Due Diligence, Diplomatic Disclosure of God's Design

So now watch how the Trinity Corporation's hupostasis principle 'plays' yet again: Subordination to Authority, Faith in Christ, has been made Judicial Justification for Intimacy. So now a Higher, Post-Salvation Level of potential intimacy is created: Kingship. Salvation is a Floor of Intimacy, 1Cor3, founded on Christ. But that's baby-level. What upward inheritance can there be, Phili3:14's tes anw klesews, lit., "the Upward 'Call' of [further] Inheritance"? Well, look: Further Subordination to Authority can now Justify Greater Intimacy: if and only if, subordination is Otherwise Justifiable. Which it is, since Christ went all the way UP to the Cross. So we can now Grow Up to His Stature, the Shocking High level of Eph4:13 (look it up, most translations 'got' the "stature" clause right).

When it comes to Bible, I'm pretty good with reading foreign languages, so long as I'm breathing 1Jn1:9; else I'm a brainout. For my pastor taught the whole congregation from the original-language texts of Scripture, not translations. I had language training in high school and college, too. So among the translations, look -- in German (my weakest), Portuguese, Latin, French, Spanish and English -- all these versions which usually are so screwed up, amazingly get right, the meaning of that "stature" clause in Eph4:13. That's a rare thing, for part of a strategically-important verse to be aptly translated. Usually the strategically-important verses are mangled, reversed, fuzzed over, etc. For example, Eph4:11-16 is among the most mistranslated verses in the Bible, perhaps only Heb11:1 is more mangled. But here, the "stature" clause in 4:13, is well-nigh perfectly rendered as to its meaning, in EVERY translation I can read. Wow. [Eph4 is horribly mangled, but that clause is usually right. Eph41216.htm has details. Shorter quick translation is in RightPT.htm, scan the links at pagetop for the short translation you want.]

Being an intellectual adds nothing to Scriptural learning. Yes, you must be disciplined as an academic, but the power is the Holy Spirit's, alone. So no one however 'low' in human terms is unable to get Bible in ANY language, because the Holy Spirit knows ALL languages. So no one, however 'low' in human terms is prohibited from becoming a King, in God's System. Think of it as the Real Upgrade on the temporary 'gift of tongues'. Really, it's the oldest promise in the Bible, to know God intimately, to get the 'language' of His Thinking in you so "you have no need of anyone to teach you", as John wryly puts it in 1Jn2. See, you KNOW, so it's not something new. You know FROM GOD, so you have no handicaps to hamper learning. So the only reason a person does not know.. is he didn't want to learn. So the only reason people are unequal in eternity, is because they didn't want to learn, down here. All excuses, all barriers, were removed at the Cross.

So look how inexcusable is our ignorance: for here in Eph4:13, millions upon millions of people can read and thus know its import. Granted, the REST of the verse is utterly demolished in translation, but NOT the Stature clause: it's nearly perfectly rendered! Don't you see it, too? To His Own Level, it says! What the heck are we doing, running around with our revival rallies, healing/tongues/prophecy nonsense, rituals, taboos, sing-alongs and even potlucks? Isaiah 53:10-11 in the LXX is being incorporated by reference there, meaning that what Truth He learned to make the Cross successful, We Get Too. Same thing! Same "measure", apportioned from Him into us, and then we are apportioned to Him (wry circular wit running throughout Isaiah 53, see Isa53trans.htm). So what the heck are we doing, working or singing or anything but learning Our Diplomatic Job? Incredible.

Sure, even a cup of water given in the Lord's Name will get a reward. A $50.00 Gift Certificate is a reward. Yeah, and so is a kingdom full of wealth and all the people to run it for you.. forever. Which reward do you imagine fits someone who learned to think like Christ?

What irony. Subordination means Intimacy can be granted, so because you subordinate you get the 'job' of actually knowing God intimately. Whoa. It's Righteous, too: you can't very well learn how to be a king under the King of Kings, until and unless you KNOW Him! Frankly, this is the ONLY reason to want salvation, imo. Everything else is a hassle, but knowing Him is Heaven!

Again, "hupo" means "under". Greek noun "stasis" means "standing". So you have to be standing under, to get understanding. Once you understand, you'll stand under only with repeated practice. Kingship is all about repetition. So too, diplomacy. The thinking skills must become INGRAINED. My pastor 'got it' about repetition, and for 53 years until he retired, he repeated until we all thought we would vomit. Yeah, and his repetition saved my life so often I can't even count the times, anymore! Repeat repeat repeat shenayim again over and over and over and enough already and over and think it again. For it's a LANGUAGE you are learning: God's.

WHAT you need to get trained in, is the Bible itself, so that its THINKING PATTERN becomes your own. You learn to think like a lawyer by learning law. So you learn to think like Christ, by learning the Word He learned. It's that simple, conceptually. But the Bible is rich in meaning, and you never can just gloss over it. Look at a diamond tilted one way, and you see a particular kaleidoscope of color; but shift the position ever so slightly, and an entirely new 'picture' comes into view. So the same verse in Bible has MANY layers of meaning, not just a few. You use the verses like math: read any NT book, watch how they all do that. Lawyers do this, as well. You take parts of principles and add them; parts of whole doctrines, add them, shift parts around, see how the answers change. Like law, like math. In short, not like a peasant, not like a drooling baby who sees "tongues" were spoken in Acts and therefore thinks his gibberish is the same thing.

A heart surgeon has less learning to go through, than you do. This is God's Word, not a baby blanket.

Bodies alone have emotion: body needs some way to feed back to the soul, what it experiences, so the soul can make a decision what to do. The body, including the brain, is nothing but a bundle of biological material which is 'run' by the soul; this 'running' is an interface whereby the soul transmits immaterial thought which the brain converts into material impulses, akin to binary code in a computer. So the body itself, is no more alive than some diffenbachia tree in a fancy lobby. Ever. Forget worrying about human cloning. The human being is his SOUL, never biological tissue. (Of course, your big hint this is true: a dead body can be wholly intact but just STOPPED functioning. Heart or brain just STOPS. True cause of death is always the exit of soul from body, viz., Acts 5:5 and :10. We just assign quasi-magical causes to it, like cerebral hemorrhage, etc. Flat EEG is true death.)

So there's no such thing as "feeling" spiritual. God is Pure Thought, as we saw earlier. So spirituality is a Thinking: Christ's. And Christ paid for sins with His Thinking, so guess how much thinking you have to learn?

The last section of this webpage has a brief on this cause for the Rapture; Part IV of the "Thinking" series (link at pagetop) covers it extensively (very long). Here, let's just focus on the difference between the one-time consent of John 3:16 believed, versus the ongoing consent required to train for your potential Kingship. Before you were "born again", you weren't breathing, spiritually, so that first consent GOT you a spiritual life. But now, you are spiritually alive. Before you were "born again", you weren't a viable spiritual being. But now, you are. Being. Being in GOD. Being, is a 24/7 forever existence. Made spiritually-born, via the mechanic illustrated in Titus 3:5. Because you died in Him 2000 years ago, positionally (theme of Romans 6) so now you Live forever IN Him. (Ibid, and 2Cor5.)

So now, you have a new life, and a new potential. So now, being alive, your consent determines how that new life will be. So, it's an ongoing thing, not a one-shot "birth". It positively drives me crazy to know that all this is but a VOTING question. Voting to know God. Voting to know His Word. Over and over and over voting, each time the Holy Spirit says YES, just like He did that first time, saving you. Even the stupidest person can vote. Even the smartest person can vote. To vote for God, only God can answer. So those who become great, are never great of themselves. And those greater than them humanly, are far lower, forever.. solely for NOT voting. That's it. Not how good you are, not your ancestors, not your culture, your morality, your looks, the world's praise of you, nuthin'. Outhen, Attic Drama Greek, for not a dang thing. Only the voting, makes you great in God's Eyes. And anyone can vote for God...

It drives me crazy, because I absolutely detest the idea of being superior to someone else. I'd rather be mopping the floors or digging out muck in Calcutta sewers, an Untouchable. For being UNDER authority, is happiness. Being in charge, is hell. But noooo.. if I wanna be close to My Dread Lord -- the Absolute Love of my life, can't tolerate looking at life without Seeing Him 24/7 -- but noooo... if I wanna be close to Him, I gotta get high. From Him. To Him. For Him. Through Him. All prepositions, Him. ACK!

For with God, it's always about uniting your worst nightmare with your dream come true. Understand that now, and your life will make much more sense to you, why God always pulls the rug out from under you. It's the PLAN, for crying out loud: look at Abram, Moses, David, Christ and Paul's lives!

Now you know the REAL reason why 99.9% of Christians don't "finish the course" as Paul puts it. You always have to 'marry' your worst nightmare, at some point. It's personally tailored to you: Part III of the "Thinking" series covers this growth problem in excruciating detail. So know this up front: you study your brains out doing nothing for years, just like Christ did. Then you get in progressive cycles, testing so that you will come to embrace what for YOU is your worst nightmare. Conversely, if you reject the spiritual life in God's System, you get the SAME thing. For you are part of Him. So you share in everything He went through, down here. That's Love. But it don't feel good, k? And you cain't live without it, neither...

It's not a denominational thing: it's a PRIESTLY thing. For that's who you irrevocably became, the first nanosecond you believed in Christ. For the spiritual life is about LEARNING, never earning. WORD, never works. Only the WORD works, main theme in James (always horribly mistranslated). [God's Head gets chopped off in translation. In the Greek James actually wrote, all the works verbs are Divine, as are the nouns. James cleverly uses features of the Greek language at that time to show the fallacy of man's works, proving that only the Word works -- which Word, his audience wasn't learning, but forgetting, in favor of eyes-on-people, including works. But since God's Head is cut off in translation, it looks like people are supposed to DO works. Satan&Co. never miss a chance to use our sin nature proclivities to glorify man, lol.]

Most Christians only want to thump or chirp their Bibles, and don't learn at all what it says; so they are voting many a big NO! So "no" higher inheritance will be theirs. Hence you'll see many very surprised people showing up in heaven.. clueless. For the FIRST time they begin to learn Who God Really is. But they were supposed to learn while down here, Rom12:2 (Greek, always mistranslated). They were TESTED and usually flunked (1Jn5:16), so didn't die happy (whether others could know that, varies). So this whole God thing is utter news. They only knew God as a Three-Letter-Word you sang on Sundays. So they are Headless, and need Rulers.

Here's what to worry about: this training cannot be undergone in a state of carnality (a "no" to God is operative -- see 1Jn1:9), for it takes (unfeelable) Divine Power to train you. So to get crowned, you train as Christ did:

So you start at the bottom of the spiritual-growth 'hill', with a spiritual maturation 'summit' goal of Phili1:21. At which point, you are full of His Thinking, Eph3:19. Hence you Glorify God, Eph3:20, 2Pet3:18. See? You are made EQUAL at the new birth and thus have a new goal: subordinative coalescence. To grow up in His Same Love. At which point, you capture and KEEP the "high ground" (my pastor's term), and thus vest in your Kingship forever.

[See Col1:25-27, Eph3:15-21, 1Pet1:8, Rom12:2-3, Heb12:2, all "riches..Glory" verses. 1Jn4:12-17. Also compare John 1 and 14 to 1Jn1:6-10, too: Spend the whole day diagramming the 1Jn1:6-10's clauses, if you value your life at all. For example, in 1Jn1:9, Greek verb homologew (pronounced ho-mo-lo-GEH-o) is a courtroom legal procedure verb where the accused admits his guilt before the judge (Father, here). So it doesn't have the emotional connotation that "confess" means today, and you don't say/think it toward another human, since only GOD is Judge. Word dates back to oldest Greek times. You'll hear a slobbering Christian chirp, "Homolegeo [literally] means 'to say the same thing'" -- yeah, because you AGREE the accusation against you is accurate, dummy. Sheesh. A little Greek knowledge is SUCH a dangerous thing. See how Adam and the woman handle that admission in Gen3. See also Ps32:5 and 66:18. Also, look up all gold, gem or stones verses, and compare them to all wood verses. See the hilarious Isaiah 44:8ff, a long analogy on how man's efforts are INSANE, analogy of wood used to make idols. You'll see the latter is human nature and its production, which is burned at the Bema in Rev4:1 (actual Rapture's scene and aftermath), and 1Cor3. ]

So if you refuse to learn your Royal Role and grow up in it, you have refused to be filled up with Truth. So, you instead get filled up with Punishment. Rank has its privileges. But also, its responsibilities: "to whom much is given, much is expected."

It should be immediately recognizable that since Christ died for all sins ON the Cross, we aren't judged for sins. That would imply His Work was a sham. God never impugns the Cross: only slobbering babies do (not meaning to, of course). Not even the unbeliever is judged for sin: see John 16:9, and Rev20:11ff -- their ergon, meaning "good deeds" are judged. For, "concerning sin, because they have not believed in Me" (John 16:9, operative clause). So, the unbeliever's name is not in the Book of Life (blotted out, really, but English masks that in the tie-in verses of OT). So, all he has to offer, IS his works. But, notice how sins are not mentioned. See? God is consistent. Precedence. Sin WAS Judged on the Cross, so it's not judged anymore.

More: if we are rejecting God's Terms, and sin was judged, we're still doing other stuff the meanwhile. So, to put it like Paul does in 1Cor3, we are also judged for our works. God is consistent. Are our works man-made? That's burnable (wood is nearly always a metaphor for man's nature/power, in Bible). Are, by contrast, our works God-Made? That's gold, silver, precious stones, Rewardable. For, "My Words will never pass away." One of the most frequent types of metaphors for Word of God is monetary/financial. [English Bibles usually cover up the monetary/financial verbs (some kind of aversion to wealth in the translators), but they seldom mask the nouns (except "fruit" is a monetary word, meaning profit). You can look up these metaphors pretty much anywhere in the Bible and see even in translation how God uses them. If you have trouble understanding why it's His Thinking which is the meaning of spirituality, get a Bible software program which has the Greek text. Many are free on the web, because the Greek text is public domain. Then, in whatever other Bible you use, find every Gospel usage of "my words", and compare which Greek word is used. You'll see two greek words for "words": Logos, which is the Quintessential Name of Christ in the OT, which is the biggest reason why John's Gospel begins as it does. Then there's "rhema", which means Teaching of the Word from a Teacher. Christ uses this word in Matt4:4. He also uses it in Luke 12:47-49, and in context that passage is bald proof of the importance of apprenticing (="mathetes") under a teacher-master (="rabbi") in knowing the Word. That has always been and still is the way you learn the Word. You go to school, the local church (=synogogue, in OT). Every Jew knew it was all about the Word, in the OT: Deut6:4 is chanted every Saturday all around the world. Isagogics always matter, when you study Bible, and these are the only isagogics regarding how you get the Word, IN the Bible.]

So it's really true that no good deed, goes unpunished. God-deeds, not good deeds, are God's. So when we opt for good deeds, we are REFUSING God's Deeds. Bad move.

See, being Royal is a very precise thing. Takes a lot of downtime, to learn God's Script in God's System.

So we are all punished for the same reason as the unbeliever will not be saved: Depending on our own power. We REFUSE the Holy Spirit's God-Made Diamond Deposits of Deliciously-Divine Doctrine, so Bamo! we get spanked, down here. So at the Bema! we will be very ashamed. So, Ouch due to ouk! (Greek word for FACT of "no") -- until we use 1Jn1:9, that is, which removes "all wrongdoing". (Corrected translation at end of that verse -- Greek word is adikia, and is specially used, throughout Bible; in OT, in connection with Temple. The "Bema", is a dais on which a Judge/Ruler/General sits to hear a case, give a reward, etc. The Rapture Bema is depicted 'live' in Rev4:1. We're the "sea of glass". Trace the way Bible uses "sea" and "glass" (really, reflection, mirror).)

Which makes sense: if the BIG reason for not going straight-to-Heaven after faith in Christ is to train to become a KING, and only the Spirit can do that Training in us, then.. we are punished for REFUSING The Training, not for sin itself. Sin is merely how we justify refusal. This fact cannot be overstressed. Bible reserves the most vile language for this refusal. Peter calls this returning to vomit at the end of 2Peter. Paul calls it drunkenness and all kinds of horrible things in 2Tim2:26-3:7, Phili3:18ff. (Greek rips you apart.) In 1Cor4:8 you see baldly the issue is training, for the Corinthians were priding themselves on 'having arrived'. So Paul uses blazing sarcasm in that verse. NIV manages to convey the flavor better than other English versions, maybe.

See, in that Godhead Corporation, Spirit Elected to have a sort of motherly role; Bible is very keen to show His Handiwork. Spirit restored the Earth in Gen1:2 and following (after Satan&Co. trashed it up, according to my pastor's many hours-of-teaching on tape): Gen1:1 was an instantaneous creation by the Son, for Father. So, there's an undefined gap in time between the two events. So, people don't realize the Spirit's Self-Chosen Rehabilitation role, and thus don't understand how serious a problem it is, to NOT use 1Jn1:9 like breathing. However, see Col3:25, Hos8:7, Gal6:7, Acts 5, Heb12:5ff, Romans 9 (two paradigmal examples, Israel and strawman of 9:20); many other verses are listed elsewhere in my sites, depending on the particular context (this is a big topic).

YOU got saved. But your soul is still the same. Full of the world's trashy me-nesses. We are all like this, evidenced by our hunger for people and things, constantly looking horizontally, but never UP. Not one Christian in 1000 can explain what Absolute Righteousness even means, but resorts to the puny human standard of morality. Morality is but a pinprick inside Absolute Righteousness. So we need to be divested of our evil proclivities to crusade, to judge, to malign and make an issue of ourselves in a thousand 'moral' ways, far more than we need to be divested of our grosser sin appetities. For morality is used to block out learning God, the First Commandment. People replace God, and God is supposed to reward us? That's evil. I do a good deed for some HUMAN, and God is supposed to reward me? That's EVIL talking. So a lot of retooling and training is needed. Takes a lifetime.

Here's the litmus on the difference between Absolute Righteousness and mere morality. Mere morality: it's okay to do something for someone else and something for yourself, so long as you are (basically) thoughtful. Absolute Righteousness: ALL of what you are, do, think is to GOD, and no one else. NO ONE ELSE. Check out Deut 6:5 yourself: no one but God is in that 1st Commandment. Check out how the Lord updated it in Matt22:37 -- still no one else is in that verse. Moreover -- and you can't see this in translation -- the parallel Gospel passages (Mark 12:30ff, Luk10:27) which talk about loving your neighbor as well use the Greek verb "agapaw", which only ever means Divine Love. Meaning, FROM the Love for God which Only God can develop in you via those Doctrine Deposits, Rom5:5 -- from THAT love, you love people. So it's a SUBSET of loving God directly. No horizontals. No bypassing. Hence all of 1Jn is dedicated to the First Commandment, showing how if you're not 'doing' it, then your so-called love for humanity is sheer hypocrisy. Obeying NO commandment at all. [DDNA webseries is basically structured around 1Jn, if you're interested in more on this topic.]

God's Love is Independent of attraction, because Absolute. Needs no object, doesn't wax, wane, change because of the object. Human love is really just an attraction-dependent thing, and hence waxes and wanes with the latest wind, Eph4:14. So clearly to get enough of this Infinite Truth in you so that you love at GOD'S OWN LEVEL, 1Jn4:19, sheesh -- that will take a lifetime! Yep. Even Christ trained 30 years before going public, so whaddya think, huh?

Ooops. So much for all our 'Christian fellowship', lol!

Ooops. Didn't see any revival rallies in those verses. No giving-to-the-poor commands. No 'Christian fellowship' claims of spirituality. Not even one iota of 'works' mentioned, but .. what? THINKING THINKING THINKING under the Spirit, and thinking, what... Truth. His. Not even your own truth, lol. But Divine Truth. Hmmm. Can you think something you didn't yet LEARN? Ooops.

So clearly, all the millions of slobbering Christians who both historically and today get all hot and bothered over "earthly things" (Phili3:19, Romans 8), like politics and activism; who blissfully genuflect and intone; who bustle about the church doing great things for God; who bop people on the heads to 'exorcise' or 'heal'; who invade people's homes with their tracts and tears; who rise with wet faces and stretched arms; who blither in gibberish (Paul makes fun of that pagan practice in 1Cor13:1's Greek) -- clearly all these droolers only see syrup-spots run. So can't read, only thump. No Divine Power, however often invoked or pretended, is operating there. What, does it even make a smidgen of sense that Holy God would act like a circus clown? What, does no one recognize that, as Bible soooo often illustrates, demons can make you sick, talk in tongues, make you feel holy? So if they stop doing that, you are 'healed', normal, feeling blue? And keen to want a repeat episode?

Tell me: do you see any of today's-Christianity-italics in the above corrected translations? Hmmm. So, just as the KJV puts in italics words not in the Greek text, so also Christians are putting into their idea of the Christian life, what's NOT Bible's.

If it's popular, it's APOSTATE. Sponsored by Satan&Co., but never by God, Matt 7:13. Matt 7 is all about false teachers. Truly learning the Word is a solitary thing, not a gamefest. No one even knew where Christ WAS, for His first 30 years. Hint hint.

It has ever been thus. You wouldn't have so many warnings against false teachers in Matt7, Mark 12, all over the OT, and in John, Jude, Peter, Paul if the MAIN outcome thus far weren't apostacy. Again, over 99% of Christians don't want to learn God, so become the "many" of Isa53:12, saved -- but, not rulers. Just walk into almost any church, waltz into any 'Christian' chatroom, compare any verse in translation with the Inspired Original, turn on any 'Christian' radio or TV station, watch the apostacy parade. The evidence is overwhelming. Over 90% of the 'Christian' sites on the internet, don't even give the True Gospel, so anyone 'obeying' what they say, isn't even saved! Test that yourself: how many just say what John 3:16 says, believe in Christ and you are permanently saved? Oh no: they add other verbs -- which verbs, PREVENT salvation. For if it's only believe like the Lord says in John 3:16 but you ADD another verb (like "repent", "invite", etc.) then you are saying that believing is NOT enough. Hence aren't 'obeying' what He says in John 3:16. So are not saved. See? We Christians thump our Bibles, and many of us maybe aren't Christians at all, but unbelievers who fool themselves! My pastor harped on this problem for the better part of 50 years, so the false Gospel has been mainstream for a long time: Satan's fake Church of Rev17. The fake Church is always politically active, religious, and wants to get everyone to obey IT. It, not the Bible. So IT, not the Bible.. is always popular.

Christ wasn't popular, you know. If you want to learn His Thinking, you won't be, either. So learn to be alone, since you'll need to find time to be alone, to study properly.

The one thing an Ambassador NEVER does, NEVER has the authority to do, and deserves to be shot by his host country if he DOES do it, is -- try to influence political outcomes in the host country.

Burn this in your brain: Ambassadors REPRESENT Authority. They DON'T EXERCISE Authority. Repeat: Ambassadors are the MOUTH of their Home Sovereign, NOT the BRAIN of their Home Sovereign. (A real good book on the role of ambassadorship is Sir Harold Nicolson's Diplomacy. It's probably only 50 pages, but so deftly written, it's worth thousands of pages. Amazon probably sells it.) So God help us, if the Holy Spirit isn't the BRAIN through Whom our mouths, speak!

The purpose of your BRAIN, is to think towards Father 24/7, which falls under the rubric of "prayer". Prayer isn't just asking for stuff, but talking and thinking TOWARD God. Because, He's listening to a whole lot of ugly thinking; because, the world rejects Him. So you use your MOUTH, to PRAY, which is part of the living-on-Word requirement, 1Thess 5:17. So see? You don't even need political activism, but the world needs you to pray to Father, since they haven't got the legal standing, but you do. Prayer is the most powerful legal weapon in the universe, second only to the Word cycling in your head 24/7, in God's System.

Much More about this VOTING role of prayer and thinking toward Father, is in Parts III and IV of the "Thinking" series (link at pagetop). Later on in this page, we'll get a short "diplomatic brief" (link in the pagetop's purple table) . You are neck deep in angelic politics, frankly. Not at all like the goofy movies about angels. This is a Legal Trial, and Your Vote Counts Royally.

Governments historically violate this sacred diplomatic trust. Communist governments are famous for violating it. But God is not human, and God never violates diplomatic trust. So the Christian who does, is in the deepest possible doo-doo. Use 1Jn1:9 and keep moving, though. Paul violated this sacred trust when he refused God's order to stay put in Rome and instead went to Jerusalem. So, he got sent to his proper diplomatic post anyway.. in chains. Then he got to write most of the New Testament. So, the worst sinner in history (per 1Tim1:15) became the best believer in history (so far, anyway). So yes, this is treason of the worst kind: but God is the Kindest Person, the Chesed Person. So 1Jn1:9 and back in God's System, covers a multitude of sins.

Paul is absolutely adamant about our being good ambassadors in all his letters, and spends a whole lot of time counseling particular do's, for that reason. Pay careful attention to the contextual reason for any 'do' Paul brings up. In short, we are to be NEUTRAL, so as NOT TO HARM OUR MISSION. Much more about this mission will be explained in the "diplomatic brief", below. Meanwhile, try reading all those Bible commands to do something in the NT with this NEUTRALITY principle 'behind' the commands; see if you don't suddenly notice the commands become not only way more important, but much more technical. And, all the verses about living peaceably with your fellow man, etc. -- now take on much more significance. See, works really are important, but for other reasons. God doesn't need the works, and 'serving Him' isn't even IN the works themselves, but in the WHY: Ambassadorship. Be a good mouth!

Well, we Christians have the same problem, since our bodily interests are necessarily split between heaven and earth. Moreover, we are in the devil's world, so anything we do can be used to claim treasonous activity. So, to resolve this appearance of conflict of interest, we stay out of politics. Most do's in the Bible are there for that reason: to prevent what Paul calls a "stumbling block" for the unbeliever. [Paul talks about this topic often; every epistle has something in it. Like don't eat meat if some other brother thinks its idol food; probably Corinthians and Romans have the most concentrated presentations, though Timothy is extensive, too. "Stumbling block" is the translation in most Bibles: term is really a play on Isaiah's 8:14ff (et passim) "Rock of Offense", and Paul cleverly uses it both ways (they stumble of their own accord, so let's not help them to stumble). NIV Bible shows 15 occurrences of this term, first of which is Lev19:14, the famous basis for the love-God, love-your-neighbor essence of the Law.]

Besides being ambassadors representing our home country of Heaven (politeuma metaphor in Paul, esp. Ephesians), we are also citizens of our host countries; so we have a very fine line to 'walk'. We must be good citizens, so must vote, pay taxes, etc. (Rom13); but we are not to be activists. Doesn't mean we can't run for political office, etc., but we should be CHARY of the bondwoman's methods, which are always designed to ensnare us. You don't see the Lord running for political office or urging political decisions of any kind. He only had confrontations with the Sanhedrin which they instigated, never Him. Christ is the quintessential Ambassador. We should follow His lead, not tell ourselves we are doing Him some kind of favor!

The Lord's bloodline is descended through two prostitutes: Tamar (fake prostitute, but the act wasn't legal), and Rahab (reformed prostitute). So clearly His Attitude is not sanctimonious. Pay close attention to how the Lord acts, in the Gospels. He doesn't piously separate himself from sinners or goyim (Gentiles), like Peter would later do (Gal2); the Lord drinks alcohol with those who drink; talks Scripture with rabbis; lets any manner of folk touch Him, and even pardons outright an adulteress, leaving those who would have stoned her, ashamed of themselves. He never advocates even one cause, other than Father's. So we know it's not unholy, to have a drink or own a liquor store. We know it's not unholy, to engage in politics. We know it's not unholy, to go into or own a store where prurient materials are sold (for in marital sex, all is holy, and you don't have the right to force a person to prove he's married).

But of course all these things, and even taking a drink of water, can be dicey. Some, more than others. 'All things are lawful, but not all are helpful'. [1Cor6:12, 10:23. NIV captures flavor well, though "beneficial" doesn't have the Greek punch that "profitable" in English, conveys.] So we should gauge by what To-God value a thing has, building up IN Him. Clearly, earthly things all are naturally profitable in their proper niches; but spiritually UNprofitable, at all times: because they are earthly things, not spiritual things (1Cor2, 2Cor5, Rom8 -- Romans was written later than Corinthians. How I wish the Bible's books were chronologically ordered.) So we need Doctrine, to make profit on these otherwise-separated things. We know the principle that 'all can come to Father's table.' (Matt8, Luke13.) But let's be careful to know how Father wants that action to be undergone. And of course to know that, requires Training. Which, God help us, we'd better not refuse!

