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Blog for Podcast #269 (Come out of her My people) [Inside the mind of a modern-day Pharisee] {The Commandment of Where to Pray}

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Intro

This is Dreamwalker1960. As a reminder you can read the transcripts of all my podcasts at dreamwalker1960.com. You can use most podcast platforms if you wish to listen. All you need to do is do a search for Dreamwalker1960.

Until further notice the messages that accompany this notice will be part of the “Come out of her my people” series. They will be harsh. They will cause people to get upset. This is as it should be. They must question the way they think and live. So, they can seek to follow Christ and not the world.

Discussion

To start today I must turn to John fourteen:

John 14:15 NKJV – “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

I wish to key in on the last word: “commandments.”

Commandments – G1785 – entolé – command, instructions, orders, requirement; commandment, precept

  1. Precept – a rule for action or behavior, especially obtained from moral thought

Why I start with this definition of the word: “commandment” is I wish to pose a question.

Which has more governance over a person? A direct command given by someone in authority, in this case Jesus Christ who will in time sit upon the Throne of Heaven, or a description of an action of behavior. Please ponder that for a second.

If you say the commandment given by Christ Jesus. That is the response I would say all that call themselves “Christian” would answer. However, I ran into an encounter with a Pharisee upon social media the other day that turned this person into a liar. For they insisted they follow Christ, however they refused and even argued with a command spoken by Jesus Christ Himself. Why, because the verses describing the acts of faith through works on the day of Pentecost were not in agreement with Christ Jesus’s command.

Three times Peter denied Christ the night Jesus Christ was arrested. This is reflected also in Peter’s leadership of the early Christian Body of Christ. The first time on the day of Pentecost. The Second was Peter leading the other apostles to pick another. When they picked Matthias, other than he died a martyr’s death do we know anything about this man? The answer is no. The last time Peter messed up was when he was forcing Gentiles to get circumcised and Paul confronted him about this in Galatians.

Therefore, Peter, having all praying together on the day of Pentecost was again Peter denying His Savior. However, Christ Jesus was not going to hold this against the rest of humanity. For He made a promise to all humanity that He would send them a comforter. Therefore, Pentecost came to be. Any taking Peter’s actions as a way of governing all Christianity as has been shown in the Word of God to be faulty and human and therefore should not be considered.

Especially when God showed His power by have fire descend from heaven and having those in the room speaking multiple languages found throughout the known world.

Within the NT there are only two letters from Peter. Thirteen books are definitely written by Paul. Hebrew’s authorship is questioned.

Paul is the official replacement of Judas Iscariot. Any actions Peter allowed should be questioned for they go against God and glorify humans. Therefore, Peter allowing group prayer at Pentecost was an act allowing human glorification. Once again, God sending flames descending from heaven and making people speak in various human tongues showed glorification of God through the Holy Spirit Whose name is Jesus Christ. Therefore, any who supports and pushing open group prayer. Who is being glorified? Ponder upon that.

Special note: Every time Christ removes Himself from the apostles what is the purpose for this?  The answer: To pray to His Father.

Now we are ready for the commandment given by Christ Jesus. At the Sermon on the Mount Jesus gave out several commandments that we are required to pursue. One of which is how we are to pray.

Matthew 6:5-7 NKJV – “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Now let me rephrase this so it will be totally understood, by even a  modern-day Pharisee. We are told by the Son of God that when we pray we are to do it in private behind closed doors where no one will hear or see the person praying, just as He did.

He begins with an example of open sin by those that are hypocrites, which He also made clear applies to those that are Pharisees. They are not to pray in public. So those that pray in restaurants, on street corners across from abortions clinics. Those that go into churches and begin and close their services in pray are ALL hypocrites and openly sinning against God by defying a direct command given to them by Christ Jesus. And are even living in defiance of His own example.

I can hear it now. Those that just had their precious toes step upon. The other Pharisees that profess to being “Christian,” however they insist they are right and Jesus Christ, not me, is wrong. Didn’t you just hear the commandment given by Jesus a bit ago? I will restate it just as I had to do with the other Pharisee.

Matthew 6:5-6 NKJV – “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

“When you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites……. that they may be seen by men.”

