and the beauty of woman. every t.v. channel ,every magazine, every radio station. The war in the middle east today isnt it about the love of money and the beauty of woman. Wasn't Bin Laden a dope dealer millionaire who dealt heroin and had many wives?. Wasn't the Bush family a wealthy family who loved money who had greedy intentions while warring against a different society. The middle eastern cultures are being destroyed because of the Love of Money and the Beauty of Woman. Think of all the Arabs and their harams and oil fields. Who do they destroy because of their love for money and the beauty of woman?. In all the nations the work of every man is handed over to the Love of Money and the beauty of woman in the end. Thus destroying the good work of men. Crippling economies for the greed of a few men and woman. Every thing made is labeled and the Love of Money and Beauty of Woman are what profits. The beauty of woman lures the masses into paying high mark up prices for each product of the under paid and over worked men and woman who work hard each day. There is no family structure now because the culture is so corporate that family has no place. There is a market for molestation and porn is the number one entertainment industry. Each movie on t.v. has something to do with the Love of money and the beauty of woman. The musicians are lauded as the use the Love of money and the beauty of woman to entertain and seduce the masses into following them to destruction. Rock and rollers even sing about destruction and the beauty of woman and are rich from it. The two great evils spoke of by Judah are alive today as he said the two greatest evils. We are in an eviler time were those two evils are even greater and consume our thoughts as we are bombarded in the markets and encompassed by the minions of their evil pursuits. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Our fore fathers of America were not immune to these evils. Thomas Jefferson had 23 illigitimate children. definately not a heroic example of the gospels glory. His love for money along with men like George Washington and other early plantation owners are why our country was given over to slavery . The president John Kennedy was another example of the Love of money and beauty of woman. His parading around showing off to woman like Marilyn Monroe and whoever else might admire him is why he was not where he was supposed to be and unprotected for just long enought to be shot. The whole kennedy families legacy was full of evils from the Love of Money and beauty of woman . Including a modern affair with MaDonna the known seductress.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Bill Clinton was another president who had a falling out because of the beauty of woman and he was a leader of an era full of the Love of money. The African American race is suffering greatly because of the Love of Money and Beauty of Woman. The U.S. is overwhelmed by gangs killing each other over money and prostitution. The hip hop gangsters sing of their Love for money and prostitutes while the nation turns into a hip hop rivalry of moral destrution. The youth are killing each other over it. The fancy cars and prostitutes of the pimps. This renders the minority into complete ruin and smeared by their own race so they can Glory in the money their greedy lust.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Diseases rock the world from fornication and the forests of africa where destroyed. There is not one race uneffected by these evils. Here is the scripture from the testament of Judah which I was reffering to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Testament of Judah------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHAP. III.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He counsels against wine and lust as twin evils. "For he who is drunken reverenceth no man." (Verse 13).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND now I command you, my children, hearken to Judah your father, and keep my sayings to perform all the ordinances of the Lord, and to obey the commands of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 And walk not after your lusts, nor in the imaginations of your thoughts in haughtiness of heart; and glory not in the deeds and strength of your youth, for this also is evil in the eyes of the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Since I also gloried that in wars no comely woman's face ever enticed me, and reproved Reuben my brother concerning Bilhah, the wife of my father, the spirits of jealousy and of fornication arrayed themselves against me, until I lay with Bathshua the Canaanite, and Tamar, who was espoused to my sons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 For I said to my father-in-law: I will take counsel with my father, and so will I take thy daughter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 And he was unwilling but he showed me a boundless store of gold in his daughter's behalf; for be was a king.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 And he adorned her with gold and pearls, and caused her to pour out wine for us at the feast with the beauty of women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 And the wine turned aside my eyes, and pleasure blinded my heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 And I became enamoured of and I lay with her, and transgressed the commandment of the Lord and the commandment of my fathers, and I took her to wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 And the Lord rewarded me according to the imagination of my heart, inasmuch as I had no joy in her children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 And now, my children, I say unto you, be not drunk with wine; for wine turneth the mind away from, the truth, and inspires the passion of lust, and leadeth the eyes into error.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 For the spirit of fornication hath wine as a minister to give pleasure to the mind; for these two also take away the mind of man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 For if a man drink wine to drunkenness, it disturbeth the mind with filthy thoughts leading to fornication, and heateth the body to carnal union; and if the occasion of the lust be present, he worketh the sin, and is not ashamed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 Such is the inebriated man, my children; for he who is drunken reverenceth no man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 For, lo, it made me also to err, so that I was not ashamed of the multitude in the city, in that before the eyes of all I turned aside unto Tamar, and I wrought a great sin, and I uncovered the covering of my sons' shame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 After I had drunk wine I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;reverenced not the commandment of God, and I took a woman of Canaan to wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 For much discretion needeth the man who drinketh wine, my children; and herein is discretion in drinking wine, a man may drink so long as he preserveth modesty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 But if he go beyond this limit the spirit of deceit attacketh his mind, and it maketh the drunkard to talk filthily, and to transgress and not to be ashamed, but even to glory in his shame, and to account himself honourable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 He that committeth fornication is not aware when he suffers loss, and is not ashamed when put to dishonour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 For even though a man be a king and commit fornication, he is stripped of his kingship by becoming the slave of fornication, as I myself also suffered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 For I gave my staff, that is, the stay of my tribe; and my girdle, that is, my power; and my diadem, that is, the glory of my kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 And indeed I repented of these things; wine and flesh I eat not until my old age, nor did I behold any joy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22 And the angel of God showed me that for ever do women bear rule over king and beggar alike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 And from the king they take away his glory, and from the valiant man his might, and from the beggar even that little which is the stay of his poverty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 Observe, therefore, my children, the right limit in wine; for there are in it four evil spirits--of lust, of hot desire, of profligacy, of filthy lucre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25 If ye drink wine in gladness, be ye modest in the fear of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 For if in your gladness the fear of God departeth, then drunkenness ariseth and shamelessness stealeth in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27 But if ye would live soberly do not touch wine at all, lest ye sin in words of outrage, and in fightings and slanders, and transgressions of the commandments of God, and ye perish before your time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 Moreover, wine revealeth the mysteries of God and men, even as I also revealed the commandments of God and the mysteries of Jacob my father to the Canaanitish woman Bathshua, which God bade me not to reveal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 And wine is a cause both of war and confusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime; color: #666666;"&gt;30 And now, I command you, my children, not to love money, nor to gaze upon the beauty of women; because for the sake of money and beauty I was led astray to Bathshua the Canaanite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime; color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime; color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime; color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: #666666;"&gt;31 For I know that because of these two things shall my race fall into wickedness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;32 For even wise men among my sons shall they mar, and shall cause the kingdom of Judah to be diminished, which the Lord gave me because of my obedience to my father.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33 For I never caused grief to Jacob, my father; for all things whatsoever he commanded I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;34 And Isaac, the father of my father, blessed me to be king in Israel, and Jacob further blessed me in like manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35 And I know that from me shall the kingdom be established.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;36 And I know what evils ye will do in the last days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;37 Beware, therefore, my children, of fornication, and the love of money, and hearken to Judah your father.