If you analyze all the do's in Scripture, both with regard to the soul AND in flesh, you should find basically three classifications of 'holiness': Toward-Father Thinking, which includes learning Scripture and thinking it 24/7; neutral stuff, like your personal tastes and (within basic morality) bodily needs; unhelpful stuff (dark side of morality, stumbling blocks, etc). The latter category can be 'tapped', so to speak, via almost ANY activity you do. We'd all be chary about owning a brothel, and there is probably no circumstance in which it would be okay. But we forget that our urging the Gospel on others, our preening over good deeds, our preoccupations with this world's stuff is equally or even worse 'fornication', depending on the circumstances.

The Rev17 harlot is a tableau of frequent discussion in the OT, which is why God chose John to write about it: the harlot's "riding" means mastery of POWER; the harlot's SCARLET means POLITICAL power; the harlot's PURPLE means religion. Point is, it's HARLOTRY, even if otherwise ordained (after all, political power is necessary to the function of a nation, and God ordained that). So great precision in evaluating what one should think and do WITH the body, is VITAL, to avoid 'matching' what the Rev17 harlotry, does. For, if the mouth suddenly starts bragging.. remember what Daniel was shown in Daniel 7-11? This is the biggest trap in Christendom! It's cockroach bait, and you only have to turn on TBN or some other Christian station to see how we make ourselves cockroaches, to get that bait! Oy, this is the worst, Ez16, grossest, fornication against Our Sovereign! Flee political fornication, if you love your life at all!

For Kingship is an INSPIRING thing. That's why a King really doesn't have to make law. He sets policy by the way HE IS. We are inspired BY seeing HIM, and so we COPY Him. That's how Peter puts it, using the clever Greek term "hupogrammos", as a moniker for Christ (always mistranslated "example" or worse, in English of 1Pet2:21, bookending hupodeigma in 2:6). Writing tablet, CopyBook. Used to copy handwriting you see, when you too are learning to write the same way. For the Lord is to be written in our minds and hearts, Heb8:8-12 fulfilled in Heb10:15-17. Because, He sanctified us for all time, and is now Seated Heb10:10-14.

So, in Father's Plan for Christ and thus for Church, Royal Training means God's Power , to Learn Precisely How Christ Thinks. And thus, to Emulate Him From the Inside. In your soul, 24/7. WWJT, What Word Jesus Thought. Tells you thus, What Would Jesus Think (in the situations you face). Tells you thus, What Would Jesus DO. Precisely. Not knowing His Thinking PRECISELY means screwing up all else. That's why the widow's two mites were worth more than the talent of the guy who dropped all that money in the church donation box, Mark 12:42. It's the to-God THOUGHT that counts (theme of the chapter). First Commandment, baby: God gets ALL of you, so ALL of you better learn how ALL of Him, thinks. Hence the need to be using 1Jn1:9 like breathing.

See, this is a far greater sacrifice and subordination than body stuff. For every action you take, there are potentially thousands of thoughts. Are you taking a shower? Well, how many thoughts are going through your mind, which FATHER HEARS? Do you think Christ would be willing to take on Humanity and go to the Cross so that you could THOUGHTLESSLY take a shower? Put money in the collection plate? Whatever will that stuff do, For Father? Every thought you will ever think has been playing LIVE to Father's Omniscience since eternity past. It's up to YOU what thoughts should be running through your brain. What you do with your body, well.. big flipping deal. Body is dead. It didn't get saved on the Cross, YOU did.

Here's what people don't get: God really can do the impossible. The atheistic taunt, is there a stone too heavy for God to lift? is answered, Yes, there was, and Isaiah talked about it in Isa53:5! The Cornerstone Was Crushed with our sins! (Heb: dakah, lit. means trying to lift a burden that instead crushes YOU.) God 'can't' pay for sins Himself. It would make salvation a judicial sham. Christ 'couldn't' use His Own Deity for the same reason: judicial sham, then. Spirit 'couldn't' override the Human Volition of Christ for the same reason: sham sham sham. Yet look at this amalgamated corrected (in caps) translation of Isa53:10-12:

Isaiah 53:10 "But the LORD was DELIGHTED to crush Him, putting Him to LOVESICK grief; if He would render HIS SOUL as a guilt offering, He will see SEED CAUSED TO BE LONG OF DAYS, and the DELIGHT of the LORD will CAUSE His Hand TO PROSPER. [Verse 10, LXX] So the LORD delights to PURIFY BY WOUNDING HIM: 'if You will give as a SUBSTITUTE FOR sin, Your [Plural] Soul[singular] will see long-lived seed.'"

Isaiah 53:11 "Then the LORD delights to PLUNDER, BIRTHING/CARRYING OUT FROM His Soul's LABOR to display/ point out/ make known/ EXHIBIT VIA Him, the Light. Then, to SCULPT via His MASTERY-OF-THINKING, so to make Righteous/justify. He will see, be satisfied. BECAUSE OF His TRUTH-knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities. The Righteous One Well-Serving purposed for/ instead of the many: even their sins, He will carry off/ lift up."

Isaiah 53:12 "THEREFORE I WILL DISTRIBUTE TO HIM THE SPOILS/PLUNDER OF VICTORY BECAUSE OF THE MANY, And He will divide the booty with the GREAT ONES; Because He poured HIS SOUL out to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors. "FOR THIS REASON He will inherit the many; in fact, He will apportion the PLUNDER among the great ones; for the sake of which [PLUNDER] His Own Soul was given over to Death."

[That's a quick recasting of the NASB translation, not the best re-rendering. Capped words are the corrections. The above recasting is basically the same as the last screen of Isa53.htm; but Isa53trans.htm has a fuller explanation and fresh retranslation of the whole section. It's impossible to bring out all the wordplay. For example, Isaiah keeps putting "soul" in the middle of a verse, to show it as subject and object -- in Greek, the same thing is done. So the Soul which dies as the Guilt Offering is the Same Soul Who sees forever-living seed. Deft economy of words in both inspired texts. You see the Face of God here, deftly. Again, with Bible translation you gotta keep refining it. Problem with published translations is they always cut God's Action or Head off from the original text, or make other really huge mistakes so you miss critical core meanings in the inspired texts. So no translation is good enough, but doggone it, you can at least put God's Head back on! Etc.]

So He had the Strength From Truth to Think. To Think Love. Every javelin-piercing of an imputed 'passed over' (reserved!) sin was responded to with a Desire to have it, due to Truth He knew. Like 1Jn4:10 and 1Pet4:8 say so beautifully: Love covers a multitude of sins. The word "covers" is a play on the gold covering the wood of the Mercy Seat, depicting Christ's Divinity; and, the Divine Truth which would be in His Humanity. Kaluptw, Hilasterion, Propitiation. Satisfaction, "sweet savor". Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

So, what do you imagine God thinks if He hears you respond like that to the needle-pricks of your own life? So, what do you think Doctrine getting in you does TO you? Again, God isn't satisfied with unequals. That's why you are made As Good as God, really and truly, the second you are first saved. Now, born. But, no truth IN you. So, you get the "noble deposit" ("deposit" is a Bible keyword for Bible Doctrine Spirit puts in you). That's the main theme of Romans 8 and most other epistles, in the original languages. For it didn't matter that Christ was Perfect, the Strength of the Deposited Truth did the work, via the Spirit. So it doesn't matter that you and I are soul trash: the Strength of the Depositing Truth made By the Spirit does the work, just as well. For the Truth is the Same Truth as in Christ Jesus (Phili2:5). That's what the frequent exhortations to be CHRISTLIKE, are all about!

Sin is rejection of God, so He couldn't think Truth in a state of sin: nor can we, 1Jn1:8,10. So IF He had ever rejected God once, unlike us there would have been no 1Jn1:9 available, since that depends on FIRST being SAVED. So it was important He stay sinless -- but the actual Power Mechanism of the Truth in Him, really did the work of KEEPING Him sinless. He just kept on VOTING FOR the Truth, and the Holy Spirit ran the mechanism.

For Humanity can't naturally think Divine Thoughts, since the two natures are antithetical, Infinity and finity. Hence the Spirit Indwelled Him and Filled Him. It was a Judicial thing: so long as He kept on voting for the Truth, it was Truly Righteous to hold His Humanity together by means OF that Truth. [Indwelling protects you from the shock of Divine Contact. Filling enables the flow of Divine Thinking, to occur and interface with soul and body. Now, I don't know yet for sure whether His soul while on the Cross would leave His Body if exposed to that much shock; but we do know from medicine that too much shock to the body, 'causes' death in lesser situations. And we know from Bible you can't die until God says so, hence the real cause of death is God telling the soul, to leave the body. Now let's apply this to the Cross. It becomes a matter of whether and when God should 'say' His Soul should stay in or leave, His Body. Then it was solely a Juridical matter, what the Holy Spirit did: to wit, whether FAIR to keep His Soul inside His Body, so long as He was voting for Truth; which obviously, it would be, since sins were being paid. Adam lost his human spirit when he first sinned, and as a result his body died. So it makes some sense to say a somatic holding-together also occurred on the Cross, but oh! if for one nanosecond He'd given in! What suffering it must have been! Worse than if He had died!]

• People who have courage, have it due to something they know. For example, if you know you have enough ammunition, you don't fear going into battle as much.. the knowledge of the ammo protects you.
• If you don't have much of an inferiority complex, it's due to what you know.. like, it flipping DOES NOT MATTER if you are inferior to someone else. It doesn't matter, because YOU are alive. Whatever you are, whoever you are, you live. No one's opinion of you, can alter the fact that you live. And quite frankly, 'superior' people don't really gain much advantage from that superiority, for everyone grabs at them as a consequence. So the inferior, has more PEACE! You understand all that, so you are more rational in assessing your flaws and your better attributes. For it doesn't matter which they are. They are just facts, like other facts.
• A murderer thinks that if he murders, it will solve some problem. It only makes his problems worse. Immediately.
• A robber thinks that if he robs, he will relieve some need. The robber's needs grow due to robbery, not shrink. Immediately.
• The insecure gal thinks that if she marries that famous rich guy, her life will be secure and comfortable, only to find out she just stepped into the worst hell ever. Immediately.

  So as you can see, knowledge determines ability. Specifically, What you believe determines how well (or badly) you 'hold together'. God has designed us to be held together, the same way He is: by means of Truth, John 4:24, Eph3:19, 2Cor5:14, Heb11:1. For clearly, God Himself BELIEVES IN Truth. It's not a doubt vs. no-doubt thing, believing. But rather, believing-in is always a Pro-Object thing, a Love thing. For in Greek, this is the first meaning of "pistis", knowledge you believe. That you also believe it as an act of will, is a second meaning. Usu. translated "faith", the Bible stresses First, the Word itself in you. Then also, the fact you believe in it. So notice: two things. Word First, and you believe in it. That's where your internal strength comes from: WHAT you believe, and THAT you believe. But notice: if WHAT you believe is false -- like the murderer, robber, and insecure gal above -- nonetheless, only the True Consequences still occur, Col3:25. Your strength of belief in the falsehood then acts like a millstone about your neck, taking you down with that falsehood. For the belief in lies remains in hell: analyze the manipulative 'rich man' in Luke 16:20ff. If ever there was a place where truth would be obvious, it would be in heaven or hell, right?

Part III of the "Thinking" series goes into the vicissitudes of spiritual growth in its "First Reason for Invisibility" subsection. You literally change the way you think; it's a spiritual maturation process which literally transforms your soul. Stuff which used to terrorize you as a child (spiritually, here) will make you laugh, as an adult (spiritually, again). It's pretty much like psychological maturation, except it's GOD's Thinking in which you are maturing. A big by-product of this maturation, is that you become ever more secure in the understanding that your comparative inferiority or superiority to other people, matters not at all. So you stop being preoccupied with yourself. So you lose a LOT of interests you formerly had: it's amazing how many of our interests in life are just masked needs to buttress ego. Lose the need to buttress ego, and wow -- it's like a whole new world. All due to what you know. And what you come to know, is the Love of Christ, Eph3:19. By then, you are spiritually mature (it takes some years, just like regular maturation). By then, you don't give a flip about anyone else, but Him. As my pastor likes to say, "no one can hurt you, then." Quite true.

For we humans are forever believing what Adam believed when he first sinned: that by all our figleafing activity, we can make ourselves good again. Dream on! [The sin nature is essentially an unresolvable, dissociative, inferiority complex. You can trace its originating dissociation point to prove that, in Gen3. Original sin was motivated by an inferiority complex in the woman, who wanted to be as smart as God. In the man, it was similar, for he believed himself a bad person if he didn't 'share' in her fate. LordvSatan2.htm, which is Part II of the Thinking series, has a "Fall.. Fantasy" link section going through the psychology and resultant consequences of the Fall. The discipline of psychology is really a science of the sin nature, but doesn't recognize all that. But the principles and testing mechanisms in that science itself, prove the originating process in Genesis 3. It's pretty straightforward.]

We are tyrannized by the "ME" thing, and are trying to get back to the Garden, before the MEANING of life -- God -- got chopped off, truncated to that mentally-crippling, "me". We can't get back there. But God can restore the relationship, and hence MEANING can return.

Thinking requires Learning. You have a job. You can now THINK in terms of that job, because you spent a lot of time, learning that job. Every job has a specialized vocabulary, so you think in terms of VOCABULARY, and you do it FLUENTLY. Which allows you to construct CONCEPTS. Which allows you to DEVISE ANSWERS. Which gets you a PAYCHECK. So how much bigger a paycheck do you think Doctrine PAYS, when its own name is "true riches", "gold silver precious stones", "noble deposit", "Christ" (seriously!), "Love", and every other good title you could possibly invent? So, you learn it. Pieces of information, as when you learned your job in the beginning. You don't have any fluency, you don't really know what to do with it. A doctor learns ooodles of names of things. It's all a blur for a long time. But, using 1Jn1:9 constantly (or whenever you think of it) and studying a day at a time under your pastor, will eventually COALESCE. So, like in your job now, you will then be able to construct concepts. Bible verses will start to make SENSE; when they do, you will begin to think in Bible Vocabulary, and along Bible's parameters. It does become natural. This process takes years, ok? But oh, worth it.

Relationships in life are deeper when the office and the personal, intertwine. Down here, that tends to make more problems than enhancements, so rarely will it be recommended that Family get involved in business together. But if Royal Family, the Royalty IS the business, so you have an Honor Code to mediate the personal and the office, so that both can be expressed without compromise between them. Since this is the Divine Honor Code, the level of Communion is ENHANCED by the Office of Royalty, rather than the office creating a hindrance (or vice versa, the personal hindering). For, your 'spheres' of Togetherness, are much bigger. Like parenting, two parents who otherwise have rapport, much more enjoy having children with whom to share their happiness. So too, here. Again, this process of maturation in rapport takes years.. well, most of a lifetime. But worth it!

Again, we saw back in the first large section of purple text in this webpage (Hupostasis, in Trinity) that They tell us flatly Their Intention is Love by means of Their Self-Chosen Titles, and the Articles of Incorporation, in 2Cor13:14: Father. Son. Spirit ('Mom'). This is the Perfect and Perfectly-happy, Family. We are weltering in our blood, Eze16:6, but They say, "Live! Again I say, Live!" Two "Live!" clauses, to reverse the two deaths (moth tamuth) in Gen2:17. So because we have this exalted status as our legacy from Him on the Cross, via His John 17 prayer, which is based on Matt16:18, which is based on Isa53:10-11, well.. we have maxed-out spheres of communion, forever. So, hey: so what if it takes a lifetime to learn? The TOGETHERNESS.. is right NOW, 2Cor13:14!

So we just saw the Thinking DDNA we need to acquire. Now, what are the Law and Diplomacy Issues to which This Thinking applies? Through that Application of His Thinking, we become better trained IN His Thinking for all time. For the same Thinking Skills we thus learn, will be necessary throughout Time and Eternity.

See, you really are in training to become something, not do something. You have to become a King, in order to 'do' Kingship. So, you get lots of practice as an apprenticing Ruler. In this section, you will also discover an awesome surprise: how VAST is the benefit to the world RIGHT NOW, due to your apprenticing. Note that: you aren't even in charge, yet. But are treated as though you are. When you see the enormity of the impact even your mere learning has -- for Better AND for Worse -- you will likely be stunned. So was I. The "Thinking" series was born from being stunned by the constant repetition of this enormous value, which I learned under my own right pastor. Every pastor knows something about this impact, so it's no secret. But it is, seldom appreciated. Big mistake.

Let's begin at the beginning, with a secular analogy (everything secular always reflects the bigger spiritual Truth). From time immemorial, (even pagan) Kings and priests require a Mentor and a Book through Whom and through which they Learn to Function as (here, God's) Representatives. Kingship is essentially Representation, with Authority. So much Authority, that the Representation and NOT the Authority, must be stressed. For the secret of good Kingship, is to Rule-by-Inspiration, not law. For the most important rule IN Kingship, is this: Less is More.

The term "priest" in God's Book is not at all some syrupy, goofy doormat office, like you see in those old Bing Crosby and other movies. Rather, it's truly a Representative Office. One Greek word is for the Office, is "Diakonos." [Well, one meaning of that term; usually it refers to a pastor, but it does occasionally refer to a believer's official status in the body, not necessarily "official" in society. There are also several other words for priest, and each has a different stressed nuance in Greek or Hebrew. Interesting how the most common Greek word for priest, "yereus", sounds like Jesus (ee-YAY-sous)!]

Although it's sadly true that maybe even most lawyers are, um..like Satan ("legal adversary"=Satan, Heb.), though unintentionally, that doesn't mean BEING a lawyer is at all bad. Just as, most Christians are wacky, but being a Christian isn't bad. In fact, the term "lawyer" in English is a truncated form of "lawgiver". That is, RULER. That is, KING. Like YOU are in training to become.

Law is important, for it is the 'blood of the covenant', WILL. Thought. "Blood" in Bible is always depicts thought, which is why the animal sacrifices are structured with emphasis on the pouring out of blood. [If you read Isa52:13-54:1, which is a blow-by-blow depiction of how sins got paid for on the Cross, you'll see Isaiah use animal-sacrifice words, so you can tell it's His Thinking which paid for sin. Very pointed, in Isaiah.]

For the 'blood' sealing the Divine Corporate Agreement in eternity past (2Cor13:14) was the Active Thought by Each Member of the Godhead, Willing it. Which Will, keeps on continuing, for as noted earlier any Contract is an Exercise of Sovereignty, never a surrender of Sovereignty. For, any contract can be broken, but free association is bought by continuing, circulating, agreement. That is why we must FIGHT for Freedom (to keep our society intact, fight for the contract we have, fight against its breakage). (Nerd note: Hopefully every Christian learns early that Christ's literal blood didn't pay for our sins, any more than literal animal blood really washed away sins. Blood is nearly always used in Bible as a metaphor for thinking.]

The way parties in the covenant SEAL their agreement to associate (all contracts are Association Agreements); the way parties in the covenant Agree to Interact. It's a Process, the promulgation and function of law. The reason to make law is so all folks have a clear idea of the Standards. Rule. Rules. Without Authority, without rules, people can't associate. They then go by..what? Feeling? What if lemon meringue pie makes you feel sick, but you are forced to eat it? Because, someone feels you should? See the problem?

Hence freedom cannot work without authority. Authority cannot work without freedom. Association is impossible without both. Ergo, Law.

However, when Messiah came, they rejected His long-prophesied Offer of Marriage, so He instituted Matt16:18, the Church, built upon Himself. [Sigh: does no one read the original-language texts, that you can't find even one Bible documentary which doesn't egregiously abuse Matt16:18? Greek (LXX) OT uses "Petra" to signify the BEDROCK on which the Ark used to sit; the Dome of the Rock today sits over that Petra, and the term always meant Messiah, since it was on Petra that Abram almost sacrificed Isaac (the Arabs maintain it was Ishmael, which is why they captured and built the Dome). So Christ is "Petra", in Matt16:18. Not Peter, lol. Peter's name is Petros in that verse, and the term means a teeny chip off the Rock. Peter loved being a chip, too: he constantly plays on hupo-prefixed words and stone/gem terms, in both his letters. Positively addicted, is Peter, to those LittleRock (=petros) terms. Why alleged 'scholars' never READ the original-language texts before making positive fools of themselves in the documentaries, is.. golly, who knows why. We are all satanfodder, if these our best and brightest can so easily be exposed as fools. How great is our salvation, our deliverance from our foolish sin nature.]

Church also has an astonishing rulership role right now, which is Unseen, NOT political; but from the Rapture onward, that role will be both seen and political; the post-Millenial rulership role is forever exponentially bigger, than the Millenial one.

Remember, secular reflects spiritual at all times, either by likeness or contrast. That is why the Bible makes so many analogies to secular things. Most people can't handle much information in "official" disciplines, so they don't realize how difficult and precise the job is. Greek word "machaira" was a nickname ("knife") for the short (18", approx, 1/2 meter) Roman Two-sided sword which basically, won Rome her conquests. For, it was used PRECISELY. The enemy had these long, clumsy broadswords (romphaia). See, if you just inserted the TIP of the machaira in exactly the right place, then step out, you save your own life, shorten the time it takes to wound your enemy, and can thus win against superior numbers. It's maybe like what we would call a "surgical strike" today, but on an individual level.

Representation of a Sovereign is the most delicate of tasks. (Diplomatic term: delicate, as in "careful", not 'feminine', lol.) For, you are representing Him to someone NOT of His Rule. Or, if representing Him to someone also in His Kingdom, that other person is vertically linked to Him. So even more delicacy might be required. Especially, a good vocabulary. For in diplomacy, Vocabulary is all-essential. Just one word OFF and you can start a war. Look what happened to Trent Lott, for crying out loud! One casual moment at a party, and bing! A really good Republican loses his job as Speaker! (We are so screwed up, as a country!) Or, look at Christendom's history, sometime: it's so hard to fathom that people in Constantine's day killed each other over whether Christ was Divine, or Human or both. Why didn't everyone just sit down and teach teach teach Doctrine? You don't learn by killing, but by teaching. Read Gibbon's account of that time, someday -- oh: have plenty of aspirin nearby.

So, we too need a Roman double-edged sword, but not to kill. Rather, to use its vocabulary with care: Heb4:12. Which, of course, is The Book. The Mentor, Holy Spirit, is our Teacher. See, "Mentor" was a Parakletos. Unfortunately, Bibles either transliterate, which helps the reader not at all; or, worse, translate "Parakletos" with the incredibly lame (and lying, sorry) words "Helper" or "Comforter" (say "awwww" here); when in fact the term is King-Advisor/Military-Advisor. Far different idea, right? "Mentor" was the Parakletos to Telemachus, the son of Odysseus (see an encyclopedia). Because, Mentor's Job was to Train in Ruling. So, we use the word "Mentor" today, in honor of that man. Training means Very Careful Thinking. So, Very Careful Vocabulary. So, "knife". So, Heb4:12. So, Spirit, Who is the only One Who knows how to handle Divine Knives, Our Surgeon General.

For diplomacy is all about words, and words are the only things a soul can apprehend. Especially, words about this Invisible God. There are always tons of misunderstandings and prejudices, many false arguments and problems. Thorny territory to cover. And all the covering must be done by means of careful, lawyerlike Thinking. Atop all that, there's this Unseen Trial going on, Over this Thinking. Heb11:1, puts it this way (in corrected translation):"For it's about Confidence in Word! Son's Thinking [lit., Hupostasis, moniker for Christ in the NT], On Trial! Evidence, Unseen!" Hupostasis=Him. Specifically, Evidence of Him IN you: 1Jn4:17, Col1:25-27, Eph3:15-21. And, Heb11:6 "Without Doctrine, it is impossible to be pleasing..to Him." Now do you see why? [Nerd Note: the wordplay in Heb11:1 is awesome, and you can translate it several different ways, to bring out different nuances: no one translation can be wholly correct. See Heb111.htm for another corrected translation. I've translated it differently here, to bring out the Greek's metering (I can't match the number of syllables in each line, though). So why then do all the published translations pick INSULTING ways to translate the verse, cutting Him completely out, and cutting out all believers, too? The htm shows why. Bible mistranslations blaspheme God routinely; hence, such mistranslation evidences Satan&Co.'s involvement: for we can be CERTAIN, no translator or teacher ever once intends to blaspheme God. See also MisTrans.htm and "Badly Translated" link near the top of RightPT.htm for more examples.]

As Ambassadors, we are in the middle of an ongoing Trial 'war'. "Thinking" series (link at pagetop) centers on that Trial. Here, we focus on our official Ambassadorial function in it. To function, we have to know quite a lot about what Bible really says, versus what people think it says, or we can't even straighten out in our own minds, what are the issues. Occasionally, we will be called upon to answer the many arguments out in the world -- for Satan&Co. voice their arguments, USING the world.

So when you hear the world's arguments, you hear actual Trial Evidence, currently; Satan&Co. advance theirs in a kind of burlesqueing "code", which in the Appendix of the "Thinking" series I call "DIOS"; there's a 'cover story' they promulgate for this DIOS goal to deceive everyone, which in Part IVc of the "Thinking" series, is called "STOP OMEGA". So Bible teaches you how to decipher their strategy and deceptions, so you can avoid their many traps; so you also can know when to talk in parables, when to explain, when to walk away. You'll see the Lord did all these things in the Gospels: but have you ever analyzed why? Well, you need to. He writes in the sand, when the adulteress is being accused; He doesn't join in the accusation, though she was caught in the very act of adultery (per the Greek). But we don't write in the sand, do we. Instead, we crusade against porn and every kind of sexual thing, exactly the opposite of what He did. Hmmm. Seems like we don't know our Book very well.

Similarly, He spurned the crowds hanging on Him, and was rather nasty-sounding, in John Chapters 6 and 7. We'd not have done that. We'd have catered to the crowd: for that's what we Christians think we are supposed to do. Yeah, we think so, because we have been playing hookey. Try this experiment: take just about any popular notion of what's considered 'Christian', and compare it to what Christ did or said in the Gospels. Notice how OPPOSITE are His prescriptions or behaviors, in the same situations. Mark's Gospel is particularly scathing. Then you'll see how we Christians don't know Our Diplomatic Instructions, very well at all.

Hmmm. Let's then start at the beginning, the Uppermost Truth: to God, what's our Role while we otherwise are learning Him in God's System.. while down here?

But we are not merely royal heirs of earthly kings, but of the KING OF KINGS, the Lord of the Universe, the Lord Jesus Christ. So our job is far far far tougher. The Christian who doesn't even learn what this job is, will regret it. For "true riches" in Scripture, means learning this Job. Trace that term and all its thesauretical synonyms yourself even in a translation: check it out!

Now, to what's called a "diplomatic brief" of our situation as believers, so you can better understand why this Thinking to Father is your all-important purpose for continuing to live and breathe down here in this body, completely equipped with all you need to train all the way to VESTED KINGSHIP: Pleroma. This Brief aims to be a synopsis of the larger "Thinking" series (link at pagetop), particularly Part IV, which is itself subdivided into about seven related pages. So this Brief will not justify its statements, but merely make them, as Diplomatic Briefs ought to do. Our Diplomatic situation is surprisingly sophisticated, even far more tangled than the world's many international relations problems. Which is tragic and hysterical, since we believers couldn't be more clueless about it all. So let's start at the beginning, and get some clues...

If you'll remember, earlier we saw how God "judicially separated from the world" owing to Adam's sin. [You can search on that quote to return to that section; then search again, to return here.] So, as a result, you probably already know from Bible this world's kingdoms are run by Satan&Co.: a 'prize' of conquest Satan won, due to Adam's fall.

1. As a result of Adam's Fall and Satan's consequent Rulership of the world, the ONLY favorable contact God can judicially order for the world must come as "blessing by association" (my pastor's term) through BELIEVERS.. like YOU.

   This is a Royally-Big Deal. Only God can control, ordain, order: time, how long and how well you live, the weather, whether you should be punished or blessed, how you should be punished or blessed. No creature has these powers or authorities even if the powers. Because the first Legal issue was -- as you saw back at the Fall -- only GOD can create the soul at Birth, Gen2:7. So legally God has First Rights on Everything. But He allowed Satan to dispute, so Satan gets some rights, too. So now God has Bound Himself to certain promises to mankind, to believers, and even to Satan &Co. (i.e, that they will get a fair Appeal Trial). So if God must withhold blessing according to what He bound Himself to do, then people get hurt. For you can be sure, Satan just wants Gotterdammerung. Just a matter of how he can best fashion it for his own purposes, to defeat God. So all mankind NEEDS God's Blessing. But if man is voting on Satan's side, then God can't juridically allow blessing. For again,

   THE HUPOSTASIS PRINCIPLE is the core of and governs, ALL relationships; be they animate or inanimate; whether among God, or with respect to everyone and everything in the universe. To wit: Subordination to authority Justifies Intimacy, if and only if subordination is Otherwise Justifiable.

