Archive for January, 2013

The 5th Commandment

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Exodus 20:5  “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.”

As each year passes I gain a greater appreciation for what my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc. went through to get us to this point in history.  Each generation should build on what the previous generation elevates us to.  To deny previous generations’ successes and failures is to assure yourself of making the same mistakes they did.  From the standpoint that GOD is Love, our parents were selected to bring us forth into this world at the precise location and time of our birth.  We were not a mistake, accident, or an unexpected arrival in the universe.  Our gifts and calling were and are part of the mosaic Our Heavenly Father has created for this universe.  The only issue we have is obtaining the revelation of what, when, where, why, and how to complete our calling.

We should appreciate everyone who has come before us.  In the biggest of pictures, they have been necessary in the progression of Our Heavenly Father’s Plan.  Each calling and set of gifts were needed as part of the overall process to take us through to the next level of manifestation.  When you reject their contribution, even if it appears to be one of dishonor, you compromise the fullness of Our Heavenly Father’s Plan in your own life.  We should embrace our past, understand from it, and then move forward to a higher level of wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and skill.

Our food and water today is generally of higher quality and standards than what was available 100 years ago.  The struggles that previous generations endured have allowed us to reap the rewards of progress.  Love has been the motivator of true progress in the procession of life.  We should acknowledge and appreciate what those before us have contributed.  There are those things of the past that need corrected but without the past you would have nothing to rectify.  Those enduring qualities should provide a foundation on which to build.  Failure to build on the qualities will only insure that you will repeat the mistakes they made and thus reinvent the wheel again.

Living and working together creates a synergy greater than the sum of the parts.  Embracing past generations and studying their history will minimize your unproductiveness.  You will gain perspective on not only what to do, but what not to do.  Hindsight is 20-20 and so we should not be critical of the mistakes our parents or others made in history.  Our Heavenly Father did not put them on earth by mistake either.  If you deny your parents, you have promoted division in your life.  This division is by nature a path of exhaustion, death, and destruction.  By forgiving your parents of any wrongdoing, you promote unity and as a result you are promoting long life and the abundance and blessing of Love.

The Big Picture of how to steal wealth

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Let’s say you have access to power and authority under the current system.  You also have a considerable amount of wealth yourself or access to wealth.  This is a two phase process.

First, you initiate a fiat currency system in society and everyone is convinced that this system is workable and they accept the currency as a medium of trade.  You begin your process by implementing this system in society.  For a few years all is well and the currency is accepted in commerce.  Now you begin to print more and more currency so you can buy up hard assets.  This is debasing the currency to benefit your plan.  The sellers willingly sell to you because of their confidence in the currency.  You pay for their assets with worthless paper, only valued by perception.  Once you have bought up their assets, you now need to protect yourself from losing those assets by someone else with more of the fiat currency.  It is now time to change the rules and convert to a sound currency.

You revert back to a gold-backed system of payments and only those who have gold can buy assets back.  Since you have been acquiring gold with fiat currency, you can protect yourself from others attempting to take your assets from you with your low cost gold.  Those left holding the fiat currency end up with nothing but memories.  What a plan!

The 4th Commandment

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Exodus 20:

8  “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9  Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10  but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

11  For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”   NKJV

The Sabbath is the day of Grace where all rest.  There are many facets to these Commandments and I prefer to view them from a standpoint of Love.  Man’s soul and body needs rest to maintain harmony.  People become emotionally drained when they don’t have the opportunity to rest from their work.  Rest provides the soul and the body an opportunity to recover, rebuild, restore, and be nourished after six days of work.  In HIS Wisdom, Our Heavenly Father created six days and then rested from HIS work.  Each week we should contemplate all the HE did and also look forward to that millennium of rest.  No matter what your station in life, you should be given equal opportunity to rest.  HE dedicated, consecrated, that day to be kept as a Holy day.

Is it Saturday or Sunday?  It really doesn’t matter as long enough people are in unity in the observance.  The restaurant chain Chick-fil-a observes the Sabbath and they continue to be profitable.  The Hobby Lobby chain does the same.  The owner is listed among the wealthiest in the country.  The point is that we need to rest and honor Our Heavenly Father in a focused manner weekly.  Our focus should be undivided, away from the workplace.  This Commandment is another example of the restoration and unity theme in Scripture.

This day restores us to wholeness.  As we contemplate our relationship with Our Heavenly Father, we exalt HIS Love for us and this brings forth peace and joy.  As we rest from our labors, we are revitalized.  We need this interval of rest to keep this awareness.  By respecting this day of rest, you demonstrate your reverence to Our Heavenly Father for it is HIM who brings forth blessings to your life.  Why not honor HIM each week by respecting the Sabbath!

