The Stagg

Russ TenHoff   2009.

Gold everywhere

The geese honk in the crisp air

Twilight or dawn

The cares of life are withdrawn

To a world far beyond the wile’s of these woods

In this peace of mind

Stepping backward in time

A yearning well defined

The hunter only knows

The wind that stirs his soul and spiritual fire

It is not enough to gaze

Upon a life of simpler days

An age when we were young

Our summer in the sun

But reposed we’ve now become to our fate

Harvesting for winters cold

Gone are the impassioned flames

Warm are the embers that sustain

A cup of cheer a look a sneer

Obscured the youth that once defined us

It was said how the mighty have fallen

The call of ancestors now drawing

To a place of embrace

Remembrances' of loves lost

Where none but the leaves of gold remain

Are  Spiral's Spiritual Symbols?

Spirals - An eternal sign of the creative and organizing principle at work in the universe

Spirals:  An eternal sign of the creative and organizing principle at work in the universe

Is a spiral a spiritual symbol?

The spiral is the age-old intuitive symbol of spiritual development and our identity with the universe. It is found in cultures the world over and reflected in shamanism, serpent cults, dragon lore, geomancy, magic, mysticism and ritual art and dance throughout history.

 Spirals represent a Vortex, a Time Funnel a Whirlpool of Time in Space both in reality and metaphysically. It symbolizes the winding down of temporal creation reminding us that in the eternal scheme of things, this reality is temporary. Simply put, Spirals are formed by FRACTALS [-the building blocks, the mechanism of creation spoken into existence by The WORD.

 The "Spiral of Life" is often interpreted as an evolution. It is not. It symbolizes the downward spiral, a countdown to the END of ages. God's clock leading to the "End of Days"

 Education and Scientific Discovery can never replace Wisdom and Godly Discernment...

In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the point.

 It represents life, creation, birth and rebirth, evolution, awareness, and growth or development. The single spiral stands for the radiance of cosmic energy. It also symbolizes knowledge and perseverance, truly a perfect symbol for people who want to move forward.

 2 Corinthians 10:4 We fight with weapons that are different from those the world uses. Our weapons have power from God that can destroy the enemy’s strong places. We destroy people’s arguments...

 Weapons? Spiritual, yes, but what kind and how can we attain them and use them..... It is clear that our ancestors had knowledge of their uses

 C.E.R.N.

"Something May Come Through Dimensional 'Doors'

"Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it," - - Sergio Bertolucci,

Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN

A.I., Akashic Records & Books of Heaven

Is A.I. [Artificial Intelligence], the World Wide Web, an artificial neural network
[Universal Central Nervous System], and an attempt to tap the Akashic record] Mind of God? 
Are we trying to mimic or recreate HIS consciousness? 

 2 Timothy 3:5

…maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its [HIS is the] power.

Isaiah 55:6-11

6 Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found [ in his letting himself be found]; call him while he is [in his being] near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that[and] he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will forgive manifold [ make numerous to]. 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” declares [declaration of] Yahweh. 9 “For as the heavens are higher [high] than the earth, so my ways are higher [high] than your ways, 11 so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me without success, but shall accomplish[do] what I desire and be successful in the thing for which I sent it.

In theosophy and anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of thoughts, events, and emotions believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the etheric plane.

John 2:25  Now there are also many other things that Jesus did, which—if they were written down one after the other—I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

I am not trying to give credence to the Akashic record or endorse any type of Hindu, or Kundalini spirit. But they got the idea from somewhere. And the false teachers, prophets and gods [Kundalini (Sanskrit kundalini, कुण्डलिनी, pronunciation (help. · info), "coiled one"), in the concept of Dharma], because of their rebellion, of course their teachings on the subject are bent as C.S. Lewis would say, towards a slanted view. YAHWEH is God and he is sovereign over all the universe so the best that any other god can do is to copy, mimic, plagiarize or counterfeit something YAHWEH has created. I believe it is reasonable to say that the notion of the Akashic record is based on the consciousness of God and that of all the Sons of God, HIS Divine Council, and even the thoughts and prayers of man. The Bible speaks of many books, scrolls and libraries of Heaven and that no “word” returns void. Scripture speaks a lot about a spoken word and what it creates or accomplishes.

Revelation 20:12   And I saw the dead—the great and the small—standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.

Daniel 7:10   A stream of fire issued forth and flowed from his presence [from before him]; thousands upon thousands served him and ten thousand upon ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and the books were opened.

The Akashic record is like an immense photographic film, registering all the desires and earth experiences of our planet. Those who perceive it will see pictured thereon:

The life experiences of every human being since time began, the reactions to experience of the entire animal kingdom, the aggregation of the thought-forms of a karmic nature (based on desire) of every human unit throughout time.

The problem with artificial intelligence is, well it's artificial. It's a make-believe, pretend intellect. Intellect denotes sentience [ Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively]. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience)]. or a soul that understands. You can train any animal or program any computer to respond according to a number of variables but that is not the same as a living breathing soul that is able to make conscious choices and be aware of the consequences of those choices or that consciousness. I am therefore I think I am, [I think].

It's interesting that scripture says that the serpent [ nachash ] told Eve that if we eat of the Tree of Knowledge, we would become like god [ a god, part of the divine counsel ]. So here we are trying to be the creators of something to hold that knowledge, claim it is alive, and say look at what we did without any regard to the consequences to the A.I. or ourselves. What are we trying to replace? What is the goal? What is the endgame and what will be the cost?

Matthew 12:33   “Either make the tree good and its fruit is good, or make the tree bad and its fruit is bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things when you [when/are] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good person from his [the] good treasury brings out good things, and the evil person from his [the] evil treasury brings out evil things. 36 But I tell you that every worthless word that they speak, people will give an account for it on the day of judgment! 37 For by your words you will be vindicated, and by your words you will be condemned.”

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” ― Albert Einstein

Tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube; was coined and first used in 1888 by Charles Howard Hinton in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Greek τέσσερεις ακτίνες (téssereis aktines, "four rays") Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since [here] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us [the easily ensnaring sin], let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

Ecclesiastes 12:11    The words of the wise are like cattle goads; the collections of the sages are like pricks inflicted by one shepherd [The owner of collections are given by one shepherd]. 12 My son, be careful about anything beyond these things [ but from more than them ]. For the writing of books is endless, and too much study is wearisome [ increases weariness of flesh ]. 13 Now that all has been heard, here is the final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

A Poem and Lament

Alone in the Dark 
Shadows of despair 
Empty windows / Requited love  
Russ Tenhoff July 27, 2014

The fire is gone out   No one is home embers have all gone to ash

No warmth here

Once a hearth raging in comfort Has now become a void and dark

Cold and alone

No reflection of conscience or shame No regrets,  No memories, No blame

Only silence remains

Fellowships broken   Words unspoken Deafness from all who would listen

The chairs are empty

Bleak is the outcome of all our days Weak is our feeble attempts at life

Wrath and ruined

The sages of ole have all gone now No singers, No songs, No howls

Shadowed halls echo

Laughter is no longer heard out loud The drapes are drawn to forbid the light

Stifling the air   

Empty windows, Empty eyes, Soul gateways Ears can’t hear   

Mouths cannot speak

Brokenness embittered Creatures of habit are we in truth

Routines and boxes are our dwellings Our rituals have ceased

Hope is differed     Hearts are sick Springing eternal only to die again

The loathing of life

Abandoned by those of blood and oaths Shunned by all we’ve known   

Forgotten Naked and scorned

Only the grave to quiet defining silence No peace of mind to be found in here

The land of the living is dead

Alone in the darkness our heart cries out 

All of life’s circumstance proves my doubt

Meaningless all is meaningless

Mended Vessels

The Art of KINTSUGI 

KINTSUGI -"Golden Joinery" in Japanese

It refers to the art of fixing broken ceramics with a solid gold.

With a proper perspective, a vessel fixed by KINTSUGI will look more gorgeous and more precious than before it was fractured.

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold.

They believe that when something's suffered damage, it now has a history, some added character.It becomes more beautiful and has integrity again...  “There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.” Let that sink in for a moment.

The Crack is to be welcomed. The Crack is our teacher.

Why are we ashamed of having a wound that is hurting?

Why are we afraid to be vulnerable in admitting to that wound?

It's just like the Devil to put a stumbling block in front of us, help us trip over it and then blame us for the fall!
 

When we see others hurting, our reaction is to help, yet when it comes to ourselves, we want to hide our pain from others. 
Is it that we are too strong to need help or that we are too weak to admit our vulnerability

We are born thru pain and from birth we have been growing thru our wounds. 
What did our parents teach us about that? 
Did they teach us to grow and become more beautiful, or did they teach us to "buck up" and become ashamed of our feelings?

What if we repaired our wounds with gold, God's [w]Holy Word? 
What if we absorb the wound to find what gifts it holds for us? 
Can we dig in and find the golden nuggets waiting there to be discovered?

What if you filled your wounds with the golden nuggets of wisdom instead of shame? 
 hat if your wounds did not turn into baggage to be carried around?

What if we embraced the pain let it become a place of learning and beauty?

Don't be an object in the devils curio cabinet.Let God place you on His Mantle Place to show off His prized possession! 
Be a part of His Glory!

Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.

Excerpts from various sources.
  

The Migdal Eder Star

The Actual Biblical Birthplace of Jesus
The Tower of the Flock

A POEM

In the month of Tishri on the first day

Stood the Tower of the Flock Migdal Eder they say

Moving south from Bethel onto Rachel’s tomb

On the outskirts of Bethlehem Salvation from a tomb

Hark the herald angels sing astromancers align His works

The place the lambs prepare to die the sacrifice of worth

How did the shepherds find the place that they should go

To the one and only manger that every prophet knows

The matrix of Mary’s womb provided us a gift

From the portal to our life the curse of Hermon shifts

Perfect in the priestly rags In swaddling He was found

No blemish spot or wrinkle complete on Holy Ground

The ancient gifts presented from Adam’s time til now

The wisdom from the ages see the wise kings bow

Their entourage in tow Magi from the east afar

A coronation to perform a confluence from the star

Gold frankincense and myrrh confirm the Holy Son

The death decrees of Herod killed every child save one

Back to our captor Egypt an old debt to pay

Then established on a donkey the Father’s wish obeyed

His purpose now fulfilled He hung He bled He died

His mother grieved and stricken His abba knew just why

To the thrown ascended Jesus sits on high

Now everyone who believes it will meet Him in the sky

Paul was NOT a Tentmaker…

He was an Apostle, Prophet, Teacher, Evangelist…
As a Phasee, he was ingaged in the making of tents, The "Tallit"

Although The Apostle Paul had some labor skill in the industry of tent making and throughout his life and ministry he used those skills to earn money to finance his missions in order to not be a burden to the local church or take bread off the local pastor's table, he clearly believed that ministers ["those that labor in the Word"] should be "ministered to" by the giving of the saints to support their local pastor. The prayer garb [tallit] in some translations was referred to as a tent. Paul also often spoke of his right to be compensated for his "labor in the Word" in fact he says he deserved it.
 

Philippians 4:10-20

Paul Thanks the Christians

10 I am very happy in the Lord that you have shown your care for me again. You continued to care about me, but there was no way for you to show it.

11 I am not telling you this because I need anything. I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and with everything that happens.

12 I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty. I have learned the secret of being happy at any time in everything that happens, when I have enough to eat and when I go hungry, when I have more than I need and when I do not have enough.

13 I can do all things through Christ, because he gives me strength.

14 But it was good that you helped me when I needed it.

15 You Philippians remember when I first preached the Good News there. When I left Macedonia,

you were the only church that gave me help

.16 Several times you sent me things I needed when I was in Thessalonica.

