Jesus is the end of the Law concerning righteousness (Romans 10:4); in other words, the Law cannot and never could impart righteousness (a right standing) with the Father because the Law only defined sin void atonement (Romans 3:20) and the Law mandated perfection (James 2:10) and man is a sinner (Romans 3:23); therefore, cursed is the one who seeks righteousness (a right standing with the Father) through Law (Galatians 3:10); therefore, the only righteousness available to human kind is the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ over our life by faith in Him as Lord, a righteousness earned for us by Jesus at Golgotha via His sinless perfection (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 14:6; Matthew 26:28).
Concerning the Millennial Kingdom and those who deny what the Holy Spirit has said…
Messiah’s Kingdom has NOT been established upon this Earth at this time but this Earth is currently under the sway of the Devil (2 Corinthians 4:4) and will remain so until Messiah’s 2nd-Advent and the establishment of His Millennial Kingdom where the Evil One is bound for 1000-years.
All things have been given-over into the hands of the Son concerning the Father’s eschatological will (John 3:35) but the Evil One’s dominion in Time is part of the Father’s eschatological plan in that Satan is currently used as a sifter dividing wheat from chaff; sheep from goats; righteous from unrighteous, and this sifting will continue until the fullness of the Gentiles has come to fruition (Romans 11:25). At the conclusion of the Millennial Kingdom the Evil One will be released to deceive the nations once again and our Lord will destroy His enemies via His omnipotent power.
Where you lack understanding is the reasoning for the Millennial Kingdom which provides Messiah the Kingdom denied Him at His first advent but more importantly, the Millennial Kingdom is an “object lesson” as it provides a stark differentiation between the previous 6000-years of horror that resulted from the Evil One running amuck and the 1000-years of complete peace while the Evil One is confined; this differentiation between good and evil provides undeniable proof to the faithful angelic creation that their former boss, an anointed but rebellious cherub angel, is indeed the culprit for all horror and sin and he does deserve punishment in Hell forever (Rev 20:10) and the angelic creation will see and affirm that the Father was correct and righteous in extricating the rebellious angels from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) and it will be abundantly clear that the Father’s way is the ONLY way to peace with permanence and the object lesson of the Millennial Kingdom will act as a bulwark against future rebellion in the New Jerusalem where free will remains extant by necessity; all of this, while the Father maintains volitional love with His angelic creation through defeating the Evil One via selfless love (1 John 3:8b; John 3:16). All praise and glory will be focused upon the Father, Son and Spirit.
Messiah’s Millennial Reign does NOT culminate in failure but in eschatological fulfillment for cause. I don’t adhere to any sense of dispensationalism…I tell you what the Holy Spirit tells me and you’re free to listen or deny.
My staff has reviewed the complaint regarding after-market exhaust on LCSO motorcycles, specifically the noise they create.
While we do appreciate the testing of the sound level and presumed compliance with the sound level limits under Florida Statute 316.293; the Cobra system is not recommended for further use by LCSO.
For your review:
Florida Statutes
316.293(5)(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 motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured &
316.293(5)(b)- No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon the highways of the state with an exhaust system or noise abatement device so modified,
And the exception for emergency vehicles –
316.072(5)(a) –the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call, when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to a fire alarm.
The exception would not apply as a blanket permission to drive the motorcycle with a modified exhaust system.
As such, the Legal Bureau has recommended that patrol motorcycles be restored back to the original manufactured exhaust system.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns,
Predestination; Purpose for the Creation Narrative; responding to the skeptic…
You’ve asked a question that time will not allow a sufficient response but I’ll be as succinct as possible…Though our Creator is omniscient, He infuses free will into the lives of both His angelic and human creation and does NOT interfere with that free will for the majority nor does He predestine anyone to Heaven or Hell (Calvin was wrong) but allows each to choose whom they will serve; this free will, volition, is of necessity as our Creator desires intimacy with His created beings and true intimacy with love and relationship cannot manifest in an atmosphere void the ability to “choose” to love or enter into relationship.
