BLESSED WITH UNDERSTANDING

A polish friend just asked me this: "Hello brother. I have a question for you. I have a problem with reading the Bible. It is known that translators have made mistakes; and also those who copied the original books made errors. Contamination like "Comma Johanneum" (Wikipedia) must also have happened. Knowing this, for me, this makes the reading the Bible all the more difficult. I do not know if what I read is true. And if I am lucky to get it right, still the mischief in me wants to trick me by dissuading me from reading the truth and believe. I do not know how to deal with it?"

It is not possible to answer such questions with a one-liner sentence. Spiritual realm can only be painted with pictures, just as Jesus did with parables.

Those who have been propagating this pious religious falsehood about the cover to cover Word of God to be taken literally with an unshaken faith propagate only their own agenda and not God's. You still don't understand?... Jesus often said.  UNDERSTANDING as it is given by no one else but the Holy Spirit is what the appointment of the five-fold ministries is all about.

[Ephesians 4:11-12] And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ.

Pastors closed doors to coo-coo prophets and traveling so-called evangelists because they have messed up their church and their sheep and their doctrines. 

[John 21:15-17] “Tend My lambs.” “Shepherd *My sheep.” (...) He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love *Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love *Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Tend *My sheep.

*If you love Jesus you will love HIS SHEEP.

Many of those dogmatists threw away the Holy Spirit, because He has to fit into their theology. Also they threw away the power of the Holy Spirit for today: tongues and their interpretations, prophecies, the miraculous, knowledge, understanding and wisdom (all gifts). And now they have problems with the Bible. Imagine...

It is as if to say, "We do not need the five-fold ministries, e.g., the Bible Teachers (Ephesians 4:11), we have the written Word of God now."   

[Psalms 119:144] Give me understanding that I may live. [Psalms 119:169] Give me understanding according to Your word. [Prov 1:2] To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding. [Prov 1:5] And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel.

1. UNDERSTANDING absorbs 2. KNOWLEDGE, which when practiced produces 3. WISDOM. 

The second problem is this: [John 6:44] No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. 

Many people embrace religion but mostly out of fear of hell or some eternal damnation. But they have never been drawn to Jesus by the Father. If anything they have been drawn to perhaps the evolution of Christianity and the subsequent Christian theology (Catholic or Protestant). They assume lots of things and way too soon jump to conclusions. Only too readily they embrace man's theology over the personal living relationship with God, which they know nothing about, which includes understanding of His nature and of His ways.

A submission to God's ways is a too farfetched idea. For one, one must know the Father; and for two, one must deal with mercy and compassion, which means; one must come out from self and feel another. If that's not possible then knowing God is also not possible. Self will never prosper with God. Self and the ego drive will eventually come in conflict with God. Hence, [Micah 6:8] He has told you, O man, what is good and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? 

My advise to such would be to completely forsake any religious indoctrination. Yes, go wicked and fill your cup with vileness; if that's what you really want. In other words, knock yourself out, go for drugs, drunkenness and wild sexual orgies, steal and kill and fill the cup of that mischief within your nature (some say: the original sin). Then see the truth about yourself whether you have been totally deprived of any fear of God the Creator or you still fear Him. Find out of you are the tare or only a prodigal son or daughter. Until then you have only religion and struggles with flesh or as some believe the fallen devil and his supposedly fallen demons who—we've been repeatedly taught—work overtime to make you fall too. 

The Last Reformation cleanses us from this senseless and blind psychology of fools who gave it to us; and from fools who still propagate it today.

This is how I have answered his question:

"Hey, every error in scripture is also a test for the real you; if you are truly after the living person, God, even the Father, or only after a dogma and theological interpretations. In Poland people discuss without the culture of understanding and spiritual illumination. Dissensions are common, but only over the letter and never over the Spirit; for hardly anyone can argue with the bright light of the Spirit of Truth. You can't read the Bible dryly and dogmatically. Remember that the letter kills, but only the Spirit gives life (2Corinthians 3:6)."

Based on this verse of Mark 12:23-27 “In the resurrection, when they rise again, which one’s wife will she be? For all seven had married her.” Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”

If the followers of Jesus understood His sayings they would not even be inclined to those idiotic beliefs that angels fell from heaven with Lucifer, cohabited with human women and produced giants. For winds, spirits and flames are incompatible with human flesh.

