The Hand of Hope
Genesis 1:27-28

Photo Source: http://www.michaelclancy.com/index.html Samuel Armas arm slipping out of his mother, Julie Armas’s, womb.

Doctor’s hands are Dr. Joseph Bruner. Photographed by Michael Clancy

More on this Photo History in the Footnotes. ¹

Children in the womb, have a soul and a spirit, that is alive and fully functioning, and they understand things that are happening all around them.

They feel pain, fear, and aggression. They feel love and security.

Peace and Tranquility.

They also feel joy, and exhilaration.

Often people have vivid memories recorded and shared that they could have only known about except while they were in the womb of their mothers.

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Proverbs 24:9-12 (KJV)

9 The thought of foolishness is sin:
and the scorner is an abomination to men.

10 If thou faint in the day of adversity,
thy strength is small.

11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death,
and those that are ready to be slain;

12 If thou sayest,

Behold, we knew it not;

Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it?

And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it?

And shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Leviticus 18:21

“Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.”

Is not abortion the same as ancient day child sacrifice, getting rid of unwanted, children, and the name of convenience?

• Are not the motives the same?
• Are not the end results the same?

2 Chronicles 28:3

“He burned incense in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.”

Throughout the Old Testament, the term “innocent blood” is a code term often referring to the sacrifice of children to demon God’s.

Psalm 106:37-38

“They sacrificed their sons and daughters to false gods. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.”

Isaiah 57:5

“You burn incense to the gods that are no gods, under every green tree, slaughtering your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks.”

Again God asks us:

10 If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength!

11 Rescue those being led away to death;

Hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?

Does not he who guards your life know it?

Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?

Proverbs 24:10-12 (NIV)

This is the first question we truly need to answer.

A Simple Question to Answer, Right?

I came from my mother’s womb. But does that really get to the root of the question?

Don’t we need to ask: Where did she come from? Her Mother, and of course her mother, and so on.

But where did she come from originally? A Monkey? An Amoeba? Or did she come from Adam and Eve, who came from God?

My choice that “I CHOOSE” will literally change everything about me.

Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going? How will I get there?

Everything Changes with this one choice. And “the World” ² knows It.

[Note: When God or the Scripture invokes the Theme, “The World” in most cases that is not referring to the spinning ball in space, but it rather refers to “a spiritually sick, deeply deceived, and dying evil governmental structure” that follows after the mindset, perspective, and point of view, entrenched by the Evil One, who has rebelled against God, and tempted men on every continent to do the same, and to follow in his evil footsteps.]

That’s why “the World” is fighting so hard to keep this generation in the dark? And sadly, it is doing a damn good job of it. Why? Because Men LOVE LIES, and Hate the Truth:

John 3:19-21 (KJV)
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Just as God abundantly predicted, Men naturally Hate God.

As we go about our own business, and make our daily individual choices, everyone of those choices becomes a reflection of who it is, we are serving:

1. The ruler of this world, “the dark Lord of deception”, or
2. the ruler of heaven, the King of Salvation.

As the collective choices of all the people on the Earth unfold, the truth rings out loud and clear. There is a war between the two camps. And the story, the true story, between the light, and the darkness reads like a two bit dime store novel.

And the story is alive and active and evil today, even more so than in the Day of Moses, and the Evil Power of Pharaoh ruling over the Israelites, making them slaves to his evil world domination plans for his own kingdom, murdering innocent children, to meet his own murderous ruling mindset that comes from the Evil One.

Do you realize that the United States has murdered more of her own citizens, than ten times the amount that Hitler murdered of his own citizens during the evil rule of his anti-christ mission? Only today’s tool of murder is not gas chambers, but Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics, where precious babies were ground up in industrial garbage disposals, and flushed into the public water and sewer systems.

In the Days of Moses, there was a genocide of Children ³

It was decreed by the Law of the Land, made by a man, namely, pharaoh, the king/ruler of Egypt (who didn’t follow the Law of God). Pharaoh decreed that a certain race of children were to be sacrificed to the god of the Nile River (aka, eaten by crocodiles).

