Theological question: “Since Jesus is God why didn’t he know the time of His coming as put [stated] in Matthew 24:36.”
Consider this,
The Day of the Second Advent is fluid, wholly dependent upon free will choices made by human men and women in authority and those to whom the Gospel is given; that is, there is a certain specified, ordained, number of redeemed in Jesus that must be attained before the 2nd-Advent. The Father, as the Administrator of the Trinity, decides when that number of redeemed has been fulfilled.
Know that the Holy Spirit has told us there was one-third of the angelic creation that followed Lucifer/Satan in the Great Rebellion, that Rebellion being causation for the Creation Narrative. As physics will testify, our World, our atmosphere, hates a vacuum; that is, remove a certain volume of fluid from a particular entity and all of nature seeks to fill that void; no difference concerning the “void” left in the Spiritual Realm by those who allied with Satan’s covetousness resulting in their banishment from the Kingdom; that void will be replaced, restored, in number, a specific number, and the 2nd-Advent, the initiation of the Millennial Kingdom, will NOT manifest until said number has been attained; that is, until such “Time” a corresponding number of human kind responds to the Gospel and is prepared to enter the Kingdom for service, the end will not manifest and the Father will determine when that specific number has been attained; by divine authority, that number remains the sole property of the Father while the Son and the Spirit respect the Father’s discernment as the Administrator of all things concerning Time and Eternity and the New Jerusalem, order, holiness, peace.
1) Father – Administrator 2) Jesus – Son, Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge 3) Holy Spirit – Logistics
Satan’s rebellion and its horrific aftermath, having been played-out within the Realm of Time for the previous 6000-years, will be completely righted, corrected, healed, made whole, holiness – order restored, by the Father’s divine plan we know as “The Gospel” which was ordained as Elohim’s battle strategy “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-9); in fact, the primary reason Jesus entered the temporary Realm of Time was “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8).
Destroying Satan’s works includes restoring all that Satan has destroyed and stolen, that one-third of the rebellious angelic creation will be restored by redeemed human kind, though redeemed humanity will not be angelic in origin, those restored through the Gospel will be dedicated resurrected servants of Jesus our Messiah in the New Jerusalem thereby closely duplicating the responsibilities of the angelic creation that chose via free will to leave their assigned responsibilities in the Kingdom; again, that specific number of redeemed subject to free will choices made within the Realm of Time belongs to the Father, the divine Administrator of Heaven, Earth, the eternal Kingdom. The Son and the Spirit honor and respect the Father’s eschatological will.
You build and nurture a “good relationship” with Elohim first by trusting in Jesus as your Messiah and receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the divine conduit between mankind and the Father through Jesus (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16).
Once a divine relationship with the Father is established through faith in Jesus (John 6:29; 14:16), you walk daily in obedience to the Holy Spirit’s leadership via daily Christian sanctification (Galatians 5:16) or “setting apart” yourself from the World’s desires to those desires of the Father for your life; that is, as a Christian, the objective is to produce divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) that glorifies the Father and demonstrates to the World that you are a faithful disciple of Jesus (John 15:8); this is the foundation of a healthy, eternal, relationship with Elohim (Genesis 1:1).
Prayer, thankfulness, intimacy, learning of Elohim’s divine will through a study of His written word, trusting, alone time, with Elohim is KEY to a divine relationship.
Why does Satan have access to Elohim in the Kingdom; this, according to the Book of Job?
The entire creation narrative is rooted in Satan’s rebellion that manifest before Time began; in fact, the Gospel of Jesus our Messiah as the battle strategy to defeat Satan finds its origin in the Spiritual Realm “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-9) and that war between Elohim and Satan was formally declared in Genesis 3:15 as a struggle between a Messiah who would enter Time via the seed of the woman (not man) and do battle with Satan as the Messiah would crush Satan’s head while Satan would bruise Messiah’s heal; this divine-spiritual war was concluded at Golgotha with Jesus victorious over the works of Satan e.g. death-Hell-the grave; in fact, the primary reason Jesus entered the Realm of Time/physics was “to destroy the works of Satan” (1 John 3:8b) via the Gospel which was first pictured for us in Genesis 3:21; this, demonstrating that Elohim, Himself, would shed innocent blood to clothe human kind in a gifted, imputed, robe of righteousness (animal skins) while Elohim simultaneously demonstrated that He would reject self-righteousness or works for righteousness as payment for sin; this, as Elohim rejected Adam’s futile attempt to cover his own sin and nakedness by the works of his hands via the application of fig leaves.
