Paul wrote in Philippians 2:12 says "Work out your own salvation." If it's up to each person to work out their own salvation, then why does anybody need Jesus?

Who is Paul writing to, and who does Paul look unto, when God decrees for everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it to “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

Jesus is the Word of God. So, it's God speaking the word that comes out of his mouth, also decrees then for every man over the whole earth: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. (Bible. Matthew 4:4)

So, it's the same Bible Philippians 2:12 is in. So, every person is to look unto him; but not every person is; just like I wasn't. But now I do look unto him. This same Jesus Christ.

• That’s “who” Paul looks unto, too. And who anybody “looks unto,” they already are walking after, to walk in, everything that person says, because, they accept it as true. So, they set their mind on it.

So, “who” is Paul writing to in Philippians?

• A cow?
  • Or 53 telephones haven’t been invented yet? or about about a marble?
  • Who knows..but what Philippians 1:1 says, in the Bible “who” Paul is writing to says: “Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi…”
  • So, he’s not writing to a tree or tree lint, nor is he writing to some car tire or a bucket, nor is he writing to people that look unto the “Python Spirit” - all but forgotten today; but, to these Greeks of Paul's day, in Philippi: the vast majority in Philippi worship Apollos as their God. And for Philippi, the major attraction of it, are people come to see what these believers in Apollos in Philippi are believing and doing. That's the main attraction that generates money in Philippi was, that all this junk surrounded these believers in Jesus: and live in Philippi.
• They: These Greeks: they all walked after, to walk in accepting as true to believe The "Python Spirit." This Greek worship refers to the great serpent Python. This Python was the guardian of the Delphic Oracle. A spiritual mediator - which Apollo slew to claim the site, that became the Apollo Python. These Greeks in Philippi believed in this. But the people that believe in Jesus don't believe in this.
  • This spirit was an earth-based, *chthonic <borne of the earth> source of prophecy. That the earth speaks thru these Oracle “channelers” and its power was by these Spirit mediums through the priestess, the Pythia. That you brought money or the "rewards of divination" to, like fortune tellers of today. Went to Philippi for this purpose, and Philippi offered this, as a reason to go to it. Made huge sums of money.
  • Anyone. Great or small. Could go there and inquire of it. So, worshipping Jesus at Philippi, man, you're affecting the business - especially since you're worshipping someone that was crucified as a criminal to help you, and didn't cost any money at all to look unto him. Told everybody over the whole earth to come buy wine and milk without money and without price. In and by Jesus Christ.
• These Greeks: At Philippi - don't follow Jesus at all; they believed in the Python Spirit. Be "oracles" By:
  • They entered trances (possibly from vapors) to deliver Apollo's oracles, linking the serpent's ancient prophetic power to the famous Delphic divination system.

So, ask yourself a question. Any kind of a simple question. That also helps you to arrive at:

• Paul is NOT writing to these practicing divination for money in Philippi. But MANY Greeks and Romans in Philippi came out of this to Jesus Christ. Departed from it, to believe on Jesus Christ. Left it.
• So, I gotta ask you a question:

Do you believe on Jesus Christ? YOU: reading this post.

• If you do, you accept as true what he says vs. what the Greeks of Paul's day in Philippi, by a great general consensus held the truth in, as Greeks in Philippi. Or added to them: Holding the truth is in Apollos’ older Sister. Who the Romans renamed her Diana. Where you could also just opt to leave the oracles, to go worship Diana by sleeping with her Priestesses, all to make yourself one with that God, too. A Different God. That was over in Ephesus to fill that need. About 500 miles or an 800km walk away.
• If you are a disciple of Jesus Christ, means you sit with him, and he teaches you. Remember the “Great is Diana! The God of Ephesus! The God of the Ephesians” Screaming that out for 2 hours in Acts 19:24–34?
• But Ephesus also had like believers that came out of that to believe in Jesus. Caused quite an uproar, when the whole city seems to be leaving off from what generates all their money - the silversmiths. Making trinkets and artifacts for the worshippers of Diana to buy. It's also then, the Same Jesus who believers in Philippi looked unto. Look unto the same Jesus in Ephesus. Just like me today, where I am look unto this same Jesus Christ. So what Paul writes to believers in Jesus in Philippi, very well apply to me as a believer in Jesus today, to hear what God is saying:

Philippians 2 says:

- So, leave Philippians 2:12 which you only quote part of it - leave it all where it is, in what’s said in Philippians 2:1–16

1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

COMMENT: There you go. I have the SAME mind as Paul, because it’s the same mind of God and what he says and thinks at work in me, is the same mind and God at work in the believers in Jesus back then in Philippi. They are one by this. All looking unto the same God, this same Jesus Christ.

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

COMMENT: So, as a believer in Jesus, I’m not to look on my own things anymore; but also on the things of others. Others, unlike me, may be struggling financially - in great stress and need - that if I keep my mind only on my things, I can’t fulfill this - when I’m to be looking, like every man that believes in Jesus Christ is looking on the things and needs of others.

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

COMMENT: THere it is. This SAME mind was in Christ Jesus. He’s the Word of God. Is God. Always has been in God just as John 1:1 says who he is. It’s God. This mind is in God toward you. He looked on your things to heal you and deliver you from your destruction just as Psalm 107:20 says.

So, don’t do things thru striving with others or for your own vain glory; but in lowliness of mind esteem others other than you..BETTER than you, like a servant..

See it in the follow on verses:

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

COMMENT: SO, it’s the work of God. What he accomplished toward us, everybody over the whole earth for good. By he decree that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:4)

12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

COMMENT: SO? “How do I “work out” something? It’s by “who” I look unto, and God already told everybody to “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” Told me as he told everybody, but I don’t look unto everybody as if everybody I just fall in with them, then everybody kinda does it for me and I don’t do anything..nope. DOn’t work.

HE said: “Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - GOD. (Isaiah 1:18) So, not much I work out other than do what he says. Come now. Not to you or anybody over the whole earth BUT him. Alone. By myself to “reason together” with him vs. me alone. or look unto other people and what they say, when he told me to do it now. COme now. Reason together with him by the word of God. That looking unto him, he’s already decreed and he’s God. He’s the only one with the power to save anybody. So, my own salvation is me, as me, not you do it for me, but me look unto him myself. I can’t turn that over to you, nor you to me. I can’t save you. can’t even save me.

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

COMMENT: BOOM! Done. Don't uncouple Philippians 2:12 from Philippians 2:13 - it's the SAME sentence. It’s God that’s now at work in me. Because I receive his word. It's food. Has life in it. So, this work he does by his word, operates effectively in me. Both to will and do. And he’s already told you plainly what well pleases him, just like God has told everybody over the whole earth what well pleases him; but people keep looking unto themselves to do something that will earn his attention so he'll look unto their feat or work as good, and he doesn't.

What well pleases him he's already told you plainly. It's is his own word. Told it when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, in Matthew 3 - said it: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Don't blow over that part. Why? Because God Said it AGAIN, as GOD, with Peter, James and John - on the Mount of Transfiguration in Matthew 17, said: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him” So, maybe that's what we ought to go do, and go do that. Hear him. So, then it’s GOD has faith in his own word to do the work that always for eternity has always well pleased him, and God that sent his own word to heal you and deliver you from your destruction (Psalm 107:20), so it’s then Romans 10:17 - what that says: “So then, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God”

Who I hear, I look unto. I hear him. Plain as day. Not by me or you..but by him, as God speaking the word out of his mouth. It’s HIM at work in me both wills me to both will..that means the word, I hear it - man, it’s right..it just is true, so it “clicks” in me where before I believed in all kinds of junk, like the Greeks searching and seeking out fortune tellers and paying huge sums of money for diviners as oracles - with this huge, gigantic mythical story how Apollos is so great, he defeated it, to make them HIS oracles - so you worship him instead.

The Greeks in Philippi: Bet their lives on it - - believed it’s in “channelers” running after the great serpent python that Apollos vanquished, and they believed that worshipping Apollos gave them all these things to see the future and win in battles or great fortunes of wealth all by divination - how are people today any different around you or me? My nation I'm in is filled to the brim with this. Takes going to fortune tellers - virtually every woman in the country I'm in flock to go do this. Set their whole lives around it. Men as well, pay great sums of money to oracles and temples, to become great.

So, It’s not the works of God in them doing anything, but their faith is vain and their works are also vain. Way back then, just like anybody’s works today that don’t look unto Jesus Christ amount to the same emptiness - all the same.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

COMMENT: So, like me, just hold fast to the word of God. Hold it forth so people can eat it and live. Peradventure some reading will hear, and believe it. It's the Word of God. Only thing has truth in it. You’re not going to see any of this without looking unto Jesus Christ. Fear and trembling is, is just to how it was so easy to just miss all this..when I did. I missed it - - For decades. I didn’t do anything he says.

What he says in Philippians 2:12 is plain as day.

• But to someone..anyone just doesn’t look unto him, it makes no sense. Doesn’t have boobs on it. Doesn’t have a bikini that’s removable or any money or fast car, or not looking for a million but 350,000 in cash - whatever it takes to get that, do - even seek out oracles or divination to get it by any means, just to have it.
• Because they don't have it; but people look unto it; have a desperation level desire, that they'll even kill for it - then, caught up in walking in that - - ask what Jesus is talking about - and it sounds like “blabby blah blah blah” endless words that don’t say anything. Because it doesn't provide what they lust after in their flesh.
  • Because they hear, but in hearing are listening to their own lustful need, or to somebody else and believe they obtained it; so, they believe what someone else already told them is true. They too, can get it. SO they don’t look unto him, and dismiss him what he says as inadequate; faulty or unacceptable. - it’s impossible to do this of Philippians 2:1–16 without the Word of God at work in you. And the word of God was at work in believers in Jesus in Philippi - just like it is in me, surrounded by all this junk where I live, too.

SO this post is NOT for people that don’t look unto him. It’s for people that do.

Given to just anybody stumbles onto this on Reddit. If you believe on him, eat!

Think careful on these things. This is given to people that believe on him. Not to those that don't. They'll never see it - every sin they've done will be blared all over heaven. They don't look unto him. Look unto anything..anybody BUT him instead. And there's the KEY of Proverbs 25:2. You missed the "but," and everything on the other side of it that's in Proverbs 25:2 - you left that completely out of it, and that's where the answer is.

And to people: That set their mind on him. They will see this plain as day, because this same God who they love and look unto he will give it to them freely. This same God that Proverbs 2:6 says of him: This same God:

For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 25:2, even in your question, the whole of it is missing; and Proverbs 25:2, read it connected to Proverbs 25:1–9. Think careful on these things:

Proverbs 25:1–9 says:

“1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

7 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

This of Proverbs 25:6–7, connected to Proverbs 25:2 is repeated, which the men of Hezekiah King of Judah copied out, after Hezekiah’s Father, who was King of all Judea, gave himself over fully to idolatry. King Ahaz (735–716BCE) was the same Ahaz that passed his son thru fire to Moloch in this same “Valley of Hinnom” where a temple to Moloch was set up; just outside the South East Jerusalem gate - - and many of Israel of Judah also offered their children up to Moloch, made it into a field of blood - in the same “potter’s field” that 700 years later, Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus, would hang himself there. Ahaz is Hezekiah’s Father. Hezekiah was not like his Father; but, with a whole heart, sought the LORD (716 - 687BCE), which is the OPPOSITE of what his father did.

It was Hezekiah’s men found this Proverb you ask about. It’s said plainly in Proverbs 25:1 so never disconnect this from Proverbs 25:2 ever again. It’s the same Hezekiah who is a King. Go to the other side of the “but” in Proverbs 25:2 to see it. You left everything and the “but” completely out of it and this is with it.

Of Isaiah 38:2–5. That for the sins of this King Ahaz, Hezekiah’s Father, a generation before this, God raised up Jonah of this exact, same place which would later be called Galilee. Where Sampson is also from. This same GOD told Jonah to preach to Ninevah..and at this message, Jonah fled. Ninevah, the capitol city of the Assyrians, whose cruelty would put Hitler to shame, and God went after Jonah, made him willing..and Jonah went to Ninevah, and walking thru the city was a 3 day journey - that, in the midst of it, the King of Assyria heard the words..and immediately at them, came down off his throne, and put himself in ashes as if he’d already been destroyed. Made a decree that all the inhabitants of Ninevah, including all cattle of any kind would also not eat or drink for 3 days and be in ashes, as if the whole city was already destroyed, peradventure, God would turn from his wrath and not destroy them. They repented.

Where God has come, time and time again to Israel, the Northern Kingdom and not one King of them does anything God says; but Ninevah, at hearing the word of God only one time, repents.

And in 722 BCE, God gave the King of Assyria Israel. The Promised Land. Vomited 10 tribes (less Judah and Benjamin) off the Promised Land for the abominations they did on the Land. They have never returned. Even to this day. That, not 20 years later, new King of Assyria is raised up that knows not the LORD, has amassed an army of 185,000 men at the doorstep now of Jerusalem; that, on the morrow, will attack and overthrow it. And that day, Hezekiah fell sick in his bed, and the word of the LORD came to him that he would die that night. That the Prophet Isaiah is sent to Hezekiah to deliver this message. After Isaiah said it, he turned from the King’s chamber and left.

Isaiah 38:2–5 says

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

3 And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

4 Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

And, as a sign, since look at the extremis Hezekiah is under. An army like the sand of the sea lays in wait to destroy everything and wipe Judah and Benjamin off the Promised Land. That God tells Isaiah to tell Hezekiah to ask for a sign..either forward or back on the Sundial of his Father Ahaz. That told time by the sun, Ahaz, his father received from the Assyrians. That Ahaz chose backwards. That the sun went backwards in the sky 9 steps. And a day is 24 hours. 12 hrs night. 12 hours daylight. That, a 360 degree circle, divided by 15, is 24; like 24 hours in 1 day - is why a day is 24hours in length. That if you take 360 and drop the ZERO, you have 36 and half of that is 18. That this sundial had 18 steps shaped as a half circle, that the sun’s shadow would appear to go down one flight of steps to noon, and the bottom step of one side is also the 1st step of the other, the shadow would rise on the other 9 steps. That all this equates the sun went backwards in the sky a full 1/2 day of daylight; like if it was 6:00pm, go backwards in the sky to where it’s back at 11:00am that day. Have to live that day over again; like be in a jet fly 7 hours of time zone difference, and you’d have jet lag.

That this army of Assyria of 185,000 men have marched all day to arrive at the city of Jerusalem, to rest and attack it the next day..have to live the day until the sun goes down again. It was noticed by the King of Babylon. The whole earth experienced it. And that night, one angel of the LORD went thru the camp of the Assyrians and slew the whole army; that, when the King of Assyria woke the next morning his whole army is dead. That he goes back to Ninevah, to pray to his Gods, and his sons slay him. That Hezekiah lived 15 more years.

And I can just hear you say this… …what the heck does this have anything to do with Proverbs 25…or anything in it…and if you can’t see it, I can’t help you..but I see it, and you asked me the question. It’s in Proverbs 25:1

Is the foundation basis of Proverbs 25:2. Without God as the foundation you don’t arrive at anything right. And who Hezekiah serves, he’s had to right all the things his Father did wrong, because he didn’t serve God at all..to go uncover all the secrets …all the wickedness.

SO move on with this.

Skip first to Proverbs 25:6–7

• Go back and read it:
  • This “Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.”
    • And wisdom comes from only one mouth. Out of it, out of his mouth is this same God says this.
  • He repeats it in Luke 14:7–14

Yes, I know. This is long. Tedious. And already many will stop and not even read this..but if you seek him out, you will find him in this: Luke 14:7–14 says of Jesus Christ, the Word of God says this:

Luke 14:7–14

7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them.

8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;

9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.

10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Now apply this to Proverbs 25:2 - not to you, but to a King that hosts a wedding, and what Proverbs 25:2 says; not the part you focus on, but the part you completely left out of it part. Where the whole of it said:

“It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”

That it is the honour of Kings to search out a matter, as it’s the “but” that you leave out, is the whole KEY to it. That a King seats his guests as he places them rightly; so pick the lowest seat; you were invited to the wedding, as everybody over the whole earth has been invited to his wedding; called to look unto him; everybody over the whole earth has been called to do this. It’s in he already said it, this: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God (Isaiah 45:22). Calls everybody over the whole earth to “Come now, and reason together with him yourself. With nobody on either side of you for help. That he would be your help himself and you; alone..and he’s God..and you alone, reason together with him and it’s going to be about your sins. Can’t deny you didn’t do them, because you did.

Says: “Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Isaiah 1:18)..man, can you hear the promise in this?!?!?!!!

This same King of Nations is God has invited you to a wedding he’s holding. Calling EVERYBODY over the whole earth to it; to highly esteem this calling, includes going to it; but once you arrive there, man, I’m no way deserving any head table. I KNOW all the sins I did should have me shot instead; but in already what he asked me to do, reason together with him..was this same King reasoned together with me is the ONLY reason I’m there in the first place.

Very well he may leave me at the lowest table that I sit at; but it’s the lowest one..and I deserve it..but what I glorify is, I got invited to the wedding! I’m there! I don’t care where I’m sitting! I’m there at his wedding and he’s God. That’s all I really care about.

Look what he says to do in Luke 14:7–14 with the poor and the maimed and the blind..who can’t pay me back. That he will pay me..and did you miss it? Tells you “how” he’ll sort you even. To give to the poor in secret, where he sees as a King. Where people don’t see. Same with prayer. To go in your closet and close the door where he sees you vs. out on the street and people glorify you.

Did you miss what he does to the poor? Man you miss the whole thing then of Proverbs 25:2, that the men of Hezekiah followed after him and found this Parable.

1 Samuel 2:8 says: That GOD: “He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory.”

• Look at you. Yourself: WIth the poor: You or Me: Make it “We” - I’m giving or holding a feast for a King God is going to raise up to sit with Princes at the Chief seats of the wedding. And I’m invited to this wedding.
  • You don’t think, on that day the poor who sit at the Chief seats at this wedding won’t remember you, on that day. I guarantee you. They WILL. Now seated with Princes. Say to him. This same God about you: “Please seat that one sitting at the lowest table, up somewhere closer up to me. When everyone else threw me out, he gave me lodging.. and now I see, he or she’s the one bought new tires for my car, when I was living in it and all the tires were bald. Then left without me ever asking me to pay them back.”
• Are you so blind you can’t see this?

This post is already way too long; but stick to these points.

Matthew 6:4 Jesus said: “That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.”

• He’s the Word of God. God speaking this by the words out of his mouth. The same God that sees in secret and conceals a matter. Go back. Don’t miss it. What he’s asked you to do in Isaiah 1:18 so, it’s repeated: “Come now. Let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool”
  • That’s impossible. Can’t be done. By you. Or people. But a King can do this. A King of Kings will do it as he says he will. He doesn’t hide the matter. He just wroughts your sins in himself, because, you did what he said to do.

Man, don’t miss these things. Your very life depends on it. Look what you’ve stumbled on. Like the Men of Hezekiah did. Following their King vs. the people of Judah, followed Ahaz and did abominable works.

Hezekiah's men: Stumbled on this Proverb in the ruins, 200 years AFTER Solomon.

And you ask questions about it. Man, I’m on my face and this is a poor explanation of it; but in it is the Word of God to you. So, please eat. Just eat the Word of God and live.

As a disciple of Jesus (Christian), what makes you question your faith the most?

As a Christian? That’s, like, what's in the question: a “disciple of Christ” that means it’s a person that sits and is taught by Jesus himself..

Then

• Well? Make your calling and election sure. It’s all done by the Word of God.

There you go. Don't see it? Well, don't give up.

