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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

Concerning Law…the Continuing Controversy…

Concerning Law…the continuing controversy…

The moral law, that upon which nine of the Ten Commandments at Sinai are based (excluding the 4th), has been extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will and the moral law of God will remain relevant throughout eternity existing beyond the present Heaven and Earth that will be destroyed by fire (Matthew 24:35; 2 Peter 3:7-10). It is the moral law that is infused within every human being created in the spiritual image of Elohim (Genesis 1:26-28) as the moral law is one of the communicable attributes given humanity by God relevant to His eschatological purposes in Time and Eternity.

The moral law judged Satan and the fallen angels; this same law judged the Adamic and Noahic generations where all but eight perished in water. This same moral law will be used at adjudication in the Judgment of the Condemned (Revelation 20:11-15). God’s moral law is of necessity as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism resulting in human self-destruction and God’s moral law is of necessity concerning justice in order that judgment manifest with due process and equality.

The Law Covenant and the moral law of conscience…

The Law Covenant given Israel’s children consisted of moral law, civil-ceremonial law and Jesus fulfilled the moral and civil-ceremonial laws in perfection and was the only One qualified to provide you blood atonement for your sin (Hebrews 10). The civil-ceremonial laws foreshadowed the coming Messiah and now that our Messiah has come, we’re no longer under dietary, Sabbath edicts, clothing-fabric prohibitions (Colossians 2:16)…but we remain culpable for adherence to the moral law…that law that governs behavior between God and man and man with his fellowman.

Moral Law and the Christian…

In the New Covenant, established in Messiah’s blood (Matthew 26:28), it is the indwelling Holy Spirit given to the faithful in Jesus (Ephesians 1:13-14) that arbitrates the moral law via the conscience via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5:16). Christians are not enslaved to letters, laws, ordinances, days, dietary restrictions, in order to please God (Romans 7:14 & 6:14) but the Christian walks in obedience to the Holy Spirit via the conscience and in their new-nature (2 Corinthians 5:17) they seek to please the Father because they truly love Him as He first loved us and gave Himself for us in the Son, Jesus Christ (1 John 4:19); therefore, the Christian walks in peace and intimacy with God as we’re forgiven and redeemed by our Lord Jesus Christ through His work at Golgotha (Romans 5:1).

To Jacob’s Children who dismiss the veracity of the New Testament as Contradictory…

To Jacob’s children who dismiss the veracity of the New Testament as contradictory…

The New Testament is not contradictory…it simply fulfills what the Law Covenant foreshadowed. If you deny the words of Jesus, you deny LIFE and you will perish in your sins (John 8:24).

The New Covenant is here as it is established in the blood of Messiah at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28); The New Covenant is available to you by faith in Yeshua as your Messiah and the ONLY Way (John 14:6) to access it is by humbling yourself, admitting to the Father that you’re a sinner in need of a Redeemer and confess with your heart and mouth that you sincerely believe Yeshua is Messiah and that He died to pay your sin-debt owed the Father for you…a debt you could never pay yourself (John 3).

If you truly desire to do the will of God for your life, you will believe that Yeshua is your Messiah sent by the Father into the Realm of Time for your benefit; that is, to pay your sin debt owed the Father (John 6:29). There is no other Name given among men by which you must be saved or can be saved, Yeshua Messiah (Acts 4:12).

Legalism: Law Keeping and the New Covenant “Oil v. Water”

Legalism – Law Keeping and the New Covenant – “Oil and Water”

It is the subtle legalist existing with one foot in grace and one foot in works of the Law Covenant that is abhorrent to God. The LAW of the Covenant is NOTHING TO ME in my walk with the Holy Spirit as the Law Covenant was given by God SPECIFICALLY to Jacob’s children for the purposes of setting Israel apart from the paganism that surrounded them as God was working through the Hebrew Tribes to further His eschatological plan for all of human kind as promised Abraham (Genesis 12:3b).