Even though this sounds totally barbaric, today’s modern practices are even far more barbaric, less conscionable, much more deceptive, and producing a far more pandemic of evil than anything, the king, pharaoh, ever imagined.

Today, we are under a similar curse, sacrificing our precious children unto a god, once called Molech (by the People of Ammon) ⁴ and to Chemosh (by the people of Moab). ⁵

Only today, our precious innocent children are not sacrificed in stone temples made by man’s hands, but our children are being sacrificed in modern steel and glass buildings built by contractors for their clients called Planned Parenthood, an oxymoron, if there ever was one. If anything, they should be called Planned Un-Parenthood.

Please Note: Moab and Ammon were the two sons of Lot, born by incest with his two daughters, who were raised and influenced in their own worldview by a people and culture of Sodom and Gomorrah–who also didn’t follow the law of God, nor trust in wisdom, leadership, or truth of God, nor were led by his justice. They walked in Darkness, and Hated the Light.

This simply proves the point that when you build on a broken, decayed, immoral foundation, you’re going to build a crappy building, and evil things are going to be done there.

If you start with a bad seed, chances are good, you are going to reproduce bad fruit in due time.

If your family tree is not thoroughly grounded and living from the Tree of Life (by Faith), then it is probably going to get its education, and be taught from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and instead of being led by the king of Heaven, your family will follow the serpent of the Earth.

Everything in life and death, including eternal life, and eternal death, hinges on how a person answers the question: Where do I come from?

If we get our information and education and social moral conscience, from the serpent, we will certainly act and behave like serpents ourselves.

But if we get our information and education from the king of heaven, we will act and behave like the Saints of God, the angels of God, and all citizens living in the kingdom of heaven.

The deciding factor between these two highly predictable outcomes is this. Do I see life from God’s eternal perspective? And, Do I lineup all my choices and decisions along that revelation?

Or do I simply follow the politically correct path, also known as the broad Road, that leads to destruction, that the majority of the population is following, and remain oblivious to the eternal consequences, that God’s perspective has clearly warned me about?

When you start with a good seed

You begin laying a solid foundation … upon the revelation of the God from Psalm 139, you are going to build a lasting building, a Heavenly Tree, and an enduring legacy, that is going to feed people on truth and righteousness of God for Eternity.

This shouldn’t need to be said, but just for the Record: Our Current Abortion Culture has been founded upon a bad seed, and is growing in a field of evil, built upon a broken, decayed, and toxic landfill, full of Dead Babies bodies, more that 70 million since Roe v. Wade.

This evil Culture has far outstripped the wickedness the early nations who worshipped Chemosh and Molech. That is what men do when they choose to walk in their own wisdom, who choose to be educated by the serpent, and walk in the light of their own fires. (Isaiah 50:11)

They completely ignore: where they came from, who created them, why they are here, for what purpose, and to what end …

When Men don’t Know: Where they come from?

They become unhinged from their Heavenly Reality: That makes them vulnerable to every lie the devil can contrive.

This one evil move on the Chess board of life, wickedly traps a man and woman to live by their own lusts, greed, selfishness, and opens a pandoras box of evil, that seemingly knows no limit of moral decay.

That’s exactly why it’s so important to answer the question: “Where did I come from?” from God’s perspective, and not man’s, nor the Devil’s.

If you don’t know where you have come from, you must read Psalm 139, carefully, slowly, and completely. Let every word penetrate your true heart, let it reveal to you the secrets withheld from you since your birth, and even before that.

THIS SONG/PSALM, SHOULD BE POSTED BY LAW ON EVERY DOOR, IN EVERY ABORTION CLINIC IN THE COUNTRY, AND BE INCLUDED IN EVERY ABORTION CLINIC CONTRACT, DECLARING THE TRUTH ABOUT WHERE THE CHILD HAS COME FROM, THAT IS GOING TO BE: 1) JUDGED, 2) FOUND GUILTY, AND 3) EXECUTED WITHOUT A TRIAL, 4) WITHOUT ANY PROTECTION FROM THE LAW, AND WITHOUT 5) ANY MERCY FROM THE MOTHER AND FATHER THAT CONCEIVED THE CHILD IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Galatians 1:15

“But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased.”

Is abortion murder?