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;38 For these things withdraw au from the law of God, and blind the inclination of the soul, and teach arrogance, and suffer not a man to have compassion upon his neighbour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;39 They rob his soul of all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;goodness, and oppress him with toils and troubles, and drive away sleep from him, and devour his flesh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;40 And he hindereth the sacrifices of God; and he remembereth not the blessing of God, he hearkeneth not to a prophet when he speaketh, and resenteth the words of godliness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;41 For he is a slave to two contrary passions, and cannot obey God, because they have blinded his soul, and he walketh in the day as in the night.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;42 My children, the love of money leadeth to idolatry; because, when led astray through money, men name as gods those who are not gods, and it causeth him who hath it to fall into madness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;43 For the sake of money I lost my children, and had not my repentance, and my humiliation, and the prayers of my father been accepted, I should have died childless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;44 But the God of my fathers had mercy on me, because I did it in ignorance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;45 And the prince of deceit blinded me, and I sinned as a man and as flesh, being corrupted through sins; and I learnt my own weakness while thinking myself invincible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;46 Know, therefore, my children, that two spirits wait upon man-the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;47 And in the midst is the spirit of understanding of the mind, to which it belongeth to turn whithersoever it will.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;And the works of truth and the works of deceit are written upon the hearts of men, and each one of them the Lord knoweth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;49 And there is no time at which the works of men can be hid; for on the heart itself have they been written down before the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;50 And the spirit of truth testifieth all things, and accuseth all; and the sinner is burnt up by his own heart, and cannot raise his face to the judge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-3086118757938391038?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/3086118757938391038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/love-of-money-beauty-of-woman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3086118757938391038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3086118757938391038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/love-of-money-beauty-of-woman.html' title='Love of money / beauty of woman'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-1237743261024095276</id><published>2009-12-17T15:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-06-12T02:58:58.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Modern culture / sports /and The 2 book of Macabees/ Jason the high priest gym builder and his persecution</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; My hope in this blog is to point out a few contrasts to the very first of the Athletes and their leader. How the Pagan rituals of athletes were created and what it did to Gods people. In modern times we have much glorified the same culture as Jason the early gym builder and high priest. His worship of the false athlete Gods of Greece. His structuring of society to cater to a make believe life of indulgence and glory of the flesh and its carnal imaging. The fantasies of Jason and his athlete followers persecuted the early People of God. In modern times. How much more has what Jason started increased. The immoral persecutions of Jocks corrupt every community.&amp;nbsp; Just as jason stopped sacrificing in the temples to God when he became high priest. Many of our employers and many of the secular christian community stop worshipping God in truth and live with no real communion. The sacraments are not known to them in any holy light. They are mutilations of christs covenant. Blasphemes of his gifts and righteousness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In modern day there is even a culture called christian jock culture. Thus similar to Jason becoming high priest and turning Gods house into a house of worship of hercules and athena. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Right away as youths in the schools we are taught to train as Jason had set up in early Greece. We are taught all the darwinism and Greek mythology by the eighth grade. Soon the puberty of adolescence hits and the perversions of Glory take residence in the fellowship of Jason and his modern followers. Fully redeemed we are all from the actual fellowship of the modern secular institute yet many of us end up handing ourselves over. I remember when reagon instituted the presidential fitness testing. I was a public school student. I never was in track however I had tried a different sport each year in middle school. I experienced how kids day by day were getting more and more perverse and corrupt. The rivaling was the only focus of each day. I got my presidential fitness award and somehow God helped me come to my senses and I refrained from joining up with the track people. It was stupid. Here I was tested and ranked in the top 100 in the state on more than one excersize 11th on one. Yet I was to compete more afterwards if I was to be obedient and a good example. I never played sports again after getting that fitness award. I had nothing to prove. I feel sorry for every kid who was oppressed by the pressures to pass those tests as though the athletics were to be worshiped and ordained amongst us.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I went to several highschools and had gone from one of the most popular in school and a leader of the fellowship to becoming very inactive in school. I had advanced past most of my subjects of studies. I was in two year college math by my second year of highschool. I was in advanced earth and space science and other advanced classes such as government with options for other electives. However I was becoming numb to the fellowship and kind of iced up in my head. I didnt entertain the same thoughts as those around me and had a spark of faith in my heart for the ways of God. I endured the school fellowship for most of the allotted time but chose to withdraw and do carpentry training before I graduated. Still not a jock I focused on learning skills. When I was in my early 20's I took some college classes and was still reluctant to fellowship however I had matured in the Lord and took an aerobic weight training class. I got better than 100 percent scores on my final fitness test like I had in grade school and middle school. I then started working out at a gym in the small town where I lived Albany , Oregon. I was getting strong for my weight and height. I could lift heavy weights for 8 hours and more. There was a gym owner in town who was a ninjitsu teacher. He was a millionaire at age 22 or 23. He had gone around town to dojo's threatening the instructors to close their schools so he could take their students. A very greedy gym owner to say the least. However many people in town were his students. He went to every store that sold weapons and had given them memberships to his gym and lessons in ninjitsu. Even the Bi Mart and Gi Joes gun department. Also the pawn dealers ect. He was clever. He was manufacturing illegal automatic weapons. Finally he was busted by the FBI. The town was full of ninja with nothing good on their mind. There was a local rivalry in the gym and martial arts scene outside of his greed. After a little while I felt like it was worse then the grade school and high school sports scene. I was getting an eye opener to the adult Athlete scene.&amp;nbsp; There was several gyms closed from drug dealers selling drugs in the gyms. It was so immature for an adult. Body builders were every perverted evil and vain carnality. I went to a Bishop one reconciliation. Bishop Steiner the Bishop of Portland , Oregon. He was residing at a local parish in the adjacent city to where I was baptised. I told him I wanted absolved of being involved with gyms and martial arts. I told him he was very evil and hard to articulate. I wanted God to forgive me and to undo any involvement or ignorance I had of the evils involved. The bishop said his confession prayers and recieved the sacrament. I asked him to pray for me another day after the confession. He lifted his hands and prayed for Gods will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;This is a passage from&amp;nbsp;2nd Maccabees&amp;nbsp;chapter 4 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 7 But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called the Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason, the brother of Onias, ambitiously sought the high priesthood: 8 And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and out of other revenues fourscore talents. 9 Besides this he promised also a hundred and fifty more, if he might have license to set him up a place for exercise, and a place for youth, and to entitle them that were at Jerusalem, Antiochians. 10 Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the rule into his hands, forthwith he began to bring over his countrymen to the fashion of the heathens. 11 And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John, the father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and brought in fashions that were perverse. 12 For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses. 13 Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch, and no priest. 14 Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of the discus. 15 And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best: 16 For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be like them, who were their enemies and murderers. 17 For acting wickedly against the laws of God does not pass unpunished: but this the time following will declare. 18 Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present, 19 the wicked Jason sent from Jerusalem sinful men, to carry three hundred didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of Hercules; but the bearers thereof desired it might not be bestowed on the sacrifices, because it was not necessary, but might be deputed for other charges. 20 So the money was appointed by him that sent it to the sacrifice of Hercules: but because of them that carried it was employed for the making of galleys. 21 Now when Apollonius the son of Mnestheus was sent into Egypt to treat with the nobles of King Philometor, and Antiochus understood that he was wholly excluded from the affairs of the kingdom, consulting his own interest, he departed thence and came to Joppe, and from thence to Jerusalem. 