The current economic system has slowly compromised this day of rest by forcing workers to lose their opportunity to celebrate their relationship with Our Heavenly Father.  They fail to understand what the above two companies realized: they are just as profitable being open six days as they would be if they were open all seven.  Greed as perpetuated the lawlessness by breaking this Sacred Commandment.  When you fail to acknowledge and celebrate your relationship with Our Heavenly Father, you become lukewarm.  There will be repercussions.  After all, Our Heavenly Father give us the power to get wealth.  HE can do it in six days instead of seven.

Honest Money in 2013

Monday, January 14th, 2013

In 2012 gold only went up 7% in price.  We could only wish all investments could achieve the same return on investment (ROI).  Gold is honest money held in order to protect investors from the destruction of paper money.  Central Banks continue to destroy value of paper money and now hold $15 Trillion in paper money on the balance sheets.  Most of the growth of their balance sheets has occurred since 2007.  On the other hand, China continues its plan to acquire gold so that it can create its own reserve currency.  This multiyear plan has been consistently importing large quantities of gold.  The Western governments have obliged by suppressing the price of gold thus creating a large transfer of wealth to the Eastern Kings.

The U.S. debt now reported to be about $70 Trillion (including unfunded liabilities) has interest payments of approximately $1 Billion per day.  If interest rates went up from the current 2% to 5%, a normal rate, in ten years the U.S. Debt would grow from $16 Trillion to $40 Trillion (excluding unfunded liabilities).  Interest alone would be over $1 Trillion per year.  You can see why compounded interest is the “8th wonder of the world”.  This scenario assumes that the U.S. will not add other debt.  What are the chances?

The U.S. Government accounts for 40% of the economy and growing.  In Europe, the number is 60%.  The implementation of the Basel III accord (Banking guidelines) has been postponed until 2019.  This means that the banks cannot survive compliance of prudent reserve requirements.  Their toxic investments still reside on their balance sheets.  Central Banks continue to suppress interest rates so that commercial banks can attempt to generate enough profits to offset the worthless assets being used to prop up their reserve requirements.  This transfers wealth from the average person to the banks by way of cheap rates for their money.  Massive amounts of wealth are being transferred everywhere!

Which would you rather accumulate: honest money or dishonest money?  The Law of equal weights and measures demands honest money.  The current system has endorsed dishonest money.  Which will Our Heavenly Father back?

The 3rd Commandment

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Exodus 20:7 ​​“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.  NKJV

The word “vain” means:

1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood

a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity

b) emptiness of speech, lying

c) worthlessness (of conduct)

GOD is Love thus Love is the name of GOD.  This Love in action is the basis of life.  To degrade the very foundation of all existence is a dishonor to Our Heavenly Father.  When you take HIS Name in vain, you misrepresent the source of all life to yourself and anyone who hears the impact of your own vanity.  Your own unbelief becomes reinforced and you move further away from the power of life.  The path of vanity leads to death and destruction.  You promote dishonesty and become a victim to dishonest people.  Your dishonesty migrates to your intent which becomes action.  Your ego then justifies your dishonesty by lying, cheating and stealing from others.  You will by guilty of sin and lawlessness and your victims will demand restitution.  Your vain attempts to maneuver out of these situations will only move you deeper into judgment.  Your acts of unrighteousness act as a garment covering you with unacceptable “wedding” attire.  You become a vessel of dishonor (Romans 9:21) and are removed from the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:11).

As you walk in reverence to the name of the LORD your God, you strengthen and embrace your connection to the Source of Life- Our Heavenly Father.  The flow of life will support your progress rather than block your attempts to succeed in your endeavors.

Video on the power of Love

Sunday, January 13th, 2013

 

My good friend Joe sent this 15 minute video link that shows the power of Love:

http://www.ted.com/talks/israel_and_iran_a_love_story.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-01-04&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

You might want to watch it before our Bible study today at 3PM.

The 2nd Commandment

Friday, January 11th, 2013

Exodus 20:4  “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.  For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”  NKJV

This Commandment deals with man’s tendency towards a counterfeit reality.  Man’s ego wants to think that one can comprehend the fullness of Our Heavenly Father and put HIM inside a box.  If the ego can limit Our Heavenly Father in any way then man thinks he can control the outcome.  In a few short days after having been given the Ten Commandments, the children of Israel had already seen fit to break this Commandment:

Exodus 32: 1 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Here we have an interesting picture in the progression of Exodus:

In Exodus 20:  Moses is given the Ten Commandments and all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking.

In Exodus 21-22: Various Laws are given.

In Exodus 23:  The three annual feasts are established.  The Angel Peniel was given the assignment to lead them to the Promised Land (but in Exodus 33:2-4 Peniel was replaced by Michael).

In Exodus 24:  The seventy elders had partially ascended up the mountain and had seen the majesty of Our Heavenly Father. “10 and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. 11 But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.”

In Exodus 25-28:  The instructions concerning the Tabernacle and its contents were given.

