In poetic notes and journeys I give you the audience real life experiences. There is no second hand writing, the purpose is to share true life meaning and through that journey anything of gain. I'm freeing the unselfish person so that through an exchange I disown the self and embrace a new one everyday. One of the most outstanding experience that haunts, is "bridging the the gap" the smokes signals, the communication barrier between opposites men/woman, the pure language.
Federally approved, medically administrated your choice...but don't term or call it a biological weapon with foreign agents, it's to Insidious (artful) for the average.
It is sacred to remain ignorant to the chains that heavily entangles and a snare, to the master's we so masterly revere !
As I, walk pass those corridors and a cold spell that last many seasons,
I shall not forget the irony that has walked with (me) and the assembly of
piercing starring eyes adding more to the conflict that rages inside.
Yet I’m your guest, that teaches forbearance, love, kindness, compassion, and a host of fruits for the picking.
I kinda wonder who was gaining from this chaos crushing (me) inside ?
And I, rekindle with reasoning “when I’m weak” a power struggle rages within...then the irony shifts gears to my favor.
In
the order of weakness and power, I bear witness of a Divine being who
has set (me) free, through the act of true love...and we are one in the
challenge to uphold a universal question ? Of who really rules with
exclusive devotion !
Please
take (me) home as you wish! Where I belong ! Praise be your saintly and
Divine name...Jehovah (YHWH) for millenniums to come !
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I sanctified you. I made you a prophet to the nations.”
I can not begin to image the power structure behind those, sweet expressions and try to embrace, the fear inspiring, and benevolent kindness in which are said.
From a microscopic form the author/script-writer Can weave/knit life and predict, stage-cast its unique performance, gifts, expressions, and host Divine implants each with a personalize touch ?
Our DNA carries massive amount of information of each individual under Divine watch. Let me say this, of every living thing that has life in it. That is enough to have a brain storm...now you know how I feel very often as I write.
I express freely and it consumes me, to come in touch with these brain-storming gifts and sweetness of unequal host.
He must be laud, praised, sanctified, and made whole in every thought, expressions, and actions in the allotted time, so that through a process it becomes soothing melodies fit and acceptable in his Holiest realm.
Who is man, to call out God Almighty (YHWH) works ? Who is the mortal, but a whisper in the wind, what makes him ponder on the superlativeness, of such Divine and have the illusion, that access granted? The universe and its fine tuning, the alignment of the planets, the never ending renewal of energies, the components that sustains life, his ever embracing finest of qualities.
A prime piece of real-estate call earth, found nowhere in the cosmos, in turn a paradise of delight. Yes, there is great envy and twisted views, arrogance, haughtiness in search for such elated access.
Man of much void, will omit and discredit their own findings, in time and space, mere mortals are just a whisper in the wind.
Rafael G
Nov 4 2022
When
put into doubt the finest gift of God Almighty, we in turn subject him
to limitations, and I will say this, what makes us think we are granted
access to his superlative infinite power ? attributes and fruits of his
benevolent spirit ?
If anyone doubts, how can one have the slightest
access to what is Divine ?
Better yet if one desires access, cause
Him...to actuate, energize and seek out those prefer choicest fine tuned
gifts found in you. In the sacred chamber (work-shop) through
implants....awaken...awaken desirable host !
Catholic clergy in Portugal
have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission
said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims’ accounts.
Thousands of reports of paedophilia within the Catholic Church have
surfaced around the world and Pope Francis is under pressure to tackle
the scandal.
The Portuguese inquiry, commissioned by the Church in the staunchly
Catholic country, published its findings after hearing from more than
500 victims last year.
“This testimony allows us to establish a much larger network of
victims, at least 4,815,” commission head Pedro Strecht told a press
conference in Lisbon that was attended by several senior Church
officials.
PARIS (AP) —
Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic
turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children
in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the
country’s first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.
The
figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and an unknown
number of other people involved in the church — wrongdoing that Catholic
authorities covered up over decades in a “systemic manner,” according
to the president of the commission that issued the report, Jean-Marc
Sauvé.