17 Really, it is not that I want to receive gifts from you, but I want you to have the good that comes from giving.

18 And now I have everything, and more. I have all I need, because Epaphroditus brought your gift to me

. It is like a sweet-smelling sacrifice offered to God, who accepts that sacrifice and is pleased with it.

19 My God will use his wonderful riches in Christ Jesus to give you everything you need.

20 Glory to our God and Father forever and ever! Amen.

Acts 18:1-3 {Paul in Corinth} "

1 Later Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

2 Here he met a Jew named Aquila who had been born in the country of Pontus. But Aquila and his wife, Priscilla, had recently moved to Corinth from Italy, because Claudius commanded that all Jews must leave Rome. Paul went to visit Aquila and Priscilla.

3 Because they were tentmakers, just as he was, he stayed with them and worked with them."

Note Paul did not say his decision was for everyone.

Paul was not introduced as Paul the Tentmaker... He was the New Evangelist who happened to be able to make tents also...
 

I think it is more important to focus here on the metaphor [Although he , Paul, did actually make tents, his life's work was in preaching the Gospel] of "building the house" or making us a "dwelling place" for the Most High.
 

Galatians 6:6

6 Anyone who is learning the teaching of God should share all the good things he has with his teacher.

Tentmaking, [From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] in general, refers to the activities of any Christian who, while dedicating him or herself to the ministry of the Gospel, receives little or no pay for Church work, but performs other ("tentmaking") jobs to provide support. Specifically, tentmaking can also refer to a method of international Christian evangelism in which missionaries support themselves by working full time in the marketplace with their skills and education, instead of receiving financial support from a Church. The term comes from the fact that the apostle Paul supported himself by making tents while living and preaching in Corinth (Acts 18:3).

I would like to add here that Paul was clearly an "A" type personality and some would even say exceptional. Though we all should strive for excellence in serving, not all of us are able to achieve what Paul did. Luke 16:13 “No servant can serve two masters. The servant will hate one master and love the other, or will follow one master and refuse to follow the other. You cannot serve both God and worldly riches.” To me, this seems to imply a distraction to being wholly devoted to one endeavor or the other. It stands to reason that if your focus is on one thing, the other will suffer some loss.

Again, Paul refers to divided interest concerning "making a living" and serving "whole heatedly" [Full Time] in; 
 

1 Corinthians 7:27-29

27 If you have a wife, do not try to become free from her. If you are not married, do not try to find a wife.

28 But if you decide to marry, you have not sinned. And if a girl who has never married decides to marry, she has not sinned. But those who marry will have trouble in this life, and I want you to be free from trouble.

29 Brothers and sisters, this is what I mean: We do not have much time left. So starting now, those who have wives should live as if they had no wives.

Was Paul on a unique walk for his ministry? I think so. I believe that the modern push for "tentmaker" ministers is a heresy in the Church to muddy the waters so to speak and rob God's children from blessing and being blessed. I think the climate among believers today is to tighten our belts in our giving and receiving because of a quasi spiritual misunderstanding of Paul's intent and a poor economy... People always try to "spiritualize" their excuses when they want to justify a selfishness.
 

2 Corinthians 6

1 We are workers together with God, so we beg you: Do not let the grace that you received from God be for nothing. 2 God says,

“At the right time I heard your prayers. On the day of salvation I helped you.” Isaiah 49:8

I tell you that the “right time” is now, and the “day of salvation” is now.

3 We do not want anyone to find fault with our work, so nothing we do will be a problem for anyone. 4 But in every way we show we are servants of God: in accepting many hard things, in troubles, in difficulties, and in great problems. 5 We are beaten and thrown into prison. We meet those who become upset with us and start riots. We work hard, and sometimes we get no sleep or food. 6 We show we are servants of God by our pure lives, our understanding, patience, and kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by true love,7 by speaking the truth, and by God’s power. We use our right living to defend ourselves against everything. 8 Some people honor us, but others blame us. Some people say evil things about us, but others say good things. Some people say we are liars, but we speak the truth. 9 We are not known, but we are well known.We seem to be dying, but we continue to live. We are punished, but we are not killed. 10 We have much sadness, but we are always rejoicing. We are poor, but we are making many people rich in faith. We have nothing, but really we have everything. 11 We have spoken freely to you in Corinth and have opened our hearts to you. 12 Our feelings of love for you have not stopped, but you have stopped your feelings of love for us. 13 I speak to you as if you were my children. Do to us as we have done—open your hearts to us.

There are clearly vagabonds, charlatan's and charmers still among us and even a few Balaam's selling trinkets charms and tokens with promises of prosperity and breakthrough... If you seed to THEM... Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.” Deuteronomy 31:6... But God is NOT in any of those gimmicks... Isaiah 55:1 [ God Gives What Is Good ] The Lord says, “All you who are thirsty, come and drink. Those of you who do not have money, come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost... 
 

Just because we need to be sober and vigilant doesn't mean we should stop feeding the honest ministers of God's word. Acts 20:33-35 

33 When I was with you, I never wanted anyone’s money or fine clothes.

34 You know I always worked to take care of my own needs and the needs of those who were with me.

35 I showed you in all things that you should work as I did and help the weak. I taught you to remember the words Jesus said:  ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’

2 Corinthians 8

Christian Giving

1 And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace God gave the churches in Macedonia. 2 They have been tested by great troubles, and they are very poor. But they gave much because of their great joy. 3 I can tell you that they gave as much as they were able and even more than they could afford. No one told them to do it. 4But they begged and pleaded with us to let them share in this service for God’s people. 5 And they gave in a way we did not expect: They first gave themselves to the Lord and to us. This is what God wants. 6 So we asked Titus to help you finish this special work of grace since he is the one who started it. 7 You are rich in everything—in faith, in speaking, in knowledge, in truly wanting to help, and in the love you learned from us. In the same way, be strong also in the grace of giving.

8 I am not commanding you to give. But I want to see if your love is true by comparing you with others that really want to help. 9 You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. You know that Christ was rich, but for you he became poor so that by his becoming poor you might become rich.

10 This is what I think you should do: Last year you were the first to want to give, and you were the first who gave. 11 So now finish the work you started. Then your “doing” will be equal to your “wanting to do.” Give from what you have. 12 If you want to give, your gift will be accepted. It will be judged by what you have, not by what you do not have. 13 We do not want you to have troubles while other people are at ease, but we want everything to be equal. 14 At this time you have plenty. What you have can help others who are in need. Then later, when they have plenty,they can help you when you are in need, and all will be equal. 15 As it is written in the Scriptures, “The person who gathered more did not have too much, nor did the person who gathered less have too little.”

1 Corinthians 9:3-14

3 This is the answer I give people who want to judge me: 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 Do we not have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Peter? 6 Are Barnabas and I the only ones who must work to earn our living? 7 No soldier ever serves in the army and pays his own salary. No one ever plants a vineyard without eating some of the grapes. No person takes care of a flock without drinking some of the milk.

8 I do not say this by human authority; God’s law also says the same thing. 9 It is written in the law of Moses: “When an ox is working in the grain, do not cover its mouth to keep it from eating.” When God said this, was he thinking only about oxen? No. 10 He was really talking about us. Yes, that Scripture was written for us, because it goes on to say: “The one who plows and the one who works in the grain should hope [expect] to get some of the grain for their work.” 11 Since we planted spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we should harvest material things?

12 If others have the right to get something from you, surely we have this right, too. But we do not use it. No,we put up with everything ourselves so that we will not keep anyone from believing the Good News of Christ. 13 Surely you know that those who work at the Temple get their food from the Temple, and those who serve at the altar get part of what is offered at the altar. 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who tell the Good News should get their living from this work.

1 John 3:16-18

16 This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 Suppose someone has enough to live and sees a brother or sister in need, but does not help. Then God’s love is not living in that person. 18 My children, we should love people not only with words and talk, but by our actions and true caring.

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now let each of you fear the Lord. Watch what you do, because the Lord our God wants people to be fair. He wants all people to be treated the same, and he doesn’t want decisions influenced by money.”

Pastor Russ

October 18, 2013

Matthew 6:24

24 “No one can serve two masters. The person will hate one master and love the other, or will follow one master and refuse to follow the other. You cannot serve both God and worldly riches.

God's Art of War

"The Lord of Heavens Armies" Fights for you!

2 Kings 6:16-17   “Don’t be afraid!” Elisha told him. “For there are more on our side than on theirs!” 17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!” The Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire.

 Deuteronomy 20 Laws for War 1 When you go to war against your enemies and you see horses and chariots and an army that is bigger than yours, don’t be afraid of them. The Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, will be with you. 2 The priest must come and speak to the army before you go into battle. 3 He will say, “Listen, Israel! Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Don’t lose your courage or be afraid. Don’t panic or be frightened, 4 because the Lord your God goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.” 5 The officers should say to the army, “Has anyone built a new house but not given it to God? He may go home, because he might die in battle and someone else would get to give his house to God. 6 Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? He may go home, because he might die in battle and someone else would enjoy his vineyard. 7 Is any man engaged to a woman and not yet married to her? He may go home, because he might die in battle and someone else would marry her.” 8 Then the officers should also say, “Is anyone here afraid? Has anyone lost his courage? He may go home so that he will not cause others to lose their courage, too.” 9 When the officers finish speaking to the army, they should appoint commanders to lead it. 10 When you march up to attack a city, first make them an offer of peace. 11 If they accept your offer and open their gates to you, all the people of that city will become your slaves and work for you. 12 But if they do not make peace with you and fight you in battle, you should surround that city. 13 The Lord your God will give it to you. Then kill all the men with your swords, 14 and you may take everything else in the city for yourselves. Take the women, children, and animals, and you may use these things the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 Do this to all the cities that are far away, that do not belong to the nations nearby. 16 But leave nothing alive in the cities of the land the Lord your God is giving you. 17 Completely destroy these people: the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, [ "ites" = Nephilim / Rephaim ] as the Lord your God has commanded. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you what they do for their gods, and if you do these hateful things, you will sin against the Lord your God. 19 If you surround and attack a city for a long time, trying to capture it, do not destroy its trees with an ax. You can eat the fruit from the trees, but do not cut them down. These trees are not the enemy, so don’t make war against them. 20 But you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build devices to attack the city walls, until the city is captured.

Loss of the Friend 

Russ Tenhoff 4/8/11

Like an abstract painting    you took your own interpretation

never even considered what the artist intended

In the recesses of the mind    Beyond all space and time

Your musings revealed the secret that gossips could feed and dine upon

With integrity gone you leaked acid    like rain to melt away the walls

for ears that were fast to listen   and so broke down years of friendship

To satisfy arrogance?

Just look what you have done

Was it worth the battle won?

Have you found your delight in our extinction?

Will the pain ever mend?                   

Me thinks not!

While its darkest before the dawn    and behold a light upon the horizon

Mercies are new every morning                and so a chance to be redeemed

Bow with me and pray

Forgive Rejoice!

Sacrifice your soul on the altar of repentance

Let us have done with the bitterness of strife

Bring the healing balm of Gilead

Keep company with contentment     and a blessing

Institution of Marriage?

That is part of the problem right there… God did not “institute” anything.

It is a matter of perspective – Mans or Gods -

Institutions are the works of men and they always eventually fail.

To call marriage an institution is to demote it to the realm of governing [political] men and undermine the beautiful "type and shadow" of what our loving God intended.