In Exodus 29:   Aaron and his sons were consecrated for the ministry of the priesthood.

In Exodus 30:   Instructions concerning the Altar of Incense, the ransom money, the Bronze Laver, the Holy Anointing Oil, and the Incense were given.

In Exodus 31:  Artisans were selected to build the Temple and its contents.  The Sabbath Law was given.

Now, the 2nd Commandment was broken in Exodus 32.  That didn’t take long.  People have a need to place their trust in someone or something.  Deep down, they know that there is a greater power than what they possess.  Our Heavenly Father made it quite clear that there are no other gods and that HE is the Almighty.  Our ego wants to exalt itself above Our Heavenly Father just as the devil wants to exalt himself above Our Heavenly Father.  The moment you create a counterfeit god, you create division between yourself and Our Heavenly Father.  Your power and authority are lost and death and destruction take over.

Creating a god is man’s attempt to define the undefinable.  Our Heavenly Father IS the Creator and HE defined all.  HE is Divine and any attempt to assign divinity to the created is the ultimate deception.  To serve anything, whether a carved image, a doctrine, a concept, a substance, is a move away from reality.  When you assign power to false authority, you will become depleted of Love and ultimately your fruit or lack thereof will be the result.  The 2nd Commandment was given to alert us of the potential of serving a counterfeit reality.

The 1st Commandment

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Exodus 20:3   Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

The first Commandment denotes unity.  There is only one GOD, one Creator, and one Heavenly Father.  All else is of the created realm.  Multiple gods create an environment of division thus a house divided against itself will fall.  Love created everything and is held together by unity.  As you embrace the unity of Love you will be empowered in life.  Failure to embrace Love will cause you to be divided and will move you toward lack, depletion, scarcity, death, and destruction.  As you embrace the unity of your relationship with Our Heavenly Father, life will abound.  When tempted by the devil, Jesus responded:

Matthew 4:4   But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Jesus responded with the same Word given to the children of Israel while in the wilderness.  “My Father and I are one” is a statement of unity.  “As HE is so are we” is another statement of unity.  As we align ourselves with the ONE SOURCE in all of creation, we move toward life.

Deuteronomy 8:

1 “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.

2 And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

This Commandment of Unity was first for a specific reason.  Without this foundation we would not be able to keep any other commandment or statute.  Unity is the basis of Love and our pursuit of the fullness of unity will evoke life and health to us and those around us.  Love produces intent.  Divine Intent created and framed the universe.  This Intent created potential, the basis of hope.  As hope moves toward the consciousness of the individual, faith is given direction.  As this direction is guided by Love, life is produced and life and the living is what it is all about!

1 Corinthians 13:13    And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love.

Being a Doer

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

In one of our recent Bible studies, we discussed in detail those who were dressed in proper attire in the Parable of the Wedding Feast and how it is tied to Revelations 19:8: “And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.”  In Romans, Paul also emphasizes the need to do righteous acts:

Romans 2:13   for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;

Jesus told us in Matthew 22:

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

If the essence of the Law is Love, then we should be a doer of Love.

In John 13:34, Jesus said: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”  He went on to say “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

Isn’t the essence of being a Christian to pursue the fullness of being a disciple of Jesus?  We must then be a doer of Love and not a hearer only.  How simple does it really get!  Expressions or acts of Love promote our callings as disciples, followers, overcomers of Christ.  As we fulfill these words Our Heavenly Father will empower us to be in command of resources necessary to bring forth fruit.  If your Love for Our Heavenly Father is with ALL of your heart, ALL of your soul, and ALL of your mind, then you will desire to be a doer of the Law, not a hearer only.

A Story on Bees

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

This email was forwarded to me:


Subject:
bees sting horses to death in Tasmania

Dear Friends,

In the Tasmanian News paper ‘The Advocate’ of the 2nd of January, it was reported that 2 horses were killed by a swarm of bees while a third horse was put down by a Vet. It is very, very rare indeed that a swarm of bees attack, and it is almost unheard of that normal honey bees sting to death. Yet, this event has happened here in Tasmania and was published in the beginning of 2013 the ‘Year to Love’.

Why is this event significant? Because the year 2013 is the year of unification, or the ‘Year to Love’, and the word ‘Bee’ means: ‘The Spoken Word’ or more precisely:‘The Pathway Into Revealed by the Highest’ . Horses are symbolic for our ‘flesh nature’. Thus, as the Bees stung the Horses to death, the ‘Word killed the Flesh’, that‘Through Death the Pathway Into is Revealed by the Highest’…. And… as 2 Horses signify our ‘flesh separation’ from our Father, we will become unified with Him in… Love.

What a wonderful start for this year 2013, the ‘Year to Love’.

Kind regards, Henk

 

I don’t know Hank but it appears that our Bible study is being independently confirmed in Tasmania as well!