22 Where he was received in a magnificent manner by Jason, and the city, and came in with torch lights, and with praises, and from thence he returned with his army into Phenicia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So here is this guy Jason wanting to be a priest not really someone God had called to be a priest. He takes over the jewish temples and wants everyone to be worshiping the athletic false gods. Here is a catcher in vs 11 it tells us how he took away the lawfull ordinances and brought in perverse fashions. Perverse fashions, Does that remind you much of today?. How perverse are our fashions today. Could they be perhaps from the same greek traditions started by Jason. Atleast from the same evils of the athletes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; After speaking with the bishop I was living in the small town of Corvalis. Most of the towns population was OSU university students. The greek and roman sorority houses were all over campus. So I was starting to understand how the simple seeming training of my youth was actually progressing in the higher institution to what becomes the actual social order and culture of the United States. The Roman cultures much like the greek which if you read in the 1st book of macabees there was always cultural enmity between Gods people and the real Roman and Greek cultures. Jesus Christ had saved us from the extremities of these cultures by becoming high priest forever so no guy like Jason can do it. Doing this the veil of the temple ripped and our own bodies are temples of his holy spirit. We need not even goto the temples to worship should something like this happen. Its strange sometimes I see even that the Pope visits sports events. It reminds me of Jason the high priest. I do not accuse the Pope of being as Jason but I do think it wrong not to remove himself from any activities that are so unholy and derive from the same that persecuted early saints and persecute us hear today wether people admit it or not.&amp;nbsp; The roman cultures of today would be easily seen in the perverse cultures of Hollywood and in the Mafia mobster business culture. The Roman like congressional perversities. In ancient Rome 1 out of 10 woman were prostitutes. The Mafia started pornography . Which is now an american leading entertainment industry. Hugh Heffner and his playboy seductions were well adapted to the Romanization of america. He ofcourse a mafia man himself.&amp;nbsp; So you can see how the greek and roman have intercepted the primary cause of american social order and grossly darkened the fellowship. There is no real value to either the athletic greek cultures or the roman perversities. The two combined is such a wicked ale to drink not many are morally well in our times. Many have become drunk from the wicked ale that these two cultures brew.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In my 30's I enlisted in the military. Only to find out I was handing myself over to the extreme greek and roman by enlisting. The Government had incorporated the Greek games into the military training. Each private was tested for the olympic games during basic training. If any could maintain a certain run time and physical fitness score he or she would be given opportunity to train on the army olympic team. The jocks were numerous and most used steroids. The whole training was making war a game like the olympics. It was nothing serious to people. They were just gross immoral such as the scriptures describes Roman and Greek. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;However the officers were all schooled at colleges training in the roman and greek and some officers 8 to 12 years of college. It is common for officers to recieve atleast 8 years of college. They goto college to compete for rank. So if one gets 8 years the other will want 8 years or more. Thats alot of Roman and Greek training .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I recieved a hall of fame&amp;nbsp;at Fort Benning Georgia during basic combat training. I&amp;nbsp;was tested at better than 100 percent fit for my age. I actually got&amp;nbsp;better than 100 percent for an 18 year old and was 32 at the time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I had matched some legend on a rope obstacle and almost&amp;nbsp;matched one&amp;nbsp;on another rope&amp;nbsp;obstacle.&amp;nbsp;I could shoot what would be called an expert score on the range we trained on for marksmanship. However I was no expert with weapons just a good shot.&amp;nbsp; I had not the experience an expert requires to really be that skilled. Yet I was offered the opportunity to become a Ranger. I was approached at the end of training&amp;nbsp;cycle by an MP Ranger drill sergeant. He was a champion martial artists before he enlisted. I told him I didnt want to be&amp;nbsp;a ranger and&amp;nbsp;had not interest in doing more training than required. I really didnt want to be in except I had been trained as a&amp;nbsp;Security Investigator and had an idea for a non profit&amp;nbsp;federal whistle blowers protection agency. I needed&amp;nbsp;to know more about the military to know how to secure myself&amp;nbsp;or someone else from it. Ranger would of seemed to help me but really it would of made me more of a militarian and less of a civil protection.&amp;nbsp; So like&amp;nbsp;when&amp;nbsp;I recieved the presidential fitness and stopped playing sports&amp;nbsp;I declined to become a ranger.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;After the army&amp;nbsp;I went to Hollywood , California&amp;nbsp;with hopes of&amp;nbsp;learning more about playing guitar before I went back to work. I encountered the intensity of Jewish, Roman, and Greek cultures there. I was certain it was just like the evils the bible explained Babylon, Rome, and the Greek to be.&amp;nbsp; I am going to list more scriptures but really all throughout the bible&amp;nbsp;it warns us about these cultures and about the evils they glorify.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I had been working on a music business idea since the year 2000. Yet at the same time I was working on the protection agency idea which was becoming more than I expected. As I learned more about the music business I learned more about the organized crime at the same time. The Roman , Greek , and Jewish cultures dominate in just about any arena and the music world had been turned into an arena using the same stadiums..&amp;nbsp; I had master minded a plan using events which would end up in Rome at the ancient colliseum and in Greece at some of the stadiums there that are ancient. I spoke with a billionaire piano dealer one of the largest in the world I met in Bel Air, California on a job he hired me for filing stuff for a piano company he just bought. It was just a one day job. I spoke to him a bit and he gave me his phone number. So I called him with my idea. He thought it hard and a little confusing. I could barely tell him about it fearing that it would give my strategy to someone who might not agree with it. It was use the powers of the arena's who are the evilest and take their exposure and make it serve something I planned to not tell them afterwards to start up a new dominion mocking the arena's. I spoke with a lawyer he like the idea and wanted to help me using some of the contacts he had. As I studied more I prepared for start up but the more I worked on it the more to my plans I had to change. The evil was to much as much as I revised my plans to better serve good it wasnt serving the Lord. That's when I went back to Hollywood again this time with more knowledge about the principalities of the arena's in the sports world and music business. The piano guy told me he managed olympic athletes before and they were all hard to manage. They were brats from a different family to him he said. They took all the enjoyment out of management. I told him I knew alot about athlete and the ones in the army are worse I trained with. So I knew what to prepare for. One private I trained with had been in a band that won the battle of the bands and was track star with a track scholarship to add to the victory in the battle of the bands. He had a millionaire father and was a rich brat to boot. So I had some understanding. Also another private I trained with had a band that took second place in the battle of the bands in his home state. He had inherited 500 acres at the age of 18 and grew pot on it. He said his first crop brought him enough money to build a house and buy a 50,000 dollar truck.&amp;nbsp; He failed his fitness exam on purpose to go back and manage his band and marijuana. Thats after he trained to kill at Fort Sill. It was all just a game to everyone. The seduction , the blashpemous carnall imaginations and rebellion. Homosexuality was so common. No matter what music gendre there was athletes involved in the music business. Something people had to compete at because of the greek and roman culture of Jason the high priest gym builder. Like the spawn of Jason not really understanding what they are doing . As the bible tell us in the Dark. Christ's teachings were getting greater to me. The more great the people in the arena I was exposed to or had to plan business and security around. The greater the Lord's anointing seemed to me. I was led in the spirit for about a week while working on petitions in LA the second time I went to Hollywood for this music business idea. I needed income and found a petition job working on conservative campaigns. The church had two I was working on. The Lord led me each day for a week. I could no longer want to start this music business the way I had thought it out originally. I had revised all my plans and ruled out all the evil I could in my plans with no more plans for Rome or Greece that same way. I had a new mission that was to work on a ministry the Lord had led me to safer pastures away from the dangerous arena's . Still each day the Lord was teaching me his anointing is much greater then the world could fathom unless they were to recieve his anointing themselves. There is no way they could contend or compete with the Holy Spirit's training. The abundant life they play out leaves them thirsting for life not full of life. They have to pretend to be hero's and pretend to be images that know Glory as the Lords Glory is taught to our hearts.&amp;nbsp; As I visited Hollywood blvd. The Holy Spirit would lift me high in my heart and my spirits would sore. I felt like a giant walking around and I am only 5'6". So I am not sure what God was teaching me but I was entertained by the spirit and people seemed very ill and unentertaining to me because of the Holy spirit entertaining me.