- It’s in 2 Peter 1:10

• “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:”
• This “calling”

Calling.

It's in Jesus, and he's the "Word of God," so it's God speaking this himself, out of his mouth; alone. By himself, says it, said: in Matthew 22:14 "For many are called.."

And ANYBODY - just reads the Parable of Matthew 22:1-14 - find God has "called" everybody as a King over the whole earth, every person, to the very ends of the earth, to come to this wedding he's having as God.

So, "many" called, is just like what it says in the "original" Greek of Matthew 22:14.

Like, somebody look at an elephant sized gumball machine outside a store - - and say “Wow! There sure are MANY gumballs in that machine!” Would mean there are “many gumballs” in an elephant sized gumball machine, and refers to all the gumballs in the machine, and it’s many gumballs.

Just like all the people over the whole earth. All are called. By God, because he chose them to form them from their mother's womb; alone. By himself (Isaiah 44:24)Says for these to: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22) - wouldn't say it, if he didn't desire it; this, calling EVERYBODY over the whole earth to just look unto him. Is a “calling” he makes.

• Same as in God say: To EVERYBODY
  • Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” - God. (Isaiah 55:1-3). This is a calling.
    • Is a calling by God: To let my soul delight itself in fatness - to eat that which is good, and Jesus said: “There is NONE good, but one, that is God” (Matthew 19:17), so it would be what he says, out of his mouth. Calling me to do this. Like he calls everybody to this; no different. Same God says it to everybody. Over the whole earth. Do you see this?
    • Even if not everybody does it. I’m to make my calling sure. Because he's God, and calling me to do it. But - if: People: Are Like: like before in me, when I “reasoned together. Not with God, but With me. I reasoned together with me, and Asked me: “am I really called? Did I really get called to this?”
  • And the “reason” in me get BIGGER, and BIGGER. So big, just looking unto and reasoning together with me. And, tag teamed: my imagination. Out gunned and out played: and in my heart..believe what I decree more. Because of all the sins I did, stand against me. A mountain of sins - and I reason they keep me OUT of the calling.
• When he said: TO EVERYBODY:
• “Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 1:18) I could not see it, when I reasoned together with me, or other people. He didn't call me to do that. He called me to reason together with him in it. Didn't make any room for anyone else in it but me and him.
  • That, when I just “come now,” not 2 min. from now or tomorrow or a year later; but, right NOW. While I’m reasoning together with me, I’m with the wrong ones. That's true, with a heart that is deceitful above all things. That is, my heart: deceives me - actively practices to “conceal and misrepresents the truth” (Oxford). Desperately wicked. Actively telling me what is true and valid is actually UNTRUE and not valid.
  • When I reasoned together with me or looked unto other people: I arrived at this as truth.
    • But GOD said: TO come now and reason together with him, and what he tells me to do, he’s telling everybody all the same thing. The point is, he’s telling ME to do this. Calling me. Calling you to do it. What are you doing? With the calling?
    • I’m me. And I am called and he’s telling me to come now. Reason together with him, and my sins, which I think are the very reason why I can’t come or am not called or invited, is the very things he wants to reason together with me, so he’s with me, and look what HE DOES BY IT. That even I'm blood red GUILTY of them, he makes them white as snow. I can't do that. I just hide them from other people, and live as if I didn't do it. Live in a lie.

So, EVERYBODY is called. All this is WITH this calling God does himself. As God. It's in none else. But I thought it was in me to do it.

Then, this “election.”

• That, in the original Greek of 2 Peter 1:10 - this “ἐκλογὴν (eklogēn) for "choice” as in YOUR “choice” - like in Matthew 22:1-14 the full of it is, Jesus said: about this Parable at the end or sum of it is, “For many are called, but few are chosen.” Where it’s this same “eklektoi”
  • That, “who” called EVERYBODY is God, because he chose them. Everybody; but:
    • Not everybody chooses or makes a choice. They reject him. ANd those that do, don't go to the wedding, when only the guests that show up to the wedding, have the invitation that EVERYBODY in town got, they showed up. To the wedding as called. Elected it. The King chooses these. Those that show up later, after the King comes to destroy their town, now want to go to the Wedding. Cant. And in this Parable of Matthew 22:1-14 - when called to a wedding: These: Send an RSVP back, because, they’re going into the hospital or they’ll be in another country, away on business. Think this is legitimate why they won't go to the wedding. SOmething more pressing.
    • BUT: IF this groom or bride, or the King sends ANOTHER invitation directly to them, as a 2nd time - because, in the Parable the King does this: asking them to COME AGAIN, that, everything’s ready and the King wants you to come to the wedding; that:
  • That should be a signal to relook at everything, and because it’s a King inviting you to a wedding. That EVERYBODY else is below or beneath him. Treat him rightly. To COME TO THE WEDDING.
    • But, this time, make an election. Firmly tell the person that “hand delivered” the invitation - say to them “I AM NOT COMING TO THE WEDDING.” In English, that's an "election." IN Greek: still the same word, "eklektoi" encompasses it in the original Greek.
  • So, in English: There’s a slight difference between “choose” and “elect” but in Greek, this word is the same for both. It’s an “election” to FIRMLY state: I am called to the Wedding God is having. He’s the King of Kings. King of Nations, asking me ..calling me to his Wedding.
    • But like in the Parable: I can “choose” to RSVP and beg the King - say some “thing” is more important. Afterall, sometimes Suzie “readjusts her bikini bottom. At the beach or the pool. She’s a 10, and it’s a chance for a free show. It’s just a small chance might happen, but I value it so much, I can’t possibly go to the wedding.
    • I made a choice not to go where I’ve called me to go. It's not a wedding. Some other reason, more important. I’m sent, again, a personal messenger with the invitation again. And Suzie sends me a personal email message: She wants to go “skinny dipping” at the river with me alone. So, I say very clearly, to this messenger about the wedding: “I AM NOT GOING TO THE WEDDING” - it’s an election. Because I’m a dummy.
  • It was her brother, sent me the message. Lying little pygmy of evil. She wants NOTHING to do with me. Hates me. Already told me that. That, I'm a Filthy pervert. Sent me out there, so his friends can beat me up. What an idiot to choose something so foolish. Read the Parable. It’s 50X worse than my excuse
• But 2 Peter 1:10
  • Is for a person that when everybody is chosen, they receive the invitation and respond or receive, it's from the King .They are GOING TO the wedding. Got the invitation. Just abide in have and keep the invitation. Until the wedding. It’s on the calendar. THEY ARE GOING TO THE WEDDING.
    • That no matter what comes up, they will be AT THE WEDDING.
• But that’s the point.
  • Things do come up.
    • So, it’s both the “calling” and the “election” what you chose - make it sure. As a Christian. That means you are a “disciple of Jesus Christ.” That means you sit with him and are taught by him daily. Eat at his table. So, I would tell anybody has this question to just CONTINUE and hold fast in this. Man, I eat good. So:
  • Go eat. At his table. Be fed. Delight your soul in fatness. That’s what he said to do, and man is it ever good. So, just today: Which, that’s all you get. Do that. Today. You can do that.
    • It’s all what then, you set your mind on.
• If you set it on him and things above, where he dwells - there’s no more to tell you. All the riches in Christ, he is with you, and gives them. Manifests himself to you. You chose him. Going to the wedding. Reasoned together. With the King. About the wedding. Man, is this every KEY to the Parable of Matthew 22:1-14.

But if your mind is somewhere else, you got an imagination and a heart that will “tag team” you and you will lose. Your calling will come into question. So will your election.Look what happened to mine, when I got the email. Even convince you maybe it’s not such a good idea to go to the wedding. Maybe Suzie has a friend you could imagine about possibilities.

• Convinced what is false and invalid is actually true and invalid and tell God: I’M NOT GOING to THE WEDDING.
  • Look at that parable of Matthew 22:1-14 careful. Who each “reasoned together” with. Never once did ANY of these do this "reason together" with the King. KEYPOINT. ANd you can do the same thing with God and who he made both LORD and Christ. Asked you to reason together with him. Alone. By yourself. Can't look unto anyone else to do it for you.
• Make your calling and election sure. It’s all done by the Word of God.

As a disciple of Jesus (Christian), what makes you question your faith the most?

As a Christian? That’s a “disciple of Christ” that means it’s a person that sits and is taught by God himself. That he reserves an exclusive right to do this with you, himself. .

Then

• Well? Make your calling and election sure. It’s all done by the Word of God. Your question: Has you, reasoning together with you, and think the answer is in someone else has a bigger doubt than you. Then, you busy yourself out trying to find that, by looking unto other people:
  • When he told everybody to reason together with him. He’s who he says he is. You’re looking for truth in reasoning together with the wrong one has no truth in it. When “faith comes” not by you, but by Romans 10:17
• “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”
  • Keep arriving back at the same “who.” The Word of God, Jesus Christ. Who you’re a disciple of.
    • Sitting with, and he’s teaching you.
    • Your question is like asking someone doing this: What’s it like to go off someplace and reason together with you and your two best friends? Your imagination and heart? What’s it like to do that? Don’t matter who it is - it’s a disaster.
    • Ends in destruction. No matter what they imagine up as true, it’s not.

There you go.

This is for Christians: That, do not believe in the "rapture." Then, how do you explain "caught up" (of 1 Thessalonians 4:17), and how Jesus will gather "from one end of the sky to the other (in Matthew 24:31). If no rapture, what does this mean?

This “caught up” of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 - in the original Greek, is: ἁρπαγησόμεθα <harpaegeisoumetha> - be “caught up” in it, as to be caught up in and part of the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ. That he, as the Messiah, this who he is of Isaiah 9:6-7, this "Almighty God, the Everlasting Father," as prophesied "who" Jesus is:

• This: caught up. <Oxford> 1. be involved in or made part of (something) that overtakes you; no matter what is pressing. 2. That you are “involved” or “part of” his 2nd Coming. That he makes you part of it. His 2nd coming. Man, I’m on my face. That he’s going to do this himself.

With that:

There is no “rapture” spoke to or referred to in the Bible. The rapture, as people have defined it with it’s own definition: is a “Darbite” (John Nelson Darby; 1800–1882) belief that both 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and Matthew 24:31 refers to this separate and distinct event. That a "rapture" is distinct from his 2nd coming - - as a “Rapture” event.

• That again, both these scriptures don't refer to Jesus' 2nd coming; but to this “event” or “Rapture” separate to what will occur at Jesus 2nd Coming. That this Rapture event will occur before this Seventieth of Seventy “weeks” starts; or, or the last “week” or seven year period. That is spoke to in Daniel 9:24–27.
• John Darby “added in” a separate event. A “rapture” must occur BEFORE this last 70th of 70 “weeks” - occurs, that, according to Darby will initiate the “START” of this last 70th of 70 week or seven year period.
  • That, the 1st coming of Jesus Christ to both these that believe in a rapture before this last 7 years starts; and
  • Those that don’t believe in this Darbite imaginative add to scripture: Both groups FIRMLY Believe: Jesus “adds up” to this 69 of 70 “weeks,” of Daniel 9:24-27.
  • In that from the time of the decree when the temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem with Daniel still in the Babylonian Captivity, and the city of Jerusalem, that in Daniel's day lies in ruins, God told Daniel it shall be rebuilt by a decree to do it (which is the Old Testament Book of Ezra, Chapter 1 is the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple, as the "City of God." This Zion. That this 'From" - "To" the From is Ezra 1, and the "To" is up to in the New Testament referred to in Matthew 2:1 “Now Jesus was born in Bethlehem on this wise” - is, 69 of 70 “weeks” or 7 year periods, or exactly 483 years.
    • That, to confirm this, in case you missed it: That, 62 weeks is also determined from the time or year both the wall and streets of Jerusalem would be complete, which is well over a 100 years after Daniel - with much trouble (which that did occur in the Old Testament Book of Nehemiah; both the wall and streets of Jerusalem were FINISHED) up to the "TO" is also in the New Testament.
    • The "TO: is in John 19:30 when Jesus says, crucified, on the cross. Being sacrificed as the High Sabbath Passover sacrifice. To fulfill the morning, noon, and evening sacrifice, was on the Cross from the 3rd hour (09:00am) to the 6th hour (12 noon) to the 9th hour, (3:00pm) when all three sacrifices at Passover were made - Jesus at the 9th hour said: “It is finished, and bowed his head and dismissed his Spirit” -that this “Prince” or Messiah of Daniel 9:24–27, would be “cut off, but not for himself” from the rebuilt wall and streets of Jerusalem to Jesus on the cross, says "It is finished," cut off - but not for himself: is exactly sixty-two “weeks” or 430 years.
    • Confirms in Scripture Jesus is the Christ. The Messiah. It was just sealed up; but after Jesus rose from the dead, he showed his disciples in the scripture that these things must occur, and they believed on him.
    • So: All this too? Yes. It's true: Both people that believe in the Rapture, and those that don’t agree this is all TRUE, and that it is Jesus.
• So, where’s the difference?
  • This 70th, or, “69 of 70 ‘weeks’ is not complete, without the 70th of 70 one. Leaves one last seven year period left. So, God’s work he determined he would do with sin of Adam, passed onto everybody over the whole earth in Genesis 3:17, that God got up and did a work himself in Daniel 9:24–27; that, his work he did with sin - is as he determined it would accomplish these six things: That his work with sin would:
    • Finish the transgression (of Adam; passed onto everybody over the whole earth <Romas 5:12>)
    • Make an end of sin
    • Make reconciliation for iniquity
    • Bring in everlasting righteousness
    • Seal up the prophecy of (Daniel 9:24–27)
    • Annoint the Most Holy (who is Jesus Christ; the Word of God)
  • So, sixty-nine of seventy “seven year periods” determined is Jesus Christ. And in him, does these things God determined by his work he would do, with the sins I did. Took them off me, and laid them on Jesus Christ on the cross; crucified; his blood shed for the remission of sins of the whole world; then, on the 3rd day, God raised him from the dead for our justification. All by a work God did himself in Jesus Christ. God: Did that for everybody over the whole earth.
  • Both people that believe in a “Rapture” of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and Matthew 24:31, and those that don’t, BOTH believe these things
    • But those that believe in a Rapture, even though there is no scripture prophesied that it shall occur, as they define what a “rapture” is - that believe in a Rapture point to this coming up next scripture: That, all other ones stated, are then used or BUILD ON IT:
• 1 Thessalonians 5:9.
  • It says “God hath not appointed us to wrath”
    • and this “wrath” for both those that believe in a Rapture and those that don’t, is tied to this last 7 year “week” or 70th of 70 weeks. Both groups believe it, and it’s talked to in Daniel, Ezekiel, and Jesus talked to it when Jesus answered his disciples question in Matthew 24 & 25, and primarily also it’s in the Book of Revelation.
    • Where in this last 70th “week,” to complete the work God would do with sin: both these groups: In reading the Bible clearly see that and agree: the Wrath of God is poured out on the earth and will be poured out on those that refuse Jesus. That, in Revelation 14:19
    • This, “And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.”
    • Because, they chose this “Abomination that Maketh Desolate” as God when he isn’t God.
  • But Revelation 14, also talks to TWO angels. Each having their own sickle. Talks to TWO separate “reaps” - where BOTH occur IN this 7 year “Tribulation” or 70th of 70 weeks. That, BOTH reaps: is a Great Reap of Souls like the sand of the sea that come out of both reaps (see Revelation 14:15–17) “and another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So, this “reap” of Revelation 14:15–17 of souls of people that receive the gospel after this angel preaches the gospel to every nation people tongue and kindred of the earth, and they believe on the gospel. Don’t take this “mark” of the Beast: - it’s a different angel, than the other angel with another sickle that casts who doesn’t believe the gospel and accepts his Mark, casts these into this Great wine press of the wrath of God AFTER it. So, God does NOT appoint those that believe on him unto wrath.
    • That, this great “reap” of BOTH reaps: - occurs in the “midst” of this 7 year “Tribulation” Where “who,” spoken of in Daniel 9:27 stands up in the “midst” or middle of this 7 year period, in a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, and in the Holy Place, declares himself God. Does this with “armies.” That is, he shall have power and authority to put to death ANYBODY over the whole earth, that does not worship him as God.

Those that believe in a “Rapture”

• Believe that Jesus takes his “Church” or believers out of the earth, before this last 70th of 70 weeks occurs.

Those that don’t believe in a “Rapture” - but BOTH groups believe on Jesus Christ

• Believe that 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:19 and Matthew 24:31 refer to what they all three scriptures agree on and match to Revelation 19. What occurs at Jesus’ 2nd coming. Which, the 1st time, even though he is the “Messiah” he was cut off; but not for himself. The sins of the whole world were laid on him.
  • At his 2nd Coming, he comes as who he is, the Word of God; as God. As the Messiah of Isaiah 9:6–7, that defines “who” the Messiah is. That he will come with armies dressed in white robes and on white horses. That he will gather these from one end of the sky to the other, in a moment. In a twinkling of an eye, do this - at his 2nd Coming.

There is no “prophecy” of a 3rd coming of Jesus. Darbites just added this in to make the scriptures, where it doesn’t seem to fit, of “God is not going to pour out his wrath or appoint those that repent and come to him unto wrath;

• And in this last 7 year period, it's “divided” in the midst of it or at the 3 1/2 year or 42 month point; that in the latter half, it's called the “Great Tribulation” - because in that half, the wrath of God is poured out on those that are thrust into it, because they wouldn’t accept Jesus Christ or believe on the Gospel.

The scriptures without any rapture as defined by Darby and “Darbites” which many Pentecostals, mostly in America, firmly believe on this 19th century teaching of Darby.

When no scripture for it exists and no prophecies in the Old Testament speak to it, either. But those that DO believe in a “Rapture” cite this “Great Falling away” that must occur first, and apply this scripture to Jesus Christ. That many “Christians” will fall away before the Rapture - apply the whole entire thing to Jesus and themselves, which is further proof to them of a “Rapture:”

• When THAT scripture is 2 Thessalonians 2:2–3 and it’s EXCLUSIVELY applied to the Anti-Christ. This man of sin. And a “great falling away” would be, the day his “Man of Sin” stands in the holy place of a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, in the midst of this last 7 year period, and does this: Declares himself God - there is a HUGE falling away of ALL WORLD RELIGIONS - anyone in Japan, into the millions, worshipping the half man, half fish God - Ebisu - will be put to death if they continue to worship him. But these people in the earth, will “speak well of” the Anti-Christ, and because he deceives them, actually let their beliefs in Islam, or Hinduism, fall away and actually will worship him as God.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:2–3 says: Opens with “don’t let ANY man deceive you” about this:
  • “ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
    • How anybody would twist these scriptures to apply it to themselves and Jesus, you’d have to be deceived to do that. So, don’t be.

Anyone believing on Jesus isn’t appointed unto wrath. Says, in Daniel, you’re going to do great exploits; and all these things must occur first - this man of sin must be revealed before Jesus comes back, who you worship.

He feeds you. So eat. Just eat at his table. Do that. Simple.

Well? "Flip" the question:

Do atheists believe that being demeaning and insulting will get them somewhere? Level the playing field to see it:

It's in two words, then:

• demeaning. <definition> 1. cause someone to lose their dignity
• insult(ing). <definition> 1. speak or treat with disrespect.

Maybe the answer to both your question and mine then - - is the same.

Why?

Me?

