The truth and life

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Good Gracious God, thank you.
You have given me and shown me all things,
unwilling and unable as I was you plucked me out
of my own vomit, cleaned me and cared for me.
Goodness gracious, thank you.
Good God,
be with me, hold my hand and guide my feet,
that I never stray from your ways.
I love the Lord with all my heart and all my might,
his word, his ways, his laws, his being and all
the things of the Lord.
Thanks and praise our Lord God in heaven,
you are amazing and wonderful, kind and gentle,
a sweet heart.
Good Gracious God, thank you, in Jesus Christ name,
father, son and holy spirit. Amen.



God gave us freedom and choice; without it there can be no life. It is fundamental to life, without it there can only be an animal (or a robot), and not the true life that God create. But with freedom and choice comes sin
and evil, but God as the creator of life and the world he created for that life, had a plan for this from before the foundation of the world. This was an absolutely essential part of creation.
There were two special trees in the garden of Eden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. Adam and Eve had only one commandment, only one law, only one thing that was forbidden, which was to eat from
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But God knows his creation and Adam and Eve did the one thing they were forbidden in the wonderful and perfect garden. Once that happened, God said, if they also eat from the tree of life,
"they will become like us".

Now, the rest of it is well known, including the tree of life, but those who do not understand, in their folly want to blame God for putting the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden in the first place, without
crediting him for also putting the tree of life there. In essence, these people blame God for their own sins and for Adam and Eve doing the one thing they were forbidden. So great is their folly, what they are actually saying is;
it would be better if God did not create life in the first place. But the whole purpose was to create life, true life. This life is placed even above that of angels. And for this purpose, both trees are necessary.

Clearly sin and evil played a major role since the time of Adam and Eve and was the central theme even of ancient Israel, where history repeats itself. But God is also a God of promises, but the tree of life had not yet been revealed,
and the plans of God not yet been fulfilled. But through Israel they would be.

Abraham is the father of faith and one chosen by God, and honoured by God as such, by his promises, which have been fulfilled. Christianity and Judaism even go under the name of "Abrahamic religions". He is known as the
"father of the nation of Israel" ahead of Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and alongside but before David. The ancient people of Juda and Israel alone were spread across all the world at several occasions and fathered many generations,
even as exiles, even well known in the Roman empire and even until the return of some to modern Israel.
The history of Israel and Egypt are connected, and Egypt was blessed above the natural blessings and purpose of any other nation than Israel, and this is clearly evident in ancient history. The time of Abraham coincides
with the first peaking of the Kingdom of Egypt, through to that of Joseph, in a time which the descendants of Abraham had their history centered in Egypt. The descendants of Abraham not only inherited the promised land,
but spread across many regions of the middle east, which also includes the people now known as muslims.

This is not even considering if "his seed" are those of faith, rather than his physical descendants, but by all accounts the promises God made to Abraham were without any doubt fulfilled. His seed are countless as the stars and all
across the world.

Consider the history of the forefathers of Israel and how they were made into a peculiar people, set aside from other people, as their own people.

The sins and evil of the world was even far beyond what God in his goodness could imagine they would ever do. The world was evil and vile, because that's how people are in their sins, and the ones who inhabited the promised land
were even the worst among them. But God had chosen a people with special favour from God and they were to replace the people of that land and found the nation of Israel under the laws and ways of God, by his guidance. Immediately they
fell away and into sin and evil, even before reaching the promised land, and clearly as had been said from the beginning, they were a stiff necked and hard hearted people. The history of Israel is one of disobedience and continual
decline into worse and worse evil and sin, with the exception of the period where the nation was strengthened under the stewardship of King David, the only highpoint.

From the very first moment they reached the promised land, they failed to obey God, and the people they failed to replace became a trap to them, leading them into even worse ways, as with King Salomon. Half the old testament is the
story of how Israel falls away from God and into sin and evil, and the prophets point out just how bad it is. This is the history of Israel, and it tells the story of how they disobey God for a thousand years of worse and worse sin
and evil. But God knew from the foundation of the world, and despite the judgement of Israel, a remnant was left in Israel for the purpose of the fulfillment, until the final destruction of Israel after their purpose had been accomplished.


To the Christians
You can be assured that what you know is true, and that all the information you need is available for you to understand ever more of the truth. So study the word of God, meditate upon the things of God, and pray, and even more will
be made clear.

