Good morning bus riders!
Welcome to the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today we are continuing to find lessons presented that speak of the duality. This is the choice that must be made to gain Salvation.
The duality that I see is that between belief and faith; and, there is a duality in each of those positions towards religion.
It can be commonly heard (by Baptist ministers) that the Rapture is coming; and, the impression is given that a select group of Christians will be floating up in the sky, while Jesus comes on his white horse to destroy all the sinners left behind on earth.
Have you heard that belief before?
<Look for nodding heads.>
Well, that is a false concept drawn from misinterpreting the words of holy Scripture. The Rapture has to be seen as an individual event, personal to each sou, when that soul marries Yahweh and has an outpouring of His Spirit wash away all tat individual’s past sins.
This is the floating away, when Jesus comes down … into one’s soul to fight against sin for that individual soul.
Does that make sense to you?
<Look for quizzical faces.>
Well, let me tell you a short story about an individual who confessed to experiencing a personal Rapture.
A nun in Avila, Spain, named Teresa, was most devout and often in deep, spiritual prayer. There were times when the other nuns would gather to eat dinner and Teresa would not be there; so, they would send someone to her room to fetch her.
When they arrived they witnessed Teresa floating about the ceiling in a spiritual trance.
On one occasion, Teresa reported that an angel came to her, holing a golden spear. The angel then pierced her heart with that spear and Teresa had a most ecstatic event occur, greater than any physical emotions were possible.
Centuries later, an Italian sculptor would make a bronze statue of Teresa, the radiating effects of her Rapture, and an angel piercing her heart with a golden spear. The sculpture is called “The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.”
Now, when Teresa died, she was buried in Avila in a common grave or crypt. Many kept talking about the things witnessed involving her; so, there was a movement to declare her a saint. When Rome made that designation (about 150 years later), they sent a team to exhume her corpse, so they could bury it in a more respectable place.
When they uncovered Teresa’s body, it was as if she were merely sleeping, with no signs of deterioration in her flesh. In fact, her body smelled of roses.
After they reburied her, there was more talk about exhuming her body once more, to move it to Saint Peter’s Cathedral, where the bodies of other saints were held. Again, her body had not deteriorated in any way and still smelled of roses.
When her body arrived in Rome, it was practice to remove body organs and deem them holy relics, which could then go on tour of Christendom, where the faithful would line up and pay money to see these holy relics. When they removed the heart from Teresa’s chest, it not only was in pristine condition, but it had a perfect hole right through the middle of it, as if it had indeed been pierced by a spear.
I tell you this story because waiting for the end of the world and counting on a Rapture to make your soul float away to heaven is missing the point of your soul being called to be like Saint Teresa of Avila and experience a Rapture that is the receipt of Yahweh’s Spirit … the presence that makes one become a saint.
Thus, when we read about the prophets that Yahweh would call, sending His word to them – as today in Jeremiah – all those prophets had experienced a Rapture. They were totally enthralled by the presence of Yahweh’s Spirit and the resurrection of His Son’s soul within theirs. All of their hearts had been pierced by a golden spear held by the angel Jesus.
In the selection read from Jeremiah, it appears that Yahweh came into Jeremiah’s room and said, “Wake up and run down to the potter’s house. I’ll meet you there. I want to tell you something.”
That is a misinterpretation of the Scripture written and it projects how easy it is to thing the Rapture is some mystical physical even. It is not. All Scripture is focused on communicating spiritually.
This means the words written actually are Yahweh speaking to the soul of Jeremiah, telling his soul to leave his body and astral project (or something like that) to a most distant time, when Yahweh’s angels – the elohim – were doing His work of Creation. Yahweh took the soul of Jeremiah back to when mankind had been placed on the ‘potter’s wheel’ and was being “fashioned” or “formed” as Yahweh ordered.