Reciprocal, satisfying, love and relationship cannot be predestined nor can it be coerced; both parties must desire that relationship with integrity and honesty; otherwise, the interaction is impotent, stale, nihilistic. Love cannot be forced or exist in fear; therefore, our Father has given His all to provide us reconciliation, a path back to Him through the Son’s work at Golgotha (John 3).
Elohim’s pride and joy is His angelic creation; unfortunately, Elohim’s anointed cherub angel that served Him in the Kingdom (Ezekiel 28:11+) made the affirmative decision, via covetousness, to assume and challenge the sovereignty and authority of God and a rebellion ensued in the Kingdom and according to Scripture, one-third of the beautiful angelic host opted to follow this anointed, charismatic, cherub angel in a devastating coup d’état (Ezekiel 28:11+; Isaiah 14; Revelation 12:4).
God the Father made the affirmative decision to extricate this rebellion from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) to minimize its destruction where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Revelation 21:27) at which time the Father ordained The Gospel of Grace through Jesus Christ before Time began (2 Timothy 1:8-10) as His battle strategy to destroy the works of the Evil One (1 John 3:8b).
The Father commissioned the Son, Jesus Christ (John 3:35), to initiate our creation narrative by taking elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashioning those elements into matter that can be apprehended by life constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3; Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1). This is why our greatest scientists, astrophysicists, will never define our origin because the matter we “see” finds it genesis in the “unseen” spiritual realm (Hebrews 11:3).
God the Father extricated the Evil One (Isaiah 14; Luke 10:18) and those who followed him in the rebellion and placed them partially within the constraints of Time and physics and on the sixth-day of the creation narrative, Elohim created human kind in His spiritual image and allowed the Evil One access to mankind; through Adam’s rebellion, the cosmic war between good and evil rages within Time and Eternity and the Father first introduced the Son, our Warrior, in Genesis 3:15 and then Elohim provided a picture of His battle strategy in Genesis 3:21 i.e. the Gospel…the shedding of innocent blood shed by God Himself to redeem mankind via an imputed robe of righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) which was fulfilled 4000-years later by Messiah Jesus on a Roman Cross outside the gates of Jerusalem with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30).
This narrative is worthy of a large novel in small print but my objective is to be as succinct as possible but know that you have been placed within the Realm of Time as a warrior and you are endowed with free will to choose whom you will ally with, God or Satan. The previous 6000-years of horror upon the Earth is serving as experiential relevance for the two-thirds of the angelic creation observing the unconscionable suffering resulting from rebellion and the demonic influence of their former brethren and there is coming a 1000-year span of perfect peace called the Millennial Reign of Messiah where the Evil One will be bound and not allowed access to human kind; this span of peace will provide a stark comparison/contrast with the previous 6000-years of horror and will be the final convincing era where the faithful angelic creation will KNOW the benefits of obedience to the Father…this example of the necessity for obedience to the Father will provide a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom as free will remains extant in Eternity by necessity; also, the faithful angelic creation will wholly concur with the Father that Satan and the rebellious angels do deserve internment in Hell, forever (Revelation 20:10).
Those of human kind who have allied with the Father in this war through faith in Jesus, our Warrior and Messiah, they will live throughout Eternity as servants of the Most High in the New Jerusalem in resurrected bodies (Philippians 3:21), a Holy City that will set upon a foundation on a New Earth and within a New Heaven as this present Earth and the entire Universe will be destroyed by fire as it is temporary and the 2nd-Law of TD will accomplish its objective. Thank you for the question…
Jewish legalistic arrogance/stubbornness demanding bondage for Christians…a rebuttal…
The Words of God are eternal…they will never pass away (Matthew 24:35) as the moral law will never pass away as free will in the Eternal Kingdom remains extant by necessity and the moral law is God’s arbiter of free will. When the Father or the Son speaks of His “commands”…He speaks of the eternal natural-moral law upon which the moral aspects of Torah Law are based. There is no argument that law is of necessity as free will among our Creator’s created beings, both angelic and human, tends toward narcissism and the law of God, the natural law, proclaims the right of every human being to enjoy life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness; therefore, a deterrent and bulwark mitigating narcissism is essential for “all” who desire to enjoy their “God given rights.”