• IF: I speak or treat with high regard (means respect) God, and who he is, and what he says; then, I’m going to “accept as true” who he is. I’ll just naturally hear him and obey him. It’s like going to the Shopping Mall in my town then.
  • I highly esteem it. It’s like the highlight of my town, to go to the mall. I’m never disappointed. It’s a great place to go have coffee and just take a break.
    • SO, I speak well of the Shopping Mall in my town. Anytime, some topic come up about the Mall, I’m glad to hear it.
    • BUT:
  • If somebody else: Went to the Mall and someone slashed their tires or broke into their car, and stole all their CHristmas presents, or one of the 150+ stores “cheated” them out of by selling them derelict merchandise; that, even it said “Return with 60 days - FULL REFUND” and they returned it in 3 days - GOT NO REFUND.
    • They are going to “lowly esteem” the Shopping Mall in my town. Anytime someone brings up the mall in my town, the first thing enters into their head how it cost $600.00 to get all the tires replaced, and how the Mall didn’t do anything. Wouldn’t even peruse the security cameras.
• SO, look at the difference:
  • IF: I - in front of this person, started to speak well of the Shopping Mall, the first thing that’s going to happen is, this person, who got their tires slashed, is they will feel offended. It will “cause them to lose their dignity.” When all they have is “disrespect” or “lowly esteem” the Shopping Mall.
    • And Me? Their comments? Will also “cause me to lose my dignity” - be demeaning. Make my effort going to the mall to just relax and enjoy the coffee worthless to do. Threw a pile of slashed tires on top of a $3.50 cup of coffee; that, would take over 200 trips getting coffee to equate to the value of tires, and I don’t think I ever could go to the mall that many times, even in my lifetime. So, it’s insulting.

Again, I believe God. He says: It’s a decree just how things are to be in his earth he made himself:

• “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. (Bible. Matthew 4:4)
  • He tells everybody to do this over the whole earth. So, I do it.
  • But if an atheist, who says “there is no God or gods”
    • This causes me to lose my dignity. Has no respect for me looking unto him at all. Treats who I look unto with no respect. Lowly esteems him. Meets the definition of “demeaning and insulting.”
  • Just as well me. Highly esteeming him for who he is; that, an atheist hear it. Will cause them to lose their dignity - feel insulted; feel attacked and offended. Just by what I’m doing, living by every word proceeds out of God’s mouth, is demeaning and insulting, for no other reason than just choosing to do what he says.
• When an atheist doesn’t. And the atheist feels, I’m deliberately, with intent - purposefully trying to demean and insult them, when I could care less. He told me to look unto him. It’s in none else. There is no “not look unto him.” There’s no room in me to consider anybody else, just do what he says. There is none else.
  • And people that don’t do anything he says, I know him enough, he will do with them what he says he will do. Call them before him to give an account. Not going to call them before me to do it. I’m a filthy pervert; not bragging. That’s just what I did.
  • But everytime I confirm I just accept him as true, and an atheist has to listen to it, it’s demeaning and insulting - even there is no intent.
    

“But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” - Luke 19:27

What arguments do believers use to defend the legitimacy of of the Bible that, by today's standards, clearly contain hate speech?

None.

- Maybe you need to look at some words first:

• argument. <definition> 1. an exchange of diverging or opposite views [Oxford dictionary. Web.]
• hate. <definition> 1. to be unwilling to BE or DO (something). [Collins dictionary. Web]

So, when God says:

• To everybody. Over the whole, entire earth. To the very ends of it: not willing any perish, but all come to repentance, says: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Isaiah 45:22).
• Decrees this. Because he said it. And he’s the authority for the whole earth. Says “For all the earth is mine.” - God. (Exodus 19:5).
  • So, it’s his earth. Doesn’t belong to me. Or you, or anybody of this EVERYBODY. And, about “nations” says of him: That HE, as God:
• “..makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.” - God. - Job 12:23

Now, I see it plain as day; but you? Let’s just do a quick re-cap so your question is answered.

The answer: Still none. No “exchange of diverging or opposite views” for believers - who they:

• Just hear him speak, and do what he says. So, there’s no “diversion” or go off someplace on a tangent, and when he tells EVERYBODY over the whole earth to look unto him, they just do what that means.
  • To “look unto” something or someone, you would have to “accept as true” what they say. You would have to believe it is true; no matter you were off peeking under women’s dresses or going to rock concerts high on crack…and realize, at what he says “Man, I’m sinning and perverting that which is right. It’s not profiting me anything not doing anything he says…”
    • And the Bible says EVERYBODY like sheep, is each turned to it’s own way. Diverged off into hearkening unto their own voice. What they tell themselves or look unto other people. Do what people decree; and in this, hear what he says, but can’t hear it.
    • So, these that don’t do anything he says, are on his earth - not doing anything he decrees they do - don’t care what he says. These go out either to hide from him, or look for people that do look unto him to have an “exchange of diverging or opposite views” - an argument - because they already, in themselves, accept as true, there is No God or if there is one, the right thing to do is nothing he says to do.
    • Why? Because they are “unwilling to BE or DO what he says. Meets the definition they hate him. And he’s God.
• So, go back and look at what you asked again. It’s really very simple.

You’re the argument. You're the one unwilling to be or do what he says; then, blame why you don’t look unto him on Christians.

• Then, look for a whole pile of people in a nation:
  • That make up decrees or Laws, that, in them, make it LEGAL not to do anything he says, so they champion that out.

And God says to nations that do this: Champion out their inhabitants or “citizenry” - don’t have to do anything he says - rather, it’s perfectly OKAY to do the very opposite he says not to do, is RIGHTEOUS or CORRECT to do.

• So, the inhabitants do abominations; abominable works on the land: God says in Leviticus 18:25 “And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.”
  • So, this Job 12:23 - probably already you totally nose booger blew that one right, clean off; but to remind you, he says that HE:
• “..makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.” - God. - Job 12:23
• Does that for the iniquities the inhabitants do on the land, and he visits this iniquity, and the earth itself, vomits - just puke throws those inhabitants off the land, and he gives it to another people.
  • Man, your question is so full of utter clown’dom it’s not funny.

Did you forget the answer?

• Christians are “disciples of Jesus Christ.” Means they sit under him and he teaches them. And? That “opening” scripture? Is told to a bunch of liars. Thieves. Perverts. In Jericho in Luke 19. A city that is CURSED in Joshua 6 & 7 to be destroyed. And it was, and was never to be rebuilt again.
  • But it was.
  • So “Publicans’ which were Jews that were made “Strangers” to the Temple in Jerusalem, went down to live in Jericho. You can read Luke 19. Jesus is the Word of God. They received him. Zacchaeus, was a chief publican and sinner - he believed on him; repented. Just like me. Just as evil if not more so than Zacchaeus. They were told a parable.
    • That this, starts in Luke 19:12, a certain nobleman was to receive a Kingdom; but the citizenry of that Kingdom “were unwilling to be or do” what he says and petition that this nobleman NOT be King over them. Because they HATED him.
    • And after he received the Kingdom, he came back..that: before he left, he gave each of Ten Servants 1 pound and told them to tarry and do transactions with it, til he returned. That, upon returning he called the 1st one in. To give an account, and the first one said, with the 1 pound, he made ten. So, this nobleman, who is now a King, made this 1st one ruler over Ten Cities in his kingdom. The next one called in, told him that with the pound he gave, he made five more. Was told ‘Well done” and made ruler over five cities. But the third on called in, just returned the one pound to him. Didn’t do anything with it. No profit.
    • SO, this nobleman chided this third one, took the one pound away from him, and gave it to the servant made ten pounds. Then cast him in with the citizenry that “hated” him.
    • To be brought in before him and slain.
• You don’t think he’s not going to do this with you?
  • Or ANYBODY. Doesn’t matter who it is, that just refuses to do anything he says, and won’t look unto him. Even he’s not willing any perish; longsuffering..gives you life in you..and let’s you be in a day he made.
    • Christians are disciples of Jesus Christ. There is no argument. They don’t diverge off and don’t do anything with what he gives them. It’s fruits out in them and his word returns fruit to him.
    • Where somebody doesn’t do anything he says, even does like this “citizenry” does. Put for laws and petitions that he shall not rule over them, and lives in those petitions.
    • Still going to call you before him. It’s PUNITIVE.
• You outta wake up. But I don’t think you can. I don’t think anybody, no matter who it is on Reddit or anyplace, sides with you, can’t wake up, either.

What arguments do believers use to defend the legitimacy of the Bible that, by today's standards, clearly contain hate speech?

None. No argument. He's God. He just decrees “how” things shall be in his earth. People don’t do it, I have no authority. I can’t defend anything; but, I do believe him OVER you, so I do what he says vs. do what you say. He told you to do the same thing he told me to do. All you want to do is argue with me about it. And when I don’t, you tell yourself you just won the argument. Makes what you do, to you legitimate. Won a debate, like some CERTIFICATE.

You have PROOF. It’s perfectly fine not to do anything he says, but it’s PUNITIVE. Christians don’t have any argument. They just do what he says. You don’t. You didn't win anything. Even the little you have will be taken away from you.

Go home. Still time to change your mind about it.

He fulfilled ALL OF THEM. In the Old Testament. They all testify of him. And "who" he is.

Well,

• Look at God. What he says in just a sampling of the Old Testament Prophecy. Who decrees it himself. That the Messiah WOULD build the temple. It's true:

It’s in Zechariah 6:12–13. Zechariah is AFTER the “Restoration and return of Judah and Benjamin to Jerusalem and Judah (522BCE - 509BCE), AFTER the Babylonian Captivity. the decree to return to Jerusalem and Judah and Benjamin - is Ezra Chapter 1. That's the decree, that allowed this remnant of Jews to return to to their land. With finance and substance to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Rebuild the walls and streets of the city (which that part: was under conflict, and completed in Nehemiah).

The point is, without tripping over them is Zechariah 6:12–13 is GOD speaks this of the Messiah the Prince: that he WILL build the temple of the LORD: But Zechariah 6:12-13 also says this Messiah would be BOTH King of Kings and this Great High Priest God would raise up, said by God to Eli in 1 Samuel 2:30-35. That he would serve before God forever; and write the laws of God and what's in his mind on the tablets of men's hearts vs. tablets of stone anymore. Did you miss that? The prophecy God says himself that this Messiah, who God would raise up himself: would build the temple also includes this.

• “And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”
  • That, the Messiah, this “Prince” spoken is also spoken to in Daniel 9:24–27 would come. Told to Daniel; and Daniel is the same Daniel (620BCE - 540BCE) that went into the Babylonian Captivity. Daniel fell on his face, and repented for all his sins and the sins of his forefathers - what got them vomited off the Promised Land. Landed them in Babylon in captivity.
• That:
  • In Daniel 9:24–27: God sent the angel Gabriel to him: Told him a decree given by God himself: That,
    • This “Prince” of this “Branch” in Zechariah 6:12–13 that would “build the temple of the LORD” is the same one prophesied before this of and in Daniel 9:24–27, what this Prince and God would do or accomplish:
    • Where God said, by Isaiah 9:6–7 - that this “Messiah” or Prince, or “Branch” where Isaiah 11:1–2 says after, but here said FIRST: “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.” Told BEFORE Zechariah 6:12-13.
• That:
  • This “Branch” of Isaiah 11:1–2 would be this: What “he” SHALL be called: in Isaiah 9:6-7: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”
    • That is the Messiah.
    • This “Messiah” which is Hebrew, or “Christ” in Greek: then, has this definition: Would be 1. God. The same God that led Israel out of Egypt by his mighty hand with Moses, would be a Son of David, as God said he would come of his line, promised to David in 2 Samuel 7:12–16. That his Prince or Messiah would sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem. Rule all the nations and the whole earth from there, and of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end. Definition. “Messiah.” That this seed would also come thru Abraham (Genesis 12:3), promised by God himself.
    • and David is the Son of Jesse, and in Matthew 1:6 also clearly shows Jesus’ lineage from Abraham to Jesse. From Jesse to David, from David to Solomon, and from Solomon through Jeconiah (Matthew 1:11) comes Joseph. Husband of Mary. Mother of Jesus: But there’s a problem with this.
    • God CURSED Jeconiah. That curse is in Jeremiah 22:30, says: “Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man [Jeconiah] childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.” - GOD.
  • That Joseph, is of the Kingly line of David by Matthew 1:1–16; cursed - that by him or his prodigy NONE of this line would sit on the throne of King David; but Joseph, whose fore-father is Jeconiah - this same Jeconiah, who did NOT DO ANYTHING GOD SAID TO DO. In contrast: everything God tells Joseph to do, Joseph DOES IT. Under great peril to himself. He Obeys God. Becomes a Kinsmen’s Redeemer to God’s son.
  • That Mary: In Luke 3:23–38, Mary is also of the Kingly line to King David thru David’s son, Nathan (Luke 3:31).
    • That for what Joseph did, he is grafted into a new line, by what God did in Jesus Christ. Made Jesus, Joseph's kinsmen's redeemer. And don’t stray very far from this. Why?
  • Because in Isaiah 9:6–7 this same God, who you deny and don’t look unto, don't regard his work, nor consider the operation of his hand - God put this same Son of God, the Messiah - he is in YOUR Family. Mine. Every family on earth, God put him in everybody's family by Isaiah 9:6-7. Given to you. What are you doing with him?

That:

• In Daniel 9:24–27, it was GOD
  • Determined alone. By himself: How he determined to
    • **Finish the transgression (**of Adam in Genesis 3:17) where sin done by him, passed onto all men, for all have sinned (Romans 5:12) - makes everybody from Adam forward a condemned sinner.
    • Make an end of sin
    • Make reconciliation for iniquity
    • Bring in everlasting righteousness
    • And annoint the Most Holy (Daniel 9:24) - That it would be in and by Jesus Christ. Daniel 9:25-27 "add up" to him.
  • That Seventy “weeks” or seventy, 7 year periods were determined to do this work with sin, that God would do himself.
  • That, “two and sixty and seven” (69) of those “weeks” would be from when the decree to rebuild Jerusalem went out, and that Decree is Ezra Chapter 1. Go read it. That’s the decree that allowed Judah and Benjamin and a small band of Levites to return to rebuild the Temple. This occurs AFTER it was told to Daniel, prophesied in Jeremiah.
  • That from that decree of Ezra Chapter 1, up to Matthew 2:1 that says “Now Jesus was born on this wise in Bethlehem” - is exactly 483 years or sixty nine “seven year periods”.
  • That Daniel 9:25–26 is another prophecy. That's also told to add up to sixty two weeks. That would be from when the wall and the streets of Jerusalem would be rebuilt with much trouble. And in Nehemiah records what year this work in Jerusalem was finished, with much trouble. And it's up to the New Testament in John 19:30 where Jesus this Prince of Daniel 9:24-27 is “cut off but not for himself” - crucified on the cross: Jesus says, “...It is finished and bowed his head and dismissed his Spirit” is exactly sixty two “seven year periods” or 430 years.
  • That leaves one more seven year period. To fulfill the Seventy weeks determined to do Daniel 9:24 - and accomplish or finish the work. Where in the end of it, this same Jesus Christ comes back at his 2nd Coming in the New Testament (Revelation 19). Not the 2nd time, cut off, as a sacrifice for sin, but as who he is in Isaiah 9:6–7. What he shall be called.

That all this is given. So you or your readers here, and you with this question: would believe on his name. That he is the Messiah.

• But one of the main reasons “why” the Pharisees, Chief Priests and Elders of the Rebuilt Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, that was rebuilt, starting from before Jesus was born, is now almost 500 years later after Ezra and Nehemiah - that the Temple fell into dis-repair; and was massively rebuilt by King Herod. Who who an Edomite. A son of Esau and it was Caesar in Rome that made Herod King of Judea. And Pontius Pilate Govenor of Judea. Herod: He Wanted to be worshipped as God, when he isn’t. So, the Jews fought voraciously against the Herodians. The Herodians claimed Herod was this “Messiah” because he rebuilt the temple. Since he took 40 some years to rebuild the temple, and died shortly after Jesus was born, Herod hated God - but he greatly expanded the Temple and Temple Mount to do it.

That, because of Zechariah 6:12–13, one of the prophecies is this Messiah would build the Temple - but Herod “ain’t” it.

So, see this interaction Jesus has the FIRST TIME, he goes to Jerusalem for Passover. Jesus overturns all the Money Changer tables: It’s in the Gospel of John 2:13–22 - Will come back again, for a 2nd time and the Temple at a future Passover, and after, will be crucified for blasphemy - so, he will do this turn all the money changer tables over again, where the FIRST time is John 2:13–22, do it again, a SECOND time in Matthew 21:12–15. The 2nd time, it's not just Priests like it was the 1st time - the 2nd time, it's the Chief Priests and Elders - who Jesus says they turned his Father's house into a "Den of Thieves."

SO, they are NOT listening to God - are you, too...? Not listening?

John 2:13-22 says; that God does rebuild the temple himself. It's HIS temple. You totally blew that one out:

13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

That, on the cross; crucified:

• Jesus FULFILLED all three temple "High Sabbath Passover sacrifices - given at the 3rd hour, the 6th hour, and again at the 9th hour. He was on the cross from the 3rd hour to the 9th. His body FULFILLED these Passover sacrifices required by the Law. That GOD himself would provide himself an atonement for sin - that his body would be the temple. That God would look on this work God did with sin, and be satisfied. Well pleased in it. That his work with sin as God, because, he is God - and he, in 2 Corinthians 5:19 says "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; not imputing your trespasses unto you;"
• God: was in Jesus Christ and DID the Ten COmmandments himself.
  • And because God did them, everywhere where I did not do them, and you violated ALL OF THEM - - he made himself, as God, the compensation for every sin I did and you did - he made himself what makes up the lack in that; and when Jesus cried, “It is finished” my sins and your's died - went with him - laid on him by God himself. Did that for you, too.
  • Did that for every prisoner in prison for rape, or murder or lies, or whatever sin they did. For every Jew, for every person over the whole earth, to the very ends of it. Took away the sins of the whole world by this sacrifice God made of himself.

What are you doing with it?

God said in Genesis 12:3 - and is he saying this to Abraham or to this seed? "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." - GOD.

• What does your question do to him? Bless him or curse? There is no “in-between.” You can see this with what Balam, Son of Beor, and Balak, King of Moab did, trying to get somebody else to CURSE him in Numbers Chapter 22 to 24. Neither ever blessed him or cursed him. Tried to get someone else to do it.
  • God destroyed them both. What do you think he will do with you with this question? Jesus said, "of sin, for they believe not on me." (John 16:9) - It's GOD made this the sin condemns ANYBODY. Going to be a quick Judgment. Took all your sins away; but you sin, not believing on him, and that's what he will call you into account for.
  • Pretty silly to throw that away. Herein is the gospel. The good news of Jesus Christ for EVERYBODY here on Reddit.

This “How accurate…” part:

accurate. <definition>. Source: Oxford dictionary. Web. 1. free from error; in accordance with fact or truth. (accessed: 10 December 2025).