The Holy Spirit makes the effort to demonstrate for us the wartime relationship that exists between Elohim and Satan through the Book of Job in the Old Testament. Currently, Elohim and Satan are battling for the spirit of mankind and Elohim is employing the works of Satan as a sifter of righteousness and an exposer of the unrighteous. Satan is currently performing Elohim’s will as a sifter of wheat and tares. This war between Elohim and Satan will ultimately demonstrate to the two-thirds of the faithful angelic creation the necessity for obedience and honor concerning their relationship with Elohim and that same war between Elohim and Satan will ultimately be seen as a divine bulwark against rebellion in the New Jerusalem concerning redeemed mankind as mankind will have the historical knowledge of 6000-years of pure horror resulting from disobedience and compromise with evil and the Evil One; this being of necessity as free will exists throughout eternity in the New Jerusalem. The current war between Elohim and Satan that permeates this World and our soul will ultimately be a divine deterrence concerning future rebellion in the New Jerusalem where free will exists by necessity. Obedience to Elohim is eternally superior to sacrifice.
For this reason, Satan, a tool of Elohim concerning eternal righteousness in the Kingdom, has access to Elohim just as the leadership of warring factions in this World have access to one another concerning wartime negotiations; ultimately, Elohim will use Satan’s captivity during the Millennial Kingdom to prove once and for all time that Satan is the author of all suffering and death and horror; this, underscored by Satan’s release at the culmination of the Millennial Kingdom where rebellion via war is once again initiated by Satan; through this stark example of cause and effect, the two-thirds of the angelic hosts who have been observing Elohim’s battle with Satan over the previous 6000-years of human history will concur with Elohim that their former leader, Lucifer-Satan, a rebellious cherub angel, does indeed deserve punishment in Hell, eternally, (Revelation 20:10) and Elohim will be glorified by the angelic and redeemed humanity for His patience, wisdom, as Elohim will have successfully defeated Satan not by the sword but through Elohim’s own selfless love demonstrated through Messiah at Golgotha.
Why Jesus as the atoning sacrifice for the sin of humanity?
Jesus is the ONLY One who can pay for the sin of humanity as Jesus is the ONLY One who meets the divine criteria for acceptable sacrifice for sin, sinlessness…void spot or blemish or wrinkle. This “sinless blood atonement” was first pictured for us in Genesis 3:21 as Elohim, Himself, shed innocent blood to cover the sin of Adam and Eve while Elohim rejected Adam’s attempt to cover his own sin by the works of his hands, fig leaves. Jesus is the spotless, sinless, Lamb of Elohim who was slain “before the foundation of the World” (Revelation 13:8). The war between Jesus and Satan was openly declared by the Holy Spirit in Genesis 3:15 as our Messiah would enter Time through the seed of a virgin woman absent the seed of man which passes the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12).
Jesus entered Time “to destroy the works of Satan” (1 John 3:8b) and this plan was ordained before Genesis 1:1. The entirety of Biblical eschatology is predicated upon Elohim’s response to Satan’s great rebellion in the Kingdom; in fact, the Genesis creation narrative is a response to Satan’s rebellion as our Heavens and Earth are a temporary repository for the Great Kingdom War as Elohim restores holiness and peace to His own Heavenly Kingdom.
Our entire existence, causation for same, is predicated upon WAR!
Elohim’s selfless love observed at Golgotha is the divine response to Satan’s rebellion and Elohim’s plan for victory over evil. Elohim has displayed His divine LOVE for His created beings by giving Himself on the alter through suffering and death…this unfathomable sacrifice by Elohim will be THE eternal defining memory of our Creator’s faithfulness that will endure throughout Eternity as we dwell with Him in the New Jerusalem…worthy is the Lamb.
