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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

Is repentance necessary for salvation?

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Is “repentance” necessary for salvation or does true repentance follow salvation by faith in Jesus as Messiah, alone?

Jesus emphasized the need for “repentance” but is repentance an element of salvation or does repentance manifest subsequent salvation? Can one truly “repent” lest one is born again by the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus?

Discussion, Premise, open for debate…

If one truly “believes” that Jesus is Messiah and desires an eternal relationship with the Father through faith in Jesus, repentance is integral with faith as that saving faith will naturally lead to a life seeking obedience, a new life in Jesus that turns away from the works of the Adamic nature as the conscience is now acutely attuned to compromise with sin; this, through daily sanctification, a work of the indwelling Holy Spirit given to all who believe (Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 1:13:14).

Repentance IS part of the total salvation experience but without the indwelling Holy Spirit given ONLY to those who “believe” (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 3)…true repentance is not possible; therefore, what comes first, the chicken or the egg?

The “desire” to repent is integral with true faith in Jesus as one realizes their need for Jesus’ atonement due their sin nature, but the ability to fulfill the desire to live a holy life is only actuated or made possible “subsequent” belief; this, as true repentance, the power and anointing to truly repent, is not possible void the indwelling Holy Spirit who initiates the “new creation” in Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 5:17); so then, does one have to actually verbalize or say they repent of their sin in order to be saved? I think that’s open for debate but suggesting that verbalizing or repenting in order to be saved is a theological stretch, a subtle “works doctrine,” as it’s not practically possible to truly “repent” lest one is “born again” by faith-belief and has then received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant with the Father; yes, one can express a “desire” or a NEED to repent but desire does not equate to true repentance.

What say YOU? Is “belief”-faith in Jesus as Messiah who died for you the KEY to salvation or must one first repent?

Must one repent and demonstrate evidence of that repentance in conjunction with faith to be saved – or – are the fruits of repentance (Galatians 5) that follows salvation, fruits of righteousness inspired by the indwelling Holy Spirit, the validation and authentication that one’s “faith” is true saving faith; after all, Jesus did say “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20)?

Understanding Christian “good works” relevant to Ephesians 2:10…

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Understanding Christian “good works” relevant to Ephesians 2:10…

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

Good Works are a product of the indwelling Holy Spirit who is given as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father subsequent faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, a Christian does not “work” to be saved but works (seeks obedience to the Father’s will) because they are saved and their works are NOT defined by chasing after letters-laws or days or diets but their works are divine “fruit” produced through them by the indwelling Holy Spirit via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5); this, as Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20); therefore, salvation from death in Hell is NOT a work of mankind but a work performed by Messiah at Golgotha via His divine blood atonement and the benefits of Messiah’s work are actuated in the life of sinful humanity through faith, belief, in the Son; that is, believing, confessing, with a sincere heart, the Son, Jesus Christ, as Messiah who died for you to provide you blood atonement which initiates New Covenant relationship with the Father, forever (Romans 10:9-10).

This salvation from the second death in Hell is not of man but of Elohim who imputes-gifts the perfection-righteousness of the Son, Jesus Christ, over the life of the one who believes and consequently the Father, by covenant promise, declares the one who believes in Jesus as “not guilty” by divine promise; therefore, eternal life is bestowed upon the one who believes by grace through faith and not by human effort that anyone can boast in pride and arrogance and self-righteousness concerning their worthiness before the Father (Ephesians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3; Hebrews 8:12).

Advocate of the Devil: Jews-Israelites reject Christianity due Christian Persecution – what is the truth?

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An advocate of the Devil stated that Jews-Israelites reject Christianity due Christian persecution. What is the truth?

There are no greater advocates of the Jewish community, the Nation of Israel, than a Christian. Jews, Israelites, reject Yeshua due Rabbinical apostasy and secularization of the Jewish faith and the Jewish Curse.

Yeshua came specifically to Jacob’s children to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel as Israel’s children were foreordained to be ministers of the Great Commission in fulfillment of Elohim’s promise to Abraham (Matthew 15:24; Genesis 12:3b). Israel’s free will rejection of Elohim’s “Great Commission” initiated a cataclysmic change to Elohim’s eschatological plans going forward.

