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Experience: (Jesus is LORD, Messiah) Husband of a beautiful wife (41-years and counting); Father of three-beautiful children and a handsome grandson Professional Experience: ---United States Marine Corps 1/1 - 0311 - NCO ---Retired 31-year veteran of the Houston Police Department (Uniformed Patrol/Motorcycle Officer/Commercial Helicopter Police Patrol Pilot ---Education: Master's Degree/University of Houston at Clear Lake

“Rich Young Ruler” and Jesus’ Command “Keep the Commandments” – Legalism or Faith? Mt. 19:16-22

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Why has the Holy Spirit included Jesus’ discourse with the “rich young ruler” in Matthew 19? What is Jesus teaching?

A theological response to the confusion…

In Matthew 19:17, Jesus is in a theological discourse with a wealthy young man who approached Him asking “What must I ‘do’ to ‘inherit’ eternal life?”

Why do you call me good?

The very first thing Jesus did, out of compassion, was to provide the young man an opportunity to acquire eternal life by “faith” in Jesus as Messiah-Elohim; that is, Jesus asked, “Why do you call me ‘good’ seeing that no one is good but Elohim?” Had the young man possessed the faith, spiritual insight, to acknowledge Jesus as Elohim the Messiah, eternal life would have been granted immediately (Romans 10:13). Unfortunately, the young man did not recognize or acknowledge Jesus as Messiah; therefore, Jesus, knowing the young man’s thoughts, provided the only other alternative to eternal life, Jesus commanded, “Keep the Commandments.” The young man then assumed himself on fertile ground as he felt himself to be righteous due all of his efforts to keep the Commandment; therefore, he asked Jesus, “Which ones?” Jesus recited a number of moral commands to which the young man boldly and proudly stated that he had kept them; then, Jesus proceeded to demonstrate to the young man that he had NOT kept the Commandments but had failed to keep the Greatest of Commandments; Jesus, once again, provided the young man a second opportunity to find eternal life by faith and commanded the young man to “follow me.” Jesus told the young man to sell all of his wealth, distribute it to the poor and “follow me!” Had the young man complied by faith, eternal life would have manifest in the young man’s life.

The relevance of the young man’s wealth?

The young man walked away sad and disheartened because he loved his wealth more than Elohim thus demonstrating that he did not keep the Greatest Commandments to love Elohim above all else and to love your neighbor as yourself but the young man had made an idol of his wealth (Matthew 22:36-40).

I tell you this protracted story because you are DEAD WRONG if you think anyone but Jesus keeps the Commandments in perfection (Romans 3:23) which divine perfection is absolutely necessary if righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim is to manifest (James 2:10) through works of the Law (Galatians 2:16) and you are DEAD WRONG if you think the Law does anything but CURSE the one who seeks righteousness (a right standing with Elohim) through it (Galatians 3:10). As a result of the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) the Law is a curse to all of humanity; therefore, mankind requires a perfect Intercessor if righteousness (a right standing) with the Father is to manifest with purity and authenticity (1 Timothy 2:5; John 14:6).

If you desire eternal life,

IF YOU DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE YOU MUST HUMBLE YOURSELF AND APPROACH ELOHIM (Genesis 1:1) BY FAITH AS AN UNWORTHY SINNER THAT YOU ARE AND ASK FORGIVENESS, REPENT OF YOUR SIN, TRUST FULLY IN JESUS AS YOUR MESSIAH WHO SHED HIS BLOOD FOR THE ATONEMENT OF YOUR SIN AT GOLGOTHA! John 3:16; 1 Peter 1:18-19

Humanity finds righteousness with Elohim NOT by what we do but in Whom we “believe.” John 3

Christians “work,” they produce divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:22-23), “subsequent salvation” by faith in Jesus as Christians “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) in faith as they love Elohim and honor Him through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit, not enslavement to a bygone law covenant given specifically to Israel’s children for eschatological purposes (Romans 7:6; Hebrews 8:7). The Law curses one to death; Jesus saves you through His death at Golgotha (Romans 8:1-7)! Know the difference and LIVE!

“Debate Island” – A debate site replete with Satan’s servants…

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Yes, I am fully aware that pedophiles, sexual perverts espousing various forms of filth and defilement find harborage on the Internet; after all, Satan is the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2), but this particular forum is replete with the most wicked of men and women who are proudly servants of Satan through their alliance with atheism and secular humanism; those who clamor and fight for the murder of babies in the womb; clamor and fight for the unconscionable defilement of LGBTQ and its filth pushed upon children with the intent of destroying the Biblical family; men and women who advocate for lawlessness via the insanity of a demonic and warped sense of tolerance and diversity, who advocate for defunding the police and our military while opening our Nation’s borders to terrorists and millions of fighting age men in the name of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion; this, will certainly culminate in horror and death to the American people. 

You advocate for the insanity of men and women like Biden and Harris and their administration of impotent Progressives who seek the death of America in Marxism-Socialism, their graft, their lies, their deception…the suffering of our posterity. How do you live with yourself…are you not fearful of Elohim’s wrath and do you have no shame? 

