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
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The law was given by Elohim beginning with the creation of the angels as the law is Elohim’s arbiter of free will. The law was infused within the human genome on Day-6 and the moral attributes of that spiritual law was to be arbitrated by the conscience as the law was to act as a bulwark against societal extinction by mitigating unrestrained narcissism that is foundational to the sin-nature inherited from Adam (Romans 5:12).
The “spiritual law,” written upon the heart of humanity, is also foundational to the codification of the Code of Hammurabi and Sinai’s Commandments, the Law of Moses, as Sinai, a fragmented-abbreviated codification of the spiritual law, was given Jacob’s children as a bulwark against compromise with paganism that inundated the Tribes and mandated servitude to Baal and Molech; servitude to false deities which would have stymied Elohim’s eschatological plans “to destroy the works of the Devil” via His Messiah (1 John 3:8b) via a battle strategy known today as “The Gospel of Grace” that was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Ultimately, Elohim’s purpose through the Law of Moses was as a “tutor” to point wayward Jews and Israelite’s to their need for Messiah by faith (Galatians 3:24); unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Jacob’s children reject their “tutor” just as they reject their Messiah, Yeshua (Galatians 3:24), and cling to self-righteousness through vain attempts to keep the Law in pursuit of righteousness in the flesh as opposed to faith (Romans 9:30-33).
Concerning the Jew, Israelite and Hebrew Roots fanatic that pesters me about the Tanakh and their loyalty to same…
Jesus entered Time through the Tribe of Judah and came to a people under the Law Covenant and made every attempt to redeem those people for the Father’s eschatological plan for Time and Eternity but those people were stubborn and arrogant and clung to the Law through self-righteousness while rejecting faith and belief in their Messiah…the Tanakh failed as did Jacob’s children as are you. The Tanakh is a roadmap, not the destination. You weary me. The Judgment of Messiah against you will be righteous and dreadful.
Jesus and the “lost sheep of Israel.” Jesus’ eschatological ordination efforts relevant to Jacob’s children and the Gospel and the free will choices that forever altered Elohim’s relationship with Israel…
Jesus did NOT initially come to the Gentile as His ordination and eschatological mission was to the Jew first (John 15:24) as Jesus was sent “only” to the lost sheep of Israel. The Gentile was to be proselytized in the New Covenant’s Gospel via Jacob’s children who were foreordained to be part of Messiah’s blessing to every family of the Earth as promised the Patriarch, Abraham (Genesis 12:3b).
The Gentiles were to be grafted into the Olive Tree by faith via the hearing of the Gospel preached by Jacob’s children; unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected their divine eschatological ordination through their murder of their Messiah and their demands that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, Elohim’s eschatological will concerning the Gospel and the destruction of Satan’s works through that divine battle strategy would not be deterred due man’s free will choices (1 John 3:8b); therefore, Elohim simply transitioned the Gospel message and its eschatological purpose over to the Gentiles until such time the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom (Romans 11:25).
In response to Israel’s rejection of and murder of their Messiah, only a remnant of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell due their unbelief and the Jewish Curse emanating from the demands of their forefathers that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27; Matthew 27:25).
To whom much is entrusted, much is expected (Luke 12:48). The “Door” of salvation (John 10:9-16) remains open to the repentant Jew and Israelite who trusts in Yeshua as Messiah; unfortunately, only a relative few will break the bonds of self-righteousness through Judaism and Law to seek grace and mercy via the New Covenant’s Gospel (Romans 9:27-33).
Serious theological error touted in a religious forum: “Jesus took away sin at His baptism.”
Jesus’ Baptism had NOTHING to do with sin but was a Jewish purification ritual that Jesus employed to make Himself “theologically acceptable” to the Jewish community as Jesus came specifically to Jacob’s children as He was seeking to proselytize them in the Gospel of Grace as Jesus was to prepare Jacob’s children as ministers of the Great Commission; An eschatological endeavor foreordained by the Father that Jacob’s children rejected.
For the record, John 3:5 has absolutely NOTHING to do with water baptism as an element of salvation but is simply a comparison/contrast to natural birth v. spiritual rebirth. It is ONLY the blood of Jesus our Messiah that atones for sin, NOT water.