The Law Covenant is NOTHING NEW but simply a reiteration of the moral law extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will; the Law Covenant simply provided the Hebrew Tribes with some codified specificity concerning behaviors they were to avoid, behaviors practiced by the pagan tribes around them, pagan filth serving pagan gods, behaviors that were especially appalling to the Living God.

This silly obsession with a LAW Covenant that condemns you to death in HELL is a spiritual illness (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10). The faithful in Jesus are NOT enslaved to LAWS, edicts, rules, regulations, but follow the Spirit in LOVE which manifests in obedience through PEACE with God (Romans 5:1), not strife and worry and condemnation by the Devil.

This law keeping is a spiritual illness among the weak in faith who deny the sufficiency of Jesus Christ to fully save apart from man’s self-righteousness.

Muhammad v. Jesus // Death v. Life…

Muhammad v. Jesus // Islam v. Christianity // Darkness v. Light // Death v. Life // Hell v. Eternal Life // The Lie v. Truth

Muhammad was a 7th-Century murdering, pedophile, thief, who was the demonic product of adultery between Abraham and Hagar producing the “wild donkey” of a man named Ishmael who is the father of the Ishmaelites who are the progenitors of Muhammad who, through Satan’s leadership, formed the demonic religious cult of Islam and eventually the Islamic Caliphate, a murdering hoard of demons that terrorized the World until temporarily halted in 1929. Satan’s Islam will be a major player in the coming nuclear war emanating from an unholy alliance between Russia-China-Iran/Islam v Israel (the final 3.5-years of the Great Tribulation).

Islam’s “Allah” is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14); there is nothing but death and Hell in Islam and only Abraham’s son, Isaac, is the son of promise, not Ishmael, and only Jesus died for you to provide blood atonement for your sin (Matthew 26:28), not Muhammad, and if you deny Jesus and die in the deceit of Islam, you will perish in your sin and in Perdition without hope (John 8:24; John 14:6).

Torah Worship and the Jewish Curse…

Torah Worship and the Jewish Curse

Torah’s primary relevance in life and reality and eternity, other than its creation narrative, is the moral aspects of its law which is simply a codification and reiteration of the moral law extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will (Romans 2:14-15). Torah worship is death in Hell as the Torah defines our sin, our culpability before God, but provides NO atonement (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16).

Judaism – a religion of hopelessness

Torah worship is the Jewish Curse of hopelessness as Torah has become a religious icon of Judaism – a religion of self-righteousness through works of the Law (Galatians 2:16; Romans 10). Jesus, and only Jesus as our God, fulfilled the righteous mandates of the Torah for us and offers us His righteousness in exchange for our sin IF we place our faith in Him as our Lord who died for us (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Our HOPE is in Jesus, not the Torah Law,

Jesus is God, Jesus is Elohim our Creator (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1; Philippians 2) and the New Covenant, as established in Messiah’s blood (Matthew 26:28), is the only Path to life in Eternity (John 14:6; Acts 4:12).

The Old Covenant – based in the Torah, was faulty (Hebrews 8:7) as it only defined our sin but provided no atonement (Romans 3:20); therefore, the Torah is a curse to anyone seeking righteousness through its mandates (Galatians 3:10) as the Law requires absolute perfection (James 2:10) and human kind is under the condemnation of sin (Romans 3:23); therefore, again, Torah becomes a curse to those seeking life in eternity through its mandates apart from faith in Jesus as Lord (Galatians 3:10).

Your only HOPE,

Your ONLY HOPE for life through the forgiveness of sin is faith-trust-belief-the “new birth” in Jesus Christ as your Messiah who died for you (John 3) and receive the imputation of Messiah’s righteousness imputed into your life by faith and thereby receive the covenant promise of forgiveness (Hebrews 8:12) through the establishment of covenant relationship guaranteed by the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 1:13-14).

