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Nick,

The time had not yet come... but now it has. The age of Pentecost had the law and the prophets for 2,000 years, and they rejected and killed those prophets I sent unto them! As a matter of fact; I could have handed the age of Pentecost a bible with everything already translated FOR them, and they still would not have kindled life from it! It isn't in the book, or the names, or the translation, or the denominations, or the lineage, or the will of man, or the self-reliance on human resources, or the human intelligence level, or human desire, or human effort, or human strength... no sir, it is in the anointed One, and that is the only "place" where the truth can be found!

Let all the waters be gathered together into this one "PLACE"!

Everything else is conspiracy, or a lie!

I realized [a long time ago] that this thing is a personal journey, and it cannot be walked out with anyone else. It seems the further you go down the path of life, the narrower, and narrower the path gets. People fall off to the left, and fall off to the right, and all we can do is keep traveling down the path, with our eyes looking straight in front of us.

Look at this board [for example], they stick around for a little while, but when they see their Jesus taken, or the fire kindled red hot, or man's approval of them waning, or their place in society weakened, or their church disapproving, or their family giving them ultimatums, or their livelihood threatened - they fall away, because the yoke is just too much for them to bear.

But I tell you this:

Anyone who loves their family, or friends, or parents, or job, or human organizations more than my Beloved [and the Words He teaches], is not worthy of My kingdom!

Don't look back, or your soul will turn into a pillar of salt [God's purification process]!

This is the power of God, the sufficient righteousness to cleanse God's whole earth.
Take this Bread, Whose wisdom extends to the far reaches of hell, to the pits of darkness, to the highest of heavens.
This day is the day of the Lord, and no man shall receive His glory, and honour [the honour that is due Him].
Take this cup, and drink it with thankfulness, not because the demons are subject to your commands, but because your name is written in heaven!
We own all things, because it is written,

"All things are YOURS!"

Balaam [BaahLamb] represents the Christ of God, because He is the "Swallower of the people", who confounds the wisdom of man! So what we have here, is the carnal nature of religious men, calling upon Christ to curse this elect remnant of Princes, and rid the world of their presence!

The reason that the carnal mind of flesh hates the elect remnant is really simple: THEY THREATEN THE WAY THIS WORLD OPERATES! After all, everything that religion has taught for the last 2,000 years is in jeopardy, because of the blasphemy that comes forth from the lips of God's chosen messengers [in this final hour - the age of Tabernacles]!

Surely the chosen remnant is a threat to the religious order of this world... was not Jesus a threat to the religious orders of His time? Yes... and that is why they killed Him, because He threatened the status-quo, He was a threat to their positions of power, and honour [ABOVE the people], and He was causing the great monetary gain they received [from idol worship] to be threatened [by the Gospel of fairness, and equality that He preached]! The elect remnant are no different now, seeing that this statement remains true to this day:

"AS JESUS IS, WAS, AND EVER WILL BE... SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD - NOW!"

So Balaam [swallower of the people] represents the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Israelites [means: Princes of God] represent His elect remnant, whom He has chosen out of the world, to confound the religious language of the people, by preaching the Gospel of the "UNKNOWN TONGUE"! It is written,

Isaiah 28:11,12
11No, but [the Lord will teach these rebels - the carnal thoughts and intents of man's wicked heart - in a more humiliating way] by men with stammering lips and ANOTHER TONGUE will He speak to this people [and teach them His lessons].
12To these [complaining Jews, the Lord] had said, "This is the true rest [the way to true comfort and happiness] that you shall give to the weary, and, This is the [true] refreshing" - yet they would not listen to His teaching.

And again,

Jeremiah 8:8
How can you [the people of Israel] say, We are wise, and we have the written law of the Lord [and are learned in its language and teachings]? Behold, the truth is, the lying pen of the scribes has made of the law a falsehood (a mere code of ceremonial observances).

Me: I believe that I have proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am teaching a new language; a dialect that comes directly from the mouth of God... new to MAN, that is [because in truth, this language is actually ancient]! No sir... the king waster of the carnal mind of man - Moab [Balak] is not a very happy camper, indeed, because the vain traditions of his religious, human philosophies [which are nothing more than a veil used for hiding his carnal wretchedness] are being unraveled [UNDONE] methodically - by the supernatural wisdom of the ancient Princes of Melchizedek! Man's wisdom is earthy, selfish, partial, and sensual, while Christ's wisdom is pure, holy, just, and irrefutable! The wisdom of God is "swallowing up" the wisdom of man, even as Aaron's serpent rod swallowed up the serpent rod of Pharaoh! In the same way; the Word of Christ [in His many membered elect Princes] will save the people of God, and swallow up the sinful nature of flesh, which has held all men as captives, in the clutches of death, since the very dawn of time! As it is written,

1 Corinthians 15:54
And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, "Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory."