   Do you see the dilemma? If you love intimately but are a Ruler, you have to JURIDICALLY reconcile the RULERSHIP before you can JUSTIFIABLY reconcile the LOVE. God clearly loves, John 3:16, Rom5:8, Gal3:20ff. But the unbeliever hasn't agreed to the terms of Reconciliation, that same John 3:16. Hence there is no Positive Vote by Unbelieving Mankind, to justify that reconciliation of Rulership. Man is rejecting God's Rulership. Same as the Genesis 6 folks, which was why there was a Flood back in 2450BC. So Love is not reconciled, for the Rulership is not reconciled; for in man's mind, subordination to God is not justifiable. Now you know why we are needed, and why we are here, rather than being zapped up into heaven the very nanosecond we first 'do' John 3:16. For God is NEVER WILLING that any should perish, corrected clause in 2Pet3:9. [The "not willing" translation in 2Pet3:9 is a mistranslation, in the sense that you can't translate the "never" meaning which Greek particle me and the Greek gnomic present (participle) tense convey. So in English, you'd have to translate me "never", and capitalize it all, to convey the strength of the Greek.]

   GeneYrs.xls is a worksheet with a chronology going all the way back to Adam's Fall (God has Bible measure time beginning with Adam's Fall and NOT before); the timeline goes forward from his Fall, all the way through 2006. Its aim is to show how this juridical reconciliation of Rulership -- through believers ONLY -- has resulted in God granting TIME for the world to continue. The post-Cross historical entries are sparse, especially after the Reformation, but at least the pattern of God's Time Grants is segmented so you can do your own vetting. More historical entries will be added ad hoc, as I've time. Mirroring.htm and MirrorNOW.htm explain the underlying Blessing-By-Association Accounting System God set up, and you can vet the data in Bible. God's Accounting System for time works like a balance sheet, and there's nothing on the internet like these pages, sadly. You can prove out the math and the dates, which are based on Bible or encyclopedias, respected Bible resources in BibleWorks, etc. Pretty shocking stuff. [The entire purpose of the Bible is disclosure for Trial purposes. So you are not told how old the universe is, it's not relevant. More importantly, angels have eternal life and the definition of time only has relevance for humans. The clock of time therefore didn't even begin until Adam was created, and it wasn't relevant BEFORE his fall, since he hadn't yet fallen. Key clause to know all this is in Gen3:17, where God begins to NUMBER HIS DAYS. So much for all those irrelevant science vs. bible creationism wasteful debates: we measure time backwards based on how it works now, ASSuming that time is a constant, and that the way it works now in our material universe now, is the way it always has and will work. Einstein proved this is not true. Oh well.]

2. Now, to our current diplomatic dilemma: Our Savior legally defeated Satan via successful completion of the Cross, theme of Hebrews Chaps 1-2. Hence Our Kingdom is now of Christ. So there REMAINS (keyword in Heb4) a REST (ibid) for Blessing to flow down here: us. For we are His Body, being Beautified for the Wedding.

   "Remain" and "Rest" are Greek wordplays on the Hebrew concept of "remnant", a small group loyal to God, growing up in Him. The numbers of believers as a percentage of total population on Earth, has always been few. So the writer of Hebrews incorporates by reference all the OT doctrines about the Remnant, to show that law of blessing continues. Upgraded, for Church. Hence the "blessing pipeline" remains both open and contingent upon the Christian spiritual growth or retrogression. People in this planet are being blessed or cursed solely because you, me, and other believers are merely breathing. Big blessings, God-level: time, weather, competence, etc. Part IIIb's "Conclusions" links go into some added detail, but the bulk of it is reserved for Part IV of the "Thinking" series. Mammoth stuff, since nothing about God or His Power, is small. Nothing about our role is small. So even if you're clipping your toenails -- and especially if you are doing that or any other menial task -- your THINKING TOWARD FATHER, determines your future, and the world's history, as Part IVb of the "Thinking" series, exhaustively explains.

   It's an irony of life that 99.9% of activity is fluff, kinda like only 2% of your DNA really determines your biology. But when you think of the importance of that small percentage, the fluff is free to BE fluff. Look: you have to breathe, to be alive. Yet the breathing itself, does no 'work'. Yet everything revolves around breathing. You don't usually notice the fact you're breathing. So also, in many activities of life, a little thing is key to the whole, and the thing itself, is of itself, valueless. Yet everything depends on it. We believers of ourselves are worthless, but we know the Gospel. That saves lives. God does the work of getting people matched up so that the Gospel can be heard. So think: no matter what a person is, wouldn't you too be never willing that he'd go to hell? So in maybe five minutes out of a whole lifetime, that five minutes spent hearing/believing the Gospel, JUSTIFIES the entire lifetime spent. So it's worthwhile that we be here, never mind that we ourselves aren't worth the powder it takes to blow us to hell.

   Why is it worthwhile that someone be saved, if we are all worthless? Because God wants it to be worthwhile. He can MAKE it worthwhile, we can't. Moreover, since God is LOVE and Omniscient, well -- He surely doesn't want to look at people suffering in hell. We don't even like seeing people suffering, how much more, He doesn't? So for eternity, even if five minutes of a life is spent hearing/giving/believing the Gospel, that justifies the whole life -- since Christ paid for it all, that justification is valid. Omnipotence could save us without the Cross. But then God would not be paid. That's not fair, Christ WANTED to be the Payor, and He is. So we are truly justified, and it's NOT necessary that anyone go to hell. So if they want to go there, well.. that's their choice, never God's.

   Atop that reason for being a remnant down here, there's the Bridal Preparation analogy. You always gotta interpret Bible by its own terms and its own time, even though the meaning of Bible is timeless, so you can get the DOCTRINE God means to convey. Bridal preparation in the ancient world, especially for a king, was a long-term affair. The higher the king, the earlier the bridal contract is made, often between two children. They are trained to be husband and wife from childhood (the practice was also common in Europe as late as Mary Queen of Scots, who was first betrothed to the crown prince of France as a child). So that's also what happens during our life down here. So the world justifiably receives blessing, because WE NEED it to be blessed. 99.9% fluff, the world. But we are that .1% which justifies the rest. Just because at some point we already spent five minutes believing in Christ. Just because some other believer before us, spent that five minutes telling the Gospel which we believed. See? A lot always depends on the little, basic law of spiritual and nuclear physics: hupostasis! For infinity, is punctiliar. Whole in a 'dot', in every 'dot'.

3. As a result, the WORK God does to bless the world through the believer, the Work GOD does to develop you into a King, is higher than all human works, combined. So if AS a believer you turn His Training down, if you don't keep on getting in and staying in God's System, you are more to blame for the world's hurt. Conversely, if you do keep on getting and staying in God's System -- there is no greater work for the world's weal. For work which God does IN you, is always greater than the sum of all man's good deeds.

   This fact scares me more than all other Bible facts: We are not our own, we are CHRIST'S! 1Jn4:12-17 is the scariest passage in the Bible, and is (along with Isa53:10-12 and Eph3:15-19) the conceptual underpinning for the DDNA webseries (link at pagetop), especially DDNA1.htm. You were bought with a BridePrice, paid at the Cross (main theme of Romans 5-8, esp. Chap6). And your JOB, is to grow up in Your Husband's Thinking. Period. If you go galavanting off into works with people, eyes on people, it's tantamount to fornication, and Bible in both OT and NT is rife with scathing condemnation using that immoral imagery to describe moral, religious people. [This condemnation is almost entirely obliterated in translation. I can somewhat understand why, because were I to dare retranslate the salient verses, I don't know geocities would allow my websites, anymore. When my pastor started exegeting these verses back in the 1950's or 60's, he lost nearly the entire congregation because they found the text so offensive (i.e., especially in Eze Chaps6,16, Hosea4, 6, Isaiah1,28, 64, Zech 3, Mal3). Ask God to show you where these verses are. Believe me, He will! God is real adamant on this point. John basically calls us murderers in 1Jn3:18's Greek (in context of the previous 5 verses), if we don't get in and stay in the Word. It's NOT a works thing -- it's the works, which are the fornication/murder! Again, ask God about this. You won't believe it (and shouldn't) until you know HE led you to the verses. DDNA1.htm covers 1Jn3:18 in more detail, especially since the translation cuts God's Head off and reverses the meaning to imply works. Again, so much of the Bible's meaning is stripped out in translation, I really must appeal that you ask God about it.]

   When a ROYAL does something, it has a huge impact. So the Royal must be incredibly careful with every word, nod, remark, action. When Princess Diana was seen wearing a sweater with lambs on it, the company making that sweater sold out its entire supply within days. When a Royal makes a slightly inappropriate remark (in the eyes of others, never mind if it was truly inappropriate), the press cavort over it for days or even years. When a Royal disapproves of something, the object of disapproval is devastated. So too, any of your works or comments or attitudes seen by others, have a devastating effect. If you are not first TRAINED, you works actually HARM people. Hence not only disloyalty to your Sovereign is evidenced in works (for you aren't learning your Sovereign, but are aiming for self- or human- approbation) -- but you actually harm the very folks whom you meant to bless via your works. We have a lot to answer for, at the Bema. Would that we could all be locked up in isolation the very second we were saved, until we were trained in Him! But those aren't the terms of the Trial. So we are exposed from spiritual birth, foibles and babblings included.

   Scary thing, that Command to be Bride, wholly dedicated to Him, separated from the world and its fake holiness. Part III of the "Thinking" series walks you through your ROYAL Priestly Inheritance and how you can grow in it.. or, eventually, lose it. You can't lose salvation. You can lose your escrowed kingdom. For each believer is designed by God to become a king. Which inheritance, can be turned down, and then you won't "inherit the kingdom", but some other believer (on your behalf!), will. Not all Royal sons grow up fit to rule. So, like Isa53:12 says, the booty is divided among the "great ones" who WILL grow up. Everyone else, is people booty UNDER those individuals. That's why the Rapture hasn't happened, yet: more of those "great ones" remain to be developed. There is NO other reason for the delay.

   In earthly royalties, inheritance customs vary. Generally the firstborn was made king of all, and the other siblings and relatives were guaranteed an income, sometimes with jobs to go with the money/property. Occasionally, however, the king would split his kingdom amongst his children (Clovis, for example). Historically, the results were disastrous -- endless wars amongst the siblings. Not so, in God's assignments. But if you don't grow up sufficiently to rule the kingdom assigned to you -- it will be given someone else. He who has [faith/Word], gets; he who has not, loses even what he has. It would be unfair to assign a portion to someone ill equipped to rule.

   All the while, Royalty is isolated from the general public, just as priests are. There's a reason for that: the specialized THINKING one must develop, takes a lifetime of training and isolation is key to its function. The royal or priest is DEDICATED, and nothing of his life is his own. The common folks vaguely understand this, and are often discomfited, imagining all that wealth and honor somehow is a pleasure to waste, rather than a burden to shoulder. So look: when you are born into a human royal or priestly family, the first thing you learn is that you don't deserve your station; it's drilled into you, a sense of absolute duty. Duty first, self a very distant second. The royal code of any human royal family is therefore honor honor honor. When you are being honored, it's not you, but the royal code and country you represent. So you yourself honor it with your life, and if you must completely obliterate all personal wants, so be it.

   How much more true, for the Royal Family of God for All Eternity, currently styled the "Body of Christ"? That's what He's talking about in John 14:2 et. seq. Not mere buildings, but a Royal House with many branches (subkingdoms, a federation). Wish someone would look at the Greek, sometime. That's why John 14 is about the Holy Spirit in you and Vine and Branches occupies John 15. LIVING Royal House, not dead stone. For example: should I be carried all the way through Pleroma, my kingdom would be "the Royal House of Brainout" -- 'brainout' being substituted maybe with my real name (i prefer 'brainout', though, since that's what I'd be, apart from the Holy Spirit). [Well the full title would be longer, referencing your God-appointed pastor and other linkages. God is big on titles and they are not empty, but incisive, profound, witty.]

   So to say your very breathing is the source of God's Beneficence, well: that's true for earthly royal families, they breathe and economies depend on their breathing, even in our jaded 21st century. How much more, is your breathing the source of God's Economic Blessing? Can there be a bigger economic blessing than time and weather, polity competence? Is there ANY work you could even fantasize doing, as big as that? Oh, how we short-shrift the description of our role down here. Think real hard: if Christ paid and as a result is the Ruler of All (Heb1-2), and you are part of His Body, you CANNOT have a footman role, nor the footman's freedom, even when you clip your toenails. It would be dishonorable. So for you, even the toilet really IS the Royal Throne. Don't make the mistake of laughing at that. Christ didn't die in vain, John 10:34 is not hyperbole. God won't tolerate lesser-thans, and our current status is merely a way to train us in what Omniscience by nature, already knows: I call it the "high-low". It's a hupostatic knowledge, and we start out at the 'low', made high in His Thinking, then made low again (i.e., denigrated). Just as happened to Him. All this, by CONTRACT, in Isa53:10-12, which Ephesians explains in detail (see LordvSatan1.htm's "Fit Bride" link).

   Rulers are trained to think honor, 24/7; people WANT to look up to their rulers. So are we to do: think Bible 24/7, look up to Our Ruler. Meanwhile, the still-rejecting-God world gets blessed with time, weather, all huge-level stuff -- for we are down here breathing while God makes us into that Bride. It's not our good, but HIS, which justifies this. Hence the irony: to be a King, means you are the Biggest Slave. A peasant can have his private time and pleasures -- but YOU, can't. That first nanosecond you believed in Him, you actually lost your brains and lost the ability to enjoy your sin nature; its pettiness is too small now, compared to your incipient spiritual life. For God is bigger. So now are you. Hence, your ONLY fulfillment from here on out is to Learn His Son. Which is why you'd yearn to be a slave, and wouldn't want to be a king -- so can only accept kingship, if it MEANS being the Biggest Slave. Which, it does. Sorry, someone should have warned you of all this before you first believed in Christ!

   See, when we first believed in Christ we did that for basically one of two reasons: a) "God" just somehow mattered to us and we didn't want a life apart from Him -- it made sense that Someone would have to pay for us, in order to justify that eternal togetherness; and/or b) we didn't want to live in hell forever. We really didn't know any more than that, when we first believed. But oh! There's all this ROYAL PURPOSE, now! Unlike the commoner, nothing in a Royal's life can be left to whim. His time, clothing, behavior, food, and minute personal habits, are groomed, scheduled, watched. He has no freedom. The peasant can pick his teeth, go where he wants on his own time -- the Royal cannot. For the slightest movement of a Royal is obsessed over, watched, aped, criticized. There's no way out of it, except abdication. And here in God's Plan, you can abdicate. Just stay out of God's System or opt for Brother-Foot Churchinanity, and you can have an eternity of distance from Him, even though in heaven forever. Happy, but closer to people and things, than to Him. Your choice. But if close to Him, well.. look at the training for the Cross. Everything of you is 'on the table'. As this Brief unfolds, you'll see more of just how truly Royal this life is. And confining. So the only way to survive in it, is to develop a Love for Him. Which, living in God's System for some years will produce. God's produce, Eph2:10, Phili2:12-13 (Greek). For you are not your own. And God's gonna give you a workout if you stay in His System (ibid)! Your choice.

4. Therefore, we are in a kind of diplomatic limbo: positionally but not actually, Royal Citizens of Heaven (i.e., per Phili3:20+1Pet2:5,9); actually but not positionally, members of this world. Hence Satan wants us ousted (theme of John, 1Jn, Hebrews and Ephesians, etc). Satan gets his way, when we refuse Our Royal Training by refusing (or quitting) God's System. Because we started out in the world AND of the world. It's vaguely like dual citizenship where both sides have a valid claim on you; so it depends on your own choices, who gets the jurisdiction over you while you live. Very messy thing. Like being the kids in a nasty divorce custody battle.

   The "Footstool" doctrine in Bible, if you research it, informs you that Father Calls Bride, as part of the Preparation for the Implementation of Israel's Covenants at the 2nd Advent; which covenants, Christ as Seed (Gal3) inherited due to His Successful Vesting of King-Priest kata Melchizedek, at the Cross. (Central Theme of Hebrews.) So that's GOD's Reason for keeping us here. Not one second more, nor one second less. Satan's trying to jimmy with God's Rules, to make God 'fail' to finish the "Call" of "Bride".

   Christians who opt for Brother-Foot Churchinanity as the definition of 'spiritual' are voting for Satan. They don't mean to do that. A lot of the spiritual life is spent being childish, so of course a good amount of Brother-Foot ideas accompany spiritual childhood. But the objective is to grow OUT of that stage. And most Christians, don't grow out of it. Hence the Bride, isn't completing. Too many children, not enough spiritually mature (Eph4:14 versus Eph4:13) has been the history of Church since Pentecost.

   On a given future date, these two antithetical trends -- Footstool progress and too-long-childish Christians voting for Satan -- merge into a kind of maximum 'ripeness', analogous to Jeremiah's explanation of the good and rotten figs (passim theme in his book). On that future day, the Rapture will occur (akin to Nebuchadnezzar taking away the flower of Jerusalem, the "good figs"). No one knows when that day is, since it's a voting thing, and none of us can know how the voting is proceeding in aggregate. Satan is trying to manipulate the negative (childish) side of the vote to either delay the Rapture or to force its occurrence WITHOUT the requisite number of developed Kings. For in diplomacy, when your ambassador to a foreign country shames the home country, he must be recalled. Satan's trying to make that recall occur in his favor on his timing.

5. So diplomatically speaking, there's a thorny, two-sided juridical reconciliation of Rulership, in progress: on the one hand, Satan being strategically defeated, Our King has the legal right to call out from Satan's world, whoever wants Him. On the other hand, Satan himself has not yet been ousted by the King, because the terms of his ousting are that Bride COMPLETES. So Satan has legal rights of rule as well, and the full potential to yet again, usurp the world -- this time, from the Last Adam. By, the Last Adam's CONSENT.

   Satan won control of the world over the first Adam, by the successful temptation of the woman to choose to make herself god, versus the Real God. Adam had to choose between God and his newly-fallen spouse. The Last Adam chose God over humanity. So now it's humanity's turn, to choose the Last Adam. Husband chose Wife by Choosing God over Wife; so now, Wife is to choose God over the world. The Last Adam consents to this, even though He won, because Love never coerces. If you don't want God, He won't force Himself on you. Hence the race continues toward the destination (Eph4:12-13), the completion of the Wife, aka the Body of Christ, aka Church, aka Bride of Christ (once completed). All these metaphorical titles depict the reality of what life is really about, down here: choosing to learn Him, which means living in God's System with the result that you come to learn and live on Bible 24/7, thus growing spiritually to Pleroma Kingship; or, choosing to substitute whatever, and shrinking in your soul until your contagion requires your capital punishment, 1Jn5:16. Then, you go to heaven as a Royal Peasant. No middle ground.

   99.9% of Christians end up shrinking. That's why they are so prickly and legalistic, childishly viewing God, constantly measuring and judging others, busy with their baby works. Enlarging souls don't need to judge another person's doctrinal correctness, since the growing soul is far too busy tending to his own logs; he does do an enormous amount of critiquing which can be mistaken for judging by the immature; but the purpose of such critiquing, is to analogously audit the SELF. By contrast, shrinking souls constantly hunt for motes in everyone else's eyes, and pounce upon others. But don't you dare correct them! They are hypersensitive, totally hostile to getting what they dish out. Sound familiar? [The more I see wrong, the less I trust myself. The wrong must be accounted for, else whatever wrong is in me, can't be detected. Sometimes the only way to see what's wrong with the self, is to look outside the self -- then, back to the self seeking parallels. Everyone errs, and everyone errs in the SAME WAYS. We just differ in flavor, that's all. That's why at West Point a sizeable amount of time is spent studying the military blunders in history. Greater minds than yours blew it, so guess what? Ouch!]

   In the Angelic Appeal Trial which constitutes human history, God has allowed humans to choose who will rule them. It's not a majority-vote decision, but a person-by-person decision. Meanwhile, the results of those choices end up constituting the body of evidence which decides the Trial outcome. So on the one hand, the Trial is strategically over, because Christ opted for the Cross and completed it -- thus proving Satan's contention that God is 'mean', wrong; on the other hand, not everyone has finished voting for who's to be his ruler. You get what you want, with God; and if you don't want God, you can vote rejection. With full attendant consequences. When all the voting is done -- and no one can know when that will be -- then the Rapture occurs. Has zippo to do with any passing semblance of historical events to prophecy.

6. This Church-Bride Completion is therefore a numbers game, and when the Completion occurs, the Rapture happens. It's a LEGAL VOTING thing, not a goo-goo thing. As noted earlier in the "Crown Prince" section, it's a Balance issue between how many Rulers ("great ones" in Isa53:12) are needed to Divinely govern "the many", who are the ruled. So far, "the many" far outnumber the Rulers so the ongoing imbalance means the Rapture cannot yet occur.

   Point is, GOD DECREED FREEDOM. The Calvinists and others miss this, thinking that if God decrees something, it casts in stone, so no one is really able to have free will. But if God Decrees Freedom, then the opposite is true: you are totally free, insured to be so. Omniscience merely knows what will happen or not happen, and Foreknowledge decrees that the free results, actually be what they are. Easy to understand, really -- once you understand that Sovereign, Free, God -- decrees FREEDOM. No gerrymandering of any kind is acceptable to God.

   Too many drooling Christians think the Rapture is a Disneyland thing. It's a very somber thing, and scary in the extreme, RIGHT NOW, never mind the Tribulation it kicks off for completing Israel's "time". So I had to spend four years developing Part IV of the "Thinking" series, to show the legal issues, numbers-criteria, satanic-conflict games, and destiny issues. All that writing, can be vetted before the Lord so you'll see it's not at all like the popular conception. All that writing, because when I had learned all this the first time, during daily exegesis of Revelation by my pastor for four years, I was bored with prophecy. 20 years after that had begun, God finally spanked me for my boredom; and made me write out the demonstration that Rapture precedes Trib -- for another four years. 1981-1985, was when I got the exegesis. 2001-2005, was when I wrote Part IV. Yikes, God knows how to make his purpose clear, huh. Prejudice is always punished. Ouch. Why do I tell you this? Because we intellectual types tend to despise prophecy as something only stupid people and children should believe. Guess again.

7. Satan wants to exploit our limbo status and our ignorance, to 'miscarry' God's Rapture Date ; more specifically, to make us Church so utterly apostate, that the necessary Ruler Complement will not VOTE for development all the way through the Pleroma (Eph3:19) maturity standard (Eph4:13). If that happens, Church must be Raptured BEFORE it COMPLETES, and hence it's a MISTRIAL: thus Satan would win. For if he can't produce a Mistrial, then all he has are the seven years of the Tribulation: he already knows how they end, given God's Omniscience 'Discovery' (i.e., Book of Revelation). But it's not predicted when or in what configuration, Church will complete, since it's all about Voting. So Satan still has a chance to reverse his defeat. Really, he's angling for a MISTRIAL VERDICT; which he can get, if Church like Israel before her, doesn't grow up in Christ to the stature needed for eternal-but-free, balance. We are in a sudden-death round of history, and it's all about how people VOTE.

   See, the argument is, who rules better. A Mistrial Verdict occurs if the Judge (God) tampers with evidence, procedures, trial rules. Here, the central trial rules include all of God's Promises. Should God 'fail' on even one promise, it's a mistrial. Since God has made certain promises CONTINGENT on human votes, there's a real chance some of those promises won't be fulfilled. We know from prophecy that they will be met -- but that knowledge doesn't at all restrict the possibility that they WON'T be met. "Discovery", a legal name given to full disclosure of evidence which the prosecution (or defense) has, is why we have prophecy. For God is omniscient, but we are not.

   The main promise of God, to provide a Savior, was met. The next promise of God, to provide the Savior a Wife, is in progress. The next promise of God, to use that Wife to restore to Israel the promised Tribulation and hence Millennium, is yet to occur. All these promises are contingent on VOTES. So it's truly possible that they won't be fulfilled.

   For all humankind is under a time bomb: the sin nature being rapidly degenerative biologically (it's in your genes), there will come a point in time when God cannot justify imputing a soul to the body that emerges from a mother's womb, at birth: the sin nature will be too corrupt, and free will would be compromised. At that point, no more humans will be born. In fact, that degeneration accounts for a good many miscarriages from Adam's day onward. See? God won't gerrymander freedom, not even biological freedom. Even mindless genes, have rights.

   So within that time bomb are earlier deadlines: the last 1007 years of human history of course must play out before that degenerative time bomb, goes off. Spiritual growth or retrogression affects the genes, too: that's how the sin nature became genetic, in the first place (due to Adam's original sin, which was an act of his SOUL). Obviously the soul God imputes at birth is perfect, so the only place the sin nature can be, is in the genes. These genes are free to develop as they will. So there is a deadline for the Rapture to occur: we just can't know what it is, because there is no way we can know how the voting is going. So Satan can win.

   Satan really might win. We know in the end it won't work, but he really CAN win. And frankly, it doesn't matter if he did win. Look: nothing restricts God, nothing compromises God, ever. He can of course at any time just zap things as He wants them. But He Absolutely WANTS everything to be free. So it technically doesn't matter even if Satan wins. God loves Truth and Authority so Absolutely, that 'if' Satan won, God would submit. God doesn't compromise Himself if He submitted. Nothing can compromise Him. He already submitted His Own Son to the Cross -- and that really was the ONLY thing which COULD have compromised Justice -- and we know how that turned out. So everything else which happens, well.. it's free. Think: would you really care if Satan won, since no matter what you can live with Christ forever? Would it really matter if the circumstances were pleasant or not? No. He Himself is heaven to you, and that's the truth for all of us. We don't all realize that right now, but Jeremiah's "The Lord Is My Portion" statement is the Reality. So who cares, if Satan&Co. win and make us miserable, allegedly? It would still be heavenly. Compromises nothing. Not God, not us, not the relationship between God and us. No one can pluck us out of His Hands, John 10:28. Not even all the gates of hell can prevail against that. Not even if they win.
   For, here you are reading this webpage. Why aren't you out doing something ELSE? See? It doesn't matter who wins in this Trial. Your Lord is still Your Lord, and you're reading because you love Him. So you're in heaven, already. No matter where your body is.

   See, the Last Adam LOVES us. So will not rule by coercion. So WILL allow people to reject Him. So Satan really can win. So now you can see why Satan&Co. are so anxious to mess up the Gospel. The more believers, perhaps the sooner Church completes: for who knows who among them, might just Vote for God's System, all the way through Pleroma?

8. Consequently, the closest secular analogy to this Unseen Trial, is that of DISPUTED TERRITORY, in diplomacy. Victor wins the territory, and vanquished agrees. So at Satan's end, his goal is to produce a "Dios", a 'foreign' god (himself) we prefer to rule us, versus the Real God. To this end, and to manipulate the Rapture, Satan makes a Fake Temple and Fake Church with which to annihilate the Jews.

   Territorial disputes can last for centuries. Kinda like today's Kashmir or Iraq squabbles, it's a simmering thing. People booty. Prestige. Secular always reflects spiritual. In our world, the claimants would go to the U.N. or the International Court of Justice at the Hague, and present their arguments. But if the conflict is really deep-seated, like that between the Palestinians and Israel (which is rooted in Hagar versus Sarah's kids, not what's being said today), then.. all the talk goes nowhere. Everyone just stalls and pontificates, pretending progress. So you can look at Arab-Israel Conflict news broadcasts of 30 years ago, but change the dates and faces/names; yet have the same story as here in 2006. Always near a settlement. Always peace in our 'year'. Always always always.. outhen. For nothing is really happening. Just pretense. So too, in the Angelic Trial, where control of the universe itself, is disputed. All that nice talk in Job 1 and 2 is just that: talk. Behind it, runs a vast network of warring. With words. Fooling people.