You think yourself an intellectual but in reality you are a stupid and naive and rebellious people who will die in Hell in your sin and your filth but you gleefully spout your insanity without shame. How can this be? How did America arrive at this wicked and vile juncture in such a relatively short period of time? As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at my Lord’s 2nd-Advent…we must be very near (Matthew 24:37-39). I am so ashamed of you all and I am truly worried for the welfare of America’s posterity with you in the World. Rick Holtsclaw

Why does mankind imagine a vain thing via attempts to discredit Elohim’s Canon?

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Why does mankind imagine a vain thing via their attempts to discredit Elohim’s Canon of Scripture?

I believe in the sovereignty and omnipotence of my Lord, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit who Authored the Scriptures. I believe with all my heart that the words before me in the Canon of Scripture are the exact words, the exact message, that He desires I have so that I can know Him personally; love Him intimately; live with Him eternally.

I am not concerned about what you or anyone else considers “changes” to the Canon as the message, the theme, is immutable and consistent and Truth. You can obfuscate, you can deny, you can scoff, you can insult, but the eternal message of the Scriptures will not change; you are a sinner in need of an Intercessor; therefore, if you desire eternal life once your body of decaying flesh dies away, Jesus Christ is the only Way to find forgiveness of sin through His blood atonement provided you at Golgotha some 2000-years ago. If you deny Jesus, He will deny you and you will die the “second death” in Hell “without excuse.”

The STUPIDITY of a Socialist UTOPIA…false ideology INRE to human nature…

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Why is the Progressive-Socialist Societal Utopia a disastrous failure?

Human Nature is evil (Genesis 6:5) and this is a major disconnect for the mindless Progressive-Democrat who suggests that a human being is inherently “good” and all that is required for that “good” to manifest in a society is to provide same with Maslow’s needs, an environment that meets basic human needs and humanity will flourish like a flower…this is a Marxist-Socialist utopian LIE…a welfare state that is consumed in infidelity, laziness, stupidity, DEI, Affirmative Action, Reverse Discrimination, Hate, Lawlessness.

We see this failed ideology of a “Socialist-Progressive Utopia” on the streets of our larger municipalities today in the United States, the “sanctuary cities” governed by mindless, nitwit, Progressives, and their pandering to these evil, lawless, thug elements, post no bail, reduced or no adjudication, defund the police, open the borders. This is demonic at its root, stupidity in its practice, insanity in its reality. It is the spiritual idiocy of Progressive “do-gooders” who advocate for this false dichotomy of unrestrained human nature and societal utopia…it’s disgusting and it’s insanity and our most innocent suffer greatly.

Solution?…

The ONLY solution to Progressive Insanity thrust upon American society is either civil war to put the demonic initiatives of Democrats in-check or reopen and fully fund state-run insane asylums and incarcerate 2/3rd’s of the Democrats-Progressives in psychiatric treatment; then, fallen America will realize some semblance of a “utopia” that is actually sustainable.

UFO’s/Alien Life or the Spiritual Realm interacting with the Physical Realm?

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Alien Life (UFO’s) or Spiritual Interaction within the Realm of Time in preparation for Messiah’s 2nd-Advent?

Discussion,

There are no “aliens” as human kind defines them or believes them to be. All that mankind sees and declares as a UFO or an “alien” is the interaction between the Spiritual Realm and the Physical Realm and these interactions will increase in frequency and in intensity as we approach the 2nd-Advent of Messiah to Mount Olivet and the initiation of His Millennial Kingdom. Human kind catches glimpses of the demonic world and the faithful angelic world as the spiritual war between good and evil rages on around us and through us, daily (Ephesians 6:10-20).

Such “alien” manifestations are well documented in Genesis 3 with Eve’s interaction with Satan (Ezekiel 28:11+) and Ezekiel’s vision in Ezekiel 1. Abraham’s interaction with Elohim in Genesis 22 and Jacob’s encounter in Genesis 32-33; Sodom and Gomorrah and the angelic presence there; The Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17).

We are explicitly warned by the Holy Spirit to NOT deny kindness and hospitality to strangers as some have entertained angels unaware.

English Standard Version

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13:2

Jesus explains that His Kingdom is NOT of this Realm…. but there exists around us, through us, a Realm that is more tangible, REAL, interactive, infinitely superior, to this present finite Realm of Time.

E Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump – why is Trump silent subsequent guilty conviction?

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Why has President Trump remained silent subsequent the guilty verdict in the civil judgment involving E Jean Carroll?

Truth…

The entire E Jean Carroll debacle is another ruse and “get Trump” form of election interference by a weaponized Department of Justice.

E Jean Carroll is a mental patient who has accused at least seven people of raping her in the past.

E Jean Carroll’s cat’s name is “vagina.”

E Jean Carroll has published her sexual fantasies online.

