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Experience: (1) Jesus is LORD, Messiah (2) Husband of a beautiful wife (40-years); Father of three-beautiful children. (3) United States Marine Corps 1/1 - 0311 - NCO (4) Retired 31-year veteran of the Houston Police Department (Patrol-Motorcycle Officer-Commercial Helicopter Police Patrol Pilot) (5) Education: Master's Degree/University of Houston at Clear Lake

Why did Jesus ask the Father if the suffering of the Cross was necessary for Him to endure?

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Why did Jesus ask the Father if the suffering of the Cross was necessary for Him to endure?

Discussion,

My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me? Matthew 27:46 – Psalm 22:1

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” Luke 22:42

When interpreting Jesus’ words throughout His Earthly ministry, it is very important to differentiate between Jesus speaking from His hypostasis (divine union of Deity & Flesh) and Jesus’ words spoken exclusively from His Deity (Philippians 2:5-11). Jesus’ primary reason for entering the Realm of Time was “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) as per Genesis 3:15 and the battle strategy He was foreordained to employ is the Gospel of Grace, a Gospel that was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10), a battle strategy that Elohim demonstrated for us in Genesis 3:21; this, immediately subsequent the fall of humanity.

Jesus modeled for us, in His humanity, proper protocol concerning relationship with the Father, one of trust and obedience. Jesus honored a delineation of authority in the Godhead and Jesus modeled obedience to the Father in all things even though Jesus possessed a separate will (Luke 22:42), a separate will primarily influenced via the hypostatic union, a will integral with the flesh (Philippians 2:5-11). The unfathomable role that Jesus was to fulfill as the “Spotless Lamb of Elohim” “who takes away the sins of the World” (John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Matthew 26:26-29) was not only physiologically devastating as He would be scourged-beaten beyond recognition by the Roman authorities and almost bleed to death via lacerations – trauma as prophesied in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22, but Jesus would receive spikes through His hands, a spike through His feet, hung on a tree until He suffocated to death; this, while struggling to push Himself upwards against the gravity working to collapse his lung cavity; this physiological suffering, which was only surpassed by the spiritual separation from the Father, was something Jesus had never experienced in His eternal relationship with the Father; this, as your sin and my sin was placed upon Him, sin that Jesus had never experienced in His Deity; therefore, in His humanity Jesus asked the Father if there was any alternative to what was foreordained for Him to suffer; in response to the overwhelming stress, Jesus literally sweat drops of blood in His anxiety (Luke 22:44 – Hematohidrosis) yet Jesus honored the Father’s will and complied with the eschatological mandates of the Cross in order to “destroy the works of the Devil” i.e., death-Hell-the grave; this, for all who would believe that Jesus is the Messiah who died for them (John 3; 1 John 3:8b).

Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection are eschatological imperatives concerning the restoration of peace, holiness, order, to the Kingdom ravaged by a coup d’état initiated by a rebellious cherub and the spiritual war that ensued having been relegated to this Earth, a spiritual war partially constrained by Time and physics that was foreordained to be won by the Messiah as per Genesis 3:15; this, in addition to all that has transpired over the previous 6000-years of unfathomable horror within the Realm of Time, these eschatological imperatives will ultimately be a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom, the New Jerusalem, where free will remains extant by necessity.

You and I are active participants in this spiritual war that rages on around us and through us 24/7/365 (Ephesians 6) and we are relegated to two-choices concerning our loyalty and servitude in our Earthly lives constrained by Time and physics…do we honor Jesus as Messiah as He endeavors to right the wrong committed in the Kingdom before the Creation narrative or do we ally with the nemesis of Jesus through unbelief? Our eternal destiny is wholly contingent upon whom we choose to ally with and serve within the Realm of Time.

Jews/Israelite’s insist the New Covenant belongs only to Israel, the Gentile is excluded; what is the Truth?

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Jews and Israelite’s insist that the New Covenant was given only to Israel; therefore, the Gentile is excluded; what is the truth? (Ezekiel 36; Jeremiah 31)

Discussion,

The promise to Abraham by Elohim is inclusive of “every family of the Earth;” this, long before Jacob and the 12-Tribes (Genesis 12:3b). Israel was foreordained to be ministers of the Gospel, the Great Commission and Messiah came directly to them for this specific purpose (Matthew 15:24), but Israel rejected their Messiah and conspired to murder Him upon a tree while exclaiming that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); Israel rejected the Gospel and the Great Commission (Matthew 23:37); therefore, Elohim pivoted eschatologically and gave the Gospel and the Great Commission to the Gentile (Romans 11:25; Acts 13:46); therefore, only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell due their unbelief, rejection of Yeshua as Messiah (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); apparently, Torah is not a path to righteousness (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:20) other than as a roadmap pointing Israel to their need for Messiah by faith (Galatians 3:24).