~1 Peter 1: 19 ~ Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. ~ Revelation 13:8~ Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
Vance and Hines Exhaust Manufacturer – Lawlessness and abuse defined!
Vance and Hines is a horrible, subversive, company producing non-compliant “not for road use” illegally loud exhausts for the LOUD motorcycle cult[ure] and markets these dangerous NOISE makers for street-use motorcycles destroying daily quality of life while recklessly endangering the health and welfare of our most vulnerable. Vance and Hines is but one of numerous aftermarket exhaust manufacturers who mock the protective intent of the Code of Federal Regulations 40CFR Part 205. Vance and Hines exists in our society due to enforcement impotency on the part of the US EPA and State Governments, inept Attorney General representatives at the Federal and State level; this, as America’s most innocent are bullied by the LOUD biker cult[ure] daily and nightly completely void intervention by a failing, compromised, law enforcement community and America’s mayors; mayors who prostitute themselves with the LOUD biker cult[ure] via illegal biker rallies around the United States.
The Eternal Destination of those having died in body?
When one dies in body, they’re relegated to one of two destinations depending upon the personal choices made while constrained by Time and physics (Luke 16; 2 Corinthians 5:8).
1) Those who honor God the Father by trusting, believing, that the Son, Jesus our Messiah, died for them (John 6:29; John 3) and thereby paid the divine price for sin, death, and that by trusting in Jesus’ blood atonement they are saved by grace (unmerited favor) through faith…this person is instantaneously translated into the Spiritual Realm and into the presence of our Creator, fully conscious, keenly aware, awaiting the resurrection of the righteous and the reality of the New Jerusalem.
2) Those who die in body having rejected Jesus as Messiah are instantaneously relegated to the spiritual region/abode/realm of Sheol/Hades – Torments, fully aware and conscious, awaiting the resurrection of the condemned (John 5:29), the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:11-15), where they will receive a resurrected body of corruption and stand before Jesus for adjudication concerning “works” done in the body (Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16) during their time on Earth. These rebellious individuals will be adjudicated guilty of sin and consequently refused entrance into the Kingdom (Rev 21:27; 20;11-15) where they will ultimately suffer the “second death” in Hell…a point in eschatology running concurrently with the destruction of the current Heavens and Earth by fire (Rev 20-22).
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Dear Congressman Byron Donalds, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin,
I am a retired 31-year veteran of the Houston PD currently living on Pine Island, Bokeelia, Florida. During my enforcement years with the HPD and during my last fourteen years of retirement, I have endeavored to intercede on behalf of our most innocent, our children, the elderly, the handicapped, and our families, who are audibly assaulted and abused by the OUT OF CONTROL numbers of illegally modified, illegally equipped motorcycles, automobiles, and trucks emitting noise levels in multiples (logarithmic) of the legal, total, environmentally safe noise emissions of 80 dB(A), the maximum safe operating noise level as per the US EPA for motorcycles (1986 models forward), light- to medium-duty trucks, and automobiles.
Florida’s own state Noise Abatement Law, section 5, clearly requires the quiet OEM-factory-installed muffler (80dBA) for all street-use motor vehicles, yet Florida’s roadways are inundated with motorcycles that have been illegally modified or illegally equipped with “not for road use” aftermarket exhausts; this, while a plethora of trucks and automobiles are illegally modified with “FlowMaster,” “Magnaflow,” and “BORLA” type noise-making devices. I have personally successfully enforced, cited, and adjudicated untold numbers of vehicular noise violations during my enforcement years, and I am respectfully asking for your intercession concerning the out-of-control vehicular noise abuse in Florida.
Governor DeSantis has failed to respond to my concerns. Lee County, Charlotte County, Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, and the leadership of these entities could care less that the daily quality of life and the health and welfare of their citizens, our most innocent, are destroyed daily and nightly by those who ride and drive illegally, intrusively, LOUD. To make matters worse, mayors and police chiefs across the State of Florida and the United States prostitute themselves for the city coffers, compromising with the LOUD motorcycle culture through scheduled “biker rallies” where these illegally equipped, illegally LOUD motorcycles are welcomed into a municipality and the citizenry of said municipality are abused daily and nightly during the illegal event; this, while Governor DeSantis says and does NOTHING. Why? I have the answers; I have the solutions to this pervasive, formidable, vehicular noise problem.