“Beyond
the bounds of organized Christianity, there is an increasing
consciousness concerning the social results of the teaching of Jesus. It
is significant that the leaders of that wing of the working class
movement which is in sharpest antagonism to the existing world order,
increasingly claim him as their leader. As they become aware of the
necessity of changing the nature as well as the form of social
organization, they look in his direction. One of their journals recently
declared that Jesus was the greatest champion of the revolutionary
proletariat the world has ever seen. This is no technical attempt by
proof texts to make Jesus the protagonist for particular dogmas or
measures. It is, rather, an instinctive affinity of spirit and of aim.
It is an appreciation of the fact that his demand for righteousness and
justice and brotherhood must result in the making of a better world.
There is no complete perception of the nature and consequences of His
teaching, but there is a sense of their general drift and direction.
“Are these men right concerning the revolutionary nature of the
consciousness and intent of Jesus? Did not a hostile world continually
circumscribe and finally kill Him? Did He not increasingly recognize the
sharp antagonism between His teaching concerning the democracy of God
and the world order in which He found Himself, until He finally cried to
Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants
fight.” He threw no such judgement in the face of Pilate as He delivered
against the High Priests, the established authorities of His own
nation, but His basic principles effectually challenged and ultimately
will destroy the fundamental principles upon which the empire of Rome
was founded and developed. ‘Now is the prince of this world judged.’ And
the sentence of that judgement will be carried out to the uttermost
until all empires and dominions founded upon force and greed are finally
destroyed.” – The Christian Demand for Social Reconstruction, a William
Penn Lecture 1918 by Dr. Harry F. Ward
Many people recognize the name Rev. Jeremiah Wright. After all, his face
and his name have been spread all over the news, both recently with the
new election just around the corner, and previously in the prior
election. Many will recognize the term “liberation theology” which you
might think of as specifically a black-centric concept. While that
particular brand of theology might be centric to certain black-dominant
church groups, its underlying principles are not ethnically centered in
any way. They are Marxist principles, born out of a central event.
Dr. Harry F. Ward was an American Methodist minister, born in London and
moved to the US in 1891. He was the first chairman of the ACLU (1920 –
1940) and taught ethics at the Union Theological Seminary from 1918 to
1941. Here’s something else you might not know; Jeremiah Wright received
his theological degree from Union Theological Seminary, Chicago. Who
was Harry F. Ward? He was a communist, dedicated to the ideals of the
people’s revolution in Russia. He was among the first group of seriously
dedicated communists in this nation, tasked with the establishment of
four primary organizations destined to destroy the foundational elements
of the United Sates, converting it into a more socially just state; a
communist state.
So, just exactly what is Union Theological Seminary? UTS is an
independent seminary in New York City, in Manhattan. It is affiliated
with Columbia University which is currently the home of the Institute
for Social Research, or The Frankfurt School as it’s commonly known,
which is the world’s foremost communist think tank. UTS is the
birthplace of a number of liberal Christian movements; among them Black
Liberation Theology and Womanist Theology, all of which attempt to fuse
Marxist ideals with Christian theology.
From around 1890 through World War I the United States saw a surge in
what has been called the Progressive Era. This was when Marxism was
shiny and new. It was before the horrors of the Eastern Block showed the
abject failure of socialism. It was when names like Walter Lippmann and
John Dewey and Louis Brandeis became famous. It was when Woodrow Wilson
enacted the most sweeping changes in American law and governance ever
before enacted. It was when the United States started its slow march
towards socialism, on the road towards global communism.
Everything that I’ve written here is fact. There are no suppositions, or
speculations, or even theories. This all happened. It’s all recorded
fact. The thing is, no one really wants to take a look at these facts
and see them for what they are; a plan. This plan has been carried out
for just a very short period of time. In your mind you might see the
year 1900 and think “wow, that’s a long time ago,” but the truth is, it
isn’t. It’s actually a very short period of time. It’s really only
three, or four generations. Your great grandfather probably lived
sometime around 1900. If not him, then your father’s father’s father
certainly did. Passing an idea down through two, or three generations is
not difficult to do.
So, where am I going with this? Simple; when the mark of the beast
comes, it will come as a result of the efforts of Harry Ward, et. al. It
will come because people will ask for it, clamor for it, desire it
above anything else. It will be the culmination of an effort to provide
economic justice and social equity among all people. It will be the
answer to kidnapping and slavery and child predators. It will be the end
to identity theft and electronic fraud. It will be the final solution
to illegal immigration and unfair prosecution. It will give you the
ability to be uniquely identified with your possessions, eliminating
theft and ensuring prosecution for abuses as simple as overdue library
books or as heinous as murder.