What promoted this original modern-day Pharisee to argue was a picture of a small group of politicians kneeling in prayer upon the floor of congress. All dressed up in their expensive suits aka mammon in plain view of the cameras and anyone in the gallery. Hypocrites.

When we pray it shall never be in public. Anyone who insists we are to do so in public is seeking to turn those that follow their demand into sinners against God through Jesus Christ.

I have to say this. I have just re-read the thread to see if I can show any other signs of the mentality of a modern-day Pharisee. I was surprised by what I found. Gone were the persons insistence that they will continue to pray in a group. However, the person added another reference to a commentary. Has I have established in the past. Commentaries for the most part just show how men insist their views of the Word of God are greater than the direct commands given by God or His Son our Savior: Jesus Christ.

Additionally, it is adding to or taking away from the Word of God, which is a sin.

What is even more funny was that the person accused me of deleting and changing what I had posted in the thread to this person. Just for the record: I didn’t because I stand upon the Word of God and see no reason to turn it into shifting sand. However, it was they that did all the deleting and changing trying to make themselves look righteous and me to look to be the heathen. When in reality this person was actually trying to turn Jesus Christ into the heathen. I have never felt so blessed. Even though I can no longer visually prove the Truth, because of this Pharisees attempts to conceal the Truth. I know that when the book of this person’s life is opened at the Great White Throne Judgement, Christ Jesus will be vindicated for it is He this Pharisee was and as a matter of fact still is attacking.

Any who place the words of men over that of God shows they follow the traditions of men and not the will of God. This shows they are still religious Pharisees and not True Disciples of Jesus Christ. If you have been reading or listening to these podcasts. You will know that most professing to being “Christian” are to the extreme very religious people, which means these Words spoken by the Glorified Jesus Christ applies to them:

Revelation 3:1-5 NKJV – “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

“I know you works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.”

Again let me translate: Those that call themselves “Christian” believe they are alive in Christ, but they have chosen eternal death.

Once again the most important teaching from these verses:

“He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels”

“I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life.”

This shows that they were saved. They had received salvation. Yet their works through faith ended and they stopped abiding in Christ so as well did their salvation. Therefore, Christ Himself removed their names from the Book of Life. This shows that most that now profess to being “Christian” are not worthy to be counted as part of the first resurrection.

I have shown through the Bible that there will be multiple raptures. This is from those that have taught throughout the centuries what is called the “partial rapture theory.” When truly studying the Word of God it will become clear that there will be multiple raptures. The rapture that comes as a thief in the night. This is the pre-tribulation and the smallest of all the raptures. All due to most being religious, most being Pharisees. The second will be the largest rapture which occurs at the midpoint of the tribulation. It will be so large it will be uncountable. Beyond this point there will be no one that calls themselves “Christian.” Why this is, is 1) the Holy Spirit will be removed from the earth, and without the Holy Spirit no one can be saved. 2) all that refuse to take the mark will by this time have already been killed. 3) only those left will have taken the mark of the beast, and those of the tribes of Israel. Then the last rapture occurs, the pre-wrath rapture which removes those of the tribes of Israel. All of these are part of the first and greatest resurrection. Those who will be called to judge and to serve with Christ during the thousand years reign.

But this brings me to something else that occurred within my confrontation with the modern-day Pharisee. This Pharisee accused me of judging them. What does the Word of God say:

1 Corinthians 2:13-16 NLT – When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. For, “Who can know the LORD’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:1-3 NLT – When one of you has a dispute with another believer, how dare you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide the matter instead of taking it to other believers! Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves? Don’t you realize that we will judge angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life.

This means that we have the right to judge those that sin against and even attack our Savior that call themselves members of the Body of Christ. If we stay within the Word of God and not our own vain pride we may actually be worthy of being included within the first and greatest resurrection when we will be given a throne to set upon and given the power to judge all within our assigned province by Jesus Christ Himself. This also includes pointing out those that call themselves “Christian,” when their works shows them to be religious Pharisees. Only being worthy of being called frauds, phonies, hypocrites. May there be enough heavenly treasures to outweigh their earthly chaff. For if the latter is all that is left they will find themselves where the worm does not die and the fire that burns their skin is never quenched, for their names would have been blotted from the Book of Life.