Atheism does NOT exist in reality; why is the deception promulgated among the aberrant?

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Atheism does not exist in reality; why is the deception promulgated among the aberrant?

“The atheist can’t find God for the same reason that a thief can’t find a police officer.” Author unknown

There are no “facts” or “logic” relevant to Atheism as Atheism is a religion of fools as per the Holy Spirit (Psalm 14:1); Atheism is a religion and its tenets are arrogance and narcissism defending aberrant sin and a death-style culminating in eternal nihilism. Atheism’s “god” is Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4).

Christianity looks at the World from a Biblical perspective and the Bible simply aligns with what we see in nature and life around us. The Scriptures explain everything relevant concerning our creation and our existence within it while atheism explains NOTHING but provides only obfuscation for a debased and sinful life of addiction to narcissism and hedonism.

In its most basic assertions, the Bible tells you that we are the product of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, Designer and all that we see in nature and in the Heavens lends credence to this assertion; this, while the confounded and disturbed atheist has NO explanation for creation or how or why; therefore, Atheism truly does not exist…it is an illogical form of escapism, nihilism, that under girds a life of aberrant lust and destructive desires and narcissism unrestrained which inevitably culminates in a death defined by nihilism. Atheism is demonically rooted escapism from reality placating a seared, defiled, conscience.

Atheism is demonic deception in its genesis; Atheism is the illogical based in nihilism asserting ignorance. There are no true Atheists lest the one claiming same is mentally incompetent and completely unable to discern the World around him/her/he-she-his. The Atheist cannot truly say that a Designer – a Creator does not exist but they can only wish that He did not exist as they have NO OTHER PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION concerning the supernatural World around us and its origin. You can say you don’t “believe” but you cannot say in the affirmative via evidence that there is no God because you don’t KNOW and you possess no relevant counter argument that negates the reality of God or explains the reality around us that is supernatural, present clearly by design; thus, mandating a Designer.

Atheists live a life of self-deceit – wilful lies that placates a seared conscience (Romans 1:18-32).

Putin loves Biden and the Progressive Political Cabaret of Liberal Insanity…let the show begin…

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Putin loves Biden and Biden’s nitwit Progressive LEFT,

Putin is former KGB…he is a strategist. Putin loves Biden and the mindless Progressives who support Biden as these virtue signaling nitwits continue to vomit billions of America’s tax dollars into the coffers of Ukraine for the corporate laundromat while Zelensky and the autocrats are made unconscionably wealthy via graft while America is destroyed through a southern invasion, a weakening dollar, inflation, crime, family breakdown, filthy progressivism, liberal insanity….

Putin is laughing at America, the fools in our Government and Putin adores Biden’s idiocy, mocks America’s homosexuals, transsexuals and Biden’s mental incompetence and those of like minded incompetence in Biden’s administration that prop him up…literally…Obama and his husband Michael and the Clinton’s and the Bush globalists…

Putin is watching America go bankrupt funding Ukraine when Putin fully knows that at his word, Ukraine would be morning TOAST within 3-days if Russia truly wanted Ukraine as a Soviet territory…Putin is bleeding the West dry financially…his Ruble is strong…his energy spigots are flowing, Iran is buying, China is buying, Europe is freezing…America is dying…Putin and Xi and Khamenei and Kim are party animals…along with Islam’s Shia…they’re all aroused like never before…America and Europe are Putin’s playground and Xi is loving the show.

Christian America perishing in Progressive Filth – Eschatology fulfilled?

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Christian America – Perishing in Progressive-Atheist-Secular Humanist Filth: Eschatological Imperative? Biblical Prophecy fulfilled?

Discussion,

Current Federal leadership in America is indicative of and the culmination of 60-years of moral and ethical rot resulting from unrestrained demonic ideological infiltration into the societal mainstream relentlessly attacking the American family; the Christian Church; America’s educational system; America’s youth; this, via Progressive idiocy modeled by the father of modern education, John Dewey; the greatest progenitor of Atheism in World history, Charles Darwin.