E Jean Carroll cannot remember the day, week, year, that Trump allegedly raped her; therefore, how does one establish and put forth a viable “defense” without a date of offense?

E Jean Carroll has no witnesses to the alleged crime.

The jury was not afforded the opportunity to hear damning evidence that nullified E Jean Carroll’s allegations.

Donald Trump was not permitted to defend himself and any rebuttal during testimony was censored by the Judge and not entered into the official record.

The Judge presiding over the case was a law-mentor to one of the lawyers of E Jean Carroll and that same Judge presided over the marriage of the other lawyer representing Carroll…a direct conflict of interest.

Therefore, Trump remains silent as anything he says, statements made, in his own defense will be interpreted as “slander” or “defamation” and new case initiated.

Discerning what “law” is discussed in the Pauline Epistles: Codified or Spiritual?

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How do we discern what “law” the Apostle Paul is speaking of in his epistles? Codified or Spiritual?

Discussion,

There are two-laws at play here. When Paul speaks of the law and it is NOT qualified by Spirit or “law of the Spirit,” Paul speaks of Sinai-Moses-the codified law belonging to Israel.

Paul makes a clear distinction in his letter to the Church at Rome and differentiates between “the law of the Spirit of life” (spiritual law) and the “law of sin and death” (codified law) (Romans 8:2; Romans 7:6). Law, the spiritual law (Romans 2:14-15), has been extant in the human heart subsequent Day-6 as an arbiter of free will and we see that law at work in Elohim’s judgment of the Adamic and Noahic generations and their defilement that grieved His heart (Genesis 6) and it’s interesting to note that “where there is no law there is no sin” (Romans 4:15; 5:13); therefore, we know that Elohim is not unjust and His judgment of the Adamic/Noahic generations by water was just because the spiritual law was written upon their heart and therefore condemned them, a judgment worthy of death by water save eight and they were ultimately “without excuse” (Romans 1:18-32).

Furthermore, Elohim, not desiring a repeat of the failures of the Adamic/Noahic generations, codified specific laws into stone and scratched them upon parchment through Moses; these, given Jacob’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes concerning thwarting Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech while preparing Jacob’s children for the introduction of Messiah Who would “destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b) via the “Gospel” ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).

Though Sinai and Moses have served their purposes, the spiritual law written upon the human heart remains extant today in the New Covenant and will continue as relevant throughout Eternity as free will is extant in the New Jerusalem by necessity.

Law in the New Covenant?

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Law in the New Covenant?

Discussion,

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Jeremiah 31:33

“For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Hebrews 8:10

It is historically tragic but Israel rejected the New Covenant (Matthew 23:37); Israel rejected their Messiah sent to them specifically to proselytize them in the New Covenant as ministers of the Gospel and the Great Commission (Matthew 15:24); therefore, the Gentile has received the Commission – Ordination to preach the Gospel (Romans 11:25; Acts 13:46) but what “law” is now extant in the New Covenant subsequent the Law Covenant given Israel at Sinai through Moses?

Law in the New Covenant,

The free will/volition of the Gentile has always been arbitrated by the spiritual law written upon the human heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2; 7;6), infused within the human genome on Day-6 of Creation as human kind is created in the spiritual image of Elohim (Genesis 1:26-28) and possesses certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim; one such divine attribute is the spiritual law essential relevant to Elohim’s eschatological purposes going forward as the spiritual law also acts as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism that would inevitably culminate in societal implosion thus thwarting Messiah’s primary mission concerning “the destruction of the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15).

I find it interesting that Elohim employs that same spiritual law, written upon the heart, in His New Covenant (Hebrews 10:16; 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33) except that it has been enlivened/made applicable in the life of the Christian through the redeemed conscience/the “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and it is the Holy Spirit who employs the spiritual law and the redeemed conscience to produce divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:22-23) in the life of the Christian during daily sanctification and this divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) fulfills all law; after all, Jesus did say, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20).

Christians – Death of the natural body – prayers…

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Christians – Death of the natural body – prayers…

Prayers of the Christian don’t negate the Adamic curse concerning the natural body and its destiny in decay, degradation, death of the flesh (1 Corinthians 15:22)…the prayers of the Christian are intimacy with our Creator who died for us that we can live eternally with Him (John 3:16; John 11:25)…not in this body of decay and sin and suffering but in a resurrected body fashioned like His glorified body (Philippians 3:21); therefore, death for the Christian, irrespective of causation, is freedom from the encumbrance of sin, disease, pain, sorrow…death is swallowed up in victory (1 Corinthians 15:54).

Concerning Jews-Israelite’s and eternal life…

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Concerning Jews-Israelite’s and eternal life,

Jews, Israelite’s, have no special salvation dispensation as they too, like every Gentile, must pass through the blood of Jesus in order to find righteousness (right standing) with the Father. If you deny Jesus as your blood atonement for sin by faith in Him as your Messiah (Leviticus 17:11; Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19) you will die the “second death” in Hell irrespective of race, ethnicity, skin color, religious affiliation (Rev 20:11-15).