Once it’s gone, once freedom is eradicated by Progressivism i.e. socialism or communism…seldom is socialism or communism eradicated, the people will be forever enslaved to the state…some willingly, some begrudgingly, but Canada is gone as is Australia as is the UK and most of Europe…Hungary is holding it’s own, Poland is struggling…the USA is gone the way of Progressivism-Marxism-Spiritual Death.
All the Patriot requires is legitimacy. A legitimate declaration of war likened to that provided by Lincoln (1861-1865). The Patriot is willing to fight and die against the the tyranny that prevails in Washington DC but legitimacy and coordination are essential…we’re not worried about the death of our body but the legacy of our intent; especially concerning our posterity.
16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”
17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Jesus was not denying His deity during his discourse with the rich young ruler (Matthew 19:16-22) but Jesus provided the rich young ruler an opportunity to receive eternal life by faith in Jesus as Messiah (Matthew 16:19-22). The young man approached Jesus asking what he “must do” to inherit eternal life and politely referred to Messiah Jesus as “good Teacher” (a Rabbi)…Jesus used this opportunity to provide the only true Path to Eternal LIFE which is belief-faith that Jesus is indeed Messiah – God – Elohim – our Creator. Jesus essentially asked the young if he was calling Jesus Deity…Elohim…Messiah…did the young man see and acknowledge the Truth of Messiah standing before him…did the young man know Jesus as the Christ just as Peter had confessed Jesus as the Messiah (Matthew 16:13-20)?
The young man did not acknowledge Jesus as Messiah; therefore, Jesus offered the young man what was and continues to this day as a prevailing false ideology relevant to earning one’s salvation through works of the flesh e.g. “keep the Commandments.” The young man insisted that he had indeed kept the Commandments at which time Jesus proceeded to prove to the young man that he had failed to keep the Greatest Commandments by offering the young man another opportunity to receive eternal life by “faith” as Jesus commanded the young man to sell all that he had, distribute his wealth to the poor, come and “Follow ME!” Unfortunately, the young man loved his wealth more than Elohim as the young man walked away sad having made an idol out of his wealth thereby violating the greatest Commandments to honor no god but Elohim; to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind; to eschew the worship of idols; to love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus was NOT denying His deity before the young rich ruler but Jesus offered the young man no less than two opportunities to receive eternal life by “faith” in Jesus as his Messiah. No one inherits eternal life through works of the law or striving in self-righteousness; this truism was first demonstrated for humanity in Genesis 3:21 as Elohim rejected Adam’s attempt to cover his sin and shame with fig leaves (the works of his hands) yet Elohim shed innocent blood, Himself, and clothed Adam and Eve in an imputed-gifted robe of righteousness; Jesus did this very thing for all of humanity at Golgotha and that imputed robe of righteousness is received by faith, not works (2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 2:16).
An overwhelming majority of the automobiles, light-to-medium duty pick-up trucks, motorcycles, operating on the public roadways of the United States are regulated to a relatively quiet 80dB(A) total, maximum, noise emission level by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) via the Federal Code of Regulations (CFR). Companies who manufacture modified exhaust mechanisms and aftermarket exhausts that violate Federal noise emissions standards, a relatively safe and quiet noise emission standard represented by the OEM-factory installed muffler, should be civilly sued out of business and held criminally liable for the destruction of daily quality of life, the egregious health hazard, they have caused over the previous four-to-six decades in the United States and in every developed Nation around the World.
Companies who manufacture and retail these illegal exhausts like Magnaflow, Flowmaster, Vance & Hines, D&D, Yoshimura, Akrapovic, Cobra, Rinehart Racing, on and on the list goes and grows, these companies should be CRUSHED through the civil and criminal courts; yet, these culprit companies manufacture, distribute, retail, the illegal NOISE makers without any intervention from Federal and State regulators…perhaps it’s all about the money and to Hades with quality of life and health concerns where the law-abiding, tax-paying citizenry, is concerned? Why is this vehicular NOISE thuggery tolerated throughout the United States?