And again,

Isaiah 9:16
For they who lead this people cause them to err, and they who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up (destroyed).

Me: The head of the snake... is swallowing up the tail!

Sounds like this world's present situation, does it not? Rampant greed, and the cancer of spiritual lust, and wickedness, have metastasized into every facet of our civilization - leaving us powerless to save ourselves! God uses these evil circumstances, to weaken man's self-reliant nature - leaving him fully aware of just how powerless he really is! This is the threshing floor of God's judgment! But what at first appears to be the path to our eminent destruction - brought on us by God's righteous judgment - will [in the end] turn out to be the birth pangs of God's eternal life - energizing His people, and overflowing life from His creation! It is all designed by God Himself, to teach us that it is He Who creates all things, AND NOT WE OURSELVES!

Yes - it is true... the carnal mind of this people is dulled [but it is not their fault], and their tongue cannot speak [for they are mute], and their eyes cannot see [indeed; they are blinded to anything that even resembles truth], YET, [DESPITE ALL OF THEIR WEAKNESSES] GOD HAS LEFT THEM A REMNANT SEED OF GLORY, AND IN HIM SHALL THE NATIONS FIND LIGHT, AND THE FULLNESS OF THEIR SALVATION [this is Christ in His elect remnant]!

In the next few passages of scripture; we have Balak, the Moabite king of carnality, asking the Lord Jesus to curse the Princes of God - HIS OWN BODY! This is a good example of how the carnal mind-set of religious man [king Balak] always seeks to destroy those whom God has chosen! Learned men will then accuse the Lord's prophets of heresy, and blasphemy - then in the same breath, ask the Lord to curse them... all the while thinking they are doing God a favor!

Anyway, let's get back to the book of Numbers 11... look at verse 6. King Balak [carnal mind] sends out his servants [contention; strife] to Balaam [Christ mind], and tells them to say the following words to him,

6Now come, I beg of you, curse this people for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.

7And the elders [old mind-set] of [Carnality] - "From father - [what father?]" the messengers of contention: strife, departed with the rewards of foretelling in their hands; and they came to "Swallower of the people: confounding the people [BaahLamb]" and told him the words of Waster [carnal mind].

Me: Isn't that typical of the religious piety [self righteous greed-leaven] which was predominant in the church during the age of Pentecost? The religious leaders always expected to [quote]:

"Depart with the rewards of foretelling in their hands!"

That's the difference in the priests of Tabernacles, and the priests of Pentecost: THE PRIESTS OF TABERNACLES WOULD NEVER RECEIVE A BRIBE TO WATER DOWN THE WORD OF GOD, AND AS A MATTER OF FACT; THINK IT A SHAMEFUL THING FOR ANY PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO CHARGE A FEE, OR RECEIVE MONEY FOR PREACHING THE GLORIOUS WORD OF GOD [FREELY]! GOD FORBID THAT THEY EVER DO! Verse 7,

8And he [Christ - BaahLamb] said to them, Lodge here tonight and I will bring you word as the Lord may speak to me. And the princes of "From father - [what father?]" abode with "Swallower of the people: confounding the people" [that night].

Me: Look at WHEN the Swallower of the people [Christ Jesus] lodged together with the thoughts and intents [servants] of carnality - AT NIGHT! It is written,

1 Thessalonians 5:2,3
2For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night.
3When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them [carnal thoughts and intents] as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape.

Me: THE END OF THE SERVANTS OF DARKNESS IN MEN'S MINDS HAS COME, AND THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE! The Christ has come to His house [the House of Israel] and found it inhabited by a strong man [the man of sin]. This carnal man has made his abode in the temple of God's people, and in order for Christ to take His house back [His rightful inheritance], He first has to enter into the dwelling as a "thief in the night", bind up the strong man, and put him to death! The "darkness of night" here, represents the human mindset of man's carnal thinking, where the light of Christ manifests His glorious contrast within that darkness, and utterly destroys the hidden impurities of man's heart. Christ [Balaam], and the servants of the waster king [Balak - whose servants are the carnal thoughts and intents of the human mind], must lodge together in the dark night of the human soul; just as the wheat and the tares must grow up together in the field [world], before the tares are pulled, and the wheat is harvested. In order for the wheat to take root, and produce a bountiful wheat crop, the weeds [tares] serve as a soil stabilizer, which keep the soil firmly clodded around the roots of the wheat! Together, the wheat and the tares work as a perfect cycle of life [a kind of a wheel within a wheel - turning in totally different directions, yet each one serving a unique purpose] EVEN THOUGH THE TARES ARE NOT DESIRABLE AT ALL [WORTHLESS]!