   The humans in this conflict of course have no clue they are being manipulated toward a particular goal: the rebuilding of the Temple. Part IVa of the "Thinking" series spends a lot of time explaining why that's important. In gist, Satan needs to build a fake Temple, just as he set about creating a fake Church (Rev17) beginning within 2 years or so after Revelation was penned. If he doesn't keep counterfeiting both Judaism and Christianity, he runs the risk that too many people will see the truth. Yet he even advertises the truth of Daniel 9:26 by causing the Dome of the Rock -- very visible "abomination" symbol -- to be there. But he needs it there, to keep attention ON that Rock, so he can get people mad enough to fantasize justification to rebuild the Temple. Since a good 30% of the OT is devoted to saying only God will rebuild the Temple at (what we call) the 2nd Advent, Satan's got to fake that, too. That's why Revelation Chaps 11-13, read as they do -- that's his fakeout plan. Part IVa, PartIVa (Continued) and the GeneYrs.xls worksheet demonstrate his actual historical attempts to focus attention on and rebuild the Temple, even using God's Accounting-System-for-Time units. It's uncanny. [To see it in the worksheet, scroll down to 70AD and look for the lavender-colored cells. Lavendar is a yucky color, imo -- just like Satan's gambits.]

   For the supernaturality and bloodbath characteristics of the 2nd Advent 'resemble' the Trib, if you don't know your Bible. Also, the Bible says Messiah returns FIRST, executes a bloodbath from Dan to Beersheba (length of Israel), and then Temple is rebuilt by angels, Ezekiel Chaps 39ff. But if you're blind to Bible, given Satan's penchant for derisively reversing Scripture in translation and in taught doctrine, well.. have some statue SET UP in the Fake Temple, call it the mouth of Messiah, and Israel comes to it, rather than it gathering Israel. Sucker born every minute...

   So the only prophetic 'herald' (Elijah-to-come) left, is a Fake one, get it? The real "Elijah-to-come", was John the Baptist, who's long gone, now. So that leaves

   • Fake Church, Rev17;
   • fake Temple, Rev11;
   • fake messiah with fake herald, Rev13ff.
   • All for purposes of annihilating the Jews, Rev12.

   All neatly laid out for any pair of eyes to see. So of course, no one sees them: the HERALDRIC function of the BIBLE ITSELF goes unheard. So of course, no one reads the Silent Stone Sentinels of Dome and Wailing Wall, which are standing mute right where the Two Human Witnesses will be. Witnesses, to WARN AWAY from the Fake Temple. Even now, their Stone Counterparts testify to all eyes, the fulfillment of Daniel 9:26c, hence Matt24, hence the future Rev11:1 -- right this very second. After all, the Middle East hasn't been out of the news since 1096AD. Not even Satan wants the Middle East to be out of the news, as you'll see in Part IVa's text about post-Temple history: Satan&Co. kept putting that area IN the news, when apathetic mankind kept losing interest; wasn't until the Crusades, that people began to pony up. See, if there's nothing to fight over in Jerusalem, then there's no way to gather the Jews for Armaggedon. But hey: by 1905, Satan had a good thing going, an alliance between Jews, the Porte, and Europe.. so the Jews started returning to the Land as a population for the first time in 2000 years. So, liberally dash in a number of European and Russian pogroms, rise up a Hitler to outdo them all, and well.. it was a shoe in to shoe in the Chosen People where they can be more easily destroyed. 50% of world Jewry is estimated to live in Israel, now. All huddled together, as so often in the past. "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history," yet again.

   Since the Rapture is not predictable, Satan's got to keep on motivating a rebuilding of the Temple in EVERY generation, and really tried hard that first 140 years after 70AD; he nicely managed a third "abomination" 70 years later, Aelia Capitolina; but that didn't rile sustained interest for a recapture, drat. Repeated attempts were made, afterwards, but the area fell into disrepair, and Abraham's BedRock of His Salvation languished. But Satan kept trying, and he came close in Constantine's day (490 years after Antiochus, cute) -- and again (per Gibbon) in Julian's day, Justinian's day , even using Chosroes; then, when that didn't work, he trotted out Islam. Then used Islam predictably, whenever Christian interest in the Holy Land waned; finally, he got Europe all hot-and-bothered (via Islam, of course) during the Crusades, but.. no one really had sustained interest, and even his causing of the rise of the Ottomans, didn't work.

   But now, with Israel ignoring Daniel 9:26 so much she reassembled WITHOUT God's doing it, beginning in 1948, well.. maybe he has a shot at getting that fake Temple rebuilt, now. In the name of God, of course. You have to gather your enemy in order to slaughter your enemy. That's what he's trying to do. If there are too few Jews left to receive Messiah, then God fails to deliver on His Promises. Frankly, it seems pretty clear Satan&Co. left the Jews no alternative, for during the first half of the 20th century, they were pogromized no matter where they went, all over the world. See From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters for a fact-filled history of the events. It wasn't only Hitler who tried to annihilate the Jews. Europe and Russia were pretty much trying to do the same thing, which pogroms run oddly in 490-560 year increments, same as God's basic Blessing-of-Time Accounting Unit. Satan is nothing, if not mimicking.

   Revelation 6-19 once seemed impossible: how would anyone not know it was the Tribulation? How could stuff like that occur, yet so many still not believe? The plagues against Pharaoh are among the best known in the world, made famous by the movie, "The Ten Commandments", and here in Revelation, nearly the same plagues roll out again! But how can anyone not know from those Two Silent Sentinels, Who is the Real Messiah and thus the Real God.. even now? When Someone goes to the trouble to preserve a prophecy related to Temple Destruction in 586BC, and His own ENEMIES kindly oblige by building an "abomination" on the anniversary of that very destruction plus 99 years for good measure -- after all, Abram became Abraham, at circumcision, age 99 -- thus building that abomination beginning 685AD, well.. then ANY blindness, becomes believable. No one can accuse the Christians or the Jews of orchestrating the building of the Dome to match/mirror Bible prophecy and even the DATE of the Temple's Destruction, in Daniel 9. In fact you can be pretty sure that the Arabs didn't know -- would you testify to your mortal enemy's holy book being right but your own, being written by Iblis, by making a STONE WITNESS right over the Holy of Holies 586+99 years' AD mirroring of the 1st Temple built by enemy? I bet not. And here you thought "the devil" had two horns and a tail, lol...

   But God is faithful, and will protect our sibling. We should thus defend Israel and the Jew with every corpuscle in our bodies. No one is more important to history, than the Jew. We are to be Israel's protector, both now and in the Millenium. Blessing from us underwrites the Tribulation, when we won't be on earth (Satan must pretend Church is there, so people won't think it's the Trib, but the 2nd Coming). So pray for Israel's protection, whenever you can. Pray, don't be activistic. For it's Israel's friends who helped her herd back to the Land when the Lord counseled them to flee until HE returned. Diaspora is her protection, but her friends herded her back there. So only Adonai is her Deliverer.. as always.

   We however prefer the fake, the small, the titillating. Anything, but the truth. You know the world is in deep doo-doo, when even Satan&Co. advertise The Real God blatantly to the world, using the two largest and least disputed relics on earth.

   As for Fake Church, well there are a number of strategical ploys being played. They divide out, as two main strategical objectives. First, it's of the utmost importance to DROWN OUT the Bible, replacing it with false doctrines which don't save, and don't grow you spiritually. That gives Satan ways to accuse us before God, trying to force our recall and hence a Mistrial Verdict. So that's why ecumenical religion was started; that's why it continues. That's why even the independent churches today largely misrepresent the Gospel, saying you must repent of your sins, invite Christ into your heart, etc. No one is saved by adding verbs to BELIEVE, John 3:16 (and hundreds of other like verses). If by mistake one does believe ONLY, well.. the myriads of other false Brother-Foot doctrines, restrict/slow down/ prevent spiritual growth. So the Rapture is delayed.

   Secondly, a fake Church is needed IN the Tribulation, to make it look like the Second Coming has arrived. To fake out believers during the Trib, into believing it's the Millennium. Here, the strategy is again to GATHER. Millions of believers will be sucked into that ploy. A few will hide out just as the Lord told them to do (i.e., that caves warning, don't come out when PEOPLE tell you Messiah has come, Matt24 and elsewhere). Satan needs to smoke these people out. For again, if not enough believers remain to constitute a KINGDOM, then Messiah's Return won't occur. So by starting the fake Church now, Satan first hedges his bets since he doesn't know when the Rapture will occur, either -- and also provides a nice FAKE PAPER TRAIL so to fool people that it's not the Tribulation, but the Millennium. It's no accident that the denominations which the more favor the Church Fathers, pooh-pooh the Rapture and even the Trib and Millennium, never mind that Moses was the first to announce the Millennium, in Psalm 90:4. Satan needs to mask the reality of the Rapture. So he indoctrinates his fake church with a replacement falsehood. Popularity is always a sign of demonic herding. So the fake paper trail will be believed by believers, during the Trib. So to gather them for slaughter. [Nerd note: popularity is not always based on something demonic, but to get the herding, something demonic will a) be created and then MADE popular, in order to herd; or, failing to do that, b) something popular which of itself is not demonic, will be TWISTED to become demonic and then herded. The Gospel is obviously in the b) category. It is the power of salvation -- but note how the Gospel is always TWISTED to add verbs to believe only, which thus saves no one. If all you must do is believe to be saved (the truth), by adding verbs TO believe, means the believing, is NOT enough to be saved. See the clever negation? Royal Gospel Brief and its like blue-colored boxes in the upper quadrant of the Home Page, go through this issue of believe-only, in more detail.]

9. Yet another layer of ongoing diplomatic maneuvering which requires our utmost skill in discerning and handling: in any dispute over territory, the key to victory is to assemble support from ALLIES. So the actual conflict itself, is SIDELINED. Wow, this strategy will be hard to explain. See, if you want to win, you have two choices: a) advance good arguments backed by force of persuasion/diplomacy/arms; or, b) bribe/sweet-talk others into alliance, while simultaneously badmouthing your enemy. You resort to b) when a) is invalid or weak. Thus if you are the evil party in the dispute, you SIDELINE the merits OF the dispute into a personality contest. Politicians and lawyers do this all the time. That's why a bad politician gets elected; why a guilty defendant always looks so nicely dressed. Awww, he looks and talks so innocent and nice, he just couldn't possibly be bad. Yeah, right. Sucker born every minute.

   The Arab-Israeli dispute is really the fault of the Arabs. Any cold look at the facts reveals this. The Arabs always start the wars, Israel is always WAY too restrained, trying to obey its allies. But the Arabs know the art of manipulation. Never mind, they have the most brutal of human-rights' abuse history, they claim it's Israel (or the US) which is cruel. And so many dingdongs IN the US and around the world, buy that tripe. So too, with the larger anti-semitic arguments you hear. It's all Satan pulling the strings (well, one of his higher-echelon demons, Satan won't ever get his hands dirty).

   To see how well this sidelining works, just look at the recent reaction to the execution of that Hitler-like murderer, Saddam Hussain. Oh, how piously people cried against IRAQ for carrying out its own law of execution! Never mind the victims. See how SICK the world is, forgetting the victims, wanting mercy for the BLOODTHIRSTY TYRANT? Only Satan&Co. can manipulate a large group of people all around the world. These people love hating anyone bigger than themselves, so of course the victims of tyrants, don't matter. Justice doesn't matter. Only jealousy and hatred of those doing the right thing, matters. Avoid such people, 2Tim2:26-3:7 warns. Yeah, you'd have to kill yourself, to avoid them!

   So notice how clever: if we're all busy taking sides on the Arab-Israel or pro-US anti-US stances, then we're all NOT looking at God. Heh.

   SATANIC ART-OF-DEFLECTION KEY ==> The larger goal is to align the world on one or the other side of some earthly dispute -- doesn't matter WHAT kind of dispute it is -- so that Satan can accuse BELIEVERS getting their eyes ON the dispute, to God. So that Satan can keep believers' and unbelievers' eyes on the dispute, rather than on God. That's what's behind his Fake Church and Fake Temple schemes, as noted earlier. It's not just about annihilating the Jews, it's about keeping people from thinking about God. Busy bodies, busy brains, busy on this world, feeling holy by taking sides with people they like. Clever, huh.

   Again, God must juridically stand off from the world. God must order punishment warning to the world via weather, agricultural failure and other big-ticket disasters -- testifying that GOD is doing them, it's not 'natural' -- so Satan tries to also get us all bollixed up with ourselves, knowing God must punish that. For if we aren't punished, we won't look UP and ask "Why?" Lev26 outlines God's policy here. Satan thus wants to get as much of those judgements to be executed on the world, as possible, making God destroy the very people His Son paid for: all of us. See, it's not just about annihilating the Jews. But all of us. Gotterdammerung, baby.

   See, that's voting for Satan, too: when we preoccupy ourselves with worldly things. Worldliness is not whether you wear makeup or develop your muscles, etc. Worldliness is preoccupation with this world, rather than Occupation with Christ (2Cor5:14-21, Heb12:2, Phili2:5-10, etc). Romans 8 is a flagship chapter on this topic, as is Philippians 3. So the satanic strategy is, to get as many people as possible to focus on a disputed worldly thing, since the weight of its popularity draws even in-God's-System believers, into it. And that dispute will always but always be popular on the anti-God side (the prolifers, the Arabs, theonomy, etc). So even if you are growing in God's System, you have to pay attention to the issue, since everyone around you is talking about it. Thus time you could be spending thinking toward Father, is instead spent with your eyes on people. Clever, huh.

   Moreover, by having some popular conflict, people who aren't all that interested in God to start with, or who have a child-level interest, are ARRESTED in the conflict. So they don't begin to think toward God or grow in their thinking. Clever, huh. Satan's not stupid. Why else do you think there's so much stress on sex, whether 'moral' or 'immoral'? If you're busy focusing on sex issues, pro or con, then you're NOT busy learning God. Clever, huh.

   It's a time-honored strategy since.. oh, probably when Cain first built a city to get everyone he could either on his side, or looking AT his side. So they would be looking AWAY, from God. Very jealous guy, that Cain. So too, with the jealous Satan, who's totally aware of being jealous, and uses his own flaws (like he did in Matt4) to angle for what he aches to get: victory. Hence, deflection: get people to take up sides over the ostensible conflict. And then having divided, to conquer all. So: do you look at this world and discern a Maker Who you want to live with? Or, do you get all hot and bothered over earthly things, in merely the NAME of God? Just His Name, mind you. Fake piety, that.

   Both Christians and non-Christians face this eyes-on-the-world, problem. Makes it easy to not look up, to not be saved, to not grow spiritually, see. Christians are saved, but.. again, they too can reject God. Two groups, believers and unbelievers. Two groups with the same problem: rejecting God. We get trapped in horizontal issues in the Name of God, and in all our arguing and politicking and fighting.. the time fritters away, and we don't grow up. Satan's not stupid.

   It's downright scary why people hold the beliefs and opinions as they do. 99% of the time, they believe because someone they LIKE, believes the same thing. Mother, father, friend, that nicely-dressed person next door -- oh, never mind the validity of the CONTENT! Of course, that basis for belief is a vote for Satan, too. Were this Trial about majority votes, Satan would have won a long time ago. But it's about the RESULTS of the votes, what benefit results, which determines whose rule is better. And the 'benefit' of voting for Satan, has never been good. God's not gerrymandering the results, and nearly 100% of human good is of satanic origin -- look how it entraps. That's the evidence. Look how Someone Who Never Did a Good Deed but Studied Word so Became Word and Went to The Cross, Nailed There Doing Nothing -- benefitted the entire human race. Prosecution/Defense rests, Your Honor.

   Meanwhile, the Angelic (really, Appeal) Trial is playing itself out. If enough believers complete the Royal Training to Pleroma (Eph3:19 definition) level, then the Bride Completes, and Satan&Co. lose the Trial. Then, the Rapture. Can happen tomorrow, the next five minutes, or who knows how many thousands of years from now. Stupidest people on the planet, are those trying to estimate when the Rapture will come. You'd have to be God to know that at all, since it's a voting thing made by billions of volitions.

10. So notice how this impacts you personally and officially. Personally, being human, you will be naturally 'drawn' to choose sides in any wrangle among believers, or between believers and unbelievers. Which, if you are drawn in, gets your eyes off God. So your spiritual growth, halts or slows down (i.e., you use 1Jn1:9, but keep getting drawn back in, as is normal). So personally, you are LOSING TIME if you keep on getting drawn in. You don't know when the Rapture will happen, either. So every minute you are drawn in, is a minute you could have advanced faster, spiritually.

    Officially, the problem is even worse. As mentioned just earlier, you are in a diplomatic limbo: both sides have a claim on you. God's is the superceding one, but if you get drawn in, eyes-off-God, then Satan's claim has received your acceptance, so during the time your eyes are off God, Satan can make claims and get some kind of satisfaction of those claims. What he wants as satisfaction is Gotterdammerung, so some kind of judgement against others or you will be demanded. For you picked him, just like the world does.

    Satan will demand judgement against others, because unlike you, they will more likely vote for him. So he gets more "bang for the buck" during your time in carnality (which he knows will likely end soon, since you know 1Jn1:9). But he's also angling to STOP you from growing up, since he doesn't know when the Rapture will occur; so you are a threat, because you are growing. So he decides what would best slow you down, and demands that. To some extent, God must grant what he requests. At the same time, when you use 1Jn1:9, whatever he'd requested can be reversed. Sometimes it doesn't get reversed, sometimes it's partially reversed, sometimes it's wholly reversed. Depends on all the facts and circumstances. See, this is a thorny legal situation. Only God can know all the relevant facts. We however can know enough to figure out our marching orders, each time. Phili3:14 succinctly summarizes those orders: Use 1Jn1:9, forget the falldown, get up, keep moving toward the Goal! Paul lived on that verse.

    Paul explains this zigzag process in Rom6-8 in terms of the now-divorced sin nature 'wooing' you and you giving in, but the higher drama is the Trial itself (referenced as a thread in Romans very sotto voce, since the Trial is the underpinning of history). So when you give into the sin nature, you are voting for Satan's side. Use 1Jn1:9 and keep growing, chooses God's Side. Many falldowns, but many 1Jn1:9's and keeping on growing in God's System, is how it always plays. Just as Paul explains, in those three chapters. So it's a process, with the objective of increasing the iterations and durations of each "rebound" (as my pastor calls it), the usages of 1Jn1:9 and growing. It's like exercise: reps and more reps and stopping and more reps and longer exercise periods, gradually increasing. Day after day. Spiritual growth is a plodding, not a preening. The turtle wins the race, every time.

    And every time you get up and move on again, is a Vote for God. Your votes really count BIG each time. Because, the world largely rejects Him, and especially, Christians. 99.9% of us don't grow up, as you saw earlier in the "Crown Prince" link section. As you saw in the "Thinking of Christ" link just before the "Law and Diplomacy" link section, growing up means growing up in His Thinking.

    So: a) since so few are growing up, Each Vote by Each Such Person is mammoth, since Each Vote likewise must have a Value to "substitute" for all the votes other Christians are not making.

    Because b), it's a funding calculation (as in, sinking fund, defined benefit plan, Social Security retirement, etc). An "x" number of minutes/days/years remains until the Rapture; God knows the value of "x". So as time passes, the amount of spiritual growth needed for the Body to get completed must increase, to Make Up For All the Growth Needed Which Didn't Happen.

    Actuarially, if you start saving for retirement at age 60 rather than age 50, you'll usually have to save at least twice as much each year, to reach the same savings goal at age 70 (assuming same investment portfolio and yield each year). So now apply this root idea to the voting: how much value does your positive vote have to have, to make up for all the negative ones? Normally, it would be a 1-1 offset. But spiritual Growth DDNA God gives you, is designed to make up for all the no's. So it's a huge value, not a small one. God could have One Person pay for all sin in a scant three hours -- so God sure can do a lot with voting, huh. Omnipotence can do anything. It's justifying doing that, which is the issue at God's end.

    There's a kind of actuarial/sinking fund 'science' to the spiritual life. DDNA3.htm covers this more comprehensively, but here's the gist. Thinking in a soul goes on forever. So God hears that thinking forever. The 'funding goal' is to develop PERSONS who have the requisite QUALITY LEVEL of thinking which goes on forever, to COUNTER those who forever will not. Hell lasts forever, too. The Cross is essentially a counter-thinking of Truth Christ WANTED to 'match' the incoming sins which were imputed and judged on Him. Thinking really does pay. Everyone chooses relationships based on the thinking in another person. You avoid people whose thoughts you find incompatible with your own, whenever you can do so. You want to be around people whose thoughts are compatible with your own, whenever you can do so.

    So now: who more than God, should receive compatible Thinking? That's why we're alive down here, to be TRAINED in that compatible thinking. Most of us will reject it. So the few of us who do NOT reject it, must become MUCH MORE compatible with God, to make up for all those rejecting. Perfection in the eternal state is not an equality of size. So the thinking quality is not equal, either. It's rather synergistic, and countering. Just like, the Cross Payment was -- by contract, Isa53:10-12. So as time passes, the FUTURE Rulers to be developed, must become bigger and bigger, to make up for the ongoing shortfall of compatible thinking in believers. For as we saw in this Diplomatic Brief's point #7, there is an endpoint owing to the genetic time bomb of the degenerating biology of the sin nature. So there is a deadline. So as we approach that deadline, a shorter time remains to get to the same AGGREGATE thought-compatibility 'funding' goal.

    So basically, the needed growth reroutes to those few in bigger and bigger amounts; with the result that, the necessary present value of His Sweet Savor Thinking be DEPOSITED in time for the Rapture. See, this is the same kind of funding calculation which was used to calculate how much payment was due for all the sins in history, so that the requisite Thinking Payment could be made on the Cross. We saw how that worked in the earlier purple retranslation of Isa53:10-11, combined inspired texts. So that's how it ALL works; so that's how it works Now, for His Thinking Deposit given to Church.

    What God does, is make you like Christ: Divine Thinker. It's kinda like making a factory which will (forever, here) produce income, not so much making a pool of money itself. So on the Cross, the effect of all those sins being imputed and judged ON Him, was to make HIM a Living Divine Thinker Wholly Compatible ("One") with God -- even in His Humanity. He was already "One" with God in Thinking, since He is God Himself. He was already 'one' in two natures, as God-man. But look: the compatibility level in THINKING depends on soul size. And the soul, is finite. This Thinking Deposit aka DDNA, trumps the limitation of finity, as we saw earlier via those five capped infinitives in the LXX of Isa53:10-11 (DDNA webseries explains that process in detail). The Quality of Thought is Divine in Scope. Hence a Living Payment, like Romans 6 explains, exists. For, Divine 'currency' is Divine Thinking. Like-mindedness. [Conventional Christian vocabulary doesn't suffice to explain this paragraph. Bible vocabulary does. But since no one seems to have BOTHERED to ask what did Christ GET for the Cross -- they don't explore what's in the Bible, answering that question. Surely inheriting us was not a big enough 'prize', since we are forever a burden to Him. The problem even He had, was the dichotomy of finity. Fixes.htm's first four bullets goes into this problem in more detail, as does ArchiDes.htm. It's not new-age psychobabble, but BIBLE. Ask God yourself, test it and see.]

    So every time you vote, you get bigger in your soul, a "deposit" being made. For deposits come from both Bible class you get daily and the votes you make to USE that information. It's exactly the same sculpting process as the Cross, as we saw earlier in the purple text of Isa53:10-11, the five infinitives (purify, plunder, exhibit, sculpt, justify). That's what happened to Him, for He Kept On Voting. That's what therefore happens to you every time you vote. In ever-bigger amounts, since time is passing, your fellow believers are not voting, so you have to get more because they are refusing. It just couldn't be more dramatic or valuable, to vote for God. The clock is ticking.

11. Therefore: all during this Calling-out-of-Bride, aka "Footstool" Preparation Phase (from our perspective), a dual to-Father Representation dilemma, remains: Father isn't getting His Due, and people thus can't get the blessing they need. As a Royal Priest, therefore, it falls on you to be a conduit for Father to get His Due, and people to get blessing. That's why you're still BREATHING. Remember the Hupostasis Principle, which By Sovereign Choice among the Charter Members of the Godhead, Governs. Subordination to authority Justifies Intimacy, if and only if subordination is Otherwise Justifiable. So, that's why a universe can be made, by Son FOR FATHER. That's why Spirit can justify 'subordinating' Himself to rehabilitate us, since that is also FOR FATHER. But if we don't subordinate to God's Terms.. there's no justification for intimacy, contact, blessing, nuthin'.

    So until there is juridical reconciliation to His Rulership, there can be no justifiable reconciliation to His Love. And hence, no blessing, even though from God's 'end', 2Pet3:9 is always true: He is NEVER WILLING (corrected translation) that anyone should perish.

    For on the one hand, Father sees everything, and is rightly due obedience from everyone. God owes no one anything. One has to be unbelievably arrogant to claim that God owes anyone anything. What, just because He's more powerful than you, HE owes you something? Is there greater arrogance than the claim that God should owe anyone anything? Rather the opposite is true: HE GIFTS YOU LIFE. So guess what. You owe Him, not the other way around. He gifts life, time, even pleasure; means to make a living, to eat, to sleep. Your very biology is utterly dependent on HIS PERMISSION that it should continue. So how can it ever be said that HE owes -- isn't it rather that WE OWE HIM? Who should have greater rights over us, than God Himself? Total rights, in fact.

    On the other hand, not everyone has acknowledged His Right. So, just as we saw in point #1, Diplomatic Mediation of the largely-hostile relationship between the world and the Trinity Corporation, falls to the believers, since we are Royal Priests in Him. We are subordinating (variantly), so the conduit of what's due God, can be made by the Holy Spirit FOR FATHER. Because that is happening, the blessing pipeline to those not (or less) subordinate, can 'flow'. So this dual conduit 'flow' function, is a kind of MEDIATION. So there are grounds for some intimacy with the world, despite the world's hostility -- due to the believers who live on it, growing In Him. Else this world would stop existing.

    When parties are hostile to each other, contact is hostile or absent. Romans 8 basically explains this problem, stressing how the sin nature is innately hostile, antithetical to the Holy Spirit. So for believers and unbelievers alike, the degree of hostility CAPS the relationship to either no connection, or only hostile connection. The same thing is true with people: if your friend/spouse/relative/co-worker is mad at you, either you've stopped talking to each other, or your conversation will be unpleasant. Much more true, when it comes to hostility against God. That's why He stands off. Trouble is we NEED His Intimacy. But we reject His Rulership.

    But you are subordinating to Father. So YOU are a conduit. You, and every other believer -- especially, those growing in God's System. Conduit for punishment, if you are not growing; conduit for blessing, if you are growing. No middle ground: Satan won't let any potential for punishment, go unaccused. For it's not about sin, good deeds, human good: it's only about whether or not you are growing in Son's Thinking, FOR FATHER. Again, FOR FATHER.. under Him. Under the Son, growing in the Son's Thinking, FOR FATHER. That's the entire meaning of the spiritual life. Take it or leave it. It's FOR FATHER.. or forget it.

    Like 1Jn4:12-17 explains (clearly in Greek, fuzzily in English), we Represent His Kingdom to the world; so our subordination to Him thus justifies blessing to the world, as well as demonstrating to the world that He is God, is Ruler, and they too can justify subordinating to Him by believing in His Son. As His Representatives IN the world, we need the world to be blessed; as humans, we have needs as well which require blessings to the world, so we CAN live in it. Remember the earlier "Hupostasis, the believer in 'Church'" link section on the meaning of ambassadorship? An ambassador doesn't take care of himself, his country does that. Our 'country' is really Him. Heaven is where He sits. FOR FATHER is why He took on Humanity. We are thus a kingdom of Royal Priests in Him FOR FATHER. Which kingdom, any human can enter by believing in Christ. Hence our ambassadorship to people, while way secondary to our FOR FATHER Royal Priestly Role, serves both Father and mankind, as a kind of mediation -- more, an announcement of the potential inheritance in Christ for anyone else to become members of this same kingdom, even as we ourselves are. So the unbeliever, just as we all once were unbelievers, can GET OUT of Satan's kingdom, and into.. God's.