Also, as we have established in previous bantering, the law of God is given because of and to the lawless (1 Timothy 1:9) to constrain antisocial behavior and to provide due process relevant to the Judgement of the Condemned (Revelation 20:11-15) manifesting subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign; therefore, from the totality of Scripture concerning “law”…we see that those redeemed by faith in Jesus are no longer under law…the law is not their master (Romans 6:14) as they are in covenant relationship with the Father by grace through faith and the New Nature (2 Corinthians 5:17) is not controlled by “law” but by the Spirit through sanctification via the conscience (Galatians 5:16)…a far superior form of behavioral modification than the old sin-nature pursuing conformity to law scratched upon parchment or etched in stone; therefore, those redeemed by Jesus are not enslaved by laws, rules, days, food, (Romans 7:14) but the redeemed walk in covenant promised forgiveness (Hebrews 8:12) and their New Nature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) is focused on loving and pleasing the Father as He first loved us and gave Himself through the Son for us (1 John 4:19); therefore, the Torah Law is of NO ACCOUNT in the life of the redeemed in the New Covenant; Torah Law is relevant to a minuscule segment of the totality of humanity and is not much more than an afterthought as life in Messiah is NOT about Law, Temples, Traditions, Customs, Jews, Israelite’s, Gentiles, days, food…the New Covenant is about intimacy with God by faith realized through grace, forever, and in this…there is peace (Romans 5:1).
Christians don’t live under the condemnation and worry of laws and legalism, we are one with our Creator through the Holy Spirit who indwells us and we are HIS, forever (John 10:28-30); therefore, with all due respect to Judaism and the legalist Jew and Israelite and Hebrew Roots fanatic, you are a burden to those who walk in the freedom and love provided by grace through faith in the New Covenant which is ONLY possible by faith in Jesus the Christ as Lord (John 14:6).
Why the Moral Law of Conscience is INFINITELY superior to the Law Covenant and Torah Law…
First, for clarification, Torah Law is NOTHING new or novel as nine-of-the-ten Decalogue are simply a reiteration of the Moral Law of Conscience with added specificity relevant to Elohim’s eschatological plans through the Hebrew Tribes as these Tribes were surrounded, inundated, by paganism serving pagan gods continually seeking Israel’s compromise. The Hebrew Tribes were set-apart as Elohim’s example to the World concerning blessings for obedience, cursing and death for disobedience (Deuteronomy 28) and the moral aspects of Torah Law defined sin (a violation of the Moral Law of Conscience) while the civil-ceremonial edicts conformed the Tribes to Elohim’s providential design for eschatological purposes. Torah Law was relevant only to a very minuscule segment of the Earth’s total population. The Moral Law of Conscience provided the foundation for Torah Law and other forms of oral and written law such as the Code of Hammurabi.
The Moral Law of Conscience, discussed by the Holy Spirit in Romans 1:18-32 and Romans 2:14-15, has been extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will. It is the Moral Law of Conscience that Elohim infused into the human genome as a communicable attribute in Genesis 1:26-28 as Elohim created mankind in His spiritual image. It is this same Moral Law of Conscience that judged Satan of covetousness; judged the Adamic and Noahic generations of defilement where all but eight were destroyed by water in judgment subsequent the due process proclamation via the preaching of Noah. It is the Moral Law of Conscience arbitrated by the Holy Spirit that acts as a bulwark against complete population annihilation in unrestrained narcissism (2 Thessalonians 2:6-7). It is the Moral Law of Conscience that will under gird our Creator’s Justice in Judgment with due process subsequent the Millennial Reign of Messiah Jesus (Revelation 20:11-15).