America, a Nation founded and ordained by Jesus our Messiah concerning the Gospel and the Great Commission, is, for all intents and purposes, dead on arrival. America’s Constitutional Republic has been hijacked and the sustainable norms, mores, ethics, values, essential for America’s sustainability e.g., Christian values of morality-love for Elohim, our Father-Son-Spirit; love for the Biblical family unit; love for one’s neighbor; true patriotism, a love for America and a fervent desire to serve Her and protect Her; cherished dignity and honor and morality; a strong, indelible, work ethic; an obsessive desire to protect America’s youth and policies focused upon ensuring their success as progenitors of the American dream…these have been eradicated through vile and destructive Progressives – Atheists – Secular Humanists and replaced by an overwhelming hoard of unsustainable citizenry who worship at the throne of the pagan god Molech where child sacrifice, mutilation-burning-torture in the womb is cheered and fought for in the streets of liberal America and in the impotent courts of Progressivism; a hoard of demons in flesh who fight and clamor for unconscionable sexual perversion – homosexuality – lesbianism – transsexualism – pedophilia – medical financial whores who profit by transitioning children from their biological sex to identify as the opposite sex via puberty blockers and unconscionable surgical sexual reassignment; a hoard of demons who worship at the throne of Carl Marx and Vladimir Lenin; a hoard of demons who froth over the invasion of America by Her most prolific enemies through an open and unsecured border; a hoard of demons who virtue signal and dismantle America’s Criminal Justice System and allow hardened criminals to rape, rob, pillage, torture, murder, American citizens; this, with little to no accountability.

The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, have walked away from America and America has been left to Her own devices to reap what has been sown by the Atheist – Secular Humanist under the demonic title of Progressive. The god of this World, Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4) is king over America and his servants, the Progressive-Democrat-Liberal-Atheist-Secular Humanist are now pointing the way to Hell and like sheep led to the slaughter, America’s demonically deceived Progressives-Democrats-Atheists-Secular Humanists-Islamist’s-Marxists blindly comply.

Eschatology fulfilled? Where is the United States?

The Holy Spirit has clearly articulated that there is soon to come a coalition comprised of the Nations of Russia-China-Iran/Islam who will engage in a nuclear war with Jerusalem, Israel; this war will preface and initiate the 2nd Advent of Messiah Jesus to Mount Olivet outside the Eastern Gate of the Old City, Jerusalem. This will be a 3.5 years period replete with unconscionable suffering around the World but Jerusalem, Israel will be the focal point of Elohim’s attention as this nuclear conflict will ultimately initiate the Millennial Kingdom of Messiah Jesus. Jesus will be victorious in this soon-to-manifest nuclear war and one very interesting point of eschatological truth is that no relevant Western Power is actively involved as an ally of Israel.

America, where are you in eschatology?

There are suggestions by Eschatologists that a representative from a Western power intercedes only to ask “Have you come to take spoil?” relevant to the presence of the demonic alliance preparing to pounce upon Israel, but this Western peace envoy possesses no authority or military might sufficient to provide any form of military intervention or deterrence; this, indicating that the United States will have been made impotent monetarily, military, morally, ethically, and unable to ally with Israel who will have NO ONE but Jesus our Messiah to intercede for the children of Jacob. THIS IS ELOHIM’S ESCHATOLOGICAL WILL as throughout Israel’s history, Jacob’s children have always looked to an Earthly king or an ally Nation for intercession while Elohim has been essentially an afterthought, but NOT in the Day of our Lord as YESHUA, “The Lion from the Tribe of Judah,” alone, will be victorious (Revelation 5:5) and all of Israel will look upon Him whom they have pierced and they will come to faith in Yeshua and this “Jewish – Israeli remnant” will serve Him in His Millennial Kingdom (Zechariah 12:10; John 19:37).

In conclusion,

Therefore, fellow Christians, do not be dismayed by the demonic forces at work within America via the Progressive – the Secular Humanist – the Marxist – the Atheist as these will all have their place in the Lake of Fire and the “second death” (Revelation 20:11-15). Let the people who honor Jesus our Messiah by faith “look UP for your redemption is drawing NEAR!” (Luke 21:28); therefore, stand fast in the Faith; Fellow Christian, do NOT look to the right or the left but plant firmly your eyes on Jesus our Messiah and endure to the end; know this, we who love and trust in Jesus our Messiah are victors along with Him. MARANATHA!

Why does Elohim appear to hear the prayers of some while rejecting the prayers of others?

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Why does Elohim appear to answer the prayers of some and reject the prayers of others?

Our Creator ONLY hears the prayers of those who have complied with His will; that is, they have believed in Jesus whom the Father has sent into the World to provide blood atonement and covenant relationship with Him by faith (John 6:29).

The only prayer from the unredeemed, those who have rejected Jesus, that the Father will hear and entertain is a prayer of repentance from sin and a confession of faith-belief in Jesus as Messiah; otherwise, you are on your own!

Those who trust in Jesus, their prayers are heard and always answered with Yes, No, Wait….

