Thoughts on the Kingdom of God Present

This week has been a hectic week, of work, and at work. Though in fellowship with my best friend throughout the week, we have shared many eschatological ideas, thoughts and beliefs. I saw several movies this week, each one, has it's own message of course whether good or evil. I guess the most important message one can hear, is you are loved, and the God of Heaven, your Creator, loved you so much, he had a special plan and place to make you one of His children, through the first begotten, Jesus Christ, the Second Adam. Who brings us not only victory over sin and death, but victory over this world.
It seems there is not a day that goes by, we don't find love. Instead we read of, and see and hear of evil. Yet, Christ stated His kingdom is not of this world. This is the hardest thing for the average Christian to understand, and thus he gets blinded by evil everywhere he looks, so He can't imagine how Christ could be presently the conqueror, the victor! He doesnt understand the principle of the heart, and relies on his own personal senses, to derive his truths from rather than the Word of God, written and living. He forgets that we are but dust, and our time here is very short. That the kingdom of God must be in one's heart. We aren't to look for it here, or over there, Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within you!
Is the Kingdom in the hearts of His people?
Jesus said, If I shall return, will I find faith?
What is faith? Is it just some intellectual assent to a belief that something exist, or something historically is fact, just what constitutes, "saving faith"?
Saving faith, is not a belief in something, it is a complete trust and reliance on SOMEONE! That someone is Christ...
If you have read anything much of what I have written on this blog and my others, you know, I believe with all my heart that when Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED" at the cross, and when He spoke to John, in the book of Revelation, saying, "IT IS DONE", I believe that. Too many Christians are looking to the newspapers trying to interpret the book of Revelation from by current events. Audience relevance is the most important key to understanding the Bible.. We must always keep in mind that these letters, these books were not written to us, but for us. They were written to others who lived long ago.. These people understood, John, when He said, even now it is the last hour. They understood Paul, saying the time is near, Peter saying the same.
They understood Jesus when he told the Jews, this Generation would recieve the judgement for the refusal of hearing Him and accepting Him, while He the very Son of God stood in their midst physically, they refused to believe in Him. So the futurist in eschatology, hold out, like the Pharisees, the don't see what they want to see, and refuse to see Christ presence among us, in us, living through us. They anxiously await that someday, He will return again physically and all will be right. He has come, and did return, and yet people refuse yet to this day, to see, His Kingdom wasn't something He was going to establish on earth, His kingdom would not be a physical kingdom where people could point and say - look over there. His kingdom which reigns for evermore is in the hearts of His people who truly have faith and believe, we are not waiting for a better day, other than our physical demise, where our bodies shall return to dust and we shall recieve our spiritual body, incorruptible, and immortal to thus be with the Lord forever more. I am not waiting for Jesus to drop out of the sky, or The Temple to be rebuilt, or for the Jews to have peace in the real estate they desire politically to call Israel. I am not waiting to conquer sin and death, or this world. I have SAVING FAITH, that says, He said "It is finished and it is done, and He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. For me, everything He set out to do in the hearts of men, has been done, and all I am waiting for, is not some Rapture, but for me I await:

1 Corinthians 15:44 (NAS)
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

I know that He lives in me, is my life and I shall take on wings when I leave this earth and sail the heavens with Him for eternity and not because of anything I ever did, or thought to do, or wanted to do, or even said. He will lift me up into the mountains of His righteousness, because He is the King of Glory, and I already live in His Kingdom, and I shall live with Him in eternity. Why, because that is where my absolute, trust lies, in Him, and not myself.

Perhaps now, you might understand more why I believe that only Preterist/Spiritualist Eschatology makes sense... why because... what are we waiting for other than to die our physical deaths and go on to be with the Lord, where there is no evil, no good, but only He that is good, righteous and most importantly HOLY!

Holy, Holy, Holy...


Dr. J
bidding you good night, may the peace of the Lord give you pleasant dreams.