That's a reason why we see 50 - 65% of "marriages failing even in the body of Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter [of the Law], but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. First some definitions… Institution; are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior." As structures or mechanisms of social order, they govern the behavior of a set of individuals as prescribed by a governing body that eventually become a form of government in and of themselves. Marriage; the relationship that exists between a husband and a wife. [Living out the covenant in day to day life] after they have made a covenant agreement. The “Art of Marriage” is the proper authority relationship in the home and the considerations towards each others needs. Covenant; found in the Pentateuch or Torah, A covenant is a sacred agreement between God and a person or group of people. God sets specific conditions, and He promises to bless us as we obey those conditions. When we choose not to keep covenants, we cannot receive the blessings, and in some instances we suffer a penalty as a consequence of our disobedience. The 1st recorded “marriage” Adam & Eve? God specifically created Eve [the wife] from the DNA of Adam a FEMALE to be his companion and pro create. -

Mark 10:8  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. [a Paraclete – one who comes alongside]. God did not “marry” them. He didn’t even officiate. Adam accepted God’s gift and said his own vows making a Covenant Agreement with Eve; Genesis 2:23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” – After that Covenant Agreement [promise], the “marriage” [working out the agreement throughout their lives] began. Marriage is between ONE man and ONE woman, a HUSBAND and WIFE ONLY!

You can have contracts with whomever you want. A government can even issue a “Civil Agreement”. They shouldn’t. To do so brings a judgment from the creator. Historically, God ordained [ordained=appointed ] marriage based on a covenant agreement between individuals. It has unparalleled historical precedence for thousands of years and to define it any other way is just plain unnatural. Romans 1:26-27 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. If “rules were meant to be broken”, isn’t it time to get back to God’s intentions for a Marriage? A COVENANT based on LOVE within the parameters of God’s perfect plan and not the laws of men that can be changed on a whim?

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Romans 1:18-32 God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

Happy Labor Day?

There is a biblical difference between
Work & Labor Owning vs. Owned… 
Rev. Russ Tenhoff

We  all should work with our hands Ecclesiastes 9:10 

Whatever work you do, do your best, because you are going to the grave, where there is no working, no planning, no knowledge, and no wisdom…    

Work is natural and fulfilling and rewarding…   

Proverbs22:29 Do you see people skilled in their work? They will work for kings, not for ordinary people.     

Psalm128:2 You will enjoy what you work for, and you will be blessed with good things.

Labor however is unnatural and the source of stress and pain in anything we endeavor to do.   Laboring at something is our effort to make something happen, produce something out of nothing.   It’s like a 2 year old trying to tell his daddy “I do it”.   We are not God... we can’t do that... hence the stress…    Job7:1-2 “People have a hard task on earth, and their days are like those of a laborer.   They are like a slave wishing for the evening shadows, like a laborer waiting to be paid.

Rest [Resting in God] is doing our work, whatever our work is and trusting in God’s provision [harvest] for the outcome…   Laboring is striving to accomplish a planned agenda or haphazard goal in our own strength.   No acknowledgement to our Father or dependency for His strength to get it done.    Not even any consideration for His desire in the matter.  But praying He will bless what "we" choose to do...  We can rest and have peace that Abba is helping us to reach His objective for us which will always benefit us for His Glory.    A hard head [stiffed neck] fool will keep beating that laborious dead horse thinking that if I only “work” hard enough, “labor & toil”, will I achieve what “I” want….

Isaiah 58:6 “I will tell you the kind of fast I want:   Free the people you have put in prison [Physical - Mental - Emotional jail, oppression, subjugation, anguish] unfairly and undo their chains.   Free those to whom you are unfair and stop their hard labor.

The Curse;

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food.   Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

Ecclesiastes2:18 So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor.

2:19 Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile!

2:20 So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

2:21 For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over the fruit of his labor as an inheritance to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice!

2:22 What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?

2:23 For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!

The Commission;

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Do all you can to live a peaceful life.  Take care of your own business, and do your own work as we have already told you.  If you do, then people who are not believers will respect you, and you will not have to depend on others for what you need.

The Promise;

Luke 4:18

“The Lord has put his Spirit in me, because he appointed me to tell the Good News to the poor.   He has sent me to tell the captives they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again.   God sent me to free those who have been treated unfairly       [SEE ALSO:  Isaiah 61:1 & Isaiah 58:6]

Matthew 11:28-29

“Come to me,all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest.   Accept my teachings and learn from me,because I am gentle and humble in spirit, and you will find rest for your lives.

The Redemption;

Hebrews 4:11

Let us try as hard as we can to enter God’s rest so that no one will fail by following the example of those who refused to obey.

Matthew 25:21

The master answered, ‘You did well.   You are a good and loyal servant.   Because you were loyal with small things, I will let you care for much greater things.   Come and share my joy [rest] with me.’

Galatians 6:9

We must not become tired of doing good.   We will receive our harvest of eternal life at the right time if we do not give up.'

God never said;    I help those who help themselves…      But He did say; “I am your EVER PRESENT help”

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. - Psalm 127:2

Rest in your work, don’t labor in life….

An antidote:

SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?" DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?" SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?" DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?" SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" DAD: "If you must know, I make $10.00 an hour." SON: "Oh! (With his head down). SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow $5.00?"

The father was furious.

DAD: "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior."

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think:

Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $ 5.00 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.

DAD: "Are you asleep, son?"

SON: "No daddy, I'm awake". DAD: "I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier. It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $5.00 you asked for."

The little boy sat straight up, smiling.

SON: "Oh, thank you daddy!"

Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

DAD: "Why do you want more money if you already have some?"

SON: "Because I didn't have enough, but now I do.

"Daddy, I have $10.00 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you." The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness. It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that $10.00 worth of your time with someone you love? If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family and friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.

Some things are more important... REST

We were created and intended as 
"Beings {IMAGERS} of Light"

"and creation with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced offspring of the same kind. 
And God saw that it was good.  Genesis 1:12

Most people talk about our sin [what separates us from God] as being a behavior... I say it was a behavior, a bad decision that caused us to corrupt our "made in the image of God" bodies and even changed our DNA. That's what separates us from him, that's what the state of being in "sin" [separation] is. We no longer have that glorified body, so fellowship with Him has been broken.

That's why the Bible says: we are born in sin

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart [DNA] is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned [fallen] and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world [changed our Godly DNA], and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned [are corrupted]

Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [The bloodline from Adam]

The "sin" in inherent literally in our "seed" DNA passed down from generation to generation

Genesis 4:25

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Genesis 12:7

And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

Psalm 126:6

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

Job 39:12

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

Haggai 2:19

Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

Proverbs 11:21

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Isaiah 66:22

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Matthew 13:37-38

He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

Scripture is very clear concerning the "seed" of the man... The bible equates each "seed" as though it is already a life with all of the destiny of that life... It is clear that the use / spillage of that "seed" for any purpose other that procreation is a waste... Would God want us to waste a life? Methods of "birth control" were practiced in ancient times but God said to be "fruitful and multiply".

We are to be "salt & Light: Salt is the flesh, Light is the Spirit...

Jesus has repaired the breach and made a way so that one day we will be with him again at that Blessed Hope with our new glorified bodies. Just a thought to ponder, is the sin that separates us from God a behavior or an action? or, is it a DNA change to our now mortal bodies because of the behavior or action and continuous bad decisions from the garden that does not allow us to walk with him in the cool of the day until his return?

atthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, [re spiritually infused] and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

 Corinthians 15:39-54

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

John 3:1-21 1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,[take on His Spirit to rejuvenate] he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

If you don't believe what you see, how can you believe what is unseen;

The Spiritual Realm, the "estate" of the heavenliest, the Angelic dimensions]

13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 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.

We were created and intended as "Beings of Light"

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.

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt [human beings/flesh] of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

 Princes of the Air

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio
 than are dreamt of in your philosophy".

Ephesians 6:12 Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world.

Obadiah 1:4 Even if you fly high like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

Job20:4-11 4 “You know how it has been fora long time, ever since people were first put on the earth.

5 The happiness of evil people is brief, and the joy of the wicked lasts only a moment.

6 Their pride may be as high as the heavens, and their heads may touch the clouds, 7 but they will be gone forever, like their own dung. People who knew them will say,‘Where are they?’ 8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found again; they will be chased away like a vision in the night. 9 Those who saw them will not see them again; the places where they lived will see them no more. 10 Their children will have to pay back the poor,and they will have to give up their wealth. 11 They had the strength of their youth in their bones, but it will lie with them in the dust of death.

Isaiah14:12-15 12 King of Babylon, morningstar, you have fallen from heaven, even though you were as bright as the rising sun! In the past all the nations on earth bowed down before you, but now you have been cut down. 13 You told yourself, “I will go up to heaven. I will put my throne above God’s stars. I will sit on the mountain of the gods, on the slopes of the sacred mountain. 14 I will go up above the tops of the clouds.I will be like God Most High.” 15 But you were brought down to the grave, to the deep places where the dead are.

Jeremiah 51:53 Even if Babylon grows until she touches the sky, and even if she makes her highest cities strong, I will send people to destroy her,” says the Lord.

Amos 9:2 If they dig down as deep as the place of the dead,I will pull them up from there. If they climb up into heaven, I will bring them down from there.

Psalm 139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are there.

 Secondary
Born Again] Virginity

I have preached on this... 
How God can and does restore everything...
EXCERPTS;Gladys Wangwiro & Katie McKinney

Galatians 6:1-3 6 Brothers and sisters, if someone in your group does something wrong, you who are spiritual should go to that person and gently help make him right again. But be careful, because you might be tempted to sin, too. 2 By helping each other with your troubles, you truly obey the law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks he is important when he really is not, he is only fooling himself.

How to Start Over If You’ve Lost Your Virginity

Secondary virginity [Born Again Virginity] is a decision to abstain from sexual activity, starting with today and continuing until the day you get married. It’s an opportunity to start over. Your physical virginity may be lost, but virginity is more than just a physical state. It’s an attitude, a frame of mind. It’s manifested in the way you look at yourself and others.

Secondary virginity is a time to change bad habits and heal past wounds. It allows you to clean and renew yourself prior to marriage.

Why do people choose Secondary Virginity?

Young adults say...

“I didn’t like being used.”

“We were so much into sex that we never became friends.”

“Just because I made a mistake doesn’t mean I have to keep on making the same mistakes.”

“I’m going to wait because I have hurt a lot of people as well as myself and I want to change my life for the best, for me and for my future children.”

Steps to Becoming a Secondary Virgin

1) Make a firm commitment to save yourself for marriage from now on, and believe you can do it. (Because you can!)

2) Get away from people, places, things and situations that weaken your self-control.Sometimes the healthiest thing we can do is avoid people who tempt us.

3) Avoid intense hugging, passionate kissing and anything else that leads to lustful thoughts and behavior. Anything beyond a brief, simple kiss can quickly become dangerous.

4) Find non-physical ways to show your love and appreciation.

5) Remember that anyone can start over. Including you! When you focus on commitment and self-discipline, you can control your impulses

Jesus always makes a way for us to start again...

Pastor Russ:

On A Physical NOTE

Human skin is an amazing organ -- protective, waterproof, and exceedingly useful. It's also constantly changing and regenerating itself. That said, what happens to dead skin cells? You might be a little grossed out to find out where they go and just how many you lose each day.

Your skin is composed of several layers. The layer you can see is called the epidermis. It's composed of cells made of keratin, a hard substance that also forms your hair and nails. The individual cells are called keratinocytes [source: National Geographic].

New keratinocytes grow at the lowest level of the epidermis, which bonds with the next layer, the dermis. The new skin cells gradually push their way to the to player. When they reach the top, they die and are "weathered" by the environment and your daily activities. The top "dead" layer is called the stratum corneum. Eventually, the dead cells break away from the epidermis and fall off, making room for newer cells growing up from below. It takes roughly one month for new cells to get all the way to the top layer, meaning the skin you have a month from today will be completely new compared to the skin you have now.