Why is the Moral Law of Conscience infinitely superior to Torah Law?
Torah Law in the Covenant of Law only defined the sin and culpability of the Hebrew Tribes but offered them no form of atonement for sin leading to eternal life (Romans 3:20; Romans 8; Galatians 2:16). Torah Law mandated absolute perfection for the acquisition of righteousness (Deuteronomy 27:26; James 2:10); therefore, due to the sin-nature of man (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12), Torah Law cursed all who sought righteousness through it (Deuteronomy 27:26; Galatians 3:10).
Torah Law was doomed to failure (Romans 8: Hebrews 8:7-13) because the sin-nature of man was striving to attain obedience to a Law scratched upon parchment and etched in cold, unyielding stone, righteousness through obedience that was unattainable and out of reach as the sinful flesh could never please Elohim due to its corruption and genomic curse initiated by Adam’s rejection of Elohim’s sovereignty (Romans 5:12); fortunately, Elohim did not leave His human creation without hope but “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10), Elohim ordained the Gospel of Grace, first pictured in Genesis 3:21, to be administered by the Son, Jesus Christ, and initiated in the sinless blood of the Son at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28).
The New Covenant (Ezekiel 36:27; Jeremiah 31:33) promises that anyone who believes that Messiah Jesus is Lord and that Jesus died to pay their sin-debt would enter into covenant relationship with the Father and receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Guarantor of that covenant (John 3; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 1:13-14); in addition, the redeemed by faith in Jesus would receive a “new nature” to war against the old sin nature and become a “new creation” via the rebirth or having been ”born again” by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17; John 3).
Superiority of the Moral Law of Conscience,
In the New Covenant, no longer is the sin-nature striving to attain righteousness and please Elohim in futility as it was impossible for the sin-nature and its repeated failures concerning obedience to keep a Law that mandated perfection, but in the New Covenant, the redeemed in Jesus receive the imputed perfection/righteousness of Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21) and are privy to a spiritual catalyst; that is, the combination of the new nature, the new creation in Jesus seeking obedience to the Moral Law of Conscience as administered by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16; 1 John 2:27) via the conscience via the daily process of sanctification where the Holy Spirit methodically guides the redeemed in Jesus in the Father’s will as the Spirit prepares them for service in the New Jerusalem; furthermore, the redeemed in Jesus walk in peace with the Father (Romans 5:1) as they’re forgiven (Hebrews 8:12), loved as family, as the Holy Spirit with patience and long-suffering teaches and tutors and cares for the Father’s children with intimacy (John 14:16).
In the New Covenant, it is the New Nature provided by the Spirit in combination with the tutorship/leadership of the Holy Spirit administering the Moral Law of Conscience written upon the heart that is an infinitely superior form of behavioral modification when compared with the Old Covenant’s Torah Law scratched upon parchment, etched in cold, unyielding stone, being pursued by a sin-nature under condemnation striving in hopelessness, futility, nihilism; ultimately, death of body, mind, spirit, in Hell.
The Holy Spirit imparted KNOWLEDGE that Jesus Christ is Elohim-I AM-God is KEY to the validation of one’s salvation…
Many wander through this life constrained by Time and physics and flesh wondering if they’re saved, am I going to Heaven or Hell? Some having professed a faith in Jesus Christ as “Lord” while others are offended by the Name of Jesus. The Holy Spirit working through Paul in Romans 8:16 tells us that,
“The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,” Romans 8:16 (NASB)
and Jesus said “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins.” Gospel of John 8:24 (NASB)
It is possible to enter into covenant relationship with the Father by grace through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, initially apart from the knowledge that Jesus is Deity, God, but once the Holy Spirit takes-up residence within the redeemed by faith in Jesus (Ephesians 1:13-14) and the process of sanctification is begun (1 John 2:27), the Deity of Jesus, the necessity for same, will be irrefutable in the life of the Christian whose faith is legitimate and their relationship with the Father guaranteed by the Spirit.