Search The Scriptures

John 5:39
You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,


I visited my wife's church on Sunday. The preacher spent much of his time on a passage from the Old Testament regarding, God speaking the Word.
From this he built his sermon against, those who don't believe in hell, those that don't believe in the devil, those that don't believe Jesus is coming again in a so called "Rapture" a word not even found in scripture. He continued to say he couldnt see how if God could hold the stars and the universe together for all this time, why he couldn't keep every dot, tittle and all of the written Bible in perfect order as it was inspired and written. He just doesn't believe that men could have tampered with the Word of God, or mistranslated. or made any mistakes of it's writing as it is written in his Bible. Of course, I don't know which version he chooses to read.
His entire sermon though using Jesus as the directive was based on what I call book worship rather than person worship, particularly the worship of God, or the salvation that is in Christ. Christ didn't come for us to worship the book, but the spoken word of God, as the Spirit of God speaks to each man, woman or child. I am not saying the Bible isn't the means whereby God speaks to us, but the Pastor even made the statement he wanted them to use it like a horoscope to see what God individually has in store for each one of them on a day to day basis. I don't think that is the reason we have the Bible today to turn it into our own personal messages of personal wishes, and desires.
I believe he is missing the point, it isn't about doctrines, man's traditions, creeds, or even Bible worship. If the Bible is what provides salvation then the Jews should have never rebelled time after time. To be matter of fact he took part of a passage in the Old and developed his whole sermon on the idea that God has written the Bible and it is with us - every dot and tittle as when it was first written.
It would pay that Pastor to look at his own introduction to the Bible he has, and note the words in italic, which the authors admit these words are not in the original scripture but added by them to make it more readable in the English language.
It would pay him to study the original languages to which they were written in, to find the words as they were put down.
It would pay him to realize that it is not the "letter of the word" that we need to be concerned with, it is the "spirit" of the word we must be concerned with.
It would pay him to realize there was an Old Covenant and now there is a New Covenant.
It would pay him to read these letters and passages not as if they were personally written to him, like some try to make the newspaper horoscope. These words are and all have audience relevance to the time, the culture, the people, and the body of Israel in the Old, and the body of Christ in the new, that lived then and there.
Now, am I saying the scriptures aren't for us, absolutely not, but they weren't written to us. These were real people that wrote God inspired words to the people of the times in which they lived, in their culture, in their understanding of things. He forgot or doesn't know that the scribes desperately kept to the dot and tittle of the words of Moses and the Prophets, but that didn't matter, because they too, like himself gave them a subjective meaning rather than the objective intention they were written in. They took the word of God and wrote into it, in their teaching, their own interpretations of the Old Testament and created what Jesus himself referred to as the "tradition of the elders" or as some translations read, "the traditions of men".
He forgets that they had a people who were very concerned with writing down the words just as they originally were, but yet transgressed everyone of them, then justified themselves by interpreting those words to fit their interpretation of things, rather, than a knowledge of God, they came to a knowledge they preferred to fit into their own theology.
Now the Hebrews didnt change the words of the Torah, but instead not unlike the Catholic church and the Protestant pagans, they managed to reinterpret the meaning of words and even more yet, they added a whole tradition of what it meant, eventually which became known as the Mishnah or the Talmud, they re-translated and even worse yet, taught the people to read them a certain way by their leaders, who hungered to hold power over the people. How did they get around the written word, by convincing the people these interpretations of the Law, were the secret oral tradition passed down to Moses and the Elders only- by word of mouth. Not unlike the church is convinced they are orthodox in all they teach, one only has to study early church history to find out how all this "correct teaching" came about. Through power mongering, murder, hatred and more. The facts are the facts, the powers that are and were always determined what the church was to believe. Most if very little really found in the written word. The call it orthodoxy! A misnomer for false church, false prophets and leaders who sought the sheep to follow them for the sake of gain!
They were wise enough to do such things, and managed to do so in many places, but that is the beautiful part of God's true Word, Jesus Christ, the one to whom gives us the Spirit, to know and understand scripture, it is not the words, being perfectly written that gives life, it is not the doctrines or creeds, or sacrodotal exercises of men, that give us life, but it is the story, of God's love to send one man, by speaking life into the womb of a woman named Mary and the bringing forth of Him who lived a life as a human but who listened to the DIVINE Spirit of God within Him, to direct His every thought and action.
It wasn't Jesus argument that the Old Testament had been re-interpreted by the Jews, but that they in thinking by worship of the books would give them life, as if every specific word written in them had some magic to change their hearts, no matter how they wanted to read it, no matter how they studied it, no matter how much they worshipped the Torah, they couldn't find life on those words. The law was a school master to show them there need for
Christ.
Christians cannot find life in the words alone, even if they had never been tampered with, or italicised, or added to, or taken away from or re-interpreted by man's traditions of the hierarchy and the institutional church. A man could read the Bible from beginning to end, over and over again, and yet never find the life of God, that was intended for Him. It is the Living Word that must be spoken into a man's heart, and by the Holy Spirit.
It is Jesus by His Spirit that gives life, It is the overall story of the redemption of men, that give's one life, not that every single word in the book, hasn't or has been tampered with.
It is not the creed of teaching on hell or heaven, or rapture or no rapture, or devil or no devil, that gives life-
it is God through His Son Jesus Christ from which TRUE life comes.
It would pay todays evangelicals to keep the book worship out of their sermons, the building worship as if God needs a house built by men, and the worship as something you do once a week at church out of their sermons and instead focus on the life of Christ within the believer, and that true worship is not what one does on Sunday but how one lives their life in every aspect Monday through Sunday, 24 and 7, for this is worship- to love the Lord thy God with all your heart and mind and soul and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is true worship to live that out in every aspect of life, day in and day out.
Paul made it clear time after time, if the preacher wants to put emphasis on what the Bible says and doesnt say, Paul rebuked and Stephen rebuked and even God rebuked those back in Isaiah who thought that a building held God's presence.
It would pay the Pastor to not only to stand as he says on what he thinks it says, but to stand on those things which are true and not just acceptable by the religious community.
It is like in the New Testament where it says, that there were many that believed but they wouldnt follow Jesus, for fear they would be kicked out of the Temple-- then the Bible says in very clear words for they loved the respect of men more then they did God, so they didnt' follow Jesus.
I challenge any evangelical preacher to seek Christ and not his suppositions, his taught traditions, and his religion, but to seek God with all his heart up and above all his preconceived ideas based largely on man's traditions and teachings, and He will discover the " spirit of the word which gives life".
It is very clear that the "letter of the word brings death".
It is very clear that people's trust is not to be in a book but in the living Jesus Christ. Jesus made this very clear to the Pharisees.
There He was the LIVING WORD, not the ink on tablets, not on stone, but the LIVING WORD that is written on the hearts of men.
This is the story, that God came to restore men to a place with Him, as son's and daughters, and He took the first begotten to bring about many begotten children by the spiritual life of Christ to live within them. Unless a man is spiritual he can't understand spiritual things, only carnal things. The carnal mind is at enmity with God. The fleshly mind comes up with myths, traditions, and philosphies of men, and pagans, and then re-interprets the written word to read to himself, just what they want it to read.
It pays to not just read the words in a book, but to examine, their meaning, their context, the culture and time for which it was written.
It pays to reason, God didnt give us minds to put on a shelf and be left there to just believe the word of preachers, denominations, or so called orthodoxy, God calls us to test all things- for many anti-christ have gone out into the world.
He tells us come let us reason together, He tells us to study and show ourselves worthy, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Study involves an open mind in which we let the Spirit of God give meaning without going in and reading with preconceived and taught meanings.
We need to be open to God to speak to us. The biggest problem for the Christians today is everyone has a different doctrine , a different interpretation and thus people ask like Pilate, did, "what is truth".
I can tell you the Holy Spirit is to be your only true teacher, and when the Spirit is, the doctrines and letter of the word along with the the thousands of interpretations of that will go away and it will result in only one thing- The Truth- which is Jesus Christ, not the letter of the Word, but the LIVING WORD..
Now in saying that, are you to doubt that every word written in it, is there just as God intended it to be grammatically, liguistically, culturally, theologically, the answer is YES!
You are to doubt that it is actually translated correctly, that nothing has been added, or taken away, that no interpretation is preconceived in reading it. so you will investigate, search, study, and find out what is actually there, and be taught of the Holy Spirit, as I John makes it very clear we are to do. The Pastors, priest and other hierarchy of the church world don't want you to do that, that would take away your reliance upon them versus the Holy Spirit teaching you, and to be quite honest, when you find the Truth, they will be mostly out of the jobs in the sense in the way they practice now.
They will be unable to have you worship them, seek them for spiritual guidance rather than God's Spirit within you, His gracious gift that replaces the priest of Old and you will worship in Spirit and in Truth, not in a building or under a steeple, instead you will become His people.
I put the challenge before you. I won't argue with such ignorant worship of a book, I will argue for the worship which is true toward Christ, and yes it is this book that tells of Him, not how to live, but who is alive and Who can come inside and live their life for you, through you and as you. It's about restoration from death to life, and His resurrection that brings us life here and now, and how that life will continue into eternity because of the work He did, and not we ourselves.
It is time for preachers to quit telling their congregation to worship written words but to worship the living Word, and that will change a man, to love. To love God, and His fellow men, and it will not divide, like the preachers have divided the body of Christ into a thousand different book worshippers, and if there was or is a DEVIL he must laugh in glee when he looks at the church as it is , divided in doctrines, creeds, man's traditions, and surely not fulfilling, the oneness and unity of the body of Christ as the true Ekklesia- the called out one's of God.
I close with this from Jesus words, and I beleive the Bible, by the Spirit, and by the Spirit and my studies of the Greek and Hebrew these words didnt get changed.
39"[a](A)You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

A Theorem On The Coming Chaos - Are You Scared Yet?