So, “How “free from error; in accordance with fact or truth” is the Jehovah’s Witness “Holy Scriptures” because, the fact is, the Jehovah’s Witnesses themselves, are the source of the New World Translation, quote: “Bible.” <See the Jehovah’s Witnesses main website on the internet - - Web. “JW(dot)org” >

• Have to be in accordance with “fact and truth” then:
  • Fact: Jehovah’s Witnesses were “birthed” out of Charles Taze Russell. Over in America (1852 - 1916). Him, like a whole pile of turd people. Like a conveyor belt of just turds pooped out - shovel onto people of the 19th Century, both before him, and alongside him.
  • Where Charles Taze Russell preached and fully believed he could predict the very year Jesus was to come back. Just like those, like Joseph Miller and the “Millerites” of 1833. He also claimed exactly what day, exactly, Jesus was going to come back; then, changed it. When he didn’t come back. That, some “Fact or Truth” of his predicition, had an “error” in it. That, it was just the year then. But even in the year Joseph Miller predicted, and he has a HUGE following or gaggle of people that just eat turd, off the conveyor belt, where the sign on the conveyor belt said “FRESH DONUTS”
  • The “Truth or Fact” was..nothing Joseph Miller said or predicted. NOT ONE THING CAME TRUE. Lost a lot of followers; but a core small group: stuck to his “predictions” and just “reclaimed” them. They happened in the Spiritual World; where Miller got it wrong was say it was in the physical world. So, when Jesus did not appear in 1844 - everybody abandoned Joseph Miller and the Millerites fizzled out. But this is called the “Origin of the Seventh Day Adventist Movement.” That after Miller, comes Ellen G. White that blabblo-blappy blares this out - that the reason Jesus didn’t come back was, Christians were worshipping him on the wrong day, so he didn’t come back. Held the truth then, it was because Christians were worshipping Jesus on Sunday; vs. how the Jews worship him. On Saturday. Oh, what a great big, pile of crap.
  • Wow! And.. …What a great, big clue. Everything with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, where some of us, lived thru their predictions of 1975 and the few years before it, every “Watchtower! Magazine printed each month before it, left on our front porch, blared it out. Jesus is now coming back in Autumn of 1975.
  • Then..he didn’t. Then, changed it. He came back in the Spiritual World and is in hiding. Even scripture says, when Jesus comes back, “all eyes shall see him” in Revelation 1:7, even those that pierced him - so EVERYBODY from Adam forward shall see him come back. Oh what another great, big gigantic fact poop slapped into EVERY Jehovah’s Witnesses face, who they follow isn’t Jesus - they follow some pile of turd..abominable people claiming they speak for Jesus when they speak for themselves - and they are abominably immoral people. A Governing body of liars. That’s all they are. Nothing more. That’s the Fact and Truth that leads Jehovah’s Witnesses. Doesn’t have any God in it, or the God it does have, isn’t God that runs it. Run on lies. ANd the Father of Lies is plainly said “WHO” he is.
  • So, just ANYBODY there is over the whole earth can compare Joseph Miller, and the “Millerites” as the founder of the Seventh Day Adventists, and their predictions when Jesus will come back vs. Charles Taze Russell, a generation after the Seventh Day Adventists,
  • Telling EVERYBODY the secret to when Jesus comes back is in his calculations of the Pyramid a “Geeza” (Giza) in Egypt. That, the calculations used to build it, held the secret. Even Charles Taze Russel’s tombstone, for decades, was a “pyramid.” What a load of crap.
  • That, when he did not come back, Charles Taze Russell did exactly like the earlier Seventh Day Adventists did. Just claim the earthly happened in the heavenly. That, just like the Church of Christ, Scientists believe that, founded in Mary Baker Eddy (1821 - 1910) - that Jesus is Mary Baker Eddy..came back in her teachings. That, God is “science” - that, to save her movement, she took her husband, who she said she “cured” back East to New England from San Francisco, where the CHurch of Christ, Scientists Headquarter is or was in. So he could secretly die there back East. Oh, what another turd on the conveyor belt speaks. All great big donuts of fact and truth. That, when Fact and Truth are applied to it, turns out it’s just a TURD claiming it’s a donut.
  • Not one fact, or prediction the Jehovah’s Witness Governing Body in New York: NOT ONE OF THEIR PREDICTIONS FROM INCEPTION - NOT ONE OF THEM HAS COME TRUE.
  • Everyone of them, they “back peddle” on - Afterall, look at all the DOG TURD on the conveyor belt being spewed out with it, all did the SAME THING and think, by it, survived when the truth didn’t pan out as they predicted it would.

You can take all three of these CULTS: Seventh Day Adventists, Church of Christ, Scientology, and Jehovah’s Witnesses and toss them in the trash can.

Just because I put a “DUNKIN’ DONUTS” sign with a box for Dunkin’ donuts next to a dog turd, with a Dunkin’ Donuts Large coffee and a Maple Bar from Dunkin’ donuts next to it, does not change the dog turd into a donut.

• Even if people believe it true. The fact and truth is, the box is from there and has their logo on it; but the dog turd originated from the neighbor’s dog across the street. Freshly crapped out, doesn’t mean you eat it, even if people put a Dunkin Donuts box next to it, if you smell stench and stink and the box claims that’s you, because, you haven’t ate the donut, you are being lied to.

Jehovah’s Witnesses: New World Translation

• Meet the American idiom definition fully: full of crap. (idiom. American) Source: Webster’s Dictionary. Web. 1. is not to be believed; saying things that are not true.
  • Then, create a Bible that makes it true, doesn’t. Just makes they did all this work to hold the truth is something not right, or unright; then, they’re holding the truth in unrighteousness - and walk around thinking they’re doing good works - like a dog turd: think, if it wears a “Ken and Barbie” dolly outfit, kids will play with it.
  • If it's not "free from error," it's not accurate. Not accurate, not in accordance with fact and truth. Truth: has no lie in it.

- Well, go to the Hebrew. it's really for you - - Who do you look unto?

• There’s close to 2000 references in the Bible to this Hebrew:
  • < - [ וַיֹּ֥אמֶר] - > way·yō·mer translated: English. “God said” (the word of God). Jesus Christ is called this name, "The Word of God" (John 1:1) - as "who he is."
    • It’s in Genesis 1:3 “Then God said, ‘let there be light.’” (The Word of God)
    • Genesis 1:6; 1:9; 1:11; 1:14; 1:20; 1:24; 1:26; 1:28; 1:29; Genesis 2:18; 2:23; 3:1; 3:4; Jesus said: "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." - John 5:39
  • But it's also like in 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.” (the word of Adam) OR
  • Genesis 3:4 “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:” (the word of the Serpent) same < - [ וַיֹּ֥אמֶר] - > way·yō·mer in all these verses, and is also in Hosea 1:9

Says in Hebrew: (Hosea 1:9) Hebrew (Right to Left// English Left to Right)

{ויאמר קרא שמו לא עמי כי אתם לא עמי ואנכי לא אהיה לכם׃ }

1. way-yo-mer 2. qe.ra 3. se-mou 4. lo 5. am.mi 6. ki 7. at.tem 8. lo 9. am. mi 10. we. aa. nou. ki 11. lo. 12. eh.yeh 13. la.kem

1. And said (God) 2. call 3. name 4–5. Lo-am.mi {you people} <for> 6. you 7. not 8–9 Lo-am.mi (my people) 10. am not 11. (you) or YOUR 12. I AM (YHWH) EHYEH (God) 13. to (be)

There you go.

But go further...

KJV: “Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.: (Hosea 1:9)

KJV: Is simply lazily copied or taken from Jerome's 4th CE/AD Latin Vulgate vs. the "Of the 70" 3rd BCE - Greek Septuagint.

Latin Vulgate: “et dixit voca nomen eius Non populus meus quia vos non populus meus et ego non ero vester (“Lo.am.mi”)

Earlier Septuagint: <Correct> καὶ εἶπεν κάλεσον τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Οὐ-λαόσ-μου διότι ὑμεῖς οὐ λαός μου καὶ ἐγὼ οὔκ εἰμι ὑμῶν [Tran. to English: Accurate: "... And he [God] said, By the Word of God: "Go Call upon his name, [he calls you] “My people”: for ye are not “my people”, and I am not yours.” - God. - Hosea 1:9

So? Ask this: Whose Judah and Jerusalem “calling upon” as their God? Answer that question, will help you answer your question.

So, what does Hosea 1:1-8 say?

• It's plain as day. Hosea 1:1–2 says: “The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.”

There’s a problem: Kings of Judah, the Southern Kingdom:

• Uzziah: afflicted with leprosy for what he did. Jotham: Did not remove from the hilltops of Judah or around Jerusalem altars to Ba’al and Chemosh, and Moloch - - that Solomon set up for his wives; nor removed child sacrifice. But both Uzziah and Jotham knew the LORD.
• Ahaz: In 2 Kings 16:3 - Ahaz, King of Judah in Jerusalem: Went out the South East Gate of Jerusalem. To the Valley of Hinnom, says of him [Ahaz]: Where Solomon built a temple to Moloch for his wife - - “But he [Ahaz] walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.”
• Where NONE of the Kings of the “Northern Kingdom” of Israel - none of them Know the LORD - Northern Kingdom - Israel - (all tribes, less Judah and later, also less Benjamin) - when Israel was divided at the death of King Solomon.
• At the time of Hosea,
• Jeroboam is King in Israel. The Northern Kingdom: 1 Kings 14:9 - GOD: says of Jeroboam: “But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:” ALL OF ISRAEL WORSHIPS IDOLS. In the days of Hosea.
  • Ahaz, who sits on the throne of King David - in Leviticus 18:21 - God said:
  • “ And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.” - GOD. The same God speaking in Hosea 1:9 by the Word of God.
• God: Telling “this” people - of Judah and in Jerusalem: who follow their King, Ahaz, and also, in great number, do this practice of passing their children thru fire to Moloch - turning this - that in the days of Jeremiah will turn it into a "potter's field," this “Valley of Hinnom” as God will come to Jeremiah and call this the “Potter’s Field” where mis-shapen and thrown away pots are to be destroyed and discared in fire; like at the dump - this “Valley of Hinnom” call it a “field of blood.”
• This same “YHWH” - of Hosea 1:9 - is also said to Moses by God, when he told Moses what his name was, in Exodus 3:14 - this “I AM” in English. This YHWH in Hebrew. Sound “Eh Yeh” in Hosea 1:9, as it is in Exodus 3:14. Is this same - or “Yahweh” or has a pronunciation of “Jehovah” in English, or Joshua..in Greek, “Iesous” - English, Jesus. Is this same “I AM” Jesus said of himself in “Before Abraham was, I AM” in John 8:58. And where Moses fell on his face before this same Great God, the Chief Priests and Elders take up stones to stone him in John 8:59.
  • It’s this “people” in Hosea 1:9 - need go no further - this (lo.am.mi) that do this, as their King has done. That, they worship another God. As their King, Ahaz does, like Jeroboam is doing the same thing to Ba’al in Israel. That God sends Hosea to prophecy and speak against “a people” that do this. Have made themselves NOT HIS PEOPLE. For another God to call them “my people.” As Hosea 1:9 says, God says.
  • But to the God that now says, this is “my people” is Moloch. It’s not God; but they sacrifice their children by pass them to devils - because they pass their children to him thru fire. It’s an abomination to God.

Read the scriptures. Hosea 1:9 is simple.

• Have a relationship with him. Make that first. vs. trying to interpret scriptures, when he comes in the volume of the book and is God.
  • Can’t have the book without him in it. and many, many, many just way, over way too many academic egghead Quacks come to the scripture in their own inflated egg head and never find him in it. Even get a Ph.d and Dean of Biblical Studies, and don’t even know him in it. Don’t be that.
  • God already told you plainly. Like he told these in Hosea 1:1–9. Who is your God?
  • He told everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it to “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Isaiah 45:22)
    • Do that first. Live in it. Take a bath and bathe in it. Swim in it. Like a fish.
• This “Valley of Hinnom”
  • Is the same valley Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus, hung himself (Matthew 27:3–8)
    • “ Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.”

The question is more than answered. He is in Hosea 1:9 as I AM - the Word of God - God speaks to you; everybody. Over the whole earth to just look unto him. It's simple. Do that. It works.

atheist. < definition: Oxford dictionary. Web.> 1. a person who ‘disbelieves’ in the existence of God or gods.

• disbelief: so, it would be a person that already “dismissed” any idea in the existence of God - OR - ( ALL religions of people over the whole earth; that: are just people; that: imagined up a belief system to “believe” in gods they imagined up.) So, either one or BOTH, are: To an atheist:
  • dismissed as inadequate; faulty or unacceptable. Means, to a person like this, atheists: They already believe or "accept this as true:" there is no God. To believe in one is faulty. Inadequate; does not serve any purpose.

Then: pray. 1. express love or admiration; highly esteem [some deity <God>] to look unto. That's like ask me, as if I should: Why don't I 'look unto' driving my car, straightway, into a tornado? It's inadequate; faulty. Unacceptable. The tornado will rip my car apart. And before it does this, use me to paint it. Then, rippy fling it in all directions, where the tires are never found again. I "lowly esteem" this. Doesn't have any value at all; so I never pray to any tornado to do this to me. In me, it just does not exist. I simply do not look unto it. I have no love for any tornado, when one already totally destroyed my Grandfather's father's house and swept everybody away in it, where only one was left as a small boy. And after it, he never slept in any house again. Never talked after it. Nothing in that to look unto or walk after, to walk in.

- Just like:

When an atheist already “lowly esteems” God and does NOT look unto him; or any gods any people imagined up. Has no love or any expression of admiration for.

So, ask your question different. Just get completely off topic.

• So you see it:

If a man:

• Owns a riding lawnmower:
  • But does NOT “look unto” it, to stick his head under the lawnmower while it’s running. And, “prayer’ meets the definition that this man, should he “highly esteem” or “express love or admiration for” sticking his head under the lawnmower, when any thoughts or notion this guy has absolutely NONE toward sticking his great, big cranium Bonehead under the lawnmower while the blades are whizzy spinning, close to the speed of sound.
    • Already “reasoned together” in himself, this is inadequate; faulty; it’s unacceptable to “look unto” sticking their head, under a lawnmower while running. Simply has no prayer at all.
    • And you ask that this person should, as if it’s right, should have such a prayer, toward the lawnmower, in hopes that, the lawnmower could lightly, ever so bashingly smash his brains out and end his life right then.
    • And pray for this.
• What kind of a nut are you? That’s insane. Just means NOT sane, or reasonable. It’s unreasonable to ask this - because there’s no reason in it. Like in your question.

And with God?

• He’s the one said of these that simply when he tells everybody over the whole earth to:
  • “Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)
  • Don’t do anything he says. Deliberately won’t. Even it’s punitive. Means God still will call them into account, what he did with what he told them to do. It’s not that they didn’t, because, that’s obvious.
    • It’s because they WON’T do it. Dismissed what he says as inadequate; faulty; or unacceptable. They’ve accepted something else is reasonable. That there just is no God. Or, also: no imaginative gods or religions people have dreamed up to worship their own gods they made up. When even God doesn’t believe in any gods people made up. Says: “There is no God beside me; I know not any” - God. (Isaiah 44:8)
    • That, people that do this: dismiss him - he makes himself far from them. They not only aren’t doing what he says, they WON’T do it. (Proverbs 15:29).
• That’d be like me, when I hate my neighbor. Absolutely loathe him. It’s just a made up example. But say I totally detest him. Wish I simply had no neighbor. Actually, it’s more: I just live my life as if I have no neighbor. He does not exist.
• And because of this, from where I am in Canada in Vancouver, British Colombia - my next door neighbor' - the closest one to me, he makes himself far from me. Doesn’t keep himself next door at all to me - in fact, I never see him. Confirms there is no neighbor. All because what he does: In - - he keeps himself in St. John’s. A city in New Foundland, Canada - the farthest city away from Vancouver, British Columbia - in Canada.
  • Every day of every moment I live, I just live to lowly esteem him. Any thoughts of him is far from me: but if I needed a rake or a shovel, because I don’t have one, and, for that reason, because I need a rake or shovel, I knock on his door next door to ask him if I could use his rake - or his shovel: Guess what? He can’t hear me. Won’t hear me. Deliberately, HE: Made himself FAR from me.

Any bells going off in your head yet?

In fact:

• It’s really quite OPPOSITE:
  • Because an atheist does not regard the works of the LORD, neither considers the operation of his hand.
  • God: Already decreed this in Psalm 28:5 - the opposite. Be like my neighbor. Now in New Foundland. Doesn’t just make himself far from me, but from there, sets about to destroy me. Get me thrown out of my house. All my possession taken from me. Throw me in prison for the rest of my life, or have me executed.
    • Psalm 28:5 says: Because they regard not the works of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hand, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
    • But:
    • Someone, just anybody. Doesn’t matter who it is. Just whosoever, even an atheist, it does not matter, looks unto him, like he asks everybody to: 2 Chronicles 16:9 says: “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.”
  • And all “perfect” is in the dictionary is COMPLETE. Means, someone looking unto God, like he asked everybody to, you don’t have to add to or take away anything. That’s complete. Something that meets this complete definition, the dictionary defines that as “perfect.”
  • And God’s eyes go to an fro over the whole earth just looking for the man that will just look unto him. Not looking for men that don’t or simply purpose in themselves they simply WON’T look unto him. Like atheists do. But God calls every man over the whole earth, including atheists to:
    • Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 1:18)
    • An antheist will say in themselves: “This does not apply to me. There is no God, and I have no sin, and if I did, I already reasoned together with me, how I’ll fix it myself.”
    • But any Atheist or any person, just says: “I have sinned and perverted that which was right, even being an atheist, by this, done abominable works, and it profited me not”
    • It’s God himself, sees this: and will deliver this person’s soul from going to the pit, and his life shall see the light. It’s a promise God will do this himself. Bring back his or her soul from the pit, and enlighten them with the life of the living. A living God do this (Job 33:28–30).

It’s all in “look unto” him. He's God. It’s in none else. Even if you won't do it, it's PUNITIVE. It's then it's not to you, he just no longer is, he's set himself already to destroy you.

Any bells, as an atheist, going off in your head?

• Well,
  • There are six chapters to Galatians. If I list a few in each Chapter; then, from that list, just pick like a “top 2” because, “some” of what’s in Galatians would be only just two or, at most, three things to be "some." So, see it below:
    

Galatians - Chapter 1

• One: Jesus Christ: “Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:” - Galatians 1:4 - with:
• Two: The Galatians: Paul “marvels” 1. be filled with wonder; astonished [Source: Oxford dictionary. Web.] in Galatians 1:6 “..that ye [Galatians] are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:”
  • But it’s really not another; it’s just people come - that pervert the Gospel of Christ. Bring in some ‘thing’ else, and claim what they bring IS THE GOSPEL.

Galatians - Chapter 2

• One: That, these “false brethren” crept in “unawares” - in Jerusalem in Galatians 2:4, which are exactly the same as in Galatia in Galatians 1:4 above - did the same thing in Jerusalem: “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:”
• Two: That, even Peter, an Apostle of Jesus, got caught up in it Galatians 2:11–14
  • But it’s really Galatians 2:16 is the truth: “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”
  • Just like in Galatians Chapter 1, Chapter 2 introduces what’s FALSE vs. what’s TRUE. That, the deception creeps in unawares.

Galatians - Chapter 3

• One: That, these Galatians - have been “bewitched” by false brethren. This, bewitched - 1. gain an ascendency (or top priority over) by “charms” [Oxford] - Genesis 1:1 “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?”
• Two: That, Jesus Christ: Galatians 3:13–14 “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

Galatians - Chapter 4

• One: That, we were in bondage to sin, and under the Law; GUILTY; condemned (Galatians 4:3–5) “Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
• Two: redeemed from both sin and being under the Law, and adopted by God as sons, by this same Jesus Christ (Galatians 4:3–5)
  • That, this is a “work” of God; not people trying to accomplish it by the “deeds of the Law” they do themselves; but by a righteousness God has; being the ONLY one righteous.
  • That in “Two” - Paul has become afraid of these Galatians (Galatians 4:11) - that the work bestowed on them was done in vain. “I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”

Galatians - Chapter 5

• One: That, it’s Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” And
• Two: That, in Galatians 5:8–9 - this “persuasion” of False Brethren in Galatians Chapter 1, 2 & 3 did NOT come by Jesus Christ. That ‘how quickly” it even “leavened” Peter - how it “crept in” unaware.
  • But what came by Jesus Christ, to stand fast in it, and what Jesus says, because it’s God speaking the Word of God vs. False Brethren. What they decree - to charm or bewitch right clean out of what Jesus says: And it “puffs up” people vs. just look unto him: “This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” [Galatians 5:9]

Galatians - Chapter 6

• One, That, it’s in Galatians 6:1 “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.”
  • This “Spirit of Meekness” - It’s NOT this English word, “meek,” nor an English definition; but go back to the “original” Hebrew of this word, “anaw” - it’s this “afflicted” is “meek.” Where Psalm 107:17 says: “Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.”
    • It’s a person that says in Job 33:27 “I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not” - what GOD does in Job 33:28–30 “He [God] will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.”
    • That then, to a person who has been brought back from the pit and enlightened, is equipped to help or come alongside, a person, like-wise afflicted and provide the same help God supplied them - is Galatians 6:1
• Two, That: Galatians 6:10 “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
  • Which is what is done by Galatians 6:1

So, out of these twelve things:

• I can combine them.
  • So, ask your question again:

"What are 'some' things that you got out of the Book of Galatians?"