If you're wondering exactly how many skin cells fall off, get ready for some staggering numbers. Scientists estimate that the human body is made up of around 10 trillion cells in total. Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells [source: BBC]. Of course, this estimate can vary tremendously according to a person's size. The important thing is that you have a lot of skin cells. Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 of them fall off every hour. Over a 24-hour period, you lose almost a million skin cells [source: Boston Globe].

Where do they all go? The dust that collects on your tables, TV, windowsills and on those picture frames that are so hard to get clean is made mostly from dead human skin cells. In other words, your house is filled with former bits of yourself.In one year, you'll shed more than 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) of dead skin. It gets even grosser: Your house is also filled with trillions of microscopic lifeforms called dust mites that eat your old dead skin.

So What am I Trying to Say?

Leviticus 12

Rules for New Mothers

[Rules for Purification after blood discharged from intercourse,ministration or birth]

Old Testament provision for Purification;

12 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the people of Israel this: ‘If a woman gives birth to a son, she will become unclean for seven days, as she is unclean during her monthly period. 3 On the eighth day the boy must be circumcised. 4 Then it will be thirty-three days before she becomes clean from her loss of blood. She must not touch anything that is holy or enter the Holy Tent until her time of cleansing is finished. 5 But if she gives birth to a daughter, the mother will be unclean for two weeks, as she is unclean during her monthly period. It will be sixty-six days before she becomes clean from her loss of blood.

6 “‘After she has a son or daughter and her days of cleansing are over, the new mother must bring certain sacrifices to the Meeting Tent. She must give the priest at the entrance a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a dove or young pigeon for a sin offering. 7 He will offer them before the Lord to make her clean so she will belong to the Lord again; then she will be clean from her loss of blood. These are the teachings for a woman who gives birth to a boy or girl.

8 “‘If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make her clean so she will belong to the Lord again, and she will be clean.’” {JESUS is all the LAMB you'll EVER need}

Your new abstinence is designed by God and HIS Grace allows for even a physical restoration.

Rituals still carried out are those related to nidda [Minstrel Period], according to which a menstruating woman must avoid contact with her husband, especially avoiding sexual contact,and may only resume contact after she has first immersed herself fully in a mikvah [Purification] of living water seven days after her menstruation has ceased.

In FACT, though your Hyman may be lost, with no activity over so many months, the vaginal area can seal up again [clot] reproducing bleeding for intercourse with your husband to come....

Like the sin, the skin is sloughed off for a Spiritual & Physical Purification...

The door is not more important than the house... The door is created to protect the contents of the house... In the same way, the Hyman is a door to the womb... It is not the womb nor the most important. It is just a door... But after the door is removed, better care and due diligence is needed to protect the contents!

It is important to note that you can loose your Hyman [virginity?] through accidents, vigorous sports and other activities excluding sex... What do we say to these women? The resulting effect is the same though they kept themselves pure... A woman who has a miscarriage suffers the same as one who has an abortion... They both suffer loss and both still need GRACE.

Go and sin no more...

God made away... Jesus saved the day...

2 Corinthians 5:16 From this time on we do not think of anyone as the world does. In the past we thought of Christ as the world thinks, but we no longer think of him in that way. 17 If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone; everything is made new! 18 All this is from God. Through Christ, God made peace between us and himself, and God gave us the work of telling everyone about the peace we can have with him. Lamentations 3:21 But I have hope when I think of this: 22 The Lord’s love never ends; his mercies never stop. 23 They are new every morning; Lord, your loyalty is great. 24 I say to myself, “The Lord is mine, so I hope in him.” Isaiah 1:18 The Lord says, “Come, let us talk about these things. Though your sins are like scarlet, they can be as white as snow. Though your sins are deep red [blood], they can be white like wool. 19 If you become willing and obey me, you will eat good crops from the land. Isaiah 58:11-12 The Lord will always lead you. He will satisfy your needs in dry lands and give strength to your bones. You will be like a garden that has much water, like a spring that never runs dry.12 Your people will rebuild the old cities that are now in ruins; you will rebuild their foundations. You will be known for repairing the broken places and for rebuilding the roads and houses. Romans 5:19 One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. In the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made right. 20 The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God’s grace increased. 21 Sin once used death to rule us, but God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord. None of this is an opinion... Scripture tells us of our Forgiveness and Salvation from ALL sin... Just because you don't understand something, doesn't make you right... It makes you ignorant... 

Hebrews 4:12 God’s word is alive and working and is sharper than a double-edged sword. It cuts all the way into us, where the soul and the spirit are joined, to the center of our joints and bones. And it judges the thoughts and feelings in our hearts. 13 Nothing in all the world can be hidden from God. Everything is clear and lies open before him, and to him we must explain the way we have lived. 14 Since we have a great high priest, Jesus the Son of God, who has gone into heaven, let us hold on to the faith we have. 15 For our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he did not sin. 16 Let us, then, feel very sure that we can come before God’s throne where there is grace. There we can receive mercy and grace to help us when we need it. Psalm 73:21 When my heart was sad and I was angry, 22 I was senseless and stupid. I acted like an animal toward you. 23 But I am always with you; you have held my hand. 24 You guide me with your advice, and later you will receive me in honor. 25 I have no one in heaven but you; I want nothing on earth besides you. 26 My body and my mind may become weak, but God is my strength. He is mine forever.

Thank you Father that You have made a way to remove ALL shame beyond ANY shadow of a doubt through Jesus Your son....

Ref; How to Start Over If You’ve Lost Your Virginity Gladys Wangwiro & Katie McKinney

https://www.facebook.com/abstinenceuntilmarriage

 Why Is The Second Amendment 
So Important To Our Enemies

The 2nd Amendment isn't so much a right as it is a responsibility...
If you are a Christian, an American, you must defend Life, Liberty Hearth & Home. 
The Constitution ensures the right to be responsible.

Ephesians chapter 6 says that we wrestle not with flesh and blood but with powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places. We are also told that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but powerful and able down strong holds. Clearly praying, intercession and the gift of tongues, our spiritual language, are powerful weapons in the heavenly realms that are effectual and activate God’s holy Angels to move on our behalf against the princes of darkness...

But on a more practical side we are told that in the last days will be as it was in the days of Noah and Lot. Specifically were talking about the debauchery, cannibalism, interbreeding, chimeras, genetic manipulations and re-engineering and 'giants" [Titans, gods, Nephilim, Satyr's, Dryad's, Imp's, Cyclopes, Minotaur's, etc....] . They're not called Fairy Myths, they're called "Fairy Tails" IE; stories about "Fairy Encounters". Since many of us believe the Scripture to be all true we believe that we will see the resurgence of these creatures in these last days. Revelation 9:3 - "Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power" for example. Even Jesus told his disciples in Luke 22:36 - " "But now," he said, "take your money and a traveler's [bugout] bag. And if you don't have a sword [gun], sell your cloak and buy one!"

Many of us are aware of the frontal assault that is getting bolder and bolder against Israel, Christians, the United States in particularity our Second Amendment and its citizens who hold to the Constitution that was designed to protect us from these powers that be, the powers that want to be and the powers that are coming again. Revelation 12:12 - "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhibiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time". We are not fighting against liberals, socialist, communist, politicians, bleeding hearts or idealistic love children. We are not even wrestling against our enemies foreign or domestic.

Again, we do not fight against flesh and blood… That being said there are spiritual principalities that are driving this move to disarm us because of our Christian heritage which has taught us and will compel us to recognize our true enemies when they manifest themselves [Transhumanism, Ancient Alien Theory, Globalism]. A "One World Government" is God's intention but what is the motive of the entity that is trying to dominate and influence it in these days?... Scripture is pretty clear that the giants, demons and other entities will manifest themselves in these last days and while we will depend on our spiritual weapons, we will also need to take up arms against the physical manifestations of some of these entities.

These things that are waiting to be released from the bowels of the earth and the depths of the oceans are aware of everything that is occurring on this entire globe. Their number one primary threat to their success is the nation of Israel and the United States. Because those of us who truly believe in the validity of the Bible and the prophecies of things that are to come, they know we will take up arms and fight them with the courage of David against Goliath. We have an example in that battle not only to stop Goliath in his tracks but make sure we take out everything associated with him. It will be our intention to leave none alive. These entities are afraid of our ferociousness against what they represent, our loyalty to Christ and since those of us who truly understand the repercussions know that they are not redeemable by the mandate of God himself, they know that our moral compass would compel us for the benefit of all mankind to subdue, overtake and destroy every last semblance of their infiltration of the earth.

We are being attacked on every front concerning our self-awareness, our belief in God, our mandates to love our neighbors as ourselves and be our brother’s keeper which includes taking up arms to defend life limb and even property. I find it interesting that there are technological advances and a strong push to move us towards non-lethal weaponry including changes in the design and manufacture of ammunition in order to make it less lethal. The .223 round for example was designed with the tactic in mind to wounded not kill necessarily. The thinking was that if we wound one soldier at least two and maybe as many as four other soldiers would have to help that wounded soldier off the field so in essence you’re eliminating up to five soldiers instead of one. As a strategy, that does make some sense but to me this is one example of a backdoor to disarming or making ineffective our ability to take down creatures that would need a minimum 50 caliber to be effective.

Make no mistake about it, the underworld in the heavenly realms which are about to manifest themselves again on the earth and what really amounts to a full on frontal assault on mankind and especially those who serve the living God, know the story of David and Goliath and the stories of Joshua and Caleb in the Levant and how they were chased literally to the utter ends of the earth even "amongst the Stars". They understand very well that when we are strong in the Lord in the power of his might and armed to the teeth that they are in danger of losing their life. For them, being killed is the endgame. They have no eternal life, they cannot be redeemed nor according to God’s holy word will they ever be restored to their station. And even though we believe that they become demonic entities once their body is killed, Christ himself will imprison them. Make no mistake they understand what is at stake for them in the future of their survival. They understand that they had everything to lose but everything to gain if they can subjugate us and mock God with our destruction.

Finally brethren be strong in the Lord in the power of his might. Face your fear and accept your war. Do not be weary in well doing…

My Personal Crest 

The Crest of Pastor Russ His Calling:.. 
I was “Created for Whatever Endeavor” so the Lord may task His Purpose: To TEACH TRUTH

His Purpose:

To TEACH TRUTH

To MOTIVATE others to that TRUTH

To ADMONISH all to follow Christ

A Servant... With the Anointing of David The Skill of Asaph A Heart towards the Father Singing for an audience of [the] ONE I am a Worshiper

TOP LEFT TOP RIGHT

Guitar & Tambourine Wife & Children

David & Asaph Father & Husband

The Prophetic WARship Leader Head of Household

BOTTOM LEFT BOTTOM RIGHT

Watchman of the Gate American Patriot

Constant Communion Constitutionalist

Servant of the Most High Hunter Provider

MISSION:

ISAIAH 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Dwayne Saunders;

Even though you have been drained dry by circumstances

The Lord says that you do have the power to speak to the mountain that’s in your mouth, the word of God is nigh you even in your mouth.

I hear the Lord saying that circumstances are going to change that He is taking the spirit of false starts off of you that you will not have another false start. He’s not going to give you a false hope. That He is going to absolutely establish and stabilize your life. And though right now you feel like you have been pulled through a knot hole backwards and that the very life force has been ripped out of you. I hear God saying ‘Son, do what you know, do what you know, do what I taught you. Stand in the midst of it and declare my word,declare my word, declare my word, it’s going to change, it’s going to change,change is coming I’m going to restore your joy.

The depression that you are carrying, the heaviness, the weightiness,it’s circumstantial. The Lord says I am changing your circumstances. I am going to show up and I’m going to show out and I’m going to show you who God really is. I am going to let you know that I am with you I have not forsaken you I have not forgotten you, you are not by yourself its ok, its ok.