Motor vehicle noise has been regulated primarily for the health and safety, the daily quality of life, of the American citizen as unregulated motor vehicle noise is one of the prominent contributors to stress, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, as early mortality rates due to cardiovascular disease are directly attributable to unregulated traffic noise; unfortunately, enforcement of the 80dB(A) total noise emission restriction was delegated by the Federal Government to the States; tragically, our governors, county and local administrators, mayors, police chiefs, sheriffs, county commissioners and their law enforcement representatives have been an abysmal failure; this, while our Federal and State representatives have sold their soul to the man-induced climate change hoax, a money-making grab for politicians and globalists under the auspices of caring for the environment while vehicular NOISE thugs destroy the daily “climate” for millions exposed to their abusive, unlawful, NOISE; this, void any significant enforcement intervention…they’re all hypocrites, liars and thieves.
Unregulated motor vehicle noise is America’s true “national plague” and those who modify the relatively quiet, legal, regulated, factory installed muffler or replace same with a “not for road use,” closed course, racing, aftermarket exhaust and operate these illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motor vehicles on our public roadways are irresponsible, selfish, narcissists who, with intent, audibly abuse America’s most innocent, our families, our children, the elderly, the handicapped; this, while our WOKE, impotent, law enforcement community; our State and local legislators who enact impotent vehicular noise laws; the judges who neglect to properly adjudicate violations of vehicular noise laws; law enforcement officers-judges-prosecutors who participate in and compromise with the illegal conduct, these are directly culpable for the destruction of our daily quality of life by undisciplined NOISE narcissistic thugs.
Tragically, due to law enforcement’s ineptness, laziness, ignorance of the motor vehicle noise laws and applicable enforcement techniques, the naive general public has grown dangerously complacent relevant to the physiological and psychological harm done by exposure to illegally LOUD motor vehicles; in fact, far too many American citizens have been so thoroughly inundated with this NOISE plague decade after decade; this, while law enforcement does NOTHING to stop the abuse, these citizens naively believe the motor vehicle noise is actually legal and the LOUD automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, that abuse them daily were manufactured that way…to be intrusively LOUD. One of my major obstacles during my enforcement years relevant to the selfish, abusive, thugs, who ride and drive loud was the question “Whose complaining about it?” from administrators and/or their desk puppets…the reason so many don’t complain is due to law enforcement’s failures over the years to intercede on behalf of the vehicular noise beleaguered citizenry. The reason so few people take a stand against the audible abuse of our children, our elderly, our handicapped, our families, is cowardliness, ignorance, laziness and a selfish fear of “getting involved” and suffering retribution.
A government’s “first duty” is the “protection” of its citizenry from abuse, violations of a citizen’s rights to life, liberty, domestic tranquility, the pursuit of happiness. America’s public roadways, especially those in our larger municipalities, have become the property and stomping grounds of the abusive vehicular noise thug, an arrogant child who destroys the daily quality of life of millions without any fear of law enforcement intervention or vigilante retribution; vehicular NOISE that is audible, in many cases, over one-mile under hard acceleration. This sound energy is nothing less than a physical assault upon the American public as a whole.
During my enforcement years as a police motorcycle officer and especially as a police patrol officer searching for outstanding warrants, I found vehicular noise violations to be the most lucrative form of “probable cause” for a traffic stop as the selfish, narcissistic, individual who abuses our most innocent with illegal vehicle noise is the very same narcissistic individual who has a propensity to violate the law where warrants and suspensions mandating incarceration are common. Why is law enforcement not taking advantage of vehicular noise as probable cause for a stop and investigate? Murderers, thieves, pedophiles, gang thugs, biker gang thugs, drive or ride as well and far too many are representative of the vehicular NOISE thug; therefore, stop them, perform the obligatory back-ground check and arrest these abusers of the public and impound their noisy piece of junk until it’s returned to quiet OEM-factory noise emission standards.
I fear that vigilantism will be the only viable recourse for the Father dedicated to protecting his wife and children from rampant vehicular noise abuse that unlawfully intrudes into our homes, places of work and worship and recreation. It is not difficult to envision the day that America’s “men” will be forced to take matters into their own hands seeing that America’s law enforcement community is too weak, too cowardly, too ignorant of the law, too compromised, too WOKE, to stop the vehicular NOISE abuse of our families; it’s a shame that these NOISE bullies are allowed run amuck void any consequences, any personal accountability, for their abuse of our children, the elderly, the handicapped, our families; this, 24/7/365. I agree that not a single vehicular noise thug is worth a day in jail or life in prison but what other choice is provided the husband, the father, the caretaker, who has a responsibility, a moral obligation, to defend their family from abusive thuggery so prevalent in American society today; unfortunately, America’s “men” have been castrated by a feminized perverse society, environmental estrogen, political correctness, fear of standing for and doing what is right.