It is tragic, but an overwhelming number of Jacob’s children will perish in Hell due unbelief (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27), a demonically rooted rejection of Yeshua as Messiah; this, a resultant of their forefathers curse upon the children (Matthew 27:25) and Israel’s rejection of the New Covenant, a Covenant established in Yeshua’s blood (Romans 11:25). Jews, Israelites, are overwhelmingly hard of heart, stubborn, arrogant, self-righteous, blind, secularized.

The Scriptural glorification of Israel subsequent the Jewish Curse is solely for Elohim’s eschatological purposes, Elohim’s glory, Elohim’s defeat of Satan through our Jewish Messiah (1 John 3:8b) as the Nation of Israel was given the Patriarchy via an unconditional covenant and Elohim is NOT a man that He should lie or fail to keep His covenants irrespective of Israel’s unfaithfulness.

When Israel’s children insult the Christian and Christianity; when Israel’s children obfuscate their culpability concerning unbelief and their destiny in Hell due unfaithfulness, they insult the ONLY ally, the only advocates, they will have in this fallen World; that is, the blood-bought Christian redeemed by the blood of Yeshua.

Seeking to disparage true Christianity through the Cult of Catholicism…

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One seeking to disparage Christianity said:

“Documented, ancient history has it where Christianity was legalized in Rome in 313 AD, which should tell those of you something!”

Is that true? A Roman Emperor named Constantine, desiring greater control over the masses in the Roman Empire, envisioned an opportunity to coalesce the people under the Edict of Milan (312-313AD); Constantine, wanting to make Christianity attractive to the masses, opted to merge Roman and Babylonian paganism with elements of Apocryphal doctrine sprinkled with Christian doctrine thereby forming the World’s 2nd-largest religious cult aptly named “Catholicism” – 2nd-only to Islam in its deception and death in Hell; this, no different than those who seek the Kingdom of God via the self-righteous religion of Judaism.

Catholicism has never been Christian but there does exist those who hate Christianity and choose to insult that which Christ initiated in His own blood by suggesting Catholicism is Christianity, Peter was a Pope. Your obfuscation only finds relevance with those who seek death in Hell through religious works and the rejection of Jesus Christ as Messiah.

California’s Environmentalism and Legislator’s – HYPOCRITES concerning vehicular noise abuse…

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California’s “environmentalists” and State Legislators are hypocrites relevant to dangerous vehicle noise that destroys the environment while abusing the citizenry…

While touring the Bay Area of San Francisco, San Bruno, South San Francisco, Oakland, I was amazed to see and hear the belligerent, narcissistic, selfish, vehicular noise thugs that inundate California’s roadways; those noise bullies who operate illegally modified, illegally LOUD auto’s, trucks, motorcycles.

The US EPA, subsequent thorough testing and analysis relevant to the destruction to daily quality of life, the physiological dangers, of unregulated motor vehicle noise, concluded that 78dB(A) was the maximum safe noise level emissions for motor vehicles operated on America’s public roadways. Initially, for example, the US EPA regulated motorcycle noise emissions to 83dB(A) in 1983 and subsequent further evaluation determined that 83dB(A) was physiologically unsafe and therefore sought a 78dB(A) noise emissions restriction for all street use motorcycles going forward. Suzuki Motors complained that adhering to the 78dB(A) noise restriction would be cost prohibitive; therefore, the US EPA compromised and enacted a 80dB(A) “total” noise emissions for all street use motorcycles 1986 year model going forward. This Federal mandate remains relevant to this very day and every street-use motorcycle is mandated via the Code of Federal Regulations to be equipped with a properly labeled, quiet, muffler and matching frame label.

Unfortunately, the US EPA delegated enforcement of the 80dB(A) vehicular noise emission regulations to the States and the States, their legislators, their police, have been an utter failure to this very day. California’s legislators and Governor Newsom are not only environmental hypocrites but they’re as useless as the tits on a boar hog as they’ve enacted an impotent sound meter legislative mandate relevant to motor vehicle noise which allows for 95dB(A); logarithmically, 95dB(A) is 15X more intense than 80dB(A); therefore, California allows vehicular noise thugs to rule the roadways while the naive citizenry cows and accepts the abuse. Shame on California and shame on socialist Newsom. 