    Thus in 1Jn4:12-17, John climactically states that we are the Evidence of God in the world, to the world: the world can't see God, but it can see us. God sees us and will reward us at the Bema for how well we learned His Son. Evidence will be how much we grew up in Love aka Canon. [Like Paul does in 1Cor12:31-end Chapter 13, John's use of Love is a moniker for Christ's Thinking, the Canon to be completed when John finishes writing what God gave him, "new commandment" clause in 1Jn2:8 and all the "I write", "we write", and like phrases in that epistle. John knows he's the last apostle and will get the Last Word to write. Accordingly, it is his job to incorporate ALL PRIOR CANON into that short letter. Each writer of a Bible book must incorporate by reference all prior Canon, in part to demonstrate the Divinity of the new book he writes, and in part to show how the new material, integrates with the old. Accordingly, John also incorporates the entire Books of Hebrews and Ephesians by reference (esp. the Greek of Heb 11:1, and Eph3:15-19, 4:12-16) when he writes 1Jn4:12-17. Incorporation by reference is done by means not only of direct, indirect and allusive quotes, but by using the actual keywords in the prior Canon. Thus you can track what the new material means, and how it elucidates the prior material. This practice of incorporation by reference survives as a major practice in writing and interpreting all contracts, in every form of law around the world. In short, it wasn't some bleeping council which made Scripture Divine, it was GOD only. And the Holy Spirit testifies to His Word. That people also realize it is His Word, whether in council or not, is a secondary function, a secondary witness. Because, we are Evidence of God in the world. But let us never forget, GOD WITNESSES FIRST. And He does it, by means of the Canon He commissioned, itself. Its very words prove to be from God, and then God Himself testifies to that fact to ANY soul reading the text. Thus you know what is and is not from God, which are true Bible books from the many derisive, slapstick fake ones.]

    Canon is the greatest evidence of God's Love, outside the Cross itself. For when you absolutely love someone, you CONTRACT with them for life. That's what the Cross accomplished, the Right To Contract. For Christ Paid So Much, our inferiority is no longer an issue. Hence we INHERIT if we believe in Him, and Father has Juridical Reconciliation To Contract With Us: the Rulership issue is resolved, so the Love can 'flow'. That's why Book of Hebrews was all about the changeover from OT to NT covenants; Ephesians, was on how the NT covenant results in the completion of Church; so John, writing a generation later, spends his letter incorporating those two books by reference, as well as everything since Genesis (via the "in the beginning" clauses), showing how all this Evidence unfolds, how we live it out; very practical letter. Gist: Stone Temple representing the old contract, was fulfilled in Christ. So replaced by Us, just as Paul predicted in Eph2. We are the Living Temple of the Temple Seated Next to Father. So, we have a Real God, and our 'polity' belongs to God, so what Benefits God, Benefits Everyone Else. For Father is the Head of the Divine Corporation, so all is His. He gives Everything to His Son (Heb1, etc. theme), and Son is our King, collectively (theme of Eph1, essentially).

    God is Omnipotent. So if He wanted to make us Gods, He can do that. And that's precisely what He wanted, John 10:34 quoting Ps82:6. For it's not right that God should have a relationship with lesser-thans. So this issue of getting Christ's Thinking IN us, makes for the functional equality, and operationally we are like God Himself, since Christ is God. That's why the FIRST thing that happens to you is you get God's Life (John 3:16) and His Righteousness (2Cor5:21) when you first believe in Christ (ibid). Else, you wouldn't be eligible for ANY kind of relationship (theme of Eph2 and elsewhere). It's all or nothing. You couldn't be married to Christ if you were inferior. You couldn't get the Holy Spirit, if you were inferior. You couldn't have Eternal Life if you were inferior. So you're no longer inferior. Still in this body, so you can GROW UP WITH REFERENCE TO YOUR SALVATION. [All the "eis sotereian" verses in English NTs are usually horribly mistranslated as if you didn't have salvation already -- yet they get it almost right here, 1Pet2:2. Weird.] Romans 8 is the flagship chapter on this. You get filled up with His Head to replace your own, built atop that Divine Righteousness gifted to you at salvation (Rom8:4, Greek). Now you know why.

    As previously seen in the "Hupostasis in Trinity" link section above, Each Member of the Godhead utterly LOVE Each Other. Hence their Self-Chosen CORPORATE, CONTRACTURAL Titles of Father, Son, Spirit. To create is Their Self-Chosen Method of SUBORDINATING to Each Other. Which They could not do, were They not Each Equal, in Divine Essence. But They are Equal, so the Intimacy Love wants, can be had via the Subordination of One Equal to Another, in Authority. It is through this Subordination to Authority that the Intimacy Love wants, can be expressed. Which expression, is manifested in creation. For They Each subordinate to CARE for creation -- thus expressing Their Love, for Each Other. Absent creation, Their Infinite, Co-Equal Nature, has no throw-down expression. We are privileged to represent that expression. Hence it DOES NOT MATTER that we are inferior. They want to build us, to Share Their Love. They do not look down on us, Rom5:1, 8:1, 1Jn4:19, 2Pet3:9. But again, there must be a juridical reconciliation of the Rulership, since in fact They Are Superior. At our end, we must want Their Rulership. And this wanting is evidenced by believing in Christ, Who is the Ruler of the Universe, main theme of Hebrews 1-2, all of John's Gospel, Eph1, etc.

    1Jn4:17 is climactic, because it says "Love is brought to completion in association with us" -- incorporating Heb11:40 by reference, as well as Paul's use of Love=Canon=Christ, in 1Cor12:31 through end 1Cor13 (theme of 1Cor is Head=Christ, so His Head is to get in our heads, thus Canon will be completed). So John's also playing on the Body of Christ metaphor Paul and later (post-Paul) the writer of Hebrews used as the framework for their epistles. That completes the Trial Witness (1Jn4:14), too. That's why the Bema is mentioned in 1Jn4:17 (tes krisews, synonym for Bema which also cleverly sounds like a concatenation of Christos and Iesous, The One Who'll be ON that Evaluation Seat). Because God is unseen, but our being completed in Love IS seen -- in the Trial (ties to Heb11:1 in Greek, the English cuts out both Christ and all believers, reducing them all to THINGS, lol). This is a to-HEAVEN witness, not so much before people. Always the first meaning of your life is to FATHER. People are way secondary. Of course, if you have Bible in your head, you will come to love Father (here 1Jn4:12-17 ties to Eph 3:15-19), and as a result love people as well. Love, not need. Need and love are mutually exclusive.

    Immediately, you can see there's a problem. Not everyone is a believer. Not everyone is a growing believer. Not every believer who's growing in His Thinking is equally-advanced; for, we grow at differing speeds, methods, levels. Some grow fast, stop for awhile, then take off. Some don't grow at all, then late in life, skyrocket. Some stay retarded (Luke 8 parable). So, if all belongs to Father, but all is not equally oriented in Christ's Thinking to Father (Eph3:19 standard), Father is being shortchanged. So everyone is being shortchanged. For, the 'polity' is really God Himself, Our Inheritance (i.e., Lam3:24). So, the differences in positive attitude and learning require some kind of mediation, just as any kind of disobedience to good law requires mediation.

    And it is disobedience, to reject God. If I take a pencil from the office which I don't myself own or buy, that rejects God, even though I am unaware I've done it! Even though I didn't mean to reject God, when I took the pencil. If I don't score 100% on a test, that means I rejected God, even though I couldn't get the answers right no matter how hard I had studied. For, God is Perfect. Hence, Our Mediator, the Christ, Who took on the sins of the world, as Intercessionary Payment for what violates God's Standards.

    So notice the two-sided dilemma: on the one hand, since you only breathe because God allows it, don't you owe Him, whether you loved Him or not? On the other hand, if you do love Him, you don't want Him to be shortchanged. Yet how can you but disobey Him you love, since you can't ever be 100% correct on everything, no matter how hard you try? Oh, the ache to be good enough FOR Him. Or, the ache to fulfill what duty owes, love or no love. Of course, a sense of duty is the highest form of love, no matter what those who hate Him, pretend. Those religious types, haters all, would beat you into the ground about 'duty'. But you can ignore them. You can instead realize your own desire to subordinate to Him -- the Holy Spirit will make it good enough, even as He made you as Good as God the moment He took your non-meritorious faith and made you saved, Titus 3:5, 2Cor5:21; even as He 'sealed' you (signature ring analogy, signifying ownership and your consequent heirship) -- 2Cor1:22, Eph1:13, 4:30. Therefore He fills you to teach you, Eph5:18 (w/John 4:23-24, 14:26, Rom5:5 and associated verses thus realizable when 1Jn1:9 is used as needed).

    See, if you love Someone, you don't want that Someone to be cheated. Our very existence, sin or no sin, is an unbearable SHORTFALL, compared to Infinite, Gorgeous, God. Hence Rom3:23's second prong, "come short of the Glory of God" makes it unbearable to be alive: we are forever a burden to Him. So how to resolve that unbearable dichotomy? His Son! His Son! His Son takes on all sins, which -- heh -- therefore REQUIRED He be filled up with all the Fullness of God; so His Son is the Progenitor of Eph3:19, Heb1:3-4, even in His Humanity, so.. shortfall GONE! Now we ourselves need not be a burden, having been made brothers IN Him! We no longer need mourn our too-smallness, because He is NOT cheated, anymore! Never was cheated, since before the foundation of the world, since all is in Him, Eph1! Whew. It's unbearable to live if your Loved One is therefore burdened. But barriers down, burden gone!

    Ok, that did happen, Father was paid, hallelujah, but.. we are still living, down here. Christ's payment Funded Creation's Shortfall (Rom3:23b), but.. we are still living, down here. Shall the relationship down here between Father and creation be what it is, distant? For, while living down here, we still reject Him. So, we don't have a functioning relationship down here (1Jn1:6,8,10). And, even if we do have one (1Jn1:9 used), it's still a relative shortfall, due to the variance in and variant levels of, growth in Son's Thinking. So what bridges the functional shortfalls? What can help those who are negative (or, more negative than we are at the same point in time) -- WHO can help those who are negative, get Blessing (Rom8:24-25 in aggregate)? For rejection of God judicially means God must stand off. Discipline. Punish. Leviticus 26.

    So who can help? You. Me. Anyone growing up in God's System. Because, we are BEING MADE into Christ via His Thinking. For the real you, is your soul, and whatever you think, is what you really are. So if what you COME to think, are His Thoughts, then you are being made into HIM. Hence you are Evidence of Him in this world, by the Holy Spirit. Being sired by God (1Jn's "born of God" clauses should say "being sired of God"). Just as in physical birth, if you are born rich, royal, famous it's not your doing, but your parents' doing. And Mom the Holy Spirit, birthed you and grows you in Son's Thinking. Heh. [The trouble with the "born of God" clauses in English is that they don't take cognizance of the present tense of the main verbs in the same sentence. Yes, "born" is in the perfect tense, but it's a participle. So for example in 1Jn3:9, it's not saying that once you are saved, you never sin anymore -- clearly, because John started Chapter 1 with how WHEN you sin, you name your sins to God. So these "born of God" clauses have a current-state-of-fellowship meaning, to reiterate how important it is to use 1Jn1:9. For when you don't, you're just like an unbeliever. That's why it would be conceptually better to translate "born of God" as "being sired of God" where the main verb is in the present tense (1Jn3:9, 4:7, 5:4, 5:18). Problem is, that makes it look like the Greek participle is in the present tense, which is not true. But how to convey that John here means your born-again status is BREATHING, you're not in a state of spiritual apnea? I don't know a better way to say it, yet.]

    This pleases FATHER. He wants to See His Son everywhere He 'looks'. So the growing amount of His Son's Thinking in us, propitiates for all the horrific thinking going on in the world. Same exact mechanism as how Christ paid for sins by COUNTER THINKING. Look: God the Father imputed all sins into Christ. Christ being a Living Soul, had THOUGHTS 'in reply' to all that onslaught. Thoughts which repelled the human temptation to use His Deity to get off the Cross; thoughts to repel temptation to react to the ugliness and unfairness of all those sin imputations; thoughts of GRATITUDE, that Father would be willing to do what is innately repugnant to do, to impute His Pure Son and then Judge Him Who Knew No Sin. For Son WANTED that imputation and judgement -- else, it couldn't be justified, since Son was (and of course still is) sinless, Himself. So LOVE is the motive, hence the contract of eternity past stated in Isa53:10-12, is realized on the Cross. And it was realized, by His Counter Thinking. So Look: now when Father sees those horrible sins, He ALSO sees His Son's Counter Thinking. Had the sin not occurred, there would be no justification FOR such Counter Thinking to occur. So now it's propitiating, that sin exist. Which to Omniscient God, is a constant existence, since God is timeless. The moment dies, but God is One Big Now. So Now He Sees Constant Counter Thinking.

    So when you face temptation, when you fire Bible at it, God sees that, too. The moment dies yet lives forever, to Omniscience. Therefore it is forever satisfying. See how important the Word in your head is? Can any work on this planet, do that FOR FATHER? No! See why Brother-Foot ideas of 'Christianity' are all childish, even blasphemous? Cups of water represent kindness, and yes God sees that. But people blaspheme God when they reify the spiritual life into what you do for people, as if people were God, rather than the Real One. And frankly, if GOD is given this sweet savor of Counter Thinking, He expresses His Satisfaction in your doing what Christ did, by blessing the world. Far more than mere cups of water, huh.

12. So the Royal Conduit that you are made FOR FATHER, results in a kind of Trial Witness of God's Love, thus defeating Satan in the Trial. Therefore, Part III and Part IV of the Thinking series focus on this Witness, its structure and its results. DDNA1.htm focuses on why it works, what happens to you on the inside, to cause those Trial Victory results.

    It has to be obvious that we Christians deserve punishment, not promotion. It has to be obvious that we are utterly unable to obey God, even when we want to. Above all, it's utterly impossible, that we love God. As 1Jn4:19 climactically explains, "We love.. because He first loved us." In Greek, when you suddenly leave out direct objects, you're using Attic Drama rhetoric. We saw that same absence of direct objects, in the LXX portion of Isa53:10-11, those five infinitives of purify (katharizw), plunder (aphairew), point out (deiknumi), plassw (sculpt -- can't think of an English "p" word for "sculpt") and perfect (literally, make Divinely Righteous, Greek verb dikaiow). This is highest drama: when you leave out prepositions and direct objects in Greek, you mean to convey EPIC significance. All objects are acted on by the verbs, and in all ways. John, ever the lover of Greek drama, leaves out objects and prepositions in 1Jn4:19 (and in a lot of his other verses). So when you read Bible in English and you see that an object is missing, underline the verse: it's important. [English must supply prepositions even when in the Greek they are absent, so there is no substitute for reading the Greek text, sorry. By the way, it looks like this dramatic Greek construction comes from the Hebrew. Isaiah and David frequently use the same dramatic style as in this Attic Drama rhetoric -- but Attic Drama didn't exist until centuries after both men wrote. The LXX translation of the Hebrew OT was written circa 273BC, about two centuries after Attic Drama, and has verses which our current Hebrew OTs, lack. So the LXX translators, had a full Hebrew OT, but we do not. LXX has been tampered with also, but the tamperings are very amateurish, you can easily tell, and there will be SOMEWHERE in another LXX manuscript, the correct text. We have thousands of manuscripts. Heh: God knew we'd need them!]

    1Jn4:19's Greek construction also employs a rhetorical device called the "nominative of selective emphasis", a pairing of a first thing with the Second, and the Second, is the Hero. The Hero makes others heroic by rescuing them. John is a big fan of Greek drama (like Peter and Paul are), which is why the Gospel of John, 1Jn, and Revelation open with fanfare like someone announcing a play's theme (typical beginning in Greek drama). And what a drama this is! Puny you, puny me, being used as Evidence in an Angelic Trial? Defeating angels? Not just any angels, but even Satan, who used to be the highest among them?

    Witness the awesome Love of God since Eternity Past. Christ did pay, so there can be Blessing to the world, despite its rejection. Because, as a result of Him Paying, He is King and Ruling, so in reality legally owns everything, including Satan&Co. -- even in His Humanity. However God will not coerce. Freedom includes Freedom to reject. So all this blessing is in an "escrow" account, reserved -- but is UNCLAIMED. Ephesians 1 basically says that in its "every spiritual blessing" clause, and the "fill all in all" ending to that Chapter explains God's policy of nonetheless Transmitting All that Deposit.. but to those Voting For His Son. Again, since Love never coerces. In Part IVa, I call that Deposit, the "Divine Benefit Plan Father grants" (click on the link then search on that quote). If you know anything about defined benefit plans, you'll understand how God's works: your home country's old-age governmental pension system is a type of defined benefit plan. Basically, all the funds must be deposited IN ADVANCE. Human defined benefit plans aren't allowed to deposit all the money in advance, and instead they often borrow money. But God set aside ALL the funds for eternity -- in eternity PAST, before there was creation, theme of Eph1.

    Ephesians 1 elaborates on how Isa53:12 gets done. Essentially, the contract of Isa53:10-11 (in both BHS and LXX texts, which no translation covers) gets repeated in us. The unclaimed funds will be apportioned among the "great ones" (term in Isa53:12) who CONSENT to the contract being APPLIED to them, by growing up in God's System; Paul is elaborating on that fact. Whole of Ephesians is dedicated to showing how that contract gets realized, in Church. Now you know why you are a Royal Priest and potential King. The Royal Priesthood you cannot lose; you can only lose PROMOTION in it. So if you don't grow up in God's System, you remain a Royal Priest forever, but will have some peasant-level position. Most Christians opt for living like peasants rather than like the Royal Princes God intended that they become. So there are a LOT of unclaimed funds in the eternity-past "escrow account" (as my pastor likes to put it). A defined benefit plan is a better term, for the kind of 'escrow' it is, is a fund that WILL be paid out, no matter what. Question is, to whom? Now you know why you have this Book of His Thinking to train in...

    God is Omnipotent, k? He can but did not have to, fund all this. He can but did not have to, put up with sin. He can but NEVER has to, keep the situation 'as is'. He can nullify ab initio all of creation, all of time, at ANY time. So: He doesn't have to allow things to be this way. He doesn't have to allow the conflict, the guilt, the fear, the hatred, the insecurity.. the suffering. He also didn't have to allow the 7th thing, the fix for it all, to be done by 7th son of Jesse's 77th Son from Adam, to pay for it all. [David was the 7th and youngest son of Jesse, and the Root of Jesse is the 77th son from Adam, in the roster of Luke 3. Luke uses 77th Son to reference God's Accounting for Time, to prove that Messiah was produced ON Time, as Promised (Matthew did the same thing, thesauretically, in Matt1). "1 week" link in Mirroring.htm explains that Accounting Unit of God's. Luke 3 is corrupted in some NT texts: a scribe added a 2nd "son of Cainan" in some later Greek manuscripts, so you have to subtract it out, to get the 77. So we know that's a scribal error and why: some scribe had an adulterated Gen5 listing in the LXX and noticed that Luke 3 didn't tally, so he adulterated Luke 3 in an attempt to defend God, I guess. The guy who adulterated the LXX's Gen5, apparently did it to make Scripture look accurate compared to an old Babylonian listing of kings extant at the time the LXX was composed; apparently that list uses the same names as Gen5, but in Babylonian (every culture claims those Gen5 people in one way or another as their own, lol). God doesn't need man's help, but the Energizer Bunny always claims He does.]

    So why does He allow it all? Frankly, because of the Hypostatic Beauty of the Truth. We saw something about that, at the end of point #11. Sins imputed, met with Counter Thinking, forms a kind of hupostasis, the sin standing UNDER the Counter Thinking. What happened next, was the Counter Thinking CONVERTED the meaning of the sin, into a kind of birthing DNA mechanism -- for absent the incoming sin, there would have been no justification for outgoing Counter Thinking at FATHER's Level. For Jesus the Christ BECAME the Truth, not merely thought Truth. And He became the Truth, by means of all that Divine Thinking which is Scripture, changing His Own. Hence the term DDNA, for DNA is an instruction set, and DDNA is the Divine Instruction set. Ruling the soul. So converting all other thought -- such as, the incoming sins. It works just like biological DNA-RNA interactions (DDNA webseries explains these interactions in more detail.)

    The Hypostatic Beauty of what Gifts Each Member of the Trinity Corporation can make to Each Other Member; the Hypostatic Beauty of Expressing this Absolute Love: nothing dents it. Moreover, now that the 77th Son from Adam paid for it all, that same Son OWNs it all as Seed, Heb1-2, Gal3. So now the MEANING has completely flipped, retroactive to eternity past, since the Funding Purpose intended since eternity past, is realized. In short, all the bad, just like all the good, can only result in a Divine Investment, Isa54:1. Investments therefore must always be allowed! For everything is "in Him". He is King. Beating Satan, Ruling and Seated, just waiting for Father to 'tarry' as Father might choose, making all the enemies the Footstool for His Son's Feet. That Same Son who is the Root of Jesse. Thus all Israel will benefit from Father's Investment, too. Hypostases abounding, Eph2!

    So enter, Romans 8:1 (corr trans): "Hence NOW NO condemnation, for them in Christ Jesus!" [No verbs in Greek is Attic Drama, so in English you'd need an exclamation point. Also, Ouden (koine Greek word for NO, stressing the universality) is in the proleptic position. Hence it's capped, here. Dative tois should be translated "for them" not "to them", because the dative case stresses beneficial relationship (well, can also indicate unbeneficial relationship, depending on the context). Adverb "nun" is a keyword for Church Age, so is capitalized here and throughout the "Thinking" series unless I forgot to do it, drat.]

    For as Rom5:15-21 climactically explains, it always remains Hypostatically True that the no's, never preclude the yesses; the no's only make the yesses, bigger. Hence to exploit Beauty out from the sterile no's (Isa54:1), the no's must be allowed to continue as long as they will last! Because all the promises, find their Hypostatic "Yes" in Him, 2Cor1:20. That's Constantly, Hypostatically Beautiful! So it's a Hypostatic Pleasure to 'tarry', to 'endure', etc. Not a pain. Due to the Hypostatic Meaning. Who is Hypostatically, Living. A Present Value of All Beauty always Lives, so the present value at any moment in time of all and any ugliness or shortfall (which also lives forever, hell or heaven), is always converted into yet More Hypostatic Beauty. That's DDNA, baby. Funding calculation, Always Realized! This is the key equation to understand. 3rd Aspect of DDNA, which is in DDNA3.htm, explains how this funding calculation works in eternity. The "Thinking" series' Part IV running thread of "Divine Benefit Plan" will add much more detail, so you can better appreciate What God Hath Wrought in Christ, even Now.

    So it always remains true that even in the very name of His Love, He can just zap everything and make it all okay. We wouldn't sin anymore, the unbeliever wouldn't be an unbeliever anymore, even all of Satan&Co. could be transmuted, as well as all the folks in hell. None of these problems, need be here. Which of course, is Satan's Biggest Argument, that God must have some BAD motive, for allowing all this stuff to rock along in conflict.

    Notice how the Hypostatic Truth is demonstrated: it must be true that God Loves Absolutely, for He Himself must Watch all this, even though it Violates His Love and His Righteousness, not to mention what a Hassle it is for Him to put up with it all. For He is One Big Now. This struggle, conflict, shortfall, rejection is always in front of His 'Face'. So if His Attitude wasn't Absolute Love, this would all be gone, jack. So it can only be true that God wants to 'tarry', for the sake of Teaching Us; so we too can be grown up in His Own Attributes; for there's no other way we can get relationship and rapport with God. We just aren't capable. Whether finite and sinner, or finite and non-sinning, the finity is the barrier. Which barrier got knocked down in Christ; so His Thinking knocks down that barrier for us; and IN us, as we get His Thinking. 2Pet3:9 has no ending. So neither do our lives. Down here, up there, down in hell: the option must remain, because Christ remains. [That anyone in hell can get out but probably won't ever choose to, is a thesis explained in Part V of the "Thinking" series, last link section. Of all the ideas out there, this one seems to best reconcile all the issues: people become so addicted to their "no" votes, they keep on voting "no" even in hell and the Lake of Fire forever. But God, He never says "no", because Christ said "yes" wholly, and WHoly Lives Forever.]

    So also notice the Diplomatic Problem and hence the Solution, of His Calling-Out Nature of our "time" as Church. The barriers to Blessing are DOWN, due to the Cross; but people are putting their own barriers UP: to the Gospel, and (among believers) to the spiritual life. So the Funding for Eternity and the Current Blessing Available, cannot juridically be transmitted. If they cannot be transmitted due to rejection, then juridically Cursing must be transmitted, for now the rejection isn't merely of the Rulership, but of the Eternal Blessing the Ruler nonetheless Has Made Available. It's a bigger cursing, then, which is due. Before the Cross, man rejected a Payment which had not yet been made, which is bad enough. But now the Payment is not only made, but Living. So a bigger rejection is going on now, and a bigger Punishment is due as a consequence. It's a wonder the world even continues.

    So what must therefore be true, since the world demonstrably does continue? Believers positive to God are voting yes, and they are getting so much MORE blessing, it justifies the world's continuation. This point is really really the key to the meaning of your Trial Victory. So it's necessary to mix metaphors, to explain this point better. See, the Divine Benefit 'pie' of totally-funded Blessing was set up in eternity past, theme of Eph1. It becomes available for payout, due to the Cross. But, it remains largely unclaimed, as most Christians don't want to grow up spiritually, and most of the world, doesn't even want to believe in Christ. So the assets set aside for every human go unclaimed to the extent they don't believe in Christ and thereafter, grow up to Pleroma Maturity level (Eph3:19+4:13). So look: as time passes, the pie itself doesn't change, but rather more and more of it goes uncollected. So for you and me living 2000 years after the Cross, there's a larger share available, since others left their shares uncollected. The pie won't be divvy'd up until the Rapture. So every believer who lives closer and closer to the Rapture, is technically eligible to be given a much larger share, since those who forfeited collection, have died.

    Again, it's just like a secular defined benefit plan which has more and more money in it, but fewer and fewer folks who complete the terms of retirement: those remaining at the end, share the pot of money (true also in the event of a plan termination pre-retirement, which is most analogous to the Rapture's significance). Now you know what all those "endure to the end" verses mean. It's not about salvation, but about the size of your potential KINGDOM. And whether you too will opt out of God's System, so won't collect. Or, whether you'll stay in. If you stay in, your share is FAR bigger than would have been available 1000 years ago, because believers BORN in the last 1000 years, didn't collect their share. They opted out. So all that money has to be apportioned; so more is available to an ever-smaller believer population.

    Um, this also means that Satan&Co. work harder at getting us to quit. So for each year the world grows older, it's harder and harder to live the spiritual life, for Church. By comparison, those in the Trib, have it easy. Prosperity, niceness is the hardest test to pass. It's easy to believe in God when you are hurting, k?

    So how is it, your conduit role which the Holy Spirit Alone runs -- proves God's Love and thus defeats Satan in the Trial? Because "we love, because He first loved us" is realized IN you, via all those DDNA deposits -- Bible being deposited and cycled in your head during the time you live in God's System -- over your entire lifetime. (Process in 1Jn4:12-17 = Eph3:15-19 due to Eph4:11-16 = 1Jn4:1-6). Word is Love. Word is built in you. Thus Love is built in you. And as introduced in point #11, this Building is demonstrated to HEAVEN: it's God's Evidence in the Trial, produced by God, not by your works.

    For the Trial is about whose works are better: creature works (Satan's contention).. or God's works? So when you hit the final maturation stage which my pastor names "Pleroma", after the Greek words in Eph4:13 and 3:19 -- the Trial plays quite rough, in your life. Doesn't matter if your circumstances are outwardly nice or not, it's a plodding, and it's very um.. difficult. Impossible, actually. Part III's 2-3-4-5 Evidence Testing table in the Thinking series walks you through the testing categories and structure. So the spiritual life is not a rah-rah oh-how-i-love-Jesus thing, especially once you hit spiritual adulthood. It's more like slogging through a Vietnamese jungle, being on point and you don't know where the enemy is, the bugs and rot are itching and burning, and you plod plod plod. No cheerleaders. No sleep. Your gun jams. You're low on human ammo. You could collapse at any second. And you want to. Ohhh, how you want to! But instead you use 1Jn1:9 and keep going. Kata skopon dioko, eis to brabeion, tes ano klesews, tou theou.. en Christoi Iesou. Note the pondering, lumbering Greek -- that's Phili3:14. Onward to the Goal I keep marching, to the Crowning Prize of the Games, The Upward Inheritance Of God.. by agency of Christ Jesus. [Greek word "brabeion" has to be translated "Crowning Prize of the Games" -- it's a WINNING prize for the Greek games. To win in the Greek games was a huge award, not a tacky ribbon with a handshake. Made you a multi-millionaire overnight. And the training was strict, long-term. Perfect analogy.]