As far back as the Congressional 1972 “Noise Control Act,” Congress has expressed concerns over environmental noise and subsequently delegated enforcement authority to the States concerning vehicular noise and its detrimental effects on human physiology; unfortunately, the States, their enforcement entities, have failed the American citizen miserably.
Additionally, there exists no greater “probable cause” for a stop and investigate than illegal vehicular noise, and during my enforcement years, I successfully cleared warrants, suspensions, and equipment violations using vehicular noise as my probable cause, a probable cause that is undergirded by legal precedent. Arron C. Aguilar, V. State of Texas (2008). https://law.justia.com/…/fourth-court…/2008/20953.html
Motorcycles operated upon the public roadways of the United States are, at production, thoroughly tested for noise emissions via the SAE J331a full throttle drive-by testing procedure. Motorcycles for roadway use are tested at full brake horsepower, and noise emissions are evaluated at 42 feet on each side of that make and model motorcycle at full brake horsepower during full acceleration. Street-use motorcycles are restricted to a “total” motorcycle noise emission of 80 dB(A), and when/if said motorcycle meets this noise emission criteria, the OEM muffler is heavily embossed with a US EPA emissions label…this is a permanent label to be positioned for enforcement inspection, and the frame of that motorcycle receives a frame label matching the muffler to the motorcycle. This OEM-factory-installed muffler must remain on the motorcycle and in compliance for the “life of the motorcycle.” Approximately 80% of the motorcycles operating on public roadways of Florida and throughout the United States have been illegally modified by tampering with the baffling, or the OEM-factory-installed muffler has been removed and replaced by a “not for road use” aftermarket LOUD exhaust; this is done via a selfish act of narcissism on the part of the owner who enjoy their NOISE and abusing the public with same. Counter to loud biker excuses suggesting “loud pipes save lives,” loud pipes actually violate rights and make the operator less safe!
In addition, far too many automobiles and trucks, regulated to 80 dB(A) by federal law, Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, operating in Florida and throughout the United States have been illegally modified by the installation of a “MagnaFlow” or “FlowMaster” or “BORLA” noise-making device; this, for no other reason than appeasing the narcissistic appetite of the operator at the physiological expense of the citizenry.
Today’s environmental and physiological disaster of illegally LOUD motorcycles, autos, and trucks operating unencumbered upon our public roadways is the shameful equivalent of yesterday’s smoking in a public place. Subsequent extensive medical testing and research, evidence shows that there exists no greater environmental threat and causation concerning cardiovascular disease, stroke, and stress-related illnesses than unregulated motor vehicle noise in our densely populated communities.
Approximately a decade ago, I journeyed to Washington, DC where I lobbied House and Senate representatives for intercession concerning vehicular noise abuse in the United States. My efforts were met with utter disrespect and scoffing seeing that I was not a prospective financial donor to their reelection efforts; therefore, my rough draft of a quiet communities bill and my concerns for the vehicular noise abused citizenry were shunned, and my time and money were wasted.
Congressman Donalds, please don’t fail the good and respectable citizens of Florida, those who endeavor to do the right thing and respect their fellow citizens, raise their families in a healthy and peaceful environment. I am free to meet with you at your convenience via phone or in person. I will place the URL of a sampling of articles I have written relevant to my concerns and my efforts to intercede on behalf of the vehicular-noise-beleaguered citizenry. I am respectfully seeking your intercession and assistance; please don’t toss my concerns aside. Let’s make Florida’s roadways lawful, respectable, for the health and welfare and daily quality of life of all citizens. Please help me STOP the vehicular NOISE bullies who abuse our most innocent, daily and nightly? Apparently, it will require a Congressional restriction on highway funding to the States in order to force their compliance with the US EPA’s vehicular noise mandates. Will you intercede on our behalf?