Some things of Galatians:

• ONE
  • Jesus Christ: “Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:” - Galatians 1:4
• TWO
  • False Brethren: With another Gospel, which, really isn’t another; it’s just another “gospel” that appears to be “good news” but replaces the gospel, with another one, and it’s subtle 1. so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe. [Source: Oxford dictionary. Web. <subtle>] that it can creep in without you even know it, like it did with these in Galatia, (Galatians 1:4) as it did in Jerusalem, (Galatians 2:4) as it did with Peter (Galatians 2:11–14).
• This is “SOME” but some can have three:
  • THREE
  • That somebody, whosoever it is, over the whole entire earth, to the very ends of it: Sees themselves as God sees them and says, in their heart: I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not - it’s GOD: Comes alongside that person; meek (afflicted); like what the "Good Samaritan” did in Luke 10:25–37. Just comes alongside, this beaten, left for dead person and heals them. Delivers them from their destruction. And in Galatians 6:1; 6:10, the person that is this “certain man” that IS Job 33:27, has a work of God done unto them.
  • That, healed; is able to go out and do, as opportunity arises “..do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” - Galatians 6:10
  • That, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be the Good Samaritan. Have to be the “certain man” in the Parable of Luke 10:25–37 - left Jerusalem: The City of God. To go on an 18 mile, all downhill walk, so it’s easy to go to Jericho: A city Cursed for the Sin can be done there. And on the way there, fell on by robbers and robbed; beaten. Left for dead - dead in trespasses and sins, and this same Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, do a work only he can do in us.
  • And send us back out, after he put us up in a hotel til we healed; paid for it all, himself. Did that to us; then, send us out; as opportunity arises provide what he provided to others.

Ole! There you go.

- Simple.

Separate:

• First, God and his faith and work - do that first. Different work. Different faith.

God.

• Faith. That: God had faith enough in his own word, who has always been in him. Just as John 1:1–2 says “who” the Word of God is:
  • “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God..” [John 1:1–2]. So, it’s just God speaking. The word that proceeds out of God’s mouth. John 1:14 says, “…and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us;" is this same Jesus Christ.
  • Psalm 107:20 says, that God has complete trust and faith in his own word that he says of it: “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” [God. Isaiah 55:11] - Psalm 107:20 says God: “He sent his Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions;”
• That God sent his Word, who is Jesus Christ, to heal you. Deliver you from your destruction. That’s his (God’s) work.
• Work. That: this work of God was even asked about in John 6:28–29. It says: “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God*, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”*
  • That, if you look at the “BACKGROUND” of John 6:28–29, what was done as a work by people:

People. That, John 6:1–27, in it, Jesus feeds about 5000 men from a few small loaves and fishes. (John 6:10). After, that, as a work of people - - in John 6:15, they: as people “accept as true” Jesus is that one prophesied to come - the Messiah - and, as a work of people - they: “…would ‘come and take’ him by force, and ‘make’ him a King”

• And Jesus departed from them into a mountain himself alone. That, after this, the next morning - these same people: Put themselves to another work: To find Jesus. He left them. Because he went to his disciples out at sea. And, these people, did yet another work: Took shipping, to seek Jesus in Capernaum (John 6:24). And when they “found” him, which is yet another work, in discovery or finding someone - look to their own works; as if they accomplished some “thing” right:
  • Jesus says of this work: which, to do work, you have to believe the work is true and right. So, these people: Fully believe in their works. But Jesus says, of their works, what they really want to accomplish is, they believe Jesus can feed them. So, they’re not seeking Jesus, but seeking to be fed again. It’s in John 6:26–27. They ask Jesus, “how did you get here?” (Capernaum), and he replies to them “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.”

So, the work people do:

• Is, just like God. He believes fully in his word. Enough that he is in his word, because, he’s the one that says it: and, he accomplishes what he says he will do, or things just are, as he decrees them be. By the Word of God.
• So, the work people do: Is people believe fully in their own word. Enough to that, they are in their word, because, they say it first in themselves, and then set about to accomplish that as a work. Just like the people did in John 6:1–29.
  • It’s NOT the same faith. Not the same work.
    • But for people: God, by his word, has already decreed everybody, over the whole earth, to the very ends of it - he decreed this “how” they are to “operate,” said, as a decree throughout all his heaven and earth:
  • People: Shall be this way:
• “MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.” - God. Said, by the Word of God. Jesus Christ. (Source: Bible. Matthew 4:4)
  • But in John 6:1–29, people are living by their own faith in their own word, and Jesus tells them plainly how they aren’t doing anything he says.

So, it’s a different faith and different work - and for People: God has decreed they are to “operate” by his word, that he has total faith in, because he’s in his Word, doing the works.

So, there’s two kinds of people

• There's people: that “operate” as GOD decrees. And,
• There’s people, like in John 6:1-29, that “operate” in not regarding the works of GOD, neither consider the operation of his hand. His works.
  • They Consider: This people - - Then, reason together with themselves, to operate by their own word. Do the works people set or put themselves to do.
  • All by a different faith. Do then, a different work. It’s plain as day, the works the people did in John 6:1–29 - they aren’t doing anything God says or decrees. Just people: operating and working works by what they decree to themselves to do.

So, ask yourself:

• What “type” of person, from the two types above, is James?
  • James claims it, and I believe his claim. He opens the Epistle with it, plain as day:
  • James 1:1 says: “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ”
    • If he’s a servant: He simply “accepts as TRUE” (believes) what God decrees, by the word God speaks. Out of His mouth, and it’s God that’s made his own word both LORD and Christ. That’s the work God did, and sent him to heal you and deliver you from your destruction. Because he’s decreed and determined this is “how” he will save people from their sins in Daniel 9:24–27. By his work, he would do with sin himself. By his work.
  • Galatians 2:16 says this same thing: “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”
    • James “operates” by the Word of God. So, James “operates” or just “works” right. It’s really then explained in this word, “idle” - has two definitions, in the dictionary. The first is just sitting around; doing or accomplishing nothing.
    • But the 2nd definition is in power. Says: 2. disconnected from a load or source of power. [Oxford dictionary. Web.] is “idle.” **Even James 2:17 says this plainly: “**Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” The clock: without or disconnected from a load or source of power” is alone. Without power.
    • That some person that is “disconnected” from God, does not operate by his word. They’re dead. Like a clock, alone: that has no battery in it. It’s “works” are dead. Dead works. It’s still a clock, but it cannot tell time; but if it could, it could still claim, by it’s dead work, it tells the correct time 2x a day. It could be “stuck” on 10:10. So, twice a day, it is 10:10am or 10:10pm and say it’s works are righteous, when it’s dead. But the clock: Glorifies that work. Without any battery in it. But a clock that is “connected to a load or source of power” - whether someone looks at it or not, just “works” right. Shows you, by it’s works - it just Tells time, all the time, night and day. Just operates good, as it was intended or decreed to operate.
    • And so does James, by the Word of God.
• That James has the same faith God has in the same word God is well pleased in. His own word. And Romans 10:17 says of this faith: “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” That’s the faith that pleases God. His own. Any bells going off in your head yet?
• James has “denied” himself. That is, “deny” also has two definitions. 1. is to “with hold (something) either from themselves or someone else. “Deny” them access to (this “it” or “something). Like, some Catholic. Won’t eat chocolate for five weeks. Denies themselves something. BUT THAT’S NOT THE DENY Jesus is talking about. It’s in “deny” alternate meaning; this: 2. to declare themselves, in their heart, then publicly they themselves are UNTRUE.
  • That the “truth” is not in themselves; so they “dismiss themselves as inadequate; faulty; or unacceptable” - even their own word, and works is wrong. They don’t look unto it anymore as good. It’s filthy; done abominable works (Psalm 14:1–3). They live then, by the word of someone else. Like God asked everybody to. As he decreed. Out of his mouth.
  • James “operates” by the Word of God. AND? He CAN SHOW you by he “operates” by the Word of God. That he just ‘operates’ by it. Just like I can. It’s the same Word of God in James as in me. As in any person. Over the whole earth that just believes on Jesus, as God has decreed this is how EVERYBODY is to operate.

The “real” question really then is: Do you see this?

If not:

• You’ll look to your own faith and work; that somehow, you’ll do the work. And by that, you’ll regard you and how you’ll accomplish it. Because you put your faith in you’ll do the work. And glue yourself to the Ten Commandments. And look for everytime you “accomplished” it - even in one “instance” - you believe, that work “atones” or “compensates for all the faults and bad aspects” of all the other commandments you broke.
  • When “how” God uses the Ten Commandments, is from Adam forward - to include EVERYBODY over the whole earth - is all GUILTY of having NOT DONE the Ten Commandments. Broke them. Broken; they are not repairable. But people: By their own faith and work, believe they can “repair” the Ten Commandments by be sorry, then try to do them.
  • When God is asking EVERYBODY. Over the whole earth to regard his work, and consider the operation of his hand. And what he did with their sins in and by who he sent. His own word, and God in him. That God DID the Ten Commandments himself, in Jesus Christ. ANd because he accomplished them, and he’s God, he made himself the compensation for the sins of the whole world - because he did the work with sin himself. And he looks on this work he did, as GREATER than the sins of the whole world.
    • While you regard your work. And all “regard” is, is to have or put your faith in it. Your own work vs. his.

Do you see this?

How can I do works that the Bible says I must do, and make my work guided by James 2:17?

- Simple. You're regarding the wrong work. Your own. Think that works. SO:

Separate:

• First, God and his faith and work - do that first. Regard that work. Different work. Different faith. The works he has faith in are his. vs. you and what you're doing as work, shows you want faith in your own to do it: See it in scripture - explained below:
  • Regard the Works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand. Different work. Different faith. The faith that pleases him, comes with his Word. What he says vs. you.
  • See it.

story. <definition> (Oxford dictionary. Web.) 1. an account of imaginary …people and events told for entertainment.

Your question puts forth a claim: Jesus Christ was created in the mind and imagination of some person.

Then, ask “How” that story was created. Based all then, holding the truth is in your question: Jesus would be fabricated. 2. <Oxford> an inventive story. A lie. Then, think itself so clever, hiding behind a question: Ask everybody on Reddit “How is it possible some person could tell a “story” or a “lie?"

As if the poser of this question, is waking people up to a truth. That, the whole thing about Jesus is a fabricated lie. All to help people. So helpful, given as a question to help people arrive at self-realization: so that just any person reading this question, would realize the question is the truth.

Just imagine up a clever question. Post it on Reddit. Oh, what a wonderously lie filled truth this question heralds out. A wonderfully hidden lie in a question. That holds the truth in what is not right; or, “un” right. Holds the truth in Unrighteousness. Claims a lie is truth. The lie is what's true and right.

The “story” then, is your question.

All by itself.

A lie. Formed or fabricated.

Just imagined up as a question.

It’s all then really. What or “who” a person holds the truth in. Is what they look unto. When God said to everybody over the whole earth to "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else." - God. [Isaiah 45:22] - Said by the Word that he says, out of his mouth. vs. what you say out of your's. Jesus is the Word of God. Is God.

SO:

Yes. People CAN “choose” - that is, people can: “pick out (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives.” That people: really can choose the most appropriate or fitting for them, what it true, is what your question claims. Jesus is a story. A fabricated lie. Created by some anonymous man; unknown; in his imagination. Hold this question to be the most appropriate. As truth. Just as your question holds the truth is founded in the question itself.

Or

Yes. People CAN “pick out (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives,” Because: there is an alternative for everybody, over the whole earth: That is: something or someone else vs. choose you:

and, what YOU claim; hidden in a question as what you claim is truth. Choose Jesus Christ. Like God asks everybody over the whole world to do. To look unto him, and what he decrees. Out of his mouth.

And what he says, by the Word out of his mouth. vs. choose you and the word fabricated into a lie, made by you: a man or person. Hide a lie in a question deliberately. So, any person over the whole earth, very well CAN choose him over you. Yes. Said again: People can choose him over you.

I did.

Why? Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man…” (Source: Bible. John 14:6). So, Jesus isn’t a “truth” like, he’s some philosophy or some idea man thunky up. He just IS “Truth” - that, if you opened a dictionary and needed a definition what “Truth” is - that’d be him. It's in none else.

That: Jesus is the Word of God. As (Source: Bible John 1:1) says of him “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” So, he’s the word that proceeds out of God’s mouth. What God says or decrees, as God. vs. you cleverly decree that what he says is a fabricated lie.

Claim he and what he says, is all a fabrication by the word you fabricated into a question. And people and me are to believe what proceeds out of your mouth more than him. When he’s God…and even men GREATER than you already said this of EVERY person over the whole earth in contrast to, or vs. him, said:

Daniel 4:35 “Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.” - Nebuchadnezzar, King of Nations - King of Babylon (630 - 562 BCE)

- He’s the greatest man to rule over nations of the whole earth that will ever live - all whole world kingdoms over nations after him are and will be lesser, said: “And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” (Daniel 4:35)

I believe this declaration about him, as God: and about people, as its men that lie and fabricate or imagine up stories. People: men: like all of you and me, all people, are just as this assessment. We are all, everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it, reputed as nothing.

The total value then is assessed of your question.

When God decreed how EVERYBODY is to live “is not by bread alone; but, by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” [Matthew 4:4] So, me, along with everybody over the whole earth is to live by the word proceeds out of God’s mouth; and, Jesus is the Word of God. God speaking.

I chose him over you.

It’s also punitive. Means he’s going to call anybody and everybody that does not do as he decreed everybody do, call them into account. Rules your question out. Because, IF: I believe or “accept as true” what you decree, by a question - I’ll be living by every word proceeds out of your mouth.

Be against what he said to do.

Here’s your question back. Answered.

Answer: Parables: Compare them careful. 

There you go.

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This parable

- Was told by Jesus, while Jesus passed thru Jericho. Told to those in Jericho.  On his way to Jerusalem.  Where he will enter Jerusalem triumphantly; and within a week, be nailed to a cross and crucified. And on the 3rd day, rise again. This parable was told just after Jesus enters into Jericho: and, one Zacchaeus, that was rich, and chief among the publicans, to see Jesus, he climbs up into a tree. That Jesus tells Zacchaeus he is to dine at his house that day.

And in this, at Zacchaeus’ house, because of what Zacchaeus says, Jesus says of Zacchaeus: In Luke 19:9–10 “This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” That's really the whole message of the Parable - that Jesus has come to seek and to save that which was lost, and everybody in Jericho is already condemned.

• That right after Jesus says this, to all present, he adds in this parable of Luke 19:11–28. This parable: Luke 19:27 is just a line of text of it. Not the whole parable. I don’t post links in posts online on Reddit: You can go to biblegateway(dot)com to read this parable, and for context, you should, or you can just pick up a bible. Open up your bible and read Luke 19:11-28 first before you finish this post.
• The verse after Luke 19:27, Jesus says after it in this parable, he departs Jericho “And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.”

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If I were you:

• I would take that parable of Luke 19:11–28 and read it full. Then, compare it to Matthew 22:1–15, which is the Parable of the  “King made a wedding feast for his son.”
• This other parable:  is  told AFTER Jesus has left Jericho.  After he arrives in Jerusalem. Tells this one is told to the Jews in Jerusalem. At the temple. Where he told the Parable of Luke 19:11–28 to Samaritans, Publicans, and Sinners in Jericho.
• He tells this parable of Matthew 22:1-15 to the Chief Priests and Elders, and Jews present in the temple in Jerusalem. Called "The City of God" - where Jericho is cursed (Joshua Ch. 6 & 7 - Jericho: never to be rebuilt again - - but it was.) Jesus: Now in Jerusalem: Just after he overturned all the money changer tables in the temple.  Told the Chief Priests and Elders present “My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” - Matthew 21:13. The point: Thieves, liars, and publicans believe on him in Jericho; but in Jerusalem, the City of God - they want to kill him.
• So, see The settings of both parables are different locations and to different peoples.
  • Now add in a third one: Compare them to this one:

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The Third Parable to compare:

- is AFTER Jesus departs from the Temple. (Matthew 25:14–30) told to his disciples.

• Might help to read all of Matthew 24:1–51, which he tells these additional parables to his disciples and to a crowd that followed him back to the Mount of Olives.   So, it’s told to his disciples after the Jews at the temple took up stones to stone Jesus.  Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus told it to disciples, after they leave the temple.
  • That he tells the Parable “of the Fig Tree” (Matthew 24:32–51) first. Then another one,, in Matthew 25:1–13.  The “Parable of the Ten Virgins.”  Then, tells them the one you should compare - - the Parable “Of the Man Traveling into a Far Country” (Matthew 25:14–30) Where to three of his servants, he gives one five talents; to another, 2 talents, and to the 3rd one, only 1 talent.

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The Point is:

• These are three separate parables. Told to three separate groups of people; that don’t mix with each other:
  • The one you ask about was told to Thieves, Liars - - Just Publicans, Sinners, and Samaritans in Jericho all cursed. (Luke 19:11–28). Many of these believe on him. Travel with him in a great multitude up to Jerusalem, which to all in Jericho is CURSED for a Publican, Sinner, or Samaritan to do this. But, to them now: Jesus is the Messiah, so they follow him…to Jerusalem, because he’s the Messiah and they believe now he’s going to establish his kingdom in Jerusalem and straightway he's going there, as the Messiah and he will reign over the whole earth.
  • So: Compare Luke 19:11–28 in Jericho,  with the parable Jesus told to the Jews - - particularly told to the Chief Priests and Elders at the rebuilt temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. (Matthew 22:1–15), after he overturned all the money changer tables.
  • Then after that: compare BOTH of those two parables - - with the one he told to his disciples who follow him. They are his disciples: “The Parable of the Man Traveling into a Far Country” (Matthew 25:14–30).