People are already worshiping government as the answer to all forms of
social ills. The church itself is helping to promote this unique form of
idolatry. The efforts of just over a hundred years are about to be
rewarded. Barak Obama is the figurehead, the hood ornament, of an
organized ideological group of people who believe – truly believe – in a
New World Order; a world without borders, united in the cause of social
equity and justice, ruled by Marxist ideals. If you think this is all
just conspiracy theory, you haven’t been paying attention to reality:
“Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is
the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston
Churchill, a “world order” in which “the principles of justice and fair
play … protect the weak against the strong …” A world where the United
Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the
historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect
for human rights find a home among all nations.” – George H.W. Bush
March 6, 1991
What is the United Nations original intent?
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and
worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of
nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the
obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law
can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of
methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common
interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE
AIMS Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives
assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full
powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present
Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international
organization to be known as the United Nations.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the New World Order.
As I, make available this valuable information, it will be followed by fact-check banned. As I have stated before and will reinstate, I don't take issues with those who are vaccinated or find comfort in taking the jab. But you the consumer have the right to be informed through the proper channels and consent.
The coercion to vaccinate was subtle and very manipulative...in other words "No child left behind". Countless of the conscience persuasion were blackmailed with lost of jobs, careers and professions...Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Judges, First-responders and even Christians, who know better. But peering into the whole spectrum of options many conceded, just to be re-ignited with the truth.
Robet W Malone MD
" On a personal note, I wish to speak to you as a parent, grandparent, physician and scientist. I stand by this statement with a career dedicated to vaccine research and development. I’m vaccinated for COVID and I'm generally pro-vaccination. I have devoted my entire career to developing safe and effective ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases."
It is a heavy burden to speak the truth, but not heavy enough to separate me from it. The countless attempts have been futile and much counter-productive, even if it means death, let it be honorable, for this I have been called.
Just
look at the earth symbolically as the human cell (DNA) it's round and
encapsulated..but the human cell is being edited beyond our
understanding, engineered to suit the death for profit mind-set !
For Christians who do not wish to participate in the vaccination
process due to religious beliefs, as well as the use of genetic
engineering can look to Leviticus 19:19 for guidance. "Thou
shalt not let they cattle gender with a diverse kind: though shalt
not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled
of linen and woolen come upon thee."
If Christians
believe that injecting unknown substances into their bodies or the
bodies of their children poses health risks, they can read 1
Corinthians 6:19-20. "The temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. For ye are bought
with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's."
How should we as Christian respond to genetic manipulation of humans?
First, we need to consider that scientists are conducting their
gene-editing experiments on human embryos. Thus, human beings die in
order to conduct these experiments. As Christians, we must condemn any
destruction of human life, whether through abortion or scientific
experimentation. For example, a cloning experiment on human embryos to
develop embryonic stem cells “[involved] creating and then destroying
human embryos for research purposes” (Stein). Such experiments are
clearly immoral since they involve murdering human lives.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for
you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the
blood that makes atonement by the life.
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed
with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of
seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of
material.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were
bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that
they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired
hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf
coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and
scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing
for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know
me, ...
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit
dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him.
For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will
of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
“We urge your government to fund the development of vaccines
that do not create an ethical dilemma for many Canadians,” wrote
Archbishop of Winnipeg Richard Gagnon, president of the Canadian
Conference of Catholic Bishops, and 17 other antiabortion religious,
medical, and politic groups and individuals in a 21
May letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “The …
manufacture of vaccines using such ethically-tainted human cell lines
demonstrates profound disrespect for the dignity of the human
person.”
Cells derived from elective abortions have been used since the
1960s to manufacture vaccines, including current vaccines against
rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, and shingles. They have also been
used to make approved drugs against diseases including hemophilia,
rheumatoid arthritis, and cystic fibrosis. Now, research groups
around the world are working to develop more than 130 candidate
vaccines against COVID-19, according to the World Health
Organization; 10 had entered human trials as of 2 June.
At least five of the candidate COVID-19 vaccines use one of two
human fetal cell lines: HEK-293, a kidney cell line widely used in
research and industry that comes from a fetus aborted in about 1972;
and PER.C6, a proprietary cell line owned by Janssen, a subsidiary of
Johnson & Johnson, developed from retinal cells from an
18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985. Both cell lines were developed in
the lab of molecular biologist Alex van der Eb at Leiden University.