I enjoy watching Glenn Beck. My reasoning is, that he is a researcher like me. He educates himself, and then shares what he has learned with others. What he has learned is all fact, which most of the Communist and Fascist seeking to destroy this nation fear being told. They fear people, like Glenn, myself and others whose minds are awakened to seek truth, rather than the fiction thrown at us every day by the spin doctors.
I have held to a theory for sometime now, there is a "most secret plot" by people in high places to destroy everything America ever stood for. Kruschev promised that the Communist would take us over from within, not without. We are seeing those days in their beginnings.
Now as a Christian, I am not saying that everything we did was or has been righteous or perfect. Sure enough America and it's people have been as guilty of sin in politics, economics, and how we treat other people's as any nation on earth. However, ultimately, our forefathers, whether Christian or not, understood the principle of the equality of men. This principle is clearly laid out by Paul in the book of Roman's. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God", and all of us, not just a few, need something spectacular to change that nature of men, bent on sin. "Christ is that answer", Paul makes that perfectly clear!
All men are born equal - that is a truth, as God created us all, and with that we do have inalienable rights. Each men as a fallen creature can seek life, liberty and happiness. The nature of fallen men, is however too often centered in his own pursuit of these things without regard for that of others.
In Christ we can truly find, that we can live in a balance of finding that God provides, true life, true liberty and true happiness- I prefer to call it everlasting internal joy. Happiness is a word I associate with the fact that we only seem to be happy when our happenings, (our circumstances) seem not to do us personal evil. So Christians are enamored with Joy, not just happiness, we can keep that joy in the worst of circumstances by staying centered in Christ and His revealed love for us.
Happiness alone as a goal can be self centered.
Joy is centered in the Christ life in you.

All the same, I do believe that governments historically because of the perversity of men, those in power, seek more power, and are motivated to ultimate power, that is power over others, and to obtain that power will use any means necessary to obtain it. War, deception, economics, religion, etc.
I believe there are some things going on, that we have been tricked like the illusionist using card tricks to make us stand amazed at what seems impossible.
The Illusionist works his trick to draw our attention from the hand that is making the moves, to make the trick work, to look at the innocent hand, that is doing all the movement as if there is power in that hand to perform true magic, while all along the magicians other hand is busy making it all look like something real when it is not. He is manipulating the objects that will soon appear magically.
This is illusion utilizing deception and diversion.

I see the immigration issue has been well plotted to draw our attention away from the real culprits coming into this country illegally. They (whoever these secret evil power workers are) have created a deception, a diversion, an illusion, utilizing division given us two sides to keep us from power in unity.
One side is based on human selfishness for their personal well being of jobs, from crime, etc. while on the other hand, in doing this, they create the issue of compassion for people, a care for the immigrant, who is suppose to only be seeking better jobs, a better life, etc. This side, who try to seem humane, but in truth often have their own evil self centered objectives in mind, seek to pay continual lower wages, provide less than safe and healthy housing, and pay a lot less overhead to maintain their business.
They like to use arguments like: our forefathers came over here, the same way, seeking a better life, so why shouldnt these people be able to do so, after all we wouldnt be here, if someone would have been here that believed the same way we do - hatred of illegal immigrants. Let's be honest, the American Indian only reacted the same way, most people are. "Don't come here and force your way in, to steal my natural resources, ability to live, and feed my family, I'll fight back.
Hmm.. seems we have been on the opposite of the border ourselves!
They are both right in their own minds, and what happens the shift of focus of the people is to get us to be locked in battle with one another.
I wrote about this in an email recently on the old technique of Divide and Conquer, historically used time after time when government or those seeking to become the power, sneak in their real agenda their real goal while the division is in place, it always keeps the people in check less they become the power, and the elitist lose theirs.
So, while all this is going on, the illegals still cross the borders.
Fox News tonight revealed videos of men carrying hundreds of pounds of drugs into this country, along with high powered rifles. Of course here is where my theorem comes in.
Interesting enough I went on the Internet to look up Securebordersinfo.org from whence the video came and was suppose to be on and the site was not accessible for some strange reason...hmm...

Before, I tell you what I am thinking, let me say, I love all people of all races, creeds, color and religion, even as Christ did and does.
I have no dislike of any particular group of any people, I only hate sin, and evil.
When I see it, I point it out, make people think, for themselves.
I do not hate the people of countries simply because they are Muslim or look Muslim. I do not hate the "Mexican's or those that look "Mexican". Some of my dearest friends are of Hispanic origin, and I have a niece married to man who has both Hispanic and Asian origin, and a daughter married to a man who is half Hispanic, and I love all of them, with all my heart.

I believe they are as worthy of the preaching of the Gospel and the living of the Gospel towards them as I was and am, Christs love makes us worthy, we have no worthiness in ourselves.
We are to love our enemies. Our kingdom to which we live in, is Christ Kingdom an everlasting one, and it is a spiritual kingdom not of "this world".
Most Christians if a few even understand these words of our Lord.
They and all people are worthy because in Christ, the love He expressed for all men at the cross was for them as well as "Americans".
It would behoove many Christians to read, The Myth of the Christian Nation", written by a Christian friend of mine, you can find his link on this blog site located to the right of my articles, further down the page.

Now to my theorem on the coming chaos -
Here is what I see going on with the border situation, but first I want to share an email I received the other day that a friend of mine forwarded to me from someone that sent it to him. It may be true, it may not, but in retrospect, if there is truth to it, it gives credibility to my "theorem of the coming chaos".
The email I received is here as follows:
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{Events similar to this have also been reported in the Washington DC area, by the Washington Times.}

Interesting, And Darn Scary ! ! So, listen up people!
I remember when Hussein's daughter was interviewed when she was living in the US a couple of years ago---she plainly said at that time that terrorists had infiltrated the US and walked among us everyday......
Happenings in Fresno ... FYI
We now live about 30 miles from Fresno . We are up in the Sierras and Fresno
is the first big town we encounter when we leave the mountains. We shop there
often. I received this from my ex-homicide partner who is still active
in law enforcement circles in the Fresno area.

Excuse the language, but don't excuse the facts. Don't give up
your guns, and buy necessary ammunition if you can find it. Be cautious and
alert. Be ready if, God forbid, we need to protect our families and loved
ones.

If You weren't at Rotary Friday. You missed the only decent speaker we've had in more than a year. LTC John Cotter is the 144th Fighter Wing's anti-terrorism officer. John had a two-part presentation. First part was describing his job as the units anti-terrorism officer. Pretty standard stuff.

The second part was information that will curl your hair. A part-time air guardsman works as a checker at a local Von's. Two women in full burkas buy every prepaid cellphone in the store. Clerk/airman gets to thinking about it. Goes to Cotter and reports incident. Cotter asks store for surveillance video. It's scary enough that he contacts Fresno FBI.

FBI investigates, determines these women have been doing this all over the Valley. Cell phones shipped through Canada to Iraq/Afghanistan where they become triggers for roadside bombs.
The Shell station at Peach and Shaw. Every time a local GI goes there in fatigues they are asked specific questions. What is your unit? When are you deploying? How many aircraft are you taking?

The F-16s out of Fresno fly CAP for west coast. As such they are the first line of defense so they have the US 's most sophisticated air-to-air missiles. Foreign governments would like to get their hands on those missiles or at least learn how to build them. Also how many we have, etc. Two spy groups are working on it, one based at Fashion Fair Mall (the F-16s take-off pattern) and one based at Sierra Vista Mall (the F-16s landing pattern).

Cotter said the ragheads (But we don't profile.) are always probing the base. Two dorks in a pickup show up at the front gate wanting to deliver a package marked Air National Guard, Fresno . No postage, no UPS, no FedEx, no DHL, no nothing. Just a probe.