Leave the weeds alone! Do not pull up the weeds [prematurely], but let them grow up together with the wheat [lest you pull up the good along with the bad]. Then, once the wheat is fully matured; you can harvest the wheat, and pull out the tares - SIMULTANEOUSLY!


More following... bb

Speaking of "SWALLOWING STUFF UP", look at these scriptures:


Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord causes a new thing [to happen], and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead), then you shall understand that these men have provoked (spurned, despised) the Lord!

2 Samuel 17:16
Now send quickly and tell David, Lodge not this night at the fords [at the Jordan] of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up and all the people with him.

Exodus 15:11,12
11Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, doing wonders? 12You stretched out Your right hand, the earth's [sea] swallowed them.

Revelation 10:10
So I took the little book from the angel's hand and ate and swallowed it; it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but once I had swallowed it, my stomach was embittered.

Jonah 1:17
Now the Lord had prepared and appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Matthew 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows' houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.

Hebrews 11:29
[Urged on] by faith the people crossed the Red Sea as [though] on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried to do the same thing they were swallowed up [by the sea].

Revelation 12:16
But the earth came to the rescue of the woman, and the ground opened its mouth and swallowed up the stream of water which the dragon had spouted from his mouth.

Psalm 21:8-10
8Your hand shall find all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find all those who hate You. 9You will make them as if in a blazing oven in the time of Your anger; the Lord will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire will utterly consume them. 10Their offspring You will destroy from the earth, and their sons from among the children of men.

Exodus 7:12
For they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Numbers 16:32
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households and [Korah and] all [his] men and all their possessions.

Me: LOOK AT THIS LAST ONE... we have both the SWALLOW [Balaam/Christ Jesus], and the SPARROW [Balak/carnal flesh] in this allegoric verse from the Psalms:

Psalm 84:3
Yes, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young--even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

Me: Look at this allegorically

[1] My king is Balak - God's left hand - the sparrow.

And

[2] My God [Christ] is Balaam - God's right hand - swallow.

Father... bless Joyce.

O.K., now it is time for the elect remnant to have their eyes of understanding enlightened! The next few verses are speaking about how the Lord is using the vessels of dishonour [represented by the Pentecost donkey], as instruments of chastisement against the elect remnant [represented by Balaam - the swallower of the people; confounding the people]! If God's elect are to fulfill all righteousness by forgiving their enemies; then they first need to know who their enemy is! I can tell you this:

IT ISN'T FLESH AND BLOOD THAT WE ARE WRESTLING WITH, FOLKS!

No!

We, as God's holy people, must begin to realize that it is the Father [all the while] at work in those around us; molding and shaping us with friction, heat, and pressure, by using those around us as the physical tools for our spiritual construction. In the past, we [as our father Jacob before us] did not recognize the angel of the Lord at work in the flesh of men, and because of this same blindness, we also wrestled with God - just as Jacob did - not recognizing Christ in His people, and thus, holding their sins against them [instead of pronouncing a blessing upon them, as the Father intended]!

In the same manner, Balaam [a type of God's elect remnant] was angry with the Donkey [a type of religious men during the age of Pentecost], and just as he grew bitter and angry towards the ass, so have we been angry with this evil generation! As it is written about us,

Psalm 85:5
Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger [and disfavor] and spread it out to all generations?

And again in Romans 10:19,

Again I ask, Did Israel not understand? [Did the elect have no warning that the Gospel was to go forth to the Nations, to all the earth?] First, there is Moses who says, I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.

And again in Hebrews [where God commands His people, saying],

⁸[TODAY] Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,⁹Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years.¹⁰And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.

Me: Hey guys... guess who the angry God is in those passages? I'll tell you Who! The God Who is angry with the people there is not a God up in the sky somewhere; nor is He down in the depths of the earth below... No, that scripture is speaking about us - the many membered Christ, Who together, hold the fullness of the Godhead BODILY, in our mortal bodies! ARISE, O GOD - JUDGE THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS!