Two of the five vaccines have entered human trials (see table,
below).
Today, more than 23 vaccines are contaminated by the use of aborted fetal cells.
There is no law that requires that consumers be informed that some
vaccines are made using aborted fetal cells and contain residual aborted
fetal DNA called Human Diploid Tissue. They do not identify the cells
as being derived from electively aborted human fetuses.
Fact: The vaccine manufacturers and the abortion industry have been
working together since the 1960s using aborted baby tissue to develop
vaccines on. This tissue is often referred to as Human Diploid Tissue in
the literature. Many other vaccines are contaminated with animal
viruses that are foreign to the human body and can cause serious health
problems.
I have stopped agreeing the day true light stepped into my soul, this has been the guiding and sobering experience with its many uncharted courses, and mind bending expose. I have disowned the self as in selfishness in order to remain that friction to the opposing tents. The task has been no easy journey, but there is no price for the freedom is has bestowed. No tunnel vision has ever ruled, and my words of action... a testimony to countless witnesses of such ordination.
The
universal/universe is constantly expanding, always
renewing,incredibility awesome, fear inspiring, as for the Holy spirit,
the life source is never stagnant, if a tiny faith can move mountains,
image what it can accomplish at it's best ?
You devout seeker's praise
Him in his majestic and grandeur, exploit out his intimacy, make it
personal, in all revelations. From a stand still and deep freeze, all
these commotions, mind bending schemes, invokes inspiration at the core,
center nerve of acute feelings.
"The black hole and the womb, are certainly identical." The gravitational pulls massive amount of stars and space matter. The womb in the same identical function pulls life giving energy, in turn a continuous renewal of life. These physical feats of phenomenal intrigues can only excite greater emotion to the poet, and enhance the wisdom to the philosopher.
"The miracle of life in the womb, The miracle of light (infinite energy) in the celestial cosmos"."The black hole and the womb, are certainly identical."
Rafael G Gonzalez
JOB
38 Then God/YHWH answered Job out of the windstorm: 2 “Who is this who is obscuring my counsel And speaking without knowledge? 3 Brace yourself, please, like a man; I will question you, and you inform me. 4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you think you understand. 5 Who set its measurements, in case you know, Or who stretched a measuring line across it? 6 Into what were its pedestals sunk, Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 When the morning stars joyfully cried out together, And all the sons of God* began shouting in applause? 8 And who barricaded the sea behind doors When it burst out from the womb, 9 When I clothed it with clouds And wrapped* it in thick gloom, 10 When I established my limit for it And put its bars and doors in place, 11 And I said, ‘You may come this far, and no farther; Here is where your proud waves will stop’? 12 Have you ever* commanded the morning Or made the dawn know its place, 13 To take hold of the ends of the earth And to shake the wicked out of it? 14 It is transformed like clay under a seal, And its features stand out like those of a garment. 15 But the light of the wicked is held back from them, And their uplifted arm is broken. 16 Have you gone down to the sources of the sea Or explored the deep waters? 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?* 18 Have you understood the vast expanse of the earth?
The
bronze sculpture is
a reduced version of Vuchetich’s most famous work which was given
by Krushchev to the United Nations in 1959 as a gesture of peace.
It remains there today in the North Garden at the UN headquarters in
New York overlooking the East River. Along the statue reads, this
prophetic scripture from the book of Isaiah 2:4 ---"He will settle
disputes among the nations and provide arbitration for
many peoples. They will turn their swords into plows and their spears
into pruning knives. Nations will not take up the sword against other
nations, and they will never again train for war." (Holman Christian
Standard Bible)
"Why
it (NATO) still exists in modern times, is just not clear. It is to a
significant extent a throwback to the times of the Cold War," Putin
said.
"I
have always believed that NATO is a Cold War atavism. It was set up at a
time, when there was a bipolar system in international relations.
Today, that situation has changed therefore, it is hard to understand or
justify why an organization such as NATO should be existing today,” the
president added.
UN Relic Symbol
World Government—Is the United Nations the Answer?
IN
RECENT years the United Nations has won renewed confidence and
admiration in the world. To millions the abbreviation “UN” evokes heroic
images: troops in blue berets bravely rushing to the world’s trouble
spots to establish peace, relief workers bringing food to the starving
refugees of Africa, and dedicated men and women working unselfishly to
establish a new world order.