So I hear the Lord saying stop reaching to man to rescue you reach tome reach to me. It is a season of deliverance for you, I am going to restore your joy… and with the force that the oppression has come upon you that’s the level of praise I am going to release in your life. I am going to put a dance in your feet a shout in your mouth a victory in your spirit and it’s going to be tangible for you… it’s going to show up in your circumstances. You’re coming out of the desert your coming out of the dry season, your coming out of your desert, your coming out your coming out your coming out.

The Lord says I’m not going to just send you a trickle I’m going to put you in the river I’m going to absolutely overflow all of your circumstances all of these circumstances and in doing so I’m going to stabilize you establish you give you peace bring peace back to your life. So we pray that over you in Jesus Name.

God we pray that you would just restore his heart, Lord remove out of him a spirit of anger, he’s got angry because of all that’s gone on, he’s feeling like he’s just been victimized, victimized all of his choices taken away. No ability to fix it no ability to do anything just helpless. God give him peace in the Name of Jesus remove this from him, give him peace, comfort him where he hasn’t been able to be comforted and let him know that You are real.

The enemy meant to bring these things to you to try to absolutely shake your very foundation and the faith that you have in God, it was meant to destroy your walk to pull you away from the Spirit of God. When God says I have a better plan, I have a better plan... So Lord we pray this, in Jesus Name, we seal this over him, thank you for the call that’s on this brother, Lord just clarify it, and we give You praise. Right now You are visiting his house, while he’s here, visiting his house, visiting his house.

Annette was talking earlier about the miracles God we know that standing before us is a man who’s going to represent what it really means to have a miracle visit your house, so we pray the miracle power of God the shaking anointing that would come and just uproot everything the enemy has done, (YES LORD) give him peace and help him sleep Lord, just let him sleep and rest to his soul, rest to his spirit.

Thank you for it thank you for it (thank You Lord Jesus)

(Russ: thank You Lord, thank You Lord, I receive Your Word Father)

give him relief give him relief Lord.

Katherine Black;

Now Lord I see a huge sword in his back and in the name of Christ I pull that sword out of betrayal and I say let the wounding meld by the power of the Holy Spirit happen, let that wounding that has happened to him bring a strength Lord, a strength in battle that no other person that has been allowed to impart to him and let that battle strength of David, let that battle strength come, that strength that can bring forth giants, that strength that can take down giants, I’m asking for the strength of David to come upon this man that warrior strength, Father, that will be able to have him kill the giants of the land and of his family and are after his family, in Christ’s Name, for His Honor and Glory.

Now I’m going to make a shout over you: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You Lord.

(Dwayne: Hallelujah)

Dwayne (and others singing);

‘Behold He comes riding on the clouds shining like the Sun at the trumpet call lift your voice it’s the year of jubilee (Russ: I do believe, Lord) out of Zion’s hill salvation comes. (Russ:Hallelujah) Behold He comes riding on the clouds (Russ starts singing) shining like the sun at the trumpet call lift your voice it’s the year of jubilee out of Zion’s hill salvation comes.’

Russ’s Word 2

Sunday September 16, 2012

Dwayne;

Russ, would you come down…

Stand right here…

I am surrounding you with the man of God…

The Lord says I’m canceling the enemy’s plans over your life… [Shouts of Glory]

You’ve been thru so much, yet, it’s amazing that you’ve even held on...It really is… But you’ve trusted. You’ve trusted when, when you haven’t felt it... But the Lord says I’m canceling the enemy’s plans… In a big way… In a mighty way… In fact, He says, son, you’re gonna know that you serve a God of miracles… Your gonna know it… You are going to know that you serve a God of miracles… But the Lord says that I require something of you… I require that you change your mind… About how you think,where you think you are… who you think you are… The Lord says I require of you humility… I’m not calling your pastorship, but I’m calling you son… The pastor is what you do, the son is who you are… The Lord says I need you to identify with being a son so that you can reap the rewards of son ship… And God, I hear the Lord saying He’s stopping the havoc of hell in your life… [Hallelujah… He, Oh come-on ya’ll need to pray] Stopping the havoc of hell… in your life… We break every demonic power… We break the yoke in the name Jesus… Oh! [speaking in tongues] …the clouds over his mind… Put your hands on his head, touch his head… touch his head… touch his head… We speak to your mind… We speak to your mind in the name of Jesus… Oh God! Oh Clear it up Lord…Clear it up Lord… Oh God don’t talk thru a theology, talk to his spirit… talk to his spirit… Begin Lord, we stir up the gift in you in the name of Jesus… And we break the yoke of oppression off of your family, off of your circumstances,off of your finances, but in the name of Jesus, we break poverty off of you in the name of Jesus… You won’t leave here like you came, we break the power of these things off you and we speak in the name of Jesus… Lord we thank You for the job that is more than enough… We thank You God that he can stand on his own two feet… God I thank you for provision Lord, not just temporary stuff God, but You begin to establish and sustain him Lord, and give him consistency in the name of Jesus and then God, and only then, let the gift come out of him and let him be used in You. But Lord we pray for establishment in the name of Jesus…

[Yes Lord… Yes Lord… Yes Lord…]

The Lord says it’s time for repentance… God says I’ve been talkin to you… and it’s time for you to humble yourself… {I’m gonna move out from in front of you, I want you to get on your knees… not in front of me but in front of God… I want you to bow, get on your knees… Yes… Worship Him… Let the Spirit of brokenness for worship… touch him…touch him… brokenness…}

We speak brokenness over your life… in the name of Jesus… Lord, the kind of brokenness that puts us back together not tears us apart… Oh God fix with grace in the name of Jesus… Oh… [speaking in tongues] Oh break it, break it , break it, break it… God help him to no longer live like this, to be like this, Lord let him know that You are his God… Ahhh God, change every circumstance, every situation Lord God… As he bows before You in the name of Jesus, Lord God… Oh God change his thoughts, his mind… We thank You God…Oh God, replace hope where he’s lost it… Give him hope where there’s hopelessness, give him hope, hope, we speak hope, hope over you, hope over your life… Hope, hope, hope, hope… God, help him to detach from the idea of ministry and to attach to the idea of being a son…Oh God, it’s more important that You show him what it is to be fathered by God... And in out of the establishment… out of what you know… ministry will flow… God {so men, just speak provision over him… Speak provision men , just say provision, provision in the name of Jesus…} Provision, provision,provision, provision… Oh Jehovah Jirah, Oh, Provision, provision, provision,provision… Oh God, provision, provision… Heal his self esteem Lord God… Oh in the name of Jesus… Help us God, this is Your son, you love him, Your crazy about him… Oh God, let hear Your heart! Health is man! Heal this man! Heal him Lord God… Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh                [Speaking in tongues]

John;

Father we release your abundance Father God, Your grace, Your supply Father tonight Lord God… Father we break the power of shame Lord God… Ah the enemy tries to shame us Lord God but You restore us Lord… Restore our brother Father God to confidence Lord… As we release Lord You provision Father in his life Father… It will be by Your hand Lord, not by the hand of man Father… He’ll see and stand still and see Your salvation and see Your deliverance Lord and see Your miraculous supply… as only You can do and he’ll know it’s by your hand Lord… As you’ve provided for Your people thru the years, Father you’ll provide for our brother, Father, brother Russ… [speaking in tongues] Yes Jesus… And he will give you praise… Yes Jesus [speaking in tongues] Yes… yes… yes... You seethe sparrows Lord… You said consider the lilies of the field, they don’t toil but they grow… Lord, You said consider the fowls of the air, that they don’t gather into barns but You feed them every day… You feed the entire globe of every, of the animal kingdom… Lord, our brother, we are much more better, You said we’re much more worth then the sparrows Lord, Father you supply… Russ Lord and his family… [speaking in tongues] As we trust… in Jesus name, in Jesus name,name that’s above every name… Praise Your holy name…

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Lord, ah help Russ to forgive… Lord that he forgiveness Lord… in his heart… Lord not of a vindictiveness, Lord for those that have done him wrong…But Lord let him cast all his cares, his concerns, his worries, his anxieties…All of these things upon you, You can take em… Lord You said, that he so should, he come unto, all come, come unto me all yea that are heavy laden, Lord that You could give us rest… Lord that he can take that yoke that he’s been carrying around and he can place that yoke on you… Your yoke is easy and Your burdens are light… Lord… Lord that he doesn’t hold any vindictiveness… or Lord any bitterness or resentment or any of these different things in his heart toward others Lord… You said forgive others… You said forgive Lord… that he would have forgiveness in his heart… Lord that he would release those Lord that have done him wrong… Lord that he receive total and complete healing of every thing! Lord, You are the God of restoration… that You would bring restoration, thank you for the restoration… yes Lord… Father, Lord, what he once had, Lord we’re gonna make that even a thousand ah, more of what he had Lord…all we ask of him is to forgive in Jesus name… Jesus name… thank you Lord…amen…glory… hallelujah

Wednesday 4:25pm

Julie Johnson

they went to the Lord on your behalf last night and this is what 1 prophetess said...your former wife the Lord separated from you because she was greedy

also, you will be wealthy

I should have said" was removed from you because she was greedy"

you will increase, as you increase she will decrease. otherwise she would have never left you alone for monetary things

this is why "touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm."

God has already taken care of the loan, He has seen your tears because you have been constantly crying to Him .day and night

blessings,  Julie

Chain-link VS. Bullseye Theology...

KUDOS to an old dear friend Rev. Al Shewbridge 
ELIM Bible College Professor who initiated this insight. 

How we view Theology among the brethren will determine how we get along and our effectiveness within our cooperation with each other to get the Mission of the Gospel out. Psalm 133: 1 It is good and pleasant when God’s people live together in peace! 2 It is like perfumed oil poured on the priest’s head and running down his beard. It ran down Aaron’s beard and on to the collar of his robes. 3 It is like the dew of Mount Hermon falling on the hills of Jerusalem. There the Lord gives his blessing of life forever.

There are two basic views on relational Theology between denominations. That view will allow us to work together for the common cause of the Message of the Gospel or it will be the source of constant division and even animosity between churches and severely hamstring the ministry efforts in any community. CHAINLINK Theology: In chainlink Theology our view and belief systems are each hung on one individual LINK which make up the whole chain... "Tis a ponderous chain," heavy, long and complicated... In order to have unity, we MUST stay connected [Amos 3:3 Two people will not walk together unless they have agreed to do so.] The problem with "Chainlink Theology" is that if any one of the links are broken, the whole chain looses it's integrity and whatever you were trying to pull along is now no longer connected and so everything stops moving until it can be replaced or fixed... If it can... [Proverbs 18:19 A brother who has been insulted is harder to win back than a walled city, and arguments separate people like the barred gates of a palace.]