&amp;nbsp; As everyone around was worshiping thier favorite movie star looking at the Hollywood stars. I felt like the whole kingdom of heaven was watching me and like King David and the Apostle Paul where right there with me as I walked the blvd. It happened a few times during the campaigns I was working on. Then it stopped. I realised afterwards that my whole life the Holy Spirit was doing this in me. Thats why I never was entertained by movie stars as others around me. I never wanted to goto rock concerts and never like to watch sports so had no sports hero's. Only this time it was intensified and the Holy Spirit was really lifting me high above the masses to teach me something about he Lord and the life in the spirit. After speaking to the Bishop Stiener when I was in my early 20's about the gyms. The Lord had quickened my heart and I was steadfast in the spirit everyday. I went to communion each morning for awhile and then traveled around a bit. In my travels I worshiped the Lord throughout each day for several years. I was being trained by the spirit so that my mind and heart wouldnt be conformed to the same greek and roman imaging that I was trained by in my youth at the schools. God was teaching me many things in the spirit. I read the bible everday. I worked day labor jobs and jobs from temp labor agencies. I spent many hours in the libraries studying different subjects. I ended up reading over 1000 books. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;I was training not in the schools but God was training me. Undoing what the institute had been training me to be a servant of the greek and roman carnal lusts and the masters of its arena's. I did two correspondance courses one in private investigations and one in paralegal studies. I took a cheap business management course that cost me 60 dollars and did an internship at the state exams board. I did alot of training that had nothing to do with the institutes greek and roman culture but learned the same knowledge. From reading now close to 1500 books I have alot of knowledge that is helping me to understand alot more well then when I first had spoke with the Bishop in my early 20's. I am preparing to get a degree in flight technology at a community college. The course is a career skills course so much of it wont have to do with the mainstream cultures of academia.&amp;nbsp; I wanted to share this blog with you to let you know it serious what they made even America into using the Greek culture Jason had started also the Roman. However to point the finger at anyone like the Freemasons and other groups wouldnt be as just as to just know that the Greek and Roman cultures still exist in as much as they were evil to God in the beginning of these cultures they are much more now evil to God. So I believe all of those who really Love the Lord and are his servants will be trained such as I have been trained to not conform or give into the pressures and persecution involved. Though each day I am faced with persecution and still have trials and tribulations to endure. The face of our enemy is dark and deceitfull. The Glory of his image is without grace. He decieves us by disguising himself as Government at times. At times by using men like Jason and those who inherited his place in the Greek arena's pervading justice and corrupting the temples. We are temples . No matter how corrupt any government or religious sacrament we have in us the kingdom of heaven to battle against the corruption of our advesary. So renounce the Greek and Roman culture that God may renew you in Love and teach you his ways. Watch out for sports and don't take the sin of it so lightly you may parish saying Lord Lord didnt we do work in you're name. Yet you're heart was really in fellowship with these modern arena's of Jason and made him a high priest not Jesus Christ.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1261085978924"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (New King James Version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1261085978924"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1261085978924"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1261085978924"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1261085978924"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; King James Bible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Galatians 5:13&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1261085978924"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;1 Peter 2:16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;1 Corinthians 8:9 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;2 corinthians 11&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;Proverbs 10:23 (King James Version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;King James Bible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;Galations 2:20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;galatians 6:8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;proverb 25:27&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;American King James Version&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;Romans &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;Galations 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;16: This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;17: For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;18: But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;19: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;20: Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;21: Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;22: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;23: Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;24: And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;25: If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;26: Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;Galatians 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;12: As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;13: For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;14: But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;15: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;16: And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;17: From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;18: Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we are trained by the schools it really had no value to God. Our training in the spirit is what has value to the Lord. So our rivals are against the body of christ. How can we be yoked with the world if we are christs body. So how can we take part in their rivals. Christ already has victory over all flesh. He alone is the uncorruptible and the express image of God. How stupid is it to exalt the image of any athlete which is condemned by God for even being born imperfect. No matter how well they play sports or how healthy they seem. Christ is eternally begotten.&amp;nbsp; It is Gods life and it doesnt entertain the Lord what they do. How much more healthy is christ. No flesh can even remove the punishment of the sins of thier life and its conception&amp;nbsp;which is death. We all have to get old and die. If anyone is christs and caused to stumble wether weak or mighty from these greek games of Jason or roman perversions we have a God who we are kin to. Christ will avenge us like a brother. His wrath is greater then we can understand. His glory is our redemption and our peace. Why should we render our peace to the world by rivaling with it . Christ already won and he is in us. We can experience great joy just working onto the Lord and believing his word. The holy sacraments are not served by the arena regardless the victory. The throne of christ is not entertained by its festivities and all their honor and glory is an offense against our savior the master of life and the creator of all things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffe599;"&gt;King James Bible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffe599;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffe599;"&gt;6:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffe599;"&gt;For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffe599;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffe599;"&gt;arn't most sports and the way of the sports about make believe rivals of the flesh. A pretend battle.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffe599;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;1st corinthians 9 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;1st corithians 9:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;King James Bible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Fighting as one who beats the air doesn't that sound like most sports and even running any race. So sports are definately in my mind not christian. They derive and are still today if not more today evil to God. There are harmless games I am sure but they really profit nothing even if we were to make a nonprofit cause for the winner it is only trying to make something bad good. Because its not an outward proffession to be a christian but an inward one of faith. 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href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2009/12/modern-culture-sports-and-2-book-of.html' title='Modern culture / sports /and The 2 book of Macabees/ Jason the high priest gym builder and his persecution'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-4339320890559490207</id><published>2009-12-09T00:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T00:55:31.997-08:00</updated><title type='text'>John Michael Talbot Reflections part 1 - 12</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GcmgBipflc8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param 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jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-3821237266221855480</id><published>2009-12-03T17:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-16T02:09:18.763-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Evils to the Worlds Models and Fashion</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Like any occupation and industry there is evil to working under the sun. The cultures of the world are many and each culture is devised by the innovations of mankind. We have in us the&amp;nbsp;freedom to choose to believe in Jesus Christ and the&amp;nbsp;freedom to choose to do evil. However even with the grandest of intentions some of us are naive of what evils other fashion and devise in culture. The world markets are vast and even to go as far as market the souls of those enslaved to the evils of culture. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In my youth thinking of models and culture was nothing to me. Just something to do with living. I was naive and as the 80's fads stormed through the markets and then back out. I had been assaulted by punk rock culture , glam rock, 80's jock cultures and the fashions of anarchy. Thus the temptations of my youth were abundant and I escaped the 80's by the skin of my teeth. Many were not so lucky and were devoured up into a pit of the evils to culture. In the 90's Bill Clinton had become president and cross culture integration was taking over like a great cloud of darkness consuming the nations. This cross culture bombardment created alot of tensions especially just shortly after the punk rock cultures and George Bush redneck crusades in the middle east.&amp;nbsp; The fashions where mutilations of corporate greed drawn into plans from a seamstress and a queer focus study for world trends. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The bible tells us to be modest about our dress. In all aspects of christianity we should never really go along with the models of this world or desire to be like them. Its so easy for people to consider models to be christian harmless people and some are. However what I found out is most arn't. Growing up I had a sister who was competing at dancing and baton. After dancing she went to cheerleading and dance team at the school. As a young girl she was wearing oodles of make up like a cheap hooker. With tiny little outfits that in no way resembled christian attire. It was to train a young lady to dress up like a little hooker to entertain adults. Pretty much it was like a cheap thrill for adults to watch their little girls in cheap outfits with tons of make up on and sparkly things with tassles hanging on the outfits. Sounds like what a cheap hooker would wear right?. Most people think nothing of it. I know my mother thought nothing of it. I had the grandmother who wears that bright red lipstick caked on so thick it looks like she has fake lips. Oh and she loved to say come give grandma a kiss.&amp;nbsp; So I guess if grandma caked on the makeup the rest of the girls in the family could. Who was to say it was wrong?. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;One of the girls my sister danced with was a young pageanter. She had red hair and lived in Newburg , Oregon. She became miss teen USA. I used to sit with her in the balcony during recitals. I learned how nasty and stuck up young woman could get from my sister and her friends. My sister was such a phony christian it reaked of conformity to the school systems. She dated the same guy supposedly for several years from the age of 12 or 13 to 22 or 23.&amp;nbsp; He was a letterman Jock in most sports. A tall 6'5 basketball player, baseball, football player. I found her once at a party when I was 14. She was one of the only girls with a house full of drunk college guys and some highschoolers. My friend new the musician who lived at the house thats why I was there. No matter what her friends did it was ok and nothing was wrong with it. Her girlfriends were very promiscous and that was always just normal ofcourse. No matter what the Lords word tells us. My sister babysitted at a local protistant church for sunday school. Also she attended a pentecostal kindergarten.&amp;nbsp; She was youre typical protistant hypocrite I guess. No real convictions it was all just to please the parents or teachers or whatever might appear to be christian .&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So I learned the evils to females in and out. I love my sister and she has since made changes in her life now a mother of two boys and has been married to the same man since she was 27 now 43.&amp;nbsp; She fellowships with the LDS church. Her husband like her had some soul seeking to do. She had become a proffesional cheerleader for the Portland Trail Blazers. Her she was cheering on one of the most infamous of basketball teams when it comes to drugs and behavior. I never became a sports fan to say the least.&amp;nbsp; So the glorification of the flesh and all the rivalry of the flesh she had become quite versed in. She lived in sin with a bodybuilder for a few years. There was alot going on in our family and she did start getting more serious about church. I had pretty much written her off. After hearing tell me she hated me growing up and watching her parade around like she was jezebell the jock goddess. I had my own life to live and was serious about the Lord when I became adult. I had shunned evil as much as I could&amp;nbsp;being public schooled as a kid. When I finally became adult I headed straight for safer pastures.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Until I was in my 30's I didnt start to experience how evil the modeling world is. I had my mind on my youth and the training of the Holy Spirit.&amp;nbsp; When I first started to use the internet thats when my first seduction by the Modeling world started to hit me. I had pretty much shunned it in my child hood and figured I was well taught what is wrong or right about it. So being aware I was able to avoid what was about to consume my hours of peace. After I enlisted in the army I moved to Hollywood. It only took a few days before I had my encounters with the modeling crowds. Several inspiring models male and female lived at the hotel I was living in. Inspiring models where all over the city. No matter how dirty the city was they seemed to love to parade around in little to nothing to wear and fancying every bit of it. The more sinfull the fancier the model was to be in the modeling scene's eyes. Atleast the nightclubbing scene. There was so many phony modeling agents and photographers around. They trick young women into taking off their clothes and offer them phony shoots telling them they are really going to get them jobs but either offer them porn shoots or hire them to sleep with them and use them at parties to make it seem like a popular night club or to entertain others. They dont really pay them alot of times they just invite them and because of the exposure to the public they that is considered the compensation for their time.&amp;nbsp; It's serious they live the way they do. I suppose many had christian parents and would swear they are the church.&amp;nbsp; One time a model from washington D.C. was living in the hotel where I was staying . She was living with two brothers who were security guards. They were asking her to marry them and she was getting freaked out she said. She asked if she could stay in our room. My friend let her. He was a rapper. She had a crack addiction and was smoking crack in the bathroom every ten minutes. She told us her story and was really a successfull model who was going through a lot. She was the girlfriend of a modeling agency owner. He was murdered and found on the floor with her naked pictures lying on top of him. They found the killer and because she knew the killer she had to testify at the trial. She had a computer programming job according to her earning 60,000 a year. She started using drugs after the murder because of the stress and worries. She lost her job and took off to L.A. scared. She left with a friend from Washington D.C. and we never saw her again. She had to leave because the trial was starting.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; There are so many millions of models and the many don't seem to care how much they seduce society. It is modern culture to use models to seduce people even to eat a certain kind of vegetable. I mean its ridiculous. The scriptures tell us many things to lead us away from the way of life most models live. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In the passage below it tells us the words written by Peter about the Apocolypse. There are words about the torments prepared for the woman who used their beauty to seduce men and cause them to sin. Much like the models of this world. I will list several scriptures regarding the words of the Lords prophets about woman and also about men who boast in their appearance. The carnal images of man and the lusts of the flesh the models use to lure the markets and decieve the masses. Not that there are none who are a pleasant sight but it is for the Glory of the Lord that we serve his righteousness without imitating those who are marked as evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;This is a fragement of the apocrophal scriptures titled" The Apocolypse of Peter ". This passage is from the Akhmim Fragments &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;(Here begins the description of torments which we have, in another text, in the Akhmim fragment.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;Then shall men and women come unto the place prepared for them. By their tongues wherewith they have blasphemed the way of righteousness shall they be hanged up. There is spread under them unquenchable fire, that they escape it not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;Behold, another place: therein is a pit, great and full (of . . ) In it are they that have denied righteousness: and angels of punishment chastise them and there do they kindle upon them the fire of their torment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And again behold [two: corrupt] women: they hang them up by their neck and by their hair; they shall cast them into the pit. These are they which plaited their hair, not for good (or, not to make them beautiful) but to turn them to fornication, that they might ensnare the souls of men unto perdition. And the men that lay with them in fornication shall be hung by their loins in that place of fire; and they shall say one to another: We knew not that we should come unto everlasting punishment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And the murderers and them that have made common cause with them shall they cast into the fire, in a place full of venomous beasts, and they shall be tormented without rest, feeling their pains; and their worms shall be as many in number as a dark cloud. And the angel Ezrael shall bring forth the souls of them that have been slain, and they shall behold the torment of them that slew them, and say one to another: Righteousness and justice is the judgement of God. For we heard, but we believed not, that we should come into this place of eternal judgement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And near by this flame shall be a pit, great and very deep, and into it floweth from above all manner of torment, foulness, and issue. And women are swallowed up therein up to their necks and tormented with great pain. These are they that have caused their children to be born untimely, and have corrupted the work of God that created them. Over against them shall be another place where sit their children [both] alive, and they cry unto God. And flashes (lightnings) go forth from those children and pierce the eyes of them that for fornication's sake have caused their destruction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;Other men and women shall stand above them, naked; and their children stand over against them in a place of delight, and sigh and cry unto God because of their parents, saying: These are they that have despised and cursed and transgressed thy commandments and delivered us unto death: they have cursed the angel that formed us, and have hanged us up, and withheld from us (or, begrudged us) the light which thou hast given unto all creatures. And the milk of their mothers flowing from their breasts shall congeal, and from it shall come beasts devouring flesh, which shall come forth and turn and torment them for ever with their husbands, because they forsook the commandments of God and slew their children. As for their children, they shall be delivered unto the angel Temlakos (i.e. a care-taking angel: see above, in the Fragments). And they that slew them shall be tormented eternally, for God willeth it so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;Ezrael the angel of wrath shall bring men and women, the half of their bodies burning, and cast them into a place of darkness, even the hell of men; and a spirit of wrath shall chastise them with all manner of torment, and a worm that sleepeth not shall devour their entrails: and these are the persecutors and betrayers of my righteous ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And beside them that are there, shall be other men and women, gnawing their tongues; and they shall torment them with red-hot iron and burn their eyes. These are they that slander and doubt of my righteousness. Other men and women whose works were done in deceitfulness shall have their lips cut off, and fire entereth into their mouth and their entrails. These are the false witnesses (al. these are they that caused the martyrs to die by their lying).