In other words, if you consider yourself redeemed from your sin, saved by faith in Jesus, pardoned from death in Hell, yet you don’t see the necessity for Messiah’s deity or you don’t believe Jesus is Elohim, our Creator, our God our I AM THAT I AM…you are absent the Holy Spirit and if you’re absent the Spirit you are NOT redeemed, you remain in your sin and you are destined to the “second death” in Perdition; therefore, seek the Spirit’s wisdom while you possess the breath of life and know Jesus as I AM.
There are many whose words can easily be construed as Israel Worship; that is, Jacob’s children held up as some form of Icon or idolatrous religion; is this wise and appropriate? Many believe that the promises made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3 shield Jacob’s children from scrutiny and absolves them of their culpability before the Father.
It is written,
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” Genesis 12:3 (NASB)
Abraham is the father of many Nations (Genesis 17:4), not just Israel, and the one who is “cursed” is not the one who speaks against Israel’s failures but the one who speaks against, denies, the One prophesied to be a blessing to “all the families of the earth,” Jesus Christ our Messiah. When this promise was made to Abraham, he was a Gentile living 430-years before the giving of the Law to “Israel.”
The ONLY reason Israel is glorified in eschatology is due to the Father’s holiness and His refusal to not honor His covenant promises; Israel in eschatology has NOTHING to do with what Israel has done and everything to do with the righteousness and purity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and their holy word as they will honor the covenant they have made with the children of Israel irrespective of Israel’s failures and their continued rejection of their Messiah.
Jesus went to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 15:24)…they blasphemed Him as they blasphemed the Spirit and rejected Messiah and murdered Him…and Jacob’s children are currently under judgment and ONLY the remnant will find life in the Kingdom as a result of continued unbelief (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).
Grafted into Israel?
Grafting into Israel is not a perquisite to eternal life; fact is, if I never heard of Israel, my relationship with my Lord would be undeterred. Israel was a conduit through which the Father proceeded with His eschatological plan “to destroy the works of the devil” via the Gospel ordained “before Time began” (1 John 3:8b, 2 Timothy 1:8-10) and my eternity and my relationship with my Lord has absolutely NOTHING to do with Israel other than Jacob’s children maintaining a presence in the historical timeline through which Judah produced the seed from which Messiah entered Time through the Holy Spirit.
Israel’s history is interesting and teaches volumes concerning Elohim’s compassion, mercy, eschatological plan; personally, I love the Land of Israel and I “feel” home there, but I’m NOT into Israel worship nor do I see them as a role model or Icon for righteousness…I trust in Jesus as my Lord and Savior…Israel is a historically significant people but idolizing them is error.
You would be wise to STOP the worship of a failed people group and honor by faith the One who died for you, Yeshua your Messiah.
Concerning Israel’s children, the New Covenant, their failure in disobedience, unbelief…
The New Covenant was ordained, prophesied, through Abraham initially as “a blessing to all the families of the Earth” through Messiah (Genesis 12:b) and Elohim set-apart a people-group through the Patriarchy of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, through whom He would introduce His Messiah through Judah and He came to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 15:24) with the intent of proselytizing them in that New Covenant established in His blood at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28); unfortunately, Jacob’s children rejected the New Covenant, the Gospel message of Grace and faith and reconciliation with the Father; Jacob’s children blasphemed their Messiah and the Holy Spirit; Jacob’s children falsely accused their Messiah of blasphemy and conspired with the Roman authorities to severely beat and wound their Messiah then advocated for His murder upon a tree while exclaiming that His blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, the New Covenant intended for Jacob’s children was given to the Gentiles until such time the fullness of the Gentiles comes to fruition (Romans 11:25) and in response, only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell due to unbelief (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).