Beautiful California, the Mecca of Liberal-Progressive insanity, a “paradise” that litters its mountain sides with useless windmills and its valleys with Chinese solar panels, a socialist utopia hopelessly deceived by the demonic cult of “man induced climate change,” a deceived State of liberal insanity that gags over plastic straws and liquid gold below their feet while allowing the abusive, narcissistic, thugs, of the LOUD vehicle cult[ure] to destroy the environment, destroy and abuse the daily quality of life of millions with illegally equipped, illegally LOUD motor vehicles…California, the mecca of those who worship the creature rather than the Creator while this beautiful State is destroyed by virtue signaling liberal elites and an arrogant, cocky, Governor that serves the Devil as opposed to his constituency (Romans 1:18-32).

§ 205.52 Vehicle noise emission standards.

(a) Low Speed Noise Emission Standard. Vehicles which are manufactured after the following effective dates shall be designed, built and equipped so that they will not produce sound emissions in excess of the levels indicated.

Effective dateLevel
(i) January 1, 197983 dBA.
(ii) January 1, 198880 dBA.

(b) The standards set forth in paragraph (a) of this section refer to the sound emissions as measured in accordance with the procedures prescribed in § 205.54-1,2.

The TRUTH About Loud Motorcycles, Automobiles, Trucks, the Police Won’t or Can’t Tell You

The Work of the Devil exposed in San Francisco, USA

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The work of the Devil…

…in the daily life of those who serve the god of this World (2 Corinthians 4:4) – the demonically possessed and influenced, those who reject the selfless love of Jesus Christ and His Gospel…

I’m currently in the State of Satan’s pride, California, USA, having visited Satan’s dominion, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington. Those who are absent simple, abiding faith, mock the work of Jesus our Messiah during His 3.5-year Earthly ministry as Jesus went about healing the sick, exorcising the demon possessed; the natural World laughs at the thought of demons and demonic possession yet I walk among these demon-possessed here in San Francisco, on the sidewalks of Portland. I see their work in the rapidly decaying bodies lying prostrate on the sidewalks and curbs of the inner-city; the demonic substances injected into these addicted bodies; the resulting infected sores, scabs, physiological-psychological horror and torment and destruction accompanied by human excrement on the curbs, in the drains, on the sidewalks, the deck of public transportation; the horror, the horrific results of auditory hallucinations; the torment of demonic possession unrestrained; the self-destruction of suicide; the souls bound for Hades’ torments and Hell; all of this, the victory of the Evil One, Satan’s fodder.

I encounter these very same demons of deception and destruction during theological debate with unbelieving, Hell-bound, Jews-Israelites-Islamists-Mormons-SDA-Jehovah’s Witnesses-a myriad of cults-sects-religions who reject the purity, simplicity of the Gospel as these men, women, in a state of spiritual and physiological decay, clamor and fight against the purity, the simplicity, the holiness, of the Gospel of grace and faith, grace and faith earned for us, freely offered to us, through the suffering and selfless love of Jesus our Messiah at Golgotha.

Tragically, true Christianity will progressively be subject to increasing hatred and persecution as “Progressive Wokeness,” a work of the demonic, inundates our decaying World, a dying World devolving into demonic chaos and unconscionable filth; this, much like the days of Adam and Noah (Romans 1:18-32); therefore, know your enemy, know his works, stand fast defending the Gospel and hold tightly to Jesus Christ through obedience to the precious indwelling Holy Spirit.

Ultimately, the victory belongs to Jesus our Messiah; therefore, the only alternative to Jesus is defeat and subservience to the Devil and ultimately nihilism via the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 5:5). Endure to the end.

Jewish-Israeli Theological Error, death in Hell, concerning Ezekiel 18:20-23

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Eternal Jewish-Israeli Theological Error: Does Ezekiel 18:20-23 nullify or negate the precepts of Christianity, the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

Ezekiel 18,

20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

21 “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. 23 Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?

Christian explanation to the Jew or Israelite who trusts Ezekiel 18 for salvation from death in Hell,

You are in error concerning Ezekiel and you are headed to death in Hell in your sin concerning your rejection of Jesus. Please allow this old “Christian” to explain…

In Ezekiel 18, the prophet speaks of those who repent and place their faith in Elohim as the One true Creator; this repentance accompanied by faith is the very same process that men and men, from Adam forward, exercised to find righteousness “a right standing” with Elohim; that is, by “grace through faith” (Hebrews 11).