For example, take any point of belief, a link, such as... KJV vs. NKJV or NASB, NIV, NCV or maybe Communion vs. Eucharist or Immersion vs. Sprinkle Sprinkle or JESUS Only vs. Trinity or Belief Only [Confession] vs. Belief & Baptized or Tongues vs. Silence or Women Preachers vs. Silent in the Church... It goes on and on and on and on and on........... Isaiah 1:18-19 The Lord says, “Come, let us talk about these things. Though your sins [missing the mark] are like scarlet, they can be as white as snow. Though your sins are deep red, they can be white like wool. 19 If you become willing and obey me, you will eat good crops from the land.] We usually whip each other with the chain and leave each other bloody! We should never mix the Gospel with other religious forms. We are NOT Wicca, Buddhist, Islamic, Taoist, New Age or any of the like... We are supposed to be JESUS followers... [Allah is NOT YAHWEH] As such, we are admonished to [Romans 12:18 Do your best to live in peace with everyone.] If we are bickering over the various doctrines & dogmas of our Faith, we are loosing the fight and missing the mark [sinning]... All of us are failing.... BULLSEYE Theology; I like "Bullseye" Theology for its concentric approach and condensed focus on the true source of the Message... Namely JESUS! [ I also hunt, so hitting the mark is important to me ] In "Bullseye" Theology, The mark, The Bullseye, Dead Center, is Christ and Him crucified... That is the focal point... The Center... The most [only] important thing. There are many other important points of Theology on the target, but they are NOT as important as this ONE fact! other issues may arise and need to be worked out but if we can agree here, we will be able to lay aside any other differences and so "touch & agree" on this ONE point and bring unity within the whole Body of Christ. LET me be very clear on this one point.. No Jesus, No Salvation... Know Jesus, Know Salvation... [ The reason you aim for the "Bulls Eye" is because it is very difficult to penetrate a bulls hard head... So you shoot it in the eye {it's place of vision} to disrupt its brain and kill what it wants to do or where it wants to go. ] On a typical target, you have a dead center [bullseye] and that is the goal... But the rings extend further and further out of the target until the points are wort less and less. I'm not saying they're not important or worth discussion, I'm saying none of them come close enough to the "Bullseye" to cause any divisions. The issues that cause us to argue are "THE" distraction which prevent us all from getting along and so we all miss the mark in doing the work. [1 Corinthians 9:24 You know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize. So run to win!] [1 Timothy 1:6 Some people have missed [the mark {sin}] these things and turned to useless talk.] If we keep our "eye on the prize" [JESUS] we all have a goal to aim for. So the other issues or belief's are lesser points as the rings spread out further and further. But the integrity of our relationships will remain intact because we are all on the same target... Let's stop being preoccupied with issues that don't mean as much. [Luke 10:42 Only one thing is important. Mary has chosen the better thing, and it will never be taken away from her.”] [1 Corinthians 12:12 A person’s body is one thing, but it has many parts. Though there are many parts to a body, all those parts make only one body. Christ is like that also.] [Hebrews 12:1 12 We are surrounded by a great cloud of people whose lives tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that is before us and never give up. We should remove from our lives anything that would get in the way and the sin that so easily holds us back. ] [Philippians 1:27 Only one thing concerns me: Be sure that you live in a way that brings honor to the Good News of Christ. Then whether I come and visit you or am away from you, I will hear that you are standing strong with one purpose, that you work together as one for the faith of the Good News,] Why the debate?;

Proverbs 27:17

As iron sharpens iron, so people can improve each other.

Proverbs 18:17

The person who tells one side of a story seems right, until someone else comes and asks questions.

Proverbs 9:8-10

8 Do not correct those who make fun of wisdom, or they will hate you. But correct the wise, and they will love you. 9 Teach the wise, and they will become even wiser; teach good people, and they will learn even more. 10 “Wisdom begins with respect for the Lord, and understanding begins with knowing the Holy One.

Ephesians 4:18

They do not understand, and they know nothing, because they refuse to listen. So they cannot have the life that God gives.

Send in the KKClowns

A childhood memory of when the circus came to town.

One Hot Summer circa 1967 the day the Music Died, I can still vividly remember the day the music died in my neighborhood. Virtually overnight, people who were friendly and happy go lucky, sleeping in their yards on hot summer nights with doors and windows wide open to stay cool without any care that anyone would even think to enter someone else's home without being invited. Growing up on Romlet Ct. in the projects of Brooklyn Homes [South Baltimore] most of us were on welfare and public housing. What we now call Section 8. Back in that day, if you owned a fan, it was considered a luxury by DSS and if you could afford a fan or a TV, you didn't need welfare. There were no air conditioners.

One early very hot summer evening, as was our custom, my brothers my sister and myself were in the adjacent field playing and hanging out with some of our friends. All was right with the world and as most kids our age, we didn't have a care in the world, except maybe dinner. Baloney or fish sticks and macaroni, yum,NOT!     I remember the "War of the Worlds" opening lines... "we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space".   In our carefree youth, we never imagined the dark evil that was about to befall us.  We didn't even have the wherewithal to comprehend it. Our whole world was about to change with no explanation. Innocence lost forever.

Out of nowhere and out of character, we could hear mom calling us all to come home,come home right now. There was something urgent in her voice just as we were beginning to notice a commotion just up the street. I can’t be certain, but I believe she told us later that someone had called her to let her know what was about to happen. So, panicked for our safety, mom hurriedly ushered us into the house amid our crying and protest of having to come in way before bath and bedtime. I believe to protect us not only from physical harm, but psychologically from what we were about to see. Keep in mind, a very hot summer, no fans, no AC and we were shut in like a bunker and sent to our rooms to “run silent, run deep”. Doors bolted and windows shut and locked with all the shades drawn.

By now mom is really upset and we are just mad and hot in our stifling rooms when now we could hear what sounded like a marching band coming down the street. We rushed to the back window to look and see a parade with a bunch of people whooping and hollering with what looked like some clowns carrying a cross, an American flag and some other banners. We all started yelling to mom that it’s OK; it’s just a parade for the carnival! The circus is coming, please let us go back outside. All we heard back was “shut up and be quiet”…  She was very upset and clearly scared about something. Mom was not a woman to trifle with. In her youth she was offered a chance to be a woman wrestler and would beat up any of her sisters boyfriends that got out of hand.

So, we’re watching this event unfold with mixed emotions, excited that something new and different was happening in our neighborhood but confused by moms behavior. What we thought were clowns [I know now they were] stopped at a house the next block over and the crowd with them began to fill in the periphery of the yard. The band quit playing and everything got quiet for a minute or two. Then I could hear the lead clown with the pointy hat yelling something inaudible to us, at the house. A moment later, a large man came storming out of the house with his wife screaming behind him and trying futilely to drag him around the neck back into the house. They had just moved in a day or so before. Being kids, we didn’t notice that he was a black man. There was a lot of yelling and a very heated exchange but his wife convinced him to come back inside just as the police arrived.

The tension was growing and by now we clearly knew something wasn’t right with the whole thing. The police went to talk to the loudmouth clown and one officer went to the black man’s door. After several minutes, our black neighbor went back inside and the other officers backed up behind the crowd just as the sun was setting on not just the end of that day, but the end of life in our community as we knew it. On a soapbox, the lead clown in the pointy hat with the loudmouth and a KKK and red Maltese on his costume began to give a speech to the crowd. I couldn’t make out most of what he said but every once in a while I heard a word I didn’t understand like the “F” word and niggers and he talked about “white power”. Most of what he said didn’t make any sense to us and We had never seen this much drama on any TV show. I just remember feeling disgusted and very confused.

Growing up in Baltimore, of course I'd see lots of colored people. But they were just part of the scenery in the background all around us. I had befriended one or two at summer camp, school and day camps, but up til now, none on my block. The only thing beyond that, that I knew about was what we now call raciest, was some tootsie roll like candy we use to buy at the local Reeds Drug Store that everybody called "Nigger Babies" and our mom had often jokingly told us  "you can rub a little black boys head for good luck". That was the mindset of the culture back in that time. I don't remember hearing allot of the "N" word... Why were they all of the sudden such a threat? What was all the hoopla about? Why was everybody so upset, so angry, so afraid? At the time, I didn't understand the definition of hate or prejudice. I just have the vivid memory that I was sad loosing something... Innocence maybe? 
 

It was dark by now and we were glued to the window watching this all unfold. The whole crowd began to chant as a couple of the clowns put a cross in the front yard. Being a young and naive believer I thought how nice. I’m glad they’re making things right after all of the hostilities. But then to my shock, they lit the cross on fire. The glow lighting up the house and yard and the crowd and the police who were still standing in the background. I still remember the confusion I felt as I asked myself out loud “why are they doing that?”  The whole thing just felt so wrong. I never encountered hate before to my recollection. And then they began to sing “God Bless America”. What? Who are these people? Why are they doing this in my neighborhood? Why is everyone yelling and screaming and so afraid? Why are the cops just standing there? It was a spectacle never seen by us before.

After another speech by the hoodie and the cross fire went out, the crowd, festive but quietly disbursed and left along with the police and just that quick it was all over. Nothing left but a burnt spot on the lawn the next morning an a lingering unrest. About a week or so later, a second black family moved in a few blocks over in another court. We couldn’t see that one but that family too was traumatized as our community was again victimized by these thugs. And so that was that. Fear ran rampant throughout the whole projects. All of the streets, all of the alley’s, playgrounds and pools went dark. No more spending the night sleeping  in our yards to catch a summer breeze and some relief. No more hanging out at the sprinkler to cool off.  Not because a family or two of Negroes moved in, but because of hate and the fear and prejudice the Klan brought to our then peaceful niche in the world. I saw many improprieties by Baltimore City police officers towards black families for many years after all of this.
 

And that’s the day the music died in Brooklyn. I hope whoever invited the Ku Klux Klowns to our streets know what they hath wrought. I hope they have repented from their hatemongering and bigotry. I thank God the two black families survived and I hope they have done well. As for Brooklyn, specifically Brooklyn Homes, it was never the same after that day and she still hasn’t recovered from her wounds. This memory has been with me for over fifty years now. I get angry every time I think of it but I am grateful that the incident educated me early on to what the Klan and any group like them are all about. Brother’s keeper, live and let live, “love thy neighbor as thyself”… That’ll preach. This story is dedicated to my classmate Bridget Battle and the Rivers families who had to endure much.

Break Forth O Spring Dawn

[ The Resurrection ] 
Russ Tenhoff 3/27/10

Behold! Comes the dawn in all of its wondrous display.

Its splendor and vibrance illuminates the landscape

and fields of colors clothed in the flowers of spring.

Green are the meadows and un fallowed the earth

to receive the seed of new life.

Songs are heard again and the gentile coo of the morning dove.

Voices of creation sing the rebirth and warmth

sunlight brings to pastures fair

as streams reveal their spawn.

Rejoice young men! Take heart fair maidens

in the glow of you new beginnings!

The shroud of cold is lifted and isolation is melted away.

Even the timed and weathered stir as the last of winters chill fades in harmony with the new light of day.

Break forth o spring dawn!

Break forth and work your perpetual promise!

Rebirth is your handiwork and life your reward.

The power that is heaven has charged you with this task

and will vouchsafe your everlasting work.

Morning by morning what grace has given thee

refresh with dew and rain.

"ROACHES"
The Pestilences 

 Russ Tenhoff 8/27/00 
They scurry in the darkness, in a secret hidden place, in the dark and horrid blight..

They scurry in the darkness, in a secret hidden place,in the dark and horrid blight, not until the light doth flee.

Their sickness with them, they bring infirmities a shame to houses they invade, robing and stealing crumbs of blessing and bring disease to what was gain.

The curse will not be broken until holiness attained, not until a spirit of giving and thankfulness remains.

The lord of the flies laughs, yes even Beelzebub will dance, he would even take your life if given half a chance.

Not a moments peace, not even a day of rest, is it really any wonder why, even the Bible calls them pest.

Sin in the same way creeps and dwells finding the cracks in our faith, did you ever wonder why something squashed under our feet is roaring like a lion.

Its the agony of defeat, resisting your advances

quenching arrows and flame.

What have I to do with you anyway,

a Word renews my mind.

O how you are fallen, stripped of rank you were given

from your estate evicted, your head crushed your curse broken like lightning thrown from Heaven.

JESUS I know, the FATHER I know, so who from hell are you Did you think that you could swayed me and lead me from the light, or are you vain enough to really think that some how you were right.

GOD alone is on the throne, forever He will be and JESUS CHRIST, His only son is where you’ll bow the knee.

Oh sweet liberty! How great a victory! Because CHRIST has died for me!