A sincere warning,

If you trust in anyone or anything other than Jesus Christ for life in Eternity…you will perish in your sin and perish in the “second death” in Perdition (John 8:24; Revelation 20:11-15). If you deny the Son, you do not have the Father and you do not have life (1 John 2:23).

It is written,

10 For all who are of works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the Law, to do them.” Galatians 3:10 (NASB)

The Father’s purpose(s) for a Millennial Kingdom…

The Father’s purpose(s) for a Millennial Kingdom…

This morning, 26 March 2022, I observed the impotence of America’s Marxist Supreme “Democrat” Leader in Europe war-mongering among European leadership and in my shame and embarrassment for the Nation I love I could only think about my Lord, His eschatological plans and how faithful and accurate are the words provided by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit teaches us that a Time of Tribulation is coming upon the World and nuclear confrontation will manifest via an alliance between Russia-Iran/Islam (Satan)-China v. Israel; millions of men, women, children will perish in this horror and the suffering will be pervasive and unconscionable. This demonic horror will preface the 2nd-Advent of my Lord Jesus Christ and the establishment of His Millennial Kingdom; therefore, a most intriguing question is, “What is the Father’s purpose for the Thousand-Years of Peace” to be administered by King Jesus subsequent the Great Tribulation?

Concerning the Nation of Israel,

Even though Israel has been unfaithful and broken God’s Covenants; rejected and murdered their Messiah; rejected the New Covenant – the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God remains faithful and will save a remnant of Jacob’s children during the Tribulation era (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27) and these will see and mourn for their Messiah and enter into the Millennial Kingdom and Messiah Jesus will receive the Kingdom denied Him at His first-advent (Zechariah 12:10). The thousand-years do not belong solely to Israel but to all faithful in Jesus Christ; both believing Gentiles and the redeemed of Jacob’s seed through faith.

Why a Millennial Kingdom?

I believe the Holy Spirit teaches that the Millennial Kingdom serves multiple purposes, one being the establishment of a Kingdom specifically to honor Jesus as King and second, to provide a stark differentiation from the previous 6000-years of horror manifesting from the Evil One’s influence upon human kind.

Furtherance of the Father’s eschatological plan…

The Father is currently Administrator in an unconscionable war initiated in His Kingdom by an anointed cherub angel; that war having been removed from the Kingdom and the Realm of Time, this Universe, created as a repository and battle ground where the Father through the Son (Warrior and Redeemer) is dealing with said rebellion and restoring peace and order to His Kingdom (1 John 3:8b); the Father is currently in the process of demonstrating to the faithful angelic creation the reasoning for Satan’s extrication from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) and why Satan, the rebellious angels, must be interned in Hell, forever (Rev 20:10) while simultaneously maintaining volitional love with the beautiful angelic creation.

As the faithful angels have been horrified by the influence of their former brethren concerning the devastation of sin upon humanity, these same angels have been overwhelmed by their God’s selfless love at the Cross to redeem a vile, vulgar and thankless human kind. Through His selfless love demonstrated at Golgotha to destroy the works of the Evil One (1 John 3:8b), God will maintain volitional love with His faithful angelic creation that He loves beyond human comprehension.

The Millennial Kingdom, replete with absolute peace as the Evil One is confined for 1000-years (Rev 20:3), will provide an experientially relevant and stark differentiation, undeniable proof, that Satan is the father of lies, murder, suffering, disease, unconscionable horror (John 8:44) and the faithful angelic creation will wholly concur with the Father that Satan and the fallen angels do deserve eternal punishment in Hell (Rev 20:10) while concurrently, this demonstration of the horrors of rebellion to God’s authority, sovereignty, love, will act as a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom where nothing impure is allowed to exist (Rev 21:27) but where free will is extant out of necessity.

In this, the Father, the Son, the Spirit, will be receive all honor and praise and glory as a result of their selfless love demonstrated by our God and Savior Jesus Christ at Golgotha. Faithfulness to God’s will and His moral law will be honored by all, both the resurrected faithful and the angelic creation, as God’s Way is the ONLY WAY to lasting peace and intimacy in the New Jerusalem.

