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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

Are God’s Laws done away with?

Are God’s Laws done away with?

No. God’s moral law of conscience (Romans 2:14-15) has been extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will and that same law was infused within the human genome by Elohim on the 6th-Day as humanity was created in the spiritual image of Elohim having received certain communicable attributes from our Creator for His eschatological purposes; therefore, the moral law of God, the natural law infused within us at conception, will never pass away and will be relevant in Eternity, the Kingdom of God, where free will remains extant by necessity.

Pervasive confusion regarding “law” and its relevance…

The confusion that exists concerning “Is God’s laws done away with” is mankind’s refusal to come to grips with vanity, self-righteousness via law-keeping v. grace through faith (Hebrews 11). The law given Israel at Sinai etched in stone, nine of the ten Decalogue, are nothing new or novel but find their foundation in the moral law of conscience, the same law that judged Satan of covetousness and judged the Adamic and Noahic generations of defilement where all but eight perished in water by the judgment of God; this same moral law of conscience will be applicable for adjudication at the Judgment of the Condemned manifesting subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:10-15).

Legalists-cults-sects-Jews-Israelite’s-religions have, for millennia, rejected the simplicity of righteousness (a right standing with Elohim) by grace (a gift – unmerited favor) through faith-trusting in Elohim as Creator and opted to pursue self-righteousness by works, law-keeping, earning their righteousness with God through what they perceive as pleasing God through human effort.

As proclaimed by the Holy Spirit, the moral law of God, God’s words, will never pass away (Matthew 24:35) but that law must be interpreted and understood in accordance with its purpose and objective; that is, as a tutor (Galatians 3:24), a teacher, a definer of sin (Romans 3:20), that points human kind to our need for an Intercessor, a Messiah, one possessing the divine capacity and ability to keep the law in perfection as mandated (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10) and subsequently impute (gift) His righteousness into our lives by faith thereby receiving redemption from sin and reconciliation with the Father by faith in the One who performed the work for us and receive the benefits of covenant promise (Genesis 3:21; Romans 8:1-2; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12); otherwise, the law, created for the lawless (1 Timothy 1:9), condemns us void atonement and we then pursue, in futility, righteousness by vanity which offends the Father and condemns mind, body, soul, in Hell (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16).

Conclusion of the matter?

The Father has provided One-Way to acquire righteousness (a right standing) and reconciliation with Him; that is, faith in the One He has sent into the World to provide blood atonement for the condemnation of sin; that is, Jesus Christ our Lord (John 6:29; John 3:16; Acts 4:12). Through grace and faith, Elohim has defeated the Evil One through the selfless love of the Son displayed at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b) and we are partakers of that victory when we completely trust and believe in Jesus as our Messiah who died for us (John 14:6; Romans 8:31-39). Our Law in the New Covenant is the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) who enlivens the moral law of conscience within the redeemed in Jesus via the new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) and walks them in obedience via the conscience, not letters (2 Corinthians 3:6; Galatians 5:16).

Did God know Adam and Eve would sin in Eden?

The question was asked: Did God (Elohim) know in advance that Adam and Eve would sin?”

Christian response,

Yes, Elohim, in His omniscience, knew that the first man and woman would relent to Satan’s enticement as Elohim ordained the Gospel as a battle strategy “to destroy the works of the Devil” “before Time began” (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:21; 2 Timothy 1:8-10).

It is critically important that the Christian understand causation/reasoning for our existence within a Realm called “Time” and that we’re in an extended spiritual war that was initiated by a rebellious cherub angel in the Kingdom of the Spiritual Realm and our entire existence from conception in the womb to the grave is as a participant in that spiritual war, a spiritual war having entered into the Realm of Time and physics as our Earth was created as a repository for same thereby permitting Elohim to limit destruction to His Kingdom while dealing with His enemies via self-less love; therefore, live your life accordingly and appropriately thereby honoring our King, Jesus Christ, our Creator, Warrior, Messiah and Judge.

It is written,

“8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8 (ESV)

“12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)

Concerning Ukraine, the UK, America, and their death in WOKENESS, GRAFT, Marxism…

I have no doubt that America’s Federal Government, those in authority over the people at this time, is the most corrupt, perverse, Marxist oriented, Government to ever inhabit Washington DC. In my heart of hearts, I believe Ukraine is a very sophisticated money laundering, weapons distribution, tactic by Democrats and Republicans alike and the wealthy are becoming wealthier and the poor are becoming poorer and the middle class is becoming extinct.

Our “leaders” in DC are bought and paid for by China and our children stand to suffer greatly in the coming Socialist-Marxist-Progressive-WOKE society led by sexual perverts, greedy, angry, American hating, politicians.

I recently returned from the UK – Scotland where there is a very perceptible cloud of dark socialism controlling the heart, mind, mouths of the people…a sadness in their face…a fear of self-expression…a horrible way to live…where LGBTQ and Climate Change fanaticism constitute their holy grail as the Church has been relegated to museum status while God is mocked or ignored…this is coming to America and for all intent and purposes it is here and it is tragic. Sadly, nothing but another civil war to thoroughly cleanse Washington of the demonic stain of Progressivism-Marxism-WOKENESS offers any hope of survival concerning our Constitutional Republic and our posterity.