THE CHOICE TO NOT GET IT

The discourse is over linage, one is Cain's and the other Abraham's (through Seth). In this context those who claimed to come from Abraham said, [John 8:39; 43-44] They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham."(...) "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me."

Cain was the first liar and murderer so Jesus does not speak about Abraham's lineage to which they subscribed, but about Cain's. Their father was not Abraham for they were Kenites and Jesus confirmed it according to their (fruits, Mat. 7:17-20) words and deeds. It is all so logical and simple. The devil was Cain and his children who imitate his deeds are devils upon this planet. Therefore Jesus told them, "But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do." (John 8:40)

UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURES

[Luke 24:45] Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Sooner or later someone has to open your understanding of Scriptures;  someone He has anointed, and then the anointed of the Lord will present you with possibilities as to the truthful (TRUE) understanding of God's mind, soul and heart instead of man's flat interpretation within the confines of an established theology.

Lo and behold something new and refreshing is here. Recognize the time and the gift God sends your way.

People make dogmas out of God's word as if He is a machine. And then based on that formulated dogma and religiousness anything else that brings a much better understanding is viewed as a threat to that "machine" with push-buttons as if we can manipulate God to our own advantage? Hardly anyone on this planet wants to see God as the ALL Mighty and fully in control over all of His creation One. The reason for this is that man got himself seduced and deceived by his own ego and is not even trying to understand the fact that it was not of his/her own doing or of his own creation when he or she plopped out of the womb. Only on a deathbed some realize it, but often it is too late to do anything about this dark and closed off box we call human mind.

"The letter kills but only the Spirit gives life." Jesus quoted the OT so did all the apostles, but sometimes they quoted something according to that day's understanding. The list is long and it is a very big subject. But I can only give you two examples out of many.

YOU DECIDE

In Isaiah 53:5 we read that, "By His stripes we are healed." The word is (חברה) HABORAH, which would mean stripes, lashes, but the Mazoretic text reads וּבַחֲבֻרָתוֹ V' B'haborto (HABOR), which means this: and with His company or by association with Him, even by our union with Him WE ARE HEALED. However, this reading would present a problem for those who are in scriptural, ritual and of a religious mindset (where everything must be correct, sort of worshiping the Word rather than the Living Giver of it through an imperfect man). And those who are reciting "by faith" that 'I am healed by His stripes' claiming and naming (as we have done in the faith movement), etc., like some magical words, deal only with a religious dogma. But that's no problem; we all have been there. There are stages of growth and spiritual maturity. One must only be careful to not fall into a dogmatic and self-righteous kind of a pride. Too many people have died from their stubborn faith confessions. They have not sought knowledge, but only blindly believed and confessed until they lost their breath. This sort of a religion appeals to most because it suits the ego more than just annulling it. And yet this blind belief is being propagated to this day.

Those who maintain a living relationship with the person, having the central and not just a dogmatic or theological message; would rather choose the HABOR over HABORAH, which is a company, an association and union. And yet 1Peter 2:24 reads, for by His wounds you were healed.

In those days of religious indoctrination the reading of Isaiah 53 was rendered that way, religiously. When Jesus appeared, of whom Isaiah spoke, only few were able to join Him and follow.

The five steps that lead to freedom from religion are these: 1. believe, 2. continue, 3. become a disciple, 4. know the truth, 5. be made free. John  8:31. That's the natural course of progress.

Only few were able to continue after they had believed in Jesus; and much less follow Him (like the 70 disciples who stopped following Jesus). As a result they had not arrived at the point of the complete Truth and its subsequent fruit - FREEDOM. At which station are you? 
   
[Jeremiah 3:15-16] Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding. It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the LORD, "they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again."

Some want to have the temple made out of stones again with the Ark of the Covenant; Levitical priesthood; lightening, thunder, ceremonies, sacrifices and declarations and emphasized national pride. No one wants the God who speaks through His humble prophets like Jeremiah (verse above). We want won wars, slaughter of our enemies by the power of the Ark... national pride. Then and only then we will believe that God exists and then we'll believe that the Bible is true. And the result is? ... You've got the answer: pride and more pride. Man's ego will never be gratified and it is this crazy mechanism man worships and which drives him to the grave.

No one wants to hear a prophet, or a shepherd, or an anointed servant of His. But exactly by these God's tests man's heart. Some are tares, some are just the field; others are goats; others are like the foolish virgins and others are the sheep, sons, the good seed and wise virgins. Which one are you?  