    Royalty's duties are a slog. All those nice clothes and furniture are really for the COMMON PEOPLE, held in trust so they can somehow guess that a Royal standard is something they should emulate. But the real Royal life, is endless protocol. You have ooodles of freedom, compared to a royal person. But you yourself, are a Royal Person in Christ. So you have to learn the protocol. It's rough. All the goodies have USES; while obviously God intends Pleasure, the greatest of pleasures is to serve Him. And when you become a spiritual adult, you only want to serve Him. The rest of your nature will constantly fight that desire, since by nature man is incapable of love, particularly of Divine Love. That gets built in you, line on line, precept on precept. So all the goodies, are but tools to serve Him. Now, you're thinking like the Royal Person He's made you become! And it's a slog. And you want it. And that's SUPERNATURAL, not natural for a human to want. See? God's Works in you, not your works you do, Eph2:10!

    And if God's Works, then your works are to be bupkis, even with all that swelter you go through. And if you come to love God, you will regard your works as bupkis, even when they are not. Look at Christ's Testimony about His Own Work, which we know is the greatest work of all time: "He learned obedience through what He suffered", Heb5:8. Does that sound like He's crediting Himself? LOL! And you know, that verse is a paronomasia? "Learned" is emathen, in Greek. "Suffered" is epathen, in Greek. It's FUNNY. How can the Cross be funny? Well, how could He call it a joy, Heb12:2? Like it says in Heb11:1, "Estin.de pistis elpizomenwn, HUPOSTASIS pragmatwn, elegchos ou blepomenwn", meaning "It's about Word Confidently Believed! Christ On Trial! Evidence Unseen!" You laugh at your suffering if you know what God makes of it. You disregard the shame. Um, takes God's Power, to do that. So God's Works are so superior, you even enjoy the meaning of the suffering. Um, Satan's works can't do that -- except by driving you insane. Part II of the Thinking series walks you through that Victorious witness in the OT, and Part III demonstrates what it is for Church. Same idea, but much bigger for us, now that Christ is Risen. Remember, the 'pie' of eternity past has been largely unclaimed, and it MUST be apportioned.

    The Witness? God makes you happy, even when hurting. Everything in the world becomes anticlimactic, by comparison. Satan's plan can't produce that result. Couldn't beat Abraham, couldn't be Christ, can't beat you, 1Jn5:4. Takes a lifetime of training in God's System to reach that point, usually. But it does happen. It's not a smiley-face happiness. But it's better than smiling. Fulfilled.

    Any earthly 'ministry' or 'witness' is peripheral by comparison, since if they're not listening to the Holy Spirit already, they won't listen to you either. (Notice the hit-and-run quality of evangelism in the Gospels, how the Lord never stayed where He wasn't wanted.) Because, you are learning to Love God, an impossible thing. Overflow to people cannot result until the First Commandment is realized (main theme of 1Jn, firsts -- first things first, Word and First Commandment, from the beginning). And the First commandment cannot be realized, if the Word isn't built in you (stressed theme in 1Jn). Word makes you know God. Knowing God results in Loving God. Loving God results in the rest of the commandments, being automatically reflected (loving-your-neighbor-result being the aphorism John selects in 1Jn).

    Everyone in heaven watching the Trial knows well that the sin nature precludes love. Word is the antidote. Salvation is required to GET the Holy Spirit's siring. So the evidence of what results when one chooses to subordinate to God, is.. love. Impossible Love, for a human. Hmmm -- which side thus wins in the Trial, based on the beneficial results? Thus God can easily justify sending blessing to you and through you -- see why? See why it doesn't matter if you never gave a farthing to charity? A Far Bigger Work Is To Be Done In You than merely giving money. Doesn't mean you shouldn't give, but does mean you shouldn't cap your idea of what constitutes 'good deeds' to what even the unbeliever can do. Satan gives plenty of money. You have something better to offer, via living in God's System. Even when all you do, is breathe. For you are Royal, not a peasant.

    An almost-silly example is necessary. In 2003, there was a big brouhaha in Britain over a photograph of some Tupperware on the Queen's breakfast table. Tupperware, for crying out loud. Do you know, you can still find this story on the web in many sites, even in 2006? Search on "Queen Tupperware Britain", see for yourself! So: millions of dollars were made that day by the folks selling the photograph, by those printing it (people bought the tabloids because of the story), by of course Tupperware. Because if 'the Queen' uses Tupperware, oh! if I buy Tupperware, then I'm like the Queen. Now, think: clearly it was a convenience to the staff or something, to use Tupperware. Less likelihood of spills. No good deed in that, just good sense. Just some breakfast food, kept better.

    Do you see how good a deed it was, even though intrinsically the thing itself, was just good sense (barring the evil of the intruder who sold the photograph)? Millions of dollars were made, people got paid, food on the tables of thousands of households, and everyone endeared all the more to Her Majesty, feeling thus more connected through a common household item. All because a little photo of some Tupperware was related to her. For when you're Royal, people hunger to know every minute detail of your life. Doesn't make sense they so hunger, but millions are made ON every royal person, because of that hunger. It's intrusive, it's unfair to any royal family or famous person -- and you can't appease that hunger, ever.

    So: how 'hungry' do you think everyone on both sides of the Trial are, over details in YOUR life, when you are learning Christ? VERY. Hungry to cheer for you, and hungry to destroy you. Never underestimate the importance of Your Being Intimately Related to Christ. Intimately Royal, not distantly so. Never underestimate the millions being made from every eye which 'photographs' you from HEAVEN. Especially, God's Eyes.

    So again, notice how this to-God-owed Diplomatic Mediation Problem, impacts you personally and officially. Personally and officially, you've got a goal of growing up spiritually to Pleroma, Eph3:19, 4:13. You're in God's System, you fall out many times during a day and get back in via 1Jn1:9; you know that each such time you get back in, you gain in those Doctrine Diamond Deposits via Bible class "eating" and Diamond usage in your thinking.

    So here, a corollary result is that God can justify blessing the world, precisely because you do keep getting up and growing, and precisely because you are still here. That is a PRIESTLY function to God, so God Who got that sweet savor, can now justify blessing the world who rejects Him. My pastor spent a good seven years explaining this Blessing by Association (his Ephesians series, over 2000 hours of recorded live classes w/verse by verse exegesis); all of the "Thinking" series is founded on exploring how that works from eternity past through eternity future. The DDNA webseries shows how this Depositing actually changes you, to show how the Isa53:10-11 LXX's five infinitives, occur and accrue. How, enfin, this Trial gets resolved so the Rapture can occur, Israel's time and Israel herself can be redeemed, and (to us, future) eternity itself, can finally come to exist. [The 490-year Accounting System for time is not in his Ephesians series, and I don't even know if he teaches it. I've not gone through all of his classes over the 53 years he taught. But I stumbled onto that Accounting System while vetting what he DID teach, so as far as I'm concerned, I got it from him. Same, for DDNA, even though he doesn't describe the inner result using such terminology. What he DID say caused the understanding: the DDNA webseries small-font notes will pause to cite specific lesson numbers in the 1992 Spiritual Dynamics classes which led to that understanding. So again, it's based on something he taught. So as far as I'm concerned, I got it from him, the Holy Spirit connecting the dots between what he said, and what was in Bible, to birth all this. I have no brain, k? A student is NEVER above his teacher, thank God! So whatever's right in the writing, the Holy Spirit will confirm it; whatever's wrong, He will point out that too -- deiknumi clause in Isa53:11, LXX. Um, I don't know if he teaches about those five infinitives yet, either. Lots of lessons to go through.]

    Again, it couldn't be bigger, more dramatic, or more important, each such vote you make. Now you can see better why the Holy Spirit's Power alone accomplishes all this: it's a Gift to Christ, to Endower the Bride. HE DESERVES IT. It's thus a Gift to Everyone, that He do so: forever. For God spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, that we become the Righteousness of God in Him; thus purifying, plundering, Exhibiting, Sculpting, utterly Vindicating, both Him.. and all who believe on Him. Forever. [That italic sentence is a concatenation of at least the following Bible verses: John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Isa53:10-11 in both inspired texts, Romans 5:1. When the Holy Spirit develops your thinking in Him, sometimes He just whams you with a bunch of concatenated verses. It's awesome. No pleasure like it on this planet.]

    Again, God won't settle for lesser-thans. The eternity-past Divine Benefit Plan funding WILL BE APPORTIONED. Son deserves that. An Endowered Bride made EQUAL to Him, He gets. Obviously, this Bride is a corporation of many persons -- us -- and among them, no one is equal in reward. The more you grow up, the more of the 'pie' you get, and the more you can SPEND on Him, on your kingdom's inhabitants. FOR FATHER. Under Him, the Son Who Is King-Priest kata Melchizedek, King of Kings. Now you know why everyone's so hungry to see how you use your Divine Assets of Bible in your head. And think: isn't it a pleasure to you, to hear someone think well? What, are you the only soul in the universe who likes hearing good thinking, even to the point of seeking it out? Heh.

13. Meanwhile, what God told Daniel in Daniel 9:24 about how history must continue to finish the judgement due, plays out IN AND TO THE WORLD. [Dan9:24 is fabulous wordplay, using Messiah/Christos in cognate verb form. Frankly, this verse alone renders conclusive the fact that the Rapture kicks off the Trib, since this is ALL the time remaining which is decreed for Israel. All human history was supposed to end when Israel's time ended, since she is the Blessing Conduit to the world. Church therefore is to rescue her, and thus rescues the world. Dunno how anyone can misinterpret the Rapture as occurring on any other 'schedule', given this verse. Mirroring.htm takes you through the math and other relevant Bible verses, and is wholly testable.] Just as the unbeliever will be judged for his works, not sin, since sin was paid for on the Cross, but the unbeliever rejected that counsel from the Mentor, the Holy Spirit; just as the believer will be rewarded for his works, which will burn away if not produced through the Same Mentor, the Holy Spirit; so also, the world must be judged for its works in time. At the end, it all gets burnt up (2nd half of 2Pet). Meanwhile, will folks orient to the Gospel, so can be 'absent' from the Revelation 20 Judgement? Will believers orient to the Royal Training, so can be 'absent' "nakedness" (Rev2-3), "shame" (Bible keywords for no reward) at 1Cor3's "Bema" Evaluation?

    I honestly don't know how Christians can be so dense as to tout their works, and yet read 1Cor3. What is "wood, hay, stubble"? Stuff MAN makes. You have to cut up a tree, you have to grow hay, you have to thresh wheat, to get those things. Man has to do something TO them. By contrast, gold, silver, precious stones cannot be made by any human. People have tried to conjure them for centuries without success. Best we can do, is mine and hope to find sufficient quantities of them. But we couldn't make them if our lives depended on it.

    Search the OT heroes, and you'll find that no works are mentioned of them. Rather, their faith is what's stressed. Abraham BELIEVED in the Lord and it was credited to his account for Righteousness, Gen15:6. Noah BELIEVED in the Lord, and therefore built a boat to save himself and his family -- you can't call it a good deed, what's in your best interest to do. None of the Gen5 heroes' deeds are even mentioned, yet they are listed there as heroes (see also Hebrews 11). Even Enoch walked with God, not in works. The world considers believing of no value, but works by the body, of sole value. God rejected works on the Cross, and everywhere else. Thus an irrevocable hostility remains, as Gen 6 and Romans 8 explains. Genesis 6 hostility: people were about what THEY could do, snubbing what God is and can do. So why not employ the few believing in Him, to build a useless boat in the middle of nowhere? As a witness. Can't call witnessing to what GOD will do, a good deed of your own. It's not your good which you are advertising, but His. "Taste the Lord, for He is good!" David wrote when fleeing to Gath, not even a king, yet (Ps34:8). [Lit., "Taste, see: Because Good, YHWH!" LXX uses Chrestos ho kurios -- soundplay!] Now, think: David didn't write that because he was thinking of how good he was, right? Yet when Christians talk about God, they pat THEMSELVES on the back for being holy? Sheesh!

    So that's why the world -- and especially, Christians not in God's System -- is IRREVOCABLY hostile to anyone/anything which tells it that its works are worthless, Gal3, 4:9-5:1, Rom2, 8:6-8, 2Tim2:26-3:7, Phil3:18-19, Heb5:11-6:6, Heb10; 1Jn1:5-10, 1Jn2. People just love to credit themselves. Witness: how can getting wet -- yet another permutation of the magic fruit trick of the Garden -- save you? Yet billions of people claim it does! Is there a greater arrogance than that? Does NO ONE read the Bible in the original-language texts to see how UNtrue that claim is? Of course not. Man always wants to put his oar in, just like the woman did in the Garden. Sheesh.

    Just imagine you're the FATHER, hearing all that claptrap thinking that goes with works. Oh, I'm a good person because I did this thing. Oh, I didn't do that quite right, I'm a bad person. Oh, so-and-so didn't do that as well as I did! Oh, so-and-so did that better than I did! Oh, so-and-so needs me to straighten him out. Oh, see how bad so-and-so is. Oh, see how bad I am, I must do penance. Oh, I worked SO HARD and this is the thanks I get? Oh, I missed Mass, I better do some Hail Mary's. Oh, I ate before taking communion, I'm bad. Oh, THEY didn't go to church, they are bad.

    And on and on and on. Notice how God is nowhere in the thinking. Notice how fixated the person thinking those thoughts is on himself and other people, constantly judging, constantly tied up in knots, constantly fantasizing a value of works which doesn't even GO to God, and doesn't seem very helpful for self or others, either. No wonder guilt drives people. The works only increase the guilt, just as Paul says in Greek of Romans 4:5, digging the hole, deeper! Paul oughta know, lol: he was the most observant Jew ("Hebrew of the Hebrews" clause in Phili3:5, an idiom of highest religious rank), working working working until Christ blinded him on the Damascus Road so Paul could finally see. Sheesh: and here all along, in the PERFECT PASSIVE tense, 2000 years old now, The Lord FINISHED paying, "Tetelestai!" (Jn19:30) -- which Hebrews 10:5-14, climactically stresses, tying back to Isa53:10-11 (tie to Isa53:12 dramatically begins in Heb10:15). So: do we never realize we are just like Lady MacBeth? Just like Adam and the figleaves, sewing sewing sewing? It's a big hint that the first thing Adam does after his fall is a 'good deed', huh. So now let's cover this problem of works in more detail -- how James screams The Word Alone Works!

    Theme of James -- Only the WORD Works: all else is dead/profitless, fit only for burning. God makes Word in you, or God makes war AGAINST you. So when James talks of works in James 2, does no one bother to read the context? It's really clear in James 2's Greek he means GOD's works, not man's, because he leaves out the definite article ("the", in English), or uses it monadically (uniqueness, Divine). You can't see that in translation, just like you can't see that "faith" means WHAT is believed, stressing the Word, which is how James begins the book -- about the WORD in you. Word works, not man works. "Thus Abraham BELIEVED" -- in what? In the WORD. "Thus SCRIPTURE is fulfilled." Word in you, fulfills, works its intended result. Else you're walking away from The Word Mirror, producing lots of wood, hay, stubble. Gonna be a lot of embarrassed Christians at the Bema who didn't bother to read their Bibles, who have piles of wood, hay, stubble and no gold (etc). to show for it. It's a wonder that the world is allowed to exist at all, let alone that God granted 490 years MORE time, simply due to Noah's faith: GeneYrs.xls shows how Isaac is born 490 years after Shem, one blessing contract being picked up by another who believed in Him, Abraham. And as James stresses, it was the WORD which Abraham BELIEVED which did the works. Not, Abraham. Really, you should get James exegeted and study it for a month, because the usual interpretation of James is quite (unwittingly) blasphemous. I can only offer some helpful hints, here. To see why it's worth studying for a month, James 2:21-26 are retranslated at the end of this table, showing what a difference it makes see the Greek w/1Jn1:9 'on' -- so you get the Spirit's brains. James' main theme is that the Word never returns fruitless, and he uses pregnancy analogy throughout: "receive the implanted Word" in 1:21 is the theme. Oh: you'll need to know the meaning of Hebrew "shema" is hear-and-believe, to understand the wordplay in the "mirror" (of the Word) section, in Jas 1:22-25. Idea that if you forget the Word, you can't do it. So when you read James, you really need to be looking at the Greek for all the crop/children metaphors. They aren't well translated. But it IS well translated in 1:27 -- funny how everyone self-praises for visiting widows and orphans, claiming to fulfill that verse -- yeah, but everyone misses the Blemishless Lamb Requirement in the second half of the same verse (lead-in to 2:1, mentioning that Lamb by Name)! No one can be unspotted in the world -- only Christ was able. Hint hint! Sad, how man only reads the part of the verse which buttresses his ego. So: in Jas 2:22, Greek verb sunergew is an Attic, intransitive Divine Actor verb (see also Rom8:28), and has a 'hero' meaning in Greek drama. See, normally the villiain gets the intransitive verbs, to prove that villainy is fruitless. But when the god does to a mere human (by definition fruitless), the 'intransitive' human becomes a hero. You know this, because here the classical Greek "sum" is prefixed -- so, a god birthing (giving energy/breath to) or working out something through some human on the ground: so the god NOT the human, is stressed. And first meaning of Greek word pistis, is What is believed. So it's God's Word and Work James talks about, not man's. You can track that fact easily in the Greek by the way James uses or omits the definite article ("the"). Man, if my pastor said it once, he said it a thousand times, take great care to track the text via prepositions, use of "the", and keywords (which incorporate by reference, other Bible verses). So here in James, judicious usage or omission of "the", helps you track the flow of his argument. Sadly, the translations never put "Divine" where the article is anarthrously omitted or monadically included; so the reader of a translation can misconstrue Chapter 2 as if man's works were in view (well, so long as he ignores Chapter 1, which is about THE IMPLANTED WORD, not works). So when you DO track how he uses the article, you notice that James begins to shoot down man's works in 2:14, showing Divine Works come from what God does to one believing in the Word. In verse 14, faith and works are anarthrous (no fronting "the"), so are claims that man should get Divine Credit. So James next reminds them human faith has no merit of itself (dead, v.17, uses the definite article). Obviously if even faith in God has no merit, works wouldn't have any, either. I mean, think: if you have no faith in God but work your buns off, all your works are the byproduct of NO faith! That's why you're working so hard, because you do NOT believe in believing! 99% of Christians thus demonstrate by all their works that they have no faith! Now you know why there's so much 'backsliding' -- if you work because you do NOT believe in believing in God -- then sooner or later you'll STOP believing in the value of your own works, too. And become bitter. That's the most common Christian biography 'out there'. Test the claim, see how many parading, bitter Christians are on irc and in churches. Um, big hint: Adam in the Garden before the Fall, did no works. He was happy. After the fall, he works his buns off, first thing -- sewing itchy figleaves, and commanding the woman to do it too. Unhappy. Hint hint! So Jas2:26 will close the point: Holy Spirit births you, not your faith, not your works -- just as the body without the Spirit is dead (no "the", so it's the HOLY Spirit, not breath) -- so also man's (has fronting article) faith without THE SPIRIT's works (no article fronting "works").. is dead. Couldn't be plainer. But can you SEE that no-human-anything counts, in English? Of course not! Hence only in the Greek can you see that the straw man was set up to argue the merit of man's faith OR his works, in v.18. So by 2:22, James uses "he pistis", rather than "pistis" alone, because in the straw man argument of 2:14 and 18b, it's called "he pistis", but in 2:18a, pistis and ergon are each anarthrous -- the straw man is claiming that his works are as divine as the Word. Awesome arrogance in the strawman: in 2:18a, he's using pistis in the singular, but his many works, in the plural, both anarthrous -- it's not just the grammar difference (pistis is a collective noun) -- there's an assertion that works are superior. Worse, at the end of 2:18 the straw man is claiming that out from the source of his own works! is his faith. What satanic effrontery, just like the demons (parallel to 2:19, which is wry sarcasm on their pious mouthing of the shema and sons-of-Abraham claim, whoa)! So James counters in v.21-26 with what Believed Word's fruit is, showing the Word Believed is superior. Man's works, versus becoming a Friend of God (2:23). Ouch! Very deft wordplay using or omitting the definite article, in James' reply. By the way, "faith without works is dead" is misused. James tells you what kind of "dead" v.17 means, in v.20; Greek word "arge" at the end of that verse (2:20) means idle, inactive, unemployed, not "dead" like an unbeliever; rather, a believer, likened to a day laborer no one hires. Same thing in v.26, because his audience are believers who are carnal, so producing dead works, because not filled with the Spirit (leading into the difference between filling and carnality in Chap 3, kinda like what Paul later does in Romans Chaps 4 - 8). Now let's see how this omission or inclusion of "the" article makes for a better translation of James 2:21-26. Greek default (like Spanish) is to always front a noun with "the". But in Greek, its omission stresses the High Quality (Divine) of the noun from which it is omitted, especially in Bible text. So: track the flow of omission (aka "anarthrous", article is absent) or inclusion ("fronting", article is present) : [v.21] "Wasn't Abraham our father justified out from the source of Divine [no article] Works, when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? [v.22] Look how The Believed Word worked Itself into his works [tois ergois is in the dative, conduit/causal/relationship case, signifying it was for Abraham's benefit]. In fact, The Believed Word BIRTHED his works. [Lit., teleiow passive voice -- so it's being done TO Abraham, not him doing anything -- get it? There's a parallelism here. First clause, what Believed Word does. Second clause, the effect on Abraham. So this second clause is literally, "his faith was BROUGHT to completion", out from the source of, an idiom of birth tying to Jas 1:15,18 and Isa53:11, very clever emphasis on how He paid for our sins and hence birthed us with His Thinking. James uses the first he pistis monadically and actively, with sunergew, but the second he pistis represents Abraham's faith. You know this, because the second verb is teleiow in the PASSIVE, receiving the action. So "ek twn ergwn" is the passive result. Given the word order, might be better to say "in fact through ITS works his faith was brought to completion", because ek twn (<=article) ergwn is piggybacked on tois ergois autou; but James uses birth analogies from the beginning of his epistle.] [To translate "sunergew" as "work together with" implies an equality between the two parties which does not exist. Hence "worked itself into" better displays Who is the Real Worker. If you work on Play-Doh, the Play-Doh is being worked ON more than it working 'with' you, huh.] [v.23] In fact was fulfilled/filled up/brought to fruition [play again on birth, uses plerow in passive voice -- showing Scripture returns with FRUIT to God, very clever -- plerow is used of a god implanting/impregnating, in Greek drama] The Scripture [verse, def article] saying 'Abraham BELIEVED in God and he was thus accounted Divinely Righteous' [LXX quote, logizomai, play on James 1:2's hegeomai] -- even [to the point/level that] he is called [no article] 'Friend of God'. [v.24] Notice that man receives Divine Righteousness out/birthed from Divine Works [lit., "made Divine Righteousness" -- dikaiow is passive, "works" is anarthrous, same structure as v.21!] and not out from the source of Believed Word alone [anarthrous, again, ties back to 2:22]. [v.25] Now in the same way, wasn't even Rahab the prostitute justified by Divine Works [anarthrous, same construction as v.21 -- what a dig at their legalism], when she welcomed the spies, and sent them out by a different way [to protect them from detection]? [v.26, clincher/climactic verse, study it well!] For just as the body without The Spirit [anarthrous!] is dead, so also even one's faith [fronting article] without His Works [anarthrous!] is dead." Whoa, what a command of Greek James has. Joseph and Mary sure did train the Lord's brothers well! Now you know why I harp on 1Jn1:9 and call myself brainout as a moniker for 'Christian' or 'believer': James 2:24, 26, one is dead without the Spirit, even when saved, even when believing Bible! Isa54:1, baby!

    
    Satan's plan is all about, works. Creature ability. Satan's root contention is that God is unfair to reject creature works, and he's desperately trying to bring about his own version of the Millennium, before the Lord does. Yeah, see how happy doo-doo-doers are. Constantly mad that no one appreciates all their effort. No love, there!

    In many ways the most shocking passage in the New Testament is Revelation 20:11-15. Think about it. Here are all the unbelievers of history, before the Great White Throne. They've already been in hell for who-knows-how-long, but long enough to know the flames and why they are there, John 16:9. The burning guy in Luke 16:20ff knows full well about the Law and the Prophets, but still delights to exercise his fake piety (manipulating the compassion of Abraham), demanding that Lazarus suffer by bringing oh, just a drop of water to cool my tongue! Yeah, nothing will cool that tongue. Law and Prophets (name for the OT) is not enough! Notice how the guy doesn't even call on God? But demands from Abraham because the latter is his progenitor? I mean, he can see Abraham, what more proof does he need to change his mind? Sorry, I don't have that much tolerance for pain: when I stub my toe, I use 1Jn1:9, assuming I am wrong. But then again, hatred has its own kind of strength. A lifetime's worth permanizes the soul into hatred. Anti-love is just as strong as love.

    So in Rev20, here are all these many unbelievers, seeing the Lord face-to-face(!), no doubt about Who the Savior is or whether He exists, whether the Bible is really from God, blah blah blah -- assembled for the final Trial. Why doesn't John record any of them changing their mind and believing? John spends four whole verses on this one event. That's chatty, for Bible. Means the event is stressed. You can almost feel the long openings of the Books of Works, the long checkings of the Book of Life for comparison.. slow motion, really. So why silence from the defendants? Would YOU be quiet? I'd be on my knees begging, jack.

    Greek rhetorical style of stony silence 'screams', here. Just as it did throughout Revelation: the Lord talks only to John or others in heaven, never to the earth (hint hint, there's NO CHURCH down on earth to talk to) -- and the earth never talks to Him, either. The earth's people kill all His emissaries, and even hold a party when the Two Witnesses are finally allowed to be killed -- won't even let their bodies be buried, so the world can gloat -- see the hatred? That's why in the last half, angels have to be flying mid-heaven giving the Gospel (Rev14) -- can't kill the angels. So here at the GWTJ, well.. silence from the unbelievers seeing Him. Because, they are spurning Him. Wow. If I hadn't met such intransigence in real life, I'd never believe this passage. Look: there'd be no need to look up anything in the Books of Works, if the unbeliever weren't claiming his works deserved credit. So if they're saying anything at all, it's that their works should count. Yikes.

    Look: even if you don't stand a chance, you still plead. You can still admit guilt. They're not yet in the Lake of Fire. So why don't they admit they were wrong, and at least then believe? Because, they trust in their works (same word "ergon", means GOOD deeds, not just generic deeds). God should credit them! they are thinking. Wow. Such hatred. And people accuse God of being unfair? Wow.

14. So notice how you and I would not be ALIVE, would not have the opportunity to say "yes" to Him -- but for the simultaneous Divine Goal of Bride Completion and punishment due works. For again, Rulership Responsibility precedes Love. We all know God loves us while unbelievers. (Rom5:8, "sinners" is a Jewish legal usage, based on Gen15:6. You are no longer a sinner, but Righteous, when you believe in Adonai. NT counterpart is 2Cor5:21.) We also know God is Righteous. So here we see by this Hypostatic simultaneity, how His Office of Rulership never compromises nor is ever compromised by, His Love. After all, even the Contract for the Divine Corporation subordinated Love to Rulership, and that was no compromise. How much more, in our case? Especially, since we reject the Ruler Who Loves us?

    Since Christ's Thinking paid for sins and the same mechanism of Thinking Divine Thoughts is DDNA being Deposited and Transmuted into us, the world can continue despite its rejection. That buys Time, and in fact is the only way Time can continue, since Israel ran out of time when she rejected Messiah, Dan9:24-27. Once you do God's Accounting math in those verses and check it pan-Bible with all God's other Accounting terminology (see Mirroring.htm) -- you quickly realize that had Matt16:18, John 17 and Hebrews Chaps 1-2 all been realized.. we'd not be here. [Mirroring.htm and Part IVa cover this.]

    When you do the math of Israel's time, you get to Christ's Birth occurring in the 1000th anniversary year of David's consolidated kingship. Math wise, that works out to early 3BC or late 4BC. When you do more math, you get to 25Chislev 4BC as his Birthdate. My pastor suddenly reversed 50 years of teaching He was born in September, to 25 Chislev=25 December, 4BC. PassPlot.htm goes through that math in excruciating detail. Having done that, it becomes clear that Israel's time runs out. So His Death occurred in the 1000th anniversary of David's retirement from kingship, end 2Sam and 1Chron. So He died in 30AD (PassPlot goes through that math, too). So: He saved Time for all time. This doctrine of buying time for the human race -- God uses believers to buy time -- is in GeneYrs.xls and Mirroring.htm.