Jacob’s Children boast in their heritage as salvation yet only the “remnant” will be saved…a lesson for humanity…

Jacob’s children boast and proclaim security in their heritage and are destroyed for a lack of knowledge via wilful obstinance…a lesson for all of humanity…

Jesus came to the lost sheep of Israel to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel of Grace as Jacob’s children through Messiah were to be “a blessing to all the families of the Earth” as per Genesis 12:3b; unfortunately, Jacob’s children broke God’s covenants that were predicated upon obedience as per Deuteronomy 28; Jacob’s children rejected their Messiah; Jacob’s children rejected the New Covenant Gospel established in Messiah’s blood (Matthew 26:28); Jacob’s children falsely accused their Messiah of blasphemy and conspired with the Roman authorities to unmercifully flog and murder their Messiah upon a tree while exclaiming that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, God the Father took the New Covenant Gospel from Jacob’s children and placed them under judgment (Romans 9-11); consequently, only a “remnant” of Jacob’s children will escape the “second death” in Perdition due to unbelief (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); consequently, the Father gave the Gospel to the Gentiles as Abraham’s seed through faith (Galatians 3:14) and commissioned the faithful in Jesus Christ to take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth while the Jew and Israelite remain steadfastly hopeless in self-righteousness through law-keeping in unbelief while mocking faith.

Hope remains…

Every Jew and Israelite with the breath of life has the opportunity to repent and remove the veil of unbelief through faith in Jesus Christ as their Messiah who died for them and subsequently find life in His Name; after all, there is no other Way (2 Corinthians 3:16; John 14:6; Acts 4:12)

Is Christianity, Grace, Faith, the path to lawlessness?

Is Christianity, Grace, Faith, the path to lawlessness?

An unruly member of a theological group has accused me of teaching “lawless Christianity” as I have espoused a “righteousness” (a right standing) with the Father that is only possible by grace (unmerited favor unattainable through human effort – a gift) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus Christ as Lord, Messiah, who died to pay our sin-debt; this, apart from self-righteousness through works of the Law or philanthropy or good intent (Galatians 2:16; John 3; Ephesians 2:8-9).

I have repeatedly taught that the only righteousness attainable in this flesh and life constrained by Time and physics is the perfection-righteousness of Jesus Christ our God earned for us through His blood atonement at Golgotha and that righteousness-sinless perfection of Jesus IMPUTED into and over our life by faith thereby being declared “not guilty” by the Father via covenant promise (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12).

It is ONLY subsequent to establishing covenant relationship with the Father by faith in Jesus and subsequently receiving the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14) that one’s “works of obedience” done in the Spirit through sanctification become relevant and truly honor the Father as the one “born again” by faith in Jesus become the children of God in the family of God, forever.

Concerning “lawless Christianity”…

The demonically inspired propaganda that Christianity is lawlessness is foolishness and an agenda promulgated by the legalist and the cult of the SDA – Sabbatarianism, Jews-Israelite’s and Hebrew Roots fanatics. The Decalogue was given SPECIFICALLY to Jacob’s children through Moses at Sinai and they are NOTHING NEW but simply a reiteration and codification in stone of the moral law written upon our heart at conception having been extant from the creation of the angels as these moral laws (9 of the 10) act as an arbiter of free will. As a servant of Jesus Christ, I am NOT under the Law of the Covenant, I am under GRACE in my LORD (Romans 6:14). Please, allow me to explain…

What is the difference between the Letter and the Spirit?

Christianity adheres to a stricter and more demanding LAW than the Covenant of Law could ever produce. Jesus’ Commandments articulated during His Earthly ministry (not the Decalogue per se), are written upon the heart of the faithful in Him by faith. Jesus’ Commandments are methodically administered by the indwelling Holy Spirit through sanctification via the conscience and those LAWS-Commandments possess increased culpability through mens rea or the “thought life;” this, as no longer must an individual physiologically perform the sin to internalize culpability but the mere THOUGHT of the sin is condemnation (Matthew 5:27-28).