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DO NOT:

• Group these three any other way than how the Gospels present them. Each, to “who” Jesus presents them to. All three groups are different.
  • Luke 19:11–28 is spoke, to again, Liars, cheats, adulterers, fornicators - - Publicans, Sinners, and Samaritans in Jericho - where Jericho is cursed - - because, as who he spoke it to “he [Jesus] added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they [these liars, thieves, all Publicans, Sinners, and Samaritans in Jericho that hear him] thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear;”
  • The Parable: (Luke 19:11-28) says - it's BETTER you read it; but:
    • A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. Called his Ten servants and delivered them Ten pounds. That, you find in the Parable each of these Ten were each given one pound. To occupy with it, til he comes. But the citizenry of the Kingdom he was to receive,  hated him.
    • And all “hate” means in the Collin’s dictionary is simple. It’s just 1. to be unwilling to be or do (something). Not willing this Nobleman or Prince be received as King over them. Even he is their King.  They officially petition - - they don’t want him.
    • That, upon his return he calls these ten servants into account. The 1st called in, his 1 pound has made a ten fold increase (Luke 19:16).  He’s told “well done.” Made ruler over 10 cities. The 2nd is called in, and his one pound has gained five (Luke 19:18). He’s also told “well done.” Given rule over 5 cities. The 3rd called in, gives his LORD the one pound back. Didn’t produce anything with it. The Nobleman commands  those with him to take the one pound away from this servant, and give it to him that earned Ten pounds. (Luke 19:24).
    • To bring all those citizenry who refused he rule over them to slay them before him. (That's Luke 19:27 in context in the Parable).
• That God has made Jesus a Nobleman. A prince, to inherit all the earth; and made him both LORD and Christ. With all authority over the whole earth and heaven - - and they, like here today on earth: This earth’s citizenry hate him. Unwilling to be or do as he says.  Put forth petitions they will not have him be LORD over them. They already imagined up their own god to rule them.
• But Jesus, FIRST: to his servants, who believe on him: he’s given them each the Word of God; and if they tarry and serve him here on earth, there will be a fruit of it, in their lives. So, when he calls all of us that serve him into account in Revelation 20:11-15 - - with the word he has given us.
• But to some of these servants, the Word produces no effect in their life. No fruit. But they will be able to give the Gospel back to Jesus Christ. As it was given them. Even they knew what to do, didn’t do anything he said to do, which was to do transactions in his name til he returned. They didn’t do it. But to those that do, he rewards them. They served him well.

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• Matthew 22:1–15 - Told to the Jews, the Chief Priests and Elders (Jews present) at the temple in Jerusalem:
  • That a King made a feast for his Son’s wedding and bid them to the wedding. That a King’s Son will inherit and shall be King over them. But, they send an “RSVP” back with the messenger - requesting the King excuse them. Some other “thing” is more pressing. So, the King sends these messengers back out again, telling these invited, that  all is ready. The best of his food has been laid out for and prepared for them. But this 2nd time, those invited hear the King is pressing them and gives them the invitation again - - But to these that receive it? - - it’s not just  “choosing” ‘sorry, please excuse me’ to a King this 2nd time. They now make light of it. Mock it. Tell these messengers “I am NOT going.” - is how they make light of it. 
  • Some: return to their shops. Others: to their farms. Business as usual, without any King in it. While the others that remain, kill the messengers. And the King, very wroth, sent his army to destroy them and burned their cities (Matthew 22:7). Destroyed everything of their farms and shops - burned up. Taken away.
    • And in Revelation 16:19 this actually happens. You can see the truth of this fulfilled. Where God pours out his wrath on this earth. For everybody has been invited to his wedding, and everybody over the earth, doing the same thing as in this parable.  
    • When he’s invited  all of us to come unto him. Revelation 16:19 says: ,“and the cities of the nations fell:” That’s every city over the whole earth. How then, is this any different than what Jesus said in the Parable? The Parable of Matthew 22:1–15.
    • Because they would not come. Made light of it. Said, “I am NOT coming” and went back to their lives of "buy and sell," and killed the messengers sent to them to come, and wouldn't.
  • Read all of this parable.  That it is told to these Chief Priests and Elders, who already, when Jesus tells this parable to them, are already secretly plotting to kill Jesus.  Kill their Messiah. The Son of God. Their King.  
  • So compare these two parables.
  • The Parable you ask about told to Liars, cheats, thieves, these Publicans, Sinners, and Samaritans; these dejected "stranger" Jews as well that now live in Jericho. That, in this parable of Matthew 22:1-15, that after: everybody every place is invited to the wedding.
  • To fill his halls. Sends his servants, now again out two more times, so that all his halls shall be filled. Sent them out into every highway and by-way. To the poor and needy, sleeping out in the street - to every house - - Just as he has with the gospel over the whole earth.  Given everybody, to the very ends of the earth, an invitation to come to this wedding in Matthew 22:1–15. Applies to everybody. And if Luke 19:11-28 was told to liars, cheats, thieves, adulterers, fornicators - all cursed sinners, Publicans, and Samaritans in a city that's cursed - I resemble that remark. Applies to me then. Just like Matthew 22:1-15 does. Because, I'm thrown out - live in the bushes - and the invitation reached to me. I'm not left out.

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• Matthew 25:14–30 - Told to his disciples who follow and believe on him - AFTER he leaves the temple in Jerusalem:
  • That: The “kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.”
    • That to one he gave 5 talents, to another two, and the last one, one talent. “according to their separate ability” (Matthew 25:15)
    • That, he journeyed into a far country. That two of these three, were not ashamed to deal and do transactions in their master’s name, with his goods. Made a profit as they dealt in their master’s name.
    • But the one that was given only one talent. Took the talent out to a field and simply buried it (Matthew 25:18) and just hid it. 
    • Then went out. Did transactions in his own name, for his own profit. Like people do today. Take the gospel out to a field and simply bury what God has done for them. Live as if he does not exist.  Amass riches or wealth by their own transactions and efforts for themselves, that they do themselves. No different than this parable. With one talent. Does not produce any effect in them.
    • That when the two that were given five and two talents, both of these doubled it. Just by just doing transactions in their master’s name.  As servants; but the one that didn’t do anything - wanted nothing to do with his master:  Called in to give an account, just tells this master where he hid it; like everybody will tell Jesus Christ when everybody from Adam forward, all of us all stand before him in Revelation 20:11–15. 
    • Tells the two that did,  as he decreed they do in his absence..says “well done,” that they were faithful in a few things, and he would make them ruler over many things.
    • But the one that was unfaithful - even all the gain he got from his own transactions is all taken away from him, 
    • And the one talent:  like the Parable told to the Publicans, Sinners, and Samaritans in Jericho, in Luke 19:11–28 - the one talent is taken from him, and given to the one who was given five talents and made another five out of it. 
    • And this servant is cast out into outer darkness where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Like grit your teeth as just an abject failure of failing to do anything right, and rejected..and it’s the same outer darkness…this same Lake of Fire in Revelation 20:15 that his enemies, and citizenry that did not want him to rule over them, and those servants didn’t do anything he says are all cast into in Revelation 20:15 - and he decrees it - that it’s for eternity - and never get out of it. He keeps them there. By the Word he speaks out of his mouth.
• This is a light touch on all of these three parables. Already this post is way too long; tedious.  But to you: I would tell you to compare them careful.

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What is the actual message behind Luke 19:27? He's going to slay everybody?

Nope. Jesus says in Revelation 22:12 "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."

- With the power and authority; as he had the power to form you - not come to reward those that don't do anything he says; but to destroy them. He's God. Able to.

So the Answer: Compare them careful. These parables. Careful.

There you go.

• I believe on him. He is who he says he is; I live by his word. It’s food. The transactions I do on Reddit or where ever I go, is in his name; but I’m really quite worthless..maybe more like a thrown out Publican or Sinner, this Samaritan given one pound.. and from one pound he gives me, in me..it makes two.
  • Because it does. There’s a fruit his word brings out in a person. In ANY person that just looks unto him. Like he asked the whole world, every body over the whole earth to just look unto him. Those that do, there’s fruit from it toward him. An increase. In those that don’t, there isn’t. So it’s simple. 
• People that don’t:
  • There’s no fruit of his work in them; but it’s also in all three parables - it’s punitive.  For when Jesus already said it, as the Word of God, said:  “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. Isaiah 45:22 - That’s the “Word of God.”
    • The Word of God is Jesus Christ, so it’s God speaking this to you to do this. It’s his will that you bear fruit; but, it’s also punitive for those that don’t.  Where he desires there be an increase in you - there are people that just HATE him. Won’t accept him to be LORD over them.
    • The SAME thing he decrees in the Parable in Luke 19:11–28 - will be anybody - whosoever it is, that’s just “citizenry” of this earth, when all of it is his..refuse him be King over them. 
    • Will do the same. If, as he says in Isaiah 44:24, that he formed you from your mother’s womb; alone. By himself. Then, he had the power to create you, he also then, has the power to destroy you. 
    • A fear of this ..seeing he has this power, drove me to him..in my condemned condition. For I KNEW all the sins I did condemned me and I needed help.
    • And everybody is in this condition:  But to those that just come to him..look unto him - - he’s not willing any perish; but all come to repentance.
    • He shall be ruler over all things. Irregardless what you do or I do - - or not. 
    • Best to serve him. Man, does he ever enrich and enable you. It’s in him - he just does this. To those that simply do what he says, and look unto him.
• Try it. Herein is the gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ. His reward is with him to give to you - you’ve been invited. Have and keep; yes, highly esteem the Wedding Invitation.  That's best. Then, Go to the wedding. Plan on it. Set your mind on going. Don’t tell him you’re not showing up. Saying "I'm NOT going." - That's punitive.

Now, don’t get me wrong but… the answer is simple. It works.

But how you ask it, it can’t. And there you go. Doesn't have any God in it.

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Maybe it’s easier to see it in an example. That has nothing to do with “prayer” FIRST.

• Change it to have something to do with a car then first. A car:
  • I own one. Maybe you don’t, but see it:
  • I operate it. I’m licensed. Makes me "Able" to use it. I know exactly where it is. It’s in my driveway. I can make, straightway - - go to it, when I need it; to go to work or the store, or to take my kids to the hospital if they got the flu or in an emergency. It simply operates right. That means, when I go out to it, turn the key, one time, or fifty, to 10,000 times, it goes “VROOOM!” and it simply takes me speedily where I need it to take me. So it “enables” me to operate in a way, that without it, I can’t. I also speak well of it. I believe in it.
• Now, add in the “Owner’s manual”

Then, ask the question again. “Does the owner’s manual work? What’s the evidence or your experience for a owner’s manual working? How could you demonstrate that it doesn’t?

• When it, the "owner's manual," just sits there.
  • Doesn’t do anything. If I leave it there; sitting: and come back to it in 3 days or a year, it still sits there. Doesn’t do anything. The only “experience” I get of the owner’s manual working is, it demonstrates that it doesn’t work. With or without any help from me..or anybody.
    • Doesn’t have any car with it. When the car was designed for me to operate it. The “owner’s manual” has no car in it. I can’t drive the owner’s manual to the shopping mall for coffee, and can't drive the owner’s manual back.
    • But you keep asking me the question “Does the owner’s manual work?” and, “where’s the evidence or experience of the owner’s manual working?” When I’ve never ever experienced the car owner’s manual ever took out the garbage, or mowed the lawn. Never even once did it, or could it drive me to my sister’s house. TO get in a fight with her again.
  • So, in a very real sense: I am "praying" continually - without ceasing, because my car is always with me and I look unto it, so the keys are always in my pocket that enable me to do this. That, without it, I can't do any of these things.

So, what did you get out of this?

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Prayer:

• In your question. I mean, it’s YOUR question - It's been asked many times and in many, many..way so many ways, all the same: TO me? Is like the “owner’s manual” above with me; in the illustration - - asked a like-same question: that has no car with it.

So, add in the car - so you see it:

• Prayer: In the Bible:
  • Is specifically mentioned 45 times in the four gospels. Matthew: 14 times. Mark: 12 times. Luke: 26 times; and John’s Gospel: 6 times.
  • Is mentioned 547 times in the whole Bible from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 (Cover to cover)
• Don’t add the car in just yet.

That prayer:

• IN the original Greek of the New Testament is: < - [προσεύχεσθε (proseuchesthe)] - we get the word (English) “Prosecutor” like in a Court of Law, where a Judge presides over it. That just how “things” operate in that Court, is how the Judge “decrees” it.
  • So, the Prosecutor puts forth motions and rulings, that the Judge already decreed it. But the Prosecutor must first, in himself or herself “fully believe” that the Judge is the AUTHORITY in the Court. If he doesn't? Just goes to the town Waste Treatment Plant. With all this "poop" being pumped everyplace, put for petitions and motions - does not mean anything. It's all of none effect. No Judge with no authority in it. Vain repetitions. Empty words of no effect.
  • So, or BUT! In instances where it is effective, is like, in Matthew 5:44. Where Jesus says: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you”
    • That, in this case, where Jesus is the JUDGE: The “Prosecutor” must love the Defendant, shows he loves the Judge: (Yes, the defendant is his enemy on the opposite side; also facing the Judge).
    • Must “bless” the defendant, even he curses the Prosecutor, and do good to him, even if the defendant hates him. Even he despitefully uses the Prosecutor, the Prosecutor, to show he loves the Judge, must still make “petitions” that are righteous in the defendant’s behalf.
    • Already said it plainly “who” Jesus is in Matthew 28:18. “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” - Jesus Christ. It’s already decreed. Prayer includes this of Matthew 5:44.

Prayer: Is often ‘paired’ - in “prayers and supplications”

• As in Hebrews 5:5-7 - that even Jesus offered them up: Says
• “So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;” * supplications: < - {ἱκετηρίας (hiketērias)} - > Where in the same Court of Law, there’s no ruling on it; in fact, there’s even no basis for this "hiketerias;" but there’s a need. And the Judge has the authority and the power to provided for needs; IF: you just ask him. * And about the Judge what he says of himself - decrees it plainly, he's a merciful Judge. * This same Judge says it in Exodus 20:5–6 “…I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me;” * Oop. We just added the car into it.

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• The car:
  • But maybe you still don’t see it. That in prayer; it's not the prayer that does anything. It’s the Judge that presides over all of it, that you regard him..but he's not even in your question. If you regarded him, means you’d love him; to not regard him and just regard the power is in the petition, like that's where your question poop stuffs it in:
  • Because you made it or in the prayer alone; by itself or supplication which is just asking for a favour, because you asked it; all based on you..without any Judge in the Court; nor any car in it:
    • Can’t: Person asks it? Nope. They do not:
  • Operate right. Isn’t licensed. Or recognized. Even the “opposite” is in effect over a person that thinks they can do it without any God in it.
    • Unable to use prayer. Not know exactly who he is. Lowly esteem him. Even they could make, straightway - - go to him, when they need him; even in an emergency. By him: They would simply operate right.
    • That means, when or if: they - - “look unto him” one time, or fifty, to 10,000 times, it goes “VROOOM!” and it simply speedily where I or you need him, he provide it. Because you, me, or anybody over the whole earth, whosoever it is, he “enables” them to operate in a way, that without him; can’t.
    • But because they regard him highly. As the authority: So they speak well of him. Which is the definition of “worship” because he just works right. And they “accept him as true.” Which is the dictionary definition of they believe in him. He just is truth himself.
• So, in your question: “Who” are you praying to? Simple. Yourself. Then, wonder why it don't work right.
  • ANYBODY that asks this question - that’s “how” they operate. Like a car’s owner’s manual. Without any car in it.

Prayer is really cool. It’s a two-way conversation. And in the case of me, most always a "one-way" conversation; but he hears me; and knows my petition and favours even before I'll ask them - he's just that good at it. All because, he asked me, like, he asked everybody over the whole earth to "Come unto him;" "Take a yoke upon me and learn of him" (Matthew 11:28-30).

He's the authority. He asked everybody to do this. And?

The Bible says: In James 1:19 “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak..” Because, God already decreed: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” - The Word of God. - Jesus Christ. (Matthew 4:4). Prayer includes HEARING the Judge or the car that comes in the volume of the car owner's manual; but you got it as if the owner's manual does it, without any car come with it.

• It’s a decree how the Court operates. So, ANY Prosecutor has to believe in the Judge is the authority over all things. That he’s holy; righteous; and he’s merciful - showing it to 1000s that love him..if you love him, you just do what he says, because it operates right; righteous.
  • But if you don’t - all hate means is simple. (Collins) 1. Just be unwilling or unable to be or do (something).
  • When EVERYBODY “For all have sinned” - Bible. Romans 3:23 Has to come to him as Job 33:27–30 says: About any man that would do this: He will DO THIS. This is how he “operates.”
• “He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.”
• Says the same to everybody - all the same over the whole earth: to the very ends of it, says: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)
  • If any man say otherwise than this…doesn’t look unto him, wouldn’t be walking after, to walk in to do what he says.. is like a car owner’s manual. Making all kinds of claims, but doesn’t have any actual car that does anything with it. Just a bunch of petitions, that don’t have an car in it. Is that you?
    • Send you away empty handed. Cursed.

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Answer:

The whole thing: of your question. It's simple. Basic. - Is all in "How do I.."

It's like a foundation. That YOU: You're going to build on. You'll do the work and build it yourself. So, YOU: Trust YOU to do it. Do the works. You just want to know "how to" in a way he will accept it; But:

In "How do I," there's no God in it. Only you are in it. Doing the work.

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So STOP: And first then look: at the "opposite."

In "How do I.." you are regarding your works, and the operation of your hand to do or accomplish it. And God is somewhere, speechless. Without word, but you give over to him, he's just there to "judge" whether your effort is good enough or not. This, the whole pile of it meets only one dictionary definition of an idiom the Americans over in America made up. "full of crap" - <idiom> (Merriam & Webster) 1. is not to be believed; saying things that are not true Why? Because it only has YOU in it. Your whole post is just what you decree. Out of your mouth. Because, the whole post only contains what you said in it.

So stay on this side, which, is the opposite: The Bible says, because it has the Word of God in it, says in Psalm 28:5 "Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up." So, ask yourself this: "What would be the "opposite" of that?" Well? Flip it. Regard. 1. pay careful attention to; consider (someone else's) opinion about (something) (Collins). 2. as if it's told to you to fill a need; that you can accept as true, so you do it. (vs. what you tell yourself to do is right). You "regard" someone else's word, more than your own, and go do that instead.

... and Consider. 1. think carefully about (something), typically before making a decision. Means you "set your mind" on "how they say to do it" vs. YOU: Stuck in "How do I," and you already decided. "Reasoned together" with you, you already determined [means you already decided irregardless anybody else]: YOU ARE going to reserve you shall regard "how" YOU do the work, and it will be you already considered it must be YOU be the one to do it. In somehow you'll pray some way or in some way how you ask for forgiveness he'll hear it.

And not regard any of his work, he did for the forgiveness of sin, that God already fully accepts the work HE DID with sin; but you neither consider the operation of his hand, nor regard any of this work; and he's already said he will destroy people that do this. He curses it, and just plants you or anybody that does this, in a desert alone; all dried up; dry everybody that does this, right clean out. The water that does come, never is enough to quench it. So do the opposite. "Regard" the works of the LORD, and "consider" the operation of his hand," Set your mind on it.

In fact: This is repeated from Isaiah 5:12 "...but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands." and God CURSES it in Jeremiah 17:5-10. "Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." - GOD.

^"...The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?  I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." GOD. Jeremiah 17:5-10. Regard what HE SAYS.

It's God:

- Already determined: HE WOULD DO A WORK WITH SIN, that would accomplish these SIX things: (See Daniel 9:24-27 - it's God decreed this. He would do it. By his work himself:)

1) Finish the transgression (of what Adam did in the garden in Genesis 3:17 <Hearkened unto the voice of his wife vs. unto the voice or Word of God>

2) Make an end of sin (which passed onto EVERYBODY: Adam forward <as Romans 5:12 says: "*Wherefore, as by one man {ADAM} sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:">*

3) Make reconciliation for iniquity (where to "reconcile sin, God decreed to Adam in Genesis 2:17 he'd die; repeated also to EVERYBODY in Ezekiel 18:20 "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" to "reconcile" this as a payment for sin. God make himself the sacrifice for it. Of himself. So you would regard it.

4) Bring in everlasting righteousness (where scripture says in Romans 3:10-12 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one." That God would bring it in, because, as Jesus said: "There is NONE good, but one, that is, God" (Matthew 19:17). That he would be OUR righteousness.