    So, just as we got the opportunity to say yes because so many Christians prior TO us said no -- thus lengthening the time -- just as we got blessed due to the simultaneous goal of developing the Royal Family of God (aka Church) along with the goal of punishing the world's works -- so also, the world needs US to be here; and we also need the world to be here so long as we are. Carrying the baton in a relay race of an unpredictable ending. 1Jn4:12-17=Eph3:15-19 happening via Eph4:11-16, to produce Eph3:19 and Eph4:13 results in the Pleroma yet to be completed. So, the world can be blessed in time, and cursed in time, fulfilling both requirements of Pleroma development and punishment of works. Along the way, the slow starters might speed up; the naysayers might metanoeo, change their minds about the Gospel. The speedier believers will be producing the most Thinking "sweet savor". Funding the Investment's Due Dividends: Us. Now.

    So although the negative are always the overwhelming majority, the positive wouldn't have been born, had the negative not been here. So it's not a compromise to Divine Justice. Takes God's power, to birth you. God's Righteousness, who can compare it? So every new believer born, gets God's Righteousness, 2Cor5:21. And we know that His Righteousness is worth more than all the world's works throughout all history.. combined!

15. Obvious Conclusion: it requires a whole lot more Scripture to know God, than to know what's moral; to know when why how where what God might want or not want, than to know what people want. To then LIVE OUT that knowledge, which after all is most moral and only moral if lived to GOD, not people! First Commandment! Thus requiring, lots of precision in thinking! Even when brushing my teeth! Gotta monitor my thoughts, test them against the Doctrine I know, because Father Hears me! See, it really is a living sacrifice, to constantly bird-dog your own thoughts for compliance with the Divine Standard. Which thinking we have in writing, the Bible, so to learn how to think, how to monitor for obedience to the Divine Standard. No wonder we better breathe 1Jn1:9, for without the Holy Spirit, this is impossible! But nothing is impossible, for Him to accomplish!

    This Thinking is light-years Higher than morality, to keep on learning Him to the level of Eph3:19, 4:13, and 2Pet3:18. It's the wont of us Christians to hanker after Brother Foot, looking too low; thus we reveal that people, not God, interest us. So of course we look just like any unbeliever, TO the unbeliever, since every unbeliever already uses his own moralities, to tell himself how good he is. All religion is cast in mere morality terms for that reason, and the Christian who doesn't know any better, will thus look and act and even think like any religious unbeliever. Masking Christ, therefore.

    Morality is the jewel in Satan's crown: Part IVc's STOP OMEGA link explains at length, why. In gist: morality is not at all moral; it is instead the violation of the First Commandment; for it is altogether people-oriented, but has the colossal gall to invoke the Name of God, to Obfuscate God. (Obfuscation is the "O" in Satan's DIOS strategic plan for the human race, and STOP OMEGA is his tactical offensive plan.) Consequently, morality-thinking never really focuses on God Himself, except in some perfunctory manner. A homily. Grace before dinner. A quick prayer to get something else. Treating God like some kind of asterisk, essentially. But if you look at the Psalms, David was constantly thinking about God Himself. Ps138 and 139 are awesome examples. Even Ps119, the thinking of the people who had the death-march to Babylon, who daily underwent tortures too graphic to write in a Christian webpage. That thinking is basic, for us. Christ had to think at a far far higher level than even what you see in those Psalms. So high, Satan had to tempt the Lord to do good deeds. Oh, wow! Aha: see, morality can be used against God, too. It's against God, if God doesn't want it done. Ooops.

    Big difference between the windy moral sermon, and the discussion betwen Caleb and Joshua when they entered the Land. Caleb just goes up to Joshua and talks about what God promised like He was standing right there -- which of course, He was (Josh14:10ff). Matter-of-fact. Confident. Knowing. You don't see Caleb and Joshua get all religious and flowery. [New American Bible surprisingly has a good translation of 14:12. 1985 Tanakh and New Jerusalem Bible, New Living Translation aren't bad either. The others seem more wimpy than the MSS.] But the windy sermonizer uses big, fuzzy words, browbeats his audience, and within five minutes you're asleep -- because he doesn't know God, so why should you listen? So "God" becomes boring, too.

    But if we measured this Thinking 'job' in moral terms, look: the Hupostatic Principle, governs more stringently than morality can even fantasize. Subordination to authority justifies Intimacy, so subordinating EVERY THOUGHT is as far as subordination can topically go. Everything else, is a matter of degree-of-subordination in thought. Thus, what's the Justification for it? GOD HEARS. So, you shouldn't be surprised that Bible demands monitoring EVERY thought you think.

    This monitoring is called "bringing every thought into captivity", in 2Cor10:5. Greek says it's continuous. 24/7.

    But what does that mean? Well, look: so high Christ had to think, that Satan couldn't even get Him to IMAGINE bread, in Matt4:3-4. Because, being God, if He even imagined making stones into bread, the thought would have tapped His Omnipotence, and Bang! Satan wins. (See, it's a Trial, so the tests are subtle, not loud.) So, to be so strong in thinking Divinely, yet only using the Doctrine the Holy Spirit deposited, not His Own Deity -- oh, such a "sweet savor" to Father! Who, being Omniscient, has always seen Matt4:3-4 play live, since forever past. Since forever future. For, God's nature, as we saw in the "Singularity" analogy earlier in this webpage, is One Big Now.

    Dunno if you've ever had a lawyer trick you. Dunno if you've ever been manipulated by someone clever with words, so that you found yourself agreeing to something you didn't understand. But surely at some point in your life, you realize that the WORDS used on you, put you in deep doo-doo, and it took a long time to dig out from under them. Words are the most powerful of weapons, not the bang bop boom of popular movies. Most powerful, and most subtle, requiring almost no brains or brawn. Just a knack for the jugular. Satan&Co. are real wordsmiths, charming us outta anything.. in seconds. Need a whole lotta Word cycling in you, to even catch on to their schemes. Eph4:14, "wolves in sheep's clothing" and "anti-christ", "angel of light" type verses abound in Scripture.

    Kratei Ho Echeis ("Rule what You Have") Key ==> Every thought you think is actually the highest form of MONEY. The Lord warned the "seven churches" about that -- and especially, the thinking-themselves-rich Laodiceans -- in Revelation Chaps 2-3. So He twice used the phrase, Kratei Ho Echeis, Rule What You Have, so they would remember it's what THOUGHTS of HIS they have, which is True Wealth.

    Immediately, you know several facts:
    • Thought is only "true riches", if Scriptural. Else, it is "wood hay stubble" if not Scriptural. So you better doggone study and learn how to live on Bible 24/7.
    • But it's never ever Scriptural, if the motive isn't to FATHER, no matter how otherwise 'right' or 'Biblical' the thought, 1Cor13:2. First Commandment! You can be right in your interp on ALL doctrines (pretend) -- and it still counts for nothing (ties back to what James said in James 2:14,24,26). My pastor calls this "mutual flanks": Love Motive and Doctrine, the two eventually merging during the Spiritual Maturity stage (covered in Part III's Spiritual Maturity link of the Thinking series). One flank alone is not enough. Insufficient Bible Doctrine properly understood, and whatever love you have, is incompetent, easily duped. Insufficient Love though, makes what you know tasteless, unfulfilling. You'll then dry up like a prune. This flank balancing problem is covered at length in DDNA2.htm. Everyone runs into it, especially as you become a spiritual adult.
    • So if you spend the thought-money on something other than Father, you reject Doctrine, for mere morality is never spirituality, even if Scriptural: for mere morality, is toward mere people.
    • After all, had Christ turned the useless stones into bread which is useful for people, even He would have violated God's Will: for the motive wouldn't have been based on what FATHER wanted.
    • See, if you Love Someone, you do what that Person wants.
    • So a Tandem, "two mutual flanks", as my pastor likes to call it, patterned after Eph3:17's tandem: Doctrine, and Motive. Both must keep pace, or you have a salient exposed for the one which is leading, and you get clobbered or outsmarted, as happened to the Allies in the summer of 1944 (Fallaise-Argentan gap wasn't closed, and the war lasted another year due to that failure).

Again, remember that "office" rules the personal. This is a judicial relationship, first; personal is after, result, lest Justice be abrogated. Even, among the Godhead: again, "Look at Their Titles!" [You can search this page on the quote to refresh your memory about that topic.]

Principle: the wellbeing of people in your periphery partly depends on the 'wellbeing' of your relationship with God, for you are "salt", "remnant". [English Bibles don't always translate "remnant" properly, so find the original-language words and track them. This is a common teaching. But people don't know how the "salt" operates! Which is sad, since if you peruse the "salt" verses you find out it's Bible-in-your-head, which is the "salt", i.e., in Hosea 4:6 (which doesn't use the word "salt", but does show preserving the nation is solely due to knowledge of God, in context). In that chapter, you'll see the context is the Legal Trial ("riv", in Hebrew). So this is an Angelic Trial issue, not just to-human. Bible has always said that, too, in OT and NT. It's axiomatically presented with keywords, often.]

Arrogance is blind by nature, unrealistic in thinking by nature, preoccupied by nature. Mentally ill, by nature. We are all inherently mentally-ill, at the cellular level. It's in our DNA. Hence the need for God's replacing DDNA, for that horrible DNA urge to guilt, fear, hatred 'impregnates' the soul with the first sin we sin. Thereafter, it's an unending tug-of-war, as Paul explains in Romans 6-8. Because we all share this disease, and it's contagious in the extreme, isolation, mental distance, is really a must. All the media are used by Satan&Co. to deepen the disease and to keep its spread, far and wide. Just like the translators, the media people are clueless pawns. Our arrogance is so deep, we think it virtue to be so people-stressing, so me-stressing, and don't at all see how we trap ourselves like a Sisyphus, constantly rolling our growing boulder of needs up and down the same tired hill of unrealistic expectation. Trying to get from this world, what only God can provide: happiness. The world's prescriptions are all authored by Satan&Co., and they all produce.. ennui, the famous French sighing word for apathy. One deadens, in the world, and eventually becomes an animal or walking corpse, inside. No middle ground. One becomes progressively a grabber. Grabbing and grabbing and grabbing in an attempt to relieve the mounting pressure of deadness. So this progressive animalism will grab at you.

So you must learn to refuse people, for you will be TESTED on it, and often. It seems 'UnChristian' to refuse, but is not. It's Royal Protocol. As a Royal Person, you don't have the right to your own life. You must instead follow protocol. And here are just a few sample verses on that protocol:

• don't throw pearls (Bible wisdom, verses, etc.) before swine (unbelievers), Matt7:6 (a chapter on false teachers and doctrines);
• the poor you will have with you always, Mark14:7 (scathing, on how helping the poor is often used as a substitute 'god');
• sheep from the goats, Eze34:17, Matt25:32-33 (dual-application passage for Bema and Great White Throne);
• avoid such persons as these, 2Tim3:5 (very strong warning, context begins in 2:26, goes through 3:7) ;
• shake the dust from your feet, Matt10:14, Mark 6:11, Luke 9:5, 10:11 (warning of their rejection);
• bondwoman versus free woman, Gal4:22-30;
• bad companions corrupt good morals, 1Cor15:33-34 (v.34 ties to 2Tim2:26, same keyverb for awakening from falsehood 'drunkenness');
• keep yourself unspotted from the world, James 1:27. [The James verse is really deft, in context. James makes analogy throughout between how the Word works, but man's works are worthless. Here, he picks a human 'work' which is utterly impossible, since we are in the world. So, we should be In the Word, it being implanted in us, instead of the world's thinking implanted in us. For what we think, defiles. Tremendous concatenation of other verses all piled into this 1:27, very much reflecting what Paul wrote in Galatians, so maybe James was penned after Galatians. The two were good friends, which is why Paul would later get trampled on the Temple steps when he was catywampus with God, in Acts 22. Awesome stuff.]
You can think of more verses; and of course the command for Israel to separate from the goyim should be the biggest illustration, now that you've seen the tenor of these verses. Idea is, those who are against God will be urged to influence you, distract you, bait you. It's not THEM, but Satan&Co. who are behind it, see 2Cor10, Eph6:12. Verse 2Cor10:18 there shows you it's protocol. Superficially, the passage seems to be about the Corinthians objecting to Paul, and he's upbraiding them for that. So not being 'Christian' by today's standards, lol. But here's the deeper protocol illustrated: You represent the King of Kings forever. Those who are against Him are not to be favored, but warned and/or separated from. We're not Paul or the Lord, that we go around scolding everyone, like baby Christians think they should do, when reading passages like 2Cor10. But we aren't to be buddy-buddy, either. It's a fine line to walk, and you'll be tested on it every day, since you have to learn that people are out to use you. It's one of the first lessons a Royal must learn. Because you are the one who is powerful, and you must set the parameters. Hard lesson, this: but harder still, the effect on the periphery who should be blessed, if you don't learn it. Edward VIII had bad associates, remember? Married one of them, and abdicated! You can't abdicate. So disassociation is your only recourse. Quietly, of course. But you gotta learn to do it. Or you hurt all those other people who are NOT users.

Gospels provide a great 'laboratory' of experiences to see how the Lord handled these situations. John 6 and 7 show how he handled hostility from strangers, acquaintences and family, for example. You can see both His mental detachment (via focus on Truth, not on the people); and, His love for Father, the self, and for people. Notice how He treats Himself impersonally, like an entity. Today's psychology would have a field day with that. In today's often inept psychology, something's wrong with you if you speak of yourself in the 3rd person. But that's how Kings are supposed to think of themselves; it's a psychological distancing, alright -- you need that, to divorce or subordinate the personal from the office. So yeah, you have many personal feelings, attitudes, needs -- but they have NO PLACE in your life. NO place.

Hence as Ruler, God does everything by cutting out and then grafting in, because that's the only way to get a relationship, due to the Infinity-finity dichotomy, and due to the rejection which is sin. So witness our so-great Loving Ruler, who by seemingly harsh measures, secures Total Intimacy with Him, forever!

• We sinned: sin is rejection of God, never mind what 'flavor' of sin it is. So we cut ourselves off from God. But until we admit the cut off, we can't get grafted in. Genesis 3's sin was religious, to make self as good as God. So the worst sins are in the self-righteousness category.
• Hell is the ultimate cut off, for people who refuse God's Solution, John 3:16, don't want to be grafted in. So, they go to the ultimate cutoff place, and it's nasty, since its inherent character is cut-off-from-God. Works are mentioned, but not sins, so again the self-righteous are the ones most likely to refuse God's Solution, Rev20:11ff.
• But even among believers, there's the necessity of cut off and graft in. This pattern is rampant in Scripture.
• Cain is cut out, but Shem is grafted in.
• All the Genesis 4 roster is cut off.
• All the Genesis 5 roster, is grafted in.
• Shem's son Arpachshad, wasn't his first born, Gen10:22. The first two born were cut off, because they didn't believe in God. But Arpachshad did, so he got grafted in.
• That continued on down to Abram, and notice how Ishmael was cut off, but Isaac was grafted in. Romans 9 explains why: Isaac believed. Romans 9 goes on further: both Esau and Jacob were twins, but Esau was cut off, and Jacob was grafted in.
• During the Exodus, the "mixed multitudes" (about 2/3rds of the total Exodus population, all Gentiles) were grafted in, Exo12:38.
• At that time, all Levi was cut off, because Levi cut off all the males in Shechem, so God grafted Levi to Aaron (see "Jochebed" link in MisTrans.htm for the verses);
• but Aaron himself was grafted in, because God made the offer to Moses to be the mouthpiece, but Moses refused (Exo3:10-14); so all of Levi was grafted into Aaron (i.e., Num3:6; many other verses are in the Jochebed link of Mistrans.htm).
• Later, when in the wilderness, all Israel (including those mixed multitudes) was cut off for rejecting God; God twice offered to start over with Moses (Deut9:14, Num14:12), who again refused (see verse contexts).
• Later still, in 1050BC, Israel rejected Her King in favor of an earthly king. So Israel cuts herself out (1Sam10:17-19).
• So God responds (1Sam Chaps 11-12), first by giving her what she wanted, Saul;
• Saul then gets cut out, for rejecting God (1Sam13:11-14, 1Sam15:27-29);
• David gets grafted in, for believing in God (1Sam16:12ff);
• through only David, Israel was grafted back in (2Sam7:12-16, "for the sake of my servant David" refrains). From that point onward, the only way Israel gets blessed is through David, and the Temple itself was a promise to David, not to Israel (ibid).
• Messiah Himself is via a cut off and grafting in: Jeconiah was cut off (Jer22:24), and via Nathan (through Shealtiel, Luke 3, Matt1) the Davidic line went down to Mary (Luke 3 geneology is hers). Just as Jochebed was the basis for the grafting in of Levi, so also Mary was the basis for the grafting in of Christ.

  In short, Justice is Absolute. The cut off is always required for a breach. But the grafting in is always required for an admittance of the breach, pattern of John 3:16. God does the very same thing with Time itself. Mirroring.htm is a subset of Part IVa of the "Thinking" series, and it at length shows God's Accounting of Time from Adam through the Millenium. [MirrorNOW.htm is a sketch of how God is orchestrating time from the Cross forward, but of course we don't know which heroes are the basis. That page needs further refinement on the exact epochal divisions (each one might be off as much as 30 years), but its concepts are valid. Really shocking stuff, to be able to prove from Bible, math and history, God's Orchestration of Time. I really don't know why there's nothing like this on the internet, it wasn't at all hard to discern and trace. Time-consuming, though (how ironic).]

  So: if a slobbering person comes to your door, and you refuse him entry, you might have personal feelings otherwise, but you must refuse: for, the person might harm you, your property, your family. No matter how you feel about it, you must refuse entry. Or, you must refuse because you have something else which takes Precedence. Again, no matter how you feel, if Aunt Bertie wants to talk to you when you've got to catch the train for work, it's bye-bye Bertie. Of course, dear ol' Bertie will try to make you feel guilty, somehow. Too bad. So, if a person rejects the Gospel, or rejects 1Jn1:9, God isn't going to be nice. The rejector is rejecting association; so, the ruler must justly respond. God is bigger than people, and if you side with people, you're doing what Adam did wrong in the Garden.

Isn't it the grossest of impertinences to think God should credit me for some work I do for people? To Whom should one's First Allegiance, go? Legally, it's even laughable to make some claim to GOD, based on what you do for people; based on people, at all. Do you expect the gas company to reward you for your payment to the cable company? Give to God what is God's, and to Caesar what is Caesar's, Christ said. Well, the reverse would have to also be true: don't expect God to reward you for what is given someone else! And what is God's? You. Entire. 24/7. Romans 6. So, your Thinking. Which, after all, only God can hear, and people don't care about. Offal, to them. They want goodies. But God wanted you since eternity past, says Ps139:13's inspired texts (but no translation)! (Verse 13 uses the clever word "qanah", which is covered in more detail a few paragraphs down. Cute play on God's Decreeing our existence, and then ransoming us on the (then-future) Cross. By the way, you'll not see this wordplay in translation, for Ps139:13-17 is blasphemously reverse-translated in all Bibles I can read; so it's quickly exegeted and corrected, in NoWombLife.htm's "Don't Abort My Word" table. Just search on "13." once you load the page, and you'll go straight to that verse's qanah text.)

"Oh," some slobbering Christian will retort, "every cup of water given in the Lord's Name will have its reward." Yeah, "Verily I say to you, they will have their reward", said the Lord about those flashy Pharisees. What kind of reward? Even the unbeliever gets rewards. Ending in the Lake of Fire, for trusting in his works. Rejecting the Holy Spirit's Training You gets the reward of burning up all your works at the Bema. So, if the Lord says a cup of water, a widow's mite, brushing your teeth gets a reward -- maybe it's not the activity, but the Thought Behind It, which is the real cause. For, as He said, it's not what you do or eat which defiles, but what you think (speaking being the content of thought). Ooops. So all those cups of water, defiled by not thinking. Because rejecting the Spirit's Training. Ooops.

Cain was the first Ooops person. "Cain" means "spear" (euphemism for phallus) and "Acquirer"; cognate verb "qanah", means to purchase, order; and often, when used of God.. to Decree. The verb is used to signify our ransoming, as well as the Divine Order of (i.e., our) Existence. [Really important verb. It NEVER means "to create", but is mistranslated that way in Ps139:13 and elsewhere. Big difference in the Hebrew creating verbs -- and even these are not used for creating soul life -- which are barah, banah, yatser. The ONLY verb used for creating soul life is "breathe", naphach; cognate noun is nephesh, "soul", and hence "ruach" (the Holy Spirit) is often used in wordplay when any labor or breathing sounds or activity, is denoted (the soul really is the source of all laboring, see). People should do their homework better, especially since qanah is sooo very important to understanding Redemption. What the prolifers are missing in the beauty of Ps139 and Redemption, simply because it remains mistranslated for centuries!]

So "Cain" aptly describes his character, as all Biblical names intentionally do. Cain was aggressive, charming, constantly acquisitive. So he was jealous when God accepted the offering of Abel (="empty, nothing, vapor"), but instead refused, Cain's hard-won vegetable crop. Abel didn't have to work at keeping the lambs, but rather just sat around while they ate (beasts weren't so nasty in those days, as murder didn't yet exist, and man was vegetarian). So Cain baby was mighty ticked off. So, as my pastor puts it: by watching Abel sacrifice the lambs he didn't make or work for, Cain worked at learning how to kill Abel. [Special sacrifice words 1Jn and John's Gospel tell you this (Jn8:44 +1Jn3:12). By the way, Abel's name is not pejorative against him, but rather reflects the vanity of life without God on earth. I'd bet that though man was vegetarian, the one exception was that he eat from the lamb. Here's why: eating that Lamb always depicts faith in Your Savior, and all the Mosaic Law itself is based on precedences. So that must be one of them. Hence when God told Noah that all animals were okay for food after the Flood, then the list expanded.]

Cain's reaction and charm were both so strong even after the murder of Abel -- which split the family -- Cain went out and built a city, naming it oh-so-pointedly after his son, "Dedicated" (Enoch, to you). Yeah, and that whole line was so dedicated to revenge that his descendant Lamech (end Gen4) would talk about how he was avenged "seventy-seven times" for murdering a defenseless man and his young son. Vicious people, the self-righteous.

So the world roughly divides between the Abels and the Cains. Givers and takers. Believers and unbelievers. Believers who grow up, and those who spin out into apostacy. Guess which are the overwhelming majority, in any generation...

Notice how this Hupostasis Principle works: if you love intimately but are a Ruler, you have to JURIDICALLY reconcile the RULERSHIP before you can JUSTIFIABLY reconcile the LOVE. Notice how the Rulership must precede. Here, with respect to people. So: Adam should have First Reconciled His Rulership Role, by cutting out Isha, even though she was his wife, based on a "ruling" that God is First. Then, it would have been up to God Who Is First, what to do about Isha. Adam thus would have been throwing both himself and his wife away, in favor of God. God, then, would probably have saved her. But Adam didn't make that choice. So we face the exact same test, 24/7. [I'm certain God would have saved her, but I have to say "probably" since there's no direct verse in Scripture on that what-if. There are thousands of verses showing how no matter what bad we do, God rescues us; salvation due to the Cross, being the most obvious set of such verses. So if God would do for us despite our sins, then how much more, if we had not sinned? Christ never sinned. First Adam, Last Adam. The Last Adam made the right choice, and look at the results!]

Again, your average Christian would think this rejection of people evil. But that Christian is himself evil to so think, since God is First. Absolutely First, and sine qua non. Not alongside, not by-the-way, not a part of, etc. Christ continually talked about God First-and-Only, in the Gospels (which is the meaning of Deut 6:4-5, the most famous verse pair in Judaism). Look: My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, John 4:34, 6:27. (Note the Absoluteness: nothing ELSE is food.) You shall worship the Lord Your God, and serve Him Only, Matt4:10;you cannot serve both God and mammon, Matt6:24, Luke 16:13 ("mammon" means worldly stuff, not merely money); I came to bring a sword, Matt10:34; father against son, mother against daughter, Matt10:35, Luke 12:53; let the dead bury their own dead, Matt8:22, Luke 9:60; whose face is on the coin, Matt22:20-21, Mark 12:16, Luke 20:24; Mary has chosen the good part (Word over works), Luke 10:40-42; You shall love the Lord Your God with all your heart and soul and thinking, Matt22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke10:27; Into Your Hands I deposit my Spirit oh God of Doctrine, Luke 23:46 (quoting Ps31:5), etc. These are all absolute statements. Notice how they all trump good things, moral things, normal things. God First over all doesn't mean 'God-and', but GOD ONLY. Anything else, is to be grafted in at HIS Discretion.

This is the heart of the Trial. Satan tested Christ on it in Matt4, this God-only meaning as the Sole Reason To Live. Satan tempted the Lord to do GOOD DEEDS for people. Feed, give them a flashy display so they can believe, even zap Satan and take over all the world. Those are all good things. And the Lord turned them all down. Because, Father didn't want those things, Father wanted the Cross. Now it has to be obvious that Father was not obligated to save us. He could have taken Christ's payment and done nothing. Father and Son made a contract to save us in eternity past, Isa53:11's "if you will give your Soul as a substitute for sin". But when Christ went on the Cross, it was a free thing. Whatever Father wanted to do. Because, Father first and Only. Phili2:5-10 relates what happens, and notice the absoluteness there: Christ chose to throw Himself away, and FATHER CHOSE to exalt His Son. Those are two unilateral actions. The Rulership is reconciled first: Son reconciles by becoming abject Slave, His Own Free Choice. Father reconciles by making His Abject Slaveson (doulos, in Greek, means both slave and son).. King of the Universe in His Humanity. Two unilateral actions. True Absolute Love is unilateral, no strings, no conditions, no nothing alongside. That is what you are to become, if you are willing to have the Spirit keep you on the operating table of Heb4:12 the whole time you live down here. Which means, everything else must get thrown out, including you yourself. What happened to Him, is to happen to us.

Because, you can't justifiably reconcile the Love, until you juridically reconcile the Rulership. And there's only ONE Ruler. Then the Hupostasis Principle works: subordination, intimacy, because the Rulership over you is absolute: His.

See, there's a big difference between the "office" and the "person". Just because we are intimately united in Christ doesn't mean we can get sloppy about our office. He Rules. We must respect that. People need us to know how to respect that, because we too are subject to the same rules. They, unlike us, can't get a hearing or audience or help or anything unless they are priests. And, even if priests, if they don't use 1Jn1:9 and follow the basics (like study under their own God-appointed pastors), they reject the protocol, so they get spanking, not an audience. God's Love never changes, but neither does His "Dikaiosune" (usu. trans'd "Righteousness"), Judgeship-Thinking. (See Hosea 8:7, Gal6:7, Col3:25, Heb12:5ff.) God is not sloppy.

God is not sloppy, but we sure are. As you'll see here and in the next two sections, we not only don't know our Bibles, but historically we've selectively stressed what WE want the Bible to be, irrespective even of common sense. It doesn't take very long to prove our 'spin' on Bible is not only inaccurate, but insulting and insane. For our 'spin' on Bible has been that the spiritual life is one of ritual, emotion, and works. We gravitate therefore to the mistranslations and hallow them, for their spin matches the spin we want to believe. And we've done this since about 96AD, beginning with the apostacy of the so-called "Church Fathers". Bible warned of them in Rev17; and they've been used to vaunt over the Bible since about that time, just as John warned they would: fake Church.

So, we treat God like a dog. We make up truly insulting practices, and call them holy; we ostracise anyone who doesn't follow those practices, and expect God to smile down upon us. We dress up to party, we pay loads of attention to details in sports; we spend ooodles of time getting our living quarters just so; but when it comes to God, well.. we use Scripture jus' any ol' way. We ask God to make someone fall in love with us, or ask God to zap someone; we ask for a job, a team victory, the return of a loved one. But we don't ever ask, "What's it like for you to BE God?" Cuz, we're not interested in Him, but only in what He can do for us. Go fetch. So, we ascribe emotion to Him, as if Infinity 'moved' (e-MOTION, get it?); we treat all instances of "save" as if they had the same meaning, never bothering to do our homework; we memorize verses but never think about what they actually mean; we sing "Praise the Lord" but are really thinking about how good we sound. On and on and on. Why a bolt of lightning doesn't burn us to cinders...!

Granted, there are all those do's in the epistles. But how many evaluate the context? Check it out for yourself:

• the do's are usually listed last,
• or are in a narrative, so might not be God's approval but rather, a deposition, i.e., Paul was going wacko at the end of Romans (15:25ff), so all his money talk was out of character, and he was mentally out of God's will (see Acts 22 for Paul's own testimony of that fact). [If you're seriously interested, get the "Paul's fall" tapes from my pastor. They're free: "Paul's fall", Series 376, Lessons 1541 and following. Top of Home Page has his official site. I'm not sure if you can yet order ON the web, so you'll have to check the site.]
• Any do's are always preceded by many more commands to KNOW something.
• And, when do's are listed, what kinds of do's, are they? They are always basic morality stuff.