James 5:16 The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Proverbs 1:28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. 29 Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD,

Concerning Children who die in body and Culpability before Elohim…

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Concerning “Children” who pass into Eternity via death of the body – are they secure in Elohim?

Discussion,

Children who pass into Eternity before having attained an age of reason sufficient to discern right from wrong, good from evil, lacking the cognitive ability to discern our Creator’s sovereignty over their life, these are secure in Jesus as “where there is no law, there is no sin” (Romans 4:15; 5:13); in other words, if one lacks the cognitive maturity or ability to discern the consequences of the law, they are not culpable before Elohim. This same eternal security extends to the mentally deficient, handicapped, as Elohim’s compassion finds no culpability in those unable to discern His spiritual law written upon the heart.

This same truism extends to man’s criminal and civil laws as adjudicatory standards categorize “juvenile law” as wholly distinct from laws that pertain to adults. Man’s law also considers mental illness, contingent upon severity, as an affirmative “defense to prosecution.”

Jesus confirms the eternal security of children in Matthew 19:14 as Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the child and that unless we humble ourselves and come to the Father as a little child by faith, we will not enter the Kingdom (Matthew 18:4).

Also, King David made an interesting confession subsequent the death of his infant son. David testified that the child would not return to him but that he would go to the child upon death of his body indicating David’s knowledge through the Holy Spirit that the child was in the presence of Elohim and when David exhaled his last, he would be with his son in the Kingdom (2 Samuel 12:19-23).

It is interesting to note that in Numbers 14:29, Elohim warned the unfaithful of Israel that those 20-years of age and older, according to the census, would perish in the wilderness due their unfaithfulness. We do NOT know what the “age of accountability” is for our youth today but the Father knows the cognitive ability of each, He alone discerns this and judges accordingly.

Elohim warned,

28 So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. 29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness— all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older— because you have grumbled against Me. 30 Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.… (Numbers 14).

Hebrew Roots and Christianity – compatibility?

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Is the Hebrew Roots Movement permissible in the New Covenant?

Hebrew Roots is certainly a permissible movement if the participant does not pursue days, diets, traditions, in a manner that “supplements” or “completes” FAITH as the divine, eternal, element of salvation.

If one chooses to consume only kosher meats and observes a Sabbath and festivals and traditions in order to honor Torah…that is beautiful and certainly acceptable in the New Covenant, but in the life of the Christian, there is NO obligation to honor Torah’s edicts, its traditions, its days and diets as these things foreshadowed the Messiah but Messiah has come (Colossians 2:16; Romans 14) and we are free to eat or refrain according to our own conscience via the indwelling Holy Spirit and we’re free to chose whatever day or everyday to honor our Lord; therefore, in the New Covenant, it’s NOT about what we DO but in Whom we believe and the Spirit is our Arbiter of free will and the Christian honors the Spirit though obedience to Him (Galatians 5:16) which results in the production of divine fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) while in Torah, the old sin-nature sought subjugation to Torah Law, an obedience that could NEVER be fully achieved as the Adamic sin-nature had no arbiter but the flesh and a weakened conscience subject to that flesh.

My personal concerns for Hebrew Roots participants,

My primary concern for those who confess Yeshua as Messiah by faith and simultaneously place an emphasis on Torah observance is the inclination of the sin-nature to slip into theological compromise with works and thereby nullify the purity of faith and thereby fall into a state of apostasy and ultimately condemnation.

I have personally witnessed this in the Messianic Jewish converts who struggle having placed one foot in grace through faith in Yeshua while placing the other in Torah in Temple and the Torah as an Icon of worship. I have witnessed this in my own family.

In private, these people are miserable…they are torn…they are divided…they are compromised…they are lost…they have strayed…some become addicted…others are angry and hateful toward Christianity…it is tragic (Galatians 3).

Spiritual Law (New Covenant) v. Codified Law (Old Covenant) – Which is superior and why?

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Why is the Spiritual Law written upon the heart (the New Covenant) infinitely superior to Torah Law – Sinai – Moses – Codification?

First of all,

The codified law given Israel at Sinai and through Moses is but a mere fragment of the comprehensive Spiritual Law written into the human genome on Day-6 by Elohim. The codified law is wholly inadequate as a comprehensive arbiter of free will as it does NOT and CANNOT adequately address every moral decision encountered by the Christian 24/7/365.