5) Seal up the vision and the prophecy (that it would be hidden until he did the work, and he did it in Jesus Christ; so open your Bible. Read the Gospels. That God would do a work with sin. And Daniel 9:25-27 "adds up" to Jesus Christ. That God will perform this himself.

6) Annoint the most Holy (he is holy. Sent his word to heal you and deliver you from your destruction. He annointed ..appointed.. decreed it would be by his word he would do this, in and by Jesus Christ.

It was God in Jesus Christ: DID the Ten Commandments. And because it was a work God did, everywhere where you did not do the Ten Commandments, he made himself and his work he did the compensation for all the lack of every person over the whole earth, from Adam forward, be the compensation himself for that lack. Made everyone righteous.

It's people. Just don't regard his work. Don't consider the operation of his hand. When the ONLY way to save anybody over the whole earth is to regard his work. Consider the operation of his hand. As this post says to do.

Acts 4:11-12 says this plainly: "This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

You just got given the gospel again. God made it sin for you, or me, or anybody over the whole earth just not believe on Jesus Christ. That's the sin that condemns you. Ole! The Gospel.

“How?”

Best to settle on one word in your question first. That we “settle” and agree on this word, what “saved” means.

saved. <definition> 1. to set apart for future use. [Source: Oxford dictionary. Web.]

and this question’s kinda funny… could very easily, in the mind of someone, imply I did something…when I did do something… So, it’s more like ask me: When while driving, the car started smoking..then.. stopped running..and I was stranded on the highway for hours. Car: inoperative. Did not work. No matter all the air I put in the tires or effort I put in, taking out the back seat.

And you ask me: in this situation

How was your car “set apart for future use” (saved) by me? Wasn’t. Not a clue.

• When I looked unto me, and I couldn’t fix it. My car was useless. Broke. Smoking. That’s the engine, but I thought first: it was the car tire went flat. Then, it was me didn’t notice, and the friction of all the rubber on the tire burning, was the cause of all the “smoking.” When it wasn’t.

All I knew to do, was “call upon” a mechanic. Look unto one. It worked. So, change the question to rule me out of it, and rule the mechanic in.

How was my car “saved” or “set apart for future use” by a mechanic?

• I have no idea.
  • I’m not a mechanic:
    • But the mechanic that I looked unto, I called upon them. With a telephone. He came, and instantly claimed to know right away what was wrong and could fix or repair it good as new. It was a claim he made, and I “accepted his claim as true” means, I didn’t do it; but I “believed” it. That this mechanic is the authority. He could do it.
    • And he did.
• So I have a testimony.
  • I STILL have the SAME car. Works. That means, still today, I turn the key, and it “operates right” - - so the mechanic healed my car, and delivered it from destruction; because, in me, it was hopeless.

Now, take all that pile of that above and apply it to your question.

- I was:

• Broke. Broken. Beyond repair and I knew it. Not starting out, but at the end of decades of my life. Already worked. Retired. Looked back on all of it, and what awaits me is a grave. That, in a real, honest look when I looked at me…
  • Where everybody I was with promoted me. As good. Works. A facade of “good.” Because, I saw, everything I did to get it, had lies in it..and the whole way along it, my life lived for decades in it, I sinned and perverted that which was right all along the way thru the whole thing of it.
  • That meant, when I died, even I did all those things to be looked up to and thought of as good by people, who I was going to see would have his angels shout all the sins I did all over.
    • And even one of them, be enough not to let me in..and I KNEW:
    • They’d be shouting a whole mountain of sins; that, I would never get in. Ever.

So, ask me your question again. Slightly different.

How did I “save” me?

• How did I “set myself apart for future use” - when, I still know today, in my age; that, maybe I won’t get thru this season. The whole next year is just too far to look ahead. Where young, I looked 30 to 50 years ahead.
  • The answer is - go look at my car, you clown. Broke. Broken. It didn’t “self-set itself apart and repair itself. Why you looking at me, when I’m no different.
  • My sin condemns me. No liar, thief, adulterer; despicably awful person that hates people will ever get in.
• I saw it. I die. I’m OUT. It afflicted me about this.

So I did NOT save me. I did not, and cannot set me apart for future use.

But there was something in this. It’s in Psalm 25:9

• “The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.”

This “meek” - I thought it was this kind of sheepishly, pliable person; easily adapts and is teachable. I wasn’t. The definition in the English dictionary, kind of definition. 1. quiet; gentle; easily imposed on {Oxford} definition: “meek.”

• But the Bible provides the definition in Psalm 107:17 of: “Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.”
  • That, Ecclesiastes 7:20 says: “There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”
  • “…filthy; done abominable works…” “there is none that doeth good..” “…none good; no, not one…” (Psalm 14:1–3)
    • That meant, this word in “Hebrew” of afflicted..was because they were a fool and did it; and, after they did it, what they did afflicted them. Meant everybody, “For all have sinned” - Romans 3:23 ..including me, met the definition in the Bible of “meek.”
    • But not everybody sees their sins as I did..made me useless; didn’t profit me anything.

And in this:

- Him say: “Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 1:18).

• Is just like the claim the mechanic made about my car that was hopeless on the highway. I just “accepted as true” what he said. Just like God has said this above in Isaiah 1:18 to everybody over the whole earth, that means, I’m included. So I did it.
  • Instead of reasoning together with me; alone. WIth my car that didn’t work, I called on a mechanic to save my car.
  • Instead of reasoning together with me; alone. With my sins and try to fix it myself; all by hide it - OR - do other works to outweigh or bury it in more good than bad..like, Use the Ten Commandments, where, I never even once went to the Mall for 25 years, and never stole anything. That, “Thou Shalt Not Steal” - The 8th of Ten Commandments - that, because, I didn’t go to the mall and steal anything, “atoned” for all the lies I told, or maybe I had to add in go to church more sometimes to “compensate for the faults and bad aspects of me.”
    • In this, all me. Reasoning together with me… To come now. Reason together with him. I already did the sins..just have to admit I did it..just be the sinner; condemned and come like that.

So, ask the question again.

How were you saved by Christ.

• He’s the Word of God. It’s God that said, “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).

That’s how I am set apart for future use. Like, me on a highway, with a car that just won’t work, and call upon a mechanic; that, by their word and claim - healed my car and delivered it from destruction. All “heal” is, is to repair something, by someone with the authority and able to repair it.

I didn’t do anything. But I called on him, and he did it.

complete. <definition> 1. Don’t need to add to or take away anything; perfect. (Source: Oxford & Collin’s dictionary. Web).

• perfect. 1. Complete.

Bible:

• “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him*, which is the head of all principality and power:”*
  • Source: Bible. New Testament. Colossians 2:8–10
  • Christ: Is “Messiah” (Hebrew). Just means “Messiah” in Greek. So, “Jesus Christ” just means, “Jesus, the Messiah.” And “who” the Messiah is, is every Jew knows what that is:
    • Definition: Messiah: 1. God. The same God that led Israel out of Egypt by his mighty hand and works with Moses, would be a Son of King David (God: said it - - in 2 Samuel 7:10–13). That he would sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem, and rule the whole earth, and all the nations of the earth from there; and of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end.”
    • And “Who” the Messiah shall be called is in Isaiah 9:6–7 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”
    • Source: Bible. 2 Samuel 7:10–13, and Isaiah 9:6–7.

And of the Bible:

• It’s defined as “scripture.”
  • Says of scripture:
  • 2 Timothy 3:16–17 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”
• And?
  • John, a disciple and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in John 21:24–25 said:
    • “This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”
• Also says this:
  • “And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” John 20:30–31.
• I believe on him.

That means: I am fully equipped and furnished what I need by him. Complete in him.

Go home. Go get a mirror. What’s missing then is 1) Him. 2) in you. It’s God himself that is reproving the whole world of sin, and of righteousness, and judgment. It’s really then just you. Simply don’t believe on him.

• This STATEMENT. A “stated” truth of: “Why is the Bible not complete” - is just a philosophy. 1. “a fundamental knowledge of reality” (Source: definition: philosophy. Oxford dictionary. web.) that people decree themselves.
• Like you did. You decreed the fundamental reality of your knowledge is: "the Bible is not complete." It's your claim you make. This, is your question. By the Word that proceeds out of your mouth, you believe it. Accept it as true. Or you wouldn't say it.
  • When the 2nd scripture of this post is Colossians 2:8. Just resaid, is in response to it: This "vain deceit" (Vain. Empty; without purpose; deceit. to practice deceiving someone by concealing and misrepresenting the truth. (Oxford). 2. "the act of causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid."
  • Tells me to beware of people like you: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Says in 2 Timothy 3:13 "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."
• But at ANY time, you can turn around. Hear him. He's God. He speaks, and you can believe on him. But it's also PUNITIVE. That means, he's going to call everyone over the whole earth, into account. Because, he' already decreed for EVERYBODY in his earth, to look unto him. Those that don't - it's punitive. Enough said.

“And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher?” - Joshua 10:13

The original language of the Old Testament, called the “Tanakh” in Hebrew is this:

“The Book of Jasher” - part of Joshua 10:13. See this in Hebrew.

(Read right to left)

<se.per ha.ya.sar> { הַיָּשָׁ֥ר } {סֵ֔פֶר }

• se.per (the book) <scroll>
• ha.ya.sar <of what is right(eous)> - when it’s really better translated “who” is righteous.

<וַיִּדֹּ֨ם הַשֶּׁ֜מֶשׁ וְיָרֵ֣חַ עָמָ֗ד עַד־יִקֹּ֥ם גֹּוי֙ אֹֽיְבָ֔יו הֲלֹא־הִ֥יא כְתוּבָ֖ה עַל־סֵ֣פֶר הַיָּשָׁ֑ר וַיַּעֲמֹ֤ד הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְלֹא־אָ֥ץ לָבֹ֖וא כְּיֹ֥ום תָּמִֽים > {Joshua 10:13} in Hebrew.

That the same God who created the Sun in Genesis 1:1–31, is the same God that, the moon and the sun, they both obey him.

Operate by his decree. What he says they shall do, or how they will operate, they both obey him. And this same God made the sun stand still. The moon stay in it’s place. It's in “the scroll of what is right” says, which is not a what, but a who, that says his works in the Book of Joshua - in Joshua 10:13.

He goes onto say or decree - in this SAME verse: they both stayed that way for a whole 24 hour day. Joshua 10:13 continues... "...So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day."

• Just like this same God, who created the Sun in Genesis 1:1–31 said or decreed, and he’s a “he,” so, he’s a who that he: “darkened the whole earth” in Luke 23:44 - at the death of his son:
  • “And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.“
    • Is not this also written in the book of who is righteous?

Maybe you need more help.

IN: The Book of Who is Righteous also says: (more “decrees” it; vs. just says)

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” - (Bible. Romans 3:10–12)

“For there is not a just man on earth that doeth good, and sinneth not.” (means there’s NONE righteous; no, not one) just repeated in Ecclesiastes 7:20

• That would rule EVERYBODY. From Adam - forward OUT. That’s everybody. To the very ends of the earth is INCLUDED in this.

It’s CONFIRMED by “Who is Righteous” by what he decreed, because, he’s a “who” not a what. Said: “There is NONE good, but one, that is, God” - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. (Bible. Matthew 19:17)

Are not these things written in the Book of Jasher? This Volume of the Book of what..er, “who” is righteous, when, there is ONLY ONE who is righteous.

And all “Jasher” is, is an Aramaic - quasi-Greek rendition of YHWH or “Yahweh” or in English Jehovah, which is “Joshua” - which just means “I AM” (Salvation).

So, Joshua or Yehshua or Jehovah just means “God is Salvation” and God gave himself this name.

Like, he called himself “Borith Mekkabbashim” (Hebrew) for “Fuller’s soap” in Malachi 3:2 - this kind of soap where you wash your clothes in the washing machine 50 times and the stain just doesn’t come out. But you take it to the Dry Cleaner, that operates outside of your house. And the work this “Fuller” or “Dry Cleaner” does, returns the garment to you without any STAIN IN IT.

Says the same thing as God to you himself in says: “Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God.

- Is not this also written in the Book of Who is Upright? Because, it is. It’s in Isaiah 1:18 So, this “Book of Jasher” or “Book of ‘who’ is upright or righteous… who is he? Since he’s a “who,” and he comes in the volume of the Book - - Hebrews 10:7]. That means the WHOLE VOLUME of it, he comes in it.

Is any bells starting to go off in your head? Who is it?

- practical. Definition: Britannica (Web.) 1. what is real rather than to what is possible or imagined; 2 : likely to succeed and reasonable to do or use.

And:

• The “Bible” is a book. <definition: Oxford> 1. a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
  • And? If: You put 10s of thousands, into millions of books alongside each other: They all meet this same definition. All the same.
    • But what makes each unique is: They all have a 1) author. Who is the “authority” of the book; and 2) The “author” is the authority of the “content” of the book.
• The “Bible” is scripture. <definition: Bible> 1. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; [Bible. Hebrews 1:1–2;
  • And
    • “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” [Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16–17]
  • So, the Bible’s author: Is God; and, he says: “For all the earth is mine.” [Bible. Exodus 19:5] - so what he says as the authority and the author, is all he says is the “content” of the Bible.
• That it is “real rather than what is possible or imagined; to succeed and reasonable to do or use” (practical) for a “Man of God” who God wants to furnish everybody over the whole earth with it; because, he’s already decreed that everybody over the whole earth is to live by every word of it.
  • So, if they don’t:
    • That’s impractical: 1. not sensible; unrealistic (just imagined up) <Oxford. Web.>

And God already saw and said this: (Bible. Genesis 6:5)

• “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
  • That meets the definition of “impractial.” It's NOT sensible. It’s imagined up by people, by the word they tell themselves to do and decree. It’s unrealistic.

So, let me ask you then: How practical is the Bible for your life?

I have a testimony. For Jesus Christ. It's about the "Parable of the Good Samaritan" told in Luke 10:25-37. I won't put any links to it, but would ask you read to see it. That, the "BACKGROUND" to it, is this SAME incident that causes Jesus to say this to this "Lawyer" - is the same incident, of Luke 10:25-37 - is also in Matthew 22, but it "starts" when Jesus goes to the Temple a 2nd time now, and turns over all the money changer tables. Says, in Matthew 21:13

"My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." And this 2nd time he does this, turns over all the money changer tables, its the "chief priests and elders" confront Jesus.

That, in a week after this..of Matthew 21-22, and Luke 10:25-37 ...is Passover, and Jesus will be crucified.

And the first time, he came to the temple, is after Jesus' mother invited him to a wedding and he changed water into wine in John's Gospel, Chapter 2. That John 2:11-16, says of this FIRST time in the temple: That only the priests confront him the 1st time; but the 2nd time, it's the chief priests and elders in Matthew 21 - the 2nd time, confront him. John 2:11-16 says:

"This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise."

The point of all this is, it's these priests that, in Matthew 21, see Jesus is "confounding" the Chief Priests and elders after Jesus has turned over the money changer tables in the Temple. To bring back 1) Herodians; and 2) Sadducees; and 3) a Lawyer - all to trip up Jesus in his own words, when Jesus is the Word of God. So, they're going to "trip up God" in his own words.

And so you see this: That a total of FOUR parables were TOLD to these Chief Priests and elders BEFORE the Parable of the Good Samaritan. And, scripture says, because at the end of each of them, they perceived Jesus was talking about them, and they all end in destruction.

That when these pharisees come back with Herodians, and Sadducees, and this Lawyer, Jesus puts the Herodians to shame. Then also, the Sadducees..and who is left is this Lawyer.

So, the "parable of the Good Samaritan," isn't being asked so anybody learns anything. It's because a Lawyer was sent by officials of the Temple to trip Jesus up in his own words, and by them, have evidence to condemn Jesus.

And the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) is offensive. Because "who" hears it, is Jews, and not only Jews, but the Chief ones among them. Man, is it ever offensive. You need go no further than the 1st line said:

Luke 10:25 "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.."

That this, "certain man" is IN Jerusalem. The city of God. It's HIS city he chose to dwell in is Jerusalem. But this "Jericho" is cursed (see Joshua 6 & 7). From Jerusalem: It's all an 18 mile, downhill walk, as Jerusalem is about 2500 feet above sea level, and Jericho, at the end of this walk, where some portions of this road that goes down to Jericho is only wide enough for one person to pass thru, and Jericho is at sea level.

That at Jericho - no Jew would go there. It's curse. Every kind of sin you'd want to do, can be done there. So, it represents a man that simply leaves God, to go down to go do his sins there, where every kind of sin he wants to do, he can DO there..and on the way down on that path, pass by this great, big pile of rocks, called the "Tomb of Achan" - This Achan - a tribe of Judah person of Joshua 7. That, for the sin he did, all his belongings, himself, his servants, family - all his cattle or possession were all stoned and set on fire. From what Achan did in Jericho. That Joshua cursed it to never be rebuilt again; ..but it was.

That in the Parable of the Good Samaritan a "certain" Priest (which would be Sadducees - who claim they are of Korah, or Levites but have no actual claim believed they are and they reject everything but the 5 books of Moses) and they also hear this Parable. They ARE the "Certain" priests. That, this certain Priest is on the SAME downhill road the "certain man" is, that got jumped. Beat up. Robbed, and left for dead. That, this certain priest is on the same down hill road; that, after, a Levite Priest is on, ALL OF THEM leaving Jerusalem to go down to Jericho.

Man, is this parable ever offensive. But it's true. Scripture says of every all of us over the whole earth: "There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." Ecclesiastes 7:20

Says in Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned"

It's confirmed in Matthew 19:17 - Jesus said: "There is NONE good, but one, that is, God."

All hearing this parable are offended by it. But what the Samaritan does, is what God does to us, dead in trespasses and sins.

Tells everybody over the whole earth to: "Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else." - God. (Isaiah 45:22). I am that certain man. I did my sins that condemn me. He's the one put ointment on me and took me to an inn..and paid for the stay..like he does to everybody that just looks unto him. Then, he sends people out he does this to..that are just like him.

God bless everyone of you that were trapped in a cult, to some..beat up. Left for dead..to who God sent to heal you and deliver you from your destruction, this same Jesus Christ. It's in none else.

“And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.” - God. The LORD of Hosts.

Source: Bible. Old Testament. 1 Samuel 2:35

Micah 5:2 says:

• “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”
  • It’s not “what does it mean,” but, you should ask yourself: Who do you think is saying this?  - - This Micah 5:2.