  You could list all the morality do's in half a Bible chapter; but instead, the New Testament goes on and on about things which have nothing to do with works: for example, Paul spends 4 Chapters in Ephesians, before he gets around to anything of THIS earth. Other books are very similar. Look at Philippians: it's wholly about how excited Paul is that his works don't count i.e., theme of Phili3, using a swear word (mistranslated 'dung', or worse) in my favorite verse, Phili3:8.

Bible spends time on do's to show the difference between True Divine Good (agathos, always mistranslated) and fake good (human works). Human works are supposed to be done only while filled with the Spirit. Else they are worthless. Timothy epistles show why: to be a good witness. So does Romans 13, and Paul's Corinthians' explanations. See, if you know that the works themselves are worthless, then your attitude while doing them will be different, and this attitude will show. More importantly, only if you are in God's System when you do a thing, will it be valid for Father. Knowing this fact will make you happy when you do the work, so you won't get resentful or bitter or needy-for-attention, like the world does. The unbeliever, inter alia, will notice that difference. So he can LEARN that works don't work, Heb6:1-6. And thus find out salvation is about RELATIONSHIP, not religion. Which, by the way, no other faith ever on this planet, has EVER claimed. The Mosaic Law was unique among faiths in that it always stressed no works: the sacrifices were what GOD WOULD DO FOR MAN, not vice versa. That's why the world was galvanized by it, and frankly all Western culture came from it. No other message about "God" ever sold anywhere, is like this one. So it sticks out.

But he's not learning that fact, because we're not aware of it, ourselves. We're not aware, because we're not interested in digging into the Word. So how is he gonna learn? We're the priests. See how God condemns bad priests in Hosea 4, Isaiah 9-11 (well, throughout Isaiah, it's a running refrain), Malachi 3. So: this sloppiness in using Word goes all the way back, not just to 96AD. Which means our 'friends' at Satan&Co., are behind the coverup.

Christ, of course, was never sloppy, and assiduously used Divine Thinking Under the Spirit Toward Father, 24/7. He's not bragging when He says what He says, nor is He trying to make us feel guilty over our disinterest in God, since both pride and its obverse, guilt, are sins. Rather, He was stressing how Father is that gorgeous; that even being God is of no value even to Him, if He can't express His Love as a Worm, for Father. Ps22:6, what Christ yelled on the Cross. Tola worm. Whose blood was crushed in the ancient world to make the crimson dye of kings. So Christ sure thought Father was so Fascinating, even the privilege of His Own Deity was set aside (real meaning of "kenoo" in Phili2:7), like clothes you don't wear. He'd rather become a Worm, clothing us, naked for Father, just 'because'. Just because Love. "My food is to do the Will of Him Who Sent Me." Matt4:4, too.

To so deeply express that Love, what did Christ have to do? He had to become, "The Way, the Truth, and the Life". Tall order, that. Do you realize that Truth (which math reflects) is extremely precise? One dot off, and a whole building crumbles. One millimeter's worth of lubricant short maybe felled an airplane in 2000, killing 200 people. So: do you think God's Truth would be less precise, than the lubricant needed on an airplane? When The Whole Universe Is Held Together By The Word Of His Power? [Heb1:3, but translations are poor. Specialized Greek coin stamping vocabulary is used, to convey Christ is Exactly God And Creator, Co-Equal, etc. The translators shouldn't have used common English words. KJV is closest. Matt4:3 doesn't make any sense unless you know Christ is the Creator. Satan wouldn't tempt His Humanity to do something He couldn't do, duh.]

So, if it was acceptable to Christ To Be So Precise He was not only willing to become a Worm, but the very Truth.. how can we just make up ideas about what the Bible says? How can we want to do anything less than study our brains out, since Christ's Thinking Is In Writing? Do we really want to see Him, or not? Aren't we just spinning our wheels with all our works and rituals and teary hand-lifting and singing. Um, aren't we actually.. lying to ourselves about 'how we love Jesus', if we aren't Learning Scripture Daily? Ouch. Kinda hard to pretend you love someone you don't even spend the time to know.

TEST #1: Then, when finished, review your list, and ask yourself WHY so few are on the list?

TEST #2: Next, take your paper and pen and jot down a good dozen or two things considered 'Christian' good deeds. You know, the revivals, the healing rallies, the potlucks, the 'fellowship' groupings, camps, givings-to-the-church, hallowed vocabulary, public and other jump singing and prayer, crusading on abortion or other political stuff, etc. Then look through those Gospels again to see if Christ ever once did any of those things. Kinda eye-opening to find out He didn't, huh.

TEST #3: Go through the Gospels a third time, and notice how pretty much every activity we call 'Christian' today, has some Gospel verse CONDEMNING it. We make an issue of adultery, but Christ pardoned the adulteress caught in the act. We make an issue about giving, and constantly urge that upon everyone; but Christ condemned it (the poor you will have with you always, and his comments about the widow's two mites); we publically moan and wail and say how we love Jesus and make showy prayers -- but Christ condemned the Pharisees for all their publicness, and instead praised the publican (a tax farmer, a cheater-of-people, k). And on and on. I wasn't able to find even one of today's 'Christian' activities which Christ didn't condemn somewhere in the Gospels. So you try it, since you're supposed to test yourself, not just believe something you read in a webpage.

Christendom hasn't fared too well in accurately representing Our King's Royal Communication. His Book was actually kidnapped by His Own Servants for the better part of 18 centuries. Wasn't until the mid-1800's that the original-language texts of the Bible became available to the common man, and when they did oh, the REAL reformation began. Back in the days of Patrick, or the Cluny monasteries, or in Luther and Calvin's day, only the Gospel and Popism were disputed; but during the mid-1800's as people actually started to READ those original language texts collected by Tregelles et. al. -- for classical Greek was a lingua franca among intellectuals -- the huge array of doctrines long taught as 'Biblical' were instead seen to be lies. Widespread iconoclasm, ensued; many lumped the Bible with the true heretics, those long claiming to represent Christ (Catholic and other state churches).

So the 19th century was a firestorm, and it still goes on. Its fire is on the wane since the 1930's. The old heretical ideas persist, as do the rampant mistranslations, with the hoary heads all using their degrees and respectability, to quash the ever-growing awareness that they weren't exactly competent in their translation and teaching, all these centuries. Beginning about the 1930's, they recovered from what had been a century of ferment, and here in 2006 they are dominant, again.

Meanwhile and also still growing, but below radar, were the few brave among those academics, whether Bible scholars or pastors, who left the hallowed halls and risked all by going directly to the people with the Truth: teaching FROM those original-language texts. So during the 19th and 20th centuries, ever-greater defection by those who once numbered among the hoary, progressed; some of the defectors were goofy, but others, extremely competent; they defected from their fellow hoary heads in Europe, America, even Russia and China. These defectors were persecuted by the hoary heads and even by some rulers of the countries, easily as much as Paul and his followers: though we in the 20th century are sooooo civilized now (yeah, right). When academics want to burn you at the stake, they treat you dismissively.

Of course, the success of these defectors is tremendous and now visible, for it's fashionable now to talk of the original-language texts; and everyone's a Greek or Hebrew expert, pontificating. Ok: but at least we're talking about the real Bible, now. At least the TEXTS are available for anyone to check on what's claimed to be said there. Freedom of access, of speech, is always a good thing.

It is noteworthy that since God orchestrates Time in 1050-year cycles, each one contingent upon at least ONE person being so spiritually developed, the next cycle can start, that in the 2nd cycle, this rollout of Scripture occurred. Paul was easily the one developed so that the world could go on living, post 1050AD, that mirror of the year when Israel rejected Her Divine King. Since the 1050 year cycles contain two 490 year cycles, and time has continued thus far, clearly there have been other individuals. Also clearly, the audience for original-language learning has grown, for the Word always goes 'lost' or gets locked up when too few people, want it (viz., the number of times Scripture was 'lost' inside the 1st and 2nd Temples). [God's Orchestration of Time and His Accounting Method is covered extensively in Mirroring.htm. It will take time to prove out all the math and dates and accounting, but it can be done.]

But even so, it's also obvious that the percentage of believers who really want to learn God, is way under 1%. We just saw how nominal 'Christians' largely are carnal, or maybe not even believers, and even the nominal Christians are but 1/3rd of the world's population. (Most of these people are probably unbelievers, since if you ask 100 Christians what saves you, only about 1 in 100 correctly replies with John 3:16 or its believe-ONCE-only-in-Christ equivalent. Search the internet on "what must I do to be saved", see for yourself.) Consequently the understanding of Bible among them is nearly zero. So while Scripture has never in history been so available to so many in the original languages, never has there been a smaller percentage of interested people, either. Wasn't until the 20th century that atheism became popular; that evolution, a rehash of animism pretending to be scientific, was touted as 'fact'; that Israel returned to the Land the Lord warned her to stay away from, in Dan9:26, Matt24, Rev11:1, and most OT passages on the 2nd Advent. We live in truly strange times.

• We so arrogantly pride ourselves on calling ourselves "monotheistic" yet condemn the Oneness people, though Bible is TRITHEISTIC (Three Equal Infinite Gods is not polytheism, k?) , 2Cor13:14's Greek. So we make men swear by the Westminster Confession or Catholic Unicity definitions, which say the same thing as the Koran, forgetting that in English, "God" is a person, so to say "one living God" as the WC does, negates Trinity (should at least say One Divine Essence or better, Identical Divine Essence, thus alleviating the confusion).
• We add verbs to the only valid one of "believe" in the True Gospel, thereby nullifying it;
• We reverse all "womb" verses in Holy Writ to claim a soul in womb, when the text always says OUTSIDE (prep min or ek) the womb, and every seminarian is taught this stridently (i.e., see Mounce on ek, and any good Biblical Hebrew text on min -- also, Badillo wrote of its etymological history).
• All over the world, we Rev17 'Christians' piously destroy the separation of church and state which God authored under Moses, via passing 'Christian' laws; inter alia, anti-abortion laws which ignore Exo21:22's bald statement even in translation, that the fetus is not even a legal person (because NO soul in womb), and then have the nerve to claim we know Bible and love God, weren't we holy for crusading on those laws! Yeah, what happened was we dictated to God, 1Cor2:15, not 1Cor2:16. So what unbeliever will think the 'Christian' God is anything but a fool like his believers are, who clearly can't even read their own Book?
• We take material-creation verbs and mistranslate them as immaterial creation verbs, though the only immaterial creation verb Bible ever uses, is "breathe" (for creating the soul), which happens AT BIRTH (i.e., Hebrew of Gen2:7b, Ps33:6). [Great wordplay in Ps33:6, refers to the Holy Spirit as God's Mouth. See also "voice" verses in the OT. NT plays on this meaning a lot.]
• We ignore the True Meaning of Baptism, Romans 6, and instead assign magical properties to water, as if getting wet saved you, thus totally spitting on the Cross, deprecating the Holy Spirit (as if He would even use demonic magic, akin to the satire against Him in 2Nephi of the self-confessed demonic, Book of Mormon); as if God who punished magic with death under the Mosaic Law (Deut 18), would engage in it Himself; oh, how the demons must be laughing at those who don't even bother to read their Bibles and insert a magical wetness as efficacious -- over the Cross! [Re Book of Mormon: "Moroni" allegedly gave the information to Joseph Smith. Well, lookie here: the name "Moroni" is a clever concatenation of Hebrew and Greek which translates into "my demon teacher" -- "moron" is a Greek word for demon, and "-oni" is an affectionate ending for "my" (i.e., rabboni). Did we ever catch that demonic confession? Nope. More is said about this in the "Book of Mormon" link in SatStrat.htm (Appendix of the Thinking series).]
• We claim God would cheat Himself by limited atonement, when bald Bible verses like 1Jn2:2 prove otherwise;
• We claim you can lose your salvation, thus making the Cross out to be a sham; or Christ, an imperfect Payor. Worse, we do this because we are shocked at certain types of sins and we don't want such horrible people to be saved. As if what shocks us, God should 'obey'. John 3:16 has no exclusions in it, and like Acts 16:31, Eph1:13, Eph2:8-9, Rom5:1, all of Romans 6, the tenses showing we are permanently saved due to that one moment we first believed, are unequivocal.
• We make much of our works and proudly point to works verses, not bothering to read the Inspired Text which uses God-actor verbs, nouns, and anarthrous constructions -- so it's GOD's Works which are praised in the Bible, never man's -- yet we pretend we can read Greek and Hebrew, lol.
• We can't even read Luke 1:26 in plain English, proving Christ was conceived in Adar, thus would have to be born in Chislev, at Chanukah -- nor do we bother to research the meaning of the priestly courses alike confirming that month, nor Haggai2's wordplay on Seed and 'from now on' after 24 Chislev, so then claim the Bible doesn't tell us His Birth date. Never mind, that was forecast 1000 years in advance (Mirroring.htm has the details in the "David" link).
• We can't even read the six NT "paraskeué" verses to learn it was Good WEDNESDAY, so that Bible's chronology for Passion Week proves out the realization of Passover's own timing, set aside on 10 Nisan and slaying on 14 Nisan -- which happened to Him 30AD, with the Jewish calendar running 4 days fast that year (which you automatically know, since He eats the Passover). Then we throw up our hands and call Bible a mystery, or wrong. Sheesh: we'd be huffy if someone got a birthdate or deathdate of a loved one wrong, but it's okay not to know His? And blame the BIBLE? And piously exclaim that the dates are not important? Can we BE more arrogant?
• We piously claim to make new "fresh" translations of the Bible, yet copy the old blasphemous errors in past translations, such as in Gen3:11, Mark3:5, James 2:18-26 (well, most of Chaps 1-2), 4:5, 1Cor1:5, :10, 12:31, all of Chap13, Rom10:10, Rom12:1-3, Eph4:5, 11-16, Heb10:15-17, Heb11:1, and too many others to list. Worse, the non-English translations largely copy the English ones, rather than going back to the original texts.
• We wrangle over our denominations, despite the "who is Apollos? Who is Paul" doctrine in 1Cor1, as if that were a holy thing to do.
• We ignore "Genesis" meaning the origin of The Man, and tell everyone it's how God created the world in six days, when that's not even what the Hebrew or Greek inspired text, says.
• We routinely tell people they will go to hell for sins we find upsetting, like suicide or fornication, or .. whatever. Not reading John 16:9, "Concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me". Notice how no one goes to hell for not getting wet.

• Worst of all, we claim to love the Lord, but we insist on saying His Physical Death paid for SOUL SINS, what blasphemy. Isaiah 53 repeats the fact that His Thinking paid for sins no fewer than 21 times, in the original-language texts (BHS and LXX have to be combined, text in one is missing from the other). Isaiah 53 (really 52:13-54:1) couldn't be plainer. Hebrew of Isa53:10-11 is blunt: YHWH haphetz dakkeo heheli/ im tasim asham naphesho -- "God delights to crush Him in lovesick grief / If He will appoint His SOUL ("naphesho") a substitute for sin (like red heifer offering)." And in 53:11, me amal naphesho, "Out from His Soul's LABOR (pregnancy term)". Moreover, Greek verb apothneskw refers to the SOUL going through the act of dying, not the body (nekroo is used for the body, survives in medical English as "necrotic death"). Greek and Hebrew suneisis and da'ath respectively mean mastery of thinking, and in the Isaiah passage you clearly see that His Thinking paid for sins; not to mention, all the NT writers and the Lord constantly point back to the Isaiah passage, so to make reference to His Thinking paying for sins; to its parallel post-salvation application, that the spiritual life is a THINKING thing, not a doing thing, all pointing back to Jer31:31-34's promise of His Head in our Heads. All this can be found without much trouble if you have Bible software like BibleWorks, which many PASTORS use (I got my copy at a seminary). So it's not as though this information is obscure or hard to find out. But we continue to ignore how He paid for our sins! So we don't recognize the post-salvation spiritual life's structure, either. Surely The Spiritual Life He Had, is what is Legated to us. And it's not of man's works, baby. If you don't want to STAY a baby...

  So we've blasphemed God more than the atheist, and the list of our misrepresentations goes on and on. Treasons, all. Before the original-language texts of Scripture were so commonly available, you could say we had some excuse for being so malinformed. But not since 1844 or so. And certainly not here in 2006, with an unparalleled ability to RESEARCH those texts, on computer. So people don't care. We in this generation have zero excuse for misrepresenting Him.

  When a diplomat maligns/misrepresents his sovereign to the world, the diplomat is censured or even recalled. Our Sovereign gives us time to grow up and learn from our mistakes, since unlike an earthly diplomat, we are BORN into the role, and aren't isolated from the host nation. But if you want to know the main reason why believers get sick and die (1Jn5:16), this is it: we don't learn WWJT. We never learn to Think Bible, preferring instead to thump it. Thus we are recalled home individually, in shame. But in heaven will be happy in some OTHER believer's subkingdom under Our Dread Lord, never doubt that.

Here's an example of precise thinking's life-and-death importance. There's this verse in James 5:16 which in translation, makes people think they should go to a priest for confession, or stand up in the middle of the congregation naming some heinous thing they did. In translation, the verse reads something like (NASB, here): "Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much." Ok, seems straight forward, right? WRONG. First of all, you don't ever take a Bible verse out of context. The context in Chapter 5 is interpersonal relations. So it's NOT about all sin you commit, and in fact is only about sins you commit which others ALREADY know. That eliminates both the confessional booth, and the standing-up in the middle of the congregation, immediately.

But more importantly, sins are to always be confessed TO GOD. "Against thee and thee only, have I sinned", David admitted. Then there's Ps32:5, 66:18, the threshing floor purchased from Araunah (end 2 Sam), and of course our friend 1Jn1:9. To not confess to GOD, is to not be purified from anything.

So this business of telling other people, is ADJUNCTIVE, at most. Now: say you and I are in an argument. We need to patch it up. Just as in arguments with God, we got a mutual 1Jn1:9-type admitting to do between us. Until that's cleared up, there's no fellowship regained. Meanwhile, there will be maybe bitterness, resentment, self-justification, etc. It's always bad to not admit something someone else KNOWS you did. It's sometimes bad not to admit something someone else doesn't know you did, if their not knowing HURTS them. But it's also sometimes WRONG to admit something you did, if the admitting hurts them. So see? It's not cut-and-dried.. you gotta know from The Book, what to do. Misuse of The Book has messed up millions of lives who go to the confessional booth, because they are confessing the wrong way and to the wrong person. So these people lived carnal lives, unless by accident they got in the habit of using 1Jn1:9's content (which, frankly, is a kinda natural inclination, to admit to God you screwed up).

The denominations and mistranslations alike will NOT admit they screwed up. They fear mass defection if they do. That's why till yet Catholicism calls it Good Friday, when any five-year-old knows there are not three days BETWEEN Friday and Sunday, which the Bible says will transpire between death and resurrection (see PassPlot.htm's Division #2 link for the roster of three-days-and-nights verses). So people stand pat on some OLD bad formulation like TULIP or Westminster Confession or a wide variety of other doctrines in each denomination, none are exempt -- and they never upgrade/fix it. They should be fearing the Bema, instead of humans. That's why there is so much iconoclasm today: people who hunger for Bible, just as in John the Baptizer's day, are LEAVING the 'established' denominations and either setting up new goofy ones, or imagining themselves their own teachers. As one of these guys said to me, "You can't find a good teacher nowadays, you have to do it yourself." Not so: God is the God of authority, and amidst all these 1Jn2 wolves there are genuine pastors for sheep, probably in every denomination and no denomination. Just ask Him who He appointed for you.

GOD'S PROTOCOL PRINCIPLE: Just as you don't drop in on the Queen sans appointment; just as you don't kiss a stranger on the mouth; just as you don't confide your finances to the-guy-next-door; so also, you don't expect Holy God to accept what YOU think is the right interpretation of a verse, but rather the other way around (see 2Cor2:15-16). So, you don't just whap Scripture here and there, a loaded pistol with no skill or proper cause for aiming it. Well, a loaded 'knife', actually: see Heb4:12's "machaira" etymology. YOU'RE TO BE A SURGEON, NOT A STREET THUG. Heh: An Ambassadorial, Priestly, Kingly Surgeon-General of WORDS: again, see Heb4:12. [For fun, do a word study on machaira, romphaia in ALL Bible's Greek (LXX and NT). Very rewarding.]

Conversely, how will you accurately communicate about Him to your fellow humans? That too, requires a lot of knowledge of Scripture. You don't just invent stupidities that are not in Bible. In fact, anyone who tells a falsehood cannot be also Filled with the Spirit at the same time; for the Spirit doesn't empower lies. So, watch how God is maligned by the following very common misrepresentations carnal Christians make:

• like claiming Adam lost free will at his fall, because man is helpless. Yeah, so is a paraplegic, but he can still want and not want. So not only is the claim of man-losing-free-will patently stupid, look: GOD IS A TYRANT, and too impotent to make the soul indestructible, huh? For you have to destroy the soul, to destroy its free-will core.
• that there's human life IN the womb, which CLAIMS GOD IS A SADIST (English verses are MIStranslated);
• that you can't commit suicide and go to heaven (so Christ died only for SOME sins? So Father DID NOT GET FULLY PAID? -- dare anyone to FIND such a 'suicide' verse ANYWHERE in Scripture);
• that you must make Christ Lord to be saved (so man PROMOTES CHRIST TO LORDSHIP? Hmmm, isn't He already Lord from eternity past?);
• you must have a 'heart' belief rather than a head belief (whatever that idiocy means);
• you, a SPIRITUALLY-DEAD UNBELIEVER must 'invite' or 'receive' Christ into your 'heart' or 'life' (so the unbeliever is more powerful and important than God);
• you must repent of your sins to be saved -- so when Christ said John16:9, He was lying?
• That the Filling of the Spirit is something you can FEEL -- ok, since when did IMMATERIALITY have a body? For, only a BODY can feel. So John 3, all of 1Jn, are lies? Ok, since when did God become a circus clown or genie, to do pet tricks to make YOU feel good?
• That the Filling of the Spirit is some kind of gibberish-speaking experience, as if the Holy Spirit were a DEMON (since that's what demons are shown to do in Bible, as well as in every pagan religion known to man);
• That the Rapture is something you can or even should predict: ok, so Christ is LYING, in Acts 1? Or, INFERIOR, that even He didn't claim to state the date? Or Paul, the apostle given the most SCRIPTURE to write, didn't know, in Phili3:11? 1Thess2 would have to be a lie too, since Paul chewed out the Thessalonians FOR TRYING TO PREDICT the Rapture?

Granted, since we start out slobbering babies, we're allowed to be treasonous for a very long time, since we don't know any better. But after a lifetime, with no progress.. the fig tree can't be fertilized anymore. The host country (this world) needs the Ambassador replaced. So, you are recalled, 1Jn5:16, the worst shame an Ambassador can receive. Home. To Heaven. Forever happy after that, but.. no rulership privileges. (See Rev2-3.)

And what is that "b)" Truth? John 3:16, simply believe in Christ, and you are permanently saved, forever. 2Pet3:18, once saved, grow in grace and in the Knowledge belonging to Our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, which glorifies the Father forever; "filling all in all", end Eph1. And the method for doing this is ONLY via God's System, Eph4:11-16, with constant usage of 1Jn1:9 to get Eph5:18, the Filling of the Spirit, so to grow to Eph4:13, kitted out as explained in Eph3:15-19, which level of Pleroma Spiritual Growth glorifies God -- tying right back to what Peter said when he referenced Eph3:15-19 in 2Pet3:18. Any heteros (another of a different kind) of essential truth spoken or taught, blasphemes God.

But of course, you've got a lot of homework to do, before you know all that. You must test everything, 1Jn4, since there are so many false and incompetent translations and teachers out there, as we saw above. It's an isolated life, just like the Lord's was. Yet all humanity depends on you doing your own homework, growing up in a fair amount of mental isolation before the Lord, ignoring all Satan's landmines which the world pants after. As you do this, count on it: God will bring the hearers to you, because you are a competent advisor. He always vindicates the Truth in whomever it resides, and often in some very humorous (and even embarrassing!) ways. Always, Isa55:8-11.

So here's how you try to live:

• You use 1Jn1:9 regularly, monitoring your own thinking for thought or action sins;
• you get regular (ideally daily) Bible class under your right pastor,
• which class you turn over and THINK about;
• you try to live on what Bible you know 24/7,
• so obviously you try to resist whatever you know is a sin;
• you analyze everything in light of Bible you know, since God HEARS it, and you are a Royal priest;
• above all, you THINK toward Father as much as you can, which is the main meaning of prayer;
• you make whatever requests you feel necessary to God on behalf of others and yourself, following the prayer protocol (see GodSystem.htm #5 or PrayProc.htm).

• You don't go running around trying to convert people;
• you don't politic or crusade on ANYTHING;
• you don't run around doing works, rituals, or engaging in tabooism;
• you don't go around correcting people;
• you don't make an issue of sin;
• you don't determine your own destiny at ALL, but wait on the Lord to reveal it to you;
• above all, you don't spend much time outside God's System.

Ergo: just as has always been the precedence, so it remains here. We now come full circle back to The Hupostasis Principle. For, we are to THINK LIKE RULERS. Personal interest must always go THROUGH THE OFFICE, for the sake of JUSTICE. Repeating:

Book of Hebrews makes this running point about how only Death, reconciles. Can't have a covenant without blood; can't have a testament without a death; can't have a new priesthood without a new covenant, so the old one has to die. Paul had made that same point many times, whether in his explaining how this body and this life must die (old man, seed dies to bring about spiritual seed), how this worldly thinking must die to make way for the new Thinking of Christ. You believe in Christ the first time because you 'die' to the world's idea that faith in Christ is somehow stupid; you keep on in God's System because you 'die' to the idea that works, emotionalism, ritual and tabooism, do anything for God. Lots of deaths. Like Paul wrote somewhere, "I die every day." Lots of defeats and deaths precede the final one, when the believer's soul exits the body and is thereafter forever happy with God. So reconciliation, is DEATH. Death of the old enmity. And that's how it feels, too: like a death. Every day.

As we now know from the earlier "diplomatic brief", this central rule of Association, works both ways. Those who don't WANT to subordinate, get no or less 'favorable contact' from God. That is why Hell exists; why there will be a Lake of Fire (horrible and separate universe, really), forever. Those in it did not want ANY contact, refused the Gospel all lifelong, preferring what THEY do to what Christ did (it's NOT about sin, see John 16:9). So, too, a good 99% of believers didn't want to learn Him, and opted instead for the childish religious games history so sordidly reveals. So they didn't subordinate either, except to believe in Christ. Or, perhaps more, but.. they DIDN'T COMPLETE THE TRAINING. So they DIDN'T SUBORDINATE; so they WON'T GET INTIMACY. Well, not as much as those who DID complete the Royal Training. And the difference is VAST. From just above absolute zero ("absolute zero", being SAVED), to who knows how high, since "the Spirit is given without measure" (John 3:34, 7:39). Caveat Emptor: beware what you 'buy' as the Christian life! [That's another "measure" verse pair which ties again back to merizw in Isa53:12, so you know the booty is Christ's Thinking in us!]

So while down here, we still have opportunity to complete the Royal Training. To keep on training requires Subordination. Which has to be Justified, and is, because it's TO FATHER. This HIGHER INTIMACY is created via the Holy Spirit, Who creates and accumulates those Truth Deposits in your Spirit-filled soul, as you study under your right pastor in God's System; thus you learn and live on this Gorgeous Truth; thus your soul transforms per Rom12:1-3's Greek, to become more like Christ's. So, more DDNA accrues in you, spiritual dendrites hooking up and running ever more densely; thus you become more Intimate with the Truth; thus more subordinating to it; hence more intimate with God; ergo, more subordinating to Him. Max subordination, of course, is the Cross; so, you will eventually get your own 'cross'.

The greater the subordination, the greater the growth, the greater the intimacy with Truth, with GOD. The converse is also true. The lower the subordination, the less intimacy with Truth, with God. Forever. We determine our own destinies by how positive we are to God. Period. He does all the work, we make the choices. Let us beware what choices we make!

Now let's look at WHY this future judicial/political structure is not only fair, but a blessing to all mankind. First, your growth down here causes those around you to be blessed, as we saw earlier. So you are functioning not only as a blessing to them even if you are bedridden; but also, as a repository for them to get more information about GOD, whenever their volitions want that information. You don't need to sell anything; you only need exist.