Some of the elohim of Creation went against Yahweh’s orders to help mankind; and, they intermingled with them, turning out many monstrous variations. Yahweh wanted the soul of Jeremiah to see how Yahweh squashed that wet clay in the ‘hands’ of those elohim, by sending a Great Flood to say, “Start again.”
This is how Yahweh is the potter, where the Hebrew word translated as that means “fashioner” or “former.” Just like a potter sees a flaw forming in his work and stops that doomed to fail and begins again … wasting nothing … Yahweh told Jeremiah to go tell the wayward people of Judah and Jerusalem that just as easily He can squash their flawed direction and begin anew.
This is then the duality of those like Jeremiah – souls who were true to the name “Israel” – and those like the wayward and wicked.
In this, Yahweh was not telling Jeremiah to run over to the Philistines and tell them they had better change their ways … or else. The duality is between those who say they believe and those who have the personal experience of faith, who do as Yahweh says.
This, of course, is important for us today to realize, as , of course, is important for us today to realize, as Yahweh still has complete control and the renewal of the wayward and wicked focuses on the soul being released at death, so Judgment can be rendered.
A sinner … even one who says, “I believed in you and waited for the Rapture, so I could see your Son be sent down to strike dead the wicked, before I got to enjoy the comforts of heaven” – is in for a rude awakening.
Yahweh sent Jeremiah to tell us today, “If you say you believe in God, but reject His Spirit cleansing you of all past sins, so your soul can be reborn as His Son Jesus, then to show up here not Jesus reborn and unknown to Me as a wife-soul, then you are flawed clay on the spinning wheel of earth. So – SQUASH – Back you go little soul. Try to become a useful piece of My work.”
Now, in the Track 1 accompanying Psalm 139, David was inspired to sing, “For you yourself created my inmost parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb.”
That speaks of reincarnation; but it speaks of a saved soul from a past life being sent back into the material plane as a servant, known by Yahweh.
The “inmost parts” are one’s heart and soul. The heart is where Yahweh penetrates, where the marriage vows are permanently written on the walls. The soul is one previously merged with the soul of Yahweh’s Son, so once a Son always a Son.
David was not chosen by Yahweh, with Samuel ready to anoint a king of a nation. Yahweh made David’s soul “Anointed” – a Christ and a Messiah – as possessed by the King of the Jews.
This means David was like Jesus, in the way his soul had served Yahweh faithfully prior; and, he was sent back with a purpose and intent. He was a perfectly “fashioned” vessel of Spirit.
David’s Psalm 139 sings praises, much like one could imagine Teresa of Avila praised Yahweh. This is the one side of the duality of mankind that all who expect to experience a Rapture must be on.
The other side of that duality are those who reject Yahweh over selfish desires.
In the Track 2 Old Testament reading from Deuteronomy, you might recall this sounds familiar, as during the seventh Sunday of Easter we read the verses that lead up to these read today. It is Moses telling the true Israelites, which Yahweh “fashioned” and “formed” with Moses as the spiritual ‘potter,’ not to think all the work is done.
In Deuteronomy 30 there are fourteen instances where Moses wrote the words “Yahweh eloheka,” which is translated as “the Lord your God.” In the verses read today there are three of those fourteen.
Just as misinterpretations of Biblical text can make one belief, “If I just say I believe in the cross and that Jesus is God, then when the end of the world comes I get to go to heaven, while all those sinners will get destroyed.”
The truth of “Yahweh eloheka” is it means Moses repeatedly warned the true Israelites that they indeed were saved souls, because they had all been Anointed by Yahweh’s Spirit and each was reborn in the name of His Son, which was the inward part that was the soul of Adam-Jesus merged with each of their souls, the Lord over everyone’s actions.
That wonderful place took forty years to reach – two generations. It took two generations to prove the points made by Moses, which said, “You are eternally saved, but your children and their children to come have not yet reached that point of self0sacrifice.”
A saved soul teaches his or her children the deeper meaning of Scripture, because that knowledge comes from the soul of Adam-Jesus within. The truth is told so all can make a decision to serve Yahweh, based on the truth.
