Where do I begin?
First let me state that I’m not a complete nut, although some might disagree, but I see the necessity to reveal to others what God has opened my eyes to see. What’s happening through religion is breaking the heart of those that seek the Truth.
This world is vastly different today than it was a mere fifty years ago, and as I stated in an earlier book; what is now called a high school graduate, was then, those few years back, called a fifth grade education. We have evolved, and yes I believe in evolution, but not the kind that believes that we came from monkeys, but that our nature is evolving into them. The disintegration of man and his morals, and his inability to find true north, and that is, his true place in life, has turned almost completely to his own knowledge and strength, leaning upon his own understanding, leaving our first Love for something that seems right, but certainly is a far cry from it. God has become a mere symbol and the true fact of His being is now almost totally dismissed. God is REAL, ALIVE, and well ESTABLISHED on planet Earth, and despite our lack of love and understanding of Him, He is our never ceasing, always Loving God, the True God that loves us in spite of ourselves. As you continue reading it will become more evident that man, in himself, is totally incapable of building any standard of worthiness that can, or will, meet Gods’ approval. It is not our efforts, nor our finesse, not even today’s technology that can impress our God with favor; that comes but from faith; and our efforts, if anything, can only hinder Him.
Man and his “religion” has chased this man-made symbol of God for centuries, and with few exceptions, has spiraled down the food chain until we are nearing the group of primates called monkeys. We have lost, or at least losing, as it seems to me, the reality and closeness, and that special offered relationship with our God, the Creator of all, and went fumbling, if not whoring after our own little gods made after our own image of the imagination.
Today, there are few that teach that our God of Love, with His unending Mercy and Grace is available to all, and yes I mean all, if we could but look through these many so-called doctrines that are preached differently on every street corner, and find the hidden, (although it is not really hidden), TRUTH that is ordained for all. HE, that is God, is willing, able, and ready to reveal Himself to all that want eyes to see, and ears to hear; He alone is God.
As a ship plows forward through water, it leaves a wake, a wake announcing its footprint across the path from which it came. This thing that many call ‘church’ has also left a wake, be it through our history books, or thru the effects of the shrapnel that we can now see in its’ wake, has left a trail of destruction, or at best, a track of confused lives; and what I’m seeing saddens me. If those that preach from these man-built pulpits were offering a life that Jesus heralded was available, then, I suppose that these boxed-in buildings that sit on nearly every street corner, would be overflowing. But in fact, their numbers are dwindling every year because of their ineffective habits of the understanding our God of Love, Mercy and Grace, and it seems to me, that a wake-up message is going out from every corner of the earth to call His people out of ‘her’ and into His bosom. The messages being preached and taught from these structured ‘churches’ are a far-cry from that which Jesus gave us, for the God of Love is always loving; He truly is. There is no separation, nor is there any condemnation among the ‘good’ or ‘bad’, He is continually about His business of loving us.
We will, in the chapters ahead, take a strong, and some may call harsh look at these counterfeits and monuments that man has built unto himself and then, called it godliness. I will, at times, come strongly against the established institutions, doctrines, and structures that man has built through the centuries, and then called it “church”. Those of you that make your living in the clergy of “this thing called church”, we be especially offended. My intension is not to come against the people that are involved in these structures, but the carnal use of their hands, thoughts and imaginations.
Since Constantine assigned himself pope, in those early days, and conquered all who wouldn’t follow his declarations, the religious fables have run amuck, and since, virtually, there was no written Word until the early 1600’S, it was easy to preach any misled or self-serving doctrine; for who could dispute it? The same rhetoric has been preached and taught for so long, and by so many, that we as a people, have fallen into that category of followers, for many also believe that the junk taught (for the most part it is junk) is true, therefore worthy of following a path that has thus far gone nowhere.
Think about this; if we as a people didn’t have access to the written word until 1610 when King James translated the first writings, then all was completely dependent on whoever stood in the highest platform and taught the people below. This was power. The kind of power that man, in his own strength, is not capable of resisting, therefore it subtly, sometimes drastically, changed the ego of man to fit whatever doctrine any particular person wanted to present. Power corrupts, and this kind of absolute power, completely corrupted many because of the inability of the common man to dispute any doctrine for lack of evidence because the written Word was not available. Therefore those that were in charge taught, many times, the interpretation that stroked their own empowered egos, without any confrontations.