Oh No Anything But That

This is a term paper I wrote in seminary back in the day [Notice the date] Oh No Anything But That Of God's, Aliens & Demons Telling a TRUTH to Perpetuate a LIE Russ Tenhoff 1995

I think P.T. Barnum said it best… "There's a sucker born every minute". I don't think he actually meant someone from birth is destined to be duped all his or her life but rather that any good flim-flam man can, what we use to call a charlatan, if he's good enough, pull the wool (is that a Bible reference - oh no anything but that!) over the eyes of any person who is not paying keen attention to what is happening around them. (NKJV-1 Peter 1:13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;)

My pastor used to say, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." I do want to begin with this statement... It is clear that the Hebrew writers clearly believed in the "literal" 6 Day Creation story of a literal 6 days found in Genesis 1 & 2:1. The Hebrew word for “day” (םיוֹ, yom) appears with “evening” or “morning” or is modified by a number (e.g., “sixth day” or “five days”), it always means a 24-hour day. I wonder if Barnum knew Darwin? (Or possibly taught him everything he knows?) Probably not. I've heard it said that life is a circus and I do somewhat agree. So let’s take a look under the Big Top and see the three-ring circus of life's beliefs.

Under the Big Top

In the first ring we look at Creation, where God and God alone spoke into existence all of what we see and perceive, since "He is before all things, and in him all things consist." (NKJV-Colossians 1: 17 ex nihilo-nihil fit) In the NAS Ver. it says "And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." (scripture again, oh no anything but that) it almost seems to be a reference even to the atom doesn't it? The crowd has a very difficult time with the activity in this ring because though they cannot believe their eyes and have no idea (but are not clue-less) how the stunt was done, they have to acknowledge that this stupendous feat was accomplished and the evidence of creation is right in front of them. "Because what may be known of God is manifest in them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made," (NKJV-Romans1: 19-20)

When man is faced with the irrefutable evidence, his first reaction is, oh no anything but that!Because to acknowledge creation you must acknowledge a creator and that would make all of creation subject to that creator. (NKJV-John 3:19 And this is the condemnation,that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.) The Ring Master has announced the event,it's written on the program which tells what His purpose is and then like Ripley He challenges us to "Believe it or not." Those who believe are taken in by the whole show and awestruck by the display of marvels. Those who listen to the barker and do not want to accept the simplicity of creation lose interest and begin to look for excitement elsewhere. Namely the second ring, evolution.

The Main Event

In the Creation Ring we were bewildered by the incomprehensible ability of the Greatest Magician before Earth to make all things appear out of nothing. (EX NIHILO) As the Ring Master brings the unbelieving ones attention to the second ring, "God has given them a spirit of stupor," (NKJV-Deuteronomy 29: 4) Eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear" (NKJV-Isaiah 29:10),"Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, but became futile in their thoughts... Professing to be wise, became fools... who exchanged the truth of God (God's Creation) for the lie, and worshiped the creature rather than the Creator," (NKJV-Romans 1: 21-25),

The players, (For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places. NKJV-Ephesians 6: 12) in the evil-solution [sorry], the evolution ring, are frustrated and angry ("a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour" NKJV-1 Peter 5: 8) because they know they cannot produce the same awesome event try as they may and so devise a wicked plan, the evil-solution, developing their plot as they go along. It’s funny to me how every time astronomers say they found the edge of the “known” universe, they find it keeps expanding…

Well of course the show is ridiculous since they begin with one story line until the obvious flaws start to reveal themselves and they are forced to quickly scurry another lie,I'm sorry to update their "new finds" ("there is nothing new under the sun." NKJV-Ecclesiastes 1: 9) thus following their own"vain imaginations." Finally the clown act becomes too outrageous to ignore but almost fun to speculate on as science fiction, and even a little entertaining which can peak interest in people who otherwise might probably not of even considered such a thing before. So let's send in the clowns and do some acrobatics. How many are in that little car?

Oh props Manager

Lucy, was found mostly intact however, (it's interesting to me she has the same name as a comedian, a hallucinogenic experience; Beatles, and a wayward wife) she did not maintain her credibility as a "missing link" either. (THE MISSING LINK IS GOD... Oh no anything but that) which goes to show you can teach a monkey to do almost anything. The plot thickens. Lucy, found in the early 1970's (but not studied until a decade later) was claimed to be 3.5million years old and heralded as mans "missing link" even though she was found among human remains of the same respective time frame. (I wonder if Donald Johanson wrote, "you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille?")Who was the real monkey?

Another character is Piltdown man, amazing what you can do with the right tools! And that's just what was needed to antique stain this 1950's find. Dawson even filed the skull teeth. (This is reminiscent of the time Ringling Bros. surgically attached an antelope horn to a goat to pass it off as a unicorn)

And let’s not forget Ramapithecus,what a baboon, he proves that you shouldn't mix apples with oranges. A 14million year old man was constructed from just two inches of a mandible found in India. Back off monkey boys!

It's a bird! It's a plane, I mean dinosaur! No it's only Archaeopteryx? The only one of its kind and not unlike an ostrich or hoatzin from South America found on the planet today. Maybe evolution should make a wish with the wishbone since all of the characteristics of this bird are common to other species. I'm pro Avis myself,just kidding.

Popcorn, Peanuts & Cracker Jack's

The evolutionists have tried to introduce other so called "transitional forms". But try as they may, to date, nothing has been found (a few things fabricated)to link one form of life to another level. In fact, simple or basic life forms have been found to be the same age as the more complex. NCV-Genesis 1:20-28Then God said, each bird produced more of its own kind. “Let the earth be filled with animals, each producing more of its own kind. Let there be tame animals and small crawling animals and wild animals, and let each produce more of its kind.” And it happened. So God made the wild animals, the tame animals, and all the small crawling animals to produce more of their own kind. Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image and likeness. And let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the tame animals, over all the earth, and over all the small crawling animals on the earth.”So God created human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female. God blessed them and said, “Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Each producing more of its "Own Kind"

This point is important because we now know the structure of DNA [Deoxyribonucleic acid]. There are hints and some evidence that ancient man understood at least symbolically that the Imagery {LOGO} for man was two strands. There are"entities" [Satan, Devils, Aliens, Evil men] that have from the beginning been tiring to corrupt or improve, depending on who you talk to, the blood line of the race of men. For what purpose you may ask? If our DNA were to change or be altered, [“Let us make man {Adam} in our own image {likeness}” would we still be human? And if not, then what would we be? Could we still be"Redeemable" as a species?] The first attempts to change our human genome began from Mt. Hermon and the co-mingling of Nephilim and human women as chronicled in the ancient book of (Genesis chapter 6).

So much damage had been done to the Race of Adam and even animal inter breading that the "Creator"[Elohim] had to purify the whole planet with a great flood. (Genesis 7:1-10 7 Then the Lord said to Noah,“I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat. 2 Take with you seven pairs, each male with its female, of every kind of clean animal, and take one pair, each male with its female, of every kind of unclean animal. 3 Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made.” 5 Noah did everything the Lord commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came. 7He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood. 8 The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls on the ground 9 came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10 Seven days later the flood started.) He hit the "RESET BUTTON" and gave us a do over, a clean slate. He promises to do it again in the future but next time with "FIRE".

Shaken not Stirred

The evolutionist ring is also comprised of "the geological column," where they claim they must be the oldest performers, since according to the flawed and manipulative use of Carbon Dating, it took billions (4.5 to be exact or has it changed again?) of years to develop their act. (That's pretty boring since the average attention span of a person is a few short minutes) "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?" "Who determined its measurements?" "To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid it's cornerstone," (NKJV-Job 38:4-7) "From the beginning, before there was ever an earth. When there were no depths...When there were no fountains...Before the mountains were settled, before the hills...He made the earth and fields, the primal dust of the world." (NKJV-Proverbs8: 23-26) The scriptures we've just reviewed strongly suggest moreover outright claims that God created a "mature" earth. An earth prepackaged for mans use. Since none of us can go back in time, and none of us are able to live long enough to observe "creation" or the "big bang," from a scientific standpoint, how can anyone stand on their belief as fact?

Here’s something to ponder…

Genesis 1:11-18 Then God said, “Let the earth produce plants—some to make grain for seeds and others to make fruits with seeds in them. Every seed will produce more of its own kind of plant.” And it happened.12 The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew it sown kind of plant. God saw that all this was good. 13 Evening passed, and morning came. This was the third day. 14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years. 15 They will be in the sky to give light to the earth.” And it happened. 16 So God made the two large lights. He made the brighter light to rule the day and made the smaller light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17 God put all these in the sky to shine on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that all these things were good. There were growing,producing plant life on the earth before there was a sun! What about photosynthesis?

The scientific method mandates that we first observe, then reproduce the same effect in a controlled environment, (who's in control? oh no anything but that!) and repeat the event a sufficient number of times (whatever that is) to say conclusively, this is how it happens. Carbon Dating is unreliable in that it cannot be accurate beyond a few thousand years. Additionally, if you believe the WORLDWIDE accounts of a "Great Flood", that event would negate any findings and contaminate all samples prior to 4,000 BC respectively. Without the facts we are only left with faith. Thanks to geologist' like Steve Austin (a man who was barely alive but now rebuilt by the Blood of Christ) and others like him, his work with flood models has forced science to look once again at the catastrophe theories which were prevalent before Darwin. And since they make sense,catastrophe theorem would still be in place today were it were not for the strong but silent undercurrent of thinkers of the 19th century who would not see the need to be answerable to God, any god but themselves, as unthinkable.

Water & Ice

The evidence for massive flooding is overwhelming. (I wonder if that's what Noah's neighbors thought? oh no anything but that) It is the only logical way to explain the large movements of earth tonnage which created in its wake canyons, large mountain lakes and sediment deposits that upset the evolutionist prized fossil record which is in many places, out of sequence with their geological column. Bones found in the wrong sediment levels. ("Lean not on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes." NKJV-Proverbs 3: 5-7) "The Flood" is also one of the only dominant ancient stories in which many of the old world civilizations (the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Atrahasis, the Hawaiian account, in China; Hihking, the Toltec’s and others) tell a remarkably similar story.

If it were not for the religious implications,this would be enough evidence to say with some confidence that the "Great Flood" actually happened and since the book of Genesis is the most detailed, and overall found to be accurate historically. Additionally, since the question keeps coming up, where did all the water go? The evolutionist,like Satan use part of the truth bringing confusion to the masses in the lie of an ancient "ice age." Scripture talks about the water, where it came from and went. "The fountains of the great deep were broken up, [The breaking up of the continents? Pangaea?] and the windows of heaven were opened." [Water has been found in space, Orion] NKJV Gen. 7: 10-12, 17-20,24, 8: 1-5, Job 12: 15, 26:7-12, 37: 5-13, 38: 8-11, 16, 22, 25-31, 34, 37,Psalm 33: 7, 147: 16-18, Ecc.1: 6) The book of Enoch says that the “waters”made their way to the poles of the earth and “froze”. How did he know that?

The ramifications as to the credibility for the rest of the Bible should and does strike a chord of fear in any man. That, is what is unthinkable. We are accountable to someone bigger than ourselves and thus subject to His judgment. Wither it be God, a god, Anunnaki or an alien visitor… ("It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man." NKJV-Psalms 118: 8) Oh no anything but that!