To make it simple. Just because that’s the way everyone has done it for centuries, doesn’t mean it is right with God. Jesus makes it very simple.

John 14:15 NLT  “If you love me, obey my commandments.”

If you profess to love God don’t pray where ANYONE can see you especially in the buildings called “churches.”

God Bless

Blog for Podcast #118 (Purveyors of chaos)

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Intro

This is Dreamwalker1960. As a reminder you can read the transcripts of all my podcasts at dreamwalker1960.com. You can use most podcast platforms if you wish to listen. All you need do is do a search for Dreamwalker1960.

Discussion

Those that seek to please the self. Those that believe that they are an example to humanity. Those that believe they are better than anyone else are all purveyors of chaos. The Bible says this about these types of people:

2 Timothy 3:1-5 –  But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

1 John 2:15-16 – Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 15:18-19 – But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

All that is listed here is chaos.

Chaos can take many forms. In the entertainment industry like movies and TV shows, it is usually depicted as wars or some type of conflict. In reality it can be more subtle, more deceiving.

The actual definition of “chaos” is this: a state of disorder and confusion.

In today’s world we are in a time of disorder and confusion on multiple levels. In some cases, there is violence, but most of the disorder and confusion comes from everyday life itself.

The effects of order and chaos do correspond like a pendulum swinging from one side to the other. It has now swung to the side of chaos. So now we must deal with its effects and outcome of the damage that will come from it.

There are those that say chaos is good. Then there are those that know the truth and understand that chaos is always bad, and the degree to which the pendulum is allowed to swing deeper into the side of chaos demands an equal and opposite reaction of order to return the swing to go back the other way. However, even though the swing may appear equal the human cost is always greater when leaving chaos, when leaving evil. Let me explain.
The last time the swing into chaos went too far it cost over 60 million deaths, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population. Then the swing of the pendulum went into the order side.

Here is a contrast to note. For the swing of the pendulum to swing away from order and back into chaos does not necessarily require deaths to cause it, but the minds of humanity to reject order. This started and took place in the 1960s. Now the Vietnam War was going on this time and an approximate total deaths of 1,313,000 took place in that war. That was not a major factor in the change of people minds against order. Those that started the pendulum swing to chaos desired and even lusted for chaos, for sin. Not only in their hearts but their minds as well as they experimented with drugs like LSD and heroin.

They felt enslaved to order. They in their minds wished to have freedom from what they saw as constrains of order. Why this took place was a failing of those that were teaching order. From teaching the doctrines from which order resides, the Bible. For they themselves in most cases didn’t understand the teachings of the Bible. Those teaching the Bible had become legalistic, demanding order be followed, but to follow God is not something that can be demanded. It is something that is voluntary.

But understand what is meant by “legalistic.” Legalism is living the law and following the law, but not being true to the law. That is not having a repentance. Not truly desiring to be faithful to God nor His Son. That is legalism, that is being Legalistic.

What is truly sad though is due to all the chaos we now live within. Those that seek after it and truly desire it for themselves have turned into that which they themselves hated. They have become legalist of chaos. Desiring to control all by demanding that all embrace the chaos and accept it as the truth and all to ending all. Yet as has been shown the swing away from chaos back toward to order usually results in more deaths than it takes to swing from order toward chaos.

What I see in this is that through the love of Christ. He desires us to stay within the constraints of a type of order, not one dictated in legalism, but in a heartfelt desire to be obedient to all the teachings within the Bible, including those laws not replaced by Christ going to the cross. Christ desires that within an order that followed and given with love that can lead to an eternal life that has more to offer than this world we now live within could ever offer. To follow the teachings of the Bible can seem confining, but that is a test of our love and our devotion to our Savior.

Is that really so much to ask of us? I honestly don’t think so.

What is to follow is how to live within order, and if we do so we live within the laws of Moses as well.

Romans 12:9-18 – Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. 10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. 11 Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. 12 Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying. 13 When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them. 15 Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with each other. Don’t be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don’t think you know it all! 17 Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable. 18 Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.