I asked Cotter why we haven't seen anything about this in The Bee, on KMJ, on local TV news. He said they're not interested. Since Friday I've learned of two other things. My brother-in-law Frank, (management at Avaya) had a Muslim tech who took a leave-of-absence for 6 weeks in Afghanistan . After the 6 weeks were up he called from New York requesting an extension. Frank (who does profile) said, you're fired, and called the Fresno FBI who were very interested. Don't know the outcome.

A Muslim who owns a liquor store in my former hometown of Kingsburg was constantly bugging customers to buy guns for him. Finally one of the guys I grew up with called the FBI.

We are a country at war and the enemy is among us. I don't care what Janet Napolitano says, it's a fight to the death and we should be prepared as possible. Brother-in-law Frank has a theory and I think it may be closer to the truth than Homeland Security wants to admit. There are a certain number (probably a large number) of Muslims among us who are awaiting the trigger date and will begin randomly killing as many of us as they can, sort of a Fort Hood on steroids. I know I'm getting prepared to shoot back.

Two items of interest. Sheriff Margaret Mims wants to grant concealed carry permits to all who are qualified. Columnist Jim Boren, among the most bleeding of the bleeding heart liberals, says it's time for Fresno residents to arm themselves.
LOAD up, you can bet this is happening in places other than Fresno .

David Rayburn
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End of email

I know there is a lot of slanderous speech in it, and proposed conspiracy, and the idea that guns and bullets are needed, etc. I don't agree with the viewpoints necessarily, I just ponder over the facts, if true.
However, let me tell you some facts, I have noted there are Pakistanians, and some others of nation's where supposedly the Taliban and Alqaeda are recruited, funded and trained, who fit "the profile"..blah blah, that speak Spanish very well, that do live among us.
We talk to them often, without paying attention to the details. We often run into them in our stores, gas stations, hotels, and more.
I also know from some former work I did by the names of individuals I spoke with, there is a large population of people especially in the El Paso, Texas region who have "the typical" first and last names, we are all so familiar in hearing associated with alleged Islamic leaders. This much provided information comes to per television news. Names like Mohammed, Furak,and, etc.
Names that send a signal to our brains and we think, Aha!, "he must be from Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, etc.
Oh, yes and they are drawing benefits from our benevolent services provided by Federal and State governments.
Many to most are not U.S. citizens, they may or may not have Visas, which really means little in this day of identity theft and our present laws that provide certain social services to individuals who do not have to be U.S. citizens.
I know I spent 2 years serving and working in Social Services, providing these services to the people.
Now, based on the features of the men, dark hair, dark eye color- most often, and over all physical appearances of the people we meet, who often tell us what countries they are from, I can tell you it would be more than easy for thousands if not at least several hundred "Islamic fanatics "to disquise themselves as " Mexicans". All they have to do, is learn the language, the culture, the mannerism, and fit in.
We as Americans often used this deception in former wars, "blonde men, with blue eyes", to infiltrate German troops. I am sure even now we may have some Hispanic true blood Americans who have been trained to infiltrate the Taliban or others in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. I am sure of it. Men don't change in tactics, just governments.
It only makes sense.
Language often in many places in the world is the only thing that divides us.
I don't speak British, French, Irish Gaelic or Scottish, or New Zealander, yet my heritage and physical appearance fits all these "profiles" if trained to talk like them, I could decieve someone into thinking I was a natural citizen of that country.

While working private investigations you learn to dress and act like the people in the area you are working in, especially while doing surveillance, or undercover work.
The last thing you want to do is stand out like a sore thumb.
The old adage that is often told on television and movies is that the FBI are always picked out by their "3 piece suits and ties".
That isn't always the case, my friend. They know the rules of subterfuge as well and practice it as well as any old P.I. does.

Now here is my theory which does follow along with some of what you read in the email.
Just what if the poor Hispanics are taking the brunt of our hatred, which creates this division of the people in America over personal selfish economics versus human compassion and the ideal of all people deserve a better life at no matter what cost to American indivudals or sovereignty.
What if this is the division being caused simply to keep us looking at the wrong hand of the magician, while he works his magic with the other hand.

An invasion within America of Muslim fanatics to create the great chaos, which will turn America into a Police State much like Israel has or even worse, and is.
Before you quit reading this, let me say, I am not anti-semitic either, though accused of being so because I don't agree with present day eschatology of Darby and Scofield.
I believe they, the people of Israel, Hebrews, "Jews" as anyone- Christ died for them as well and especially came to deliver the Gospel to them first.
The term Jew is really an inappropriate term but even used by me at times, because we have become accustomed to the use of it, describing people in Israel and those we believe who are members of the Jewish religion. We even say Christ was a Jew, which is a slang word, and really that can only apply to those born of the tribe of JUDAH as He was.
We forget that Israel, the old Hebrew nation had 10 tribes to which Paul the Apostle was from one of them, the tribe of Benjamin. So this word really can't be used to apply to all the people living in Israel, they are from many origins, Germany, Poland and even America, and claim heritage as a Jew. We can't even tell if that is true or not after the dispersion in 70 a.d when Jerusalem fell to Rome, most if not all tribes were enslaved by the Romans, and eventually mixed with the Romans and other people of many nations.
Matter of fact, not all of the old Hebrew nation may have even lived in the Holy Land, during the time of Christ, many were dispersed among nations all over the world under the Old Dispersion by Babylonians and the Ayssrians, and only a few returned to the Holy Land and lived there in the times of Jesus. Though the population was more centralized in the area directly around Jerusalem at the time, it was made up of many more tribes then the present political nation Israel can lay claim to. I doubt if many of them could illustrate and prove their genealogy, as is given in the Bible for the one's mentioned in the Old Testament, right up to Christ, that could trace their heritage back to the beginning of time.
I am sorry, but I don't belive they are God's chosen people living and trying to take over all the land there in Israel.
These people are Zionist, and have some extreme political views, with little regard to God or His commandments, or even Christ or Christians, other than desiring to continue the income they recieve from tourism from Christians that travel to visit the sights of the Bible times. Those that call themselves, Orthodox Jews here in America, say the same thing about the formulation of the nation of Israel, it isn't Torah. They are against it and have some excellent material to read, if you care to at least open your mind to truth, once and awhile.
The only people that the New Testament teaches that are the TRUE ISRAEL - are the one's circumcized of the heart, Christians! Paul makes this very clear in the book of Romans.
Christ is the true Israel (see the book of Hebrews) and all those that belong to Him, regardless of race they are one in Him. This is the "mystery of God", that was revealed and completed in Christ. This is explained in Ephesians Chapter Two very well, if you ever bother or care to read it, and rid yourself of the Zionist theology and eschatology.
I don't prefer Palestinians eithers, unless they too are my Christian brothers and sisters and they suffer as much or more than all the people over there.

Now to leave my digression I want to return to the subject at hand, though I do believe there are some Zionist behind the plans to see us become like them, and they will use any method to do so.
The last several spies caught in major spying in this nation were Zionist from Israel. Study and you will find I am not lying about this, it can be Googled as well.