Isaiah 49:1

“Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.”

Below is a depiction of the kind of deep personal and intimate relatiionship God invites us into having with himself. Could a personal in Love with God, even consider Murdering one of His Innocent Ones? Or offering them as a sacrifice to Molech, Chemosh, Milcom, Baal, Ashram, Dagon, or Planned Parenthood?

Psalm 63:

“You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.

I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.

My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

On my bed I remember you;
I think of you through the watches of the night.

Because you are my help,
I sing in the shadow of your wings.
My soul clings to you;
your right hand upholds me.

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Choice #1: To Live with God forever in the place he has prepared for you.

Choice #2: To exist away from God, separated from God forever, in the place he has prepared for the devil and his angels. (Revelation 12:9; Matthew 25:41)

It is similar to the gender question. Just like there are only two genders, from God’s Perspective (“male and female, created he them”)–There are only two final destinations or resting places for all people created by God to reside for eternity.

The preferred place, although more exclusive, would be Heaven. That is the Place with God–In God’s Presence. All those, interested in and committed to having eternal fellowship with God, Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, all of his angels, all of his saints, and many of the other wild and eternal, living heavenly beings will be Living here permanently.

The less preferred place, has only one requirement: Reject the Will of God for your Life. (Matt. 7:21-23) This place would be Hell, and later the lake of Fire. That is the place where God’s Presence forever has been withdrawn.

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Are There any reliable signs that I might be headed towards hell?

If you have done any of these, there is only one hope for you.

• Have you mocked God?
• Have you scoffed at God’s Witnesses?
• Have you despised the Bible?Disregarded the Bible?
  Spoken abusively against God’s Word, without reasonable cause, without integrity?
• Have you spurned the Teachings of Jesus? Convinced others to deny God’s Word, according to the Spirit of this Evil World?
• Have you used God’s name in Vain? As a curse word to express disgust?
• Have you committed Sexual Sin? Looked at pornography? Committed Adultery? Or any kind of perversion?
• Have you lied?
• Have you stolen?
• Have you worshipped demons?
• Have you spent countless hours watching TV, Movies, etc., which deny the word of God?

If you have sinned in any of the above ways, or in any other way:
There is only one hope for you.

That hope is that you will repent of all your sins, and turn to Christ, the only person in Heaven or Earth who is qualified to forgive your sin.

Note: It is not God’s will that any man should perish.

That personal choice is the soul responsibility of every single individual.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)

And the reason for you or I making our choice to not be with God for all of eternity is clearly laid out in easy to understand sentences. That are easily understood, if the individual reading them, wants to understand them.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

John 3:17-21 (KJV)

Note: Why are so Many Professors Atheists?

And why do so many people follow their anti-God message?

You can quickly share this with anyone in the Anti-God camp:

What PROOF do you have that, there is no God? ( … Crickets … )

The problem is not intellectual; the problem is moral. The atheist does not want to admit there is a God, because he wants to continue in sin. He doesn’t want to have accountability to God for his moral culpability.

Men hate the light. Why? Because it exposes their darkness. Pure and simple.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock…”

Revelation 3:14-22 (KJV) 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found,
call ye upon him while he is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and
Let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah, Circa 700 BC, (Isaiah 55:6-7, KJV)

Choose Life!

Choose Life, seems like it would ge a silly thing to have to say, or to recommend, or to promote and a vital concept. But in our world today, it is an imperative from Heaven, that needs to be heeded from the womb, to the classroom, to the boardroom, the Supreme Courts of Justice around the World.

If we reject this simple command and admonition, we do so to our own peril.

Genesis 1:27-28 (KJV) 7 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth…

Once a man or woman has a restored re-connection with God, then he is able to reconnect with others, in deeper and far more lasting ways, according to the perspective of heaven, having received the gifts of the spirit, enabling such a person to be unselfish, humble, caring, giving, generous, and self sacrificing towards others.

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Also, LIFE = Connection with others

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Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity!

… For there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

King David, circa 1000 BC
Psalms 133 (KJV)

The Sooner we begin to start living by the BluePrint of Life, and seeing and doing things from God’s Heavenly Perspective, the sooner our lives will dramatically improve in the depth of our being, where it really matters.