Galatians 5:22-23 – But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

This is true and complete order. The furthest swing of the pendulum toward order. Yet now as stated we are at the opposite side of the swing, and the blade has gone further than ever before toward chaos. With that in mind. What will be the death toll required to have the swing head back toward order, toward Christ, toward God?

The last time was 60 million.

The Bible tells us the cost, the toll required for this next mandatory swing. It is just not what many think. Most think it is during the great disaster predicted during the tribulation. To some part that is very true, but it is not totally true.

The key is found in 2 Thessalonians.

2 Thessalonians 2:7 – For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

Now why is this? First off, we must understand that the “He” who is taken out of the way is the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Once we have been filled with the Holy Spirit, we are a Holy Temple unto God. That, which dwells within us cannot leave us if we stay true to God. Consequently, when the Holy Spirit is taken away all that have the temple within them are taken out of the way as well.

It has another name: a rapture.

Revelation 7:9-14 – After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying: “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might, Be to our God forever and ever. Amen.” 13 Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” 14 And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Many scholars have debated this for centuries. Yet none can come to Christ without the Holy Spirit, per the words of Christ Himself:

John 3:5 – Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

If the Holy Spirit is not present, because He must be removed to allow the antichrist to be revealed, none can be saved after the midpoint of the tribulation. This must be something that is considered.

If this is factual and accurate then these “uncountable” otherwise known as billions could be considered part of the cost required. Then those others that happen during the devastation that follows are also part of that cost.

Simply it will cost billions of lives to cause the swing of the pendulum to go back to order, toward righteousness. What many don’t think about or realize is the true cost. The true deaths required in the price of being under chaos.

Death of the soul. Death that will last all eternity. Death that will include many that think they are destine to eternity.

Read the Bible for yourself. Learn the Bible for yourself. Live what is taught within the Bible for yourself.

God Bless  

Chaos and Order that is the question

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Chaos can take many forms. In the entertainment industry like movies and TV shows it is usually depicted as wars or some type of conflict. In reality it can be more subtle, more deceiving.
The actual definition of “chaos” is this: a state of disorder and confusion.
In today’s world we are in a time of disorder and confusion on multiple levels. In some cases there is violence, but most of the disorder and confusion comes from everyday life itself.
The effects of order and chaos do correspond like a pendulum swinging from one side to the other. It has now swung to the side of chaos. So now we must deal with its affects and outcome of the damage that will come from it.
There are those that say chaos is good. Then there are those that know the truth and understand that chaos is always bad, and the degree to which the pendulum is allowed to swing deeper into the side of chaos demands an equal and opposite reaction of order to return the swing to go back the other way.
The last time the swing into chaos went too far it cost over 60 million deaths, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population. Then the swing of the pendulum went into the order side.
Here is a contrast to note. For the swing of the pendulum to swing away from order and back into chaos does not necessarily require deaths to cause it, but the minds of humanity to reject order. This started and took place in the 1960s. Now the Vietnam War was going on this time and an approximate total deaths of 1,313,000 took place in that war, but that was not a major factor in the change of people minds against order. Those that started the pendulum swing to chaos desired and even lusted for chaos, for sin. Not only in their hearts but their minds as well as they experimented with drugs like LSD and heroin.
They felt enslaved to order. They in their minds wished to have freedom from what they saw as constrains of order. Why this took place was a failing of those that were teaching order. Were teaching the doctrines from which order resides, the Bible for they themselves in most cases did understand the teachings of the Bible. Those teaching the Bible had become legalist, demanding order be followed, but to follow God is not something that can be demanded. It is something that is voluntary.
What is truly sad though is due to all the chaos we now live within. Those that seek after it and truly desire it for themselves have turned into that which they themselves hated. They have become legalist of chaos. Desiring to control all by demanding that all embrace the chaos and accept it as the truth and the all ending. Yet as has been shown the swing away from chaos back toward to order usually results in more deaths than it takes to swing from order toward chaos.
What I see in this is that through the love of Christ he desires us to stay within the constraints of a type of order, but not one dictated in legalism. However, in an order followed and given with love that can lead to an eternal life that has more to offer than this world we now live within could ever offer.
To follow the teachings of the Bible can seem confining, but that is a test of our love and our devotion to our Savior. Is that really so much to ask of us? I honestly don’t think so.