According
to a nine-month investigation undertaken by The Washington Post, as
reported in the International Herald Tribune, the reality behind the
image is “an enormous, largely uncontrolled bureaucracy, subject to
abuses and deficiencies that impair its effectiveness.” The study, based
on thousands of pages of documents and interviews with current and
former UN officials, revealed the following picture.
Aid
to Africa: The UN has poured billions of dollars of badly needed aid
into Africa, a continent wracked by war, famine, poverty, and disease.
Countless lives have been saved.
Yet,
thousands of lives and millions of dollars have also been lost because
of mismanagement, negligence, and, at times, corruption. The UN has
pumped relief aid into famine-stricken Somalia, where many people have
been dying each day. But Aryeh Neier, executive director of the Human
Rights Watch, is quoted in the Tribune as saying: “The United Nations
and its various organizations have been so monstrously negligent and
incompetent that they have played almost no role at all in alleviating
Somalia’s misery.”
The
report also charged that some UN officials have been implicated in
diversions of food aid, embezzlement of humanitarian assistance,
fraudulent procurement, black-marketing, and currency-exchange
manipulation. UN investigators found evidence of such fraud in no fewer
than seven African countries.
#Worldpeace
The
chief in peace leads the procession claiming 2018...the year of
peace. It's not the Pope this time making such bold statement, it's
the Chief of the UN. As you can see both heads are confused of who is
the symbolic deity of globe peace. The symbolic gesture is an ongoing
symbiotic psychosis, in which neither one can separate from the
events.
Peacekeeping:
Keeping the peace is a primary goal of the UN, though in the years
since its founding in 1945, there have been over a hundred major
conflicts, and 20 million people have been killed in war. Since 1987,
however, the UN has embarked upon 13 peacekeeping operations, as many as
in its entire history before then.
While
some might argue that the cost of these operations is preferable to the
terrible price of war, many complain that things have gone too far. For
example, peacekeeping operations drag on for decades, eating up
hundreds of millions of dollars while negotiations remain deadlocked.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia allocates more than $1 million
for TV sets and VCRs for the troops and another $600,000 for magazine
and newspaper subscriptions.
Reform:
There are widespread cries for reform within the UN, but opinions vary
as to what needs to be reformed. Developing countries are calling for a
greater voice in the decision-making process and would like to expand
economic and social programs. Industrialized nations want to cut back on
these programs and end corruption, mismanagement, and waste.
Said a senior UN official: “To really reform, you have to do something that is absolutely undo-able in
a bureaucracy: You have to clean the place out. To do something
meaningful, you have to scrape away 45 years of barnacles, and that’s a
lot of barnacles.”
“THE
cross,” says one encyclopedia, “is the most familiar symbol of
Christianity.” Many religious paintings and works of art depict Jesus
nailed to a cross. Why is this symbol so widespread in Christendom? Did
Jesus really die on a cross? Many
would point to the Bible for the answer. For example, according to the
King James Version, at the time of Jesus’ execution, onlookers made fun
of Jesus and challenged him to “come down from the cross.” (Matthew
27:40, 42) Many other Bible translations read similarly. Today’s English
Version says of Simon from Cyrene: “The soldiers forced him to carry
Jesus’ cross.” (Mark 15:21) In these verses, the word “cross” is
translated from the Greek word stauros′. Is there a solid basis for such
a translation? What is the meaning of that original word? Was It a Cross?
According
to Greek scholar W. E. Vine, stauros′ “denotes, primarily, an upright
pale or stake. On such malefactors were nailed for execution. Both the
noun and the verb stauroō, to fasten to a stake or pale, are originally
to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross.” +Gunnar Samuelsson
The
Imperial Bible-Dictionary says that the word stauros′ “properly
signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which
anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling a piece of
ground.” The dictionary continues: “Even amongst the Romans the crux
(Latin, from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally
an upright pole.” Thus, it is not surprising that The Catholic
Encyclopedia states: “Certain it is, at any rate, that the cross
originally consisted of a simple vertical pole, sharpened at its upper
end.” There
is another Greek word, xy′lon, that Bible writers used to describe the
instrument of Jesus’ execution. A Critical Lexicon and Concordance to
the English and Greek New Testament defines xy′lon as “a piece of
timber, a wooden stake.” It goes on to say that like stauros′, xy′lon
“was simply an upright pale or stake to which the Romans nailed those
who were thus said to be crucified.”