Truth or Darwin

All of the fantastic evoluolutional stories are a nice and interesting diversion from reality. And we could even say, "That's Entertainment." But to insist that the menagerie of evolution is true and have it sanctioned by our own government[National Geographic Society] or to go even a step further by presenting it as fact is ludicrous. (Is it soup yet? no!) To even attempt to counterfeit a different beginning of life is to diminish the splendor and majesty of all of creation and even more our caretaker, the "Creator" God Himself. Man, since the fall has desperately tried to suppress the knowledge of God. Even hiding and reburying evidence. ("For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness," NKJV-Romans 1: 18) ("If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin."(NKJV-John 15:22)

At first, those who would have rejected God were somewhat content with keeping silent. (live and let live) But since the mid to late 1800's and to this day man has asserted himself to turn off the light that they cannot look into but moreover do not want to see because it is a reminder to them that there is a standard and they are accountable. But mans natural response is, oh no anything but that. The clowns’ vain attempt to capture the minds of their audience and keep their attention from the truth of creation is a frantic sideshow to avoid the unthinkable. That God, (oh no anything but that) in control, (oh no anything but that) sovereign and holding all of us accountable as stewards and without excuse because all of creation is a witness to the existence of the Creator God. (NKJV-Ephesians 5:11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.)

Transplant Theory; Demons vs. Aliens

Well it's getting late (later than we think) and we still have another ring. The third ring show is not new but is recently picking up momentum. It holds promise for a great belief system as the dogmatic theory of evolution eventually falls. (And it will fall even if the Lord tarries) "Space the Final Frontier"According to some, those words were spoken by extraterrestrial's x-billions of years ago and that we (humans) are the result of that exploration and advanced technology. In 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, allegedly, a flying saucer with a crew of three aliens crashed, there was one dead at the scene, one died later, and a third survived which lives among us today. ("The Visitor") The results of this event were quantum leaps in technological breakthroughs for mankind, and knowledge that we are inferior but not alone in the universe. Even Carl Sagan suggested the "transition" may have been extraterrestrial!

Psalm 2:4 -"But the one who sits in heaven laughs; the Lord makes fun of them".

Over my lifetime, we have been told about the "edge of space" or the boundaries of the universe... Scientist told us how they found the distance between one end of space to the other... Every few years or so, that boundary would expand further and further thus "Expansion Thrum"... The Hubble Space Telescope helped confirm that our universe has in fact, and still is, growing.... We are only now theorizing about multidimension's [something ancients understood and described as "different levels of Heaven] I find it comical that every time science thinks they found the limits of our universe, God seems to [like inflating a balloon] say "oh yea, watch this" and make it wider...

Help or interference from aliens? Science Fiction? Let's see. There seems to be evidence of"visitors" throughout history in many cultures, Asia, Mesopotamia, American Indians, Aztecs, Toltec’s, Mayans, and Aborigines and yes even the Bible, just to name a few. (There are even Medieval paintings of the Star over Bethlehem with two piloted UFOs circling the city) there are drawings and carvings in rock and massive land formations found all over the world depicting what are believed to be space craft and creatures in space suits. In the book of Job we read "now there was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord" (NKJV-JOB 1:6), "And the Lord said to Satan,"From where did you come?"...Satan said...`From going to and fro on the earth and from walking back and forth on it'" (NKJV-Job1:7). The Sons of God? Alien representatives of other worlds? Again in Genesis 6:1-4 The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them. 2 When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose. 3 The Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

Sons of God = B'nai Elohim

The New Bible Dictionary uses the word alien(s) as one of their definitions and why did God ask Satan where he came from? Wasn't He God? Didn't He know where Satan would have been? And why did Satan specifically mention earth if we were to think from the beginning that earth was the only planet that had life? When God ask a question in the Bible, it is because He wants us to know the answer. Could all of this be a reference to other races from other worlds or dimensions? What about Ezekiel's wheel? In the first chapter of Ezekiel,he appears to be describing encounters with alien species"? As when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them,for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels" (NKJV-Ezekiel 1:21). 2 Samuel 22:10 He tore open [bowed,bent, warped] the sky and came down with dark clouds under his feet. 11 He rode a creature with wings and flew. He raced on the wings of the wind. Flying saucers? Or how about, "that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared,"and took Elijah away. (2 Kings-2:11-12) Gene Roddenberry may have gotten his idea for the transporters from Scripture. The Bible describes it as"translated" in some text, (being in one place at one moment, and some place distant the next) and it happened to several prophets of God.In 2Cor.12: 2-4, "caught up," Genesis 5:24, to Philip in Acts 8:39-40and Hebrews 11:5, (to Enoch, to Jesus, to Elijah and others in both the Old and New Testament)

Programs, Get Your Program!

I hope I have shown in the second ring that the idea of evolution is in short… if we can stir chicken soup long enough, will we eventually get a chicken again. (I think not). So, I don't think I agree with Isaac Asimov’s view of an advanced alien race influencing pre-man to develop (evolve) with the help of "the Monolith" to what we have today. At least not until we find the obelisk (hey, that would be a boost for evolution, except where did the"Monolith" come from? oh well.) And there is something sinister about the Anunnaki altering our DNA to be slave labor for them. I’m not letting anyone look in my genes to determine what I am! All of this is astronomical (excuse the pun)but it only goes so far to explain a little of how we may have come to where we are. Also, it does nothing to explain how all of existence began or who created the aliens, for that matter, how did life begin on their world?

The Grand Finale

"And there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven." (NKJV-Luke 21: 1) Could it be possible that the "Anti-Christ" is an alien [demon] in disguise or his "magicians" to take over the earth and fool the very elect if it were possible? Satan is a counterfeiter, he uses a little truth in his lies in order to try to fool those not "rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2: 15) Many cultures in history have counterfeit stories of how life began, "Creation," "the Great Flood, "the coming of a "Messiah" and even the end of the world. All of these legends or myths are just similar enough to make an unwary soul wonder, could this be true? It could even make someone question the validity of the scriptures as being the only true and inerrant Word! There is growing speculation that the alleged "alien abductions," that prior to the twentieth century were called visitations from incubus or succubus, increased UFO Sightings and related phenomenon's are actually the work of Lucifer with his purpose to be keeping the unstudied preoccupied with the mysticism of UFO's and extraterrestrial's. (S.E.T.I. should try prayer for a true encounter) Have you noticed a dramatic increase of people migrating around the paranormal, cults and the supernatural including the use of mediums("Channelers") and psychics of late? Look at the popularity of someone like Jonathan Edwards.

Jesus told us to watch for these things and more, as "you see that day approaching." It has even been suggested that the so-called extraterrestrial ("Alien") encounters are in fact demons, trying to deceive as many as they can. The deception being that they are from other worlds and are here to help or study mankind. It sounds farfetched doesn't it? Well think about this, "There were giants on the earth in those days, when the sons of God (B'nai Elohim) came into the daughters of men and they bore children (Nephilim)to them."(NKJV-Genesis 6: 1) "For false Christ and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles ("Movie Magic? Project Blue Beam? HAARP?")"To deceive the elect-if that be possible." (NIV-Mark 13:22) &Obadiah 1:3-4 (NCV) Your pride has fooled you, you who live in the hollow places of the cliff. Your home is up high, you who say to yourself, ‘No one can bring me down to the ground.’ Even if you fly high like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord. Shakespeare once said…"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy Horatio"

"Come let us reason together"

You know, there's no wonder "the Lord laughs."(Psalms 2: 4, 37:13, 59:8) Many clowns, you have to admit are funny, some terrifying, most are at best entertaining, but all of them act like the court fool, jester, prankster, to try to steal our attention and keep us from focusing on the absolute truth (oh yes, there is ABSOLUTE TRUTH Mr.Aristotle - JESUS John 14: 6). Many a court jester lost his head for being inappropriate. Before Genesis, there was no time. So for evolutionist to assert that given enough time and a "Big Bang" the multifaceted, physically complex and conscience beings we are now, has an origin in a puddle of slim(ooze) is not only in-comprehensible, but too fantastic to even consider as anything but ridiculous. (EX NIHILO, NIHIL FIT! = out of nothing, nothing comes!).

Larry Norman once wrote, "if there's life on other planets, than I'm sure that He must know and has been there once already, and has died to save their souls." That's if they needed salvation. Maybe their world didn't fall. Maybe they are not allowed to interact with us because as a race, we did fall? (That's enough of that. We could go on forever.) I would like to think that life exists "out there," that we had brothers among the stars. I would like to think that the redemptive work of the cross, when fulfilled will open that door. But even if we did, I think the Lord will return before we know about them for sure. More than that though, I cannot help but think that it was God's plan to "create" us, alone, on this one world. Out of the whole universe, special and the apple of His eye. (Sherlock Holmes said…"When all reasonable explanations have been exhausted, what remains, however unreasonable, must be the truth!") To me, God just seems to be awesome that way.

"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." (NKJV-Hebrews 11: 3) Man, of God’s Creation, "The Greatest Show on Earth!"

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LUCY'S BABY WAS JUST ANOTHER APE..EVOLUTION PROVEN WRONG TIME AND TIME AGAIN

This skull of a three year old australopithicus afarensis was dubbed "Lucy's baby" and showed characteristics of an ape. Lucy and her kind were just apes as most scientists agree. No evolution here.

Evolution is in trouble... The growth of biological knowledge is producing scientific facts that contradict the evolutionary theory, not confirm it, a fact that famous Prof. Steven Jay Gould of Harvard has described as "the trade secret of paleontology."

The fossil record simply does not support the evolutionary theory, which claims there once existed a series of successive forms leading to the present-day organism. The theory states that infinitesimal changes within each generation evolve into a new species, but the scientific fact remains. They don't...

Fossils prove the sudden emergence of a new species out of nowhere, complete with characteristics unknown in any other species. The fossil record has no intermediate or transitional forms. This is popularly known as the "missing link" problem, and it exists in all species. The missing link problem is getting worse, not better, with the discovery of more fossils. The missing links are not being discovered, which proves they never existed.

Darwin assumed transitional forms would be discovered in the fossil record over time, but that has not been the case. The fossil record, or lack thereof, is a major embarrassment to evolutionists.

The fossil record is a serious rebuke of the Theory of Evolution. New species literally explode onto the scene out of nowhere. New fossil discoveries continue to prove evolution to be wrong...

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SCIENCE CONFIRMS GOD'S WORD..AGAIN Scientists have known for a long time that space actually stretches. It stretches much like stretchable fabric, very similar to nylon panty hose. Have you ever heard the phrase that scientists use, "the fabric of space"? Did you know the Bible said this long before scientists understood it? Isaiah 45:12 ' It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands ' Isaiah 51:13 ' You have forgotten the LORD your Maker,Who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth' So the prophet Isaiah used scientific language (space stretching) to describe God's creation of the Universe. Since God really did create the Universe and gave us the Bible to know about our origin and to know about Him, we shouldn't be surprised to find such clues hidden in His Word. We may not understand exactly how God created the Universe before Jesus returns, but its important we understand that He did create it, and left us the Bible to know how we got here and to know the God who created us

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LUCY WAS JUST AN APE NOT AN ANCESTOR OF HUMANS

In the years since the famous Lucy skeleton was discovered, we now know that her kind did not walk upright. Her DNA puts her in a classification of a knuckle dragging ape that didn't walk upright at all. More and more evidence keeps coming to light that clearly disproves evolutionary theory. God created us in the beginning male and female.

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HOW CAN FOSSILS THAT ARE "MILLIONS" OF YEARS OLD STILL HAVE PIGMENT (COLOR)?

Unless the Earth really is young as Bible history suggests. In 2010, using state-of-the art technology , researchers determined that the feathers on a fossil bird, as indicated by the part of the feather they scanned, were very dark when the bird was still living. Now a few years later, another team scanned even more of the feathers, and the new information paints a clearer plumage picture. Their results showed that the bird, a supposedly 130 million-year-old archaeopteryx, had light-colored feathers with darkened tips. How could a fossil of that age possibly reveal that level of detail? "They found trace-metals that have been shown to be associated with pigment and organic sulfur compounds that could only have come from the animal's original feathers," according to news from the University of Manchester.