I am sorry, but when chaos breaks out, then someone has to come along to still the chaos, bring in new organization and instill new government, even martial law, to insure "domestic tranquility, even at the cost of your personal liberties!
These are the people that are seeking to rule over us, who want nothing more but ultimate sweet power as elitist to rule every part of your life- to own you, per se.
They not only want charge of your money, your education, you jobs, private business, your health, but every aspect of your life. In government, this is called Totalitarism. A Police State - Communism or Fascism, either one, removes you from the equation and puts a few in rule over all the rest. Elitism, is what I call it. They are the elite, and we are the sheep that need not only to be dumbed down, but corralled and held in check. To be led like dumb sheep to the slaughter.

Internal conflicts in Russia insured that Lenin and then Stalin would soon rule Russia.
The wars between the bourgeois and the proletariats helped to bring about the change that Lenin sought.
All the while leading to less freedom and more enslavement under the elitist rule of Communism. Stalin's rule was supreme Police State, totalitarian to the maximum, where the government was your purest benefactor, as long as you went along with that. Less you speak out, and end up dead, tortured or disappearing in the night to the Siberian Gulag. The best plans of dictators, include silencing, name calling and criminal accusation of those who oppose them.
Gee, have we heard that lately from the left and even the right..?
The facts leading up to Hitler's rule were as follows.
Hitlers blamed the burning of the Reischtag on the Russians, this only diverted the attention of the people from the real culprit- Hitler his SS troops were the one's that did the actual deed)but it was enough to make the people fear the Russians and Hitler was only waiting in the wings to become their Supreme Commander, Dictator, Master.
Right after this is when Hilter was provided complete rule, and then he initiated the "Emergency Powers Act", it read like a version of the "Patriot Act", it didnt really insure the people's security so much as it removed their liberties, privacy, etc, and insured his ruling supreme without interference from rebels. Stalin came and remained in rule for years and East Germany used the Stazi- the East German Secret Police, to have everybody spying on everybody, as enemies of the State.
How many Americans have read the Patriot Act, or the Health Plan, etc. I guarantee, you haven't you rely on the "experts" for what they say... read them..you will be surprised what you learn!
How many even know the little bit of history I just presented you above? Not many of you I am sure, because you have become apathetic, and don't care to know, as long as you can drive a new car, have a job.
They can do that in Russia and China as well. Who want's to live there, not me!

What if this email is true?
What if the real reason behind the borders not having been locked down, is because the division in this country created by the spin doctors, the trained propagandist, is to keep us all shouting at one another, blaming the "Mexicans" for our troubles, and all the while, "the real enemy" (Islamic fanatics)are the one's coming across the borders by the droves, with guns, and drugs to raise more money for more guns and their ultimate plan of chaos in the streets of America?
Somebody knows these things, I can promise you! There are those that are working this plan right now, reading this, and shocked that I know their plans!
I am not the first, there are thousands of us who are awake and not asleep, examining, searching, researching, looking for these facts every day, and finding them. There are too many of us yet, for the plan to work perfectly, we must be silenced, we must be dumbed down, like they are doing our children in their public brain washing institutions they call schools, where history is no longer taught. Where little of anything is taught to be factual then things about "my two mommies, or "how to text too your friends", or "how to create an Internet Social page".
This generation, my generation, we are getting old, and soon shall pass from this world, what will be left?
I am sorry to say, but our poor children are being dumbed down, so they can easily be transitioned into the land of the FREE DUMB!
Oh, they will have jobs, healthcare, money, lives, all provided by their benefactors - the NEW WORLD ODOR...order, but I think it stinks so bad I can smell it from here, kind of like the oil rolling up on the beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
Let me provide another example of dumb down - if you accept 911 on the official story, then someone still needs to cry foul, we have the greatest surveillance and spying weapons and technology in the world, we have spent trillions on National Defense since the Cold War, and yet we are to accept and swallow the story that these guys came to America (the 14 terrorist) and took flying lessons, made plans to high-jack planes and nobody in the intelligence community knew about it! If that is the case, I would say their name "intelligence" is a misnomer..!
Come on, to me that is a more absurd story then what they say about us who believe otherwise about the facts of 911.
Conspiracy nuts, yes you know it, and how often has conspiracy proved the rule of the day? How many time has it been the true facts behind, changes of rule, and governments in history. The killing of Caesar in Rome by the Senate, the killing of Jesus was a conspiracy. Luke says the Pharisees, begin right after Lazarus was raised to form a conspiracy to kill the both of them. "Can't have a former dead guy walking around town"- the truth would draw the people after Jesus, so let's kill them both!
The harrassment of Paul was a conspiracy of 40 Jews who swore they would put an end to Paul, the Apostle.
The conspiracy of the first leader of China, who brought that nation to Communism. The conspiracy of CEO's and others in the corporate world, like Enron.
Get real folks, conspiracy is real, and it goes on everyday, even in the workplace where workers conspire against other workers because they dislike an individual. Wake up, conspiracy is a fact of life!
Here is the definition:
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con·spir·a·cy (kn-spîr-s)
n. pl. con·spir·a·cies
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
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Anyone of these can apply to the word, "CONSPIRACY".

When I was a young man in my early 20's, I practiced doing illusions and got pretty good at it, I might say. I did a few birthday parties doing magic for people.
I know how it works, nothing ever is as it seems to the onlooker, it is all about the patter (your talk) and making the right practiced moves, with one hand and your talk draws your attention away from the hand that is really doing the concealing or revealing of an object.
It is deception in it's purest form, some call it magic, but it is deception, making you believe something is true while the real truth is concealed. You never know the truth, until someone and in some cases the magician shows you how he did it.
Oh you wonder at times, but you just can't put your finger on it.
"How did he do that"?

What if, all that you listen to on the news, all the rhetoric is a diversion, a deception meant for you from seeing what is really going on.
I believe it is, most of the time.I research, and study and discover truth.
The truth is often more bizarre than the illusion that the news media puts out there. Even some conspiracy sites, often get real bizarre with their theories, aliens, reptilians, etc.
I don't buy those, they are absurd.
However, there are others, who have the credibility and the inside info and do tell truth.
You have to always seek to verify facts. As a former Private Investigator, there are many observations and theories, but in the end you must deduct the facts and then report them.
I sign all my emails with a favorite quote of mine from the Sherlock Holmes books, it reads:
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)

Now back to Glenn Beck, he wrote a book called "The Overton Window".
The Overton Window is an interesting political thereom, however I think there is more going on then just trying to get us to accept some things, by making minor and sometime radical shifts of the window on popular thought or acceptance of things.
I think that whoever is the power behind the BIG CARD TRICK is using a marked deck that you can only see with special glasses on.

Christ told us, to "Be As Wise as Serpents, and as harmless as Doves".
We must educate ourselves, to not be blinded by the deceptions in life.
The Bible states that Christians are to discern good from evil, hold onto that which is good and to abstain from evil.
The Bible also teaches us that as part of our spiritual heritage of becoming a Christian, we have been given the "mind of Christ".
This very same mind that could see beyond the Pharisees, and Sadducees, he exposed their self -righteousness for where it actually came from.
He told them "your father is the "diabolos", the evil".
"THE DEVIL"- is how the Catholics, and Protestant traditionalist changed it to read. The Word in the Greek is Diabolos- from which we get the word Diabolical... it means evil, not a person, but a system or life of evil....religion is definitely that!