Abortion – Homosexuality cannot be legitimized by law…

Infanticide and Homosexuality are sins that transcend Time and cannot be legitimized by man’s law…

Prohibiting the murder of babies in the womb is an immutable law that transcends time. Homosexuality is a sexual sin against God’s Covenant of Marriage that transcends time. Neither can receive valid advocacy or legitimization from an interpretation of moral law or criminal law in a society seeking sustainability. Infanticide via abortion and homosexuality via Obergefell (2015) are indicative of a spiritually, morally, ill society that has chosen servitude to the Devil via a rejection of our Creator’s holiness and sovereignty.

Faith v. Works; Righteousness v. Self-Righteousness; Life v. Death of the spirit…

Faith v. Works; Righteousness v. Self-Righteousness…

Faith, apart from works, is the KEY to the Father’s heart and the initiation of covenant relationship through Jesus Christ as our Lord. Once saving faith, apart from works, has initiated covenant relationship and the redeemed in Jesus receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that covenant relationship, works of obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit’s guidance becomes natural or a defining characteristic of the one born again as Jesus said you will know them by their works (Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 11:6; Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16; Romans 7:15-20).

No one can “work” them self to God the Father as our works of self-righteousness before salvation are considered as a “filthy garment” in the nose of God; actually, the Hebrew defines self-righteous works as a “bloody menstrual cloth” (Isaiah 64:6).

We are saved by grace (unmerited favor unattainable through human effort – a gift) through faith (believing-trusting) in Jesus as our Lord who died for us, alone; then, our works of obedience are a natural outflow of our salvation through the indwelling Spirit via the conscience via the daily process of sanctification. It is the one who believes on Him that justifies by faith that is saved and not the one who works for their salvation through acts of self-righteousness (Galatians 2:16).

How can Israel be culpable for Messiah’s death if His death was prophesied beforehand?

How can Israel’s children be “guilty” of Messiah’s murder if the Crucifixion was prophesied hundreds if not thousands of years earlier?

Messiah’s death, the shedding of innocent blood as atonement for sin, has been a reality subsequent Genesis 3:21 but the Father did not ordain Messiah’s death through His “chosen” people, Israel, but only that Messiah would die for the sins of the World. Israel’s children “chose” to be the cursed people of Messiah’s death as Yahweh could have easily used Pilate and the Roman law to bring about the Crucifixion of Messiah via the charge of subversion or sedition but Israel chose to murder the Messiah sent to them, a Messiah foreshadowed through types and prophecy throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. There is life through forgiveness of sin for every child of Jacob who acknowledges their sin, repents, and fully trusts in Yeshua as their Messiah who died for them.

American Liberalism v. Jesus

America’s sustainability: Liberalism v. Jesus

Why is Liberalism-Progressivism the antithesis of sustainable mores, norms, values, necessary for America’s Constitutional Republic?

The American experiment of a Constitutional Republic constructed by the people for the people necessitated a religious and moral people for its success. America’s Founder’s relied solely upon an overwhelming majority of the populous having been “born again” and redeemed by faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and subsequently receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit as a personal Tutor, Guide, Wisdom, Counselor, via the conscience via the daily process of sanctification. This is why a Church steeple was usually visible from most every quadrant of early townships in Colonial America.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams (From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798)

Our Founder’s structured the purposefully “limited” Federal Government with checks and balances via the fragmentation of governmental responsibility shared between the Executive-Legislative-Judicial branches with “We the people” receiving representation through elected leadership; Representatives possessing the shared values, norms, mores, of the people who elected them.

Liberalism,

One of the primary reasons Progressivism-Liberalism will not succeed in America’s Constitutional Republic, a Republic founded upon Biblical principals e.g. the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is that Liberalism naively believes humanity is inherently “good” by nature and if provided sufficient sustenance sufficient to feed the lust of the flesh there will be universal peace and tranquility, a sociological satiation, personal satisfaction through shared equity, sufficient to bridge any differences between race, religion, ethnicity, worldview; the theoretical outcome of pervasive equity will be social integration manifesting ultimately in a utopia of peace, love and nirvana.

Conservatism,

Our Founder’s took a Biblical approach to the propensities of human kind believing what the Holy Spirit has said concerning human nature and the sin-nature that lurks within all of humanity. Our Founder’s knew that only by an intimate relationship with our Creator, Jesus Christ, through faith and receiving the Holy Spirit as the Constrainer and Restrainer of the sin-nature would the pursuit of individual freedoms apart from intrusive Governmental oversight be realized. Herein lies the foundational failure of Liberalism i.e. the inability or refusal to see and wrestle with the reality of mankind’s inherent sin-nature requiring either redemption by faith in Jesus Christ or a tyrannical form of Government practicing authoritarianism as its guiding mandate to prevent societal implosion.