 

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To the Jews
What is it that you are waiting for? Are you waiting for the end, rather than the fulfillment? Do you truly believe the fulfillment would not come in biblical times, but so long after the fulfillment has borne fruits to the ends
of the earth? King David of Israel, a man of faith who laid it bare for all to see, even on the other side of the fulfillment. Why do you call it the star of David, the star of faith, when it is rather the star of Salomon and the fruits
of worldliness. Was Salomon not led away by strange women, like Israel was led away? The history of Israel is made clear for all to see, the Jews included, and it is not a flattering story, rather one with much condemnation which
ultimately came to its end. Ooh Israel, ooh Israel, why can you not be like your King David, who despite the trappings of being a king, displayed the greatest faith in all of Israel.
You do not even understand what King David said, yet you flaunt his name as if it means something to you, as if you understood the fulfillment that already came to be, not in the future, but in the past already. The fall of Salomon,
the King of Israel favoured by God, at the hands of foreign women, even into idolatry, God forgive him. There are many people who are desperately worldly, are the Jews among them or are they people of faith and belief?
Modern secular Israel does not matter in this context, but what about the Jews who claim to be religious? Are they men of faith, understanding the things of God or are they rather empty shells of worldiness, redressed in rituals and
seremonies posing as men of faith and pretending to understand the things of God? Do they truly believe in God? Will they profess what David did? Will they do what Abraham did?

Men write what men want to hear, God writes the truth, and into the hearts and spirit of man. The truth of God is often counterintuitive to human understanding, and often the opposite of what people want to hear. Do people want to hear
that they are evil, wretches, fools? This is why it is so easy to hate the truth. Now imagine if a man came and told you all the truths you did not want to hear, you would probably hate him and in the end kill him out of anger.
The truth is widely hated and most people hate the truth. Others love the truth, and hates what the truth witness about them, and so hate about themselves what the truth has just witnessed to them, but this is not natural.
Rather what is natural, as it is today, is to create a religion that tells man what they want to hear. This is the best kind of religion ever, and in such a religion, as it is today, you can yourself define truths based on human
desires and itching ears. This is already happening. You can define what is good and what is evil, based on what you generally do and don't, so that your definition of good and evil complies with what you already do and don't.
This is modernity as opposed to ancient religions which write a set or rules and principles to follow, and where you can work your ways to righteousness by following these worldly principles, and in the end be declared righteous based
on your compliance with said rules and principles. In this way Talmudic Judaism and Islam is very similar. There is nothing wrong with law and order, it is a good thing, and it even comes from a place of Godliness, but it is of
and for this world. But good and evil is absolute and universal, and truth is absolute, not relative.

If you pervert these principals, you can write whatever you want as the foundation of your new religion, and anything can be said to be good and evil, even contrary to what is so. Woe unto those who put good for evil and evil for good. In
modernity this is the driving factor for creation of the new religion, to justify evil, and not just justify it, but glorify it and call it good. To normalize that which is perversion, evil, sinful, wretched, wicked and define it in the
new religion as virtues, as good, and to such a religion many will flock. You can invent any kind of new principal on the fly and call it out to be good or evil and define your worldview from it, because in such a system, everything is
relative to what the author say. Before long, you might be compelled to become part of this religion and worship this beastly thing, or risk your life in this world. It is that which defines the values and norms of modernity,
and the cowardly wretched fool who hides behind it. They flock to it to become self-righteous. Let's hope you don't.

But who would flock to a religion who tells them they are fools? Who would flock to a religion who tells them they are evil? Who would flock to a religion who tells them they are wretches? People hate the truth, they don't flock to it.
What if this religion is forbidden and carries the death penalty in addition? Who would flock to that? And what if you live in the mightiest empire in the world who forbids it, and your home region in that empire hates it? You are
stalked to be killed by both, persecuted, having no rights or value. You would flock to such a religion right?

In fact, it is not even a religion, it is the truth, and it happened in the Roman Empire, in what was the remnant of Israel, as it was to be from the foundation of the world, and the fulfillment of all things, including the purpose
of Israel.


To all
Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of all things, from before the foundation of the world. He is the tree of life. What we now know and understand in Jesus Christ, David already understood and talked about on the other side of the
fulfillment which came in Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ is the fruit of faith, and the truth, the way and the life, that which Israel lacked but nonetheless their King David demonstrated through the great blessings of God. Jesus Christ
is the fulfillment of Israel through Abraham and David, the Jewish Messiah, the solution to all things. But because they were worldly and hated the truth, they killed him, because their deeds are evil and they hate the way of God and even
God himself, because he is good and they cannot understand him. They never understood the heavenly things or spiritual fruits, because their minds were so rooted in this world that they could not understand the things that King David
understood, and could not come to faith like King David. Instead their world centric view lead them into rituals and seremonies and seeking glory in this world, not even understanding King David and so much less their Messiah, Jesus
Christ.