We can then become worshippers of God in Spirit and Truth, and enjoy the favor God promises to all those who obey him and keep His Commandments.

When we get this Picture of Life Right from God’s Perspective, we enter into a fellowship with God and with Others at an Eternal Level, and we keep the two greatest commandments of God, not because we are forced to, or because we have to, but because we want to, and deep down inside of us, we feel the need to.

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him,

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Jesus (Yeshua) Circa AD 33
Matthew 22:36-40 (KJV)

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LIFE = Connection with God

As we learned, death is like an unspiritual man being disconnected from God, like an appliance being disconnected from the source of electricity, having no power to operate the way it was designed.

Life is like a spiritual man being re-connected to God, like an appliance been reconnected to its source of power, and being able to function as it was designed.

One of God’s best illustrations of this dynamic, comes from John chapter 15 the parable of the vine. It pictures: both a branch connected to the vine, and a branch being cut off from the vine.

The unhealthy vine branch that is withered, and no longer able to produce good fruit, no longer allows the powerful life-giving sap of the vine to flow through it. As a result, it becomes dried out, withered, and prone to disease. As such the duty and job of the vine dresser is to cut off the withered branch that has no life in it, and threatens the vine with disease and sickness. Once fully dry, it is thrown into the fire, to permanently cleanse the vine from any mold, mildew, fungus, bacteria, or disease, that vine branch may have succumbed to.

So also the healthy vine branch that has the flow of the Life of the Vine running through it: It produces good fruit, and is under the constant care and hand of the vine dresser, who will prune it, so that it can produce even more fruit.

as a result, of the special relationship between the good fruit, bearing branch of the vine, and the vine dresser, the good vine branch can ask for the things that it needs to produce more fruit, and the vine dresser will gladly provide those things so that divine ranch can produce even more fruit.

This represents the intimate and ultimate personal relationship between Jesus and one of his followers.

John 15:7-8 (KJV)

7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Jesus uses this parable to illustrate how vitally important it is for every branch, not only to be fruit bearing, according to the will of the father, but also how vitally important it is to remain connected to the vine. In this intimate relationship, we become a conduit of life, not only for ourselves, but also with the ultimate purpose of producing fruit, that is not for us to eat, but for others to eat, and enjoy.

In other words, you and I, are not the source of life, Jesus is. If we choose by our own free will, to remain in him, and he and us, we will produce much fruit. As a branch cannot produce life in itself unless it is connected to the vine, so neither can we produce any life in ourselves, or any of the fruits which God commands, unless we remain in covenant fellowship with him.

Simply put, our mission from God is this: 1) To go into all the world, 2) to preach the gospel, and 3) to make disciples, that are 4) also able to go, preach the gospel, and make more disciples. That is how we become fruit bearing branches attached to his Vine. It is a self replicating plan that requires his life flow in order to reproduce the fruit that he requires.

In other words, the only way we can reproduce the kind of fruit God requires of his vine– is for us to remain connected to his Vine. As such, the vine dresser will prune our lives, removing everything that hinders fruit, in such an intimate way, that we allow the power and source of life to flow through our lives.

When the full power and Lifeforce of the vine is flowing through us, we can’t help but reproduce the fruit that God requires. Every branch connected to the vine will produce fruit. Good fruit. Fruit that oats. This is the kind of fruit. God is looking for: The kind of fruit that produces eternal life; That connects the children of God to their father.

When this kind of fruit is produced and reproduced, the kingdom of God comes with power and authority. And it is clearly seen what has been done has been done through God.

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The problem in the false Church: A great portion of what is happening in the modern church, is that it is not producing the fruit that God requires. The very character and nature of the fruit is evidence that it is not the Fruit of the Vine.

Therefore, those not reproducing God’s Fruit, are clearly not connected to God’s Vine. They are hypocrites. They are actors playing a role. But like fake actors on the stage, they are not real. They are living a fake life, without the Fruit of Heaven. They are cut off of the Vine, and disconnected, withering, diseased, and without the Power of God flowing through them. They care more about producing money, than producing God’s fruit. Therefore is clear they’re not part of the Vine. Because of this, they eventually dry out completely, and be throne into the Fire, according to God’s Word, if they do not repent of their hypocrisy, lust, greed, selfishness, witchcraft, sexual sin, and their spiritual death.