Jesus could see right through their phalacteries, their bell ringing, their long cloaks of self rightousness,all their religious hooplah. He saw them for who they were and what they were up to, every step of the way.
Thus because he knew them and their thoughts, in the very best sense who they were, he often escaped them. He alluded them for years, he was able to throw questions and parables at them, yet they were too blind to see their own illusion would no longer work, because "He was the light that had come into the world.
He revealed their deceptions, and their self centeredness, their EVIL for what it was.
I believe as Christians we need to wake up more to what is really going on.
Now I don't believe in creating fear or hatred, and as I said, I have met some wonderful people of all races, creeds, colors and religions, that all need Christ, just like I did.
I love them, but what I am saying to you, we need as God's people to be more observant of the facts, and aware of our surroundings and more apt to discover evil, and expose it then most.
Not for the purpose of scaring people, are you scared?
Perfect love- Christ love, removes all fear.
We should have the very discernment Christ had while here in the flesh for now we have His very life inside of us.
To summarize, what would be the purpose of those who would allow all this deception, these Overton Window shifts and deceptions along with prevalent illusions of making us focus on the wrong issues and the wrong things, and in this case even the wrong people in what is taking place. Eventually Chaos- that's what..
While we are busy focusing on the oil spill it has distracted us from the illegal immigrant issue that was so prevalent just days before, all the news was the Arizona Law that was passed. It seems as long as new NEWS BREAKING items come along, and they run it day after day, our attention is completely drawn away or diverted from the truth or finding the truth or resolving problems in America.
They don't want the illegal immigration issue resolved right now, it doesn't serve their evil purposes, the invasion of the nation by the real enemy who seeks not just your jobs but to take over the entire nation. It won't happen of course, our troops are trained, very well trained to disperse the enemy, but who will really come into power then? Will we then have a militarized, police state, in union with the elitist corporate and political machine behind it all. A new government not unlike Stalin's reign as dictator.
Let's think for a bit. Let's look at some facts on the Gulf Oil Spill issue.
For example, why did a "blowout preventing valve" fail that is made by the Cameron Company. This valve is still not working right?
A valve that had already been shown to have some 250 possible weaknesses and possible failure points. Who is the Cameron Company that makes these?
Why did this one fail and still failing when they have been used more than in this one case? Is there or was their a plot to make this whole scenario? Is it possible, there is some conspiracy here?
Why is BP catching hell, when TransOceanic owned the rig, and Cameron's valve is supposedly the cause?
Did anyone think that this is an Overton Window to move the public opinion to lean a little more to becoming Al Gore's green, to cut back on drilling our own oil, to lessen our national strength once more,our National Security, in using our own natural resources and become less dependent upon the Islamic countries for our oil?
We would become less dependent on the Muslim Oil Cartel, why they don't want that.!
Why don't we think these things out, why are we blinded by all the false rhetoric?
Let's investigate as a people, the connections, the facts, and when found, let's confront those responsible and quit leaving everything to the Fox guarding the Henhouse to tell us how the chickens all got killed and ate!

Why, because you have been taught just like you have in Orthodox religion
(Churchianity). "Don't ask questions".
You are to just believe whatever the EXPERTS tell you.
Church Leaders, Politicians, and Journalist, are notorious for telling lies. for spin doctoring, utilizing every known deception known to mankind to keep you under their power, mesmerized by their charismatic answers to all of life's problems. You worship them and idolize them, and that is just what they want. It serves their better purposes - themselves!

When will you as a Christian listen to the Lord, when he says,
"come let us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet, I shall make you as white as snow....
Why, because you have been blinded by the god of this world - EVIL!
Are you scared yet?
I hope that I haven't instilled fear but faith, to trust the one person, that is always true, the truth Himself. He who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life."
Here is my hard fact theorem, I don't like it anymore than you do.
America as we know it, is undergoing the greatest evil changes it has ever experienced and ever will, and unless God Himself intervenes, we may face challenges along with our children that we never dreamed possible could take place in this country. Challenges, that will make and break us as a people that once called themselves, the United States of America. We are about to see what history has proven time after time, all kingdoms of men, may fail and do fail.
I pray not, I pray that our eyes, will be opened, and we will not seek hatred and bitterness toward any one people, even the most evil of enemies, but that we will be driven to our knees in prayer and supplications. I pray that we will for once wake up to truth, Christian truth and be a people united in heart as Christians, not driven apart, divided over trivial and ignorant issues of men, and that we will as the first thirteen colonies did be brave enough to say, we stand united against any enemy that threatens our peace, our liberty and our pursuit to live. However, I don't believe violence, or revolution by force is the answer. I believe it is by love in Christ that we can conquer our enemies. I pray that we will see the way, is not politics, wars, religion, economics, nor even eschatologies, theologies, etc, but the answer is LOVE toward one another and but mostly toward God our Creator, and the one that we all must answer to.
Are you scared yet?
Then it is time to replace that fear with knowing Christ, and His love.
Though we may end up seeing in our lifetime the fall of America, we still have and live in the everlasting Kingdom of Christ, as brothers and sisters in Christ.
You know, love can change the world and it did.. It is happening every day, as people discover the truth and love of Christ for the first time.
Let us be that light, and salt to this world, less we hide our lights, and the salt loses it's flavor and be good for nothing but to be trampled underfoot.
May God bless us as Americans, yes, but God please bless our enemies, by allowing them to see the glorious light of Jesus Christ, which when one is exposed to the light, all darkness is driven out. If we claim to be Christian, then Christ love should be the predominant character of behavior exemplified in our lives, toward ALL MEN!
Let us as Christians, bend our knees before God, our Father, in unity in Christ, and pray not just for this country but one another, regardless of creed, color, race or religion, and let us no longer be blinded by the darkness of this world and man's kingdom's but let us know and realize everyday what the Kingdom of God is: it is Joy, Peace and Righteousness in the Holy Spirit.

Chaos may come, but the peace of Christ is everlasting for those of us who know Him and that peace that passes all understanding.
Let us not be a part to the impending evil, but let us know it, abstain from it, and allow the Spirit wroking through you, to change others about you, to see truth and know it, and live in it and by it.
Let us know the enemy, yes, but let us love them as Christ taught us, and love can change the world for the better.
Teach us O Lord not to fear, teach us Lord not to allow our fears to produce hatred, and defensiveness, but teach us Lord always to be on the offense with the life of Christ in us, and the Gospel preached from us, and not just in words, but by the deeds of your Spirit within us working those works of righteousness toward ALL people that we encounter in this life.
Let us be courageous to speak truth, to be wise, yet harmless, and to exercise the minds for which you gave us individually each of us, not just a few, or just the special,but all of us, if born of His Spirit, we can seek, and know truth without the necessity of anyone, including myself, in telling us what truth is, Christ is the Truth...don't be fooled or scared.
Jesus said these words, "you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". Therein lies how we keep our liberty, true liberty, by abiding in Him who is truth.

Dr J. Black
with love in Christ always.