We are the ones who have been angry with the world for forty years!

We are the ones whom Israel provoked in the WILDerness of sin!

We are the God Who pleaded with the people to take hold of the Father's rest, but they would not!

Holy mistaken identity, talk about a self realization! Look at the next verse in Numbers [verse 28],

28And the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey [religion of Pentecost], and she said to the elect remnant - Swallower of the people: confounding the people [Balaam], What have I done to you that you should strike me these three times?

Me: The answer? THEY PROVOKED US UNTO WRATH, BY HARDENING THEIR HEARTS TO THE TRUTH WE WERE PREACHING! Still... LOOK AT WHO IS CONTROLLING THE MOUTH OF THE DONKEY! IT IS GOD WHO IS OPENING THE MOUTHS OF THE LIONS, AND ONLY HE CAN SHUT THEM!

Three times the people have denied us, and three times we have struck them: ONCE [ON THE DAY OF THE PASSOVER AGE]; TWICE [ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST AGE], AND LASTLY [ON THE DAY OF TABERNACLES AGE], WHICH IS DAWNING AT THIS VERY MOMENT!

But people, people, people... on this day [the third day]; we will not be angry any more... we will rest in the knowledge that Israel was blinded in part, until the fullness of God was created afresh in the sons of the kingdom, and now there shall be life to My creation - , and more abundantly! ON THE THIRD DAY; CHRIST JESUS [MANY MEMBERED] ROSE FROM THE DEAD, AND DEATH, HELL, AND THE GRAVE WERE VANQUISHED FOREVER, AND THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE! Verse 29,

29And Balaam - the elect remnant - Swallower of the people: confounding the people said to the donkey [Pentecost], Because you have ridiculed and provoked me! I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!

Me: I am the first to admit that I have been guilty of fulfilling this very prophecy! May the Lord forgive me for hating them in their ignorance! Many times I have used the Sword of the Spirit to strike down the religious people, when it really is not even their fault for believing what they believe. However, although I am sorry in my heart; I DO KNOW that it was something that the Lord wanted me to do, or else I would not have done it. I will not condemn myself for the things I allowed, but will simply try to learn from those experiences.

I know that the only way any man can see this divine vision, is if he is called to see it, and a person must be chosen to teach the oracle of God, as Aaron was. Because of this; I speak blessing on the blind house of Israel, because their eyes are weak, and their feet are lame. I do not hold their rejection of me to their charge, but in order for them to gain back eternal life, they shall have to pay the very last farthing they owe, as punishment for their trespass [which God requires of them for their reconciliation]. Verse 30,

30And the donkey [Pentecost] said to Swallower of the people: confounding the people [the elect], Am not I your donkey [Pentecost], upon which you have ridden all your life long until this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you? And he said, No.

Me: Look who Balaam [the elect remnant, who confound the people] has to RIDE INTO LIFE UPON: THE VESSELS OF DISHONOUR FROM THE AGE OF PENTECOST [THE DONKEY]!

For indeed, without the traditional, vain teachings of the religious age of Pentecost [which men taught during the last 2,000 years], there would be no contrasting doctrine of falsity [darkness] with which to compare the truth of the Gospel of Christ [light]! For indeed; the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, HAS SHINED OUT OF THE DARKNESS OF MAN'S CARNAL CONSCIOUSNESS, and that true light is seen clearly, by witnessing man's ignorance being exposed, in stark contrast to the truth of Christ's light!

It's all about the contrast - learning what love IS, by experiencing what love ISN'T. As it is written in the prophets,

Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light; those who dwelt in the land of intense darkness and the shadow of death, upon them has the Light shined.

And again in Genesis,

Genesis 1:4
And God saw that the light was good (suitable, pleasant) and He approved it; and God separated the light from the darkness.

And again,

John 12:46
I have come as a Light into the world, so that whoever believes in Me [whoever cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] may not continue to live in darkness.

Me: So the ignorance of man is like a blackboard, and the wisdom of God is chalk: BOTH ARE NECESSARY, IN ORDER FOR US TO ATTAIN UNTO THE FULL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD'S SPIRIT! Next verse,

31Then the Lord opened Balaam's [the elect's] eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in THE WAY with His sword [WORD] drawn in His hand; and he bowed his head and fell on his face.