Again, the Christian walks in obedience to the Commandments of JESUS which are written upon the heart of those who love Him and these Commandments are carefully, methodically, internalized and processed WITHIN every true believer by the Spirit via the conscience (John 14:26). Please STOP with the “Christianity is lawlessness” nonsense, it’s the Devil’s work.

The Blindness-Deafness of Israel’s children, their obsession with Legalism condemning them to death in Hell…

The Blindness and Deafness of Israel’s children, cults and religions and their deadly obsession with Law that condemns them to death in Hell…

No one but Jesus keeps the Commandments, that’s the point…why can’t you understand this? Commandment keeping means NOTHING to the Father unless you have FIRST established covenant relationship with Him by faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, and received the indwelling Holy Spirit as your Guarantor of that covenant relationship (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14; Isaiah 64:6).

Law Keeping for righteousness sake is self-righteousness and offensive to the Father and the Jewish deadly error that destroys mind, body, soul, in Hell (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 2:16). The Commandments etched in stone at Sinai are NOTHING NEW or novel, simply a reiteration of the moral law extant from the creation of the angels forward as an arbiter of free will (Romans 2:14-15); the Sinai Commandment’s contain some specificity concerning those behaviors that are especially offensive to Elohim as the Commandments were given to Jacob’s children as they were to be set-apart and holy for His eschatological purposes as Jacob’s children were surrounded by, inundated by, pagan tribes worshiping pagan gods, YET…Israel did not keep the Law or God’s Covenants which are predicated upon strict “obedience” (Deuteronomy 28).

Israel’s children failed and continue in this failure as they seek righteousness (a right standing) with God through self-righteousness via “law-keeping” (Romans 10). Nine of the ten-Decalogue are moral laws and Messiah infused these within His ministry and added mens rea (thought life) as enhanced culpability; the 4th-Commandment is a civil-ceremonial law given specifically to the Hebrew Tribes and converts to Judaism… having absolutely NOTHING to do with anyone not under the Law Covenant (Colossians 2:16).

When one is born again by faith in Jesus as their Lord and they’ve received the Holy Spirit as Teacher-Tutor in the process of sanctification in the New Covenant, they “naturally” seek those things that honor God as the Spirit leads them in sanctification via the conscience, but the Sinai Commandments are NOT a daily guide and rarely enter the mind of the Christian as they are led by the Holy Spirit, not letters that kill and destroy void atonement (2 Corinthians 3:6). Law Keeping for righteousness sake is the deadly error committed by Jews, Israelite’s, Cults, Religions, Sects…and in their stubbornness and hard-hearted self-righteousness, they are entering Hades-Torments by the millions awaiting the Judgment of the Condemned and very “few” will listen.

Why Jesus – His Deity?

Why Jesus – His Deity?

Jesus is fully God (Elohim) and fully Man via the hypostatic union (John 1, Hebrews 1, Colossians 1, Philippians 2). In His humanity, Jesus worshiped the Father and modeled for us the proper protocol concerning our conduct before the Father. Jesus and the Father expect nothing of or from us that Jesus did not model through His humanity within the Realm of Time (Hebrews 4:15).

Jesus is God in flesh providing you an example of what pleases the Father, an experientially relevant model of God who is Spirit (John 4:24) having manifest in flesh to provide you blood atonement for sin thereby paving a path to eternal life by faith, belief, in Jesus as your Lord who died for you; in fact, there is no other Way to the Father or life in eternity but by believing in Jesus as your Lord and receiving the imputation of Jesus’ righteousness into and over your life thereby receiving forgiveness of sin via covenant promise (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; John 14:6; Hebrews 8:12).