On the cross we meet God and are reborn and are given the spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, to reside in us. We crucify our old self, and the old man is dead as we step into life. God gave us freedom and choice,
nobody is forced to go to heaven. Through Christ we are born in the spirit, it is our second birth, and the fruits of Jesus Christ and the purpose and fulfillment of all things. Only then can we realize that we are evil, and instead
want to become good. It is not before we come to terms with our hopeless sinfulness that we can even hope to change. And so we repent of our sins, and hate our sins and hate ourself for our sins, but through Christ our sins
are forgiven and removed from us. As freedom and choice is fundemental to life, so is the forgiving of sins and rebirth to the fulfillment of all things, and so we overcome this world. We overcome this world, because it is impossible
for us to be born in the spirit, but with God all things are possible. And the only way to do this, is through Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus Christ is the son of Abraham, the son of David, the son of Israel, the son of God and our Lord,
the one hated and killed by the worldly Roman jews, because they hated God and they hated the truth. But through his life and death, we are given life. And this is the creation of life, and to overcome the world,
to love God because he is good, but not as an animal (or a robot), but of our own free will.

 

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So what is wrong with this world? Me, I am what is wrong with this world, my sin is what is wrong with this world and why the world is so evil and so full of evil. Every one of my sins contributed to the evil of the world, and if you
multiply that by all human beings, you get the sum of all evil.

You can't invent a story like that, or a religion like that, because it's what people don't want to hear and it is counterintuitive to the human understanding of things. Which is how we can be so sure it comes from God, namely because
it is fundamentally true, but also because it is impossible, yet the impossible did happen, and we have the witness of the impossible to the ends of the world. By historical norms, the bible should not exist, but it does exist, because
it is the word of God. Not only does it exist against all odds, it is available in all the world, and the word has reached all the world, that is Jesus Christ. Alot of people also know of the mighty Roman Empire, but how much writing
do we have from this empire? Yet, that which came before, and during the time of the Roman Empire, outlawed and illegal, in the Roman provinces of ancient Israel, where they hated their Messiah, that we do have, in full and complete.
You might even call that supernatural for a lack of better word. By all historical norms and general logic, neither should the word of God have existed today, nor should Christianity have spread to all the world, but it did, and we have
the word of God. And just as all things came to be fulfilled through Israel, both Israel and Judah for the final time seized to exist as it had, for thousands of years.

We were all born into sin and into a sinful world, we don't have a choice in this, what matters is to overcome the world and be free from sin, and this is through Jesus Christ.

The journey of David is similar to our journey in Christ. David was not perfect, so much so that some of his sins were written about to demonstrate just how imperfect he was. Nor was David particularly godly or holy at the beginning
of his kingship, rather the opposite, he was more focused on kingly duties and dragged into kingly problems, as expected. But David grew in God and with God through his life, to become a man of uncontested faith and love for God,
which is extraordinary for a man of his position, but he was blessed by God and had the presence of God in his life. In David's writings you can read about a man whos faith is ever growing and becoming ever more important in his life
and having ever more holy thoughts and conforming to the ways of God. As David ages, his faith and love of God becomes central to his life, and he expresses this in some of the most beautiful ways ever expressed in writing.
This is how a life with God develops, and David against all odds, as a king in the ever more sinful Israel manages to become holy and to turn things in Israel around as a result and become the King that reigned in Israel at the very
highpoint of the nation, a work of God in a man and in a nation.

Now, Salomon was born into this and the godly King David was his father. He inherited the kingdom that God had built through King David. Salomon started out strong, but his reign ended up being the beginning of the fall of Israel, as
Salomon himself fell away into sin and was cut short in the word of God. Salomon even fell into idolatry towards the end of his life, a fate that would also befall Israel to a greater and greater extent for the following thousand
years until its final fall.

And this is where the circle comes to completion, from Adam and Eve to Jesus Christ, through Abraham and David into the ever falling Israel. Christ was the natural turning point and the fulfillment of all things and the end of the
biblical era and the role of ancient Israel in bringing about the new era, of Christ and the fulfillment of it to the end of the world. And all these things have been fulfilled through Christ as the word of God and love of God has spread
from the cross to all the world.