From the Genesis forward, human kind has initiated righteousness or “a right standing” with the Father by faith, alone…this is true also for the New Covenant established in the blood of Jesus our Messiah (Matthew 26:28)…

SO THEN, WHAT DOES CHRISTIANITY OFFER THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE LAW COVENANT DOES NOT?

The New Covenant offers eternal LIFE in the New Jerusalem with Messiah Jesus, forever, while the Hebrew Scriptures offered righteousness by faith but provided NO FORM of acceptable atonement for sin (Leviticus 17:11); therefore, those in the Old Testament who died in righteousness with Elohim via faith could NOT enter the Kingdom due their sin that had not yet received the acceptable blood atonement (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 8-10), blood atonement provided ONLY by faith in Messiah Jesus at Golgotha (1 Peter 1:18-19; John 14:6); therefore, these Old Testament saints were interned spiritually in Sheol-Hades/Paradise awaiting the promised Messiah (Luke 16; Psalm 16:10).

The Holy Spirit teaches that while Messiah’s body lie in state in the tomb, Messiah Jesus was very busy preaching liberty to the Old Testament captives in Sheol-Hades/Paradise and ultimately redeemed them and escorted them into the Kingdom of Elohim, a Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to enter (Revelation 21:27), the Kingdom of Elohim where all who die in Jesus as Messiah are translated spiritually this very day (Ephesians 4:8-10; 2 Corinthians 5:8).

In conclusion,

Therefore, though the Holy Spirit via Ezekiel emphasizes salvation by faith, the message is incomplete as salvation, in the Hebrew Scriptures, was lacking acceptable atonement (Hebrews 8:7); therefore, Ezekiel does not nullify the superiority and necessity for Christianity, the Gospel, but Ezekiel simply articulates the foundation upon which Christianity is based; that is, salvation by grace through faith; this, while Christianity offers eternal life through Messiah Jesus’ atonement, something Ezekiel or Moses or the blood of animals or Torah could never provide (Hebrews 10).

What does Jesus mean by “If you love me, you will obey my commandments”?

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Judaistic-Islamist-Religionist misunderstanding relevant to Messiah’s words “If you love me, you will obey my commandments.” John 14:15

What does Jesus say immediately following John 14:15?

“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever. He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.”John 14:16-17

Discussion,

First of all, Jesus IS NOT advocating for or teaching a works based religion or salvation by works in John 14:15 nor is Jesus suggesting that obeying His commands engenders eternal security.

Jesus was speaking to a transitional audience that had lived under the law covenant now transitioning to the Covenant of Grace (New Covenant) and Jesus said that if these former slaves to the written code (Romans 7:6; Romans 6:14) loved Him, they would honor and obey what He has told them, taught them, during His 3.5-year Earthly ministry and in order for these former slaves serving a dead law covenant to actually obey Messiah’s message, they must first comply with the Father’s will and honor Him as Messiah (John 6:29), receive the indwelling Holy Spirit who would remind them of everything Jesus had taught over those years (John 14:26); therefore, if one desires to honor Jesus’ teaching ministry and the edicts He provided, they must first honor the Father by faith in the Son (John 6:29), receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that New Covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14) and walk by the Spirit in daily sanctification (Galatians 5:16) thereby allowing the Spirit to produce fruit through the redeemed conscience (Galatians 5; 2 Corinthians 5:17) of the faithful in Jesus; this obedience manifests through the spiritual law written upon the heart (Romans 8:2; Romans 2:14-15) as per New Covenant promise (Hebrews 10:16).

Jesus’ “commandments” are fulfilled by walking in obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit during daily sanctification, sanctification manifesting subsequent salvation by faith and NOT by chasing after letters from a dead covenant of works (Hebrews 8:7) that only defines sin and demanded obedience from a sin nature that could never comply and provided no hope of atonement or life (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16).

It is the devil, himself, that indwells the blind legalist and hides this truth from the Judaistic – Islamist – Religionist legalist that prowls these forums seeking to enslave the servants of Messiah with cult practices (2 Corinthians 4:4).