Poison In Our Foods and Poison In Our Lives

Methyl Iodide & Methyl Dioxide. What are these chemicals? How are they used?
I watched the movie " I Witness" tonight, and decided to do some research on this chemical and was totally surprised to find out what I found out.
This stuff is so bad, that scientist use this in labs, to induce cancer in rats for research, yet the EPA has approved it to be used on all our vegetables and fruits as a pesticide. Now, people wonder why more and more people are dying of cancer. It is time we grow our own food, safely with none of the pesticide trash put out there.

I quit drinking milk 8 years ago, because I got Crohn's disease, and best research proves that it is because of the hormones, anti-biotics and other things aren't good for you- but the real kicker for Crohns' victims is that even though milk is Pasteurized and all that, there is one thing it doesnt kill and that is Paratuberculosis. This bacterial organism has been found predominantly in the small intestines of Crohn's victims like myself. It is akin to Tuberculosis, but it destroys the linings of the small intestine, inducing infections, which cause IBS.
So, I quit drinking milk for nearly 10 yearsnow. Within the first two years I was in remission, and have had only one small bought since.
I recently have been drinking only "Promised Land" Chocolate milk. Which even in drinking it, is risky, because though there are no antibiotics, no hormones, put in the milk cows, and they eat organic feed, and grass, it still may contain Paratuberculosis in it, as it is Pastuerized.
I just don't drink it everyday, and I love chocolate milk!

The point to my writing about these things is to bring us to see somethings, we may not wanted to admit or look at.

We must come to realize that the government organizations we pay to protect us, have failed drastically and continue in their failures to protect us from harmful chemicals and such in our environment. Yet, we pay trillions in taxes, for these organizational bureaucracies and they continually fail and then want to point the fingers at the private corporations. For example, the recent oil spill, we pay a huge amount of money to have a DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR made up of many inspectors and regulations. I had hoped they had developed contingency plans for just such an emergency, but as we now are seeing, they did not. That failure of one of our government departments is now polluting, killing and destroying our environment, eliminating jobs, and wildlife.
Many of you may not know that the person responsible for that area of supervision, resigned after this oil spill.
When will Americans wake up? It is not the private companies who fail us, it is the government who is highly paid to supposedly protect us, by use of the continued high dollar taxes bled from us everyday. It is their ineptness that is killing us, destroying our environment, the food chain and even more.
Pointing fingers like they do, is to distract you from the true cause, only so that they can then advance their agenda, to create one more over paid, highly inefficient new bureauracy. They will now spend thousands of dollars investigating, having hearings, forming new committees, etc. Give them time, and a new department will develop over all this, costing tax payers even more money.
I ask, who will investigate them and their failure to act responsible with the tax dollars they steal everyday from us? Perhaps it will be Congress or the President, that will investigate. That is like asking the Fox to guard the Henhouse! The only way the the American people will once more have the power to control this monster, that has grown a million heads, is the day the people can get the money out of their hands and back into our pockets. Don't blame the IRS, they are simply a head coming off the monster, we have allowed to feed on us. Congress and the President, have the power to change themselves, but they refuse. It is the old game of blame shifting. We didn't do it- they did it! No, you failed to live up to the promises for which you designed and implemented these bureaucracies for. So, I say, if it doesn't work, get rid of it. Don't go trying to fix the problem of the poison we have, by adding more poison, let's get rid of the poison. Income taxes, and big and yet bigger government, that is the problem. I believe in limited government. You might say, I am true liberationist. Yes, we need some form of government, and we had it at one time, but once they got the power to take by force a man's working wages, it was like opening the door to the barn where all the feed is kept and letting the farm animals lose to enter. Before long, all the feed is gone, so now the animals will start looking for another barn door that's open. Note, like the animals in my illustration, when you overeat, you become big lazy and stupid! Here we are, and we have a centralized government, that is not just big, it is huge, it has got lazy, and for sure STUPID! We have left the barn door open far too long, it is time, that we put double locks on it, and build larger more secure pens to keep the animals in.
I am for flat tax on goods sold!
This is a fair tax, and holds back the many headed monster from eating up all the feed.
Now, back to my main theme here.


READ ABOUT THIS TOXIC CHEMICAL BEING SPRAYED ON YOUR FOOD -
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/06/local/me-pesticide6

Read up on methyl dioxide, methyl iodide, etc. and see what is going into our food. Then you have all the genetic changes introduced by the geneticist, that work for people like Monsanto, who once was a large pesticide manufacture and now is the largest food producer in the world!