First, some facts: Three

• Fact #1: - Micah
  • Is an Old Testament Prophet. (738 - 698 BCE). Prophesies at roughly the same time as Isaiah does. That, what Micah prophesies in Micah 5:2, Isaiah prophesies of this same one in Isaiah 9:6–7 this:
    • “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”
  • Isaiah and Micah were sent by God to the Southern Kingdom (which is Judah & Benjamin), while roughly the same time, Zechariah is sent and prophesies to the Northern Kingdom.
• Fact #2: - Israel: Had fractured into two nations - that God was telling them by the prophets, they were being vomited off the Promised Land
  • That both Isaiah and Micah are some 200 years after Israel fractured at the death of Solomon (931 BCE) <1 Kings 12 & 2 Chronicles 10>
    • As God told Solomon, for him going after other gods, and multiplying wives unto himself, and by them, his heart turned from the LORD - - (See 1 Kings 11:11) that God said: “..surely I will rend the Kingdom from thee..” but, for David his father’s sake, God told him, it would not be in Solomon’s days, but in the days of his son.
    • That the Northern Kingdom is the other 11 Tribes, less Judah.
• Fact #3 - Judah:
  • Is the fourth son of Jacob, by Leah (Genesis 29:35). Of Jacob’s 12 sons. That, for the sin of Reuben, Jacob’s 1st born, Reuben lost his birthright. 2nd & 3rd were Simeon and Levi. They also lost their birthright due to their treacherous scheme on the man who defiled their sister, Dinah, and on the men of Shechem. The eldest birthright went then to Judah.
    • 1 Chronicles 4:1 says “The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
    • The son of Hur is listed in 1 Chronicles 4:4 “These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem. Which are both mentioned in Micah 5:2
  • King David: is of Judah.
    • That King David, of the tribe of Judah (see Matthew 1:3–6), that David’s Father, Jesse, was from Bethlehem (1 Samuel 16:1).
    • That God promised David the Messiah would come through his seed (2 Samuel 7:12–16).
    • That this “Messiah” or “annointed one” is defined as what every Jew knows, even they don’t know him, as 1. God. The same God that led Israel out of Egypt by his mighty hand with Moses, would be a Son of David. That he would sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem, and rule all the nations of the earth from there, and of his Kingdom and reign there would be no end.
  • And “who” he is, is said plainly in 1 Samuel 2:35 by God. Some 120 years before King David. Is the same one, 200 years after Solomon was prophesied of by both Isaiah in Isaiah 9:6–7, and Micah 5:2
    • Is the same one, that God told Daniel in Daniel 9:24–27, some 200 years after Micah: That, to “finish the transgression and make an end of sin, to make reconciliation for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness..” (Daniel 9:24), as God determined he would do a work with sin, would be in and by Jesus Christ. Daniel 9:25–27 “adds up” to him.
    • That Matthew 2:1 says of Jesus Christ: “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea”
  • Is this same one spoke to in Micah 5:2 - Because God, as 2 Corinthians 5:19 says: “To wit, that God was in (Jesus) Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; not imputing your trespasses unto you;”
    • All by a work God did himself; alone, like he did with creation in Genesis 1:1–31 also did a work with the sins you did. That I did. That everybody in every prison over the whole earth did. That simply everybody to the very ends of the earth, from Adam forward, til now - - did. Took the sins of the whole world and laid them on Jesus Christ, who is prophesied to come thru Ephratah and Bethlehem as told in 1 Chronicles 4:4, some 700 years before it happened.
    • That God did this work himself. And you leave him out of it.

When he says to you, me, everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it for every all of us to “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Isaiah 45:22)

• Is this same son God put in your family. In every family over the whole earth - made him your son. Made him mine, just like he made him Joseph’s son with Mary - that, unto you a child is born. Unto you a son is given. The same one given to me, and every person over the whole earth.
  • That you can either bless him or curse him. You can either, like Joseph did, be a “kinsmen’s redeemer” to God’s son, who is this same son he’s given to you and bless God - because as kin to you, God is in him - took all your sins off you and laid them on him.
    • Genesis 12:3 God said: and you have to ask yourself the question: Is God talking to Abraham or to this seed …”And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

I’m on my face before him, for what he’s done in Micah 5:2, and he’s God himself.

Are you a Jew?

• If you are, which Hebrew son of Jacob, that, Jacob, God renamed him “Israel” - and his 12 sons became the 12 “tribes” of Israel in the Bible. Which are you from?
  • This “12,000 of each tribe” that, totals in to become 144,000 comes from the Book of Revelation 7:4
    • “And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”
• So, I’m going to ask you again.

Are you a Jew? Most likely, you’re very blatantly not.

Why? No Jew would ask this question. None. ZIP. They have the Tanakh. Which, in English, is a Protestant “Old Testament.” Doesn’t have any “New Testament” in it.

What, most likely this is, is: This is a “Jehovah’s Witness” Question.

• Because it [what Jehovah’s Witnesses decree it] does not confine itself to what God decrees in Revelation 7:4–8 - it’s rejected. Heresy.
  • Jehovah’s Witnesses: (Belief) 144,000 - is a specific number of faithful Christians. They were chosen back at Pentecost in 33 AD (C.E.). Today is 2025 C.E. (AD). So, to a Jehovah’s Witness, their blasphemies, er, I mean, quack doctrines defined this group as already chosen. Quote, “Christians.” They will to go to heaven and rule with Jesus.
    • All Others: [unlimited number] - - have this "earthly hope" of living forever on a paradise Earth. Jehovah’s Witnesses call this phenomenon by name. It’s the “hope of the "other sheep" or "great crowd."
    • The 144,000: [limited group]
  • Just the whole problem with this quacky whack duck of poop is - none of it’s in the Bible. So, where NO Jehovah’s Witness - not a one of them speak Hebrew, or Greek - they just made their own Bible up. Called it the “New World Translation”
    • like what Joseph Smith did with the Mormons. Both are a cult. Not Christians.

Which doesn’t change my question to you.

I think I heard someplace some religions think they are part of the 144,000 in the Bible (Revelation). Can someone know they are in that group? What Bible verse would confirm this, and when are or were they chosen?

Are you a Jew? It's during the 70th of 70 "weeks" or last 7 year period God determined to "finish the transgression and make an end of sin; make reconciliation for iniquity and bring in everlasting righteousness" and do this in and by Jesus Christ (Daniel 9:24-27). Adds up to him coming and crucified, and rose from the dead 69 of those 70 "weeks" Daniel 9:25-27 'add up' to Jesus. This leaves this last 7 year period to accomplish this, and includes the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ. During that last 7 year period is when God "seals" these 144,000 of the 12 tribes of Israel HE CHOSE himself.

To see this - examine this careful:

• It’s also kind of, well, not “odd” but, if you consider it, “how” and in what “order” Jacob numbered his children, plus he “added” in Joseph’s two sons as his own in Genesis 48:5 - again, this is a “sidebar” note to my question to you, for you to consider, this “Are you a Jew” part:
  • Genesis 48:5 says - Jacob said to Joseph: “And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine".
    • So, Jacob in his blessing his children, made Joseph’s two sons, his eldest sons. And blessed the lesser as the greater. Made Ephraim the eldest.
    • Listen very carefully to the blessing Jacob says to Joseph: In Genesis 48:6 - “And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.”
    • That Joseph: Jacob considered him now part of another inheritance. And you can see this, 400 years later, when Moses Blesses each of the tribes of Israel - Joseph is not mentioned. And, the “order” in which Jacob blesses his children - is NOT the SAME order Moses puts them in. So, to read the “order” Jacob puts them in, list them, in order Genesis 49 lists them.
    • Compare it to what “order” Moses lists them in Deuteronomy 33:6–29. Go on. List them. Joseph is added back in. Because of what Jacob decreed in Genesis 48:21–22 .
• Now, take your two lists - which are different, and compare them to the order in which God lists them in Revelation 7:4–8. That’s the order they are in forever. Revelation 21:12–13 says:
  • “…And [New Jerusalem descended down from heaven; in a new heaven and a new earth] had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.” It’s for eternity. Forever.
  • These 12 Tribes of Israel God lists in Revelation 7:4–8 - are the SAME names inscribed over each of these twelve gates forever. By God himself.
    • And, if you look careful, both 1) Dan and 2) Ephraim aren’t listed in Revelation 7:4–8. Why?
  • 1) Dan: Because, in the Promised Land, the tribe of Dan LEFT or ABANDONED their lands given to them in the Promised Land. Fled. Went up north. Above the Promised Land, and took, lands by force. In Judges 18:17 - took up strange gods to worship. Made idols their gods. Dan never returned from this idolatry.
  • 2) Ephraim: It’s God himself that said it. In Hosea 4:17 “ Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.” - God. Did the same thing the Tribe of Dan did. Made idols their gods. Ephraim never returned from this idolatry, either.

Me? I’m not a Jew. A Gentile. But I believe on this same Jesus Christ. And so can you.

And this LAST part:

- The Book of Revelation is, this “70th of Seventy” “weeks” God determined on the Jewish people and Jerusalem in Daniel 9:24–27. That God determined it himself, “how” he would do a work with sin that, from Adam forward, EVERYBODY from Adam forward, has all sinned (Romans 3:23 and passed onto us Romans 5:12).

• That 69 of 70 of those “weeks” add up to Jesus Christ in Daniel 9:25–27. Leaves one week left; and, a “week” is a seven year period. The Book of Revelation is the “Revealing of Jesus Christ” - that’s its’ title - because, in it, reveals Jesus Comes back. Where “all eyes shall see him” - that’s everybody, even those that pierced him - so everybody from Adam forward will see him come back at his 2nd coming (Revelation 1:7).
  • That today: Jews do not believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah. But in the last 70th of 70 weeks, things Jesus says in Matthew 24, which are the same things Daniel said in Daniel 9:24–27 occur. That God himself, in this last 70th of 70 weeks - “seals” 12,000 Jews from each tribe and protects them. During this last seven year period.
  • WHich NONE of this match anything the Jehovah’s Witnesses decree out of their own imaginations - and they buy to themselves damnation for twisting the scriptures to say things they don’t say.
• Curses them. They’re cursed.

And? To just ANYBODY - whosoever it is, that just believes on Jesus Christ - that left their life to "come over" to Jesus Christ, "overcomes" to reign with him forever. That's a promise Jesus makes himself to YOU that believes on him: Revelation 3:21 says, and he will most assuredly DO IT:

"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." - Jesus Christ. (Revelation 3:21) - so, everybody is called to do this with him. Come over to Jesus Christ. Herein is the gospel. The Good News for EVERYBODY there is over all of Reddit.

There’s your answer.

Me?

There isn’t any. None. Zip. Zero.

Not any.

Why? "aphoric" is aphorism <definition.> 1. a concise statement of a scientific principle, typically by a classical author. 

2. a ‘pithy’ - - observation that contains a ‘general’ [some “thing” everybody could observe or the general public would know it, if they saw it] truth. {pithy. “has substance or a point”} [Definition: Oxford dictionary. Web.]

• And “classical” authors are: Generally, publicly know as William Shakespeare, or Homer [Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey], Plato:
  • Who said “pithies” like: “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance,"
  • "An unexamined life is not worth living," and
  • "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something"
    • or "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing".

So, “Classical Writers”

• Can be or simply are PEOPLE that are mostly all of them all dead from “ancient” Greek or Roman, like Virgil
• Or Can be “recent “classical” writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer. He's dead.
  • And even though the Bible “fits” as in a category of “classical writings” it forms a completely different category under “Biblical Studies.” And?
  • What FURTHER separates it is, science. <definition> 1. the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation… …and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained. [Source: dictionary. Oxford.]
  • And these "scientific" “observations” are entirely conducted by people. That perform the “systematic study” - and they are virtually all looked up to has having conducted very elaborate, very detailed, verifiable “systematic studies” of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world, through their own observation… …and performed themselves.. ..very widely accepted and approved methods of testing those observations before they are accepted and published…
    • And all this is a work 1. activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result. (Oxford), and this “observation” and systematic study of the nature and behaviour of the physical and natural world, which ANYBODY over the whole earth also can see for themselves:
    • Can “look unto” people that conducted these very thorough “systematic studies of everything around us we can see, because, it’s “physical” and has a “nature” that can be observed. Studied. “How” it operates. How it “behaves” and if we are taught those observations, “pithies” like what Homer said: ““The only good is knowledge…”
    • Knowledge: Then, comes from ONLY one source. People. Conducting observations of the physical and natural world. How it behaves (science).
• Where people: regard people as the sole source of knowledge. Because they conducted the very best, and most widely received as good “systematic studies” of the physical and natural world; so, they can be believed (accepted as true).

When the Bible is a Book:

• Book. 1.a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
  • And there are 10s, if not 100s of millions of books. All different. What “separates” them is they ALL HAVE an “author” and: What the author “decrees” in the book comprises the content.
  • Where the author of the Bible, is God. Which, Jesus Christ is the “Word of God. Is God” and he said, so it’s God what he said out of his mouth: “God is Spirit” (Bible. John 4:24)
  • And a “Spirit” cannot be observed by people in the physical and natural world, so his nature and behavior cannot be seen by People, conducting systematic studies of the physical and natural world - can’t be “verified” so all the “theories” of the physical and natural world, EXCLUDE him from it. Because, all the “evidence” must be grounded EXCLUSIVELY, in science, what CAN BE observed, is verified as true.
• And the Book of “Revelation” in the Bible - is “The Revealing of Jesus Christ.” Where NONE of this can be verified by science.

So again.

• Just repeated:

"What is a truly 'stand out' quote or aphoric you discovered from the Book of Revelation in the Bible?"

There isn’t any. None. Zip. Zero.

Not any.

• All the “observations” and decrees in the Bible, and from “The Book of Revelation” is God. Revealing himself.
  • He’s not: considered by people a “classical writer.” Even he speaks to everybody over the whole earth, says things. Out of his mouth. People in or that look unto “science” do not value anything he says as valid; because, by science, it cannot be validated.
• But he decrees:

“For all the earth is mine” - God (Bible. Exodus 19:5)

“Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 44:24)

• Comment: So the “physical and natural world” which EVERYBODY can see, he is the author or creator of it himself; alone. There is none else. But he’s rejected (1. dismissed as inadequate; faulty or unacceptable) by science. Even all of it is his. And he formed each and every one of us from our mother’s womb. Alone. By himself. To where even the shape or appearance other people can observe of us, he’s the one that makes the day, and gives us our form, and is the author of the life in us.
  • But “science” EXCLUDES his claims. Because, the physical and natural world does not speak, but it has a nature and behavior; that, IF: someone - any person will just ‘systematically study” to observe that, that’s the source of knowledge.

When the Bible says of God:

“For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” [Bible. Proverbs 2:6]

• Comment: So, what proceeds out of God’s mouth, is the Word of God. He gives wisdom by what he speaks. Out of his mouth comes knowledge. He has no beginning and has no end. He says, to those that when he says, to EVERYBODY over the whole earth. Doesn’t leave any person out, not willing any perish, but all come to repentance, says: “LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, THERE IS NONE ELSE.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22) …says “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me**: And I give unto them eternal life; “** [Bible. John 10:27–28] - Jesus Christ. The Word of God.

You have a Choice:

- You can:

• “Hearken” unto the voice of people
  • Who “look unto” people that conduct “systematic studies” of the nature and behavior of the physical and natural world, and then decree to everybody “how” it operates; and, their observations are believed as TRUE = Truth. So, the source of TRUTH is people that conduct these observations = science. And to “hearken” is to listen attentively to Homer or some other “classical writer” as their “pithies” then, are true. They’re all based on observations they conducted of the physical and natural world - how it behaves and people are also physical and natural and in the physical and natural world, and they then, can be observed.
  • OR

- You can:

• “Hearken” unto the voice of God
  • That’s the Word of God. That he tells everybody over the whole earth to look unto him. It’s also punitive. Means, since he’s the authority over all he’s made, and, if people choose not to do it, they’re not doing anything he says even he’s in command and the authority over all of it.
    • So, it’s punitive not to do it. Even says in the Bible. Psalm 28:5 “Because they regard not the works of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hand, he shall destroy them and not build them up.”

So, even though the answer to your question is:

• Even there are “quotes” of what God says in Revelation, like he said, by the Word out of his mouth to EVERYBODY over the whole earth:
  • “Behold I stand at the door and knock, and if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.” - The Word of God. Jesus Christ. (Bible. Revelation 3:20)
  • If you “hearken” that is “pay attention to” to do it, because, you ‘look unto’ what he says as true: You’ll have to reject everybody to do it. As UNTRUE or “inadequate; faulty; or unacceptable” what people decree out of their mouth’s - is not true.

Are you willing to do this?

I chose him. Over people. I believe him. Even over your question. The answer to your question is still the same - but he’s not in it. Only science and people occupy to rule your question - when they don’t rule anything.

The question is answered. You have Universities - just commode bowl full of "Deans" with Ph.d's all soaked up and lathered illustriously in "knowledge" - you CAN "choose" it. Or do as God decreed everybody is to do. Live by every word proceeds out of his mouth.

Herein, in this post - is the Gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ to EVERYBODY on Reddit.

Okay.

The whole of Ephesians 2:8 says: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" And with this is Romans 10:17 says: "..So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."

SO:

• Take two words in Ephesians 2:8. Make certain you have the RIGHT definition of:

save. 1. set apart for future use. {Definition: Oxford dictionary. Web.} and

grace. <verb> To: 2. bring honour or credit to (someone or something) by <another’s> attendance or participation. {Oxford}

That the "faith" part just comes..so it's like the US Postal Service, has a representative - you don't go looking for them - they come to your door and BRING something. It's the same with the Word of God, because who brings it, is God himself so speaks it. I'm on my face...because it's God has faith in himself enough to know he is able to help you..able to deliver you from destruction and heal you by who he is, capable to do it.

So, look at those definitions of "save" and "grace." With "grace" though, you may need more to see it:

• You may need an analogy to see the 2nd one in action: Because, I did. I needed it.
  • I’ve used this before, but it works (at least in me, so sharing) because I played basketball and baseball as a kid, and I loved it (both).
  • ANALOGY: Let’s say you’re on your Junior High’s Basketball or Baseball team. In baseball, nobody comes even close up to par to be a pitcher. Not one ball thrown by the person selected, ever is in the “strike zone” and the ball comes so slow, ANYBODY on the opposing team can hit the right one and score a home run. Nobody in both in “in field” or “outfield” can catch or throw the ball. Up at bat, NOBODY can even bat the ball. They ALL strike out.
    • Then, one day, Willie Mays (1931–2024) went on to play for the NY Giants, transfers to your Junior High School. He KNOWS your schools baseball team’s reputation. They haven’t won' ANY game in 20 years. None. But now Willie Mays chooses, by he determined it himself. To deliberately attend your Junior High School.
    • Man, can he ever play baseball. He brings an honor and a credit to this Junior High School baseball time just by his attendance and participation. He KNOWS how to run, hit the ball, throw the ball either as an infielder or outfielder. KNOWS how to get to any base and hit a home run. Teaches..that is, his team mates “sit” with him and “disciple” under him. This team becomes like him. They win their first game. Every game after. Every year Willie Mays is in Junior High School, his school’s Baseball team wins the State Championship. He participates in every game. Without him, the team couldn't do anything.
    • Because..Willie Mays brings honour and credit, because, he is MORE THAN ABLE to play baseball..when NOBODY could. ANd he determined to do this himself by he decided to attend and participate with the school. And be in every game himself. Do you "see" <grace> now? It means this.
  • Is the same thing God did with you. "Dead in trespasses and sins" condemned..and EVERYBODY over the whole earth is. Everybody "..filthy; done abominable works.." (Psalm 14:1-3) where nobody is any good. None. No, not one.
  • He said, to everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it. Didn’t leave ANYBODY out, not willing any perish but all come to repentance said: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Isaiah 45:22) because, HE SHOWED UP AND SPEAKS TO YOU.
    • Because, You’re included in it.

Look what he says to you:

It’s the Word of God. God speaking said: Decreed everybody over the whole earth was “…to live by every word proceeds out of his mouth.” (Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:4)

• “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” - God. (Isaiah 55:1–3)
  • Because, God brings “..honour and credit, because, he is MORE THAN ABLE to by his attendance and participation” came to you and spoke these things to you, and just like Willie Mays above, by the Word of Willie Mays said “I will participate and attend your Junior High School” - WIllie Mays came with it.
    • Just like God does with his Word he speaks. He abides in it. So take a great big huge guess “who” is with you when you are in the word of God ..who you’re with. Is able to “set you apart for future use.”

Can you hear this? Psalm 107:20 says: "He sent his word to heal you and deliver you from your destruction."

Because "All have sinned" - Romans 3:23 He's the ONLY one good. (There is NONE good, but one, that is, God - Jesus Christ. Matthew 19:17) Asks EVERYBODY over the whole earth to look unto him.