When the elders begin telling the people, “All you have to do is believe in the cross and Jesus is God,” then it won’t be long before that misinterpretation is seen as a flawed piece of pottery, which nobody wants to buy.
To teach the truth a soul must be saved – married to Yahweh, Anointed by His Spirit, and reborn as His Son, the Trinity. If one has failed to become saved, then one has no ability to teach the truth. One teaches beliefs that are flawed; and, those being taught will be shown those flaws by Satan’s whispers.
This means the duality that Moses warned the people about was this: “We are all born sinners. For sinners to be led to self-sacrifice for a higher goal (one unseen physically … a promise of future rewards), then only by being told the truth can one’s soul be led against the natural inclinations of the flesh and seek spiritual marriage to Yahweh.
Each of us must be filled with the soul of Jesus, as our own personal link to true faith, which means the knowledge that comes from one’s “Yahweh eloheka.”
In the duality that is a misinterpretation of Scripture that threatens the world today – and has and will as long as it is allowed to last – is the view that a Spiritual Yahweh has any land titles or deeds to hand out as favors for souls that become His wives (male and female).
The “Promised Land” was not a promise that a specific area on earth was the rightful property of the descendants of believers in God. The true Promised Land is that piece of earth that hangs around one’s soul, called a body of flesh. Wherever that body walks, if the soul within is saved, then that is the “Land Promised” by Moses to those to whom he spoke in Deuteronomy 30.
Your body of flesh is what makes your soul a sinner. The promise made by Yahweh, as His proposal of marriage, is this: “If you sacrifice all you have to receive Me, then you will have Me as your protector for eternity.”
In reference to this promise, the accompanying Psalm 1 is sung. It is one of those ‘old time favorites,’ as Psalm 1 is sung often in the lectionary cycle. It sings of two paths.
Psalm 1 is the duality of good and evil.
The path to good leads to the Promised Land that is a soul becoming a saint, in a body of flesh that ministers to those lost souls in need of salvation.
The path to evil leads to the destruction of a flawed piece of work, to be recycled back into the material realm, where a soul is imprisoned by a body of flesh that will always urge the soul to sin.
This leads me to the reading named Philemon. I almost welcomes you all the Philemon Sunday, as this is the only Sunday in the entire three-year lectionary cycle where a reading from Philemon is featured.
Raise your hand if your are familiar with Philemon and what it says.
<Look for few hands raised, if any.>
I was unfamiliar with it. As I read the translation presented by the Episcopal Church, it seemed to me that Paul was writing to someone named Philemon, telling him that he was sending a slave named Onesimus for him to keep. This is all while Paul was imprisoned by the Romans and without any access to slaves.
My main reference for name meanings is Abarim Publications; and, they list the root words for each name, along with references to where people with those names appear in Scripture.
Philemon is only found once, in this letter. The name Onesimus is found twice, once in this letter and another time in Paul’s letter to the Colossians.
I found that this letter name Philemon is another example of misinterpretations leading to watered down meaning, which lead to flawed beliefs.
Because this one Sunday of Philemon is so important to understand (due to its rarity of presence), I ask that all of you read the in-depth commentary I posted on my website. It is quite phenomenal to see the truth exposed, coming from the words Yahweh spoke through Paul’s pen.
It is like reading in Jeremiah that the word of Yahweh came to his soul, as Yahweh is speaking to the reader in the same way.
In one verse, where it appears to say, “I Paul write this,” the truth from the words written has a capitalized “Ego” identifying Yahweh, with “Paulos” means a divine presence that had “Little” be written from the brain of Paul. Thus, Yahweh spoke as Paul wrote down the words.
The name Philemon means “Beloved.” That means this letter written by the direction of Yahweh was to all souls that would become His bridesmaids.
The name Onesimus means “Useful.” This is important to grasp, when the lesson of the Jeremiah reading was the “Usefulness” of that being “fashioned” by the Creator. Souls sent into bodies of flesh are known beforehand and intended to be “Useful” in the material realm as ministers in the name of Jesus.