Finally, those who have taken a solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, to protect and defend the American citizen and our daily quality of life, these representatives of the law have failed and failed miserably; therefore, what is the law abiding citizen to do?
Nine of the Ten Sinai Commandments, those reinstituted into the New Covenant by Messiah are what we define as “moral” law which are eternal and govern behavior vertically and horizontally, forever. The 4th-Commandment is a civil-ceremonial law that was made applicable to Israel’s children specifically and sojourners with them beginning in Exodus 16.
The Sinai Commandments are but a mere fraction of the spiritual law (Romans 2:14-15) that has been relevant subsequent the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will.
Sinai’s purpose,
The Commandments were given Israel as an eschatological bulwark against compromise with paganism that inundated the Tribes, a pagan ideology that relentlessly sought Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech…a paganistic compromise that would have thwarted Elohim’s eschatological will through Jacob’s children concerning the Messiah through Judah, much like that same form of paganism destroyed both the Adamic and Noahic generations and their ability to produce the Messiah foreordained “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b).
The Sinai Commandments were given for a Time and a specific purpose but they represent only a fragmented, incomplete, codification of Elohim’s law just as Jacob’s children represent a miniscule fraction of societal totality.
Sinai and the Christian?
The Christian, reborn spiritually by faith in Messiah and sealed by the indwelling Holy Spirit (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14), does NOT live daily contemplating Sinai or its mandates but the Christian lives through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit and the “spiritual law of the Spirit of life” written upon the human heart and not the “law of sin and death,” a written code seeking perfect compliance from the old-sin nature (Romans 8:2).
The Christian life and law,
The Christian lives daily through the anointing of the indwelling Spirit who produces fruit through the redeemed conscience that honors the Father and fulfills all law, fruit, against which there is NO LAW (2 Corinthians 5:17’ Galatians 5); therefore, Sinai and Torah Law are relatively insignificant concerning sanctification of the Christian via the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant; the Holy Spirit who prepares the Christian for eternal service in the New Jerusalem via the spiritual catalyst of the eternal spiritual law and the redeemed conscience for the production of divine “fruit,” NOT letters etched in stone or scratched upon parchment. Jesus said that “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20), divine fruits of righteousness that fulfill all law.
If you love me you will keep my commandments…
Yes, Jesus said to a Jewish audience, “If you love me you will keep my commandments.” (John 14:15) but those dying in legalism and enslavement to a written code don’t contemplate the words of Messiah that immediately follow v.15,
“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.” John 14:16-17
In conclusion,
What the legalist and the lost Jew and Israelite don’t understand is the truism that void the indwelling Holy Spirit, there is no pleasing the Father through obedience as the Holy Spirit, gifted the redeemed in Jesus by faith (Ephesians 1:13-14), is the Teacher of the Spiritual Law written upon the heart, a Spiritual Law that is eternally superior to Sinai or any written code as the Spirit methodically addresses every moral decision that confronts the Christian moment-by-moment while the written code is far too often the subject of obfuscation, rationalization and compromise by the old sin-nature; therefore, if you desire life with the Father and obedience that actually pleases the Father, you must first believe in the Son, Jesus Christ, receive the Holy Spirit and walk in daily sanctification via the Spirit’s tutelage (Romans 7:6), the Spirit of Truth (John 16:13) and the One who reminds the Christian of all that Jesus taught (John 14:26).