Me: Here is where we realize that the stubborn ass people we have despised - are actually the instruments of the Most High God! This is the greatest revelation that a person can realize: CHRIST JESUS HAS COME INTO ALL FLESH, AND IS SEATED ON THE THRONE OF HIS PEOPLE - THE TRUE TABERNACLE OF GOD, IN THE NEW JERUSALEM [THE NEW MIND OF CHRIST]!

When we realize that it is God doing everything, in every human being [whether good or evil], and that every work men do, are actually the work of the Father, then we [God's barley remnant] will FALL ON OUR FACE IN ADMIRATION, AND TRUE WORSHIP [BY SEEING GOD AS HE TRULY IS: THE EMBODIMENT OF ALL MEN! That is the true meaning of "HAVING ONE'S EYES OPENED!" That is the true meaning of the blind being made to see!

TAKE THAT SPITTLE AND PUT IT IN YOUR EYES, ISRAEL! Heh heh heh!

Now look at this Psalm, because it tells us what happens when we realize that every one of our brothers and sisters in the world are the true body of Jesus Christ, and we bow down in love towards their obstinacy, and finally provide true forgiveness of their sins:

Psalm 146:8
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright in heart and in right standing with Him).

And again,

Isaiah 42:7
To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness from the prison.

Look at verse 7 of Genesis 3:
7Then the eyes of them both [the elect, AND the people of the world] were opened, and they knew that they were naked [sinned]; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron-like girdles.

Me: We must have eye salve for our eyes, to recognize the asses of Pentecost for who they truly are - God in the vessels of dishonour, who are working unrighteousness for the sake of the Gospel of the kingdom! Look at the scripture in Galatians [1:22]. This is Jesus speaking in His creation [His risen abode within all people], and He is talking about how His elect remnant have not recognized Him AS HE IS NOW! Look:

22And so far I [Jesus] was still unknown BY SIGHT to the churches of Christ in he who will be praised (the country surrounding Jerusalem).

Me: We, as God's elect remnant, are the NEW JERUSALEM [those who possess the new mind of Christ among the people], but in our ignorance, we have not realized, or recognized that Jesus is ALSO in every man around us - the COUNTRY SURROUNDING US - THE COUNTRY SURROUNDING THE NEW JERUSALEM!

So it takes two to tango - ONE TO HIDE, AND ONE TO SEEK, ONE TO GIVE, AND ONE TO TAKE! One is bread, and one is stone, and man can't live by bread alone!

There are only two, them that are waiting on Christ [torso], and them that are the Christ [head]; BUT BOTH OF THESE GROUPS ARE THE BODY OF JESUS!

WE HAD BETTER WAKE UP PEOPLE! Jesus is standing right next to us, and we have not even recognized Him! He is plowing our field [we are God's field], and hoeing [tilling] our soil, AND WE ARE NOT RECOGNIZING HIS PRESENCE - AS THE GARDENER OF ALL FLESH [tilling the earthy man; Adam]!

One day this world is going to wake up and come to the knowledge that the people we have despised are really not our enemies, but are actually cells [together with all men] in the body of the Lord Jesus!

You can count on what I am telling you as true, Israel... IT IS FACT - QUIT FIGHTING AND WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL OF MY PRESENCE [WHO IS PRESENT IN EVERY PERSON THAT EXISTS]! Look at the next verse

32And the Angel of the Lord said to him [Balaam - the elect remnant chosen], Why have you struck your donkey [ignorant people of Pentecost] these three times? See, I [JESUS] came out to stand against and resist you, for your behavior is willfully obstinate and contrary before Me.

Me: This shows how God uses the religious people [the church] from the age of Pentecost, to stand against His Christ/elect! God did it to Jesus [using the Pharisees as His instrument of resistance to try, purge, and test Him], and He is doing the same thing now [with the many membered Christ/elect] in the Tabernacle age!

HEY... TEACHERS [elect angels]... LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE [the blinded people in the world]!

Look at why the blinded people of this world were made blind by God - TO HELP ADVANCE THE GOSPEL, BY CREATING FRICTION, AND FIRE, WHICH GOD WOULD THEN USE TO PURIFY HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE! Then, when they are fully purified, they can, likewise, turn right around and deliver the rest of the creation from their wretched state of death!

HALLELUJAH! Galatians 2:14,

14But when I [the elect remnant] SAW that they [all men] WALKED NOT UPRIGHTLY - ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL, I said unto Peter [a type of Christ "ROCK"] before them all [all men], If you, being elect, live after the manner of the Nations, and not as do the elect, why do you compel the Nations to live as do the elect?