Today, in America, we see the impotency of the “do gooders” i.e. Liberalism and its rejection of our Founder’s mandates necessitating the behavioral modification and individual self-restraint only provided by the Judaeo-Christian ethic practiced and realized in individual homes with a dad and mom as their children’s primary role model supplemented by the local Church and the public school teaching “Creationism” as opposed to the lunacy of Darwinism i.e. atheism; Mom and Dad along with the local Church and the public school teaching the benefits of personal, Biblical, morality, personal responsibility, as opposed to the demonism of Darwinism, Marxism, LGBTQ sexual-gender confusion.

Whenever Democrats, Liberals, are in charge of a municipal or State government, crime and suffering and poverty and homelessness and addiction and gender confusion and suicide and abortion will define the people and their personal values because Liberalism rejects God’s Truth in exchange for the deception of the Devil who whispers to humanity that in the pursuit of sufficient knowledge-education and equity and appeasement of the sin-nature, mankind will arrive at nirvana and in conjunction with the satiation of the flesh all of humanity will finally realize enduring peace and happiness and tranquility; unfortunately, today’s morally ill, apostate America, demonstrates that the Devil is a liar and our Founder’s were correct in their assessment of the sin-nature articulated by the Holy Spirit.

Liberalism, a home for Marxism

Liberalism is better defined as “do-gooders” absent Biblical wisdom and neglectful of the Holy Spirit’s discernment. The Marxist’ find their demonic ideology easily integrated with the error of American Liberalism and this is why Marxism, with Liberalism as its catalyst, will be the death of Americanism as Liberalism is best defined as a naïve people absent wisdom and discernment possessing a heart of compassion but clueless concerning reality relevant to the evil inherent within humanity.

Is Deuteronomy 28 applicable to Israel only or to the United States as well?

Are the blessings-cursing of Deuteronomy 28 relevant ONLY to Israel’s children or are they applicable to the United States as well?

I’ve received some push-back on my OP stating that America’s immorality has gone too far and as a result, the Father has walked away from our legislated murder of babies in the womb and defilement of His marriage covenant via LGBTQ advocacy; Darwinian idiocy = evolutionary atheism forced into the classroom; a Marxist-Democrat Party strategy aimed at destroying the Biblical family unit and transforming America into a Marxist Nation.

The Holy Spirit has provided detailed historical accounts concerning the apostate failures of the Adamic and Noahic and Hebrew societies for our edification and knowledge concerning the Father’s eschatological will and we are to learn from these examples and act accordingly with wisdom and discernment. Israel and his children when compared to societal totality in numbers and years are rather insignificant but the Father set these people apart as a beacon displaying His blessings for obedience and His cursing for disobedience. For one to say that the Father’s covenants with Israel cannot be extrapolated and applied to the United States is simply lacking eyes to see and ears to hear.

The Father has set-apart the United States of America for His own eschatological purposes concerning the Great Commission relevant to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the New Covenant (Matthew 28).

America was tasked from its founding to be a blessing to every family of the Earth through proselytizing the entire World with the Gospel and to a certain extent, America has been faithful in that endeavor. America was to accomplish what Israel failed to accomplish as Israel’s children rejected the New Covenant Gospel; Israel’s children rejected and murdered their Messiah; Israel’s children demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children; therefore, the Father’s eschatological will would NOT be stymied by Israel’s apostasy but the Father pivoted and set-apart the United States for the purpose of fulfilling the Great Commission through the Gentiles (Romans 11:25).

Though Deuteronomy 28 targets Israel’s children, the blessings for obedience and cursing for disobedience transcends these Tribes and transcends Eternity. America, set-apart by the Father to accomplish what Israel refused to accomplish, must adhere to the warnings articulated by the Holy Spirit throughout the Hebrew Scriptures as they are applicable to the United States as America has been blessed greatly by the Father and to whom much is given much is expected; unfortunately, America has whored itself to the demons of abortion and vile sexual immorality; therefore, America is reaping what She has sown in unfaithfulness, apostasy, compromise with the demonic.

Though the cursing in Deuteronomy 28 is relevant to an agrarian economic model, that same cursing can easily be extrapolated to an industrial and technologically based economy such as the United States. If you study the individual curses in Deuteronomy 28 with eyes to see and ears to hear, you can easily see our Father’s judgment on the apostate Nation the United States of America.

Truth concerning Atheism – Darwinism…

What is the TRUTH concerning Atheism and Darwinism?

Atheism does not exist in reality; Atheism is simply a ruse, obfuscation, to appease and dampen a seared conscience within an individual living in willful sin, aberrant lust, defilement, as every individual possessing at least a modicum of cognitive acuity sufficient to discern the World around them intuitively knows that a Creator exists and Same possesses sovereignty over all life. Atheism is self-loathing in a demonic lie.

Darwinism – Evolutionary Theory is Satan’s most successful strategy at conforming the weak in mind and weak in wisdom and discernment in the ways of compromise and self-destruction. There is no greater proselytizer of atheism and secular humanism than Darwinism forced upon maturing minds in public schools.

Darwinism is the Marxist’ most proficient strategy having methodically transformed America’s youth into an abortionist loving; sexually perverse; Marxist society absent God; absent morality; absent wisdom; absent discernment; sheep prepared for the slaughter of tyranny and authoritarianism.