In
line with this, we note that the King James Version reads at Acts 5:30:
“The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a
tree [xy′lon].” Other versions, though rendering stauros′ as “cross,”
also translate xy′lon as “tree.” At Acts 13:29, The Jerusalem Bible says
of Jesus: “When they had carried out everything that scripture
foretells about him they took him down from the tree [xy′lon] and buried
him.” In
view of the basic meaning of the Greek words stauros′ and xy′lon, the
Critical Lexicon and Concordance, quoted above, observes: “Both words
disagree with the modern idea of a cross, with which we have become
familiarised by pictures.” In other words, what the Gospel writers
described using the word stauros′ was nothing like what people today
call a cross. Appropriately, therefore, the New World Translation of the
Holy Scriptures uses the expression “torture stake” at Matthew 27:40-42
and in other places where the word stauros′ appears. Similarly, the
Complete Jewish Bible uses the expression “execution stake.” Origin of the Cross If
the Bible does not really say that Jesus was executed on a cross, then
why do all the churches that claim to teach and follow the
Bible—Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox—adorn their buildings with the
cross and use it as a symbol of their faith? How did the cross come to
be such a popular symbol?
The
answer is that the cross is venerated not only by churchgoers who claim
to follow the Bible but also by people far removed from the Bible and
whose worship far pre-dates that of “Christian” churches. Numerous
religious reference works acknowledge that the use of crosses in various
shapes and forms goes back to remote periods of human civilization. For
example, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and depictions of their gods
and goddesses often show a cross in the shape of a T with a circle at
the top. It is called the ansate, or handle-shaped, cross and is thought
to be a symbol of life. In time, this form of the cross was adopted and
used extensively by the Coptic Church and others. According
to The Catholic Encyclopedia, “the primitive form of the cross seems to
have been that of the so-called ‘gamma’ cross (crux gammata), better
known to Orientalists and students of prehistoric archæology by its
Sanskrit name, swastika.” This sign was widely used among Hindus in
India and Buddhists throughout Asia and is still seen in decorations and
ornaments in those areas.
It
is not known exactly when the cross was adopted as a “Christian”
symbol. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words states: “By
the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from,
or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to
increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were
received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were
permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols,” including
the cross. Some
writers point to the claim by the sun-god worshipper Constantine that
in 312 C.E., while on one of his military campaigns, he had a vision of a
cross superimposed on the sun along with the motto in Latin “in hoc
vince” (by this conquer). Some time later, a “Christian” sign was
emblazoned on the standards, shields, and armor of his army. (Pictured
at left.) Constantine purportedly converted to Christianity, though he
was not baptized until 25 years later on his deathbed. His motive was
questioned by some. “He acted rather as if he were converting
Christianity into what he thought most likely to be accepted by his
subjects as a catholic [universal] religion, than as if he had been
converted to the teachings of Jesus the Nazarene,” says the book The
Non-Christian Cross. Since
then, crosses of many forms and shapes have come into use. For example,
The Illustrated Bible Dictionary tells us that what is called St.
Anthony’s cross “was shaped like a capital T, thought by some to be
derived from the symbol of the [Babylonian] god Tammuz, the letter tau.”
There was also the St. Andrew’s cross, which is in the shape of the
letter X, and the familiar two-beamed cross with the crossbar lowered.
This latter type, called the Latin cross, is erroneously “held by
tradition to be the shape of the cross on which our Lord died.” What First-Century Christians Believed The
Bible shows that in the first century, many who heard Jesus became
believers and accepted the redeeming value of his sacrificial death.