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And beside them, in a place near at hand, upon the stone shall be a pillar of fire, and the pillar is sharper than swords. And there shall be men and women clad in rags and filthy garments, and they shall be cast thereon, to suffer the judgement of a torment that ceaseth not: these are they that trusted in their riches and despised the widows and the woman with fatherless children . . . before God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And into another place hard by, full of filth, do they cast men and women up to the knees. These are they that lent money and took usury.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And other men and women cast themselves down from an high place and return again and run, and devils drive them. [These are the worshippers of idols] and they put them to the end of their witst (drive them up to the top of the height) and they cast themselves down. And thus do they continually, and are tormented for ever. These are they which have cut their flesh as [apostles] of a man: and the women that were with them . . . and these are the men that defiled themselves together as women. (This is very corrupt: but the sense is clear in the (Greek.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And beside them (shall be a brazier ?) . . . and beneath them shall the angel Ezrael prepare a place of much fire: and all the idols of gold and silver, all idols, the work of men's hands, and the semblances of images of cats and lions, of creeping things and wild beasts, and the men and women that have prepared the images thereof, shall be in chains of fire and shall be chastised because of their error before the idols, and this is their judgement for ever. (In the Greek they beat each other with rods of fire: and this is better.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;And beside them shall be other men and women, burning in the fire of the judgement, and their torment is everlasting. These are they that have forsaken the commandment of God and followed the (persuasions ?) of devils. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: lime;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The words of the Lord's prophets are many. Below is listed several passages describing the evils of woman and also in the first I will list is the words of The Patriarch Rueben which is taken from the testaments of the 12 patriarchs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;chapter 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;10 &lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;Pay no heed to the face of a woman, Nor associate with another man's wife, Nor meddle with affairs of womankind. &lt;/span&gt;11 For had I not seen Bilhah bathing in a covered place, I had not fallen into this great iniquity. 12 For my mind taking in the thought of the woman's nakedness, suffered me not to sleep until I had 13 wrought the abominable thing. For while Jacob our father had gone to Isaac his father, when we were in Eder, near to Ephrath in Bethlehem, Bilhah became drunk and was asleep uncovered in her 14 chamber. Having therefore gone in and beheld nakedness, I wrought the impiety without her 15 perceiving it, and leaving her sleeping I departed. And forthwith an angel of God revealed to my father concerning my impiety, and he came and mourned over me, and touched her no more. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;4 1 &lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;Pay no heed, therefore, my children, to the beauty of women, nor set your mind on their affairs; but walk in singleness of heart in the fear of the Lord, and expend labour on good works, and on study and on your flocks, until the Lord give you a wife, whom He will, that ye suffer not as I did&lt;/span&gt;. 2 For until my father's death I had not boldness to look in his face, or to speak to any of my brethren, 3 because of the reproach. Even until now my conscience causeth me anguish on account of my 4 impiety. And yet my father comforted me much and prayed for me unto the Lord, that the anger of the Lord might pass from me, even as the Lord showed. And thenceforth until now I have 5 been on my guard and sinned not. Therefore, my children, I say unto you, observe all things 6 whatsoever I command you, and ye shall not sin. For a pit unto the soul is the sin of fornication, separating it from God, and bringing it near to idols, because it deceiveth the mind and understanding, 7 and leadeth young men into hades before their time. For many hath fornication destroyed; because, though a man be old or noble, or rich or poor, he bringeth reproach upon 8 himself with the sons of men and derision with Beliar. For ye heard regarding Joseph how he guarded himself from a woman, and purged his thoughts from all fornication, and found favour in 9 the sight of God and men. For the Egyptian woman did many things unto him, and summoned 10 magicians, and offered him love potions, but the purpose of his soul admitted no evil desire. Therefore 11 the God of your fathers delivered him from every evil (and) hidden death. For if fornication overcomes not your mind, neither can Beliar overcome you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;5 1 &lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;For evil are women, my children; and since they have no power or strength over man, they use 2 wiles by outward attractions, that they may draw him to themselves. And whom they cannot 3 bewitch by outward attractions, him they overcome by craft. For moreover, concerning them, the angel of the Lord told me, and taught me, that women are overcome by the spirit of fornication more than men, and in their heart they plot against men; and by means of their adornment they deceive first their minds, and by the glance of the eye instill the poison, and then through the accomplished 4 act they take them captive. For a woman cannot force a man openly, but by a harlot's 5 bearing she beguiles him&lt;/span&gt;. Flee, therefore, fornication, my children, and command your wives and your daughters, that they adorn not their heads and faces to deceive the mind: because every woman 6 who useth these wiles hath been reserved for eternal punishment. For thus they allured the Watchers who were before the flood; for as these continually beheld them, they lusted after them, and they conceived the act in their mind; for they changed themselves into the shape of men, and 7 appeared to them when they were with their husbands. And the women lusting in their minds after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;6 1 &lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;Beware, therefore, of fornication; and if you wish to be pure in mind, guard your senses from every 2 woman. And command the women likewise not to associate with men, that they also may be pure 3 in mind.&lt;/span&gt; For constant meetings, even though the ungodly deed be not wrought, are to them an 4 irremediable disease, and to us a destruction of Beliar and an eternal reproach. For in fornication 5 there is neither understanding nor godliness, and all jealousy dwelleth in the lust thereof. Therefore, then I say unto you, ye will be jealous against the sons of Levi, and will seek to be exalted 6 over them; but ye shall not be able. For God will avenge them, and ye shall die by an evil death. 7 For to Levi God gave the sovereignty [and to Judah with him and to me also, and to Dan and 8 Joseph, that we should be for rulers]. Therefore I command you to hearken to Levi, because he shall know the law of the Lord, and shall give ordinances for judgement and shall sacrifice for all Israel until the consummation of the times, as the anointed High Priest, of whom the Lord spake, 9 I adjure you by the God of heaven to do truth each one unto his neighbour and to entertain love 10 each one for his brother. And draw ye near to Levi in humbleness of heart, that ye may receive 11 a blessing from his mouth. For he shall bless Israel and Judah, because him hath the Lord chosen to 12 be king over all the nation. And bow down before his seed, for on our behalf it will die in wars visible and invisible, and will be among you an eternal king. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice how this passage warns us against the world and its models. That to look at these woman and their beauty is very wrong and it is how they can poison us and cause us to sin.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;This is from the words of Judah In the testament of Judah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 1 &lt;span style="background-color: #ea9999;"&gt;And now, I command you, my children, not to love money, nor to gaze upon the beauty of women; because for the sake of money and beauty I was led astray to Bathshua the Canaanite. 2, 3 [For I know that because of these two things shall my race fall into wickedness. For even wise men among my sons shall they mar, and shall cause the kingdom of Judah to be diminished, which 4 the Lord gave me because of my obedience to my father. &lt;/span&gt;For I never caused grief to Jacob, my 5 father: for all things whatsoever he commanded I did. And Isaac, the father of my father, blessed 6 me to be king in Israel, and Jacob further blessed me in like manner. And I know that from me shall the kingdom be established. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you see that the Love of Money and the beauty of woman is how the race of Judah fell into wickedness and also how the kingdom of Judah diminished.&amp;nbsp; Isn't this much like America's problems. Isn't it how many of the worlds problems are right now. The love of money isnt that what really causes wars and commotions around the world. The beauty of woman isnt that what is causing so many people to commit adultery and so many broken families and so many evil perversions like pornography.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Combine the two and you have modern advertisement. Every commercial on t.v. is about the love of money and the beauty of woman. Every bill board on the roads. We can't even use the internet without the Love of Money and beauty of woman being broadcasted on our networks. Every site nearly has advertisements for money lovers using the beauty of woman to lure us from the life of christ and the righteous peace of the Lord. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;Proverbs 6&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;23. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;24. To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: cyan;"&gt;26. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;Chapter 7 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;2. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;3. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;4. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;5. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;6. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;10. And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;11. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;12. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;13. So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;14. I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;15. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;16. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;18. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;19. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;20. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;21. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;22. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;23. Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;24. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;25. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;26. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 9&lt;br /&gt;This one reminds of both a call girl such as escorts you find on craigslist.com and also of the woman in Hollywood such as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Also woman like those on myspace and on using the webcam showing themselves on adult sites. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;13. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;14. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;15. To call passengers who go right on their ways: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;16. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;17. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;18. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 23&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;26. My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;27. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;28. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;29. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffd966;"&gt;20. Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proverb 31&lt;br /&gt;This proverb is about the virtous woman unlike those who are models&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #a64d79;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;0. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;11. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;12. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;13. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;14. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;15. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;16. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;17. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;18. She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;19. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;20. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;21. She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;22. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;23. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;24. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;25. Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;26. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;27. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;28. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;29. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;31. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is from the Wisdom of Sirach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sir.9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[1] Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[2] Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[3] Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[4] Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[5] Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[6] Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[7] Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither wander thou in the solitary place thereof.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;[8] Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sir.25&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[1] In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[2] Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly offended at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, and an old adulterer that doateth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[3] If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou find any thing in thine age?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[4] O how comely a thing is judgment for gray hairs, and for ancient men to know counsel!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[5] O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[6] Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[7] There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[8] Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served a man more unworthy than himself:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[9] Well is him that hath found prudence, and he that speaketh in the ears of them that will hear:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[10] O how great is he that findeth wisdom! yet is there none above him that feareth the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[11] But the love of the Lord passeth all things for illumination: he that holdeth it, whereto shall he be likened?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[12] The fear of the Lord is the beginning of his love: and faith is the beginning of cleaving unto him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[13] [Give me] any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[14] And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate me: and any revenge, but the revenge of enemies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[15] There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[16] I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep house with a wicked woman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[17] The wickedness of a woman changeth her face, and darkeneth her countenance like sackcloth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[18] Her husband shall sit among his neighbours; and when he heareth it shall sigh bitterly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[19] All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman: let the portion of a sinner fall upon her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[20] As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[21] Stumble not at the beauty of a woman, and desire her not for pleasure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[22] A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger, impudence, and much reproach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[23] A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[24] Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[25] Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[26] If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sir.26&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[1] Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[2] A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[3] A good wife is a good portion, which shall be given in the portion of them that fear the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[4] Whether a man be rich or poor, if he have a good heart toward the Lord, he shall at all times rejoice with a cheerful countenance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[5] There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering together of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all these are worse than death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[6] But a grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous over another woman, and a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[7] An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[8] A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, and she will not cover her own shame.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[9] The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[10] If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[11] Watch over an impudent eye: and marvel not if she trespass against thee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[12] She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every hedge will she sit down, and open her quiver against every arrow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[13] The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fatten his bones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[14] A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[15] A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[16] As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[17] As the clear light is upon the holy candlestick; so is the beauty of the face in ripe age.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[18] As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver; so are the fair feet with a constant heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[19] My son, keep the flower of thine age sound; and give not thy strength to strangers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[20] When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the field, sow it with thine own seed, trusting in the goodness of thy stock.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[21] So thy race which thou leavest shall be magnified, having the confidence of their good descent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[22] An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman is a tower against death to her husband.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[23] A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[24] A dishonest woman contemneth shame: but an honest woman will reverence her husband.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[25] A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is shamefaced will fear the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[26] A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of all; but she that dishonoureth him in her pride shall be counted ungodly of all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[27] A loud crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive away the enemies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[28] There be two things that grieve my heart; and the third maketh me angry: a man of war that suffereth poverty; and men of understanding that are not set by; and one that returneth from righteousness to sin; the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;[29] A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong; and an huckster shall not be freed from sin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-3821237266221855480?