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God is the only source of life that can produce the only fruit that God requires.

The Church not connected to the Vine, cannot reproduce the fruit God requires. Therefore, it is producing and reproducing, hypocrites, not True Fruit, but Bad Fruit. It is reproducing Tares in the Wheat. The fruit is diseased.

The fruit is not true. Not lovely. Not full of grace. Not full of humility. Not full of the love of God. Not overcoming the 7 Hurdles. Not Alive. Not Connected to God. Not connected to the self sacrificing work intimately connected to the gospel, the vine, and the flow of life, that God ordained it to have.

The Problem is Clear: the conduit of life, the vine itself, is the source of life. In nother words as soon as we begin to be disconnected from the source of life, we lose our value in the kingdom of God. We lose our purpose in the kingdom of God. We lose our fruitfulness in the kingdom of God. We lose our relationship with the one who saved us in the kingdom of God. And we allow diseases and sicknesses into our conduit, that were never intended to come in, and harm our fruitfulness in the kingdom of God. So that eventually bone choices, and our own terrible decisions, and our lust for those things outside the kingdom of God, that will defile us: they will be our ultimate ruin.

And Jesus makes no apology for cutting us off the vine, and ultimately throwing us into the fire, if we choose not to abide in the vine, and decide not to allow the heavenly life flow of God to flow through our lives, so that it can reach others, and reproduce the fruit of God through the gospel of Jesus Christ in us being communicated to others.

See here: it is His word that bring us light, and connect us to His heavenly kingdom. As we do the will of the Father, we deepen the bonds of love, joy, peace, patience, truth and power.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:

Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Moses, Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)

It has been the plan of God from the very Beginning to have unbroken Fellowship with His Children.

The Only Problem was: He gave his children FREE WILL.

And man chose to use his FREE WILL to reject and betray God’s Will, rather than to accept and believe God. But it doesn’t stop there. Man also chose to accept and replace God’s Will with Satan’s Will. But it doesn’t stop there. Man also choose to commit the crime of betrayal and deceit: Just Like Judas Iscariot, who sold out his entire spiritual inheritance in Christ, for a measly 30 pieces of silver, so Adam and Eve, sold out their Spiritual Birthright and the Inheritance of their Leadership Position, as the Managers of All of God’s Creation, and all of its bountiful resources, for a single piece of forbidden, stolen, bitter fruit. But it doesn’t stop there.

They made an idol out of the fruit, and worshipped and served the creature (the serpent), rather than the Creator, ¹⁰who is forever blessed, Amen. But it doesn’t stop there.

They chose to steal from God, and then later to lie about it and blame others for the crimes they committed, rather than take responsibility for their own sins against God. But it doesn’t stop there.

Within one generation, their disrespect for God, and the sin that ensued, had turned the first child born in this World, into a Murderer, who murdered his very own brother, for not for doing anything wrong, but for doing something right and “Good in God’s Sight,” and being accepted for it. Thus causing Cain to go berserk with jealousy, and murder his brother and later lie about it. Following the same pattern of sin his parents chose to follow. Cain aggressively and angrily murdered the most holy, most righteous, most pure minded Son in the Family of God, sound familiar at all? And then he denied it, lied about it, mocked God to His face, and didn’t cry until until he heard his judgement.

That scenario, in a nutshell, will be the experience of everyone who has chosen to stand before the judge of all the earth, on the great day of the Lord, the day of judgment, who has chosen to go the route of Cain, and of Adam and Eve. They will twist and squirm, and seek to blame others for the wrong they themselves have done, but in the end it will be a fruitless effort. They will see themselves as mocking God, and then they will tremble at the outcome of their own personal rebellion, when they hear the words: “Depart from me, I never knew you.”

All this will happen, because they refused to see, and refused to answer, God’s questions from God’s eternal perspective.

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It is recommended that every person should investigate this topic and not be swayed by peer pressure, or sinful distraction, that will bring its own destruction.