Me: You guys want to know what that means?

It simply means that if fertilizer is working a good purpose - IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POSITIVE GROWTH OF THE CROP, why would we, as God's chosen farmers, try to compel that fertilizer to become clean?

It means that God INTENDED for the majority of men to do evil the majority of the time - IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL [God needed their evil nature to work purification in His Christed remnant vessels, in order for that same remnant to eventually save the world]! In other words, if I use my carpenter's tools to build a wooden tool box [ark of the covenant]; I only subject that tool box to the hammering, sawing, planing, and painting, with the intention of eventually have a place to store, and protect those very tools!

You see, guys... God never expected the Nations to live after the manner of His elect remnant, because He had not cleansed their mind, nor had He created a clean heart within them [as He did in His chosen]! It is written,

To you [the elect remnant] it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but the rest were blinded.

Me: Folks... we need to leave the tares [Pentecost] alone, or else we will harm the wheat [Tabernacles] by trying to remove the tares too early!

If God is using a certain negative attribute in one human being [tare], to create a purifying, learning scenario for another human being [wheat], then the last thing I want to do, is try to remove, or correct that negative attribute in the first person - BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE WORKING AGAINST GOD'S INTENTION [I WOULD BE KICKING AGAINST THE PRICK]!

When he was journeying on the road to Damascus, Saul had sought permission - letters from the chief priests, granting him the legal authority to arrest any persons affiliated with the sect known as "the Way", who were claiming that Jesus was the Messiah. Because of his zeal to keep the law of Moses; Saul breathed out murderous threats against the church, and ignorantly thought that he was doing God a favor by persecuting them [he considered this new ideology to be a direct threat to Judaism, and the traditions of the Fathers]. Yet, when the majestic light of the Lord Jesus appeared to him, blinding him with the heavenly vision; Saul realized [through divine revelation] that he had been persecuting God's holy people! Nevertheless; by His sovereign grace; God restored Saul's sight to him [the scales of spiritual blindness fell off of his eyes], changed his name from Saul to Paul, and appointed him to the divine commission of preaching the Gospel of Christ Jesus to the Nations!

You want to know what is really awesome? God did NOT ALLOW Paul's companions to see the heavenly vision - NO SIR; THEY WERE BLINDED! So by observing the events that happened to the apostle Paul; we get an allegorical picture of what is happening to God's many membered Christ in the world now, and it then becomes more and more obvious that God controls who will see the vision of His Christ, and who will be blinded to that vision!

THAT IS WHY GOD NEVER EXPECTED THE NATIONS [THE GENTILES - THE BLINDED PEOPLE] TO LIVE RIGHTEOUSLY, AND BELIEVE HIS WORD [AS HE WOULD LATER REQUIRE HIS ELECT REMNANT TO DO], BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT ALL MEN WERE INHERENTLY EVIL - SEEING HE HAD PREDETERMINED, BEFOREHAND, THAT THEY WOULD BE STEEPED IN SIN, AND THEREFORE, BLINDED TO THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL!

Folks... if you don't load the software program into the computer, then you darn sure don't expect the computer to accomplish what that program is designed to do! You're going to have a blank monitor!

Do you expect a blender, or a refrigerator, or a sewing machine to operate, if it isn't plugged into the electrical outlet? NO!

You can't get blood from a turnip, folks!

God does not expect any human being [who has not been drawn by the Father unto Himself, or had their mind regenerated by the Holy Ghost] to do ANYTHING BUT EVIL!

But now for the good news... the elect HAVE obtained the mind of Christ, and God has reserved for Himself 7,000 men, who have not bowed down their knee to Baal! It is through this chosen "few", that the "many" will be saved!

And because He reserved this royal troop for Himself, for the purpose of delivering the rest of His creation, God didn't worry about the moral condition of the rest of the world. For God patiently waited until the appointed time had come, before He required ALL MEN, EVERYWHERE to repent, and learn obedience through suffering; having given His creation the gift [example] of His elect angels [after they had completed their thorough training in righteousness for this very purpose]. Therefore; it is through this many membered Messiah, and no other, by which all men shall be saved, and find their reconciliation back unto God! This is the Tree of Life, whose branches provide shelter for the creation, whose leaves are for the healing of the Nations, and whose fruit comes forth in due season! It is in this heavenly multitude of councilors, that God has placed His trust, His faith, and His confidence! In other words,

"To whom much is given; much is expected!"