In verse fourteen, the Greek text can be paraphrased as saying, “Without your consent, nothing I will to do, so that it is not a necessity, this good of you may be, but according to willingness.”
That says Yahweh is not going to force any souls to sacrifice their right to play sinfully in adult bodies of flesh. Yahweh breathed each soul into their prison homes, with the intent being to seek freedom from death. The only true escape is the promise of eternal life, coming from one willingly sacrificing self-ego to totally serve Yahweh.
The lesson in duality is clear, when you read the truth contained in Paul’s words. A soul is either going to choose to walk the path of goodness or righteousness, which required the guidance of Jesus.
Contrarily, a soul is allowed to bring about its own Judgment that says all flawed pieces of work must be done over.
The duality means either eternal life or reincarnation to pay off one’s past life debts.
Again, I highly recommend you read the in-depth revelations of this letter to Yahweh’s “Beloveds.”
This brings us to the Gospel reading from Luke. It is one of those readings where it is difficult for modern Christians to accept language in Scripture that has Jesus saying (in essence), “In order to follow men, you must hate.”
Verse twenty-six says, “If a certain one he or she comes to me , kai not hates this father of himself kai this mother kai this wife kai those children kai those brothers kai those sisters , still , both kai this life of his or her soul , not he or she is able to exist of my soul disciple .”
The Greek word “misei” translates as “hates,” implying in usages “detests, loves less, or esteems less.”
It must be read as a statement from the Father, spoken through the Son, that says, “You cannot love Yahweh as His wife-soul, if you love things of the physical realm – like blood relatives, spouses and children.
It is Jesus restating his saying, “You cannot love two masters, because you will either hate the one and love the other.” A worldly father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters are a love of bloodline.
Thus, if you do not hate all that, then you will hate Yahweh; and, if you hate Yahweh you will never be able to become a soul where the soul of Jesus will resurrect.
Jesus then followed that laundry list of hates that must take place first, saying in verse twenty-seven: “whoever not takes up this upright stake of his soul kai comes behind me , not is he or she able to exist of my soul disciple .”
That says the soul of Jesus becoming one with one’s soul is “taking up” one’s soul to an elevated spiritual height. The soul of Jesus is the “upright stake” that keeps that raised soul from falling back into the world of sin.
The use of “kai” says importantly that two souls merged as one – again – cannot have two masters. The host soul – Yahweh’s wife-soul – has submitted to Yahweh in marriage; so, when the soul of His Son is planted into one’s newly virginal womb, that host soul “comes behind” Jesus, making his soul be the Lord over one’s flesh.
Can you see that?
<Look for nodding heads.>
Good!
This means that one needs to realize what Yahweh said in Paul’s writing named Philemon: Yahweh will only accept those souls willing to sacrifice self, in order to serve Him and gain eternal salvation.
Jesus use the analogy of someone building a tower [symbolic of “taking up”], where there are costs involved if that project is to be seen to “completion.”
The costs are relative to “hating” everything the material realm offers, as everything in the material realm is dead, without life. One’s soul must “sit down” and go over the “costs” of giving up material things for spiritual salvation.
When Jesus pointed out how a king doing battle with another king has to also assess the ‘costs.” Here, Yahweh is the king with way more resources that you – the king of your own body of flesh.
You have to come to terms with your mortality and realize it is better to give up everything, in order to keep one’s soul from being imprisoned in a new body of flesh, having to start all over again.
The costs are always that SQUASH, followed by reincarnation, a new blob of wet clay in the potter’s hand.
With that, I see the bus about to arrive; so, I will stop here.
Please ponder these things as the truth. Challenge it. Test it. Make the truth be seen by your own eyes. If you cannot see it, then you will have no faith in it being the truth.
I look forward to meeting with you again next Sunday. Until then, I wish everyone a good week ahead.
Amen