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”
The Law establishes the need for “faith” as the KEY element of salvation; that is, the initiation of New Covenant relationship with the Father, as the law demands absolute perfection (James 2:10) if righteousness (a right standing) with the Father is to be attained through law-keeping – BUT – there is a very relevant problem, all of humanity is under the curse of sin (Romans 5:12; Romans 3:23); therefore, humanity has already violated the law; therefore, the law curses anyone seeking righteousness through obedience to it (Galatians 3:10); fortunately, the Father did for us what we could not do for ourselves through vain attempts to keep the law; that is, the Father commissioned the Son, Jesus Christ, to enter the Realm of Time born of the virgin seed thereby bypassing the sin-nature of Adam; therefore, Jesus walked in sinless perfection before the Father and in doing so, Jesus fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law’s moral mandates and through His sinless perfection, Jesus made Himself the spotless Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sin of the World (John 1:29-32; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 John 2:2) as Jesus provided you and me acceptable blood atonement for our sin as mandated by Leviticus 17:11; therefore, anyone who believes in Jesus by “faith” in Him as their Messiah who died for them (John 3; Romans 10:9-10), that person so believing receives the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of Covenant with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) and that person is declared “not guilty” by covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12); this, by faith in Jesus as Messiah which is something the law could never do as the law is weakened by the sin-nature (Romans 8:1-6).
Faith establishes the impotency of the law to save (Romans 8 ) and faith establishes the truism that no one is justified through law as law simply defines sin but provides no form of acceptable atonement (Romans 3:20); therefore, the Father’s standard for righteousness (a right standing) with Him is absolute perfection (James 2:10) and that perfection can only manifest in our life via the imputation-gifting of Jesus’ righteousness over our life by FAITH (2 Corinthians 5:21); therefore, the law has become a tutor to point us to our need for Jesus by faith (Galatians 3:24-25); therefore, we walk by the Spirit, we serve through the Spirit by faith and not in oldness of the letter (Galatians 5; Romans 7:6).
So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
“So you are saying God was not capable of dealing with one rogue angel and that’s why he did the whole Jesus thing?”
Christian response,
Satan was Elohim’s anointed guardian cherub (Ezekiel 28:11+)…Satan served in the inner fold of Elohim’s administration. Satan’s charismatic gifts convinced one-third of the entire angelic realm to rebel against Elohim’s authority. This conundrum placed Elohim between a rock and hard place…so to speak. Destroy Satan and one-third of the angelic realm for their rebellion and destruction to the Kingdom and risk losing volitional intimacy with two-thirds of the faithful angelic creation, a faithful angelic majority who would respond to such a drastic measure with repulsion and possibly no longer love and honor Elohim as Creator but fear Him and serve, obey, out of compulsion which would have destroyed intimacy as love cannot be coerced or forced – OR – Elohim could provide a physical realm constrained by Time and physics, remove the spiritual rebellion and its participants from the Kingdom and place the destructive rebellion there, partially constrained by physics, and deal with the rebellion through a battle strategy that involves selfless love, grace, mercy and self-sacrifice by Elohim, Himself; this strategic tactic would consequently destroy the works of Satan, death-Hell-the grave, expose Satan’s folly and unsustainable behavior through selfless love; therefore, the previous 6000-years of spiritual and physical horror within the Realm of Time mirrors a spiritual war that manifest in the Kingdom before Time was created, a spiritual war that is waged around us and through us, daily (Ephesians 6).
Elohim chose victory through selfless love via a Gospel battle strategy that was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10) and this Gospel battle strategy is the primary reason Messiah Jesus, who is Elohim manifest in flesh, entered the Realm of Time; that is, “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) via selfless love first demonstrated in Eden (Genesis 3:21), a divine battle strategy that was ultimately fulfilled at Golgotha with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30).
The previous 6000-years of horror, death, destruction, within the Realm of Time, the suffering, disease, hopelessness; the future 1000-years of Millennial peace as Satan is confined and restrained from interacting with humanity; the war that manifests the moment Satan is released, the entire scenario is a bulwark, an example, to the faithful angelic creation demonstrating why Elohim’s plan is eternally superior to that of Satan’s narcissism and the scenario playing-out before our eyes will provide a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom where free will remains extant by necessity.
Our entire creation in Time is nothing more than Elohim’s response to an unfathomable destructive rebellion having manifest in His Kingdom in the Eternal Realm.
Elohim’s battle strategy was first declared in Genesis 3:15, pictured in Genesis 3:21, fulfilled at Golgotha (John 19:30). Human kind is afforded the opportunity via free will to come along side Elohim via faith in our Warrior, Messiah Jesus, and attain victory over the Devil – OR – humanity can choose to honor Satan by rejecting Messiah Jesus. Those who honor the Father by faith in the Son will enjoy the spoils of victory; those who honor Satan through an alliance with him will suffer a fate similar to his subsequent Judgment (Revelation 20:10-15).
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