Second,

The “fruit of the Spirit” does NOT conflict with the codified law provided Israel at Sinai and through Moses; but again, the relevant point is this…the codified law is fragmented, it’s incomplete, it was given Israel specifically for eschatological and sanctification purposes; the codified law cannot engender righteousness (Romans 3:20); the codified law only curses by defining one’s culpability void atonement (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10); the codified law was given Israel as a roadmap pointing them to Messiah by faith (Galatians 3:24). Christians are NOT under the codified Law given Israel (Romans 6:14) but serve through the Spirit via the production of divine fruit that fulfills ALL LAW (Romans 7:6; 8:2; Galatians 2:16; 5:22-23).

Discussion,

It is the comprehensive, spiritual law written upon the heart (Hebrews 10;16; 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 36; 26) and arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant during daily sanctification (Galatians 5:16; Romans 8:2; 2:14-15) that is INFINITELY superior to Sinai and Moses as the spiritual law, written into the human genome on Day-6, arbitrated by the redeemed conscience of the Christian through the indwelling Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17) that methodically addresses every moral decision encountered by the redeemed in Messiah, daily. It is the comprehensive spiritual law that is the law of obedience in the New Covenant as the Spirit produces divine fruit through the redeemed, fruit that actually pleases the Father and fulfills ALL LAW (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8).

In closing,

A true Christian does not live their daily life cognitively engaged with Sinai or Moses, they live their daily life in peace with the Father through faith in Jesus as Messiah (Romans 5:1) and their intimacy with the Father is maintained methodically by the work of the Spirit in daily sanctification (Galatians 5:16) who does the work of obedience through the Christian by producing “fruits of the Spirit” that pleases the Father; divine fruit that honors Jesus’ commands and fulfills the Moral Law while furthering the intent of the Great Commission.

Why is Jesus infinitely superior to the god of Atheism, Satan, concerning societal sustainability?

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Why is Jesus infinitely superior to the god of Atheism, Satan, concerning societal sustainability?

Subsequent 31-years serving in Houston’s Police Department in uniform, having policed some of the most violent and perverse neighborhoods in the United States, I can honestly say that 99% of the horror I interceded in, incarcerated, charged, testified against, were NOT those who possessed an abiding faith in Jesus Christ and conducted their life and raised their family respecting Christian principles/Biblical edicts.

Having to intercede in the lives of the demonically possessed/mentally-spiritually ill, being forced to use deadly force against the unfathomable evil in American society while struggling with same in vomit and bloodshed and being required injections with vaccines against disease due bites and fights with these demonic hoards, diseases ranging from hepatitis to the Bubonic Plague, handling the death and horror and unconscionable filth …I can testify that our American society would be an infinitely healthier society if the overwhelming majority honored our Creator, Jesus Christ, by faith and lived and walked by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) and we trained our children in the ways of Biblical precepts and infused mores, norms, values, that under girded a sustainable and profitable and loving society through the Biblical family and neighbors and a government that loved each other and honored our Nation founded upon Biblical values and laws patterned after those Biblical values.

It is true that America’s Founders desired a Nation governed by “We the People” and they intuitively knew that in order for the great experiment known as a Constitutional Republic to be successful; in order for a very limited form of Federal Government to be instituted that maximized the personal freedoms of the individual; a Federal Government with limited, fragmented, authority over the States and the people so governed, there must exist a viable form of behavioral-moral restraint over the Adamic sin-nature of mankind (Romans 5:12); therefore, our Founder’s relied solely upon the indwelling Holy Spirit of Elohim, the Holy Spirit given all who have an abiding faith in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14), the Holy Spirit as the restrainer of destructive human narcissism (2 Thessalonians 2:7) that left unchecked would culminate in societal implosion; furthermore, our Founder’s knew that the Adamic sin-nature, left unchecked and unrestrained by the Holy Spirit, while existing under a very limited Government, there would be insufficient numbers of police, prosecutors, judges, jails, prisons, to maintain peace, law and order. This is why early sketches of American Townships and Municipalities depict a Christian Church, a Steeple, on almost every street corner as the cornerstone of a sustainable and viable and honorable United States of America.

America has lost its way, its Founding Principles; these, having been surrendered to the demonic Atheist, the Secular Humanist; this, via Progressive idiots represented by men like radical Progressive John Dewey, the father of modern education, and Darwin, the proselytizer of atheism via evolutionary theory forced upon America’s students in the classroom as a “biological science.” America’s youth have been spiritually and psychologically destroyed through an educational system inundated with Progressive idiocy and secular humanists, Marxist, philosophies via radical atheists like Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Engel v. Vitale (1962) – the extrication of Jesus from the classroom; Darwin (1963) and we have no one to blame but ourselves. Jesus has walked away from our abortions, America’s murder of babies in the womb; Jesus has walked away from America’s advocacy of LGBTQ perversion…Marxists-Socialists have been victorious…this is Biblical eschatological fruition.