By the time the written Word was available, and then only a few could afford it, many false doctrines had already been deeply ingrained. They were, at times, challenged, but unless the one protesting was in high places, little was ever achieved. It was for the most part, deeply embedded into the established religions, written in stone, so to speak, and too much was at stake for any other understanding of the Word to take root; or so they thought. God has always kept a remnant, hidden behind the trees and under the rocks, in the shadows, that sought and understood a purer Truth of the Word of God. Men and women that could see thru the hype or misinterpretations of those that presented themselves as ‘in the know’. God has throughout every generation, revealed Himself more thoroughly, to more than a few, about the deeper mysteries of His Kingdom.
Example: cleanliness is next to godliness……… Can you imagine how many still today believe this to be true? Yes, God wants to clean the inside of man, and to fill him with something besides dead-mans’-bones, but our scriptures have not mentioned, even once, of Jesus washing His hands before He ate. This cleanliness saying, along with many others, is just silly, and represents some egotistical so-called leader’s evaluation; it’s not what God is concerned about. Or how about this one; God helps them that helps themselves? Our God of mercy and love seems to help those of us because we can’t help our self. Without bothering you with the many well established fables, let’s take a closer look at what God wants from those that are called by His name.
2nd Chronicles 7:14 says; “If my people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray, and will seek my face, and turn from their wickedness; then I will hear from Heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land.” Our land is our life, and what’s around it. If you want to take this to mean country, that’s ok, but it’s more personal than that. Yes it’s true that God is the God of all, but He is also the God of one; me, and since your reading this; you. God is very personal, and His relationships are not really with countries, but individuals, therefore the land that He speaks of is you and me; our life. Sometimes the scriptures use the word ‘house’ to mean the same thing, but in this instance He is telling each of us as individuals, and especially those that are called by His name, to eliminate our pride, pray, and seek His face, (which is that desire to have a personal relationship with Him), and turn from our wickedness. Wickedness is anything of the flesh, for God is Spirit, and we must worship Him in Spirit. Therefore anything the hands can do, or the mind can invent, or any place our carnal feet can take us, our fleshly eyes and ears can give us, and so-on, falls under the category of wickedness; at least from a spiritual level.
Let’s talk about the word ‘sin’ for just a brief moment, in an upcoming chapter we’ll explain much more about it, but right now we’ll just scan over the word ‘sin’. Sin means to miss the mark, or to have a debt, it is virtually the same meaning as ‘wickedness. Sin occurs when our eyes, our life, our heart, are not fixed upon God. We all sin, and all have fallen short, this is a fact, our carnal flesh wars against the spirit, and the Spirit also against the flesh, but to have that aforementioned healing, we have to shed the flesh; and if it weren’t for Grace no flesh would be rescued.
Now, I said all that to say this; when man adds to, or takes away from anything that God has put together, such as the institutions built by the flesh of man, ‘this thing called church’, then we have fallen from the purpose of His creation of a relationship between Himself and man; we have sinned, or rather missed the mark, or still owe Him a debt.
What God has put together, let no man put asunder. Generally this is taken as speaking of the marriage of husband and wife, but the truer esoteric meaning is our undivided relationship with the Father. What God desired and created us for, was a relationship with Him, not the relationship of the structured institution that man has imagined, and then created from his mind; but a united fellowship with Him; a marriage. He wants that union between the spirit of man and Himself, that, as was with Adam, we would walk with Him.
Adam also took his eyes off his Creator, and placed them upon the fruit of His creation, and his senses got the best of him, his soul won-out, and he partook of the flesh; mankind fell. And that also is what we are doing, with our money- making schemes to make a living by selling Jesus.
God seeks with man an intimate closeness with him; that is his spirit, and by His Grace will heal our ‘land’ and forgive us of our ‘debt’.
Now I ask; why are we, the children of God, so complacent, so compromising, to allow these centuries old religious confusions to continue? In reality, God deals with us men and women on a one-on-one basis, and seldom by the masses; therefore the time is ripe, with all the obvious signs set in order for man to come to himself, present his humble heart, to change the way he thinks, and turn from our ways, our wicked ways, and allow Him His discernible rein in each of our lives. Man is not in charge, but I do believe that when our thinking changes from the works of our hands to the spiritual foundations of our Father, it will have to change.
Man as a whole is so proud of his achievements, his technologies, the monuments that he’s built, that the ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil’ is daily fertilized, watered and nurtured to the point that man is losing, if not lost himself in this realm of unreality. Jesus came to heal the blind, deaf, and mute, and it’s ever-so true today, that if we could stop long enough to consider Jesus, and understand that He’s already considered us; that His children would wake-up, for we are the blind, deaf and mute. A call is being sent out by God through His remnant, all over the world, a trumpet is sounding to wake up, and turn around a people that will trust and seek his face; which is beautiful from any angle you that look at Him from, and to follow the Christ of God in a relationship that is not based on our deeds, nor from the strict set of standards that man continues to burden us with; our land will be healed.
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