This following paragraph from Section 293 is very important as it restricts using any non-original equipment which can increase noise limits on cars or other vehicles:
(5) NOISE ABATEMENT EQUIPMENT MODIFICATIONS.— Florida State Law
(a) No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle or any other noise-abatement device of a motor vehicle operated or to be operated upon the highways of this state in such a manner that the noise emitted by the motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured.
This makes it illegal to use any aftermarket modifications louder than ones your vehicle is manufactured with. All devices producing excessive exhaust noise are not legal. There are exceptions which include emergency vehicles, vehicles used in races or similar events, agricultural equipment, and test vehicles.
Thank you for taking the time to contact me about your thoughts on vehicular noise in Florida, I appreciate hearing from you on this front. As the 119th Congress continues, I will be sure to keep your thoughts and suggestions in mind as this issue is addressed. Additionally, please let me or a member of my staff know if we can be of any assistance going forward, take care.
Dear Congressman Donalds and/or the Staffer who prepared the kind response, (11 – 5 – 25)
I am prepared, ready, willing, able, to appear before a committee and articulate my concerns and request for intercession. Please don’t disregard my efforts to right the wrong of government inaction concerning those who abuse our most innocent and destroy daily quality of life with illegal vehicular noise. Thank you for your response though I fear you never received my letter of concern but the response, though kind and thoughtful, is the work of a staffer who has no idea of the urgency and importance of this matter. Please don’t treat me as your fellow members in the House and Senate treated me during my visit to D.C.. The only solution to the problem, plague, of vehicular noise abuse is Congressional intercession, the withholding of transportation funding, to those States who refuse to comply with the mandates of the US EPA, Title 40 CFR, Part 205 and State Muffler Laws that require the noise suppression mandates of the Code of Federal Regulations. If you reject intercession on behalf of the vehicular noise beleaguered citizenry, you reject your obligation to provide “protection” to those who have no one to intercede on their behalf.
Today’s vehicular NOISE is yesterday’s smoking in public places. Educating our local, county, state, legislators concerning the physiological harm done and the destruction to daily quality of life can change things and lobbying our representatives at the federal level can initiate financial coercion upon the states to comply with Title 40 and muffler labeling and 80dB(A) mandates delegated to the States for enforcement. Doing NOTHING ensures failure….at least make a stand for what is right.
Redemption, salvation, born-again, does NOT negate the influence of the old Adamic sin-nature integral with the flesh (Romans 5:12). The rebirth in Jesus performed by the indwelling Holy Spirit concerning those who trust in Jesus as Messiah (John 3:3-5; 2 Corinthians 5:17) simply transforms the spirit of man into one that “desires” obedience, seeks to please the Father through the production of divine fruit (John 15:8; Galatians 5:16-23) but a spiritual inner war ensues between the old flesh and the new spirit and there are times where the old flesh is successful in compromising the new spirit via word, thought, deed, but the Spirit convicts the redeemed conscience and provides the new man the solace of 1 John 1:9 in order that intimacy and fellowship with the Father can be restored, intimacy stymied by disobedience; though eternal relationship is secure via the Spirit as Guarantor (Ephesians 1:13-14) the new spirit wars against the flesh during daily sanctification and this war, battles won, battles lost, will continue until the fleshly tent, that is the body of man, is taken down through death and the spirit is set free from the incessant tug/temptation of disobedience. It is in Jesus by faith that the redeemed ultimately succeed and are victorious (1 Corinthians 15:57).
Though the redeemed in Jesus are declared “not guilty” by the Father as a result of New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12), the redeemed will, unfortunately, fall short of perfection BUT the Father agrees by New Covenant promise to not see the failings of the redeemed in Jesus but the Father chooses to only see the absolute perfection of His dear Son over the life of those who have trusted in Jesus’ atonement at Golgotha; this, due the glorious imputation/gifting of Jesus’ righteousness over the life of the one who “believes” that Jesus is Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21).
To clarify, a Christian does sin but the one redeemed by the Holy Spirit does not revel or glorify in their sin through continued, willful, disobedience but the Christian is quick to repent, apologize, strive for perfection, moving forward in assurance that they are the Father’s prize possession due Jesus’ faithfulness, Jesus’ obedience, eternally.
"RickeyD" Holtsclaw 