My goodness, I write about these things, because I care and recognize evil more than most, because as a Christian, my Saviour is all knowledge and wisdom, and He gives me discernment about these things, inspires me to not just accept things for what they seem. The Bible tells us to recognize evil, to abstain from it. and test the spirits as well. So, I research, I study, I seek truth about everything I encounter in life. Jesus tell us, we shall know the truth and it shall set us free. I am freer than most, because I haven't been fooled, I haven't been put into bondage to lies, deceptions, and the things that seem to draw men away from the true problems and solutions in life or for that matter, about life.
Sometimes I wish I could live my life like most, live in an illusion that all is well with the world, religion, governments, people. etc. Sad to say, but it is not, and it pays us as believers, Christians, to be as Jesus said, "Wise as Serpents, but harmless as Doves".
We cannot change these things, as long as we continue to believe we cannot, but when people unite there are many things that can be changed. I give the example of Civil Rights, and now the large movement by Hispanics against immigration laws.
Things change for them and did change because they are and were a people that united in a cause with a single goal, purpose, they are of one mind, and spirit about the things they so believe in. They speak out and come out in large numbers to show one mind and heart, unified to see that change takes place.
I hate to say this, but they are more passionate about their concerns, then most homebred Americans are in relationship to the problem of immigration, or for that matter, all Americans should be and especially all Christians should be. The Civil Rights movement largely lead by a person who called himself a Christian minister, Martin Luther King Jr. a pacifist, one who did not incite the violence we saw take place at times, but all the same because the Black Americans were united, one voice, one goal in heart, they accomplished great changes in policy, legislation, and more in this country.
The reason any one remains in power over others, is there is no voice against them. So the evil goes on, and will, as long as our voices are not united and we are silent or even apathetic.
As long as the elitist of this world can keep us divided as a people, they win we lose. Do some research look up how Dividing to Conquer has been used historically and politically and you will see, and begin to recognize some truths about what is happening in this country.
This brings me to my final point to all my ramblings tonight, as long as those who call themselves Christians are divided over doctrines, man's traditions, and myths, rather than making the Gospel of Christ, the cross and resurrection the centrality of what bonds us as believers, the institutional church will never be the early ekklesia, that "turned the world upside down". People who call themselves Christians, are so divided up over issues, doctrines and even myths, they can't even have a single unit of the their own denomination, one of their churches go without breaking up, throwing out Pastors,and even splitting up, over things, that really don't matter and that aren't a part of the Good News.
They were all of one heart and one mind in the early Ecclesia. Yet, Paul warned what was and what was coming. It began right there in the body of Christians in Corinth, one said I am of Apollos, another said I am of Paul, etc. Paul tells us ver clearly where that mentality comes from, it comes from CARNALITY, Flesh, not from the Spirit of the Living God within us. Did Paul disagree with some, yes, but they didn't divide over it permanantely, Gentile Churches versus the Jewish Churches,Paul and Barnabas, instead they found common ground in Christ, and stayed united in love! Carnality creates Christians who are not walking in love but in division, factions, strife, etc.
Paul clearly defines these as the evidence of the sinful man, not born again believers!
Religionist set out from the beginning to divide and conquer and did a great job of it!
The church is powerless because their is no unity in love for one another, there is only division over doctrine, man's traditions and teachings, and little of Christ or Christ centeredness! When the body of Christ is united once again in love for one another and for the Father, we could turn the world upside down AGAIN!
No, I am not calling for the World Council of Churches, nor the re-establishment of the Catholic Church as the only church. If you have read my writing on "Why the Church is Failing", you will understand. I am not calling for organization or re-organization. I am calling for the organism of Christ to be one! The church as formed and created by men, is merely a reflection of fallen men. The living true body of Christ- the Ekklesia- the called out one's of God, His assembly, is an organism not an organization. It is made up of all TRUE CHRISTIANS BORN OF HIS SPIRIT AND LOVE. It is relationship with the Father and the Son and one another, not an overstuffed, over organized, men lead, and breathed, but a Holy Spirit breathed organism of those who Christ lives in, as them, and through them.
We as Christians have let the purity of the Gospel be corrupted by man and his teachings, and in so doing have poisoned the body of Christ with lies after lies, that divided us, and took us from the centrality of the Gospel, which is Christ and His work- completed and finished to save mankind from their sinful selves.
Paul was so concerned over it, he said I preach only Christ crucified and Christ resurrected, and he sure wasn't concerned about baptism, because he preached far and wide and couldnt even recall even baptising maybe but two or three individuals. Yet, we have people who claim to be Christians divided even over issues like these, as to whether a man can be saved if he isnt baptised. Read I Corinthians with your spiritual eyes open and you will see these things.
How stupid we have become, how self centered, how man centered, and how blinded by the religionist, and religion, we have lost sight of Christ!
Folks, just like pesticides that poison what we eat, religion has poisoned the beautiful and true Gospel (good news), that saves all men who call on the name of the Lord though Jesus Christ and Him alone. Nothing added, and definitely nothing is taken away, in this one solid truth.
All the other doctrines are man's wisdom and God has proved how foolish that is...through what Paul calls the foolishness of the cross.
God's wisdom is greater than all the foolishness of man and his organizations, I might add.
Become wise, grow in Christ, and Him alone. Concern yourself with these things.
Who is Christ? What does He really mean to me, and how does that affect my life? What does it mean to be a Christian?
Paul said it was the mystery now revealed - "Christ in you, the hope of glory"....We have missed a large part of the complete Gospel of Christ. We are not followers of Christ as people are followers of Buddha. No, we are more than followers of a new morality, religion or another guru.
We have the living, resurrected life of Christ in us, if we are His.
It that is so, what does that mean for you and for me? A whole lot, when you give it thought and reflection.
Take time to think on heavenly things, and your paradigm of thinking will change to be centered in HIM! Things in this world are only changed when the people in it are changed and ONLY the true Good News can change all men, and this in effect will have an affect on the world around each of us, individually and corporately. We will as the Ekklesia of God, then be the light of this world, and the salt of this earth. Yes, Jesus has come, and He has come to have life through his people. Will we realize it, and live it, or just go on the way we are, poisoned in everything we take in spiritually. For whatsoever a man soweth to, he shall also reap. It's time and past time, for the Christian community of believers to sow seed that isn't poisoned by man's traditions, myths and religion. Let us plant pure seed in our gardens, and find that we will will be fed with the pure Word of God - Jesus Christ!

Doctor J

The Passing of Friends

I am saddened by the news this night of the loss of two people in my life. My best friend since 8th grade, loss his little brother Davie over a week ago, and then his father Web, passed away a few days ago. Web was a great man of intelligence and wisdom. He was a man of integrity, and was one of the greatest thinkers and speakers I had the privilege of knowing in my lifetime. Web found Christ a reality for himself, and he very took to heart the great commission- to preach the Gospel to all the world. Web fulfilled his mission, and now as Paul said, he knew it was time, he had fought the fight of faith and held out until the end.
Sadly from the news I got it contained little information as to how or why. Arthur his son - aka Soxie to me and those of us that ran together in those years past, sent me a brief but sad email informing me of the news just yesterday. No details just that Davie his brother and Web his father had passed away. I wrote to their online obituary guest books today.
Web gave me my first real job, at age 14 years of age, I worked for him at his furniture store, in Alamogordo, New Mexico after school and in the summers. I still have my original Social Security card, that I obtained then so I could work for him.
Web was a quiet and thoughtful man, who didnt speak until his thoughts were gathered, and precisely organized to persuade or motivate those he spoke to.
His speech was always full of grace to those that worked for him and knew him especially as a Christian man.
He taught me much, about politics, religion, the Bible, the Charismatic movement, which he played a large part in as a leader with the Full Gospel Businessman organization. You could not argue with Web, he was probably the greatest debater I ever knew, he always had the answer, and with his many years of sales under his wing he could be most persuasive and he would always win the debate, and in the end you had a friend for a lifetime. He had few if any enemies I ever knew of, he was known by all and loved by all. Active in his church, active in his community.
When he sold the furniture store in his later years, it was as if a landmark of my playground had dissapeared. I worked there and played there just as hard. Soxie his son and I found many occassion to goof off, and hopefully not get caught in those days. These were years before, Web, had really turned his life over to Christ, I can still hear him say, when we goofed up, "hell fire damnation" boys, what were you thinking, or doing. Years later, when Christ had tempered him, and taken away any sort of speech as that ( which was the worst thing I ever heard him say in my years knowing him) all of his speech became full of grace, no harsh words, never a word of discouragement, just encouragement, exhortation, and love.
He loved with great capacity his brothers and sisters in Christ, and those who needed Christ. He loved his family. I can only say, he was a mentor, friend, and will be greatly missed.
I last saw Web a few years back, I believe he must have been about 77 years old at that time. When Web left, the furniture business, he became a real estate broker. He worked with one of the large real estate firms in Alamogordo. I was quite impressed, here he was the oldest guy working there, and he was the top seller for the last several years. Number One! All over the wall hung his accomplishments in sales! Whatever Web set his heart and mind to do he excelled at it, always.
He taught me about sales, he taught me conservative politics, he taught me about God's gift of grace to each man. He knew his Bible as well, or better than most of the preachers out there. He understood the founding fathers thinking on America and Freedom.
He could quote verse by verse in any persuasive teaching or preaching the Bible from memory.
I loved Web, I am glad that I got to have lunch with him when I visited last, and I enjoyed getting to see Davie as well, he was at home.
I have missed my friend Soxie a lot, he lives so far away and we just don't get to be the friends we once were because of time and distance between the two places we live, but He along with his family will always be my second family. I share your grief but I also have learned to know God's peace in these things, because I know God's love, and I know, that someday, when I leave this earth, I will be greeted by Web's smile and Davies laughter, once more. God speed my friends. I will always love you, and your memories and the times we shared will always be right where they need to be, in my heart.. I dedicate this to you both.