In order to investigate this subject according to God’s Perspective, you will need to have your mind renewed. So keep this in mind as your constant prayer, while choosing to transition, from becoming a carnal Son of Cain, into becoming a spiritual, Son of Abel.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Romans 12:2 (KJV)

The Apostle Paul,
Written circa late 55 to early 57 AD.
The letter was most probably written while Paul was in Corinth, likely staying in the house of Gaius.

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Those who want to Walk in God’s Life, will gladly and eagerly walk in God’s Love, towards one another …

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Jesus (Yeshua)
John 15:9-14 (KJV)

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Sadly, when we walk in sin, we blame God for the reason that we sin. And we blame men for causing us to sin.

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The one person we somehow forget, and neglect to blame for sin is ourselves.

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Such as the mindset and the nature of the primary enemy of God.

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When we join the enemy ranks, we adopt, and even embellish:

1. the mindset
2. attitude,
3. behavior, and
4. lifestyle

Of the Evil One.

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It can be subtle at first: But overtime it gets worse and worse.

What happens when you disconnect the power cord to your radio? How well do you hear the voices and music coming across the airwaves? Not so well, Right?

Can you see that the same condition will be true, when you disconnect your power cord from your connection to God in heaven?

God told Adam on the day he should eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that he should surely die. What other thing happened on that same day?

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Yehovah-God, circa the Sixth day of Creation
Genesis 2:16-17 (KJV)

On the day Adam rebelled, he was cast out of God’s Eternally Life Giving Presence. On that day, he died, spiritually. Man’s physical life is directly connected to his spiritual life. The moment we disconnect from God, spiritually, it is an inevitable fact that we will die, physically.

Had Adam remained in God’s Presence, Keeping God’s Commandments, resisting sin, lies, evil, temptations, darkness, sickness, theft, murder and death: (All things that any sane person should surely want to avoid) Adam would have remained alive to this day.

In other words, being connected to the source of life, having your power plug into the source of power, means that your power and your life will never run out.

But, once you disconnect from the power source, and stop having the life flow of God, enter into your body, soul and spirit–having already died spiritually: From that point on it’s only a matter of time before you will surely die, physically.

That is how I interpret the scripture in Genesis 2:17.

So, what is it that separates us from God, and results in death?

The answer is a simple three letter word: S I N

Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

But your iniquities [Sins/transgressions] have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Isaiah 59:1-2 (KJV)

Once you unplug the power cord, you will no longer hear the messages and music coming from your radio. That should make sense even to an atheist, a pagan-ist, a feminist, or even a humanist.

More references on the Subject of Hell. A little preview for the question: What is Hell?

“Hell” occurs 54 times in 54 verses in the KJV. ¹¹

Below are just a few quotes:

Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Psalms 86:13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Again: It is not God’s will that any man should perish.

That personal choice is the soul responsibility of every single individual.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward,
not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) 9

In order to understand God, one must see God for who he truly is.

Yes, he is a god of love. But he is also a god of justice. He is not one or the other but both. We cannot pick and choose what parts of God we like, and accept, and what parts of God we dislike and reject. If we are going to receive God and Christ, we have to receive all of who he is.

Did you know that God is an all consuming fire?

What happens when you put something flammable next to a fire? Typically whatever is flammable will burn, and what is not flammable, will be left behind after the fire has consumed all flammable material.

That is why God calls his people to build their lives with long lasting building materials.

1 Corinthians 3:12-15 (KJV)

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation [with] gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. 14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:

Do you see him? Do you see his challenge?

Do you see his eternal perspective?

God wants your workmanship to remain. He wants you to use precious building materials to build your house with. He wants you to have an eternal treasure. He desires to bless the work of your hands. The work of your heart. The work of your spiritual life. But, he can only bless his will for your life. Not Satan’s will. Not this world’s will. But his and his alone. His will is what he will bless.

Once you plug into God, and you have the electrical power of God flowing through your life: You hear the voice of heaven speaking clearly. You hear the music coming loud and clear through the radio of God.

It will be nigh impossible, not to fulfill the will of God for your life.

But if you remain distant. If you remain disconnected. If you’re out of touch with God. With his word. With his will. It will be nigh impossible to know the will of God for your life, or to do it.