Hope for Jacob’s children,
If a child of Jacob desires life in the Eternal Kingdom, trust ONLY in the sufficiency of Yeshua to save you by faith in Him as your Lord (John 3; John 8:24).
Why does God mandate innocent blood as atonement for sin?
Our Creator’s response to sin is so strong and objectionable that the only payment, atonement, appeasement, He will accept for mediation of that sin is innocent blood, why?
Why has the Earth been created, our genome?
What most people are unaware of is the causation for our creation in Time; that is, we are the product of and response to an unfathomable rebellion, a coup d’état if you will, that manifest in the Kingdom of God, a Spiritual Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist due to the destructiveness of sin (Revelation 21:27). This unfathomable rebellion is of such magnitude that it involves one-third of the Heavenly hosts and due to its potential to cause great harm, the Father commissioned the Son, Jesus Christ (John 3:35), to procure elements from the unseen spiritual realm and fashion those elements into matter that can be apprehended by “life” constrained by Time and flesh and physics (Hebrews 11:3; Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1)…this creation narrative was performed for cause with rapidity in six twenty-four-hour days (Genesis 1).
Our entire creation in the temporary realm of Time is exclusively a response to and a repository for a literal WAR that was raging in the Spiritual Kingdom and said conflict was extricated from the Kingdom and placed within the constraints of Time and physics to be dealt with by our Creator HERE and limit the destruction to His eternal Kingdom (Luke 10:18); in fact, the primary reason the Son of God, Jesus Christ, entered Time was “to destroy the works of the Devil” for your benefit (1 John 3:8b).
Why innocent blood as payment for sin?
It is SIN that initiated the war in God’s Kingdom and God is completely and thoroughly opposed to sin for this reason and the seriousness of sin is reflected in God’s righteous decree that the soul that sins will die and only the shed blood of innocence will make atonement for that sin (Leviticus 17:11). Our Creator will NOT accept just any form of blood for atonement but the atoning sacrifice must be without blemish, spot, wrinkle…perfection…this was foreshadowed by the Law Covenant with Israel’s children through the mandates relevant to the animals subject to sacrifice and the perfection, the mandated testing and inspection of those animals prior to their submission for ceremonial sacrifice; problem is, the blood of animals could never take away or cleanse humanity of the stain of sin (Hebrews 10:4).
As early as Genesis 3:21, Elohim demonstrated that He HIMSELF in perfect righteousness, sinless perfection, would provide innocent blood as atonement for our sin apart from our own human efforts to make ourselves acceptable through human conduct; that is, Elohim rejected Adam’s attempt to cover his sin and shame with the work of his hands i.e. fig leaves and Elohim proceeded to shed innocent blood and take the garments of animals and clothe Adam and his wife in an imputed robe of righteousness; this imputed robe of righteousness, foreshadowed as a prophecy in Genesis 3:21, was ultimately fulfilled by Elohim Himself in the body of Jesus Christ 4000-years later on a Roman Cross outside of the gates of Jerusalem with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30).
Your sin is serious and will culminate in your death in Hell lest you repent and accept the imputation of Jesus’ righteousness over your life by faith in Him as your Lord believing that He died to pay your sin-debt , a lethal debt you could never pay yourself (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; John 8:24; John 14:6). DO NOT for one moment think that our Holy God will permit your unrepentant, unredeemed, sin to enter His Kingdom! Faith in Jesus is the KEY to the Kingdom via the forgiveness of sin, the redemption of the soul and a new-nature infused within the “new man” via the “new birth” that is acceptable to the Father (John 14:6; John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:17).
It is our Creator’s selfless love and sacrifice for His created beings that will ensure His volitional relationship with the angelic creation and the redeemed in Christ continues with integrity and sincerity with reciprocal intimacy while the horror, death, suffering, war, disease, in this temporary World initiated by the Evil One, by sin, over the previous 6000-years will act as an effective bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom where free will remains extant by necessity.
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