As it is written in Romans,

Romans 11:7
What then [shall we conclude]? Israel failed to obtain what it sought [God's favor by obedience to the Law]. Only the elect (those chosen few) obtained it, while the rest of them became callously indifferent (blinded, hardened, and made insensible to it).

And again,

2 Corinthians 4:4
For the God of this world [Christ Jesus] has blinded the unbelievers' minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God.

More later... sop that up first. bb

Hey Barb...

I am so glad you are hearing this! Yes... He does indeed have a sense of humor, and I am glad for it! Hey, give me a ring on my cell when you get a chance; I just saw your message. bill

God speaking [out His ass]:

33And the ass [Pentecost] saw Me and turned from Me these three times. If she had not turned from Me, surely I would have slain you and saved her alive.

Me: WOW! That shows you right there that God INTENDED for the people of the former ages to TURN AWAY FROM HIM [Passover, Pentecost, and now - Tabernacles - 3 times!], and if they had not turned away from Him, then God would not have had a way to purify His elect remnant, and they would have been put to death according to the law of Moses [because of their unrighteousness]! But because God knew that the unrighteousness of the nations, would mean righteousness for His elect remnant, he chose to show patience in imputing their sin unto them - by delaying the just punishment required by the law because of their infractions!

How? How could the spiritual blindness of the nations serve as salvation for the entire world?

Because God knew that His elect would be purified, and sanctified by the foolishness of the nations of men [fertilizer HELPS the seed], and so their chastisement of God's many membered Christ [Manchild], would create a many membered savior - a savior through which God's people would finally be saved! It is written,

Romans 11:15
For if their rejection and exclusion from the benefits of salvation were [overruled] for the reconciliation of a world to God, what will their acceptance and admission mean? [It will be nothing short of] life from the dead!

Me: In other words...

God knew that the blind nations would serve Him as an instrument of sanding, and buffeting [for the sake of purifying, and chastening His elect], and therefore, He found it necessary to blind them! As it says in the prophets,

Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blinded to justice]. If it is not [God], who then is it [responsible for all this inequality]?

And Jesus also said,

John 12:40
He has blinded their eyes and hardened and benumbed their [callous, degenerated] hearts [He has made their minds dull], to keep them from seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and minds and repenting and turning to Me to heal them.

Me: Now that you get the picture of why God allows some to see, and then blinds others [for different, yet, equally important functions]; read the next bunch of passages in Romans 11, and I think they will begin to make a whole lot more sense:

Romans 11
1I ASK then: Has God totally rejected and disowned His people? Of course not! Why, I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham [means: Father of a great multitude], a member of the tribe of Benjamin [means: Son of My right hand]!

2No, God has not rejected and disowned His people [whose destiny] He had marked out and appointed and foreknown from the beginning [He foreknew them]. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

3Lord, they have killed Your prophets; they have demolished Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.

4But what is God's reply to him? I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal! [this passage is speaking of God's elect]

5So too [at the present time] there is a remnant (a small believing minority), selected (chosen) by grace (by God's unmerited favor and graciousness).

6But if it is by grace (His unmerited favor and graciousness), it is no longer conditioned on works or anything men have done. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace [it would be meaningless].

7What then [shall we conclude]? Israel failed to obtain what it sought [God's favor by obedience to the Law]. Only the elect (those chosen few) obtained it, while the rest of them became callously indifferent (blinded, hardened, and made insensible to it).

8As it is written, God gave them a spirit (an attitude) of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, [that has continued] down to this very day.

9And David says, Let their table (their feasting, banqueting) become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a just retribution [rebounding like a boomerang upon them];

10Let their eyes be darkened (dimmed) so that they cannot see, and make them bend their back [stooping beneath their burden] forever.

11So I ask, Have they stumbled so as to fall [to their utter spiritual ruin, irretrievably]? By no means! But through their false step and transgression salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, so as to arouse Israel [to see and feel what they forfeited] and so to make them jealous.

12Now if their stumbling (their lapse, their transgression) has so enriched the world [at large], and if [Israel's] failure means such riches for the Nations, think what an enrichment and greater advantage will follow their full reinstatement!

Me Singing "More, more, mooooore!... How do you like it, how do you like it?"

There are only two: The head, and the torso, and both parties are one being - one body! Yet... they have totally different functions. bb