John chapter 3, the whole chapter makes this pretty clear. Especially in verse 17 and following:

John 3:17-21 (KJV)

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

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Many today are dead spiritually

Why is that? Because they have chosen to become disconnected from God, (by rejecting his will) they are not dead physically yet. So they still have time to redeem their lives in the will of God. But if they do not redeem their lives, according to the plan, purpose, power, and provision, provided by God himself: if they choose to reject all this, then it is inevitable that they will face the second death, which is a permanent and infinite, separation from God for all eternity. This is referred to by God as the second death in the lake of fire.

The Biblical place and time we live in today is called, spiritually speaking, “the valley of decision.”

We all have a limited time to make our choice, and to do the will of God for our lives from our hearts. The longer we wait the hard it will become.

When we don’t choose in time: That will become the ultimate death, the ultimate separation from God himself: The ultimate disconnect of the power cord of God from the life flow of God.

Just as a vine branch can become diseased, and withered, and dried out, when not fully attached to the vine, so can a human being become diseased and withered and dried out when not attached to God by the spirit of God.

When the life flow of the vine is not flowing through the branch, it cannot reproduce the fruit of the vine. And worse yet, such a diseased branch that is withered and dying on the vine, can threaten the life of the vine. It can become a an entry point for disease to attack the whole vine.

Therefore, the duty of the vine dresser to cut off the withered diseased and dried out vine branch that is no longer capable of producing fruit, and is also a threat to the life of the vine.

Once the vine branch is been cut off and fully dried out, the vine dresser will want to protect his vineyard from any mold or diseases, yeast, or bacteria associated with the diseased vine branch, so he will burn the branch that is dead and sickly, rotten and drying. He will purge that which is dead, and separate it from that which is living.

But on the contrary, that same vine dresser will rejoice in the branches that produce beautiful grapes, and produce a harvest, bearing fruit and bringing joy and blessing not only to the vine dresser, but also to his family, his community, and his clients. They may turn those grapes into wine that can be preserved for years and years to come. Such is the fruit, production, and reward of a good fine branch.

The same can be said, for a life-giving witness of God, bearing fruit, by bringing the life of the gospel to light in the lives of those seeking, and needing God’s light.

Just as the withered vine branch, receives not the life flow of the vine, so do false and non-believers reject the sap of his vine. Therefore, they become dry and brittle, withered and barren. Ultimately prepared for the fire.

This little story of life and death, fruitfulness and bareness is told concisely by Jesus in the parable of the vine, and John chapter 15, in less than 8 verses.

John 15:1-7 (KJV)

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

One big problem with a dry and withering fine branch is that it wastes valuable, nutrition and life from going into the branches producing fruit. And it negatively affects the other branches around it.

Therefore this branch will be cut off, and thrown into the fire just as God says wise farmer will do. In the end, the angels will be doing the Hardesty harvesting of both the good grapes and good vine, branches and bad grapes, and bad vine branches. This will all happen on a day an hour, but no man knows. But that is no excuse for not being ready. Because we can read ahead to the end of the story, and know fully what God’s will is, if we read it from his perspective.

Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.

This is the second death.

Nothing will be hidden. All will be exposed. That is what influenced the decision of the first son, to repent of his rejection of the Father, and decided to do his duty, fulfilling the will of the Father, to go and work in His Father’s Vineyard.

That made it possible for him, to treat God with Honor, and Respect, and to treat himself with Dignity, and Truth.

That changed the entire perspective in his mind.

Once you consider that God sees All, and God Knows ALL–And that on the Day, that is more important than any other Day, we will have to give a full accounting of the Question: Did you do the Will of the Father in Your Life on Earth?

That understanding should indeed strongly inform your decision making process this very day.

But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first.

Jesus (Yeshua) Circa AD 33
Matthew 21:28-31 (KJV)

Clearly, the second son, who proposed that he would do the Will of His Father, never did His Father’s Will. Like children playing peek-a-boo with God. The second son, had to fool himself first, that his father would not know that he was a liar, a con-artist, a narcissist, and a fool before God. This son just continued to go his own way, living in a fantasy of his own mind, never coming to terms with the reality that the Day of Judgment is Near. That all who reject God, will also be Rejected. That All who deny God, will also be denied. That All who dishonor, disrespect and blaspheme God, will also be dishonored and disrespected before God.