How are the Scriptures made applicable to one’s daily life?

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How are the Scriptures made applicable to one’s daily life?

The Holy Spirit is KEY to understanding the Scriptures (John 14:16-29). Much like the programming of software, you input the “word” through reading and personal study, the Holy Spirit takes that input and makes same applicable to your life and your understanding relevant to the Father’s divine will.

Void the Holy Spirit’s anointing provided only through faith in Jesus as one’s Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14), you will NEVER truly understand the spiritual nuance of the Scriptures nor will true intimacy with the Father become a reality in your daily life (1 Corinthians 2:14).

You must take the time, you must make the effort, to input the “word” into the redeemed inner man and the Holy Spirit magnifies that input, interprets it for you and makes same applicable to every facet of your life via the daily process of sanctification (1 John 2:27; Galatians 5:16).

Israel v. Iran-Islam…what’s the truth about Islam?

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Israel v. Iran-Hamas-Hezbollah-Russia-China-Anti Semitism…do not be deceived…

Do NOT be deceived, the current conflict between Israel v. Hamas-Iran-Hezbollah-Islam is a physical manifestation of the Great Kingdom War between Elohim v. Satan having manifested in the Realm of Time via Islam’s Allah.

The spiritual root of the Israel – Islam conflict is pre-Adamic, pre-Creation yet finds its current relevance in the adulterous affair between the Patriarch Abraham and a bondwoman named Hagar. Elohim’s eschatological plan and purposes were foreordained to be fulfilled through Abram (Abraham) via Abram’s wife, Sari (Sarah) via Isaac (Genesis 22:17-18); unfortunately, both Abraham and Sarah demonstrated a lack of faith in Elohim’s promises and Sarah, in a vain attempt to negate her shame due infertility, enticed her husband, Abraham, to engage in sexual intercourse with Sarah’s handmaiden, Hagar, and Sarah would then claim the child as her own. As is typical, Abraham reaped what he sowed in his sexual sin with Hagar as well as his sin of refusing to wait upon Elohim’s promises (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:12-15).

The tragic results of Abraham’s infidelity,

Abraham’s adulterous union with Hagar produced the “wild ass” of a man named Ishmael (Genesis 16:12) whose descendants, the Ishmaelites, would become virulent enemies of Israel’s children; Ishmael’s descendants were prophesied to be adversaries of everyone not of their Tribal affiliation and they would dwell to the east of their brethren, Jacob’s children, just as they do this very day.

Islam’s Allah, who is he?

Satan has worked through the Ishmaelites to produce a 7th-Century demon-possessed, murdering, thieving, pedophile, named Muhammad who plagiarized the Jewish Torah in hopes of convincing the Jews and Christians in Media to follow his new religion. When the Jews and Christians rejected Muhammad, the false prophet began to persecute, enslave, murder, Jews and Christians by the edge of the sword and from this demonically inspired hatred was born the Islamic Caliphate and ultimately the Crusades in response. Most recently, Allah’s demonic objectives are observable in Time via the Jewish Holocaust and the 2nd Jewish Holocaust, October 7, 2023.

Islam’s Allah is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14) and currently Islam’s number-one representative in this fallen World is the Nation of Iran.

The current state of war between Israel and Iran, Hamas-Iran, Hezbollah-Iran; the current state of anti-Israel rhetoric and unprecedented rise in antisemitism is rooted in the demonic and know that those who chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are those who serve the Devil in his lust to declare Elohim a liar and to nullify Elohim’s unconditional covenant with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, concerning their rights to the Land of Israel, forever (Genesis 13:14-18).

Know this with certainty,

The Land of Israel will remain viable irrespective of Allah’s demonic objectives through Iran, Russia, China and Elohim will save a “remnant” of Israel’s children through the coming Tribulation Era as this remnant will believe in Yeshua as Messiah and rule and reign with Messiah for one-thousand-years during Messiah’s Millennial Kingdom (Zechariah 12:10; Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); therefore, those who side with Palestine, Iran, Hezbollah, the antisemites, side with the Devil AKA Allah and they will surely reap what they are sowing; both, in the Realm of Time and within the Realm of the Eternal.