It is not the confessions and outwardly declared beliefs, nor ritual religion that bring us back to God, but rather understanding and knowledge.  

Now, which would make a real sense to you; the stripes or the union and fellowship with Him; religion or relationship; declaration or the embrace?

CURSE & LIGHT

Another very interesting passage of scripture is this. Genesis 12:3 God said (Mazoretic text) וַאֲבָרְכָה, מְבָרְכֶיךָ, וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ, אָאֹר; וְנִבְרְכוּ בְךָ, כֹּל מִשְׁפְּחֹת הָאֲדָמָה. And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curses you will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. The only problem is with the word אָאֹר, which does not make sense A'AR and not A'RAR (past tense for bitter affliction), cursed. To curse in this instance AROR is not used, but וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ (V'meqalel), which is a stronger word.

Strong's Concordance KJV reads, "And I will bless H1288 them that bless H1288 thee, and curse H779 him that curseth H7043 thee." Notice that to bless is the same number H1288 but when we come to cursing, the first word is ARAR (H779) (bitter). The second word (H7043) "curseth" is  קלל QALAL something to make sport of, despise, put down and revile. These two words drastically deviate from each other.

It has to do with our understanding rather than a dogmatic indoctrination. Someone might say, 'How dare I to touch this 'holy cow" … religion has made out of God's word only to be kissed, bowed and burn incense to…' I suppose. Do you get the drift?

Many of us have dwelled for much too long under this religious self-serving indoctrination and yes, imbecility. Allow God's light to penetrate your mind today. Is it really so hard to part with the old garbage? The light reveals to us what this garbage I speak of here really is. All that I write and say is the light in which you see the past.

I speak with divine authority for no one can do that unless it's been given to him from above. You must decide whether to cross the line and go deeper into the light or stay in the drabness of the past religious indoctrination. 

KILLING FOR GOD


When someone wants to make a dogma out of the written word then one can, and then proceed to make yet another religious idol. Many have done so. They have so ever ‘nicely’ bound themselves, and stand in their self-made prison and in the process they keep on binding others to their own subjective beliefs just to control. It is always about control of other people because the ego craves it and the (oppressive) self wants to dominate others. The ego constantly craves gratification and in religion that has now been established for more than one thousand years.

Then, under the reformation of Luther and beyond him, killing went on just as it was done under Catholicism. No one who really cares for God—or has any affection for the Creator and the Heavenly Father—would kill another human being in disagreement over a formulated-by-man and frozen in time doctrine.

Therefore, it is the ego that torments and kills others; and that ego is the idol man really worships.

Luther killed people, so did Calvin, and Zwingli who branded those who believed in adult baptism as Anabaptists. Sprinkling of children is no baptism, but only a nice blessing of dedication and there is nothing wrong with it, but it is no baptism, which comes from (Jewish) Mikveh, which is a total immersion. Baptism also speaks of Noah's flood in which sin and the sinner died. Therefore, baptism is a form of cleansing and purification. » Read more about it

Back to Isaiah 53 & Genesis 12.

1. Which is better, by having a fellowship with Jesus we get healed, or by going around and piously declaring His word?

2. This one may be trickier. Literal text word for word: and I shall bless ones blessing of you and one making light of you I shall curse.

The making light of you does not really make sense; and Hebrew scholars will agree. The Hebrew letters of Aleph Vav and Reish (אור) make up the word “Light.” But, Aleph and Aleph and Reish (אָאֹר) don't make sense.

My rendition of this verse: those that know that God blessed you (Abraham) and they bless you; on your (Abraham) account they will be blessed. But although they know who you are (Abraham) and they SEE THE LIGHT of TRUTH yet they still elect to curse you; shall curse only themselves. They shall be cursed.

God curses no one. The power to curse had been given to us and we surely have used it like fools. There is no place in the entire Bible where it is written that God directly cursed something or someone. If any it says, cursed is, or cursed shall be you or yours. But, “I curse you” (MeQALAL) is nonexistent; only ARROR or ARAR, which is a primitive root to something bitter and which can be fixed. No pronounced curses (bitter affliction) were ever meant to be permanent. Everything can be undone through deep, true and heartfelt repentance, t'shoovah in Hebrew, which comes from the word SHOOV - return.  

What you saw you should reap (Galatians 6:7). As you want others to treat you so treat them and that is the law and the prophets (Matthew 7:12). It all makes sense when it is synchronized by the one Spirit of Truth and not by man's fragmented dogmas.

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