Nothing will be kept hidden.
All will be exposed. (Mark 4:22)

God’s Spiritual Life is Not Shallow

It does not begin and end with a sinner’s prayer. Not even close.

It begins with repentance, humility, contrition, and dying to yourself, dying to your old man, dying to your worldly mindset, your worldly attitude, your worldly triggers of lust and greed.

And all that is a process.

All of that is very humbling, and all that humbling doesn’t get you in the door yet.

The key factor that puts gas in the tank, and fuel for the fire is this:

Submission.

Until Submission is the primary operating system on your computer, and submission hijacks and overwrites all your previously virus infected programs: Your Spiritual Computer Ain’t Gonna Run Right! Ain’t gonna calculate right. And going to get you where you need to go.

James 4:7 – “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” 

Again: Jesus is standing at the Door of Your LIFE,
Waiting for You to Respond:

Will you open the Door? Will you invite Jesus in?
Will you grant access to Jesus, to be Your LORD?

A) Lord of your Finances;
B) Lord of you Time;
C) Lord of your Priorities;
D) Lord of your Relationships;
E) Lord of your Family;
F) Lord of your Marriage;
G) Lord of your Tongue?
H) Lord over all your important Life Choices?

Will you allow Jesus to grant to You: His Pure Riches, His Holy Raiment? His Heavenly Eyesalve and Corrective Lens.

1. Gold tried [refined] in the fire
   (Heavenly treasure that will never rust, rot, nor be robbed)
2. White raiment, that thou mayest be clothed
   (So you will not stand before the court of God naked)
3. Eyesalve, that thou mayest see
   (That you might have God’s Eternal Perspective Guiding you).

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Revelation 3:17-20

Written while John was exiled on the Island of Patmos, because he refused to die, after being boiled in a pot of scalding hot Oil–while being persecuted under the Dominion of Nero, in Rome.

Possible Dating: Speculated somewhere between A.D. 63 to 65 (?). Before Nero’s end in A.D. 68; and before the Fall of Jerusalem, A.D. 70 under Emperor Vespasian, the ruler of the Roman Empire, but his son Titus led the siege and destruction of Jerusalem. ¹²

One day, you may just find yourself in the position of the Prodigal Son: Living Far Away from Doing Your Father’s Will. Eating all the wrong foods, picking all the wrong friends.

When that day comes, open your eyes and heart to Jesus, and receive all that He has to give you. Accept His invitation to: Follow Me. And go wherever He leads you, with confidence and faith. He will give you his words to speak, words that will cut deep into the heart. Words that will transform, lowly sinners, and to heavenly saints. That, for sure, is the wheel of God, the place that he wants you is in his vineyard. What he wants you to be doing is to be harvesting grapes. Planting, watering, nurturing, and harvesting grapes for the kingdom of God. His message of repentance, Faith, and obedience to do the will of the father will be preached in every nation around the world. And then the end shall come.

The purpose of the Gospel is clear: To bring men, women, and children into a place of repentance and intimacy with Christ.

The Good News is:
There is still time to Repent.

The Bad News is: The time is getting shorter every day, not only for you and I, but even more so for our families.

And hardened hearts are getting harder everyday. And the deceived, and the deceiver are getting more and more deceived every day. And preachers are watering down the Word more and more every day. And Liars are filling the airwaves with deception on steroids laced with lust, greed, and selfishness, more and more every day.

The Good News is: All we need is a humble mind and heart, willing to see Life from God’s Perspective.

The Bad News is: We are daily bombarded with reasons and pressure to be proud and selfish, brash and bitter, sinful and resentful, angry, hateful, and downright evil.

Only God knows those who are fully His, and those who are not. But we are called to make our own election sure.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

2 Peter 1:10 (KJV)
Written between AD 64 and 68.

All this diligence takes effort on our part. You won’t become a spiritual giant, able to take down the strongholds of the strong man, by twiddling your thumbs all day long.