After the apostle Paul preached to the Jews in Corinth, proving that
Jesus is the Christ, says the Bible, “Crispus the presiding officer of
the synagogue became a believer in the Lord, and so did all his
household. And many of the Corinthians that heard began to believe and
be baptized.” (Acts 18:5-8) Instead of introducing some religious symbol
or image into their worship, Paul instructed his fellow Christians to
“flee from idolatry” and from any other practice drawn from pagan
worship.—1 Corinthians 10:14. Historians
and researchers have found no evidence to validate the use of the cross
among the early Christians. Interestingly, the book History of the
Cross quotes one late 17th-century writer who asked: “Can it be pleasing
to the blessed Jesus to behold His disciples glorying in the image of
that instrument of capital punishment on which He [supposedly] patiently
and innocently suffered, despising the shame?” How would you answer? Worship
acceptable to God does not require objects or images. “What agreement
does God’s temple have with idols?” Paul asked. (2 Corinthians 6:14-16)
Nowhere do the Scriptures suggest that a Christian’s worship should
include the use of a likeness of the instrument used to impale
Jesus.—Compare Matthew 15:3; Mark 7:13. What,
then, is the identifying mark of true Christians? Not the cross or any
other symbol, but love. Jesus told his followers: “I am giving you a new
commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that
you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love among yourselves.”—John 13:34, 35.
Whether one realize it or not, being pick out of the masses, from the vast numbers of the global population is an exceptional wake-up call. The Almighty Divine is pure energy...we in turn are also energy. From a finger nail to a single strand of hair follicle. With that said, the selection is not by chance, the higher power to which we were created seeks out what belongs to it. Is like frequencies in the stock pile missing within itself, in order to remain fine-tuned what it attracts is in harmony with superlative Divine guidance.
In other words you are the missing link, I'm speaking about a heavenly father, an eternal spiritual being, an ancient King...with attributes similar to the potter's vessel. The attributes are very well defined in form of expression...LOVE, COMPASSION,KINDNESS,PATIENCE,JOY,PEACE,JUSTICE and a host of others which I fall short.
Yet your frequencies, vibrations and fine tuning create bridges, channel's to which their consistency correlate with those calls. Now through a selection, their is an invitation...I won't go into scriptures, my audience are above average, if not they would have abandon me long ago.
His hand is stretched open, his desire well manifested, this power is yearning to reunited with those outer bands of his own energy (Core) power plant. The King shall not be denied, the Holy spirit shall not be made contrite, and if some or many stumble crossing the bridge, remember your call !
Let your fight not be in vain, be self evident that together you will overcome, the greatest battles yet to come, at the end the outer bands shall be draft back to their original place and we shall join those superlative energies.
At times, our own light goes out and it is rekindled by a spark from another person...
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ...
Gratitude turns what we have into enough. ...
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.
There are times expressing my deepest affections consumes me, thanks to all who have visited and share this blog. It has received a charitable amount of attention, but I just wish those inquisitive minds would exchange a few words and comments. The social web has some very great talents, and thou my writings share a common trend, I shrink not in expressing freely...and it should not be taken on a personal basis. It is me to you and vise verse, if I could only engage that audience.
My gratitude to all the nations/countries who made this blog a place to reflect,reason and carrying on.
USA: Much love to you ! Israel: Much love to you ! Ukraine: Much love to you ! Russia: Certainly much love to you ! Brazil: Much love to you ! United Kingdom: Much love to you ! France: Much love to you ! China: Much love to you ! Canada: Much love to you ! Germany : Much love to you ! Indonesia : Much love to you ! You have been very Generous ! Thank you, the people are to kind for the better. Sweden: Much love to you ! Japan: Much love to you ! Norway: Much love to you ! Ireland: Much love to you ! Philippines: Much love to you ! Netherlands: Much love to you ! Puerto Rico: Much love to you !
Just to mention a few, but the list is very charitable, I encourage all to continue sharing and dialogue and if for any reason one hits the right notes, do message me...we can work something out. I read them at public gatherings, looking forward to do some more gigs in New York, the poets cafe, and here in Memphis, Nashville, TN.
“Beyond
the bounds of organized Christianity, there is an increasing
consciousness concerning the social results of the teaching of Jesus. It
is significant that the leaders of that wing of the working class
movement which is in sharpest antagonism to the existing world order,
increasingly claim him as their leader. As they become aware of the
necessity of changing the nature as well as the form of social
organization, they look in his direction. One of their journals recently
declared that Jesus was the greatest champion of the revolutionary
proletariat the world has ever seen. This is no technical attempt by
proof texts to make Jesus the protagonist for particular dogmas or
measures. It is, rather, an instinctive affinity of spirit and of aim.
It is an appreciation of the fact that his demand for righteousness and
justice and brotherhood must result in the making of a better world.
There is no complete perception of the nature and consequences of His
teaching, but there is a sense of their general drift and direction.