By the time modern Israel was founded, the word of God and the love of God had spread to all the world, and was available to all, freely and in written form available to all. You could say the time of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
had been fulfilled and that modern Israel is a mark in time. Christianity was at its peak, and the stewardship of the word of God was now in the previously unknown nation of the United States of America, undoubtedly a mystery.
A short period of relative peace and prosperity followed, and the trappings of this world became more obvious, and now in a way the people of the Christian nations are almost all rich. 2000 years have passed since Jesus Christ,
and the world is rapidly changing, and what could be classified as former Christian nations are even engaging in systematic anti-Christian policies and changes, while former non-Christian nations see great growth, even in
places considered impossible by modern standards. But don't forget the word of God was also forbidden in the Roman Empire and the regions of ancient Israel, and many people were murdered for to bring it to us today.
But they knew the certainty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as with this generation, they had seen the evidence of the truth right in front of them, and so could not help but spread the truth to the world around them, even if they
were murdered for it. In these dark times people want to kill people for speaking the truth, while they themselves speak lies and raving madness. Is it not strange, how all the worldly powers have organized together to do these things?
2 Timothy 4:4 and 2 Tessalonians 2:11-12

 

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But nothing can work against the goodness of God, and he is longsuffering, through all the sins of the world, which he took on himself to save us and create life. And so our heartbreak and suffering in an evil world is miniscule,
even as it becomes all encompassing in the later stage of this era. But just as the birth of a new Church comes with the vanishing of an old, so it happened through Jesus Christ in ancient Israel when most obviously and assuredly,
the stewardship of the things of God did transfer.

That was the time between the end of ancient Israel and the formation of modern Israel, and we live in the time after. But not all of the word of God has been fulfilled, but as the darkness gather, so we can also see that a storm is
coming. And when the time is night, we will know, and we do know it will happen on this side of the formation of modern Israel, as it has not already been fulfilled. Some ask, what would Jesus do, but it is also to wonder these days,
what would Hitler do if he had all the technological marvels and pipelines that we have today. And what will the future bring, and where does the limit go of what God will allow humans to do in terms of manipulation and change of the
fundamental aspects of life? Would God allow us all to be born into a world of only lies, deception and manipulation with no chance of finding him?

People are drawn into evil, not because it is evil, but because evil is attractive and even enticing, even the most sadistic and perverse things has a certain drawing power on the inner man and can even look freeing and fun and give
joy and pleasure. A man can give in fully to evil things and fully embrace them, not necessarily because he wanted to be evil, but because he takes pleasure and joy from evil things, and this is what is happening now. How can a man
place evil for good and good for evil, when good and evil are absolute and unchangeable? He can do it by changing peoples perception of what is good and evil, pervert the concept and even turn it into a kind of religion where you can
celebrate evil as good and condemn good as evil. Truth is absolute and eternal and cannot be changed, but you can deceive as many people as possible with lies and manipulation, and if truth and good/evil to them is relative, rather
than absolute and universal, they are easy victims, and you can invent any reality that you want and propose it to them as truth, even the most obvious lies.

But the children of God cannot so be deceived, and so they will become hated by those who deceive, even for speaking the truth. And so the children of God are the salt of the world and the light, and are hated, because the deceivers
hate the truth and their darkness can't stand the light, and so they cannot fully consume their victims into darkness, despite the great power of their lies, manipulation and deception.

And so we can see the formation of a new religion in the world, opposed to all things that are good and decent and where you can become self-righteous by subscribing to their lies and partake in forming what their religion
defines as good and evil, contrary to the real things, excuses to foment those things which are perverse, vile, sick, disgusting, cruel, sadistic, hateful and ugly, and propose to their followers to follow these things and do them.
Spreading these things as the new virtues of society, and condemning all that is good as evil. When this religion has become prevalent in society, you can celebrate and glorify sin, and even declare yourself righteous and virtuous
for partaking in these sins, and you can ignore what is good and true by declaring it evil and pushing it away from your mind as being such. Helpless victims in a society dominated by such an evil force, understanding things to be
relative, will have a shift in their previously good and decent values, towards the new norms of society, without necessarily partaking in such an abominable organized evil. So much so that this disgusting thing which destroys
becomes the driver of the new norms for society, and wanting to enslave the whole world unto death. Both a system and a religion, now who can resist that? Is this the king of worldliness the Jews are waiting for, rather than their
own Messiah who loved God? Will you become desperately worldly or overcome this world?

Some that were first will be last and some that were last will be first. God help us all! What a world.

Now, either you believe in God or you don't. But from the foundation of the world God had a plan even unto the end, and that plan was on route and it changed the world, it corrected and gave us what we ourselves could not and
always needed from the creation of life unto the freedom and choice of sin to the freedom and choice of life and love of God. That fulfillment came in biblical times, in the provinces of ancient Israel, in the Roman Empire, in
Jesus Christ. As Adam and Eve was the way to death, so Jesus Christ is the way to life, the tree of life from the foundation of the world through Abraham and David, right before the end of ancient Israel, and having accomplished
before modern Israel what we all know, and not by coincidence, but by design, what we now have and know, delivered to us as intended. Aside from this plan of God, he does not interfere with our world and the freedom and choice
that he gave us, so we can only blame ourselves for how the world is.

Now, all things have been fulfilled, from the foundation of the world through Jesus Christ, but not the end.
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