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/3821237266221855480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2009/12/evils-to-worlds-models-and-fashion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3821237266221855480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/3821237266221855480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2009/12/evils-to-worlds-models-and-fashion.html' title='Evils to the Worlds Models and Fashion'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-4345569616649033284</id><published>2009-12-03T00:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-03T00:47:09.667-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Weights and Measures are the Lord's</title><content type='html'>Most of us know the standard weights and measures. However what it is to God that we use our own standards is what we don't really know. The inch is a thumb. The foot speaks for itself. The yard relates closely to a human pace, but also derives from two cubits (the measure of the forearm). The mile is in origin the Roman mille passus - a 'thousand paces', approximating to a mile because the Romans define a pace as two steps, bringing the walker back to the same foot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the complex measuring problems of civilization - surveying land to register property rights, or selling a commodity by length - a more precise unit is required. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The solution is a rod or bar, of an exact length, kept in a central public place. From this 'standard' other identical rods can be copied and distributed through the community.In Egypt and Mesopotamia these standards are kept in temples. The basic unit of length in both civilizations is the cubit, based on a forearm measured from elbow to tip of middle finger. When a length such as this is standardized, it is usually the king's dimension which is first taken as the norm. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our standards as of today are taken from what King?. What ever king it is he was not Jesus Christ. Here is a scripture passage explaining we have to have perfect weights and measures. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;King James version Deuteronomy 25:15&lt;br /&gt;But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perfect wieghts and measures . If only Jesus Christ is perfect then how can we use some oblong oddboll imperfect creature like a King who isnt Gods express image. Here's why it is wrong to use standard measurement. The whole universe was created by God. Everything he set into place he set into place exactly to his own measurements. Adam himself was not who all things were created through. All things were created through Gods son. He is the living Word of God made flesh. The universal measurements that have been discovered are not so universal yet we can use metrics more perfectly then we can standards. How many men and woman are serious about the adage everymans home is his castle?. Let's say every man is king in his own home. Think of the long term impressions in a persons mind. Is everyman going around measuring things as though his own body is the standard measurement for which he can perfectly measure things by. Maybe thats why everyone is overweight. Maybe some dufus king or President somewhere is obese or overgrown and everyone is trying to measure their own eating to the larger persons. maybe there are so many people playing king of the castle in their homes its like a chain reaction. One person eats more so then creates a standard to the neighbor who eats more and so and so forth. Can you see how imperfect standard measurement is?. Here is some more scriptures about weights and measures.&lt;br /&gt;Leviticus 19:36&lt;br /&gt;Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 20:10&lt;br /&gt;Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 11:1&lt;br /&gt;A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight&lt;br /&gt;Leviticus 19:35&lt;br /&gt;Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;This one stands out the most to me!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Proverb 16:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why this scripture stands out to me is this. As I explained in the first paragraph all things were created through christ. Although there was ephah and cubits which Noah used. Jesus came here himself . He was the second Adam. Because creation is his work and we now know that we can measure things according to the distance of one end of the earth to the other. Also we can measure using scientific means like time. Using the atomic clock and nano seconds. These more perfect measurements dont rest well with the lazy and with those who like most of humanity have pervaded justice in some measure and adapted to corrupt perceptions of wieghts and measure. Steroids for example is widely accepted. Over eating and football hero. Giant wrestlers and basketball stars. How about just plain stupidity is really more of a standard then the universal standards of Christ and his work. Gods work has greater standards and more perfect standards then the work of any artist or the birth of anyone conceived in sin born in proportions of their ancestors not the perfection of Christs Glory from which all things were created. He is on his throne we need only look to him to be absolutely certain that the universe is more perfect in measure then the length of a kings arm or a worse the neighbors or youre bosses. I hope you understand what I am saying in this blog. The kingdom of heaven is within us. The perfect weights sustained by heaven is not sustained by earthly thrones . God doesnt measure according to any thrones here. All thrones will be judged from a higher throne. Especially youre neighbor or bosses throne and even yours.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Here is some more scriptures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 11:1&lt;br /&gt;A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 6:11&lt;br /&gt;Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hosea 12:7&lt;br /&gt;He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amos 8:5&lt;br /&gt;Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ezekiel 45:10&lt;br /&gt;Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-4345569616649033284?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/feeds/4345569616649033284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2009/12/weights-and-measures-are-lords.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4345569616649033284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6998782289385489358/posts/default/4345569616649033284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edwardelkins.blogspot.com/2009/12/weights-and-measures-are-lords.html' title='Weights and Measures are the Lord&apos;s'/><author><name>Edward Elkins jr.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01038498107096197056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='17' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vytI1jzN4ec/SwtQcC3TxzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/rMUTR351Saw/S220/Edward+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998782289385489358.post-4732466257616357950</id><published>2009-12-02T12:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T23:31:09.957-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Formal clothing/garments</title><content type='html'>In the word of God it tells in Joel that we are to render our hearts to God not our Garments. Here is an example of the formal attire used in formal institutions that this is referring to. Clergy who wear robes and magistrates. Nuns and people such as muslim and Islam and Arabic, hindu, menonite, quaker, amish, budist monks, Freemason priests ect. Officers and thier uniforms are to the officials what signifies them as a righeous authority. Can you reason how wearing uniforms in the military as an officer of the law would cause you to render youre garments to God and not youre heart. Hypethetically meaning Johnny law puts on a uniform and like superman in his cape is a righeous crusader no matter how many adulterous affairs. No matter how much hate, no matter how faithless his heart. To the force of uniformed officers the uniform would be all that is required not faith in God and the Love for his righteousness. In the example of a clergy wearing robes it is very similar. They put on the robe but never the armor of God. The say prayers they were taught and perform sacrament rituals but they hypethetically would assume it is only about putting on the robe and not about rendering their heart to the Lord. The righteousness of the Lord isnt in their heart just a robe that symbolizes a righteous position and proffesion. Same goes for those who wear the head coverings and robes of the eastern cultures. Hypethetically they are in their hearts not really righteous and loving the Lord. They have in their hearts the hatred and perverse things which are not seen by our eyes but are looked upon by the Lord. I do not write this because everyone renders their garments to God and not their heart but just to explain an example of not rendering youre heart to God. So as to help discern and explain what not to do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about those immoral people of the law and business people in their formal business clothes. In their hearts they are not clothed as well to God and their proffessionalism is only an outward appearance. In their hearts they are decietfull and perverse. Using corrupt means to gain wealth. Full of greed and envy. Their work they do not do as unto the Lord but as unto the corporate masters of greed. How about the wealthy who buy fancy clothes and formal attire we cannot afford most of us. Yet in their hearts only cheap immoral values and no real Love for what is valued to God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joel chapter 2 vs 12 - 16&lt;br /&gt;12 Now, therefore, says the Lord. Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and mourning. 13 And rend your hearts, and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil. 14 Who knows but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, 16 gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bridal chamber. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man looks at the outward appearance but God judges the heart (1 Sam 16:7&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6998782289385489358-4732466257616357950?l=edwardelkins.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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